SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Now Has No Bay Area Locations, as Lafayette Outpost Shutters Six years after a splashy opening in West Oakland and five years after getting national attention and a Food & Wine Best New Chefs honor, pitmaster Matt Horn's Bay Area businesses are now all closed.
SF News BART Could End Service at 9PM Nightly If Transit Measure Doesn’t Pass — and These 15 Stations Might Have to Close The cash-strapped BART system has revealed its ‘doomsday scenario’ of drastic service cuts if a November transit tax measure doesn’t pass, with as many as 15 stations potentially closing, and service stopping at 9 pm every night.
SF News Human Skulls, Bodies Found In Multiple Locations In Monterey County Over the last month, two human skulls and other remains have been discovered in different remote locations in Monterey County, and a dead body was also found this week. Is this the work of a serial killer, or just a gruesome coincidence?
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Teachers' Union Says There's Still No Deal The SF teachers' union and the school district failed to reach a deal Thursday night; rain may be coming back to the Bay next week; and Trump posted an extremely racist video of the Obamas appearing as apes in a jungle on social media, then removed it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Organizer of the ‘March for Billionaires’ Has Been Identified Levi’s Stadium was ranked as the worst of all Super Bowl host stadiums; the “Epstein didn't kill himself” crowd just got some new evidence to bolster their case; and the organizer of the March for Billionaires has identified himself.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Who Quit Just Took New Job as Fremont Chief of Police The grass must seem greener in Fremont for ex-Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who quit his Oakland post in October, and now four months later is suddenly taking the job to be Fremont Chief of Police.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Will Play Their 2026 Opening Game in Australia, and They Don’t Sound Too Happy About It The 49ers might get their 2026 season opener in the prime-time Thursday Night Football slot. But the game will be in Melbourne, Australia, which is about a 16-hour flight each way, and Niners players are none too thrilled.
Arts & Entertainment Adam Devine Leads 'Pitch Perfect'-Inspired Performance at Ferry Building With 49er George Kittle Anyone hanging around or walking by the Ferry Building on Wednesday afternoon was treated to a surprise a capella performance featuring injured 49ers tight end George Kittle, and actor Adam Devine.
SF News Details Emerge In November Home Invasion Crypto Robbery In SF We now have a few more details about what exactly happened at the home near Dolores Park in late November where a man was assaulted and tied up inside his home while a home invader, who posed as a delivery person, robbed him of $13 million in cryptocurrency.
Arts & Entertainment NPR’s Tiny Desk Hosts Epic SF Super Bowl Show Friday In SF With Goapele and Ruby Ibarra Without question the best free SF Super Bowl concert is Friday’s NPR Tiny Desk show with Goapele, Souls of Mischief, P-Lo, and Ruby Ibarra. But it requires an RSVP, and organizers aren’t saying how to get one.
Business & Tech Forget the 'Crypto Bowl,' This Super Bowl Will Be Chock Full of AI Ads — Here Are Five of Them Expect all the big players in AI to be spending lavishly on ads during the Super Bowl this year, including rivals OpenAI and Anthropic — with the latter taking not one but two swings at its bigger competitor.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get Between San Francisco and Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium Without a Car Rideshares and public transit can get Super Bowl and World Cup fans from San Francisco to Santa Clara for as little as $11 each way, or as much as $200 each way. Here’s how to navigate all of the available options.
SF News The Pro-ICE Billboard at Fisherman’s Wharf Has Been Removed, Supervisor Sauter Says The ICE fanboy billboard in Fisherman's Wharf had a pretty short run, because the district’s Supervisor Danny Sauter said on social media Wednesday that the Super Bowl-themed billboard near Per 39 has been removed.
SF News SF Teachers Union Announces Strike for Monday, But 11th-Hour Bargaining Continues Following two strike votes and the release of a fact-finding report, the San Francisco teachers' union says it will begin its first labor strike in almost 50 years on Monday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Merced High-Speed Rail Station Could Be Rebranded as 'Yosemite' There is talk of relocating Merced's high-speed rail station four miles outside of downtown, and calling it "Merced-Yosemite"; big waves are crashing at the beach today; and that Bad Bunny lookalike contest is tonight in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kimbal Musk No Longer on Burning Man Board Kimbal Musk quietly left the Burning Man board ahead of the latest Epstein Files revelations; SF teachers could go on strike Monday and they're having a press conference Thursday; and Nike is being investigated for "anti-white bias."
Arts & Entertainment Mystery Solved: Big Secret Super Bowl Event at Grace Cathedral Is NFL Commissioner's Private Party A secretive Friday night Grace Cathedral event that has been publicly named only as "private event” is shutting down streets for three days. Turns out it’s the private Super Bowl party for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Arts & Entertainment The Budweiser Clydesdales Have Set Hoof in SF for the Super Bowl, They’ll Be at Fort Mason Thursday The famed Budweiser Clydesdales have arrived in SF for their annual Super Bowl appearance, seen trotting Fort Point on Tuesday, before their big public appearance at Fort Mason all afternoon on Thursday.
SF News Castro Coffee Co. and Nail Salon Will Both Relocate as Castro Theatre Prepares to Reopen This is both Super Bowl Weekend and the grand reopening weekend for the Castro Theatre. And ahead of that big event, we have an update on the two small businesses at the front of the theater building.
SF Politics City Hall Produces Goofy Video to Tout How Ready They Are For Super Bowl Crowds It could be seen as protesting too much, but San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and his office have produced a slick but kind of awkward video in which various city departments confirm how "ready" they are to host the Super Bowl.
SF Politics Lurie Has Spent Nearly $900K of His Personal Wealth on Consultants Since Taking Office SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is extremely sensitive to how he is viewed by the public, so much so that we’re now learning he’s spent $870,000 out of his own pocket on PR consultants to manage his image in his first year in office.
SF Politics As Expected, Supreme Court Declines to Hear Prop 50 Challenge Gavin Newsom is gloating, and Trump may fume, but the Supreme Court has denied review of the case in which Republicans were, hypocritically, trying to challenge California's tit-for-tat gerrymandering effort.
SF Politics Seven Candidates for Governor Spar at San Francisco Debate, But It Was a Lackluster and Forgettable Affair Tuesday’s California gubernatorial debate gathered seven of the candidates right here in SF, and all seven were quite polished, but no one distinguished themselves in an event clearly overshadowed by the Super Bowl lead-up.
SF News Descendants of Black Family Who Were Run Out of Piedmont in the 1920s Sue the City For Reparations The descendants of Sidney and Irene Dearing have now filed a lawsuit in Alameda County seeking damages from the City of Piedmont over an egregious, century-old act of racial injustice.
Bay Area Sports NFL Begins Raking In Fan Dollars With Super Bowl Experience at Moscone Center For a $40 admission fee, you can get into the Super Bowl LX Experience at the Moscone Center and take a selfie next to an NFL helmet, or something.
