SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County May Ban Whip-Its Two Tesla drivers involved in a shooting in Newark on Tuesday were in some road-rage fight; San Mateo County supervisors are looking to ban nitrous oxide; and Taylor Swift just made a big announcement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque As was promised, the former KIS Cafe in Hayes Valley has been reborn a couple weeks on, with a fresh off-white paintjob out front, as Bosque.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Say Private School on Their Property Is a Home-School, Not Illegal Sometimes it's tough being a billionaire when the public is training a watchful eye on you, particularly when that public notices you're doing something that may not be fully above-board in your quiet suburban neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absinthe Group Opening New Italian Restaurant in Former Bellota Space The sizable restaurant space in the base of the Airbnb building in SoMa that was, pre- and post-pandemic home to Spanish restaurant Bellota, will be coming to life again.
SF News First Juvenile Involved In San Jose Valentine's Day Assault That Led to Murder Gets Two Years The first of five alleged teen gang members who were accused of attacking and killing a 15-year-old boy at San Jose's Santana Row shopping center in February has been sentenced.
SF News Humpday Headlines: OpenAI Lawsuit Against Musk Moves Forward A judge has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed from OpenAI against Elon Musk; Air Canada says it will lock out striking flight attendants; and this Trump crime crackdown in DC already looks idiotic and dangerous.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef at Hayes Valley Restaurants Targeted by Social Media Mob Says Influencer Warned of 'Consequences' Luke Sung, a longtime chef and restaurateur in San Francisco, became the target of an angry mob on TikTok who led a review-bombing of one of his new ventures in Hayes Valley after he insulted one micro-influencer. He's now speaking out.
Arts & Entertainment Could Halloween In the Castro Come Back... as a Night Market? Things remain in the planning stages, but there is an effort afoot to move the monthly Castro Night Market to Halloween this October, which would allow the already sanctioned market to expand a bit and become the neighborhood's first official outdoor Halloween celebration in nearly 20 years.
SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Killed In Shooting In SF's Hunters Point A woman was fatally shot and a man was shot and injured in a double shooting Monday night in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping-Pod Commune May Be Getting Evicted, But Guy Behind It Is Planning Something Bigger It was one of the first signs we had of San Francisco's rental market picking up steam post-pandemic, and after running afoul of the city's planning department and building inspectors, a sleeping-pod residence on Mint Plaza is facing eviction.
SF Politics Mayor Barbara Lee Reacts to Oakland Being Mentioned In Trump's Crime Speech Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee doesn't take kindly to her city being lumped in to Trump's fear-mongering campaign relating to urban crime, which he is using to justify deploying the National Guard in DC.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Casual Carpool Returns Casual Carpool relaunches today with just one East Bay pickup spot; a Hayward couple was shot by their son; and Kim Davis is back in the news fighting against same-sex marriage, a decade later.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richmond Police Release Body-Cam Footage In Shooting A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy killed his ex-girlfriend and himself; Richmond police have released body-cam footage from last week's officer-involved shooting; and an explosion at a PA steel plant has left at least two dead.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto Compound, With 'Bunkers,' Has Reportedly Been Under Constant Construction For 8 Years Neighbors of the Chan-Zuckerbergs in Palo Alto's Crescent Park neighborhood say that the city and local police have basically bent over backwards to accommodate their local celebrity billionaire, at everyone else's expense.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day Three: Big Freedia Takes Us to Church, Anderson .Paak Brings It Home Festivalgoers who were seeking some sun couldn't catch a break this year at Outside Lands, but most of the artists liked our natural air conditioning and moody fog, and the three-day festival closed things out with another round of great sets.
SF News Truck Carrying Tesla Batteries Overturns on I-80 Near Truckee, Prompting Complex Cleanup A big rig carrying a load of Tesla batteries went off the freeway and overturned, and now westbound I-80 is seeing some significant delays near Truckee.
SF News Nevada Man Arrested After Girlfriend Found Dead at NorCal Campsite A Nevada man is in custody following what appeared to be a homicide early Friday at a remote campsite in Sierra County, California, north of Lake Tahoe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 30-Year Project to Widen 101 Freeway In Sonoma Nearly Complete A decades-long project to widen parts of 101 between Novato and Petaluma is nearly complete; a driver crashed a car over a parking garage railing in Pleasant Hill; and Trump called out Oakland in a rambling speech about crime in DC.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2025 Day One: Doechii Slayed, Beck Fans Swooned The crowd was dense but mostly well behaved on Day One of Outside Lands, and even the dance stage/area seemed relatively tame. Maybe it's true what they say about the kids not drinking or doing drugs anymore.
Arts & Entertainment Doja Cat Played Surprise Show at SoMa's Oasis Nightclub, Debuting Tracks to Lucky Crowd After headlining the main stage at Outside Lands Friday night, Doja Cat headed to SoMa to play a surprise show — which she'd announced from the stage at the festival — at queer nightclub Oasis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aaron London, of AL's Place Fame, Launches Boxed Cookie Brand Chef Aaron London, who once had a Michelin star at his Mission restaurant AL's Place, walked away from the hospitality industry in 2022, and now we know what he's been up to in the years since.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Wash Your Dishes In the Bathroom Sink It did not take long to land on this "student room" for rent in the Portola neighborhood, where for $1200 a month you get a small room, bathroom, private entrance, and a non-kitchen.
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out In Napa County, Dubbed the Berry Fire, Spreads to 50 Acres A brush fire spreading at a "moderate" speed began Friday morning near Lake Berryessa in Napa County, and has already scorched around 50 acres.
SF Politics Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis Drops Out of Governor's Race, Will Run For Treasurer Deciding early that she doesn't want to do battle with Xavier Becerra and Katie Porter, Eleni Kounalakis dropped out of the 2026 race for California governor on Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Rescued From Bay Near Pier 1 1/2 SFFD rescue personnel pulled a man out of the Bay this morning; Outside Lands kicks off at noon; and an interactive map shows differing levels of shaking that are likely across SF in a major earthquake.
