Arts & Entertainment Mosswood Meltdown 2025 Announces Headliners Devo and Kreayshawn, But It Won't Be On July 4th Weekend John Waters’s trashy annual punk rock music festival Mosswood Meltdown won’t be on July 4 weekend in 2025, but it’s still at Mosswood Park on July 19 and 20, and will feature Devo, Oakland native Kreayshawn, and LA garage rockers Osees.
SF News SF Robbery Suspect Crashes Car Evading Police, Leaps 40 Feet From Overpass, Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After an alleged three-robbery bender, a suspect evading SFPD totaled his car in a crash, lept 40 feet from a 101 overpass, and injured himself severely before being arrested and hospitalized.
SF News Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Was Investigated for Sexual Assault in Monterey There’s already dirty laundry galore with many of Trump’s cabinet picks, and the latest shoe to drop comes from Monterey County, where Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth was investigated for sexual assault in 2017.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Makes Arrest in Case of Car Ramming Into Union Square Dior Last Month SF-based The Onion just bought Alex Jones’s InfoWars in a bankruptcy auction; SF school closures may be prevented by the recent bond measure passage; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in that smash-and-grab at Dior last month.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Joan Baez Makes Surprise, Unscheduled Appearance at Glide Holiday Jam, Belts Out John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Wednesday night’s Glide Annual Holiday Jam featured a surprise appearance by folk legend Joan Baez at the fundraiser for Glide’s holiday meals and service programs, and she stunned with a three-song set that featured John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Is Calling It Quits and Shutting Down After 25 Years The beat will not go on for San Francisco’s raviest street fair of them all, as the How Weird Street Faire has announced it will not put on the event in 2025, nor any years in the future.
SF News Elected Officials and AAPI Groups Call on Newsom to Put CHP Officers on BART After three recent high-profile incidents of violence on BART trains or at its stations, a coalition of business leaders, elected officials, and community groups are telling Gavin Newsom to beef up BART security with California Highway Patrol officers.
SF News Could Muni Eliminate the Cable Cars? That’s on the Table, as the Agency Faces a Possible $320 Million Deficit Dark days loom for Muni after the failure of Prop L, an incoming Trump presidency, and a deficit as high as $322 million, so there’s talk of eliminating the cable cars, or axing some lesser-used bus lines outright.
SF News Entire Tamalpais High School Football Program Put On Probation Over Racist Incidents After undisclosed acts of football team racism toward Black members of the team, Tamalpais High School has put the whole football program on probation, and will forfeit all of the team’s remaining games if there’s another incident.
SF News All Hell Breaks Loose In San Mateo County: Sheriff Allegedly Dating Staffer, Used N-Word, Union President Arrested A full-blown R-rated soap opera has broken out at the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, as the sheriff is alleged to have hired her boyfriend to a position she created, and used the n-word. Oh, and the president of the county’s deputy sheriff’s union was arrested Tuesday.
SF News Surfers Not Stoked Over Proposed Ocean Beach Seawall to Protect Beach From Erosion A state commission is about to decide the fate of a proposed 3,200-foot underground seawall to protect a sewage tunnel on the southern end of Ocean Beach, but surfers say it would make the beach more dangerous not just for them, but for ordinary beachgoers too.
SF News Sale of Oakland Coliseum May Be Going Sideways, as East Bay Politicians Dig In on Turf Wars The overall $250 million sale of the Oakland Coliseum is being held up by East Bay elected officials, who seem to want to do more due diligence on deals they’ve already agreed to. But the City of Oakland is getting stiffed on payments because of it.
SF News Pamela Price Charges Nine Deputies, Two Jail Staffers for 2021 Santa Rita Jail Death Maurice Monk was found dead in his Santa Rita Jail cell after staff had not checked on him in at least three days, and in her final weeks in office, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is charging nearly a dozen deputies and staffers with negligence in his death.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Myrna Melgar Has Been Reelected as District 7 Supervisor Jerry Garcia’s voice has been sold to an AI firm for future use; Chyanne Chen remains barely ahead in the nailbiter District 11 supervisor race; but Myrna Melga has now flat-out won another term as District 7 supervisor.
Bay Area Sports Klay Thompson Returns to Chase Center Tonight, This Time as a Warriors Opponent, In Big National TV Game Former Warrior Klay Thompson will get a hero’s welcome in his first return to the Chase Center Tuesday night, with fans sure to give him a standing ovation, all wearing commemorative Klay hats. But Draymond Green says, “I’m running through his chest.”
Arts & Entertainment Muni Launches Online Store Full of Muni-Branded T-Shirts, Hats, Hoodies, Mugs, and More Well, that’s one way to address a $214 million deficit. Muni just launched an online store, in time for the holidays, where you can buy Muni swag like t-shirts, hoodies, hats, socks, and even baby onesies.
SF News Santa Clara High Student Dies by Suicide After Classmates Bullied Him for Being Homeless 14-year-old Jose Zamora’s short tenure at Santa Clara High School came to a tragic end last week, as the freshman took his own life after weeks of taunting for living at a homeless shelter and being raised by a single father.
Business & Tech AI Flub May Be Behind Mattel’s ‘Wicked’ Dolls Promoting Porn Website on Packaging Something bad happened that made Mattel’s new line of dolls for the upcoming film “Wicked” accidentally promote a link to a porn website. Funny, this happened just months after Mattel started designing its packaging with an AI tool from San Jose-based Adobe.
SF Politics Moderates Flip SF Board of Supervisors’ Progressive Majority, But Breed Gets One More Chance to Tip the Scales Current election results show the SF Board of Supervisors has flipped to a slight moderate majority, but we may not be talking enough about how Mayor Breed will get one more free appointment to the board on her way out.
SF News Giant Oakland Apartment Fire Displaces 13, Thick Smoke Was Visible for Miles A Fruitvale District fire early Sunday afternoon destroyed one residential building and damaged another, displacing 13 residents in the two-alarm fire whose smoke was visible from nearly five miles away.
SF News Prop K Has Passed, Whether Sunset District Residents Like It or Not An SF debate that’s been raging since early in the pandemic has just been settled at the ballot box, as a two-mile stretch of the Great Highway will indeed go car-free, because the measure Prop K now has enough votes to pass.
Arts & Entertainment The First Tahoe Ski Resort Is Open, and the Rest Have Announced Their (Approximate) Opening Dates Pow! The powder of Mount Rose ski resort officially opened to skiers for the season Friday, and a flurry of other ski resorts have announced their prospective opening dates for the weeks to come.
SF Politics That Prop L Rideshare Tax to Fund Muni Looks Unlikely to Pass, Because Another Measure Cancels It Out The tax on rideshares that was supposed to help dig Muni out of its deficit is cruising to a big win, but will probably never take effect, because it conflicts with the Prop M business tax measure which is winning by even more.
Arts & Entertainment That ‘Let’s Glow’ Holiday Projection Mapping Display Is Indeed Coming Back Downtown for 2024 “The largest holiday projection mapping festival in the country" is returning to downtown San Francisco for the fourth consecutive year, and this year will have a boozy open-container party for one night of its ten-night run.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Sweeps Into Mayor’s Office Promising ‘Change,’ But It’s Unclear What His Administration Will Look Like The Mayor-Elect of San Francisco Daniel Lurie is still a walking question mark in many respects, but there are some educated guesses on how the wealthy heir and nonprofit executive is going to govern and try to fulfill his campaign promises.
