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.
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.
