Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Talks Retirement Plans: Maybe PGA Tour, Maybe TV Analyst, Maybe NBA Team Ownership The 37-year-old Stephen Curry probably has a couple more years of basketball left in the tank, but just gave an interview about his potential retirement plans, and how he’ll still be a prominent figure in the sports world.
SF News Sunday Night’s La Onda Headliner Had to Cancel Because Trump Administration Revoked Their Visas Two bands, including Sunday night’s headliner Grupo Firme, were forced to cancel their sets at this weekend’s La Onda festival in Napa, because the Trump administration denied their visas over claims their music “glorifies cartel violence.”
Bay Area Sports NBA Community in Mourning, as Klay Thompson’s Dog Has Died A melancholy ‘happy trails’ to Klay Thompson’s 13-year-old English bulldog Rocco, who has unfortunately gone on to that great splash puddle in the sky, though does so with a legacy of 61,800 Instagram followers.
SF News Lurie Announces $100,000 Contest to ‘Reimagine’ Market Street, Maybe With More Waymos or Something Mayor Daniel Lurie just announced a $100,000 prize to “reimagine” Market Street, though it may have helped if he had actually announced this more than six days before the contest's deadline.
SF News As Oakland Schools Superintendent Steps Down, Controversies Rage Over Alleged Threats of Violence The Oakland Unified School District school year has closed on one hell of a note, with a superintendent dismissed with no explanation, and allegations that a teachers' union official threatened a principal by saying she would “fucking beat her ass.”
SF News Bombshell Report Says Elon Musk Was Using Copious Amount of Drugs While In Trump's Orbit Blaze one up to check out the biggest scandal of the day, as the New York Times has an exhaustive new exposé on how Elon Musk was hopped up on ketamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and Adderall on the Trump campaign, and maybe in the White House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those SF Dead & Co Tickets Go on Sale Friday Morning SF Pride has cobbled together a few new sponsors amidst their mass sponsor retreat, the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are tonight, and those Dead and Company Golden Gate Park concert tickets go on sale at 10 am sharp Friday morning.
SF News Trump Administration Goes After Fresno-Area Track and Field Competition Over Trans Athlete Heading into this weekend’s State Track and Field Championships, the California Interscholastic Federation made a rule change to appease the Trump administration’s furor over a trans athlete being allowed to participate.
SF News One Person Dead After Wednesday Night High-Speed CHP Chase in Oakland In an incident that will surely fan the flames of the debate over high-speed police chases, one pedestrian is dead after California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a high-speed chase near Lake Merritt Wednesday night.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: That Square ‘Corner Store’ Has Opened in the Former Lucca Ravioli SFUSD has backtracked on a controversial new grading system; the fired Oakland schools superintendent is speaking out; and we have our first look at the Square pop-up that just opened in the old Lucca Ravioli space.
SF News There’s a Scary New COVID Variant, and Stanford Scientists Say It’s Already in California New COVID variant just dropped, one which has apparently wrought a fair amount of sickness in China, and researchers say it’s already been in California for a month. We’ll see how the new anti-vaxx leaders in Washington, DC handle this one.
SF News A Year After Murder of 19-Year-Old Lowell Grad In Dolores Park, One Suspect Arrested The community mourned last June when recent Lowell High grad Luis Arguello Inglis was shot and killed in Dolores Park. Now a year later, a suspect has been arrested and is in custody.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Layoffs Hit Amusement Parks Great America and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom A corporate takeover is raising fears at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat; Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX launch failed to launch; and a bunch of management is getting laid off at two of the Bay Area’s biggest amusement parks.
SF News Bernal Heights All Aflutter Over Family of Owls Who’ve Moved In A family of great horned owls is nesting atop a pretty visible tree in Bernal Heights, and the growing young owlets have become a neighborhood sensation.
SF News Two Killed, One Injured In Vallejo Homeless Encampment Shooting One person has been taken into custody after three people were shot, two of them fatally, at a long-running encampment near Highway 37 in Vallejo on Monday night.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Dispensary Near Tesla Dealership Offers Discount Joints to Protesters Japantown’s Japan Video and Media is closing today; the brutalist and fugly Vaillancourt Fountain appears further doomed; and a pot dispensary near the SF Tesla dealership enticed customers with 20% discounts to anti-Elon protesters.
SF News Trump Still Barreling Forward With Certifiably Insane Plan to Reopen Alcatraz as a Prison President Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons officials insist they are moving forward with their out-to-lunch scheme to reopen the tourist site Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison, despite that this is all galactically unrealistic.
SF News Muni’s Boat Tram and Other Vintage Streetcars Begin Their Summer Return to Service Today Oh boy! The streetcar known as Boat Boi is among the vintage Muni streetcars that will be back in action for the summer months starting today, and there’s a real-time map where you can track which of your favorites are running, and where.
SF News Drug Smugglers Sneaking Synthetic Marijuana Into Jails By Soaking It Into Fake Legal Papers Santa Rita Jail and other prisons across the state are on high alert that a potent synthetic cannabis substitute is being smuggled into their jails, soaked into completely fake legal documents that the prisoners can just shred up and smoke.
SF News Mayor Lurie Yanks Funding for SF Parks Alliance, Amidst Multiple City Probes Into Agency's Finances The nonprofit that throws those free movie nights in SF parks is now in a blockbuster financial scandal, so Mayor Lurie has put a pause on their funding, and three city departments are now conducting audits and investigations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART’s Green Line Won't Be Running Again Until Tuesday The fired SFPD officer who allegedly caused a DUI crash pleaded not guilty; the Golden State Valkyries won their first game ever; and BART’s Green Line won’t run again until Tuesday, but you can still transfer trains and get anywhere.
SF News Wine Country Developer Arrested by Feds, Charged With Fraud and Money Laundering Federal officials allege that Sonoma County real estate tycoon Kenneth Mattson bilked nearly 200 investors out of at least $46 million in a series of fraudulent real estate deals, and arrested him today in a wine country gymnasium parking lot.
SF Politics US Senate Votes to Block California’s Electric Car Mandate, State Certain to Sue The GOP-controlled US Senate just voted Thursday to revoke California’s mandate to switch to only electric cars by the year 2035, in an obvious middle finger to California from politicians who claim to support “states’ rights.”
Business & Tech The Old Lucca Ravioli Space to Become a ‘Corner Store’ for Tech Payment Processing Company Square Valencia Street’s former Lucca Ravioli space will now be handling a different kind of dough, as the point-of-sale system Square is taking the place over and turning it into something like an Apple Store for their own products.
SF Politics Recall Joel Engardio Crowd Says They Have Enough Signatures to Force the Recall Election The effort to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio claims it’s hitting a major milestone today, as organizers say they have more than the 10,000 signatures needed to put the recall on the ballot, and they’re submitting them this afternoon.
