SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 168th Anniversary This Saturday, With $1.68 Jack Daniels Shots and More Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 168 years old on Saturday, and is celebrating with $1.68 Jack Daniels shots, free adobo, and a presentation on the restaurant's (often outlaw) 168-year history.
Business & Tech Giant Holographic Schlong on Muni Is Actually an AI Ad, Muni Yanks It From Circulation A real cock-up in the annals of Muni advertising, as users noted what appeared to be a holographic penis on the side of a bus, though it’s just an AI company ad that may have been approved willy-nilly.
SF Politics San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Declares He’s Running for Governor, Becomes Zillionth Democrat In the Race Yet another Democratic candidate has declared for the 2026 California Governor’s race, and the tech industry now has their favorite guy in the mix, with three-year San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan throwing his hat in the ring.
SF News Sup. Dorsey’s Latest Crusade Is to Hold Hearings Into Whether SF Drug Court Is Getting Too Lenient SF’s 30-year-old Drug Court was intended for non-violent drug offenders to avoid jail for low-level drug crimes. But now people with pretty violent charges are sneaking in, and Supervisor Matt Dorsey ain’t happy about it.
SF Politics SF Hosts Governor's Race Debate This Tuesday Night, at Bayview Opera House There’s just five months until we choose who will be the next California governor (or at least, have the primary election for that office), and six major candidates will be duking it out Tuesday night here in SF in a debate.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Cancels His Own $250 Million Deal to Save California Newspapers Just two years after Gavin Newsom brokered a $250 million deal with Google and Meta for them to help preserve the local newspapers that their business models have destroyed, Newsom himself is now dismantling the deal.
SF News Emeryville Protesters Storm Home Depot and Target to Pressure Them Against Cooperating With ICE Since Home Depot parking lots have become magnets for ICE arrests and deportations, a couple hundred protesters hit the Emeryville Home Depot Tuesday night to pressure the retailer to push back more against ICE.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Super Bowl Tickets Currently Going For a Minimum of $7,000 Apiece Turns out the Pac Heights mountain lion has been known to authorities for years; we’re learning that Tommy Lee Jones’s daughter was pregnant prior to her death; and next weekend’s Super Bowl tickets cost $7,000 minimum.
Business & Tech TikTok Users Claim Anti-Trump Posts Are Suddenly Being Censored, Gavin Newsom Vows Investigation After TikTok was sold to a cabal of Trump’s buddies and donors, users say their posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal are being buried with zero views, and now Gavin Newsom says the state will investigate.
Arts & Entertainment New Seth Rogen Movie That Was Shot in SF Gets Huge Ovation at Sundance, Sets Off Major Bidding War The new Seth Rogen movie that was shot in San Francisco is apparently quite good and got a standing ovation at Sundance, and now Hollywood studios are elbowing each other to buy the rights to what they think will be a huge hit.
SF News Extension of Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf Gets Its First City Hall Hearing Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to resurrect the old idea of extending the Central Subway out to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, but officials realize there’s no way this gets funded while Trump is still president.
SF News Early Morning Berkeley Fire Completely Destroys Warehouse in Gilman District The fire is now out, but a warehouse in Berkeley is now “completely destroyed” after a Tuesday morning fire ripped through the place, a fire that was visible from Interstate 80.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Triple-Murder Over East Oakland Liquor Store Pot Deal Gone Bad A 40-year-old man is charged with shooting and killing three people at the Sky Market corner store in Oakland's Woodland neighborhood, and the whole dispute was apparently an illicit marijuana deal gone wrong.
SF News Yes, ICE Says Their Agents Will Be All Over the Place at the Super Bowl In Santa Clara ICE may be bogged down in controversy for shooting and killing people in Minnesota, but they insist they’re not backing down on previously announced plans to have next weekend’s Santa Clara Super Bowl crawling with ICE agents.
SF News SF Crypto Baron and Political Megadonor Kicks Down $5 Million to Revitalize Tenderloin's Larkin Street Ripple Labs co-founder Chris Larsen is back with another splashy donation, this time $5 million for a plan to add new security gates to businesses on Larkin Street, plus to power-wash the sidewalks more and put up more lights.
SF News There’s Suddenly Talk of Extending the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf, Despite Muni’s Gigantic Deficit Who’s got the appetite for another billion-dollar transit overhaul that would tear up North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf with construction for years on end? Because the push to add more stops to the Central Subway begins today.
SF News SF Backs Off Plan to Landmark Noe Valley Church From the Movie ‘Sister Act,’ Because SF Archdiocese Doesn’t Want It Landmarked We’ve never seen an SF institution offered historical landmark status but then reject the offer, but the SF Catholic Archdiocese is fighting a landmark designation for their Noe Valley church featured in the movie ‘Sister Act.’
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Cuts Free Admission on First Thursdays, Currently Lacking Sponsor The museum says that its longstanding tradition of free admission on the first Thursday of every month is “temporarily paused,” and though it may return someday, signs point to this being a budget cut due to a lack of sponsors.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Promoter Goldenvoice Announces Yet Another SF Techno Concert Series, This Time at Pier 48 South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is among the headliners of a new three-month electronica concert series called Club Darc, being thrown at Pier 48 in Mission Rock, lasting from late February until mid-May.
Bay Area Sports Late 1990s Oakland Raider Kevin Johnson Found Dead at LA Homeless Encampment, Police Suspect Murder It's another sad story of an NFL player falling on hard times after his career — likely due to head injuries. Ex-Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Kevin Johnson was found dead at an LA encampment in what appears to be a homicide.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Bay Lights Are Already Testing for Their Eventual Return This Winter The TikTok transfer to American ownership is finally going through; a SoMa liquor store curfew got one step closer to reality; and check out the Bay Bridge, because the Bay Lights are being tested for their glorious upcoming return.
Bay Area Sports Rumors Swirling That Steve Kerr Might Be Fired, Or Might Quit, as Warriors Coach at the End of the Season This could be the last dance for the Golden State Warriors with Steve Kerr as their coach, as the national media says some team members are thinking the unthinkable, that Kerr might be let go at the end of this NBA season.
Business & Tech Glassdoor Ranks In-N-Out as Best Place to Work in California, Ahead of Nvidia, Google, and Facebook We had to do a double-double take at Glassdoor’s new Best Places to Work 2026 list, as they ranked fast-food chain In-N-Out as a better place to work than the cushy, high-paid confines of Nvidia, Facebook, and Google.
SF News Two Former Rohnert Park Cops Who Posed as Feds to Steal Cash and Marijuana Get Their Sentencing Delayed A couple of one-time Rohnert Park police officers spent years posing as ATF agents and shaking down legal medical marijuana drivers for their cash and stash, and they got busted, but now their sentencing is delayed.
SF Politics SF’s New Inspector General, Fresh Off Mohammed Nuru Case, Opens Tip Line So You Can Report City Hall Corruption If you think there’s corruption at SF City Hall, you can now report it yourself and maybe start an investigation, thanks to SF’s first-ever Inspector General Alex Shepard who just started the new watchdog job this month.
