SF Politics More Absurd Great Highway Drama: Supervisor Wong Blames Opponent That His Ballot Measure Failed to Launch The candidates are already fighting in the June primary elections, and District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong is attacking his rival Natalie Gee for not helping him enough to get his ‘cars back on the Great Highway’ ballot measure.
SF News One Dead In Potrero Drive-By Shooting, Two Others Injured One person was killed Friday morning and two others were injured in an apparent drive-by shooting in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood, near the affordable housing projects on Dakota Street.
Business & Tech SF-Based Fintech Block Lays Off Nearly Half Its Staff, Because of AI It could be the first of many canaries in this coal mine, but Block announced a mass layoff on Thursday. And CEO Jack Dorsey is making no secret that this is about AI supplanting the need for human workers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Teachers Avert Strike The Oakland teachers' union has reached a tentative agreement with the district ahead of a planned strike; BART's board approved its doomsday scenario plan; and Netflix shares rise after the collapse of the Warner Bros. deal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yet More Complaints Emerge About Crowd Behavior at Marina Red Bull Event BART is offering a little more detail about its Thursday morning snafu; OpenAI is now gobbling up office space in Mountain View too, and some deplorable teens may have done some groping at Saturday's Marina Formula 1 event.
SF News In Marin Crash That Killed Four Teens, Parents Point Fingers at CHP, County Road Maintenance The 16-year-old driver in a crash that killed her four teen friends has pleaded not guilty, but meanwhile, parents are bringing legal motions against the California Highway Patrol and Marin County.
Business & Tech ChatGPT Has Now Been Used In Two High-Profile, Violent Attacks, Raising Serious Safety and Liability Questions Not only did the unstable Green Beret with PTSD who blew up his Tesla outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas last year use ChatGPT to plan his attack, the Canadian woman who committed a mass school shooting earlier this month also asked the chatbot for help.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Maria Isabel, the New Mexican Restaurant From the Dalida Chef Couple, Opens In Presidio Heights Next Week The much anticipated second restaurant from chef couple Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the pan-Mexican concept Maria Isabel, is readying for an opening early next week on Presidio Avenue in San Francisco's Presidio Heights.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands to Do 'Loyalty Presale' Next Week, Giving Past Attendees a Sneak Peek at the 2026 Lineup If you've purchased tickets for Outside Lands in the last five years, you'll be eligible to see the 2026 lineup two days ahead of everyone else this year and pay presale prices — and there is a second presale that gives everyone early-bird access as well.
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.
SF News BART Service Restored After Melting Down, Yet Again, Between Oakland and San Francisco It's been a bad week/month/year for BART. Around 8:20 am on Thursday, all train service was halted between West Oakland and 24th/Mission stations due to a communication issue.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland School Board Approves 400 Layoffs Oakland's school board voted Wednesday to approve 400 layoffs, not including teachers; San Jose police release details about a murder-suicide; and Trader Joe's remains SF's cheapest grocer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's First Lady to Lead Day of Service This Summer SF First Lady Becca Prowda, who has kept a low public profile, will be leading a citywide day of service; Steph Curry stopped at a food truck in Mission Bay; and Trump's nominee for surgeon general is, of course, vague about her vaccine views.
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.
SF Politics Republican-Turned-Democrat Marie Hurabiell Joins Race for Nancy Pelosi's House Seat Billing herself as an "actual moderate" to contrast with the three other main candidates running for San Francisco's seat in the US House of Representatives, former Republican Trump appointee to the Presidio Trust Marie Hurabiell seems to think she has a shot in November.
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.
SF News Verdict May Arrive This Week In Much-Delayed Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Jurors have been deliberating now for two days in the Santa Clara County trial of Shannon O'Connor, the 50-year-old woman accused of providing alcohol to high school friends of her son, and hosting events where several girls say they were sexually assaulted.
SF News Suspect Arraigned In Tenderloin Homicide Is Claiming Self-Defense The 37-year-old suspect in a February 11 homicide on Turk Street was arraigned Wednesday, and his defense is claiming that he acted in self-defense. The victim, however, was shot in the back and was only armed with pepper spray.
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 Oakland Man Paroled Following Plea Deal In 2024 Juneteenth Shootout That Injured 14 People A 25-year-old Oakland man is getting out of jail this week after serving almost 18 months behind bars in connection with a 2024 Juneteenth shootout by Lake Merritt that left more than a dozen people injured.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Welcomes New Baby Red-Tailed Monkey In a first for the zoo, a guenon species monkey has been born in captivity at the Oakland Zoo, and it's a baby red-tailed monkey who has not yet been given a name.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF to Establish 'ICE-Free Zones' On City Property SF's Board of Supervisors voted to establish 'ICE-free zones' on city property; BART is just as loud as it used to be; Alameda police have made a whole lot of DUI arrests recently.
