SF News Day Around the Bay: Scandal-Tainted SF Nonprofit Somehow Wins Court Decision to Keep Getting City Money The family of four killed in Westwood Park has been identified; a drone show dazzled and confused passersby in the Embarcadero; and the Collective Impact nonprofit accused of bribery survived a legal attempt to cut off their city funding.
SF Politics Pelosi Challenger Saikat Chakrabarti Officially Kicks Off His 2026 Campaign at SF’s The Chapel The 39-Year-Old Bernie bro who’s running against Nancy Pelosi next November launched his campaign in SF Wednesday night, with the curious profile of a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist who’s also made $170 million in tech.
Business & Tech Sam Altman-Backed SF Company Making ‘Legal Ecstasy’ Wins Approval to Conduct Clinical Trials An SF-based biotech company is working on a safer, reformulated version of MDMA, better known as ‘molly’ or ‘ecstasy,’ and we’re not tripping when we say they just won FDA approval to begin Phase 1 clinical trials.
SF Politics SF Elected Officials Get an Earful Over Lurie’s Rezoning Plans, Everyone Uses ‘Miami Beach’ as a Boogeyman Mayor Lurie, Scott Wiener, and D2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill all took some heat at SF town halls this week over Lurie’s proposed “family zoning” plan, with both critics and supporters saying the other side would turn SF into Miami Beach.
SF News SFPD Arrests Three Men for Alleged SF Citywide Construction Tool Theft Ring This haul of power tools was allegedly stolen from a construction site in the Outer Sunset, by a crew police say was hitting houses under construction in overnight heists in the Mission, Bayview, and beyond.
SF News Bernal Heights Residents Demand Changes After Late-Night Hit-and-Run That Killed 30-Year-Old Man We’re now learning that the victim of this past weekend’s late-night Bernal Heights hit-and-run was 30-year-old father Binod Budhathoki, and neighbors want something done after Cortland Avenue’s ninth dangerous crash in three years.
Arts & Entertainment SF ‘Gay Grifters’ Scandal Gets the ‘Dateline’ Treatment In a Friday Night Two-Hour Episode The 2008 saga of four SF and LA gay men who murdered a Palm Springs art dealer and sold off his possessions (while hiding his body for nine years!) is getting its close-up this week, as NBC’s ‘Dateline’ explores this yesteryear scandal.
SF News Caltrans Removes I-280 Junipero Serra Statue In Hillsborough, and Boy Is SF’s Nutty Archbishop Mad The statue of Junipero Serra along I-280 was removed by Caltrans two months ago, and nobody really noticed. Now its removal is suddenly a big controversy, with SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone calling it anti-Catholic persecution.
SF News Condor Club General Manager Shot and Killed Outside His Santa Rosa Home The general manager of SF’s famed first topless club The Condor was shot and killed Friday near his Santa Rosa home, and police are flummoxed as to who shot Mark Calcagni, and why.
SF News Lurie Gets His 20 New Liquor Licenses for Union Square, After Newsom Signs Bill Allowing These There may be 20 new bars coming to Union Square, or maybe existing restaurants given the newfound right to serve booze, as Governor Newsom granted Mayor Lurie and Scott Wiener their wish for 20 new liquor licenses for Union Square.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Gets Its First Nation’s Giant Hamburgers in Fisherman’s Wharf Smoke filled the Embarcadero BART station on the Tuesday evening commute; Dolly Parton is apparently having some serious health issues; and SF got its own Nation’s Giant Hamburgers which opened on Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment SF Board of Supervisors Declares October 17 ‘Broke-Ass Stuart Day’ in San Francisco It may not surprise you that the SF Board of Supervisors declared an honorary commemoration day with the word “Ass” in the title, but it might surprise you that they declared October 17 as “Broke-Ass Stuart Day.”
SF Politics WTF, South Lake Tahoe? Mayor Pro Tem Arrested for Assault, One Day After Mayor Admits Embezzlement Just one day after the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe admitted to embezzling money from a church, we learn that the city’s second highest-ranking elected official was arrested for assaulting an employee at a bar he had been 86’d from.
SF News ‘Shrimp Boy’ Back In the News! SF Sheriff Rehired Deputy Who Admitted He Lied to FBI to Protect Hired Killer Another serving of “Shrimp Boy” in today’s headlines, as the SF Sheriff’s Office has rehired a deputy who admitted lying to the FBI over lending a Shrimp Boy-affiliated hired hitman his department-issued bulletproof vest.
SF News Neighbors Furious as Oracle Park Leaves Its Floodlights on In the Wee Hours of the Morning The San Francisco Giants finished their season nine days ago, but neighbors who live near Oracle Park say the ballpark has been blasting its bright-white flood lights as late as 4:30 am, and wreaking havoc on their sleep schedule.
Business & Tech Proposed Pilates ‘Chain’ Studio on Valencia Street Rejected by SF Planning Commission Over Formula Retail Ban The 1,300-store chain Club Pilates was hoping to swoop into a Valencia Street storefront that’s been vacant for a year and a half. The SF Planning Commission still deemed this formula retail, and rejected their bid.
SF News Seven Deplorable Teens Arrested After Alleged Late-Night Smash-and-Grab at Concord Mall Seven teens are accused of busting the glass entrance doors of Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center and emptying merchandise out of stores at around 4 am Sunday morning, but they didn’t make it far after a bungled getaway attempt.
SF Politics South Lake Tahoe Mayor Admits to Embezzling Money From Church, Recent Suicide Attempt A shocking political story out of South Lake Tahoe, as Mayor Tamara Wallace admits to stealing money from the local Presbyterian Church, and having attempted to end her own life because of it last month.
SF News Which SF Speed Camera Captures the Most Speeders? Hint: It's on Bryant Now a few months into the speed-camera era of San Francisco traffic enforcement, the most notorious block for speeding covered by the cameras is at Third and Bryant streets, which accounts for nearly 25% of all SF speed camera tickets.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Oakland Ballers Baseball Team Celebrates Championship With Hyphy-Infused West Oakland Parade The minor-minor leaguer Oakland Ballers won a championship in just their second year of existence, and took to the streets with their wacky possum mascot Sunday to celebrate how they’ve replaced the Oakland A’s with a bona fide champion.
SF News Parents of College Students Killed in Piedmont Cybertruck Crash Sue Tesla, Say Kids Were Trapped in Burning Car The lawsuits against Tesla seemed likely after three college students died in a burning Cybertruck in Piedmont, and the parents of the victims say the doors of the Cybertruck would not open as the vehicle burned.
SF Politics Newsom Threatens to Cut Off Funds to Universities That Comply With Trump’s Threats to Cut Off Funds to Universities Governor Newsom has created a Spiderman-pointing-at-Spiderman GIF dilemma for any state universities that comply with Trump's demands to adopt his policies or lose federal funding, as Newsom says he’ll yank their state funding.
Business & Tech Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to social media without the women's consent.
Bay Area Sports Underdog 49ers Shock LA Rams With 26-22 Overtime Win, Take Sole Possession of First Place In NFC West Vegas oddsmakers had the 49ers as the biggest underdogs they’d been in five years, but a cast of no-name Niner back-ups stepped up and stunned a national TV audience with a 23-20 overtime victory over the LA Rams.
Business & Tech Waymo in Hot Water After Robotaxi Illegally Blows Past School Bus With Stop Lights On in Georgia The latest safety scare for Waymo robotaxis comes from all the way in suburban Atlanta, where a Waymo vehicle illegally drove around a school bus that was dropping off kids and flashing its stoplights, and Georgia lawmakers are furious.
