Arts & Entertainment Large, Scary Crow Sculptures Installed on Panhandle as Part of 'Big Art Loop' If you haven't been to the Golde Gate Park Panhandle in the last week or so, you have not stumbled upon these large, six-foot-high crows standing, mid-caw, across from each other on the grass.
SF News Sonoma Developer Accused of Defrauding Dozens of Retirees to Be Evicted From His Estate After weeks of frustration among the victims of the Ponzi-like scheme allegedly perpetrated by Sonoma County real estate investor Ken Mattson that he was still living in the lap of luxury, Mattson and his wife are being evicted from their Sonoma estate.
SF News Memorial Day Links: Post-Carnaval Stabbing Leaves One Critically Injured A suspect was arrested following a stabbing in the Mission District Sunday afternoon; the repaving on 19th Avenue is mostly over; and Pope Leo has issued an encyclical focused on the dangers of AI.
SF News Lake County Man Arrested After Murder of Woman, Road-Rage Shooting Spree A 38-year-old Lake County man allegedly killed a woman Friday and proceeded to go on a wild road-rage shooting spree that led authorities on a chase into Napa County.
SF Politics City Backs Off Deal to Operate Fillmore Community Center After Major Pushback Some drama erupted this past week over a deal, seemingly backed by a broad swath of city leaders, to hand over operational control of a beloved Fillmore neighborhood community center to a nonprofit without seeking community consensus.
SF News Sunday Links: State of Emergency For Orange County Chemical Leak Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency over a chemical leak at a facility in Garden Grove; two people were found dead in a car in San Jose; and the Maryland man who reportedly fired shots outside the White House and was killed has had multiple run-ins with the Secret Service.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Napa Restaurant From SPQR's Matt Accarrino on Its Way A new Napa restaurant is on the way from SPQR's Matt Accarrino, Casa Sofia Kitchen & Bar just debuted near the ballpark, and Che Fico's cocktail bar Golden Rule opens this weekend next to the Chase Center, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Woman Suspected of Burglarizing Gym Lockers In SF Gets Arrested, Has Rap Sheet A woman who is suspected of breaking into gym lockers in San Francisco and across the Bay Area and stealing credit cards has been taken into custody.
Business & Tech Waymo Temporarily Suspends Freeway Service After Weird Construction Zone Incident Goes Viral Waymo announced that it was pulling its autonomous taxis off of freeways in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami, saying that software improvements need to be made to improve the vehicles' performance in construction zones.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BottleRock Kicks Off In Napa It is BottleRock and Carnaval weekend, with BottleRock kicking off this afternoon in Napa; part of 19th Ave is closed again as of this morning, until Monday; and students at Fairfield High staged a walkout to protest a police officer hitting a student.
SF News Day Around the Bay: $10K Treasure Finally Found, and It Was Really Hard Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is getting a $1M refund for the donation he made to Matt Mahan's campaign; a Vallejo dog breeder has been convicted of animal cruelty; and that $10,000 buried treasure was found, and it was not in the city proper.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Names Its First-Ever Female Music Director, Elim Chan Following a two-year search for a replacement for respected conductor and music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, the San Francisco Symphony has named 39-year-old Elim Chan to the role.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Highlights Four More 'New Discoveries' In SF, Including Maria Isabel and Kitchen Istanbul The Michelin Guide has put out its list of "New Discoveries" ahead of the release of the updated 2026 California guide, including 21 restaurants across the state.
SF News Disruptive Protest Goes on Trial as Seven Who Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Face Jury In SF Seven individuals who face a raft of felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from a Tax Day demonstration in 2024 that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours are facing trial starting this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Needs to Stop Having Fires. North Beach Location Suffers Small Kitchen Fire Original Joe's really needs to beef up its fire insurance and clean its kitchen flues. The flagship location in North Beach, which moved there after its original location burned down, suffered a small fire on Wednesday night — the owners' third fire in 20 years.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Death of Napa Toddler Being Investigated A 13-month-old girl who was found not breathing in a Napa residence later died and the death is under investigation; an American Canyon teacher has been arrested for battery and "inappropriate behavior"; and a person was rescued from the Bay near the Ferry Building.
Business & Tech Report: OpenAI Is About to File for an IPO A much-anticipated event in the tech world is nigh. OpenAI, which everyone has known is prepping for an IPO that should prove dramatic — and profitable for early employees like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — may be preparing IPO paperwork in a matter of days or weeks.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Members of BTS, Suga, Joined the Bay to Breakers Race Sunday In town for three big concert nights on the Peninsula, one of the members of K-pop sensation BTS opted to do as the locals do Sunday morning while getting in a 12K, and he joined the Bay to Breakers race.
SF News Hayward Nursing Home Partly Evacuated After Laundry Room Fire Firefighters in the East Bay were forced to initiate a partial evacuation of a Hayward convalescent home Tuesday afternoon after a small fire broke out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Liquor Licenses, Once Worth $250K, Now Trade for Around $100K In a sign of weak demand for restaurants overall, the once highly valued "full" liquor licenses in San Francisco, which could only be obtained on the secondary market due to a longstanding legal exception, are now worth about a third of what they were before the pandemic.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Three Victims In Oakland Crash ID'd The three victims in Saturday night's high-speed pedestrian collision in East Oakland have been ID'd, and one was a well known community elder; an AI-powered whale detection network has launched around the Bay; and Tom Steyer has apparently been paying off influencers.
SF Politics New Poll Finds Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton Increasing Their Leads In Governor's Race After a new poll released this week, it is looking increasingly likely that the two candidates who will be on the November ballot for governor of California are Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton.
SF News At Trial For Santana Row Teen Murder Suspect, Defense Suggests the Victim Might Have Also Been Armed Closing statements were presented Monday in court in San Jose in the murder trial of an unnamed 13-year-old suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing 15-year-old David Gutierrez on Valentine's Day 2025.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller's Seasonal Takeout Spot Addendum Reopens for Summer In Yountville Now an established seasonal destination in the Napa Valley, Addendum, which started slinging Ad Hoc's popular fried chicken out of a "shack" behind the larger restaurant in 2011, is opening back up this weekend in Yountville.
SF News Victim In Sunset Shooting Identified as Longtime Neighborhood Resident and City Employee With Checkered Past The victim in the fatal shooting Sunday morning in San Francisco's Outer Sunset has been identified as a well known local character who had reportedly turned his life around after being released from prison.
