Arts & Entertainment Tony! Toni! Toné! Co-Founder and Oakland Native D'Wayne Wiggins Has Died A year-long bout with bladder cancer has taken the life of Tony! Toni! Toné!'s D'Wayne Wiggins, who had three Top 10 hits with that group, and helped launch the careers of Destiny's Child and Beyonce.
SF News Notorious Tenderloin Twitter Provocateur Accused of Tire-Slashing, Harassment, Making Online Threats The Twitter personality "jj smith" is suddenly hiding his tweets after making a series of pretty violent threats, and there is at least one tire-slashing incident in which he was allegedly somehow involved.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland First Fridays Makes Its Return This Weekend Gavin Newsom upset the trans community with some remarks on his podcast; Pittsburg Center’s BART station will be closed this weekend; and Oakland First Fridays returns from its winter hiatus Friday night.
SF News SFPD Makes Huge Deal Out of 16th & Mission Bust That Only Produced Four Arrests, Tiny Smattering of Drugs The Mayor, Sheriff, and Chief of Police thought it was worthy of a press conference that SFPD did a “saturation” bust at 16th and Mission Wednesday night, yet this operation resulted in just four arrests and the seizure of one measly ounce of drugs.
Business & Tech AI Company Databricks Declares It Will ‘Invest Over $1 Billion’ in Downtown SF With Big Conference, New HQ Flush with their latest $10 billion fundraising round, the cloud-based AI platform firm Databricks recently signed a 150,000 square-foot lease at One Sansome, and is now committing to keeping their annual conference in SF for five more years.
SF Politics Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Non-Sanctuary City’ In Symbolic Political Move The mostly white Butte County city of Oroville has few if any undocumented immigrants, but declared itself a “non-sanctuary city” in a move that just seems intended to irk Gavin Newsom and please Donald Trump.
SF News New Plans Announced for Steph Curry’s Splashy New Offices In Dogpatch Warriors all-star Steph Curry is getting ready to say night-night to his playing career, and the new company he’s started just released their plans for a giant, fancy headquarters on 20th Street out at Pier 70.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Alters Menu Over Trump’s Tariffs, Now Serving ‘Avocado Garbanzo Guacamole’ In hopes of not making you pay $16.75 for just a side of guacamole (which you still can), Bay Area chain Tacolicious has introduced a “tariff-era menu” with guacamole that uses chickpeas, to cut down on their lime and avocado use as Trump’s tariffs kick in.
SF News Oakland City Council Votes to Reopen Those Fire Stations They Closed Over the Budget Deficit With three Oakland fire stations closed because of the city’s $130 million budget deficit, the Oakland City Council somehow found enough money in the couch cushions to order those stations reopened sometime in the coming months.
SF News Supervisor Sherrill Proposes Another Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone,’ This Time on Union Street The Union Street Festival will be lit if new District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill gets his way, as he's proposed another one of those to-go cocktail-serving “entertainment zones” be established on Union Street.
SF Politics Pelosi Has a 2026 Election Challenger, an AOC Guy Who’s Reportedly Worth At Least $100 Million 39-year-old former Stripe engineer Saikat Chakrabarti is forming a far-left challenge to take Nancy Pelosi’s seat in 2026, after burnishing his credentials with the 2016 Bernie campaign and as AOC’s chief of staff, and he has quite the personal fortune to run with.
SF News Oakland Mayoral Candidate Loren Taylor Reveals He Had Liver Transplant In December Six weeks before the special election to replace former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, candidate Loren Taylor has disclosed that he had a life-threatening liver condition last year, and had a transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands ‘Eager Beaver’ Tickets on Sale Wednesday, First Act May Have Leaked Severe budget cuts are soon to hit SF art museums; Elon Musk’s DOGE axe came down on three Bay Area federal offices; and the early-bird Outside Lands presale tickets go on sale Wednesday morning.
SF News Yet Another SF DBI Inspector Found Guilty of Corruption, This Time for Self-Dealing A now-fired SF Department of Building Inspection inspector was just found guilty of violating conflict-of-interest laws, by approving permits for properties that it turned out were actually owned by his parents.
SF News Archimedes Banya Gets Social Media Uproar After Banning Trans Women From ‘Women’s Day’ Bathhouse and naked yoga hotspot Archimedes Banya recently announced that trans women would no longer be admitted to their monthly women-only “Women’s Day,” and after a furor, they’re now declaring two separate women’s nights in hopes of appeasing both sides.
SF News Someone Was Hit and Killed on the Tracks at El Cerrito BART Station Tuesday Morning BART had to suspend service between North Berkeley and Richmond for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, and we’re now learning that this was because someone wandered onto the tracks and was struck and killed by an oncoming train.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission-Bernal Pinball Joint Outer Orbit Announces Closing Date, But Crowdfunding to Possibly Survive The Mission Street pinball bar and restaurant Outer Orbit just announced it’s closing after this weekend, but there’s a crowdfunding campaign afoot to make sure it’s not Game Over for the popular burger bar.
SF News Fat Tuesday Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Faces Her Fate in Special Election Vote Today Voting is underway today on the measure to remove the San Mateo County Sheriff; SF is towing RVs that refused to leave a Bayview RV dwelling site; and the Bay Area has several Mardi Gras celebrations on tap for Fat Tuesday.
SF News Smash-and-Grabbers Loot Store While Pepper-Spraying Staff and Customers, In Orinda of All Places You don’t often see smash-and-grab burglaries in the upscale Contra Costa County enclave of Orinda, but one happened there this weekend, as the perpetrators reportedly attacked staff and customers with pepper spray while stealing $100,000 worth of jewelry.
SF News It’s Curtains for the Bayview RV Triage Center, Closing Today After Blowing Through $15 Million Once dubbed "by far the most expensive homeless response intervention” in SF history, the Bayview RV Triage Center is being shut down today, after a three-year run of pricey logistical snafus and frankly very little usage.
Business & Tech Bing Crosby’s Former Home in Hillsborough on the Market for a Record-Breaking $40 Million Asking Price Purchased for a song at just $175,000 in 1965, the French chateau-style former home of pop crooner Bing Crosby is now on sale again for $40 million, a price that would break the Hillsborough real estate record that currently belongs to Elon Musk’s old house.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Expanding to a New Outpost in Mill Valley, Opening Later This Year The Tartine sourdough will soon be rising at the Strawberry Village shopping center in Mill Valley, as the famed bakery chain is expanding with a new Marin County spot that will apparently offer some exclusive items not available at other locations.
SF News Four People Shot Outside Hayward Restaurant, Shooter Still At Large All four people shot are described as being in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, after a quadruple shooting Saturday night outside a Filipino restaurant in Hayward where the suspected shooter is still on the loose.
Business & Tech Google Maps Lists an Oakland Homeless Encampment as “Homeless Encampment,” Hilarity Ensues A vacant East Oakland lot that’s become overrun with RVs and tents is now listed on Google Maps as “Homeless Encampment,” though this is clearly the work of some joker trying to embarrass Oakland City Hall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gus’s Community Market on Haight Street Is About to Get Bigger, Expanding Into Vacant Spot Next Door The Haight Street Gus’s Community Market store is already about 7,000 square feet, but it just won City Hall approval to grow to almost 11,000 square feet, by expanding into the long-vacant space next door that used to be the Haight Ashbury Music Center.
