SF Politics Billionaires Going Berserk on Twitter Over Proposed California Billionaire Tax There’s a signature drive to put a 5% “billionaire tax” on the California ballot. It has not collected even one signature, but the billionaires are freaking out on Twitter with grand tantrums saying they will leave the state en masse.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Skrillex is Playing Pier 80 Tonight, So Expect Noise Complaints From Both Sides of the Bay Windows will likely rattle everywhere from Potrero Hill to Alameda island Tuesday night, as ravelords Skrillex and Four Tet are playing Pier 80 in a show whose sound check last night indicated that things are going to get very loud.
SF News Car Theft Suspects Allegedly Ram Into Four San Ramon Police Cruisers; One Officer Injured, Two Suspects Arrested The attempted bust of a stolen vehicle ring went sideways in San Ramon Sunday night, as the suspects allegedly started ramming into police cars and left one officer with minor injuries, and two of the four suspects got away.
SF News Take That, Fox News: SF Crime Was Down 25.5% in 2025, Third Straight Year SF Crime Went Down More evidence that the national narrative about crime in San Francisco is complete baloney, as the city sees its third straight year of crime rates plummeting, this year by a full 25.4% reduction in crime across the board.
SF News SF Businesses Still Fuming Over PG&E Outages, PG&E Vaguely Indicates They Might Reimburse Businesses More Coming off three SF PG&E outages in a week, west side business owners are demanding more reimbursement from the utility. PG&E says they might oblige, but businesses have to fill out an application and then just hope for the best.
SF News Remember, Everybody, Muni Is Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Will Be Running Extra Late-Night Trains Muni will be absolutely free on New Year's Eve for the 17th year in a row, and while BART will not be free, the BART system will let you catch trains almost up until (but not quite until) the 2 am last call at the bars.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win Wild, Roller-Coaster Shootout Over Chicago Bears 42-38, Could Get No. 1 Seed In NFC A barnburner of a Sunday Night Football game saw the 49ers and Bears score a combined 11 touchdowns, but the Niners defense came through in the clutch for a 42-38 win that could give them home-field advantage all playoffs long.
Arts & Entertainment Christmas Miracle: Oasis Nightclub Saved From Closure With Multi-Million Dollar Philanthropic Gift Just six days before its scheduled permanent closure, popular SoMa nightclub Oasis has been saved with a seven-figure donation to keep the club open, though it’s still closing for the next few months for renovations.
SF News Tahoe and Sierra Ski Resorts Get Much-Needed Snow, But With It Comes Avalanche and Dangerous Traffic Conditions The snow finally arrived in time for Christmas for powder-staved Tahoe skiers, but with that snow came some very treacherous driving conditions, and an avalanche that hospitalized two Mammoth Mountain ski patrollers.
SF News Four People Injured In Early Friday Morning Shooting In San Jose The O'Brien Tract neighborhood of San Jose saw four people shot on the street in a 3:30 am Friday morning incident, and all four have been hospitalized as police look for answers and for a suspect.
SF News Boxing Day Constitutional: 120K Bay Area Households Lost Power on Christmas Day Waymos went out of service in SF again on Christmas Day; Mayor Lurie continues his airing of grievances with PG&E, and that utility also struggled with the storms Thursday with more than 120,000 Bay Area customers losing power.
SF News Christmas Eve Around the Bay: Another PG&E Substation Fire and Outage in the South Bay, Power Now Restored A confused Trump Justice Department just “found” a million more Epstein documents; ICE agents shot two people in Maryland; and things go from bad to worse for PG&E as another substation fire knocks out power for 21,000.
Arts & Entertainment Who Knew? Epic Soundtrack to ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ Was Composed by SF Musician, Choir Was From San Rafael The Bay Area’s beagle-prints are all over what is arguably the greatest Christmas album of all time, the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ soundtrack, as jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi lived here when he wrote and recorded it.
SF News Hayward DUI Suspect Charged With Killing Woman and Seriously Injuring His Own Son, Though He’s Not in Custody An alleged DUI driver stands accused of a drunken 88 MPH crash in Hayward that killed his 20-year-old passenger, seriously injured his own son, and left another passenger comatose. Though oddly, he was released from jail.
SF News Staff at Fillmore Low-Income Housing Complex Accused of Stealing Tenants’ Christmas Gifts There was some next-level Grinchy behavior at a Fillmore District housing complex, with the maintenance staff apparently caught on camera pilfering the tenants’ Christmas gifts, and the low-income tenants are now out thousands of dollars.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Christmas Eve Powerball Jackpot Will Be $1.7 Billion There’s a massive storm rolling in if you haven’t noticed; the latest Epstein file drop is chock full of Donald Trump mentions; and the Christmas Eve Powerball drawing will be for a cool $1.7 billion.
Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s DOGE Did Not Decrease Government Spending, Actually Increased It A detailed new analysis finds that the federal government is spending more money than it did before Elon Musk’s “eliminating waste" DOGE program came to town, and that most of the supposed cost savings were simply just math errors.
Arts & Entertainment Let’s Look Back at the 1978 Christmas Eve Art Heist at the de Young Museum, Where the Thieves Never Got Caught On Christmas Eve 1978, burglars stole tens of millions worth of paintings from the de Young Museum. This is their story, though the Rembrandt painting they stole ended up being worth little, because Rembrandt didn’t paint it.
SF News PG&E, Now In Full Crisis Mode, Offering $200 Credits to SF Residents, $2500 to Businesses for Weekend Outage Utility provider PG&E is hoping you’ll forget about this weekend’s three-day power outage with a $200 credit for residential customers and a $2,500 credit for businesses, though some businesses say they lost ten times that much.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Run Roughshod Over Indianapolis Colts 48-27, Move On Up in Playoff Standings Brock Purdy became the first 49ers quarterback ever to throw for five touchdown passes in a single Monday Night Football game, and the 49ers romped last night in a yuletide touchdown party over the Indianapolis Colts.
Business & Tech SF-Based Instacart Dumps Its ‘AI Price-Adjusting’ Tool That Charged Some Customers 23% More for the Same Items After a report that found Instacart was using an AI tool that charged some customers as much as 23% more for the exact same items, the shopping platform now says they’re abandoning that tool following some serious blowback.
Business & Tech Supervisor Mahmood Calls For Hearings Into Waymo After Last Weekend’s Mass-Stalling Shambles In the wake of what was surely Waymo’s greatest SF screw-up yet, SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood (of all people!) is the first local elected official calling for a probe into how Waymos stalled out all over town Saturday.
SF News Richmond’s Own Betty Reid Soskin, the Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Has Died at 104 The "pride of Richmond” Betty Reid Soskin, who reigned as the nation’s oldest National Park ranger past the age of 100, died Sunday morning, leaving an incomparable legacy on the East Bay and the National Park system.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Clinch Playoff Spot, Even Though They Had the Day Off on Sunday Tonight’s 49ers Monday Night Football game will have a little less suspense, as the Niners already punched their ticket to the playoffs just by scoreboard-watching on Sunday, and they’re even in the running for the No. 1 seed in the NFC.
SF Politics New D4 Supervisor Alan Wong Comes Out Against Car-Free Great Highway, Wants a Do-Over With Another Ballot Measure I guess we’re doing another ballot measure on whether the Great Highway should be car-free, because Supervisors Alan Wong and Connie Chan figure it could net them extra votes in the upcoming 2026 elections.
