Arts & Entertainment Photos: Transamerica Pyramid Opens Time Capsule That’s Been Secretly Hiding There for 50 Years The Transamerica Pyramid just opened a time capsule of historical SF antiquities from its early days in 1974, including relics showing how much people hated it at the time, and you can check out these artifacts for yourself starting Sunday.
SF News SF DA Charges Man Who Allegedly Had an Entire Kilo of Fentanyl In His Car There are drug dealers, and then there are people who are rocking a whole kilogram of fentanyl in the Tenderloin. One of those alleged kilo-holders is now jailed and facing charges, and is also accused of having huge volumes of heroin and meth.
SF News Supervisor Calls For Hearings Into Whatever’s Going On at Beleaguered SF Parks Alliance The cancellation of the free movies in the park series may just be the tip of the iceberg of the financial problems of the SF Parks Alliance, and Sup. Shamann Walton is calling for hearings into why the group doesn’t seem to have money it should have.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Has 4-1 Money Advantage to Fight the Recall, and the Recall’s Head Organizer Just Quit The same recall fever that Joel Engardio rode into office could still boot him out, as the recallers say they’re “on track” to make the ballot. But the recall’s main organizer just quit, and Engardio has big donations from local tech founders and CEOs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rattlesnake Advisories Issued for East Bay Parks Glide’s lunch with Marc Benioff auction is back for 2025; a Bay Area rapper has won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest; and the East Bay Regional Park District is warning to be on the lookout for rattlesnakes.
Business & Tech Google Agrees to Pay $50 Million Settlement In Racial Discrimination Lawsuit A group of nearly 4,000 current and former Black Google employees will split a $50 million pot after the online search giant agreed to that settlement in a lawsuit that alleges Black employees were paid lower wages and denied promotions.
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.
