SF Politics Trump's War on ABC Comes For Local Affiliate KGO/ABC 7 ABC 7 has put out a call to viewers to make their voices heard to the FCC as the Trump administration continues its unconstitutional and baldly fascist war on ABC, all because Whoopi Goldberg and Jimmy Kimmel have been mean to him.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminate Installs 49 Vertical Lasers In Civic Center, Rainbow Up Market Street Arrives Friday A new laser installation was turned on Sunday in Civic Center, with a 7x7 grid of 49 vertical laser beams aimed at the sky just in front of City Hall, which will remain there through the July 4th holiday weekend.
SF News Juvenile Coyote Gets Trapped In SF Backyard, Curls Up Under Stairway, Gets Rescued A juvenile female coyote got herself stuck in a San Francisco backyard last week and apparently "shut down" after not being able to manage an escape, all while the homeowner was away on vacation.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART to Run Post-Midnight Trains For Tonight's World Cup Match BART is providing after-midnight service at select stations for Monday's World Cup match in Santa Clara; a statue of a Vietnamese soldier was vandalized in San Jose; and 'Toy Story 5' officially had the biggest box office opening of the year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Bye to Bar Brucato Bar Brucato calls it quits — though the distillery lives on — Causwells opens a next door Martini Room, and Millennium reopens a month after closing in Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Era of $2,000 Tenderloin Studios Here we are, in 2026, over a decade after the launch of Apartment Sadness as a column on SFist. And while some things have changed, not a lot has changed except that everything costs more than it did 10 years ago.
SF News SFPD Officer Shot In Bayview After Chase Released From Hospital, Says 'I Was Doing My Job That Night' Brittany Taylor, the SFPD officer who was shot and critically wounded by a robbery suspect on the night of May 31 following a chase into the Bayview neighborhood, has been released from the hospital.
SF News 39-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Hate Crimes and Assault After Castro Vandalism Incident An Oakland man with a pro-Charlie Kirk message emblazoned on his vehicle was arrested and has now been charged with multiple felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Transit Getting Crowded Again Public transit in the Bay is getting close to pre-pandemic levels of ridership (but not BART); Oakland police are seeking help finding a missing teen; and Christian Pulisic is out for today's Australia match due to injury.
SF News Day Around the Bay: RIP, Jeannette Etheredge, Grand Dame of North Beach Jeannette Etheredge, the longtime impresario of Tosca, has died at age 85; the backers of the billionaire tax tell Newsom they're willing to negotiate to pull the measure; and former President Barack Obama spoke at the dedication of his new presidential center/library in Chicago today.
Arts & Entertainment Daughter of Film Director William Wyler and Prominent SF Philanthropist Found Dead With Husband In Running Car There was a strange news item this week involving a well known San Francisco philanthropist couple, Judith and Wylie Sheldon, who were both found dead of unknown causes in a still-running SUV along a Northern California freeway.
Bay Area Sports Mayor Daniel Lurie, Supervisor Matt Dorsey Add to Chorus of Condemnation for Giants Pride Night Controversy The SF Giants continue to face a public relations fiasco in their hometown and across the nation, even as prominent Republicans have chosen to dig in on the side of the self-described Christian pitchers who decided to score points with MAGA World on Pride Night.
SF Politics Billionaire Tax Petition Signatures Confirmed, and Coalition Forms to Battle Against the Ballot Measure The billionaire tax, aka the California Billionaire Tax Act, has officially garnered enough signatures to head to the November ballot, and you can rest assured the billionaire class is most unhappy about it — and so is Newsom.
Arts & Entertainment Oasis to Reopen July 17, Now as Owner of Its Building Oasis Arts, thanks to a last-minute foundation grant late last year, is now the proud owner of the Oasis club building, and after a light remodel and some internal restructuring the last six months, the venue reopens in July.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: In-N-Out Pops Up In South America The 17-year-old accused in the March 16 crash in East Oakland that killed three people has been released; T&T Supermarket has opened in San Jose; and In-N-Out just did a pop-up in South America.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bay Area Rap Star LaRussell Brings His Music Troupe to 'America's Got Talent' Vallejo-born rapper LaRussell brought the Oakland Collab Choir with him to perform on the "Auditions" episode of America's Got Talent Tuesday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Club DeLuxe Reopens Thursday as The DeLuxe, With Live Music Every Night The Upper Haight's Club DeLuxe will be reborn Thursday night under the name The DeLuxe, and under the new ownership of Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club owner Jay Bordeleau and former Club Deluxe bartender and musician Christian Beaulieu.
SF News Candlestick Point Development to Finally Start Construction This Summer Over a decade since plans first began being drawn up for the redevelopment of the former Candlestick Park property and its parking lots, and 11 years after the stadium itself was demolished, we're finally seeing some movement down there.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Get Embroiled In the Culture War Battle They Didn't Need as JD Vance, Josh Hawley Weigh In on Pride Night Hats The San Francisco Giants, as plenty of people have already said, have more to worry about this season than whether or not a few homophobic pitchers feel put-upon for having to wear rainbow-themed caps on the annual Pride Night. But here we are.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Aisha Wahab Advances In East Bay House Race Progressive Aisha Wahab took the most votes in Tuesday's election and will advance to a runoff for Eric Swalwell's term remainder; the family of deceased 49er Aldon Smith is having his brain checked for CTE; and fans packed Levi's for another World Cup match.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Castro Bars Raise Privacy Concerns With Facial Recognition Cameras at the Door Three Castro neighborhood bars serving a primarily queer clientele are using facial-recognition cameras to help "verify guests" and check for fake IDs, but the company providing these cameras also can flag other things in its databases.
SF News SFPD Launches Pilot Program In SoMa That Will See Drones Arrive at Crime Scenes Before Cops Do A drone pilot program is being planned for this fall in SF's South of Market neighborhood in which the SFPD will be testing out the use of drones as pre-first responders to crime scenes or potential crime scenes, to provide assessments of the situations at hand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award For Outstanding Chef Goes to Quince's Michael Tusk, and Other Local Winners Revealed The chef and restaurant portion of the James Beard Foundation Awards happened Monday night in Chicago, and while LA continues to steal some of the West Coast spotlight from the Bay, a couple of prominent awards were won by local folks.
SF News Body Found at San Leandro Waste Management Facility Identified as Missing Emeryville Man An investigation is now underway to determine how a 30-year-old man who was last seen in Emeryville on May 31 ended up dead in dumpster, with his body turning up two days later at a San Leandro garbage facility.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Chakrabarti Going All In For Chan Saikat Chakrabarti has turned his campaign into a PAC supporting Connie Chan; the Giants could be giving its evangelical players a pass over those Pride Night hats; and why are there so many shopping carts stuck in Colma Creek marsh?
