SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Settles $120 Million Lawsuit Against SF For Exactly $0 Sheng Thao’s lawyers had a bad day in court; our military actions against Iran are raising gas prices and pummeling the stock market; and Airbnb is giving up on getting $120 million back from the City of San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Big Alysa Liu Victory Celebration Now Scheduled for Thursday, March 12 Oakland’s Alysa Liu victory celebration will not quite be a parade down Grand Avenue, but instead a rally on the steps of City Hall, and it's scheduled for 12 noon on Thursday, March 12
SF News BART Police Rocked by Racist AI Deepfake Video Being Texted Around Among Ranks What is it with Bay Area law enforcement and their racist text messages? Yet another such scandal just hit the BART Police force, in a video where BART Police officers singled out a Sikh colleague for mockery.
SF News Two Stabbed In Dolores Park Altercation Wednesday, Multiple Teens In Custody SFPD confronted a “group of unknown subjects in a physical altercation” at Mission Dolores Park Wednesday afternoon, and more disturbingly, six of the eight suspects arrested were teens.
Business & Tech Another Big Win for SF Conference Scene, as Microsoft Moves Major Conference From Seattle to SF San Francisco is now officially back to poaching major tech conferences away from other cities, as Microsoft has moved its Build 2026 conference to San Francisco, snubbing the conference’s longtime home of Seattle.
Arts & Entertainment Jesus Christ! There’s a Hunky Jesus Documentary Coming Out, and Here Is the Trailer Fans of the Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest will go cross-eyed to see that there’s a new feature-length documentary ‘Hunky Jesus’ hitting the film festival circuit, and you’ll be absolutely nailed by the trailer.
SF News Iran Threatens to Withdraw From World Cup Over US Invasion Iran’s World Cup soccer team is scheduled to play matches in the US in June, but the Iranian Football Federation is threatening to pull the team out of the tournament in protest of the attacks raining down from host nation USA.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Department Once Again Going Overboard on Overtime, On Track to Go $19 Million Over Budget for Year While other City Hall departments are all forced to cut back in deficit times, the SF Sheriff’s Office is clocking another year of out-of-control overtime, in a familiar story of SF law enforcement's overtime overkill.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State’s Top Democrat Tells Surplus of Governor Candidates to Drop Out of Race The Bay Area got more transit money for the upcoming World Cup; the Giants are bringing back free opera in the ballpark; and the state Democratic Party chair has had it with these way too many Democrats running for governor.
SF News Trump’s Garish Trump Force One Airplane Popped Into SFO Monday for Some Reason President Trump was not on his ridiculously self-named Trump Force One airplane when it blew through SFO on Monday, but maybe one of his idiot sons had crypto business in town or something, as the plane was spotted here.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Says He’s Laying Off 500 SF City Hall Employees, Which Will Not Endear Him to the Labor Unions Daniel Lurie says that at least 500 City Hall jobs are on the chopping block, a move he avoided last year through accounting tricks, and Lurie may not exactly be Mr. Popular anymore once that axe comes down.
SF Politics Allegations Resurface That Supervisor Sherrill Got Appointed In Backroom Deal to Benefit London Breed Some SF City Hall gossip is rearing its head again alleging that former SF Mayor London Breed appointed Supervisor Stephen Sherrill in order to score a job with big-bucks benefactor Michael Bloomberg.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out the New Giant Alysa Liu Mural That Just Went Up In Oakland’s Temescal Neighborhood The gold medal-biting, thizz-facing visage of Alysa Liu now graces this fabulous mural that was just unveiled in Temescal, the latest Oakland celebration of the medal-winning Olympic skater.
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Cancels Its Performance at Recently Trump-ified Kennedy Center, After Weeks of Local Pressure The San Francisco Ballet is the latest performance outfit to declare they will cancel their scheduled shows at the Kennedy Center since Trump bastardized the place, added his name to it, and declared himself its chairman.
Business & Tech Trump Administration Still Used Anthropic's Claude In Iran Strikes, Hours After Trump Banned Anthropic Despite Trump calling SF’s Anthropic a “Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about” and banning government use of their AI tool Claude, the administration still had to use Claude in its Iran attacks.
SF News K9 Happens to Find $2 Million Worth of Cocaine During Routine Milpitas Speeding Stop One driver in Milpitas picked the wrong Highway Patrol K9 to drive a little too fast around Thursday night, as the driver was pulled over for speeding, and the dog sniffed out nearly 27 pounds of cocaine in the car.
Business & Tech DoorDash Launching Its Delivery Robots In Fremont, Because Maybe People There Will Complain Less DoorDash’s longtime dream of cutting paid human beings out of the delivery process is one step closer to reality, as they’re debuting their little robots to do food deliveries, but at first only in Fremont.
SF News Mayor Lurie’s Controversial New RESET Sobering Center Will Be See Its Contractor Paid Based on Performance An Arizona-based contractor will have a unique method of getting paid to operate Mayor Lurie’s forthcoming RESET Center that hopes to sober up public drug users, as they’ll be paid based on how effective the center is.
SF Politics More Absurd Great Highway Drama: Supervisor Wong Blames Opponent That His Ballot Measure Failed to Launch The candidates are already fighting in the June primary elections, and District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong is attacking his rival Natalie Gee for not helping him enough to get his ‘cars back on the Great Highway’ ballot measure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yet More Complaints Emerge About Crowd Behavior at Marina Red Bull Event BART is offering a little more detail about its Thursday morning snafu; OpenAI is now gobbling up office space in Mountain View too, and some deplorable teens may have done some groping at Saturday's Marina Formula 1 event.
SF News In Marin Crash That Killed Four Teens, Parents Point Fingers at CHP, County Road Maintenance The 16-year-old driver in a crash that killed her four teen friends has pleaded not guilty, but meanwhile, parents are bringing legal motions against the California Highway Patrol and Marin County.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay’s ‘Punk in the Park’ Festival Slammed by Revelations That Promoter Was a Trump Donor Vallejo's upcoming Punk in the Park music festival was just tarred by revelations that the concert promoter donated to the Trump 2024 campaign, but the Dead Kennedys still insist they’re playing the show.
SF News Mayor Lurie Says Protesters Were Chanting ‘Tax the Jews,’ But It Was Just One Unassociated Lady Passing By Mayor Daniel Lurie is not particularly helping San Francisco’s image at the moment, as he posted a false claim that SF protesters were chanting “Tax the Jews” at a Wednesday event, even though video debunks the claim.
SF News [Update] Walnut Creek Police Shoot and Kill Suspect In Early Thursday Morning Melee A man with apparently untreated mental illness was fatally shot by Walnut Creek police just after midnight Thursday in a residential area, and his mother is blaming the county.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Announces an Eight-Show October Residency at the Las Vegas Sphere Legendary metal band Metallica is bringing their act to the famed Las Vegas Sphere venue for eight shows this coming October, in a residency that’s being billed under the name “Life Burns Faster.”
