SF Politics Sunset Night Market on Pause, Possibly Falling Victim to Recall Fight Involving Supervisor Joel Engardio If you ask the folks trying to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio, the merchants and the community don't want the popular Sunset Night Market to return this summer — but also, if you're a fan, it's Engardio's fault that it's not coming back.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Dumpster Fire Spreads to Excelsior Building A dumpster fire spread to a residential building in SF's Excelsior this morning; trash collectors are on strike in over a dozen Bay Area cities; and Napa police seek the public's help in a homicide investigation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Is Updating Its Floppy-Disk-Based Train Control System Muni is beginning the $700M project to upgrade its antiquated train-control system; a planned new nightclub in the Castro has been scrapped; and Sam Altman says he feels just "fine" about Mark Zuckerberg poaching his employees.
SF News Berkeley Professor Says He Was Beaten, Likely Gay-Bashed, on Pride Saturday in Dolores Park A gay professor of film media and French at UC Berkeley, Damon Young, says he was attacked and beaten by a group of teens as he tried to leave a crowded Dolores Park on the Saturday of Pride Weekend.
SF News Paul Flores Files Second Appeal of Conviction In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart An emotional juror who had a tearful outburst, a non-expert witness suggesting roofies were involved, and two unrelated accusations of rape are among the errors Paul Flores and his attorney say occurred during his 2022 trial for the murder of Kristin Smart.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trump Hat Reportedly Spotted Behind Counter at Swan Oyster Depot, Prompting Yelp Revolt Well, for those looking for another reason not to stand in an hour-long line at Swan Oyster Depot, a local food influencer has one for you.
Business & Tech Linda Yaccarino Is Taking Her Leave of X After Two Years as CEO Nobody really thought she'd make it a full two years being CEO at Elon Musk's more chaotic version of Twitter, but Linda Yaccarino somehow did — or she was under contract — and now she'll be taking the rest of the summer off.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Nvidia Becomes First $4 Trillion Public Company A 12-year-old and a 17-year-old have been arrested for a string of ATM armed robberies in Livermore; the feds are suing CA over its trans athlete policy; and Nvidia is now the world's first $4 trillion public company.
SF News Instagram Caught Showing Paid Ads for Escort and Sex Work Services Some ads for sex workers both inside and outside the US were showing up in Instagram stories recently, and though they've been removed it certainly reveals a flaw in how such ads are being screened.
SF News 3.0M Earthquake Shakes Up the South Bay An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 rattled parts of the South Bay Tuesday afternoon, and its epicenter was in an unusual spot.
SF News You Can Stop Taking Off Your Shoes at Airport TSA Checkpoints at SFO and Elsewhere In the biggest change since the attacks of September 11, 2001 drastically increased airport security around the US, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that airline passengers can now keep their shoes on while passing through TSA checkpoints.
SF News Near-Miss Between Taxiing Jets at SFO Sounds Like Fault of Overworked Air Traffic Controller A recent near-miss between jets taxiing across runways at San Francisco International Airport was avoided by a United flight crew, and it appears to have been the fault of an overwhelmed and/or overtired air traffic controller.
SF Politics Military-Style Sweep of City Park in LA Could Be Harbinger of Things to Come With nothing better to do in LA and without a protest to quash, the Trump administration is now using the National Guard to set up a perimeter around a completely peaceful and mostly empty city park, while federal agents on horseback roam around.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Goes 25 Days Without a Homicide Oakland police are touting a drop in violent crime in June; San Jose police hold a news conference about the arrest of one of their own; and the death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 104.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Protesters Gather Outside Sam Altman's House Protesters showed up at Sam Altman's SF home on Sunday; a 37-year-old Oakland man was shot at his own Fourth of July party; and parts of Golden Gate Park will start to be closed off starting July 23 as Dead & Co. and Outside Lands setups begin.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theater Begins Taking Bookings — Starting Next March The long-awaited, still controversial, $41 million renovation of the historic Castro Theatre may or may not be complete by year-end, but Another Planet Entertainment is now starting to line up bookings starting for March 2026 and beyond.
SF News Oakland Detective Accused of Bribing and Coercing Witnesses Likely Headed to Trial as More Cases See Impacts An Oakland Police detective who was arrested two years ago on bribery and perjury charges under former District Attorney Pamela Price continues to face the music for his alleged misdeeds. And multiple cases linked to him have ended in dismissal or lenient plea deals.
SF News Ex-Boyfriend of 18-Year-Old Murdered In Morgan Hill Arrested at US-Mexico Border The ex-boyfriend of an 18-year-old recent high school graduate in Morgan Hill who was found dead last week was arrested Sunday as he tried to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Tourism Business Looking Slow This Summer Business was abnormally slow at Fisherman's Wharf and elsewhere in SF over the holiday weekend; firefighters halted a 30-acre wildfire in San Jose Sunday night; and a man was shot at the Antioch BART station.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Petite Lil's Arrives In North Beach The long-awaited Lillie Coit's in the former Washington Square Bar & Grill space is softly open as a pop-up, Mr. Digby's calls it quits in Noe Valley, and Le Soleil comes to Stonestown, all in This Week in Food.
SF News July Fourth Constitutional: Expect Fog to Mar the Fireworks In SF The SF fireworks at Fisherman's Wharf will likely, again, be obscured by fog; a citywide scavenger hunt that happened last summer is happening again; and Trump said something antisemitic and then claimed ignorance of the term.
SF News Fireworks Explosion Inside Hayward Home Leaves Two In Critical Condition on Eve of the Fourth The first of what will sadly likely not be the last local stories this weekend about casualties stemming from illegal fireworks arrives out of Hayward, where two people are reportedly in critical condition from fireworks exploding inside a home.
SF Politics Supreme Court to Weigh In On Trans Athlete Controversies The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in its next term in a pair of cases out of West Virginia and Idaho challenging state laws against participation by trans athletes in girls' and women's team sports.
SF News One Man Shot, Gravely Injured Near Fisherman's Wharf A male victim was found suffering from a gunshot wound early Thursday near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, and details of the case are so far very slim.
SF News Madre Fire In Central California Becomes Largest of the Year to Date Overnight What began as a 100-acre grass fire Wednesday afternoon in a remote part of San Luis Obispo County has grown to a 35,000-acre blaze in less than 24 hours.
