SF News Giant Lake Emerges at 24th and Mission After Water Main Break In Public Works Project Things are going to be very unusual at the 24th and Mission Muni stop this week and next, as a Public Works project resulted in a large body of water gushing up at what is normally a 14-Mission and 49-Van Ness stop.
Arts & Entertainment Mission Fried Chicken Joint Hastily Removes Ads From Carlos Santana Mural After Backlash The cult-hit fried chicken chain Krispy Krunchy Chicken slapped some ads on the Carlos Santana mural at 24th and Mission, but quickly removed them after a community outcry from those who felt these were evil ways.
SF News Disbarred SF Attorney Sentenced to Life In Prison For His Role In Murderous 2008 ‘Gay Grifters’ Scandal In a bizarre case that’s been in the courts for more than 15 years, a disgraced one-time SF lawyer has been sentenced to life without parole for helping four “gay grifters” murder an art gallery owner and sell off his possessions.
Arts & Entertainment First Batch of 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Acts Announced, Includes String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat This year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is starting to take shape, and the first line-up of artists just confirmed Wednesday features the String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Lucinda Williams.
SF Politics California Planned Parenthood Loses $300 Million In Federal Funding In Latest Legal Blow A US District Court ruling this week strips every Planned Parenthood location in the state of California of all federal funding, which amounts to about $300 million statewide, though that loss could still be overturned in a future ruling.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, the Dead & Company Shows Will Be Livestreamed on Pay-Per-View From Golden Gate Park There will indeed be a pay-per-view livestream of the sold-out Dead & Company shows August 1-3 at Golden Gate Park, and anyone worldwide can tune in for both the opening acts and the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead performances.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Pitcher Demoted to Minors After Nightmarish Monday Night Outing Legal weed will be sold at the Dead and Company concerts; a sea lion ran wild in residential San Rafael; and the Giants have demoted Hayden Birdsong after he couldn’t even make it out of the first inning Monday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Report: Bissap Baobab Owner in Talks to Take Over the Storied Muddy Waters on Valencia Street It’s been no secret that the owners of Valencia Street’s Muddy Waters cafe have been trying to sell the place, and they’ve apparently found an interested buyer in Bissap Baobab owner Marco Senghor.
Arts & Entertainment Muni Is Truckin’ Grateful Dead-Themed Buses for Next Weekend’s Big Dead & Co. Concerts Your next Muni vessel might look like an LSD sunshine daydream, as the 7-Haight/Noriega, 5-Fulton, and N-Judah lines now have these psychedelic themed transit vehicles to whisk people to and from Golden Gate Park.
SF News 21-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Shooting Woman Walking Her Dogs In San Leandro A 21-year-old man faces murder charges and possible life in prison for shooting a woman walking her dogs in San Leandro last Thursday night. It’s the second fatal shooting in the last month of someone walking their dog in San Leandro.
SF News Four of Five Suspects Have Reportedly Already Pleaded Guilty in Shooting of UC Berkeley Professor in Greece The alleged "hired hit” murder of a UC Berkeley professor definitely looks to be a hired hit, with four of the five alleged collaborators having already reportedly pleaded guilty, but the man’s ex-wife insists she knew nothing of the scheme.
SF News This Year Has Seen the Largest Number of Dead Gray Whales In the San Francisco Bay In 25 Years While the gray whale population may be rebounding, this is also having the side effect of more of them turning up dead in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, as the 21 dead whales found dead here this year are the most in 25 years.
Arts & Entertainment SF Giants’ Enormous, 28-Pound ‘Therapy Bunny’ Alex Has Died After Bout With Cancer The delightful four-year-old and way-too-large rabbit Alex who served as the “therapy bunny” for the SF Giants and at SFO airport has reportedly died, after complications from having a cancerous tumor removed.
Business & Tech Tesla Lawsuit Underway That Could Temporarily Yank Its License to Operate in California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has Tesla in his crosshairs, and is aiming to temporarily suspend the company’s ability to do business in California, charging that Tesla’s “autopilot” and “full self-driving capability” claims are misleading bunk.
Bay Area Sports Father-and-Son Team Successfully Rows 2,400 Miles From SF to Hawaii in Record-Setting Feat 53-year-old UK Special Forces veteran Tim Crockett and his 18-year-old son Harrison just spent the last 48 days on a 24-foot rowboat rowing all the way from SF to Hilo, Hawaii, and they’re the first father-and-son team to ever accomplish this.
SF News Brother of the Late NFL Star Pat Tillman Reportedly Arrested In San Jose After Fiery Post Office Car Crash The brother of celebrated NFL player and Afghanistan war veteran Pat Tillman was arrested on suspicion of arson in San Jose, in a bizarre car crash into a post office that authorities suspect was intentional, and apparently was livestreamed.
Arts & Entertainment Now the SF Symphony Is Doing a Dolly Parton Show (Just Without Dolly Parton Present) Dolly Parton will appear (via video) with the SF Symphony in two weeks, as her new symphonic endeavor “Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs In Symphony” comes to Davies Symphony Hall to celebrate Parton’s staggering 60 years of hitmaking.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano Announces 2025 Schedule and Lineup for This September’s Ten-Day Piano Jam The endlessly charming and delightful outdoor piano recitals of Flower Piano will return for the event’s ten-year anniversary in September, and the ten-day schedule keys in with highlight performers Jill Tracy, Lavay Smith, and the Glide Ensemble.
SF News San Jose Drug Dealer Charged With Murder for a Baby’s Accidental Fentanyl Death — For the Second Time The same alleged drug dealer is accused of selling the fentanyl that killed two different babies in two separate incidents three months apart in San Jose, and now he and the first baby’s father are facing murder charges.
Arts & Entertainment Hong Kong Pop Superstar Jackson Wang Set For Sold-Out Meet-and-Greet at Amoeba Records Amoeba Music on Haight Street will be mobbed with Asian pop fans Thursday as boy band product Jackson Wang is coming in for a meet-and-greet session. But do not buy a ticket, as any tickets out there are all fakes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Parole Officer Shot and Killed in Downtown Oakland Scalpers are gaming the Stern Grove lottery ticket system; a wild and ‘bawdy’ Trump-Epstein scandal just broke at a very awkward time; and a state parole officer was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in Oakland.
SF News Former SF Parks Alliance CEO Faces the Music Over Misused Millions at Angry City Hall Committee Hearing This very uncomfortable-looking man is SF Parks Alliance CEO Drew Becher, who had to squirm Thursday as angry SF supervisors' committee grilled him over how $4 million was misspent, and he claimed he just didn’t know it was happening.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Daily Show’ Star Roy Wood, Jr. Says Willie Brown Crashed His Show Without Ticket, Stole From His Merch Table Standup comic and cable TV personality Roy Wood Jr just shared a tale of a run-in with former SF Mayor Willie Brown, and says Da Mayor waltzed into one of his shows without paying, and swiped a CD from the merchandise booth.
SF News San Jose Shop Owner Killed in Fire, Officials Say It Was Arson By Unhoused Woman With Prior Arson Charges The 51-year-old founder of a San Jose custom t-shirt and print business is dead after a Sunday morning fire ripped through his business’ building, and the arson suspect in custody is an unhoused woman with a previous arson conviction.
Arts & Entertainment KQED Laying Off 15% of Its Staff, Amidst Declining Corporate Contributions and Trump Funding Cuts Public TV and radio icon KQED was already deep in red ink even before Trump came back to office, but is now laying off at least 45 more employees, as corporate contributions dry up and Trump is likely yanking more of their funding.
