SF News 425-Unit Potrero Hill Housing Project Breaks Ground After Five Years In Limbo, Now 100% Affordable A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.
SF News Retired SF Firefighter Wins $1.2M Settlement In Whistleblower Retaliation Case A longtime SF firefighter who’s now 60 years old just got a $1.2 million settlement, saying he was repeatedly passed over for promotions after his 2013 whistleblower case reporting racial discrimination.
SF News Video: Late-Night Oakland Sideshow Draws Crowd of 500 People, Likely Stolen Car Set on Fire There were at least four major sideshows early Sunday morning, three in Oakland and another in Richmond, but the one near Piedmont in Oakland drew 500 people, went on for three hours, and left a probably stolen Infiniti completely torched.
SF News Thursday’s San Rafael Apartment Fire Now Deemed ‘Suspicious,’ One Person Confirmed Dead Investigators are still going through the wreckage caused by Thursday morning’s San Rafael apartment building fire, and they’re now confirming at least one person died, but the origin of the blaze is being classified as “suspicious.”
SF News ‘Guerrilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Is Doing a Book Tour, Coming to San Francisco on October 5 It’s still not clear what Kamala Harris’s next act will be after losing the 2024 election, but for now she’s on a book tour, promoting her apparent behind-the-scenes account of her three-month presidential campaign called “107 Days.”
SF News US Citizen and SF Native Arrested by ICE After Protest We are now at the point where ICE agents are apparently arresting and detaining US citizens, as a San Francisco native became the third US citizen ICE agents have arrested this month in SF, though she was released on Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Celebrate 20th Anniversary, Party Planned for Saturday The California redistricting measure is officially coming to your November 4 ballot; Lil Nas X was arrested and may have overdosed; and the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps celebrate their 20th anniversary on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Set to Headline This Year's Dreamforce Concert, With Benson Boone Performing Too The corporate Salesforce conference Dreamforce has named Metallica as its headliner for the big concert they have every year, and Benson Boone will play too, but the bigger news may be that Dreamforce is moving to mid-October.
SF Politics Elon Musk Getting Sued Over His Sham $1 Million Trump Election ‘Sweepstakes’ While Trump was complaining about a rigged election, his boy Elon Musk was running a rigged sweepstakes for $1 million that people who entered could not actually win, and now he’s facing a class action lawsuit over it.
SF News Muni Drivers Up In Arms Over New Policy That Restricts Their Bathroom Breaks All SF Muni drivers must now request permission from their boss to take a bathroom break, and their union is complaining about these stricter new driver rules they say don’t even allow drivers to eat or use their phone while on breaks.
Arts & Entertainment That ‘Diplo’s Run Club’ Footrace Is Returning to SF in October Dancehall DJ and producer Diplo managed to get 13,000 people in SF to do his EDM-fueled early morning 5K run and live performance last year, so Diplo’s Run Club is returning to SF this October, but this time it’s in Golden Gate Park.
SF News 16 People Named in Alleged $400,000 Santa Clara County TJ Maxx Theft Ring Talk about getting the Maxx for the minimum! The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 16 people for allegedly stealing nearly $400,000 worth of TJ Maxx merchandise, and then reselling it at flea markets.
Business & Tech Bed Bath & Beyond’s Trumper CEO Says the Company Will Refuse to Reopen Any Stores in California The executive chair of the bankrupt Bed Bath & Beyond claims the company will start reopening its shuttered stores, but will refuse to open any California stores, because he says it’s impossible to do business in the world’s fourth-largest economy.
SF News SF Rec and Parks Officially Requests Removal of Embarcadero’s Vaillancourt Fountain In the most decisive move yet to remove the ungodly but marginally beloved Vaillancourt Fountain in Sue Bierman Plaza, the SF Rec and Parks Department has come right out and asked the city to tear that fugly fountain down.
SF News Black Bear Commandeers Tahoe Ice Cream Shop, Woofs Down Strawberry Ice Cream An ice cream bear jamboree was broken up by El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies in South Lake Tahoe early Sunday morning, but not before that bear put a serious dent in the strawberry ice cream supply.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink China Live Loses Lawsuit Over Millions In Unpaid Back Rent, Likely to Declare Bankruptcy The messy and complicated drama between Chinatown restaurant China Live and its landlord seems to be resolved in favor of the landlord, but the restaurant might stay put with a bankruptcy restructure, and could even still win in the end.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ESPN Cancels Colin Kaepernick Documentary, Likely to Placate Trump A missing week-old SF baby has been found safe; we’re getting video of Diana Ross complaining about the sound at Stern Grove; and ESPN just pulled the plug on a Spike Lee docuseries about Colin Kaepernick.
Arts & Entertainment Spearhead Frontman Michael Franti Hit With Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Splits With His Management A whirlwind week in a bad way for Bay Area musician Michael Franti, as he faces allegations that he sexually groomed a woman when she was 19, had a music event he was headlining canceled, and has suddenly parted with his management agency.
SF News Oaksterdam Founder Richard Lee, Known as ‘the Johnny Appleseed of Pot,' Has Died Cannabis activist Richard Lee opened two highly successful (and highly illegal) medical marijuana dispensaries in Oakland, founded Oaksterdam University, and bankrolled the recreational cannabis measure, but just died at 62.
SF Politics Former Santa Clara City Manager Sues City, Claiming Harassment Allegedly Orchestrated by 49ers Officials The fired former City Manager of Santa Clara had long raised eyebrows for her salary and benefits package, but now says some of that criticism was stage-managed by 49ers team brass, who did not appreciate her scrutiny of Levi’s Stadium.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tenderloin’s Edinburgh Castle Pub Has Closed Permanently Tenderloin dive bar Edinburgh Castle Pub has been on the selling block for more than five years, with no apparent takers, and now a bank has reportedly foreclosed on the building and forced the bar’s closure.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Demands Answers on Why ICE Agents Crashed His Press Conference Masked and armed US Customs and Border Patrol agents showed up to menace a Gavin Newsom event last week, and now Newsom is demanding records explaining why, and whether Fox News somehow had a hand in this.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: School Is Back in Session at San Francisco Unified School District Diana Ross electrified Stern Grove but complained about her sound; Taylor Swift fans have a theory she’s playing the Super Bowl in Santa Clara this year; and 50,000 SF schoolkids return to the classroom today as the 2025-26 school year is underway.
SF News Man Found Guilty of Tackling, Punching, Trying to Steal the Firearm of SFPD Officer at UN Plaza A pretty brazen 1 am attack on an on-duty SFPD officer has drawn the exact response you’d expect, and a 31-year-old man is looking at likely serious jail time after being found guilty of three counts of threatening and battering an officer.
