SF News Oakland Police Raid Suspected Gambling Den, Find Gambling, But Also Lots of Dynamite An explosive finding at the police raid of a suspected gambling den in East Oakland's Webster neighborhood, as the raid also turned up gambling machines, meth, opiates, guns, ammo — and even a whole bunch of dynamite.
SF News Supervisors OK Taking a Wrecking Ball to Vaillancourt Fountain, Rejecting Last-Chance Appeal Preservationists had a last chance to save the brutalist but broken-down Vaillancourt Fountain with an appeal hearing at the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, but the supervisors still approved removing the fountain in a 10-1 vote.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette Taco Ball With Adorably Outdated Kitschy Exterior Closes Permanently More arrests have been made in Saturday’s 16th and Mission BART stabbings; the CVS at Van Ness and Turk streets will soon bite the dust; and one of the last Taco Bells with the old "mission-style" exterior just shut down too
SF Politics Supervisor Alan Wong Fails to Get His Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to the Great Highway Newly appointed District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong just flunked his first big test, failing to meet a deadline on a ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway, after he made a big to-do over announcing the effort.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk, Belligerent Lady From Hazie’s Viral Video Won’t Face Charges Over Incident The last dust has apparently settled on the infamous ‘drunk lady at Hazie’s’ confrontation/bar-fight the night of SantaCon, and the pugnaciously wasted woman who provoked it all will not face public intoxication charges.
SF News Vanderbilt University Is Indeed Opening an SF Campus, and It Will Be at Potrero Hill’s California College of the Arts Get ready for Vanderbilt University San Francisco, and part of it will be called “California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt,” as Vanderbilt has basically bought up the dying husk of the California College of the Arts.
SF News Oakley Man Tries to Shoot Sheriff’s Deputy, Then Shoots Himself After Four-Hour Police Standoff A 54-year-old Oakley domestic violence suspect survived an attempt to shoot himself Monday afternoon, but that was after a four-hour standoff with Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies, one of whom he allegedly took a few shots at.
Arts & Entertainment Puppy Bowl Reveals 2026 Lineup, SF Stray Will Be Featured Competitor This year’s Super Bowl alternative, the annual Puppy Bowl, just introduced its tiny yapping dog contestants with names like Chappell Bone and RuPaw, but an SF entrant named Foggy may steal the show at this particular puppy play-off.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Bob Weir’s Last-Ever Live Performance Was That Golden Gate Park Dead and Company Show In SF If you saw any of those Dead and Company shows in Golden Gate Park in August, you saw the historic final performances of the dearly departed Bobby Weir, as those three shows ended up being the final times he took the stage.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Glorious 23-19 Playoff Win In Nailbiter Over Philadelphia Eagles The San Francisco 49ers knocked off the defending world champion Eagles in an old-time, bare-knuckled cold January playoff game, with a wild and wooly trick play helping deliver the win.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces 2026 Ticket Sales, and This Year You Can Buy Them on a ‘Payment Plan’ The first batch of Burning Man 2026 tickets is set to go on sale soon, and they’ll cost about $25 more this year, but the event is adding the whole ‘buy now, pay later’ thing by offering this year’s tickets on payment plans.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Time! Fresh Off-the-Boat Dungeness Crab Sales Start on Sunday at Fisherman's Wharf SF’s Dungeness crab season is finally underway, and the freshest crab you can possibly buy will be on sale starting this Sunday morning, bright and early, down at Fisherman’s Wharf’s Pier 47 where you can buy crab fresh off the boat.
Arts & Entertainment Sunset Night Market Back on for 2026, After 2025 Event Fell Victim to Political Battles The very non-political concept of a neighborhood night market got very political during the Recall Joel Engardio campaign, but the Sunset Night Market is back for 2026, and has its first event on Friday, February 27.
SF News D4 Supervisor Wong Says He’s Full Speed Ahead With Do-Over Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway We’re going to vote yet again on whether cars should be allowed on the Great Highway, or at least we are if District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong has his way, as he’s introducing another ballot measure, but he only has six days to do it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First New Measles Case of 2026 Has Arrived in the Bay Area Draymond Green admitted "I am very much still afraid of my mom;” the Mayor of San Jose came out swinging against the proposed billionaire tax; and thanks RFK Jr, the Bay Area now has its first new measles case of 2026.
SF News Rep. Ro Khanna Calls ICE Detention Center in Bakersfield a ‘Detention-Industrial Complex’ After Alarming Visit Conditions are absolutely inhumane at California's largest ICE holding center near Bakersfield, according to South Bay congressional rep Ro Khanna, who just had a visit to the for-profit prison facility being operated with your tax dollars.
Bay Area Sports Tom Brady Looking to Open an SF Sports Card Shop Right by Oracle Park San Mateo native and seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady owns an expanding sports trading card shop chain called CardVault, and the chain is reportedly looking to open a retail store almost right next to the Giants’ Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports US Patent Office Won’t Let Las Vegas A's Trademark the Name ‘Las Vegas Athletics’ Now that the A’s have moved to Las Vegas, they can’t even trademark their own new name, as the US Patent Office has rejected their request, and bootleg shirt makers are licking their chops.
SF Politics The Three Candidates Vying for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat Face Off on the Same Stage for the First Time With Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat legitimately up for grabs for the first time in nearly 40 years, the three challengers to succeed her — Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, and Saikat Chakrabarti — duked it out at a candidate forum Wednesday night.
SF News Building Where Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Took Place Is Up for Additional Historic Landmark Status Now that a private prison company is running a halfway house at the site of the famed transgender protest known as the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, trans activists are hoping to redesignate the site with another set of historical protections.
SF News Accused Killer Testifies In Murder Trial of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee The 2021 killing of Anza Vista resident Vicha Ratanapakdee has its murder trial underway, and accused 24-year-old killer Antoine Watson took the stand in his own defense Tuesday. His explanations, though, were largely incoherent.
SF News Suspect In Last Month’s SF General Hospital Stabbing Pleads Not Guilty, Attorney Says He Was Suffering 'Crisis’ The accused stabber in last month’s fatal attack on a UCSF social worker at SF General Hospital finally had a court appearance Tuesday, pleading not guilty, with his attorney saying “he was suffering a mental health crisis that day.”
SF News SF Finally Shuts Down Tenderloin Massage Parlor That Was ‘Blatantly Operating as a Brothel’ The jig is up at the Tenderloin's Empire Relaxation Spa, which has been busted at least four times for selling sex, and now has been shut down permanently with the owners agreeing to pay a $275,000 settlement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Blood-Soaked Fistfight Breaks Out at Disneyland Over People Cutting in Line This year’s SF Sketchfest will feature a live show on a moving BART train; a Union City man effectively busted himself for child porn; and a brawl broke out at Disneyland over line-cutting.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Introduces Measure to Shut Down More Liquor Stores Earlier, to Fight Sixth Street Blight That Tenderloin “corner store curfew” that shuts liquor stores down at midnight could be extended to a whole bunch of SoMa and beyond, as Supervisor Matt Dorsey wants corner stores shut down earlier in hopes of deterring crime.
