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.
SF News Teen Accused of Defacing Pink Triangle Gets Felony Vandalism Charge, But No Hate Crime Charges The 19-year-old who allegedly spray-painted on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle last Pride Month has been charged with a felony, though not a hate crime, as his attorney says the kid didn’t even know what the Pink Triangle meant.
SF News SFUSD to Open New Mission Bay Elementary School Next Year, Despite Declining Enrollment Wait, weren’t we just trying to close some SF schools? We were, but the SF Unified School District is still opening another elementary school this fall in the burgeoning Mission Bay neighborhood.
SF Politics Trump Admin Trying to Stoke Fear That ICE Will Be at Santa Clara Super Bowl, Because of Bad Bunny Trump’s DHS is on a smear campaign claiming that this year’s Santa Clara Super Bowl will be overrun with "illegal aliens" because of Bad Bunny’s halftime show, even though Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, and therefore an American citizen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reggie Aqui Leaves ABC 7 News After Ten Years There were hundreds of wind-related flight delays at SFO Wednesday; Brock Purdy has been sidelined again for Thursday night’s Rams game; and Reggie Aqui is leaving KGO and his 'ABC7 Mornings' position after ten years at the station.
SF News More Frank Somerville Trouble, as He’s Charged With Battery Over Alleged Drunken 2024 Incident Yet another troubling development involving former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, as we’re learning of a November 2024 incident over which he’s now charged with battery, and the story sure is similar to what got him arrested again last month.
SF News California AG Rob Bonta Leading 16-State Revolt Against Trump’s Harsh Student Visa Restrictions Trump trying to charge people $100,000 for visas is only one of his administration’s over-the-top new restrictions on visas, and state Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a crusade to reverse the administration’s proposed new student visa rules.
SF Politics Former Pelosi Aide Gary McCoy Announces He’s Running Against Manny Yekutiel for District 8 Supervisor There are already two candidates who’ve announced they’re running for Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s District 8 seat when he’s termed out in the November 2026 election, as one-time Nancy Pelosi aide Gary McCoy has thrown his hat in the ring.
Arts & Entertainment Levi’s Reopening Its Battery Street Museum, Redesigned and Triple Its Original Size The Levi Strauss & Co museum at Battery Street’s Levi’s Plaza has been closed since the pandemic, but they’ve been quietly redesigning it and overhauling it, and the museum reopens to the public in November, now three times its former size.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Cyclist Getting a Record $7 Million Settlement for Pothole Crash The accused killer in that Walnut Creek double homicide had his mistress charged as an accessory; Trump garbled more nonsense about sending the military to SF; and an Oakland cyclist is getting $7 million over a pothole crash.
Business & Tech That 'Farm' In Those Jennifer Garner Capital One Commercials Is a Real Berkeley-Based Company, and It’s Filing for an IPO Turns out that the business that Jennifer Garner hypes in one of her Capital One commercials is a real Berkeley-based company, though it's not really a farm, and they just filed to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
SF News That Huge, Bulky SFPD Cop Bus Is No Longer Sitting at 16th and Mission Streets After six and a half months of sitting there and trying to look intimidating, the SFPD’s giant, RV-style “mobile command unit” has been removed from the corner of 16th and Mission streets as the SFPD shifts gears on cleaning up that corner.
SF News Infamous New Year’s Eve DUI Hit-and-Run Suspect Troy McAlister Seeking Diversion Instead of Jail The case that largely drove the recall of DA Chesa Boudin is still in the courts nearly five years later, and the attorney for the man accused of killing two women while driving intoxicated on New Year’s Eve 2020 is asking for diversion instead of a jail sentence.
SF News Government Shutdown Could Clip the Wings of Next Weekend’s Fleet Week Your dog might be relieved if the Blue Angels aren’t flying for next weekend’s Fleet Week celebrations, but there is indeed a possibility that the looming government shutdown will cancel the involvement of US military planes and ships.
SF News Ongoing Wine Country Real Estate Scandal Draws Scrutiny of Lender Who Financed Accused Fraudster A new wrinkle in the case of a Sonoma County real estate tycoon accused of bilking nearly 200 investors out of $46 million, as it turns out most of his properties were financed by a single lender, raising questions about what they knew.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heads Up, Tipped Employees: ‘No Taxes on Tips’ Still Means Some Taxes on Your Tips The devil is coming out of the details of Trump’s “no taxes on tips” policy, and it turns out tipped employees still have to pay taxes on those tips but then deduct them afterwards, and automatic service charges are still fully taxed.
Bay Area Sports Giants Fire Manager Bob Melvin, After Two Seasons of Mediocre At-Best Baseball Giants president Buster Posey has decided that .500 baseball is not going to cut it in the same division as the star-studded Dodgers, firing manager Bob Melvin Monday morning just as the Giants wrapped up their 2025 season.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fumble, Bumble, Stumble Their Way to 26-21 Loss to Jacksonville Jaguars The 49ers gave up two interceptions, two fumbles, and a punt turn for a touchdown in a demeaning loss to the Jaguars, and punctuated this by telling Jacksonville's coach, “I’ll f*ck your world up,” and “I will f*cking end your f*cking life.”
Arts & Entertainment It's Official: Castro Theatre to Reopen as The Castro In February 2026 Closed for renovations since February 2024, the Castro Theatre has just announced it will be reopening in February 2026, as operators Another Planet plan to have their $41 million overhaul completed by then.
Arts & Entertainment DJ Bus Station John Injured in SoMa Fall, Robbed While Laying on the Ground Folsom Street Fair weekend will be a lot less joyful on the dance floors, as local DJ Bus Station John had his shoulder shattered in a recent sidewalk fall, and then someone robbed him while he was injured on the ground.
