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.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tesla Drops Plans for Driverless Taxi Charging Station In SF Tesla has dropped plans for an AV charging station in a Jackson Square garage; unraveling the story of the collapse of CCA; and Melinda French Gates is disgusted with newly released mentions of Bill Gates in the Epstein Files.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yes, There Will Be Federal Agents in SF for the Super Bowl A PG&E executive was chased offstage by protesters at a tech conference; that coyote on Alcatraz is probably going to have to leave; and Mayor Lurie says he is welcoming federal agents to SF for the Super Bowl.
SF News Two Teen Suspects Arrested in Friday’s Fatal Shooting of 15-Year-Old Jayda Mabrey A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested Monday over the fatal Friday night Western Addition shooting of 15-year-old Jayda Mabrey, a shooting that also hospitalized two other victims.
SF News San Ramon Residents Still Bracing for 'Big One' After Day With 75 Earthquakes It hasn't been felt very much in San Francisco, but the earthquake swarm that has been rocking San Ramon for the past three months had its most active day on Monday, with a barrage of 75 small and mid-size earthquakes. And residents in the area are pretty on edge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Epstein Files Reveal Where He Dined With Zuckerberg In Bay Area, and He Was Denied a Table at Flour + Water The SF Bay Area has many cameos in the three million pages of new Epstein Files that just dropped, and Mark Zuckerberg has a very uncomfortable mention, while Flour + Water comes out looking good for denying Epstein a table.
SF Politics Offensive Billboards Appear In SF Promoting ICE as 'Defensive Player of the Year' Some hastily put together, pro-ICE electronic billboard ads, paid for by a shady outfit with no known donors, have appeared in San Francisco ahead of the Super Bowl, and maybe in other cities as well.
Bay Area Sports Hotels and Airbnbs Are Making Bank by Gouging Super Bowl Visitors This Week The inevitable surge pricing is now underway as the Super Bowl tourists come pouring into SF, with some hotels up to nearly $2,500 a night, and some SF Airbnb units costing $2,000 for the weekend stay.
SF News Fire on Pier 28 Causes Temporary Closure of Embarcadero A fire broke out in a pier building on Pier 28 Tuesday morning, the second here in just over a year, leading to a subsequent traffic snarl in the area of Embarcadero and Bryant streets.
SF Politics Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell Bow Out of First Gubernatorial Debate In SF Seven of the umpteen candidates running for California governor are confirmed to appear at a debate happening this evening in San Francisco's Bayview, and being broadcast live. But two of the more prominent ones will be absent.
Arts & Entertainment C-3PO Himself, Actor Anthony Daniels, Coming to Castro Theatre for May the 4th This year’s May the 4th Star Wars celebrations have the droid you’re looking for, as Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in eleven different Star Wars movies, comes to the Castro for an ‘Empire Strikes Back’ screening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mel's Drive-In Diner on Lombard Suffers Major Fire A fire broke out in the kitchen of Mel's Drive-In on San Francisco's Lombard Street early Tuesday, causing significant damage to the restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dog on Tracks Disrupts Muni Metro Service Muni service was disrupted by a dog on the tracks at Civic Center Tuesday morning; X's offices in Paris were raided by authorities; and a Healdsburg bakery sparked backlash over a tipping complaint.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rig Fire on I-80 In Emeryville Causes Huge Traffic Mess A big rig fire near the MacArthur Maze paralyzed westbound I-80; a Santa Clara man says he was beaten by a bicycle mob; and the Clintons have agreed to in-person depositions on the Epstein Files.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Reportedly Leading Sweepstakes to Trade for NBA Mega-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo It may be time for Warriors fans to learn how to properly pronounce “Antetokounmpo,” because the biggest star on the NBA trade block could be headed to Golden State come Thursday afternoon’s NBA trade deadline.
SF Politics A ‘Pro-Billionaire’ March and Rally Is Coming to SF Saturday, and Apparently This Is Not a Joke A group claiming that “Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive” is holding a March for Billionaires in SF on Saturday, seemingly hoping to tap some silent majority that actually loves the billionaire class.
SF News Hastings Family Loses Fight to Keep Name on UC Law School After the University of California removed the name of its namesake benefactor from its San Francisco-based law school, the family of that namesake Serranus Hastings took the university to court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Korean BBQ Spot Monami Coming to Upper Fillmore A new and decidedly fancy looking Korean barbecue spot, from the chef behind Michelin-starred SSAL, is heading to the former Noosh space on upper Fillmore in Fall 2026.
SF News Berkeley Professor Leads Students to Make 300,000 LGBTQ+ Wikipedia Pages Over Past Decade Since 2016, UC Berkeley professor Juana María Rodríguez has been assigning her students the task of creating and updating over 300,000 Wikipedia entries, with the goal of preserving queer and trans history and celebrating the intersectionality of the BIPOC LGBTQ+ community.
SF News Legal Drama Likely to Heat Up Over Fence Installed on Coastal Property in Daly City The ownership of a piece of coastal land in Daly City is rather complicated, as it turns out, and convicted local art scammer Luke Brugnara was not being entirely dishonest in his (at least partial) claim to the land.
SF News Bayview Residents Quite Pleased That Their Sewage Treatment Plant Smells Less Terrible These Days A new sculpture makes the Bayview’s Southeast Treatment Plant easier on the eyes, but more importantly, a $717 million upgrade just made it easier on the nose for people who live near SF’s largest wastewater treatment plant.
SF News Dismembered Body Found In Oakland Oakland police are investigating a possible homicide after a gruesome discovery over the weekend.
SF News Dry Spell Expected to Persist Until Mid-February, or Longer It's turned into an unusually dry winter for Northern California, and that pattern, thanks to a ridge of high pressure, is going to continue for at least the first 10 days of February.
