SF News Ex-Wife of Berkeley Professor Shot in Greece Arrested for Allegedly Arranging His Murder A wild turn of events in the story of a UC Berkeley professor who was shot execution-style in Greece on July 4, as his ex-wife has been arrested by Greek police on suspicion that she had his murder arranged.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Notorious Tenderloin Landlord Over Rat Infestation, Sewage Leaks, No Hot Water The owner of a building at Ellis and Hyde streets is in hot water with the city for not providing hot water for tenants, and a new city lawsuit says he also allowed rampant rat infestations, sewage leaks, and doors that didn’t lock.
Bay Area Sports Well What Do You Know, Klay Thompson Is Now Dating Megan Thee Stallion Bring a bucket and a mop, because Splash brother and former Golden State Warrior Klay Thompson is apparently having a Hot Girl Summer of romantic involvement with rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and the TMZ brigade is all over it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Could Be Getting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2028 Trump is pulling a bunch of the National Guard troops out of LA; one of this weekend’s Russian River drowning victims was an Oakland 17-year-old, and San Francisco might be getting the 2028 MLB All-Star Game.
Bay Area Sports Levi’s Stadium World Cup Tickets Will Be Available by Lottery, and They’re Not Allowed to Call It ‘Levi’s Stadium’ If you want to go to next summer’s World Cup games at Levi’s Stadium, you’ll have to hope to get lucky in a ticket lottery, and the place will have to change its name for two weeks because FIFA won’t let them call it “Levi’s Stadium.”
SF News Early Morning SoMa Apartment Fire Displaces Ten Residents A two-alarm fire at 5 am Tuesday morning at Eighth and Natoma streets has left ten people displaced from their South of Market homes, but no injuries have been reported.
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie Theater Has Finalized the Permanent Purchase of Its Own Building The 113-year-old Roxie Theater might just last another 113 years, as they’ve closed the sale to permanently buy and own their theater building, and there even are plans afoot to serve wine and movie-themed cocktails from the adjacent Dalva.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Someone’s Written a Children’s Book About SF’s Famed Bob’s Donuts SF donut shop institution Bob’s Donuts has been further immortalized as the subject of the new children’s book ‘Bob's Donuts for Breakfast,’ which tells the tale of an intrepid dog and squirrel who are trying to get themselves some donuts.
SF News Garbage Piling Up In Bay Area Cities as Trash Collector Strike Enters Second Week Nearly two dozen Bay Area cities are among those nationwide being affected by the Republic Services trash collector strike, and some of these cities are being forced to get creative with dumpsters as the rubbish continues to stack up.
SF News Castro Walgreens Manager Found Guilty of Assaulting Shoplifter and Lacerating His Eye A Castro District Walgreens manager who took matters into his own hands and punched a shoplifter, which ended up cutting the shoplifter’s eye, has been found guilty of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Three-Legged Dog Picnic Returns, This Time With Doggie Fashion Show Complete With Red Carpet, and We Have Photos What seems to be the world’s largest annual three-legged dog meetup returned Sunday and turned the Marina Green into the Em-bark-adero, and we’ve got pup-arazzi pics and video of these resilient dogs.
SF News Two Unrelated, Fatal Drownings Occur Within an Hour of Each Other Sunday In Russian River The deceivingly strong underwater currents of Sonoma County’s Russian River tragically claimed two more lives Sunday afternoon in separate incidents in Monte Rio and Forestville, and one of the victims was a teenage boy.
SF News Video: Nutty Robbery Suspect Driver Dashes Wrong Way on Bay Bridge in July 4 Melee An alleged July 4 robbery in SF led to some fleeing suspects evading police, and SFPD just released wild drone video of the suspects trying to get away by driving the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge into oncoming traffic.
Business & Tech Good News for Union Square, as Bang & Olufsen Is Returning, in the Old Britex Fabrics Location Danish luxury electronics retailer Bang & Olufsen actually closed their Union Square store long before the pandemic and subsequent downtown SF downturn, but they're coming back this October in the former Geary Street Britex Fabrics space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Long-Stalled Reopening of Don Ramon’s Turns to Crowdfunding to Make Its Final Push The new incarnation of the longtime SoMa Mexican restaurant Don Ramon’s could be just months from opening at the Embarcadero Center, but only if longtime fans come through on a new crowdfunding campaign to help finance its buildout.
SF News Trump Administration Sues California, Claims We’re Driving Up the Price of Eggs The latest legal fight between Trump and California cracks open an argument that California’s anti-animal cruelty laws are responsible for spikes in egg prices, even though the price of eggs has stabilized since the bird flu emergency ended.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Want to Design One of Those ‘Hearts in SF?’ Here’s Your Chance That big NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway is this weekend; an immigrant activist who Trump jailed for 104 days is suing for $20 million; and this is your chance to design one of those famed “Hearts in San Francisco.”
SF News Sure Enough, SFO Not at All Receptive to Oakland Airport’s New Proposed ‘San Francisco' Name In their ongoing quest to put the words ‘San Francisco’ in their name, the Oakland airport recently floated the new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’ SFO officials have responded that they hate it, and they’re not pulling back their lawyers.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo’s Relentlessly Adorable Red Panda ‘Tenzing’ Has Died While the SF Zoo tries to bring in giant panda bears, the zoo’s tinier specimen of the Himalayan red panda, 12-year-old viral video star and crowd favorite Tenzing, passed away this week from apparent complications of a parasitic infection.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Warriors’ Jimmy Butler Opens Coffee Pop-Up In Former Lucca Ravioli, and Boy Is It an Instagram and Influencer Trap Would you wait in line for 45 minutes to pay $10 for a cup of coffee? Then you will love Bigface, Jimmy Butler’s celebrity-branded coffee pop-up that’s currently taking over the Square Corner Store in the former Lucca Ravioli space.
SF News Early Morning East Bay Freeway Gunfire Sends One Person to the Hospital Someone started firing shots at a Tesla 3 driver at about 12:30 am this morning on I-680 about five miles north of Danville, and while the driver took a bullet to the head, their injuries are relatively minor and they’re expected to survive.
SF News Embarcadero Plaza’s Maligned Brutalist Fountain Likely Done For, According to Rec and Parks Official It’s another rectangular tube in the coffin for the Embarcadero Plaza’s 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, as a top SF Rec and Parks official told an audience at a Tuesday night meeting that restoring the fountain is “beyond our project budget.”
Arts & Entertainment Former AMC Van Ness 1000 Movie Theater Reopens This Weekend as ‘Apple Cinemas Van Ness’ The movie theater chain Apple Cinemas has nothing to do with the Cupertino tech company Apple, but now they're in charge of resurrecting the old AMC 1000 Van Ness theater, and the movies start playing there Thursday.
SF News Multiple Law Enforcement Groups Raid SF Home Linked to Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Owner After last week’s Yolo County fireworks warehouse explosion killed seven people, an Inner Richmond home linked to the warehouse owner was raided Tuesday by SFPD, Yolo County Sheriff’s deputies, and the Sacramento Sheriff's Bomb Squad.
Arts & Entertainment A Sneak Peek at the Burning Man 2025 Art Projects (Which Are Not Even at Burning Man Yet) It’s still nearly two months until Burning Man even starts, but we can already get a look at the biggest art projects heading out to the desert. And some Burning Man tickets are still available, if you want to head out there with them.
