SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Small Earthquake Rattles East Bay The City of San Francisco just canceled a number of grants given under the Dream Keepers initiative; a 3.1M earthquake rumbled north of Concord Friday morning; and the death toll in the LA wildfires just rose.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Canceled Due to Lack of Funds The annual Fillmore Jazz Festival, which typically livens up the stretch of Fillmore Street from Turk up to California Street over July 4th weekend, has been canceled for 2025.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Tickets Will Be Doled Out By Lottery This Year, and Community Box Offices The organizers of the annual Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco are switching things up again for the summer concert series, after a few post-pandemic years in which a first-come-first-serve, online ticketing system left many fans out of luck.
SF News Family of Bob Lee Sues Momeni Family For Cover-Up, and Condo Building For Releasing Post-Stabbing Footage The promised civil lawsuit arrived late last week from the brother, ex-wife, and children of late tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and it accuses the family of Nima Momeni of helping him to cover up his crime.
Arts & Entertainment First Ever Pride Music Festival Comes to Pier 80 on Pride Weekend, Featuring Kehlani, Tinashe, and Kim Petras A first-of-its-kind music festival is taking over the same pier that Portola happens on this Pride Weekend, giving fans a new place to celebrate Pride Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Claude the Albino Alligator Gets His Own Webcam as Academy of Sciences Rings In 172 Years A live webcam feed of Claude, the California Academy of Sciences' famed albino alligator, launches Friday morning as part of Academy Day.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Body Found In Car on 101-S A dead body was found in the backseat of a car parked on the shoulder of 101 in San Mateo; a man was shot in an armed robbery in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood; and VTA train service returns today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pleasanton Man Confesses to Killing Mother A 31-year-old Pleasanton man turned himself in for the killing of his mother; a power outage hit the Castro, Noe Valley, and Mission; and new details have emerged in the 2023 Nashville school shooting.
SF News Downtown Mall Death Spiral Continues With Departures of Nine Retailers "Bloomingdale’s was the last straw" says one employee at an SF Centre retailer that closed Monday, and eight other stores are either set to close or have already closed at the beleaguered mall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs at State Bird, Mijoté, and Saison All Named as Finalists for James Beard Awards While San Francisco doesn't have any new restaurants in contention at this year's "Oscars of Food," several local chefs and one beverage professional are in the running for awards this year.
Business & Tech Amazon and Founder of OnlyFans Put In Last-Minute Bids to Buy TikTok A deadline is approaching with the expiration of Trump's executive-order reprieve for TikTok, and several last-minute bidders have emerged.
SF News 7-Year-Old Girl Killed By Falling Boulder at Tahoe Resort We're now learning some details about a tragic accident that took place Saturday at a Tahoe area ski resort, in which a young girl lost her life.
SF Politics Xavier Becerra Throws His Hat In the Ring In California Governor's Race Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, former congressman, and former Attorney General of California Xavier Becerra has officially joined an already crowded field of Democrats who may be challenging Kamala Harris in the race for California Governor next year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bay Area Woman's Family Sues Trump Hotel Over Death The family of a Bay Area woman who died after a revolving door incident at Trump's Vegas hotel is suing; the Supreme Court rules against flavored vape makers; and Neil Young worries he'll be barred from the US.
SF News City of Oakland Gives Notice to Homeless Encampments Next to Lake Merritt The City of Oakland, which like San Francisco has struggled to address widespread camping on sidewalks and elsewhere in the city amid on ongoing homelessness crisis, gave a seven-day warning on Monday to an encampment around Peralta Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Best Buy at Geary and Masonic to Become Asian Market T&T, After Whole Foods Plan Falls Through An Asian supermarket chain out of Canada will be taking over the long vacant former Best Buy space in San Francisco's City Center complex, years after Whole Foods was supposed to be moving in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Details Revealed About Che Fico's Mission Rock Expansion Project, Which Will Be Tuscan Che Fico chef-partner David Nayfeld is promising a "more dressed up version of a restaurant than we’ve ever done before" at his new, 8,000-square-foot restaurant in the base of Visa's new Mission Rock headquarters.
SF News Federal Jury Convicts Trans Sex Worker of Voluntary Manslaughter In Crissy Field Shooting A young trans woman who was charged with the November 2023 murder of a john who demanded his money back after discovering she was trans was acquitted of second-degree murder, but convicted of voluntary manslaughter on Monday.
SF Politics As Layoffs Begin Across Health Agencies, SF Office of Health and Human Services Set to Close The Trump administration sent layoff notices Tuesday to around 10,000 employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services, including dozens who work out of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Muni Ridership at 75% of Pre-Pandemic Levels Muni ridership as of March is at 75% of pre-pandemic levels; a child died in a "non skiing accident" at a Tahoe resort; and there was a memorial service Monday night for the Oakland teen killed two weeks ago.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ICE Reportedly Sending Contractors Out In East Bay Heklina's friends and supporters turned out to demonstrate in London; Rep. Lateefah Simon says that ICE contractors are knocking on doors in the East Bay; and Presidio trails are closed for coyote pupping season.
SF News Attorney for Man Shot In Outer Sunset Police Confrontation Disputes Claim That He Shot Himself A man who was injured by a gunshot wound during an encounter with San Francisco police officers earlier this month didn't fire a single shot, his attorney argues, and police are trying to save face.
SF News Health Officials Say There's No Public Risk After Measles Case Is Documented In San Mateo County There was a documented case of measles in San Mateo County last month, but we are only learning about it now as public health officials say they conducted contact tracing, and they determined there was no further risk.
SF News Tesla Cybertruck Vandal, Seen on Video, Sought In Novato An individual who creeped into a Tesla Cybertruck owner's driveway in Novato over the weekend and vandalized the vehicle is being sought by Novato police.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle's Top 100 Revealed — the Bottom Half Anyway The Chronicle's food critics have unveiled the bottom 50 of the revised-for-2025 Top 100 Restaurants, and it's an eclectic mix of mom-and-pop spots, bakeries, Michelin destinations, and pizza.
