Arts & Entertainment Roxie Theater on the Verge of Buying Its Building, Launches ‘Capital Campaign’ The 113-year-old Roxie Theater just might be around for another 113 years, as the movie house has been secretly working on a deal to buy the theater outright, and they’re launching a fundraising leg of that campaign to complete the deal.
Business & Tech Hackers Reprogram Peninsula Crosswalk Signals to Mock Elon Musk and Zuckerberg Pedestrians expecting to hear normal crosswalk commands in Silicon Valley are instead hearing prank voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg saying things like “F***, I'm so alone,” as some joker has hacked those cities’ crosswalk systems.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gold Club Brings Back Its $5 All-You-Can-Eat Fried Chicken Buffet SoMa striptease joint the Gold Club earned the title “Tech's Hottest Lunch Spot” with their $5 lunch-hour fried chicken buffet. The pandemic forced that deal onto hiatus, but last week, the $5 chicken buffet returned to strut its stuff.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues More Tenderloin Stores for Being Gambling Dens, One Allegedly Selling Meth Over the Counter There’s another batch of Tenderloin corner stores in the city’s crosshairs for running illegal gambling dens, and some are also accused of selling meth and weed right over the counter.
SF News Republicans In Congress Investigating Point Reyes Deal Converting Dairy and Cattle Operations to Parks Marin County environmentalists won a big victory when cattle ranchers agreed to a multimillion-dollar deal to leave the Point Reyes National Seashore. Now the Trump administration might want to blow that deal up.
SF News Parts of Berkeley Might Ban All Plants Within Five Feet of Homes for Wildfire Prevention, Plant Lovers Furious Berkeley is poised to pass a law banning combustible materials being kept within five feet of homes in high wildfire-risk areas, which means people would have to rip out the plants right next to their houses, and many aren’t happy about it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Gets Sued for Unlawfully Harvesting Data on Schoolchildren A grass fire is wreaking havoc in the Oakland Hills; this weekend’s Coachella festival will stream some of its biggest live acts for free; and Google is getting sued for using the tools they donated to schools to spy on and track the children.
SF News Someone in Sacramento Is Selling an Old Muni Bus for $8,000, Has 'Only 41,608 Miles' On It You could be rocking down the road in your very own Muni bus for the low price of $8,000, and the seats are ripped out so it can serve as some sort of vacation RV party ride, just be warned that it “might need new batteries or a jump start.”
SF News Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.
SF News Oakland Unified School District Abruptly Fires Superintendent With No Explanation Oakland schools superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell was on the verge of being the longest-serving OUSD superintendent in 65 years. But Wednesday night, the school board removed her out of the blue, in a secret session, with no explanation whatsoever.
SF News The Park at the Former Great Highway Now Has a New Name: Sunset Dunes The former Great Highway is now a park, and that park was officially christened Sunset Dunes at Wednesday's SF Rec and Parks meeting, ahead of its grand opening ceremony Saturday afternoon.
Business & Tech Arnold Schwarzenegger Now a Billionaire, According to Forbes’ Latest List There’s a few show biz types who just appeared for the first time on this year’s annual Forbes billionaire list, like Bruce Sprinsteen, Jerry Seinfeld, and the former ‘Governator,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger.
SF News Likely Thanks to DOGE, Government Claims HIV-Positive SF Man Owes Them $200K In Disability Payments The federal government just cut off 62-year-old HIV activist Paul Aguilar’s disability payments, but also claims he owes them back $200,000 in benefits they’ve already paid him over the last 11 years.
SF Politics Supervisor Chan Proposes Possible Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway, Which We Just Voted On Just five months after SF just voted to remove cars from the Great Highway, Supervisor Connie Chan floats voting on another ballot measure over cars on the Great Highway, which she would pursue if the Engardio recall makes the ballot.
SF News New California Bill Would Outlaw Arresting or Fining Unhoused People Camping In the Street Several California mayors (including SF’s own) cheered a June Supreme Court decision that allowed cities to arrest or prosecute those camping on the street. But a new proposed California law could bring that practice to a complete halt.
SF News Three-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Himself In Antioch The Antioch Police Department is looking for answers over how a three-year-old boy came into possession of a gun at his grandparents' house, after the youngster shot himself in the face Tuesday night, and died shortly thereafter at a hospital.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Lurie Lines Up Millionaires in Hopes of Revitalizing Downtown Trump’s largest tariffs go into effect at midnight; the 45-foot nude woman statue is now being installed at the Embarcadero; and Lurie has called in a bunch of CEO buddies to help supercharge the moribund downtown scene.
SF News Disgraced San Jose City Councilmember Convicted of Molesting a Minor Decades Ago San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres had already been under fire for text messages seemingly soliciting a minor before he was arrested on sexual abuse charges. This morning, he pleaded no contest and was convicted.
SF News Castro Becomes SF’s Biggest Boozy 'Entertainment Zone’ Where Bars Can Sell To-Go Cocktails During Events The Castro Street Fair may be awash in to-go cocktails this year, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made the Castro the latest neighborhood to get “entertainment zone” privileges where bars can sell open containers to festival revelers.
SF Politics Supervisor Bilal Mahmood Says He’s Been Diagnosed With Autism New SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood says he was diagnosed with Level 1 autism a few years ago, as part of his announcement to declare the month of April 2025 as Autism Awareness Month in San Francisco.
SF Politics State Bar Orders DA Jenkins Into a Diversion Program Over Ethics Violation Allegations The California State Bar is responding to a series of ethics complaints against SF DA Brooke Jenkins by sending her into a diversion program for low-level offender attorneys, the exact type of program she campaigned against Chesa Boudin for using.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Face Crunch Time In Playoff Race, With Just Four Games Left In Regular Season Your Golden State Warriors are practically locked in a six-way tie in the playoff seeding with four games left, and could land in the playoffs with home court advantage through the conference semifinals, or could find themselves stuck in a Play-In Game.
SF News Now Mayor Lurie Is Proposing Five New Boozy ‘Entertainment Zones’ In SF There are currently five to-go cocktail-serving “entertainment zones” either approved or proposed in San Francisco, but Mayor Lurie is pushing for five more, to bring more high-octane street parties during events where streets are closed to traffic.
Bay Area Sports Shockingly, the Red-Hot SF Giants Have the Best Record In Major League Baseball, For the Moment No one saw this coming! Your San Francisco Giants suddenly have the best record in baseball, ahead of the superstar-studded, mega-salaried LA Dodgers and New York Yankees.
SF Politics Oakland Fires Sheng Thao’s Former Chief of Staff Over Note That Refers to Using Black People as ‘Tokens’ Former Sheng Thao chief of staff Leigh Hanson was kept on after the recall, but was fired Sunday over a 2024 meeting note that referred to Black people as “tokens,” though she says it was a reference to certain Black people being paid by the recall campaign.
