Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s W. Kamau Bell Wins ‘Celebrity Jeopardy,’ Donates Winnings to Oakland Schools ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’ winner W. Kamau Bell donated his $1 million winnings to DonorsChoose, funding over 200 projects at schools in Oakland and Mobile, Alabama.
SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
Arts & Entertainment Sempervirens Fund: Protecting Redwoods For Over A Century Sempervirens Fund, founded in 1900, protects California’s redwoods through land conservation, forest restoration, and climate resilience efforts, saving over 35,000 acres since its start.
SF News Local Arab Woman Targeted In Hate Incident On Way To Talk To Supervisors About Rise In Anti-Arab Hate Local organizer and activist Nadia Rahman wrote about a recent anti-Arab hate incident she experienced in front of City Hall on her way to speak to the Board of Supervisors about the rise in anti-Arab hate in San Francisco.
SF News Man Convicted Of Defrauding Bay Area Investors Over Fake Space Tech Company — For A Mere $50K Ramesh Nathan was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering for scamming investors, including veterans, with false claims about a fake space tech company and using their money for personal expenses.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Installs City’s First Curbside EV Chargers On Fillmore Street Salinas-based Taylor Farms is being sued by victims from an E. coli outbreak last November; Torani syrups celebrates 100 years of business in the Bay Area; and SF officials installed the city's first curbside EV chargers on Fillmore Street.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bibliophiles Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday As Amazon Holds Overlapping Sale A former San Bruno elementary school teacher was sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting four of his students; Cornell removed Kehlani from its Slope Day lineup due to her pro-Palestine views; and Amazon is holding a major sale the same time as Independent Bookstore Day.
SF Politics Lots More Bay Area Tech Companies Gave Millions to the Trump Inauguration Than We Had Realized The Bay Area spent more than $30 million sucking up to Donald Trump by shoveling donations to his inauguration, and as it turns out, tech companies like Uber, Robinhood, and Chris Larsen’s Ripple Labs all bent the knee with $1 million or more to Trump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial to Become Something New The former Le Colonial space has a taker, a beloved local English muffin maker is moving into the Castro, and an SF brewery expands to Mission Bay, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech You Might Be Able to Buy and Own Your Own Self-Driving Waymo Someday If you’ve ever wanted to own your own self-driving Waymo vehicle, and are willing to shell out a great deal of money for it, parent company Google/Alphabet says it may eventually start selling those vehicles to the public.
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Theater Explains How They Managed to Raise Millions to Buy Their Building The Roxie Theater is still in the home stretch of its $7 million capital campaign to buy their building outright, but the theater’s leadership gave us some insights into how the mighty little Roxie had already secretly raised 75% of that money.
SF News San Mateo County Sheriff Could Face Criminal Prosecution After She Finally Leaves Office While the saga of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus plods on and she still refuses to leave office before they drag her out, we get a few more details about this most bizarre ordeal.
SF News International Students In Bay Area Get Sudden Reprieve as Trump Administration Reverses on Visa Cancellations A Trump administration lawyer announced a sudden reversal Friday in a federal court in Washington, DC, saying that around 1,500 international students around the country would not have their visas revoked after all.
SF News You May See Drizzle This Weekend, But Most of the Rain Will Miss the Bay Area A weak and disorganized winter storm is going to be moving down the California coast starting Friday night, and it looks like the Central Coast will get most of the scattered showers.
SF News SFMTA Lays Off 12 Senior Managers, And It Sounds Like There May Be More Job Cuts to Come The SF Municipal Transportation Agency that operates Muni just canned 12 of its senior managers in a reorg effort to tackle their massive deficit, and that reorg might mean more layoffs in the near future.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland 7-Eleven Robbed Second Night In a Row A 7-Eleven in Oakland was robbed for a second night in a row; Google is pressuring workers to come back to the office or lose their jobs; and Apple may be moving all iPhone production to India.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supervisor Wants Homeless Shelters Spread Out Evenly All Over Town The California Bar is red-faced over an AI screw-up on their recent bar exam; Real ID might get delayed again because DMVs nationwide are a mess; and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood wants more homeless shelters in districts other than his own.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Free Outdoor Movies Return Friday Night, as SFFILM Presents John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’ The SFFILM festival is rolling into the Presidio Friday night with a free screening of John Carpenter’s classic 80s horror film “The Fog,” which was filmed in Marin County. The show is free, but you do have to RSVP in advance.
SF News Idiot From Modesto In a Company-Owned Cybertruck Gives Nazi Salute, Sparks Internet Rage A guy who had the misfortune of riding around in a Cybertruck in 2025 San Francisco and decided he was annoyed with people making unkind gestures at him gave a Nazi salute out the car's window, and it was caught on video.
SF News California Moves Up to Fourth-Largest Economy In the World, and Boy Is Gavin Newsom Crowing About It Take that, red states! California has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world, with an estimated Gross Domestic Product of more than $4 trillion.
Arts & Entertainment Immersive, Physical-Play-Based Arcade Opening at Stonestown In May As Stonestown Galleria continues to solidify its renewed place as a Gen Z entertainment and food destination, a new arcade is set to open there that emphasizes physical activity and live, high-tech, interactive gaming experiences.
SF News Oakland School Board Goes Through With Firing Longtime Superintendent, Still Gives No Explanation Why As they telegraphed they were going to two weeks ago, the Oakland Board of Education went and fired Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell Wednesday night, behind closed doors and with no explanation. But it seems the teachers’ union may have played a role.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barack Obama Dined at Quince Last Night, Possibly With Marc Benioff Former President Barack Obama has now been in town twice in the last two months, and both times he has enjoyed the food of chef Michael Tusk and his team.
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities A lawsuit being led by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties sought an injunction against President Trump's executive order denying federal funds to all cities and counties that decline to cooperate with ICE, and on Thursday, a federal judge granted it.
SF Politics SF City Department Head Removed From Post, Mayor Lurie Accuses Her of ‘Unlawful Activities’ SF’s Department on the Status of Women director Kimberly Ellis was under a cloud of allegations of unauthorized moonlighting, no-bid city contracts for friends, and extravagant conference spending, and now she’s been ousted, presumably on Mayor Lurie’s orders.
