SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Pizza, Bagel, & Beer Festival Back in North Beach This August, Tickets Now on Sale SF’s favorite belly-busting beer bust is back this August, as the third annual SF Pizza, Bagel, Beer Festival returns to North Beach on August 16, and tickets — which always sell out — just went on sale.
SF Politics SF Planning Department Director Rich Hillis Resigns, May Have Been Nudged Out by Lurie Another high-level SF City Hall department head bites the dust in the Lurie administration, as Planning Department director Rich Hillis resigns after five years of steering the department through COVID and the Housing Element process.
SF News Report: One-Third of All California Prisoners Released Early During COVID Ended Up Back In Prison A new analysis tracks what became of California prison inmates released early during the COVID outbreaks of 2020 and 2021, and finds that just over 30% of them committed crimes again and found themselves back in prison.
SF News Presidio Terrace Senior Home on the Market for $58 Million, Could Become Large Development While there is no buyer announced yet for the shuttered six-acre St. Anne’s Home senior care facility, there’s plenty of interest in the property, and Inner Richmond residents may be gearing up for a fight over the size of whatever goes there next.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hemlock Tavern Space Slated to Reopen as Nightclub XeX Now seven years since the Hemlock Tavern closed and its building was torn down and rebuilt, a new techno-and-karaoke space called XeX (pronounced “ex,” which...?) will open there with two separate floors of nightlife.
SF News Newsom Calls on California Cities to Flat-Out Ban Homeless Encampments Governor Gavin Newsom is once again ramping up the rhetoric to try to get California cities to be more aggressive around clearing street encampments, but this time says he’ll be handing cities money for more shelter and services.
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Lined Up to Play In Golden Gate Park for Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Mayor Lurie made a big ripple with a Monday morning announcement that Dead & Co. will be playing a three-show weekend in Golden Gate Park August 1-3, which will now be the main event of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations.
Bay Area Sports Minnesota Fan Ejected After Two Racial Epithets Hurled at Draymond Green During Thursday’s Warriors Game Not one but two Minnesota fans yelled racist remarks at Draymond Green during Thursday's game, one getting ejected and the other high-tailing it out of the arena when security came at him, adding more tension to this playoff series.
SF News New Report Shows Which Companies are Hiring the Most SF Cops, Sometimes Taking Them Off the Regular Beat San Francisco businesses are allowed to hire uniformed SFPD officers to work as private security at an overtime pay rate. As the department claims that it’s short-staffed, here are the companies pulling the cops to work as private security the most.
SF News SF Public Defender’s Office Says It Will Stop Taking New Cases, Amidst Budget Cuts and Fentanyl Case Overload Maybe you don’t have the right to have a lawyer when arrested in San Francisco these days, as the backlogged SF Public Defender’s Office says they can no longer take cases as Mayor Lurie slashes their budget while jacking up the arrest count.
Bay Area Sports SF Is Getting a New Pro Soccer Team, and They’ll Play at Kezar Stadium Get ready for the minor-league soccer team Golden City Football Club to take over Kezar Stadium, as it was announced Friday that the new team is coming in 2026 or 2027, along with a $10 million renovation to make Kezar more of a pro sports venue.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Look Out for California Highway Patrol’s New ‘Camouflage’ SUVs A NorCal man was sentenced for running a $38 million stolen catalytic converter ring; A Pinole high school baseball coach was suspended over racist taunts; and CHP hopes to fool reckless drivers with their new ‘camouflage’ SUVs.
SF News Bay Area Catholics So Far Pretty Stoked With New American Pope, Leo XIV After the quick papal selection of the American-born, Chicago native now known as Pope Leo XIV, Bay Area Catholics have expressed hope for the new pope, despite knowing little to nothing about him.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Musicians Set to Protest Their Own Show for Tonight’s ‘Lord of the Rings' Accompaniment The show will still go on for Thursday night’s SF Symphony 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' screening with a live orchestra and chorus, but the symphony’s musicians will be rabble-rousing out front before the show to protest a wage cut.
SF News KGO Radio Host Ronn Owens’s Daughter Indicted Over Fake Pregnancy Claims With Former ‘Bachelor’ Star The bizarre saga of a fake pregnancy that launched a thousand podcast episodes is over, as the daughter of legendary KGO radio host Ronn Owens has been indicted for faking a pregnancy with a guy from ‘The Bachelor’ and lying under oath about it.
SF News Outgoing SFPD Chief Bill Scott Already Has Next Gig, as LA Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Chief We’re now learning that SFPD Chief Bill Scott already had his next job lined up when he resigned Wednesday, and he’s heading back to LA to head the newly formed LA Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department.
SF News Hey, That Valencia Bike Lane Re-Do Is Finally Finished, With the Bike Lanes Back on the Curb Side Not many people liked the unconventional center-running Valencia Street bike lane the street had for a year and a half, so SF City Hall decided to move the lanes back to the curb. Now the work’s done, and the bike lanes are back on the side of the street.
SF News Grocery Chain Smart & Final Reportedly Makes Bid for Shuttered Fillmore Safeway Space Smart & Final has made a pending and not-final offer to move into the vacated Fillmore Safeway grocery store, but Safeway’s not talking about whether they’ll take the deal, and there are whispers that other grocers may make their own bids too.
SF News SF Supervisors Hold Their Noses, Approve Yet Another $91 Million In Overtime for Police and Sheriff’s Departments The SFPD overtime gravy train will continue running, as on Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors very begrudgingly appropriated another $91 million in overtime for both the police and sheriff's departments, after years of similar massive overtime requests.
SF News Dr. Oz Pops Into SF’s Mission District, Visits Senior Care Facility and Actually Says Nice Things About It Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Dr. Mehmet Oz was in SF’s Mission District and Tenderloin, of all places, this week, with a visit and glowing remarks about a senior care facility on 30th Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Once-Hot 23andMe Closing SF Office, Laying Off 250 Employees Oakland is planning to sweep one of its biggest homeless encampments next week; a 41-story office tower may be built at the site of a FiDi fire station; and the now-bankrupt 23andMe is closing up shop in SF.
SF News Now-Sober Frank Somerville Has Gotten Completely Buff, Apparently Has a Batman Tattoo After a spectacular fall from grace that included two arrests in the same night, longtime KTVU anchor Frank Somerville is looking amazing, clearly has been working out, and is now sporting a Batman tattoo on his surprisingly muscular right arm.
SF News On Real ID Eve, Bay Area Airports Say You Can Still Travel With Your Old ID — Just With Lots of Extra Hassle The new Real ID law kicks in at airports across the nation on Wednesday. Authorities now say you can still board a plane with your older ID, but TSA will pull you aside and give you the runaround, so get to the airport a heck of a lot earlier.
Business & Tech Levi’s Sues NY-Based Clothing Distributor, Alleging Massive Counterfeit Jeans Operation If your Levi’s jeans label says they are from “SANS FRANCISCO CAL,” there is a good chance these are counterfeit Levi’s jeans, and now Levi’s is suing the New York-based apparel distributor they claim has sold nearly a hundred thousand of these fakes.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Play First-Ever WNBA Preseason Game at Chase Center Tonight; Tickets Start at Just $14 The historic first-ever exhibition game of SF’s new women’s NBA team the Golden State Valkyries tips off at 7 pm Tuesday night. It’s streaming online (for a price), but tickets are shockingly affordable by Chase Center standards
