SF News Ugh — Realtors Now Trying to Make 'Lower Hayes' Happen It's apparently come time for San Francisco's Mid-Market to be rebranded, 15 years after the neighborhood was primed for a big tech comeback that never really came, and a year after its defining tenant, Twitter, flew the coop.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Joe Betz, Longtime Owner of SF's House of Prime Rib, Dies at 86 San Francisco has lost one of its longest serving restaurateurs, as we learn Wednesday that House of Prime Rib owner Joe Betz has passed.
SF Politics Newsom Goes on Colbert, Warns 'We Will Not Have an Election In 2028 Unless We Wake Up' Governor Gavin Newsom went on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' last night, which was not the most-watched late night show Tuesday that Trump has gotten canceled, or almost canceled.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Yesterday Was the Hottest Day of the Year In SF Tuesday was the hottest day of the year so far in SF, hitting 88 degrees downtown; SF Rec & Parks identifies new sites for pickleball courts; and some guerrilla public art of Trump and Epstein comes down in DC.
SF News Local App-Maker Makes Viral App to Track SF Parking Cops The guy behind the app we recently told you about that tracks the relative hotness of restaurant patrons has a new app that tracks SF's meter maids/parking cops in real time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Whole Foods Location In Mill Valley Announces Permanent Closure, Prompting Outcry, Petition One of the first Whole Foods locations in the country, the one that debuted in a Quonset hut structure on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley over 30 years ago, has been closed since July for "repairs," and now may be closed for good.
SF News Fremont Man Charged With Stalking and Killing Sex Offender He Found on Megan's Law Website A Fremont man who apparently took some delight in killing a man he did not know who was listed on a sex offender website has been charged with his murder, and had a previous arrest in 2021 for hunting someone else he thought to be a pedophile.
SF News 64-Year-Old Man Accused of Firing Gun at Sacramento ABC Affiliate Allegedly Had Anti-Trump Notes In Car A Sacramento man arrested last week for firing a gun at a local ABC television affiliate — in the wake of the Jimmy Kimmel/Charlie Kirk controversy — apparently had written messages critical of the Trump administration, and made a note to himself about doing something "scary."
SF News Walnut Creek Man Charged In Murder of Wife and Mother-in-Law A 43-year-old Walnut Creek man with an alleged history of domestic violence has now been charged with the murder of his wife and mother-in-law in the home that the three shared last week.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Another Hot Day In Store A Heat Advisory is in effect for much of the Bay Area today; Berkeley felt a 3.0M aftershock from yesterday's early morning earthquake; and two major TV station owners are still boycotting Kimmel.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nick Bosa Now Out for the Season Chipmaker Nvidia is investing $100 billion in OpenAI; Jimmy Kimmel is coming back on the air Tuesday; and 49er Nick Bosa is out for the season with the knee injury he sustained on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment What You Missed at 2025's Portola Festival In San Francisco The fourth annual Portola Festival lucked out with its sunniest weekend yet by being scheduled a week earlier this year, and an estimated 45,000 attendees per day enjoyed sets by LCD Soundsystem, Dom Dolla, Moby, and Christina Aguilera.
SF News BART Set New Post-Pandemic Ridership Record In August Thanks in part to big events like Outside Lands, and thanks to a new program that provides unlimited rides for UC Berkeley students, BART saw its ridership soar to a new post-pandemic record in August.
Bay Area Sports American Tennis Star Taylor Fritz Pulls Out Win for Team World at Laver Cup In San Francisco It was a "home" tournament win for Team World at this year's Laver Cup, which pits European players against the rest of the world, including Americans. And that was despite two highly seeded Americans bowing out at the last minute.
SF News Two Charged In Last Week's Triple Shooting In Concord Parking Garage One man faces an attempted murder charge and another man faces a conspiracy charge in connection with a triple shooting last Tuesday in Concord.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Aftershock Felt In Berkeley A 2.6M aftershock followed this morning's 4.3M quake; Elon Musk appeared to be getting along with Trump again at Charlie Kirk's memorial; and a woman in Rockridge was injured in a hit-and-run while walking her dog.
SF News 4.3M Earthquake Centered In Berkeley Jolts People Awake Early Monday You may have been rudely awoken by an earthquake just before 3 am Monday morning, which turns out to have been a 4.3-magnitude quake on the Hayward Fault, centered in Berkeley.
SF News [Update] Shots Reportedly Fired at ABC Affiliate In Sacramento One can only imagine the motivations for a person doing a drive-by shooting to send an apparent message at Sacramento's ABC10, the same week that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air for comments about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: An Ernest Offshoot Comes to SoMa Ernest chef Brandon Rice is expanding with Lawrence in SoMa, Sangria & Salt takes over the former Cha Cha Cha in the Mission, and the Jewish deli-inspired Super Mensch makes its debut in the Marina, all in This Week in Food.
SF News City Contractor Urban Alchemy Acknowledges Some Overspending as SF Supervisors Mull Contract Extension The local nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which took on favored-contractor status at San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing in recent years, is increasingly coming under the microscope of city leaders amid signs of contract violations.
SF News Design Approved For Sparkly Revamp of Powell Street The three blocks of Powell Street between the cable-car turnaround and Union Square are set to see some light installations, cafe tables, new paving and more under a new proposed revamp.
SF News Sheriff's Former Chief of Staff Victor Aenlle Sues San Mateo County for Defamation, Wrongful Termination The saga down in San Mateo County over the board of supervisors' effort to remove Sheriff Christa Corpus can add a fresh lawsuit to its roster, this one from the sheriff's alleged lover and former chief of staff, Victor Aenlle.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Singer D4vd Cancels SF and LA Shows Amid Homicide Investigation Singer D4vd has canceled his Friday Warfield show amid a homicide investigation in LA; a Gaza protest group disrupted traffic Friday in Oakland; and Mt. Diablo High's football field has been repaired after last month's fire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 10 Casual Tasting Menus to Try In San Francisco Right Now The tasting menu format has gone in and out of fashion at different times in our recent food culture, but it is very much alive and well around San Francisco in 2025.
SF Politics Antifa a 'Terrorist Organization'? Good Luck Figuring That Out Predictably, though still confusingly, President Trump has declared Antifa as a "major terrorist organization," even though it isn't an organization, it's an umbrella term for a decentralized anti-fascist movement.
