SF News Williams-Sonoma to Close Its Flagship Union Square Store as Chanel Prepares to Move In It's not new news that Williams-Sonoma is planning to depart from Union Square, but now the time has come, as Chanel plans to relocate to the building at the top of the park.
Arts & Entertainment 'Dilbert' Cartoonist Scott Adams, Who Spent His Final Years as a Trump-Loving Podcaster, Dies at 68 Scott Adams, the comic-strip satirist of office culture who later fashioned himself a self-help guru and anti-woke crusader, has died of the aggressive form of prostate cancer that he revealed he had last year.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Announces Throwback-Heavy Lineup Including Backstreet Boys, LCD Soundsystem, and Chaka Khan Napa Valley's BottleRock festival, which has always skewed toward an older demographic than Outside Lands and other festivals, is leaning pretty heavily on the nostalgia with the 2026 lineup.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Closing Arguments Happening In 'Grandpa Vicha' Murder Trial Closing arguments are today in the trial of Antoine Watson for the 2021 killing of Vicha Ratanapakdee; the Trevor Project just received a $45M donation from MacKenzie Scott; and BTS is back on the road and coming to the Bay Area in May.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cyclist Fatally Struck By SMART Train In Santa Rosa A cyclist was fatally struck by a SMART train in Santa Rosa this morning; Steve Kerr makes comments about the Minneapolis ICE shooting that go viral; and Minneapolis is now suing the Trump administration over the "federal invasion."
Arts & Entertainment Video: SNL'S Chloe Fineman Enjoys Sauna and Bay Dip In Sausalito Funny lady Chloe Fineman, who is a fairly active content creator on Instagram, was in the Bay Area recently enjoying a Scadinavian-style sauna that's set up right on a floating dock in Sausalito.
Bay Area Sports East Bay's Own Alysa Liu Qualifies For US Olympic Figure Skating Team For the Second Time Clovis-born Alysa Liu, who now hails from Richmond and who went to high school in Oakland, skated in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at the age of 16. After briefly retiring, she is back and just made Team USA once again at the US Championships on Sunday.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Seeks New State Legislation for Court-Ordered Mental Health Medication San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Assemblymember Catherine Stefani announced a new state bill Monday, authored by Stefani, that would allow judges to order involuntary mental-health medication in some circumstances.
Business & Tech xAI's Grok Being Blocked, Investigated By Multiple Countries Over the Creation of Sexualized Deepfakes Elon Musk's no-holds-barred AI chatbot Grok is again having one of its holds barred as regulators across the globe are balking at its widespread production of sexualized images, based on real images posted to X.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Wiener Changes Course on Gaza A 16-year-old boy was critically injured in a shooting in East Oakland; a 92-year-old Novato woman went missing Sunday; and Scot Wiener has decided to start calling the war in Gaza a genocide.
SF News Hundreds Gather on Ocean Beach to Spell Out 'It Was Murder - ICE Out!' There were multiple protests Saturday around the Bay Area expressing rage over the killing of a Minneapolis mother of three at the hands of an ICE agent with a gun, including a gathering at Ocean Beach to spell out another aerially photographed message.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Get Ready For Big 4 Cafe Jacqueline says "au revoir" after half a century, Big 4 says "hello again," and Restaurant Naides makes its debut on Nob Hill, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Coroner Confirms Pacific Grove Swimmer Died From Shark Attack A suspected rare, fatal shark attack that killed an avid ocean swimmer and triathlete last month near Santa Cruz has now been confirmed by the county coroner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Burger Takes Over Remaining Union Square Restaurant Space The small, counter-service restaurant space on the east side of Union Square, which has sat empty for the last year, will become a new outpost of local burger chain Super Duper, later this year.
SF News Concord Man Accused In New Year's Eve Murders of His Parents Dies In Jail A 61-year-old man accused in the December 31 killings of his elderly parents in Concord was found dead in his jail cell Thursday evening.
SF Politics Lawsuit Filed to Stop Mayor Lurie's Upzoning Plan, Because of Course For many who reside in the city's westside neighborhoods and in the Marina, it'll be a cold day in hell before they allow their suburban-esque environs to get any more urban or dense. But it is a city, people!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Ramon Sees More Small Quakes More than 100 people turned out for a vigil in Pleasanton for the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis; SF Supervisor Alan Wong is conducting outreach to businesses seeking PG&E credits; and San Ramon was struck by more small earthquakes this morning.
SF News Man Charged With Threatening Barbara Lee Also Allegedly Threatened SF Judge An El Cerrito man who clearly has a bone to pick with liberals, and who allegedly channeled his anger into specific, violent threats via email to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, also apparently sent similar threats to federal judge Charles Breyer.
SF Politics In Final State of the State Address, Gov. Gavin Newsom Contrasts Himself With Trump, Calls DC 'Carnival of Chaos' Thursday was Governor Gavin Newsom's last opportunity for a big State of the State address before the California Legislature, and he used it to tout a small drop in homelessness, to admit to some failures, and to celebrate California standing up to the Trump administration.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Reopen With Screening of 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' on February 6 Following its two-year-long, $41 million renovation, the Castro Theatre will officially reopen to the public on February 6 with a film screening — and a very queer one at that.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Gives Odd, Mid-Trial Interviews to Local News Outlets, Offering Apology Perhaps knowing that things aren't looking great for her at trial, and apparently against the advice of her attorney, accused Los Gatos "party mom" Shannon O'Connor reached out to several news outlets to offer some of her own side of her story.
SF News Deadly ICE Shooting of Minnesota Woman Prompts Protests Across the Bay Area Hundreds marched through San Francisco's Mission District Wednesday night following a deadly shooting by ICE agents across the country in Minneapolis, and there was a simultaneous protest in Oakland as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Gives Extended Interview to the Times President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview to the NY Times; a child died from the flu last month in San Mateo County; and Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving his final State of the State address today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Lets Loose Parts of the Bay Area are under an "extreme cold watch" for Friday morning; another Oakland athletics coach had his life threatened; and ICE agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
SF Politics Downtown San Francisco Immigration Court Set to Close In a Year The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
