SF News Lifelong Grateful Died Fan Died From Medical Emergency While Dancing at Sunday Night’s Dead & Company Show A 54-year-old Michigan man who was visiting San Francisco to see Dead & Company last weekend experienced a sudden medical emergency during the show, and passed away shortly thereafter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yolo County Casino Suffers Tuberculosis Exposure Jilted Philz Coffee employees will get some sort of bonus after all with the company’s sale; upzoning notices are set to rankle SF’s west side; and Cache Creek casino has had some tuberculosis exposure.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Put Giant Purple Egg Outside Chase Center, In Apparent Marketing Ploy A four-foot-tall, Valkyries-purple egg appeared in front of the Chase Center Thursday morning, and the team is playing coy about what is obviously some marketing stunt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Is Getting One of Those Boozy Taco Bell Cantina Locations Great news for fans of Taco Bell and/or alcohol, as a booze-serving Taco Bell Cantina is coming to Fisherman’s Wharf, in the former Chipotle space in the Anchorage Square shopping center.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces Livestream Schedule, and Yes, Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator Will Be Streamed You can still catch this weekend’s Outside Lands sets of Tyler, the Creator, Hozier, Doja Cat, and a lot more, even if you’re not going to Outside Lands, as the festival will be livestreaming those sets on Twitch and Amazon Prime.
SF News New Sea Lion Disease Outbreak In Pacific Ocean This Year Killing Animals, and Also Threatening Dogs Bay Area sea lions are getting sick at a very high rate this year with a disease that is transmissible to people's pets, and the disease called leptospirosis is currently transmitting among sea lions at "unheard-of" levels.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rainbow Grocery Gearing Up to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary Next Weekend SF’s favorite worker-owned co-op grocery store is about to ring in its 50th anniversary, and the nutritional yeast will be flying at Rainbow Grocery’s 50th anniversary block party next Sunday in SoMa.
SF News Monday’s Early Morning Outer Sunset Raid Linked to Oregon Stolen iPhone Ring An odd development in Monday morning’s 3 am raid of an alleged illegal nightclub suspected of hosting drugs and sex crimes, as one of those arrested had been wanted by the feds for gunpoint robberies of iPhone shipments in Oregon.
Bay Area Sports A Rash of Dildos Have Been Thrown Onto the Court During Valkyries Games, and Players Have Had It Not one but two Golden State Valkyries games have been disrupted by fans throwing dildos onto the court in the past week, and a third WNBA dildo-tossing incident Tuesday night has the league talking about stiff penalties.
Business & Tech Report: Uber Has Sexual Assaults Reported on the Platform Every Eight Minutes A new exposé into the sexual assault problem on Uber shows that an assault is reported by an Uber driver or passenger every eight minutes, and that the company has intentionally been dragging its feet on letting women request women drivers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire in Benicia Shuts Down Many Lanes of I-680 Francis Ford Coppola has been hospitalized with a heart issue; experts say AI has already eliminated 10,000 jobs in 2025; and a three-alarm grass fire managed to shut down both directions of traffic of I-680 in Benicia.
Business & Tech Apple Sues the New Apple Cinemas at 1000 Van Ness, Claiming Trademark Infringement Not even one month after the movie theater chain Apple Cinemas took over the vacant 1000 Van News theater, the computer company Apple, Inc. is suing them over their name, saying that it’s meant to deceive consumers.
SF News Nine-Year-Old Girl Attacked and Bitten by Sea Lion at Monterey Peninsula Beach A sea lion attacked a nine-year-old girl who was taking a surf lesson at Monterey County’s Asilomar State Beach, though the young surfer is doing just fine, except for a few sea lion-bite puncture wounds.
Arts & Entertainment Rooky Ricardo’s Record Shop Owner Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer Lower Haight record shop Rooky Ricardo’s has survived 38 years under the ownership of Dick Vivian, but Vivian is now battling Stage 3 pancreatic cancer and receiving chemotherapy, and the shop’s only going to be open on weekends for now.
SF News Richmond Police Shoot and Kill Man Who Was Allegedly Wielding Knives and Threatening People Police in Richmond shot and killed a man Monday night while responding to an incident where that man reportedly had multiple knives and was threatening to kill people inside a Richmond home.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Instagram-Famous Dog Brixton Is Battling Cancer, Faces Mounting Medical Bills Perhaps San Francisco’s most recognized dog on the social scene, a party-hopping 11-year-old golden retriever named Brixton, has been diagnosed with lymphoma, and is looking at a very costly fight for recovery.
Arts & Entertainment MC Hammer Sued by Bank That Claims He’s $76,000 Behind on His Car Payments Oakland-born rapper MC Hammer may have a problem that’s “2 legit” for even him to quit, as Chase Bank has sued him for failing to make payments on a $115,000 Land Rover that he bought in 2023.
SF Politics SF Sheriff Gets Blowback Over Puzzling Endorsement of MAGA Crusader for Governor The registered-Democrat and relatively left-leaning SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto shocked the political class with his unexpected endorsement of a hard-right MAGA firebrand for governor, but says it’s just because the two of them are friends.
SF News ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers on Shotwell Street Not Really Discouraging the Sex Trade There A group of fed-up Shotwell Street residents has dropped their lawsuit against the city for not doing enough to clean up the street-level sex trade, but they still say the city is not doing enough to clean up the street-level sex trade.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Radio Announcer Greg Papa Diagnosed With Cancer, Is ‘Stepping Away’ From Broadcasts for Now The voice of the 49ers and former longtime voice of the Raiders Greg Papa announced Friday that he’s being treated for cancer, and will not be calling 49ers games anytime soon, but hopes to return to the booth.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock The once-trendy, San Francisco-born coffeeshop chain Philz Coffee has struck a deal to be sold off to a private equity firm for $145 million, but any employees who bought stock are getting the shaft, as they won’t see a penny of that money.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ Officially Unveiled in Excelsior to Kick Off Grateful Dead Anniversary Bash The Excelsior District street Jerry Garcia grew up on has been honorarily renamed Jerry Garcia Street, on what would have been Jerry’s 83rd birthday, and just hours before Dead & Company kick off those Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows.
SF News San Ramon School District Pays $7 Million to Alleged Sex Abuse Victims Who Accuse the District of a Cover-Up Two women who say that a San Ramon Valley High teacher sexually abused them when they were high school students were just awarded a nearly $7 million settlement, though oddly, that teacher is reportedly still credentialed.
SF News Bombs Found in Petaluma Home of Arson Suspect (Who Happens to Be a Former Cop) A strange story out of Petaluma, where a former police officer suspected of arson had his home searched in an investigation, and sheriff’s deputies found bombs, meth, and drug paraphernalia.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Throngs of Deadheads Descend on SF for This Weekend’s Dead & Company Shows A firefighter was injured while battling a squatter blaze in West Oakland; someone threw a sex toy onto the court at a Valkyries game; and SF is bracing itself as legions of Deadheads get ready to run amok for the Dead & Company shows.
