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.
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 Tracy Father of Newborn Triplets Found Dead In Lake Berryessa Was Likely Victim of Mistaken Identity Authorities are now saying that Avtar Singh, the 57-year-old Tracy man who was found dead in Napa's Lake Berryessa after going missing near his home, was likely not the intended target of his abductors and killers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wildly Popular Chicken Finger Chain Raising Cane's Is Coming to Fisherman's Wharf Raising Cane's, the fast-food outfit that specializes in fried chicken of the boneless variety, is planning to open a new location in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, a stone's throw from In-N-Out.
SF News Nob Hill Robbery and Assault Victim Dies, Suspect Now Facing Homicide Charge San Francisco just notched another homicide in what has been an unusually violent start to the year, after a man who was attacked and robbed earlier this month just succumbed to his injuries.
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.
Business & Tech Transamerica Pyramid Reportedly Being Sold For Second Time In Six Years Whatever drama has been ongoing at the Transamerica complex between its owner and developer/operator Michael Shvo may get wiped away with a reported deal to sell the tower.
Arts & Entertainment Napa's Latin Music Fest La Onda Canceled Two Weeks After Lineup Announcement Festival La Onda, which would have been in its third year at the Napa Valley Expo on the weekend following BottleRock, has been abruptly canceled with no explanation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Drydock Threatens to Sink, Will Be Expensive to Demolish The Port of SF's floating Drydock #2, which used to be active in repairing ships, is listing and threatening to sink; Kaiser nurses have ended their four-week strike; and a neighborhood in Guerneville is facing a possible landslide.
