Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers 2025 Fills SF Streets With Much Whimsy, Terrific Costumes, Quite a Few Keg-Stands There were a great many popes and many alcohol-related costumes at Sunday’s 112th running of the booze-bags known as Bay to Breakers, but a renegade, SF-themed pop-up restaurant called “Full House of Prime Rib” stole the show.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Nearly Gets Booted From French Laundry as Thomas Keller Puts His Foot Down About Criticism Thomas Keller seems to be battening down the hatches at the Michelin three-star French Laundry after a string of less-than-stellar reviews. And recently he went so far as to tell the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan that she wasn't welcome there.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Victim In Fisherman's Wharf Shooting ID'd The victim in last week's shooting near Fisherman's Wharf has been identified; a fire at a downtown SF highrise was apparently caused by a tossed cigarette; and former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Chinatown Pride Silent Disco and Drag Procession This weekend: Some Bay to Breakers runners didn't get their medals at the finish line; Last week: A treasure hunt, a time capsule, a spider monkey, and two rattlesnakes; This week: a ton of free, live music and Chinatown Pride.
SF News Death of SF Recology Worker at Tunnel Ave Facility Under OSHA Investigation Alfredo Romero, 61, a longtime Recology mechanic died Friday at the San Francisco-Brisbane Tunnel Avenue facility. OSHA is investigating.
SF News Rookie SFPD Officer Arrested for DUI Just Days After Academy Graduation Two days after graduating from the SFPD Academy, rookie officer Ryan Kwong was arrested for DUI following a crash in the Outer Sunset that injured five people, including one critically.
SF News Sunday Links: Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Explosion Declared Terror Attack A red flag, wildfire warning is in effect for some North Bay residents through Monday evening; SFUSD canceled its plans to lay off support staff for the 2025-26 school year; and a suspected car bomb explosion at a Palm Springs fertility clinic was declared a terrorist attack.
SF News BART Riders and Police Injured In Some Sort of Pepper Spray Incident at Powell Station An assailant may have sprayed pepper spray at police officers on the platform of Powell Street Station, or someone did, and the incident led BART trains to temporarily bypass the station Saturday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: How Lisa Truong’s Help a Mother Out Changed Public Policy Lisa Truong launched a diaper drive that's distributed more than 66 million diapers across California; Rudy Corpuz Jr. turned his rough past into a peacekeeping mission; and Chris Thoms ran every street in Alameda County to fight hunger.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Arts Groups, Nonprofits Hit Hard by Sudden NEA and AmeriCorps Cuts Many Bay Area arts and nonprofit organizations are facing sudden federal funding cuts from the NEA and AmeriCorps, forcing urgent budget changes and putting key creative and community programs at risk.
SF News Court Rules Oakland Police Can Be Sued for 2022 Bystander Death A federal appeals court ruled Oakland police can be held liable for the 2022 death of Lolo Soakai, a bystander killed after an unauthorized pursuit—challenging qualified immunity and allowing the family's lawsuit to proceed.
SF News Saturday Links: Flores’ Three Home Runs Lead Giants to 9-1 Win Over Athletics Georgia hiker Tiffany Slaton talks about her experience enduring a blizzard in a remote Sierra cabin; an SF fugitive was arrested at BevMo in an RBG t-shirt; Giants' Wilmer Flores hits three home runs, including a grand slam, in a big victory against the A's.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Toxic Metals Found in All Rice Samples Tested in US Stores Brock Purdy signed a five-year contract as the 49ers' franchise quarterback; a new report found arsenic in 100% of the rice tested in U.S. stores; and Microsoft laid off 6,000 employees nationally and 122 locally.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Claims That Aaron Peskin Is Somehow Orchestrating the Recall Joel Engardio Campaign Strange new drama as the Recall Joel Engardio campaign enters the final days of its signature-gathering, as State Senator Scott Wiener claims that Aaron Peskin is secretly running the recall. Peskin responds that “Scott Wiener is full of sh**.”
SF News Boat-Dwelling Woman In Richardson Bay Who Bear-Sprayed Harbormaster In 2020 Avoids Jail Time Sausalito and Marin County leaders have been dealing with the issue of less-than-seaworthy — and potentially polluting — boats, some with otherwise unhoused people living on them, for a number of years. But things really came to a head in the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: SF to Be Rolling In Great Pizza An acclaimed Berkeley pizza spot is expanding to San Francisco, the Lord Stanley team is shifting its focus to Dogpatch, and St. Helena is getting a fancy new (museum) restaurant, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Noe Valley Jokesters Want to Secede from SF and Join Marin County Instead A new Change.org petition is floating the idea of Noe Valley seceding from San Francisco and instead incorporating into Marin County, though this petition does not do much to explain the motivation here, and obviously this makes very little geographic sense.
Bay Area Sports Many Oakland Fans Skipping A’s-Giants Series at Oracle Park This Weekend As the Athletics return to the Bay Area for the team's annual three-game series against the San Francisco Giants this weekend, many longtime fans are staying home and instead focusing their support on local teams.
SF Politics Retired Judge Totally at War With DA Brooke Jenkins, Files Appeal In Her Ethics Judgment Two people who filed ethics charges against SF DA Brooke Jenkins for improperly accessing sensitive information got Jenkins sentenced into a diversion program, and now they’re both appealing that sentence, saying Jenkins deserves a harsher punishment.
SF News Parents of Rescued Hiker Thank Sierra Cabin Owner for Lifesaving Shelter More details have come to light on the incredible survival story of Georgia hiker Tiffany Slaton, who was rescued — just hours before her 28th birthday — after enduring a blizzard for three weeks in a remote cabin in the Sierra National Forest.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Debut at Chase Center Tonight, Boast the Most Expensive Game of the WNBA Season The expansion WNBA team the Golden State Valkyries are already setting sales records despite not even having played a game yet, but they play their first real regular season game tonight at the Chase Center.
SF News Serial Spitter Sought Who Targets Women In SF Near North Beach and Stockton Tunnel A man who was roaming the streets of North Beach and the area between there and Union Square on Tuesday appears to have targeted multiple women and randomly spat in their faces, and the SFPD says they are looking into it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Cable Car Smashes Into Car Door That Swung Open A cable car side-swiped a car door on California Street; NVIDIA's share price has come roaring back; and SF volleyball players are upset over new rules for Golden Gate Park meadows.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Here’s Nicolas Cage Playing Raiders Coach John Madden in the 1970s NorCal wildfire season could kick up this weekend; a whimsical transit nerd speed-rode the entire Muni light-rail line; and here’s Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale as John Madden and Al Davis in a new movie.
SF News SF City Hall Approves Mission Apartment Building, Despite Outrage That Landlord Is Profiting Off Fatal Fire The site of a deadly 2015 fire at Mission and 22nd streets has sat vacant and swampy for ten years, but the landlord whose neglect allegedly caused that fire has been rewarded with permission to build a fancier and more lucrative 10-story replacement.
