SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tourists Rescued From SF Cliffside Oracle Park had to be briefly evacuated Sunday morning due to a concession stand kitchen fire; two tourists required rescue from an SF cliff after a dropped cellphone; and Apple's WWDC kicks off today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Mid-Spring Debuts Standard Deviant opens a new brewery and taproom in Dogpatch, SPQR launches a raw bar, and 7 Adams adds a new seven-course option, all in This Week in Food.
SF News 'Gone Girl' Hoaxer Sherri Papini, Who Continues Telling Her Stories In New Doc, Now Being Evicted By Ex-Boyfriend Some news stories just never seem to end, and/or some figures who make it into the news like to continue doing things to make themselves news again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Toronado Deal Appears In Jeopardy as Staff and Patrons Balk at Potential Tech Bro Takeover It appears there was a deal moving forward to sell craft beer haven Toronado to a new owner, and that owner was even making plans to install a rooftop beer garden. But founder and longtime owner Dave Keene appears to have had second thoughts.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pride Event In Redwood City Attacked By Two Teens Two 13-year-old were arrested after allegedly throwing fireworks at a Pride event in Redwood City; the jail healthcare provider at Santa Rita settled a wrongful death claim; and Menlo Park residents debate developments on downtown parking lots.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Tears Through Inner Richmond Row Houses, Displaces 35 A major blaze broke out overnight in SF's Inner Richmond, destroying or damaging five row houses on 5th Avenue between Balboa and Anza streets, leaving one pet cat dead and 35 people displaced.
SF News California Forever Group Moves to Join Forces With Suisun City, Buy Downtown Properties We heard back in January that the billionaire-backed group hoping to build a new utopian city in Solano County was pivoting and hoping to get their land annexed by the existing town of Suisun City. Will this plan work out better than their first one?
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Sasha Velour Is Giving Beauty, Fierceness, Surprise, and a Lecture on Drag In New Solo Show at Berkeley Rep At turns deeply personal, delightful, and stridently academic, Sasha Velour's 'The Big Reveal Live Show!' brings with it a solid helping of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.
SF Politics The Inevitable Trump-Musk Feud Has Arrived, and Should Be Hilarious Musk is digging up Twitter receipts on Trump, who has contradicted himself so many times you'd be a billionaire if you had a nickel for each. And the feud that went very public as of Thursday morning is likely to get very, very funny, our teetering democracy aside.
SF News ICE Detains 15 More People at SF Immigration Court, Supervisor Calls It 'Unconscionable' and 'Authoritarian' Immigration agents reportedly detained 15 people Wednesday, including a three-year-old child, outside an immigration court in downtown San Francisco, where people were appearing for annual check-ins on their immigration cases.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Travel Bans, Again Some new tiled steps in Portola now can't be paid for without Parks Alliance funds; a federal judge halts encampment clearings in Berkeley; and the Supreme Court issues a series of unanimous decisions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vintage View of SF's Market Street In the Mid-1960s The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is taking a formal step toward removing the sheriff; the Trump administration has returned a wrongfully deported Guatemalan man; and a nice bit of video surfaces of 1960s-era Market Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gott's Opens New Cookie Counter at Ferry Building Gott's Roadside has just debuted a new cookie counter at the north end of the Ferry Building's main food hall, featuring multiple cookie flavors and dipping milks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Historic Polk Street Gay Bar The Cinch Gets New Owner Who Vows Not to Change Much The second-oldest continually operating queer bar in San Francisco, Polk Street's The Cinch Saloon, is getting a new lease on life following the death of one of its longtime owners two years ago.
SF News Convicted Killer Nima Momeni Has New Lawyers, Won't Be Sentenced Until August or Later Nima Momeni, the man who was convicted last fall in the 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, is still awaiting sentencing, and he has new lawyers who are discussing an appeal.
SF News Harvey Milk's Nephew on Navy Ship Name-Stripping: 'I Don't Think He'd Be Surprised' Reactions are streaming in across the Bay Area and beyond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pride Month shot across the bow at the queer community, announcing his intention to strip the name of LGBTQ civil rights icon Harvey Milk from a Navy ship.
SF News Trump Administration Seeks to Claw Back $4B In Funding for High-Speed Rail As promised, the Trump administration is looking to cancel $4 billion in funding already approved for California's beleaguered high-speed rail project, which was already on life support. But Scott Wiener, at least, says this isn't "a death knell."
SF News Arrest Made Following Foot Chase of Suspect In Unprovoked Attacks at Fort Mason Park A man who was out on bail for a different crime was arrested Monday afternoon following a pair of unprovoked attacks and an alleged robbery in San Francisco's Fort Mason Park.
SF News Humpday Headlines: ICE Agents Ask San Jose Police For Help With Protesters ICE called the police in San Jose when they encountered protesters during an operation Tuesday; a man was arrested in New York in connection with the Palm Springs clinic bombing; and an East Bay croissant maker took the top prize in a contest Sunday.
SF Politics San Leandro City Councilmember Notified By Feds He Is Under Investigation, Could Be Indicted In a federal investigation scandal that bears some clear similarities to the one that, at least in part, led to the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo is now officially under investigation by the feds.
Business & Tech It’s Not Your Imagination, Your Waymo May Be Driving More Like a Human The behavior of Waymo’s self-driving taxis has apparently shifted in recent weeks or months, based on safety data collected by the company, and it means the cars are doing certain things more like real people do behind the wheel.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mountainhead' on HBO Draws Eerie Parallels Between Billionaire Bros and Zizian Cult 'Mountainhead,' the timely new film on HBO/Max by 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, is a somewhat satisfying if deeply unsettling sendup of tech-bro oligarchy and the convoluted-logic-as-wisdom rhetoric of their podcasts.
SF News Stanford Student Killed While Riding E-Bike on Campus A Stanford sophomore was killed over the weekend in a collision while riding an electronic bicycle on the school's campus.
SF News Bay Area Father of Three, Who Lived Here 25 Years, Detained By ICE at Routine Appointment In SF This week brings another heart-wrenching story of a local man, who was undocumented but who is married to a US citizen and has spent decades battling to get legal status, who has been thrown into ICE detention.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fatal Crash Shuts Down I-580 East In Livermore A fiery, fatal crash briefly shut down I-580 eastbound in Livermore early Tuesday; City College is struggling to find a new chancellor; and a major real estate developer is seeking approval for a huge industrial project in SF's Bayview.
