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.
SF News Oakland Sees 20% Drop In Homelessness, Alameda County Sees 13% Drop In Latest Count A drop in the number of homeless individuals on the streets may be a regional trend as we see Alameda County is reporting a decline similar to one seen in San Francisco over the last two years.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Roof Fire North Beach SFFD firefighters quickly extinguished a fire on Green Street in North Beach Monday evening; a massage therapist in San Mateo County was arrested for sexual battery; and a longtime KTVU anchor is departing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Buena Vista Bartender Celebrates 50 Years of Pouring Irish Coffees Bystanders helped detain the teen suspect accused of plowing into a crowd of people in Oakland; the Sandy Fire is growing in Ventura County; and Joseph Shaw, a bartender at Buena Vista, just celebrated 50 years working at the bar.
SF Politics ...And Pelosi Finally Comes Out and Endorses Connie Chan to Succeed Her She waited a good long minute, but House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has clearly decided her chosen candidate needs a boost in the primary, and she has now offered an official endorsement.
SF News Exclusive: Man In SUV With Pro-Charlie Kirk Message Allegedly Tags Gay-Owned Castro Florist With Hateful Graffiti Over the weekend, a suspect tagged a building housing a Castro-area floral design shop with hateful graffiti and assaulted a neighbor, and the shop owners are hoping San Francisco police will bring the suspect to justice soon.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers 2026, Wind and All Sunday's 113th annual Bay to Breakers foot race across the city of San Francisco brought out around 30,000 participants — a significant jump from the 20,000 or so who participated last year — and the sunny but windy Sunday made for some good times along the route.
Business & Tech Federal Jury and Judge Side With OpenAI, Dismissing Elon Musk's Case About Company's Nonprofit Mission A decision came down quickly in the federal court battle between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with the jury issuing a verdict Monday siding with Altman and OpenAI.
SF News Falling Trees and Car Crashes Lead to Five Deaths, Four Injuries In Sonoma County Windy conditions in Sonoma County and elsewhere in the Bay Area led to many reports of downed trees, and one fallen tree took the life of a Santa Rosa man.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Around 13,500 Still Without Power After PSPS Around 13,500 Bay Area PG&E customers are without power due to the first public-safety shutoff of the season; two people were killed in a shooting in Suisun City Sunday; and Santa Cruz is trying to explain a significant drop in its population.
