SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

East Bay Bar Ivy Room Is Boycotting All the Liquor Brands Who Yanked Their Pride Sponsorships

After booze conglomerate Diageo pulled their sponsorship dollars from this year’s SF Pride festivities, Albany’s live music bar The Ivy Room has decided that they will no longer stock that company's brands, including Ketel One and Johnny Walker.

Arts & Entertainment

Watch: City Hall Was Lit Up By Laser Cannons Last Night for SF’s 175th Birthday

San Francisco celebrated its 175th birthday on Tuesday, and that’s why Tuesday night, some artists were shooting colorful ‘Laser Space Cannons’ toward the City Hall rotunda in celebration.

Arts & Entertainment

Startup Art Fair Returns to Take Over Entire Marina Motel This Weekend

The Marina’s Hotel Del Sol will become home to more than 60 art exhibitions this weekend, as the Startup Art Fair returns after a five-year COVID hiatus for a three-day gallery bazaar.

SF News

Oakland DMV Office Will Be Closed Four to Five Months After Vandalism and Copper Wire Theft

It’s a terrible time to close a DMV office for five months with the new state-issued ID law taking effect in about three weeks, but that’s what’s happening at the Oakland Coliseum DMV office, as the site is reeling and flooded after copper wire theft and vandalism.

SF Politics

California Sues Donald Trump In Attempt to Stop the Tariffs Outright

Gavin Newsom and state AG Rob Bonta are blitzing the Trump administration with a bombshell new lawsuit saying Trump’s tariffs are completely illegal because Congress never approved them, a move that could wholly upend Trump’s signature cause.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Big Rig Flips Over on Highway 29 and Snarls Calistoga Traffic

The Cal football team’s star running back is leaving through the transfer portal; the Cloverdale murder-suicide victim has been identified; and a semi truck accident has highly complicated matters for Calistoga drivers.

SF Politics

Gavin Newsom Woos Trump-Hating Canadians To Come Visit California in New Ad Campaign

As anti-Trump sentiment sweeps Canada over the whole tariff chaos, California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to sweet-talk Canadians into visiting blue-state California, either because we’re losing tourism dollars, or maybe just to irritate Trump.

SF News

SF Pride Catching Some Flack for Turning Down Request to Make Deported Makeup Artist Grand Marshal

We may have another SF Pride controversy like the Chelsea Manning grand marshal fiasco in 2013, as some activists say they’re being denied requests to make deported makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero this year’s honorary grand marshal.

SF News

Another Appraiser Who Undervalued Black and Latino Couple’s Home Ordered to Pay $75,000

It’s a story we’ve heard before, and is apparently still happening from time to time, as a Black and Latino couple had their Oakland home appraised for $250,000 less than it was worth, but now the state is forcing the appraisal company to pay the couple $75,000.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Fort Point Beer Co. Merging With Santa Rosa’s HenHouse, Moving Operations Up North

SF’s famed microbrewery Fort Point Beer Company won’t be an SF microbrewery anymore, as it’s merging with Santa Rosa’s HenHouse Brewing Co. and moving all its operations up to Sonoma County.

Bay Area Sports

Golden State Valkyries Stun the World by Picking Obscure Lithuanian Player Justė Jocytė In Their First WNBA Draft

There’s finally a big name on the roster of SF’s women’s pro basketball team (kind of?), as the Golden State Valkyries just shocked the women’s basketball world by selecting Lithuania’s Justė Jocytė with the No. 5 overall pick at Monday’s WNBA Draft.

SF News

Decapitated Animals Found Stashed in Bags at Fremont Amtrak Station

A grisly discovery at the Amtrak station in Fremont, as police found the remains of two animals Sunday that were decapitated and mutilated so badly that veterinarians cannot even identify the species of the animals.

Arts & Entertainment

Haight Street’s Club Deluxe Is Indeed Reopening Again, New Owners Claim

After a couple of years of on-again, off-again reopening announcements, Upper Haight swing bar Club Deluxe says its reopening is back on again, with a couple new owners taking the reins and promising not to change anything.

Arts & Entertainment

Roxie Theater on the Verge of Buying Its Building, Launches ‘Capital Campaign’

The 113-year-old Roxie Theater just might be around for another 113 years, as the movie house has been secretly working on a deal to buy the theater outright, and they’re launching a fundraising leg of that campaign to complete the deal.

Business & Tech

Hackers Reprogram Peninsula Crosswalk Signals to Mock Elon Musk and Zuckerberg

Pedestrians expecting to hear normal crosswalk commands in Silicon Valley are instead hearing prank voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg saying things like “F***, I'm so alone,” as some joker has hacked those cities’ crosswalk systems.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

The Gold Club Brings Back Its $5 All-You-Can-Eat Fried Chicken Buffet

SoMa striptease joint the Gold Club earned the title “Tech's Hottest Lunch Spot” with their $5 lunch-hour fried chicken buffet. The pandemic forced that deal onto hiatus, but last week, the $5 chicken buffet returned to strut its stuff.

SF News

SF City Attorney Sues More Tenderloin Stores for Being Gambling Dens, One Allegedly Selling Meth Over the Counter

There’s another batch of Tenderloin corner stores in the city’s crosshairs for running illegal gambling dens, and some are also accused of selling meth and weed right over the counter.

SF News

Republicans In Congress Investigating Point Reyes Deal Converting Dairy and Cattle Operations to Parks

Marin County environmentalists won a big victory when cattle ranchers agreed to a multimillion-dollar deal to leave the Point Reyes National Seashore. Now the Trump administration might want to blow that deal up.

SF News

Parts of Berkeley Might Ban All Plants Within Five Feet of Homes for Wildfire Prevention, Plant Lovers Furious

Berkeley is poised to pass a law banning combustible materials being kept within five feet of homes in high wildfire-risk areas, which means people would have to rip out the plants right next to their houses, and many aren’t happy about it.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Google Gets Sued for Unlawfully Harvesting Data on Schoolchildren

A grass fire is wreaking havoc in the Oakland Hills; this weekend’s Coachella festival will stream some of its biggest live acts for free; and Google is getting sued for using the tools they donated to schools to spy on and track the children.

SF News

Someone in Sacramento Is Selling an Old Muni Bus for $8,000, Has 'Only 41,608 Miles' On It

You could be rocking down the road in your very own Muni bus for the low price of $8,000, and the seats are ripped out so it can serve as some sort of vacation RV party ride, just be warned that it “might need new batteries or a jump start.”

SF News

Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws

San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.

SF News

Oakland Unified School District Abruptly Fires Superintendent With No Explanation

Oakland schools superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell was on the verge of being the longest-serving OUSD superintendent in 65 years. But Wednesday night, the school board removed her out of the blue, in a secret session, with no explanation whatsoever.

SF News

The Park at the Former Great Highway Now Has a New Name: Sunset Dunes

The former Great Highway is now a park, and that park was officially christened Sunset Dunes at Wednesday's SF Rec and Parks meeting, ahead of its grand opening ceremony Saturday afternoon.

Business & Tech

Arnold Schwarzenegger Now a Billionaire, According to Forbes’ Latest List

There’s a few show biz types who just appeared for the first time on this year’s annual Forbes billionaire list, like Bruce Sprinsteen, Jerry Seinfeld, and the former ‘Governator,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger.