Bay Area Sports Valkyries Final Game Tonight Determines Who They Play in the Playoffs, and the Game’s on KPIX Thursday night’s Golden State Valkyries game will determine whether their playoff matchup will be against the #1 team in the WNBA, or a red-hot team on a 15-game winning streak, or a team they might stand a pretty good chance against.
Arts & Entertainment ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ at the Victoria Theatre Works All Day as a Screwball 1980s Nostalgia Romp Dolly Parton herself wrote the music to ‘9 to 5:The Musical,’ running this month at the Victoria Theatre, a slapstick revue featuring over-the-top wigs and a comedic commitment to specifically recreating the year 1980.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full 2025 Lineup, With Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Samara Joy, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The final acts have just been announced for next month's 25th anniversary Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy added to a lineup that already included String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Dengue Fever.
SF Politics Anti-SF Troll and ‘San Fransicko’ Author Michael Shellenberger Now Allowed Into White House Press Briefings Apparently having a Substack newsletter is enough to get you a White House press credential as long as you’re enough of a Trump suck-up, as we now see ‘San Fransicko’ author Michael Shellenberger in White House press briefings.
SF News SFO-Bound Flight Forced to Turn Back, Because It Hit a Bunch of Birds American Airlines flight 2035 took off from Philadelphia Wednesday morning at 7 am, and was headed for SF International Airport, but had to turn around not long after taking off because the plane hit a flock of birds.
SF News Coyotes Are Now Swimming More Than a Mile Back and Forth From Tiburon to Angel Island The latest crazy coyote behavior in the SF Bay Area is that coyotes are swimming the more than one mile between Tiburon and Angel Island, and apparently somewhere between 14 and 17 coyotes now call Angel Island home.
SF News Alleged Drunk Driver In Deadly Napa Crash Had 3 Previous DUI Convictions The 53-year-old Stockton man who was driving a minivan and was allegedly intoxicated when he crashed into a tree and killed six of his passengers apparently had three prior DUI convictions, and also did not have a valid driver’s license.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Finally Cut Kicker Who Almost Lost Them the Game Sunday An Oakland police raid at a liquor store put an elementary school on lockdown; Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies seized 500 pounds of meth; and the 49ers cut Jake Moody after two very discouraging seasons.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area’s World Cup Ticket Lottery Begins Wednesday — But Only If You're a Visa Customer In a sign of just how crassly commercialized next summer’s World Cup games in Santa Clara are going to be, the World Cup ticket lottery begins on Wednesday, but you’re only allowed to enter the first round of the lottery if you’re a Visa customer.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Proposal Starts Slogging Through City Hall, With Both NIMBY and YIMBY Opposition Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan could be his signature accomplishment and add 36,000 housing units citywide. Or it could get people pissed enough to recall him. We’ll start learning which this week when it heads to the Planning Commission.
SF News Late Summer Yellowjacket Menace Hitting Hard In Marin and Sonoma Counties The yellowjacket population is surging in both the East Bay and North Bay this summer, and since the bugs are very aggressive and can sting multiple times, county authorities have their hands full cleaning out an unusually large number of nests.
Arts & Entertainment People Tightrope-Walked a 1,600-Foot Highline Next to the Golden Gate Bridge This Past Weekend Roughly two dozen people attempted — and five people succeeded — to tightrope walk a 1,600-foot path on nylon rope next to the Golden Gate Bridge this past weekend, 75 feet above the ground in Marin County’s Kirby Cove.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Got Hit and Mangled by Cybertruck While on Playa, Faces Months-Long Recovery A man who came to Burning Man from Minnesota found himself run over by a Tesla Cybertruck on the playa and had to be airlifted to a hospital, and he was left with some very injured feet.
SF News Mission District Tiny Homes for Formerly Homeless Site Closing, But for More Housing for the Formerly Homeless After a year-and-a-half of there being 68 tiny homes in a former Walgreens parking lot at 16th and Mission streets, they’re being torn down, but will be replaced by a larger housing complex that will also house people coming out of homelessness.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win 17-13 Opening Day Thriller In Seattle, But Boy Do They Have Kicker Problems The 49ers delighted fans with a rip-roaring fourth quarter come-from-behind victory Sunday, but kicker Jake Moody is once again Public Enemy #1 in San Francisco, as by no means should this have needed to be a come-from-behind victory.
SF Politics John Burton, ‘Liberal Lion’ and Architect of Famed SF Political Machine, Has Died at 92 A titanic figure in the California Democratic party in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, and co-architect of the “Willie Brown-John Burton political machine,” former statehouse leader and US Rep. John Burton has died while in hospice care.
SF News Spirit Airlines Is Pulling Out of the Bay Area Completely, After Having Filed for Bankruptcy The biggest budget airline in the US, Spirit Airlines, filed for bankruptcy last year, and as part of their restructuring, they’re pulling all service out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
Arts & Entertainment Yet Another Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Party Happening Saturday at Pier 39 If you still have the appetite and remaining stash left for one more Grateful Dead 60th anniversary party in San Francisco, Pier 39 is throwing one all day Saturday, with some Dead cover bands, drink specials, and a “tie-dye making station.”
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Clinch Playoff Spot With Last Night’s Win, But Relegated to San Jose for Home Playoff Game The thrill of the Golden State Valkyries becoming the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs in their first year comes with the insulting reality that they won’t get a first-round playoff game on their own home court.
SF News Appeals Court Strikes Down Alameda County Law That Made It Illegal to Even Watch a Sideshow People who gather to watch sideshows garnered an unusual legal win, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just did donuts all over Alameda County’s law saying that it’s a crime to even watch a sideshow, and they struck that law down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 21st Amendment Shutting Down Permanently, Both SF Taproom and East Bay Brewery Will Close The grim times continue for the craft beer industry, as the SF-born brewery 21st Amendment has announced it is shutting down for good, and both the South Beach SF taproom and San Leandro brewery will close in November.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Is This Weekend, Kicks Off Tonight Supervisor Joel Engardio has a new scandal bubbling up at a very bad time; rumors are swirling that Senator Alex Padilla is running for governor; and Bernal Heights Outdoor cinema returns Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Annual Bizerkeley Food Fest Returns Sunday With Vegan Food to Please Even the Most Passionate Meat Lovers Northern California's largest vegan food festival is back on Sunday, as the Bizerkeley Food Fest busts out vegan food “for meat-eaters’ taste buds,” with vegan versions of KFC bowls, Jack in the Box tacos, and even vegan oxtails.
SF News SFPD Shoots Man With 'Edged Weapon' on 101 Near Cesar Chavez, Traffic Expected to Be Snarled for a While An unidentified pedestrian was walking on 101 Thursday morning, and was shot by an SFPD officer after allegedly threatening officers with an “edged weapon.” The man survived, but northbound traffic on 101 remained a mess for much of Thursday afternoon.
SF News SF Rents Rising Rents Faster Than Anywhere In the Country, So Thanks a Lot, AI Industry There should be no more talk of a “San Francisco exodus,” as rents are spiking here more than anywhere in the nation, and apartments are leasing faster in SF than in any other city in the US.
