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.
Business & Tech Vehicle Fleet Management Company to Take Part of Twitter's Former Space on Mid-Market Elon Musk has found a taker for at least part of the former Twitter headquarters in the former Twitter Building on mid-Market, aka the former San Francisco Mart, aka Market Square.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Benicia Told to Conserve Water After Pipeline Burst Residents of Benicia are being told to reduce water use by almost half after a pipeline rupture; an animal welfare activist is on trial in Sonoma County over a chicken farm incursion; and the NHTSA investigates Tesla over faulty door locks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jimmy Kimmel's Show Yanked Off Air Over Kirk Shooting Comments A man was stabbed Wednesday outside the Daly City BART station; the suspect in a hit-and-run rampage in Berkeley has been ID'd; and Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has been pulled off the air "indefinitely" over comments he made Monday about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
SF News Former Anchor Frank Somerville's Domestic Dispute Story Differs From Daughter's, According to Police After his arrest Monday night in Oakland, former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville publicized his side of a domestic battery story involving his 20-year-old daughter. But it seems that his daughter's version is different, and both are pressing charges against each other.
Arts & Entertainment Remains of Teen Girl Missing Since 2024 Found In Trunk of Car Belonging to Singer D4vd, Who's Playing the Warfield Friday A singer-songwriter who's currently on tour and set to play a show at The Warfield on Friday is now linked to a homicide investigation in Los Angeles, after a body was found in an abandoned car registered to him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Asinine Website Ranks SF Restaurant Patrons By Hotness, Using AI A guy who likes crunching publicly available data has turned his sights on a "hot or not" style ratings map for restaurants in San Francisco, LA, and New York, which is powered by AI and yields some highly questionable results.
Bay Area Sports Tennis Great Roger Federer, In Town For Laver Cup, Helps Christen Courts at McLaren Park, Golfs With Alcaraz Legendary tennis pro Roger Federer is in SF this week for the Laver Cup, the invitational tournament that pits European tennis players against other players from around the globe, and he was on hand Tuesday for the dedication of some newly surfaced public tennis courts at McLaren Park.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tropical Storm Mario Moves Toward California Moisture from Tropical Storm Mario will likely be hitting us tomorrow or Friday; bail was denied for the suspect in last week's stabbing of a San Francisco father; and the local restaurant business appears to be on the upswing.
SF Politics Supervisor Joel Engardio Ousted In First Ever Recall of Its Kind As was widely predicted, SF's District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio has been recalled, in a first-of-its-kind recall election of a sitting supervisor, largely because he supported closing the Great Highway to car traffic.
SF News Area Around Cesar Chavez Interchange 'Hairball' Cleared of Encampments Once More The encampment-clearing focus returned to "the hairball" Tuesday, with Caltrans and CHP personnel doing a sweep of those residing under the overpasses where Cesar Chavez Street meets Potrero Avenue, Bayshore Boulevard, and multiple 101 on- and off-ramps.
SF News San Francisco Remains a Safe Haven for the Childless and Child-Averse San Francisco is holding onto its title as the country's most childless major city, and in fact the numbers haven't budged in a decade.
SF News Former KTVU Anchor Frank Somerville Arrested Again In Oakland, Says It Stemmed From Fight With Daughter The saga of Frank Somerville, the former anchor of KTVU's popular nightly newscast, continues with another arrest, this time for battery, in what's now his fourth run-in with the law.
SF Politics City Audit Further Details $4.6M In Misspent Dollars By Former SF Human Rights Commission Chief The San Francisco public already knew about the not-all-above-board spending practices of disgraced former Human Rights Commission chief and Dream Keeper program head Sheryl Davis, but a new city audit puts an eye-popping pricetag on it: $4.6 million.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF's Sad Downtown Mall Now 93% Vacant The SF Centre mall is now 93% vacant; Oakland Airport wants in on the Waymo action; and the Pope just called out exorbitant CEO salaries like Elon Musk's.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Announces All-Out War on Liberal Groups BART says it will only do computer upgrades on weekends now; Trump, via JD Vance, declared all-out war on liberal groups today in frighteningly vague terms; and it's going to be even hotter around the Bay on Tuesday than it was on Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wolfsbane, the New Dogpatch Restaurant From the Lord Stanley Folks, Sets Opening Date The new restaurant from the couple behind Michelin-starred Lord Stanley (RIP), Carrie and Rupert Blease, and their friend, chef Tommy Halvorson, is coming into focus, and the reservation books are now open.
Arts & Entertainment Skaters Are Latest Group to Voice Opposition to Removal of Vaillancourt Fountain You may not know this, but the much reviled Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza has become an iconic backdrop, and set piece, for skateboarding videos over decades.
Arts & Entertainment Shaboozey Honored With Diamond Record Plaque at Civic Center Concert Attended By Over 20,000 Saturday's free concert in Civic Center drew over 20,000 fans for a celebration of the 15th anniversary of SF-born record label Empire, headlined by Billboard hitmaker Shaboozey.
SF News Car Collides With Muni Train on 19th Avenue, Flips Over There was an accident Sunday in which a vehicle was struck by a Muni train near Merced Manor, or vice versa, and the car flipped over.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Arrest Made In Sunday Shooting In Tenderloin BART police aided in an arrest of a suspect wanted for a shooting Sunday in the Tenderloin; SF Interim Police Chief Paul Yep is not applying for the permanent job; and xAI just laid off 500 people who were working on the Grok chatbot.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Reservoir' at Berkeley Rep Plumbs the Depths of Addiction and Familial Love Berkeley Rep's 2025-26 season opened this week with playwright Jake Brasch's semi-autobiographical play 'The Reservoir,' which is an unconventional, mostly unsentimental examination of the parallels between severe alcoholism and dementia.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Beer and More Beer East Brother Beer Co. brings the Rec Room to the Metreon, Park Station debuts in Alameda, and Hon's Wun-Tun House expands to the Sunset, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Expect the Heat to Return to the Bay Area Monday and Tuesday San Francisco's first significant bout of "real summer" or "September summer" looks to be headed here on Monday, with the possibility of those unsettling offshore winds that leave the city feeling hot hot hot.
SF News Two Zizian Defendants Back In Solano County Court, One Seeking New Attorney There has been some movement in the cases of the multiple people tied to a small but violent, cult-like group that originated in the Bay Area several years ago. And two suspects were back in court this week in Solano County.
