SF Politics Actually, Trump May Have Confused Willie Brown With Another Black Politician From California In Helicopter Story This story about Trump's memory of an apparently harrowing helicopter ride just keeps getting funnier, and it sounds like we now have a good explanation for Trump's insistence that this helicopter ride did happen — only it still wasn't Willie Brown he was riding with.
SF News Saturday Links: SF DA Charges 26 Over April Golden Gate Bridge Protest 26 people have been charged with false imprisonment and other felonies for the Tax Day protest that shut down the GG Bridge; former Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died; and Harris now leads Trump in three key swing states.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Japanese Sandwiches In the Mission A new breakfast spot is coming to Noe Valley, a longtime French bistro shutters in Russian Hill, and the Mission gets a new Japanese sandwich spot, all in this week's food news.
SF News Major Developer Gambles on Downtown SF, Proposes 41-Story Office/Hotel Tower on Fire Station Site A developer with plenty of experience with SF's boom and bust cycles is betting big on a new tower near the Transamerica Pyramid that would include a 24-story office component.
SF Politics Trump Mixes Up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown In Helicopter Story, Newsom Says Willie Brown calls bullshit on Trump's story about sharing a bumpy helicopter ride, but it turns out Trump did ride in a helicopter once with a California politician named Brown.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: High-Speed Rail Gets New CEO A Commonwealth Club debate among SF's mayoral candidates has been canceled; the CA high-speed rail project has a new CEO; and another United Boeing jet had to turn around after taking off from SFO due to a maintenance problem.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Getting the Most of Outside Lands: A Food & Drink Game Plan Outside Lands led the way over 15 years ago by leveling up the festival food experience, and giving restaurants and wineries a starring role in the weekend of non-stop music. So don't miss out on some of the tastiest bites and sips.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands For those just attending Outside Lands this year for the first time, and those who haven't been to the festival for a few years, we give you this primer on your transportation options to get in and out of Golden Gate Park without too much fuss.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Continues Attacks, Calling Musk a 'Desperate,' 'Lying,' 'Serial Adulterer' Elon Musk's daughter Vivian Wilson will not stay silent any longer, and after he set her off by going on a conservative podcast with an anti-trans psychologist to talk about her, she has now gone viral again with a second rant about her estranged billionaire father.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Headed Back Home to SF This Weekend For Fundraiser Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to her hometown this weekend to raise money for her presidential campaign, marking her first visit back to the Bay Area since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee.
SF News Three Shot on SF's Market Street, One Killed A triple shooting at Sixth and Market streets in San Francisco left one man dead on Wednesday night, and another in critical condition.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Park Fire Burns Through Mill Creek Canyon The Park Fire grew overnight to 426,500 acres; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing a landlord for cramming tenants into a home; and there was a possible shot fired this morning on the UC Berkeley campus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another OpenAI Co-Founder Has Taken Their Leave A cause of death has been revealed in the murder of a 25-year-old woman found in the Santa Cruz Mountains; Contra Costa County recommends masking up again; and one OpenAI co-founder has taken a leave of absence while another has decamped to a competitor.
SF News Judge Overturns 33-Year-Old Conviction of Death Row Inmate, Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Decide His Fate A man convicted in 1991 in a murder-for-hire plot may walk free soon, after a federal judge overturned the conviction due to racially-motivated prosecutorial misconduct.
SF News Muni to Update Train Control System From Floppy-Disk Era... Over the Next Ten Years Things don't happen fast when it comes to San Francisco's public transit systems. And in the case of Muni, that means a train-control apparatus that was installed in 1998 — and sounds like it might have been almost outdated even then — is finally going to get an update. But it will take a decade.
Arts & Entertainment Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart Join 2024 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup The organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now released two segments of the roster of this year's free music festival in Golden Gate Park, and the second batch of names includes the great and marvelous Sleater-Kinney.
SF News Two Alaska Residents Arrested With a Whole Lot of Meth and Fentanyl In Sonoma County It was late Sunday night when a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy came upon a pickup truck with a towing trailer pulled over on a roadside in Petaluma with the driver slumped over the wheel.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Crozier Fire Breaks Out In El Dorado County A new wildfire broke out early Wednesday in the Sierra foothills; the Park Fire is now 34% contained but continues burning to the northeast; a group of RV-dwellers were shuffled away from an area near Stonestown in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Has Sights on New Location In South City In-N-Out has filed an application to take over a former Burger King in South San Francisco, adding to your In-N-Out pitstop options just south of the city.
SF News Convicted Teen Killer of Maddy Middleton Denied Freedom By Judge, Will Stand Trial to Determine His Fate Adrian "A.J." Gonzalez, who was 15 when he confessed to the sexual assault and killing of his 8-year-old neighbor Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in 2015 in a Santa Cruz apartment complex where they both lived with their parents, never stood trial for the murder. But that is about to change.
SF News Disabled Train In Transbay Tube Causes Delays on BART A BART alert Tuesday morning said that there were delays on BART in the East Bay direction out of SF due to a disabled train in the Transbay Tube.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four SF Restaurants Gain Michelin Stars; Gary Danko Loses Star For the first time since Michelin began publishing dining guides for the Bay Area, 25-year-old fine-dining institution Gary Danko has lost its Michelin star. But on Monday night, the tire company and venerable restaurant-guide producers bestowed new stars on four San Francisco restaurants.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Running Mate Perhaps looking to counter the "San Francisco liberal" label that Republicans insist on giving her, VP Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate in the 2024 election, according to multiple sources.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Three Shot In West Oakland Three people were shot and injured in West Oakland on Monday; conflicting events at the Coliseum and Oakland Arena Saturday created a horrific traffic jam; and another heatwave will hit some parts of California today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Politico Jon Jacobo Formally Charged With Rape Onetime rising political star in SF, Jon Jacobo, has now been charged with rape and sexual battery; Kay Jewelers at Stonestown was hit with a smash-and-grab robbery Sunday; and Nancy Pelosi suggests adding Biden to Mount Rushmore.
