Arts & Entertainment Justin Timberlake, Noah Kahan, and Green Day to Headline BottleRock 2025 As tickets go on sale this week, the lineup for BottleRock Napa Valley 2025 is out, and it includes East Bay hometown stars Green Bay, Justin Timberlake, and rising folk star Noah Kahan.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Train Schedule Changes Today Two people were hospitalized after an early Sunday shooting in East Oakland; as BART implements a modern train-control system, there are slight changes to the BART schedule; and Steven Bannon is calling Elon Musk "evil."
SF News 3.7M Earthquake, This One Centered In East Bay, Shakes Bay Area Sunday Morning Another small earthquake struck on Sunday morning, two days after a couple of morning shakers rattled the Bay Area coming from a different direction.
SF News Presumptive Case of Bird Flu Found In Child In San Francisco Another probable case of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in the Bay Area, though this has not been confirmed by the CDC, and the patient has already fully recovered.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Pizza and Burger Favorites Head Downtown Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Lazy Bear expands into French cuisine, and a wildly popular smashburger pop-up gets a brick-and-mortar outpost at IKEA's food hall, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment 'Some Like It Hot' Marries New Values With Old-Broadway Razzle Dazzle at SF's Orpheum Fans of the Billy Wilder classic film 'Some Like It Hot' will find plenty that's familiar in the plot of the Tony-winning Broadway musical adaptation, which just opened Thursday in its first American tour at SF's Orpheum Theater.
SF News Mayor Lurie Names New Fire Chief, Dean Crispen, a 34-Year Veteran of the SFFD In his first department-head appointment of his tenure as mayor, Daniel Lurie on Friday announced the appointment of second-generation firefighter and 34-year veteran of the city's fire department Dean Crispen as the new fire chief.
SF News Woman Injured By Firecracker During Lurie Inauguration Celebration It seems the festivities Wednesday didn't go off entirely smoothly in Chinatown, with news that a woman was injured and possibly multiple people were struck by a string of firecrackers that were lit outside a celebratory banquet.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Supreme Court to Decide Fate of TikTok The Supreme Court was hearing arguments about the TikTok ban today; Trump was officially sentenced, though his sentence was discharged, in the hush money case; and the Sonoma-founded Watch Duty app found huge popularity amid the LA fires.
SF News 3.7M Earthquake Rumbles Across SF, Centered Off the Coast — Aftershock Follows You may have been jostled awake, or you may have been up and felt the rumble of this morning's earthquake, which gave San Francisco a small shake at 7:02 am. You also might not have felt it.
SF Politics San Mateo County Sheriff Drama Continues as County Leaders Scoff at Lawsuit Threat San Mateo County officials put out a statement this week in response to a government claim by embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus, a claim which, they say, is riddled with "incorrect and misspelled names" and "is largely devoid of any alleged facts supporting its conclusions."
SF News Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Two SoMa Shootings In two separate shooting incidents that have occurred since the new year began in the SoMa neighborhood, two suspects are now facing attempted murder charges.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Takes Plea Deal In Oakland Gay Hookup Murder A former janitor at UC Berkeley has opted not to stand trial for the March 2023 killing of a beloved Oakland Gay Men's Chorus member and sometime drag performer, who died in his own apartment after what appeared to be an early morning hookup.
SF News Lurie Inaugural Bash In Chinatown Draws Thousands Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed Wednesday night, as a night market, street performers, mainstage acts, and a VIP banquet celebrated the inauguration of Daniel Lurie as the city's 46th mayor.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Respite In SoCal Winds to End, More Fire Danger Looms Wind conditions are expected to worsen in LA throughout the day Thursday; the lack of rain this winter in SoCal is consistent with La Niña; and police in Santa Rosa arrest an alleged carjacker who shot at them.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Cutting Some Service on Popular Bus Lines Muni is cutting midday service on some bus lines to address budget woes; the official death toll in the LA wildfires rises to five; and Trump is trying to blame Newsom for the fires, again.
SF News Retiring Chronicle Reporter Kevin Fagan Would Like Everyone to Stop Sending Him Zodiac Killer Tips The enduring legend and unsolved case of the Zodiac murders in the Bay Area has now haunted multiple generations of both police detectives and crime reporters in the city. Kevin Fagan is one of them, and he's retiring, effective today.
SF News 'Safety Isn't Just a Statistic': Read SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's Inauguration Speech Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco, giving an inauguration speech that was predictably focused on the hot-button issues of drugs, crime, and the perception of safety on city streets.
SF News Kidnapping and Assault Victim Denise Huskins Helped Law Enforcement Find More Victims of Matthew Muller New revelations about a previously unknown kidnapping for ransom in Contra Costa County allegedly committed by Matthew Muller, the culprit in the 'American Nightmare' kidnapping and assault of a Vallejo woman in 2015, came in part due to that woman's advocacy.
SF News Bay Area Firefighters In LA as Eaton Fire In Altadena Threatens Thousands of Homes The raging fire situation in LA looked ominous for many residents this morning, even if they were not immediately in view of the flames. And while the Palisades Fire has captured coverage in the last 12 hours, the Eaton Fire in the northeastern part of the county is looking even more destructive.
SF Politics No Time to Retire, Barbara Lee Makes Her Bid For Oakland Mayor Official Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wind-Fueled Palisades Fire Destroys 1,000 Structures The Palisades Fire raged overnight in Los Angeles destroying at least 1,000 structures; gusty winds here in the Bay toppled trees and power lines; and Daniel Lurie gets inaugurated today in Civic Center Plaza.
Business & Tech Waymo Passenger Says He Was Late to the Airport Because Robocar Kept Doing Circles In a Parking Lot This week in robocar snafus: A Waymo in Phoenix went a little haywire recently, and its passenger says he was late getting to a flight because the car refused to stop circling the same parking lot.
SF Politics Lurie Administration Faces First Potential Scandal as DUI Accusation Surfaces About Public Safety Chief Paul Yep, the retired SF police officer whom incoming mayor Daniel Lurie tapped to become the new Chief of Public Safety in the Mayor's Office, was involved in a car collision several years ago in which he rear-ended a couple, and they accused him of being drunk at the time.
Business & Tech Saying Its Content Moderation Has 'Gone Too Far,' Meta Now Set to Become Hotbed of Transphobia and Conspiracies In a shift akin to what Elon Musk has done with the platform we still call Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will soon be more of a free-for-all when it comes to misinformation, with "community notes" inserted when facts are questioned.
