SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In Food: New Pizza Lands In Hayes Valley

A new Neapolitan pizza shop has arrived in Hayes Valley, Turtle Tower opens a new location in Cow Hollow, and Tacos Oscar comes to the Lower Haight, all in This Week in Food.

Business & Tech

It Looks Like Elon Musk's Suit Against OpenAI Over Abandoned Nonprofit Mission Is Headed to Trial

It had seemed earlier like Elon Musk's dogged, seemingly vengeful pursuit of OpenAI, which he co-founded, over its swerve toward being a for-profit enterprise, wasn't going anywhere. But a ruling from judge on Thursday points to the parties heading to a trial sometime this year.

SF News

Former Oakland Cops Appeal 'Ghost Chase' Liability Case to Supreme Court

Two Oakland police officers got in a heap of trouble three and a half years ago when an unauthorized and arguably unnecessary chase they initiated resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. They now want the Supreme Court to relieve them of any 14th Amendment claims of fault.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

That Taco Bell Cantina at the Wharf Had a Grand Opening Party and It Was Lit

Hundreds of people showed up Thursday for the official grand opening of the new Taco Bell Cantina at Fisherman's Wharf, even though it's been open for two weeks.

SF Politics

Yes, London Breed Is a Little Bitter That Lurie Is Getting Credit For Things She Started

A year since she stepped off the public stage and retreated to lick her wounds, former SF Mayor London Breed sat down for an interview with the New York Times.

SF News

One Person Fatally Shot In Potrero Hill In SF's First Homicide of 2026

San Francisco saw its first homicide of the new year Thursday night, with one person found fatally shot at the edge of Potrero Hill.

SF News

Friday Morning Constitutional: Baby Sea Lion Rescued From Mountain View Parking Lot

A malnourished baby sea lion found in Mountain View is recovering; Governor Newsom is in SF today to discuss homeless initiatives; and ICE's detainee population reaches a new record high.

Arts & Entertainment

Street That Runs In Front of Academy of Sciences to Be Renamed for Claude the Alligator

The street that runs from JFK Drive and in front of the California Academy of Sciences will be renamed in honor of the late Claude, the albino alligator, who died last month at age 30.

Arts & Entertainment

Rumor Swirls That Taylor Swift Will Be In San Francisco for the Super Bowl

It's not too huge of a leap to imagine that the one and only T-Swift will be coming to the Bay Area with fiance Travis Kelce for Super Bowl Weekend, with Kelce's organization, Tight End University, set to co-host an event with Sports Illustrated.

Arts & Entertainment

Actor Timothy Busfield Investigated In 2001 Sexual Misconduct Incident at Sacramento Theater

As 'West Wing' and 'Thirtysomething' actor Timothy Busfield faces child molestation charges in New Mexico, a 25-year-old investigation has surfaced involving the actor at the regional theater he co-founded in Sacramento.

SF Politics

Daniel Lurie Gives His First State of the City Address, Says 'People Are Proud to Live Here Again'

SF Mayor Daniel Lurie delivered his first State of the City address Thursday morning, concluding his first year in office and kicking off Year Two, calling 2025 one of the safest in city history.

SF News

Bright Streak In Bay Area Sky Wednesday Night Was ISS Astronauts Returning Home

A bright light with an extended tail seen burning across the night sky in the Bay Area early Thursday was no ordinary meteor.

SF News

Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Gets Its Own Speed Cameras

Oakland has installed 18 speed-detection cameras around the city; there was a 3.1M earthquake near San Jose; and the Santa Cruz City Council has voted to end its Flock Safety contract.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 Fully Back Open In Big Sur, After Three Years

Repair work has been completed two months early on the landslide-covered section of Highway 1 in Big Sur; the SFPD releases photos of a Tenderloin assault suspect; and the last restaurant at SF's dead mall food court has closed.

SF News

Attorneys for San Jose Family Accused In 2021 Exorcism Death of Three-Year-Old Claim Racial and Religious Bias

A somewhat novel defense is being mounted for a mother, uncle, and grandfather accused in the death of a three-year-old girl in San Jose who was allegedly tortured, starved, and abused for 12 hours before being asphyxiated, all in the name of an exorcism.

Arts & Entertainment

Reminder: Public Memorial Is This Weekend For Claude the Albino Alligator

Fans of Claude, the albino alligator who resided in a private grotto at the California Academy of Sciences for 17 years, will have a chance to mourn en masse this weekend in Golden Gate Park.

SF Politics

Federal Court Says Prop 50 Gerrymander Is Good to Go, Cites Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Maps

A baldly hypocritical effort by the Republican Party to challenge Democrats' tit-for-tat gerrymander measure, Prop 50, has been shot down by a federal court, paving the way for California to redraw its congressional district maps as it sees fit.

Business & Tech

California Now Investigating xAI Over Grok's Non-Consensual Deepfake Imagery

Elon Musk is facing his umpteenth controversy this week as the worldwide outcry grows over the Grok chatbot's image-editing capability, which combined with X has created a tool for producing and spreading non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes and child sexual abuse material.

Arts & Entertainment

Guy Fieri Hosting 'World's Largest Tailgate' on Super Bowl Sunday at Cow Palace; Noah Kahan Doing Warfield Show

Adding to the week of events surrounding Super Bowl LX will be a huge food-and-drink fest on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb 8) at the Cow Palace, with Bay Area native son Guy Fieri hosting. And Noah Kahan is doing an exclusive thing at the Warfield that will be hard to score a ticket for.

SF News

Humpday Headlines: BART Has Another Power Issue

There was a fatal crash on I-80 in Vacaville Wednesday morning; BART had another power issue that disrupted Yellow Line service; and a suspect was caught ripping copper wire from the tracks at the South SF Caltrain station.

SF Politics

Louisiana Officials Have Indicted a Bay Area Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills

The state of Louisiana is looking to extradite a Sonoma County doctor whom they're accusing of providing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman — something that state officials already tried to do with a New York doctor last year.

Supreme Court All But Certain to Rule That Laws Barring Trans Students From Sports Are Constitutional

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases, one out of West Virginia and one out of Idaho, relating to trans kids and adults playing in intramural and collegiate sports. And a ruling is very likely to break on predictable, ideological lines, 6-3.

SF News

Williams-Sonoma to Close Its Flagship Union Square Store as Chanel Prepares to Move In

It's not new news that Williams-Sonoma is planning to depart from Union Square, but now the time has come, as Chanel plans to relocate to the building at the top of the park.

Arts & Entertainment

'Dilbert' Cartoonist Scott Adams, Who Spent His Final Years as a Trump-Loving Podcaster, Dies at 68

Scott Adams, the comic-strip satirist of office culture who later fashioned himself a self-help guru and anti-woke crusader, has died of the aggressive form of prostate cancer that he revealed he had last year.

Arts & Entertainment

BottleRock Announces Throwback-Heavy Lineup Including Backstreet Boys, LCD Soundsystem, and Chaka Khan

Napa Valley's BottleRock festival, which has always skewed toward an older demographic than Outside Lands and other festivals, is leaning pretty heavily on the nostalgia with the 2026 lineup.