SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: More Smashburgers JouJou coming along, Castagnola's makes a comeback in Fisherman's Wharf, and a smashburger pop-up goes brick-and-mortar in the Sunet, all in This Week In Food.
Business & Tech Guess Who's Helping Pay For Trump's Ballroom? Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Palantir Given how the billionaire CEOs all lined up to throw money at Trump's second inauguration, helping the despot feel like the king he's always wanted to be, his royal ballroom is also being funded by these billionaires, including the Bay Area's tech-wealthy.
SF News Five People Stabbed In SF's Inner Richmond, Possibly In Bar Fight Five people were stabbed early Friday morning, four of them requiring hospitalization, during some sort of altercation inside a business in the Inner Richmond.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Gets Confirmation That No Immigration Operations Are Happening In Bay Area Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
Arts & Entertainment New CBS Legal Drama From 'Good Wife' Creators Robert and Michelle King to Focus on Silicon Valley Tech World A new legal drama titled 'Cupertino' has been greenlit at CBS, and it's a procedural along the lines of 'The Good Wife' that will focus on David-versus-Goliath legal battles in the world of the tech elite.
SF News One Person Shot on SF's Sixth Street, One Arrested You may have received an alert from San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management Thursday afternoon about police activity at Sixth and Minna Streets. Here's what we know.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Point Man Fatally Stabbed, Woman Arrested A vegetation fire in San Jose grew to 10 acres on Thursday; a man was fatally stabbed in a home in Bay Point and a 57-year-old woman was arrested at the scene; and SF has landed on a list of safest cities for travelers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Behind Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse Opens New Bar With Rotating Globally Inspired Menus A new cocktail destination debuts in North Beach today called Long Weekend, and its menu and decor will change on a rotating basis, focusing on a single global city at a time.
SF Politics Trump and Lurie Have Their Moment as Oakland Braces For Its Own Possible Federal 'Surge' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has spent months treading carefully when it comes to discussing national politics, has now emerged as an unlikely recipient of praise from President Donald Trump, among Democratic mayors.
SF Politics Marc Benioff Helped Talk Trump Out of Federal 'Surge' In San Francisco; White House Says 'We'll Be Watching' After potentially helping encourage Trump two weeks ago in his quest to invade Democratic-led cities, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was reportedly one of several "friends" Trump spoke to Wednesday who talked him out of a planned incursion in San Francisco.
SF Politics Trump Tells Mayor Daniel Lurie That Federal Deployment In SF Is Called Off In a confusing turn of events, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he had a phone call with President Trump Wednesday night, and the president said he was calling off any federal deployment in the city. But does that mean federal agents will focus on Oakland or another locale?
SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: City Lights Unfurls Protest Banners City Lights Bookstore has put up banners on its facade quoting a poem about tyranny by founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti; BART's board discusses Monday's disruption; and Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Driver Charged In Marin Crash The teen girl in April's deadly crash in Marin County has been criminally charged; Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI units; and Paramount is making offers on Warner Bros. Discovery.
SF Politics 'Don't Take the Bait': Bay Area Leaders Plead With Potential Protesters to Stay Peaceful as Trump Sends Federal Agents Thursday could bring chaos to the Bay Area, and local leaders are hoping against hope that any protesters can temper their passions long enough to avoid what Trump and his team surely want, which are television images of violence and protest chaos that they can use to make their case for fascism.
SF News Trump's Federal Invasion of San Francisco to Begin on Thursday It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
SF Politics Newsom Deploying National Guard to Support Local Food Banks, In Response to Government Shutdown In a political gesture to match Trump's own, many political gestures, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he was deploying the National Guard, like he did during the pandemic, to support food banks in California.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Formally Announces Run for Congress, Ahead of Any Pelosi Decision State Senator Scott Wiener confirmed the news that was leaked last week that he will run for Nancy Pelosi's seat in the US House of Representatives, regardless of whether Pelosi plans to retire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Serial Harasser Already In Jail In SF Serial harasser of women Bill Gene Hobbs was arrested in SF again Tuesday for violating his parole; South Lake Tahoe has chosen a new mayor; and we are now in the second-longest government shutdown in US history.
Arts & Entertainment Chris Stapleton to Do SF Show at Bill Graham on Super Bowl Weekend There will be a big concert in the middle of SF's Civic Center the night before Super Bowl Sunday in February, with headliner Chris Stapleton joined by at least one other artist, Grammy-winner Sierra Farrell, and other concerts TBA.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Vows Legal Action If Trump Sends In National Guard, Joins Amicus Brief at Supreme Court Mayor Daniel Lurie might be trying to avoid a verbal confrontation with President Trump, but City Attorney David Chiu came out swinging Tuesday about this National Guard business.
Business & Tech Academy of Art, Which Assembled Huge and Controversial SF Real Estate Portfolio, Now Selling a Portion of That Portfolio It's a sign of the times for Academy of Art University, the San Francisco-based art college that once attracted students from all over the country and now has many of its students taking classes remotely.
SF News Oakland Woman Describes Days of Torture, Rape, and Sexual Trafficking By East Palo Alto Man She Met Online An East Palo Alto man with multiple violent charges on his record, several of which involved assaults on women, allegedly met a woman on Facebook Dating in June and proceeded to kidnap, rape, brutalize, and sexually traffic her over a six-day span.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vallejo Man's Bulldog Was Dognapped During Robbery A Vallejo man is offering a reward for the return of his stolen bulldog; a Daly City man was arrested in connection with a pair of assaults last week; and someone has been tucking transphobic messages inside books in a Noe Valley bookstore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Lurie Says National Guard Can't Arrest Drug Dealers SF Mayor Daniel Lurie issues a new statement about Trump's National Guard threat; BART has not clarified what the 'equipment issue' was this morning; and police in Atlanta may have thwarted a mass shooting at the airport there.
