Arts & Entertainment East Bay’s ‘Punk in the Park’ Festival Slammed by Revelations That Promoter Was a Trump Donor Vallejo's upcoming Punk in the Park music festival was just tarred by revelations that the concert promoter donated to the Trump 2024 campaign, but the Dead Kennedys still insist they’re playing the show.
SF News Mayor Lurie Says Protesters Were Chanting ‘Tax the Jews,’ But It Was Just One Unassociated Lady Passing By Mayor Daniel Lurie is not particularly helping San Francisco’s image at the moment, as he posted a false claim that SF protesters were chanting “Tax the Jews” at a Wednesday event, even though video debunks the claim.
SF News [Update] Walnut Creek Police Shoot and Kill Suspect In Early Thursday Morning Melee A man with apparently untreated mental illness was fatally shot by Walnut Creek police just after midnight Thursday in a residential area, and his mother is blaming the county.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Announces an Eight-Show October Residency at the Las Vegas Sphere Legendary metal band Metallica is bringing their act to the famed Las Vegas Sphere venue for eight shows this coming October, in a residency that’s being billed under the name “Life Burns Faster.”
SF News SF Supervisor Wants to Ban the Sale of Nitrous Oxide in San Francisco It may be no laughing matter for Whip-It fans and Phish tour participants, as Supervisor Danny Sauter wants to ban the sale of nitrous oxide in San Francisco, in SF’s latest nanny-state hippycrackdown.
Bay Area Sports City of Oakland Planning Big Celebrations for Gold Medal Figure Skating Champion Alysa Liu The breakout star of the 2026 Winter Olympics Alysa Liu is from the East Bay and trained at the Oakland Ice Center, so Oakland is planning a “community-wide celebration” that will act as Alysa Liu’s gold medal victory parade.
Business & Tech Pentagon Trying to Force SF-Based Anthropic to Weaken AI Security for Killing Purposes, Anthropic Not Backing Down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complains that it’s “woke AI” that SF’s own Anthropic won’t give him AI-controlled weapons and massive domestic surveillance, and is now threatening to blacklist the company.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alysa Liu Returns to SFO, Cheering Fans Await Someone fell off Devil’s Slide and died Tuesday morning; Michael Tilson Thomas’s partner also died unexpectedly; and Oakland’s gold medal-winning figure skater Alysa Liu returned to SFO to a hero's welcome.
Arts & Entertainment Curiously, SF Supervisors Declare This Friday ‘Pokémon Day’ in San Francisco Is Pokémon even still that much of a thing? It is to some people, including the SF Board of Supervisors, who just declared this Friday, February 27, as Pokémon Day in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Own Ryan Coogler Tapped to Write and Direct the Upcoming ‘X-Files’ Reboot While it's just a small-screen reboot of the ‘X-Files’ that will be on Hulu, ‘Sinners’ and ‘Black Panther’ director Ryan Coogler will be the writer and director of the upcoming streaming ‘X-Files’ reboot (or the pilot, at least).
SF News Nob Hill and Marina Condo Owners Have Just About Secured a Delay on That Pricey Sprinkler Mandate Fire safety may be important, but irate condo owners from Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill, the Marina, and Pacific Heights stormed an SF City Hall committee hearing Monday to demand a delay on a new sprinkler mandate for their units.
SF News Third Suspect Charged In Early January Oakland Triple-Homicide, Which Police Say Was Over a $10 Bag of Weed A measly dime-bag of pot deal gone wrong left three men dead in Oakland last month, and now the marijuana dealer has been arrested too, but boy did he have a lengthy list of priors.
SF News Yet Another SF Nonprofit CEO, Who Allegedly Stole $1.2 Million, Criminally Charged With Misuse of Public Money Criminal charges just came down on a former SF homelessness nonprofit CEO accused of buying a Tesla with public money, among a slew of other financial improprieties, and she's facing nine felony charges.
SF Politics Wiener Introduces New State Legislation That Would Allow Cities to 'Breakup with PG&E' and Start Their Own Public Utilities State Senator Scott Wiener is trying to bolster his run for Congress with a new bill targeting PG&E, a bill that would allow cities to "breakup with PG&E." But does deficit-strapped SF even have the money to do this?
SF News Body of Man Found In Lake Berryessa Suspected to Be Victim of Kidnapping After 57-year-old Avtar Singh was reported missing in Tracy last Tuesday, authorities have confirmed that a body found in Lake Berryessa on Friday is his, and surveillance video indicates foul play by three suspected kidnappers.
Arts & Entertainment Supervisor Mahmood Wants to Establish a ‘Theater Arts District’ to Gussy Up Mid-Market It's no secret that SF’s Mid-Market home to many Broadway theaters and concert venues can be a little rough around the edges, so the district's Supervisor Bilal Mahmood hopes to jazz it up as a “theater arts district.”
SF News Trump Administration Insists It Won’t Turn Shuttered FCI Dublin Into an ICE Detention Facility, But Says So in Very Fishy Terms The notorious and scandal-tainted former federal women’s prison known as FCI Dublin was rumored to be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to make it an ICE holding pen, but the administration claims it has no such plans.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emperor Norton’s Boozeland Gets a Facelift With Colorful New Neon Sign A new custom new neon creation gussies up the Larkin Street façade of the popular Tenderloin bar Emperor Norton’s Boozeland, with a neon design that’s actually based on the signature of Emperor Norton himself.
Business & Tech Who’da Thought? Tesla Owners Acting Like Real Jerks at Cow Hollow 24-Hour Charging Station A new 24-hour Tesla charging station in Cow Hollow has become a late-night den of loud music, line-cutting, and Tesla bro arguments, and now the station's neighbors are getting exasperated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richmond’s Own Alysa Liu Wins Figure Skating Gold, Bay Area Loses Its Mind They caught the guy who allegedly stole Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s SUV; Yosemite National Park is totally closed because of extreme winter weather; and Richmond’s Alysa Liu won the Women's Single Skating gold medal.
Arts & Entertainment K-Pop Mega-Star RM of BTS Is Getting an Art Exhibition at SFMOMA This Coming October Run BTS fans run, as 200 works from the personal collection of BTS rapper and songwriter RM are coming to the SFMOMA this October, in the only gallery display the South Korean pop superstar will have in the US.
Arts & Entertainment The Wait Is Ending! Bay Lights Will Officially Be Re-Lit on Friday, March 20 Our three-year-long regional loss of the beloved Bay Lights is finally coming to an end, as the lights will be officially re-lit and razzle-dazzling the Bay Bridge again on Friday, March 20.
SF News Heads Up: BART Delays of 20-30 Minutes Expected Saturday Night as Crews Do Maintenance on the Transbay Tube While the Saturday night BART delays are not expected to kick in until 10 pm, late-night Saturday BART riders should bring a book or something, as trains in the Transbay Tube will be delayed by at least 20 or 30 minutes.
SF News Lurie Moves Ahead With ‘RESET’ Center Drug Sobering Facility, Even as City Attorney Questions Its Legality Mayor Lurie signed a new drug-focused sobering center into law Wednesday, despite City Attorney pushback that the center has a “failure to comply with State law” and “non-compliance with standards for detention facilities.”
SF Politics Newsom and Lurie Distance Themselves From Campaign Against California Billionaire Tax The billionaires who don’t want to pay the California billionaire tax are lining up big bucks to defeat the ballot measure, but Gavin Newsom and Daniel Lurie deny reports they will appear in ads against the billionaire tax.
