SF News Day Around the Bay: Two United Airlines Planes Collide at SFO, No Injuries Former SF Symphony director Esa Pekka-Salonen has three new jobs; Aaron Peskin is threatening a ballot measure against Mayor Lurie’s rezoning plans; and two United Airlines planes clipped each others’ wings at SFO.
Business & Tech Some Joker Does Flips Off a Waymo, Sets Off Chain of Events That Confuses and Stalls Three Waymos We’ve heard of orange cones stopping a Waymo, but one fellow found that climbing onto the hood of a Waymo and doing a backflip will stop it too, but the halting of three Waymos in the Marina was likely just due to hooliganism.
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Is Getting Its First Major Park, and It Will Have Food Truck Parties A major new SF park called Cityside Park is opening on Treasure Island next weekend, with barbecue grills and jumbo picnic tables, recurring Off the Grid food truck events, and SF views that you just can’t get in SF.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Someone Actually Gave Birth to a Baby at Burning Man This Year, and She Didn't Know She Was Pregnant It’s a good thing that a couple traveling to Burning Man from Utah came in a comfy RV, because the wife did not know she was pregnant, and had a baby during the event in a freak medical occurrence.
SF News SFMTA Planning Cuts Across All Departments to Stave Off Fiscal Cliff After a series of service cuts this year, the SF Municipal Transit Agency is taking the axe to every other one of its departments across the board, which could mean more bus shelters in disrepair, and repair backlogs on vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment The Giants are Doing a ‘Pokémon Go Drone Show’ After Tonight’s Game Pokémon catchers report for training after Friday night’s Giants-Orioles game at Oracle Park, as the team has lined up a massive “Pokémon Go Drone Show” so you can peek at giant Pikachus flying through the sky.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amado’s on Valencia Street Has Quietly Reopened, Though Just on Weekends for Now The bar and live music venue Amado’s closed permanently two years ago, but is now somehow open again, with a soft opening schedule of just weekend nights, and food only on Fridays and Saturdays (for now).
Business & Tech California Uber and Lyft Drivers are Unionizing, and Uber and Lyft are Actually Going to Let Them In a surprising deal that was somewhat brokered by Gavin Newsom, Uber and Lyft are going to let their 800,000 California rideshare drivers unionize and get collective bargaining rights, though drivers can still refuse to join the union.
SF News Lurie’s So-Called RV Crackdown Begins Today, But Two-Hour Parking Limit Still Months Away Mayor Lurie’s new effort to get many RVs off SF streets with a two-hour parking limit is now in effect, except the actual two-hour parking limit does not kick in until November. And the city will offer cash in an RV buyback program.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Children’s Fairyland Celebrates 75th Birthday This Weekend Ariana Grande’s national tour will kick off in the Bay Area; college football is officially back underway; and Oakland’s Children’s Fairyland has its 75th birthday party and parade on Labor Day.
Business & Tech Former Bay Meadows Racetrack Finally Getting Its Last New Buildings, 18 Years After It Closed It’s taken 18 years to fully develop San Mateo’s 83-acre former horse racing track Bay Meadows, but a developer is finally submitting permits for the final two buildings of what will be a seven-building complex.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Have the Highest Average Attendance for Home Games In the Whole WNBA Despite having no star players, a mediocre record, and playing in just their first season, your Golden State Valkyries have scored the highest average home game attendance numbers in the entire WNBA.
SF News SF Desperately Offers $5,000 Airbnb Gift Cards to Get People to Leave Troubled Potrero Hill Housing Complex Are people really “squatters” if they paid rent, but the units were illegal and a rogue property manager was secretly pocketing the money? The City of SF says yes, and they're offering Potrero Hill tenants $5,000 Airbnb gift cards to move out.
SF News Lurie Strikes Deal With Caltrans to Sweep Encampments at Highway Off-Ramps and Overpasses We’ve all seen large homeless encampments beneath freeway overpasses in SoMa and the Mission, and Mayor Lurie just got the green light from Caltrans to start clearing encampments at eight major overpasses and entrance ramps.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia Amphitheater Getting $300,000 for Stage Upgrades, New Paved Walkways SF Rec and Parks has found a little money with which to give McLaren Park’s Jerry Garcia Amphitheater some new enhancements, with better seating and new paved walking paths that should be ready for the next annual Jerry Day celebration.
Bay Area Sports Mill Valley Woman Breaks Record for Fastest-Ever Swim From Farallon Islands to SF It’s not just the fastest swim ever for a woman, but the fastest swim for any swimmer ever to complete the dangerous 30-mile trek from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco, though the record is not yet certified by official record keepers.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Gets Electrocuted and Airlifted Out, as Flooding Remains a Problem This Year Someone was electrocuted at Burning Man Tuesday night and had to be airlifted out, as recurring thunderstorms are creating flooded conditions that are very risky for generators and electrical gear.
SF Politics Recall Engardio Race Delves Into Race Drama, Possible Political Dirty Tricks in Final Weeks Yes, that is a "Simpsons” meme in Supervisor Joel Engardio’s latest campaign video to fight the recall election, as some seemingly race-based messaging and alleged dirty tricks mark the final three-week sprint toward that special election.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Potrero Dive Bar Thee Parkside May Be Forced to Close, as Building Changes Hands Taylor Swift got engaged to her football man; Katie Porter is rising in the 2026 governor’s race polls, and a sale of the building has Thee Parkside worried that the bar will be kicked out soon.
Business & Tech Two Parents Sue OpenAI, Saying ChaptGPT Assisted Their 16-Year-Old Son’s Suicide The first-ever lawsuit against OpenAI for a wrongful death comes from two parents whose son used ChatGPT for advice on the noose with which he hanged himself, and the chatbot allegedly encouraged him to keep his suicidal thought private.
SF Politics California Republicans Already Spending Millions on Mailers to Fight Newsom’s Redistricting Ballot Measure Your mailbox may already be crammed with mailers from Republicans on a warpath against Gavin Newsom’s California redistricting measure, even though Newsom’s campaign is only five days old.
SF News Update: Apparent Illegal Fireworks Mishap Torches Mount Diablo High School Football Field What appears to be an illegal fireworks stunt gone wrong destroyed the football field at Mount Diablo High, just days before the team was slated to play its first home game of the season.
SF News 30-Year-Old SFPD Recruit Dies From Medical Emergency During Training Exercise The SFPD is mourning the loss of 30-year-old cadet Jon-Marques Psalms, who suffered a medical emergency during a training exercise last week, and died on Friday. He was honored with a Monday procession.
Arts & Entertainment Macaulay Culkin Coming to Bay Area for ‘Home Alone’ 35th Anniversary Screenings A now 44-year-old Macaulay Culkin is milking his 90s hit film ‘Home Alone’ for another round of fortune, and his 35th anniversary screening tour of the movie comes to San Jose and Oakland in November.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Battens Down the Hatches as Another Storm Approaches, and Oh, Channing Tatum Is There If you’re going to Burning Man, understand the going is about to get a lot tougher again, as another thunderstorm with 50 MPH winds is approaching Black Rock City. But hey, you might see “Magic Mike” Channing Tatum there!
