SF News Scott Weiner's Latest Bill Would Ban ICE Agents From Wearing Face Coverings in California State Senators Scott Wiener and Jesse Arreguin just introduced a new bill that would ban law enforcement agents from being masked on the job, a move seemingly targeted at federal ICE agents who’ve been wearing gaiters while performing recent raids.
SF News Once Again, Vandals Do Damage to Art Installations at Sunset Dunes, the Park at the Former Great Highway In at least the third incident of vandalism in the last few months at the former Great Highway, now the park Sunset Dunes, a public piano at the park was damaged “beyond repair” over the weekend, after another installation had just been vandalized.
Arts & Entertainment Both the Presidio Theatre and Marina Theatre Movie Houses Are Up For Sale Both of the Chestnut Street movie theaters owned by Lee Neighborhood Theaters, the Marina Theatre and Presidio Theatre, are up for sale, as the Lees are retiring after nearly 60 years of their family operation running SF movie houses.
SF News Antisemitic Attack Reported in Marina District Early Saturday Morning A 27-year-old man was reportedly sucker-punched to the ground and kicked multiple times by assailants allegedly shouting “F*** Jews” sometime before 2:30 am Saturday morning in the Marina District, and one suspect was arrested for assault.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film About Supreme Court Case Expected to See That Exact Supreme Court Decision Arrive During Frameline Chase Strangio is the first transgender attorney to argue a case before the US Supreme Court. Strangio’s story is told in a documentary at next week’s Frameline film festival, and the court’s decision is also expected to come down during Frameline.
SF News Trump Administration Deports Livermore Man to Mexico, Even After Federal Judge Ordered Him to Be Kept Here Miguel Angel Lopez has lived in the Bay Area for 27 years, and is father to three US citizens. But the “law and order” Trump administration has ignored legal orders to let him stay here, and he was just deported to Mexico.
SF News With Large Looming Anti-Trump Protest Saturday, Lurie Vows Major Arrests If There’s Any Violence or Vandalism SF streets will be packed with people protesting Trump and ICE at Saturday’s “No Kings” rally, but in a Friday press conference with Mayor Lurie, Sheriff Paul Yamamoto declared “Our jails are prepared to accept guests with no reservations.”
SF Politics After Getting Shoved to Ground and Handcuffed by Feds, Senator Alex Padilla Goes on Media Blitz California Senator Alex Padilla is getting newfound stardom after he was shockingly wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a DHS press conference Thursday, and the little-known, soft-spoken senator just got a much higher-profile.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Online System ‘Upgrade’ Knocks Untold Number of Customers Out of Their Accounts Trump signed his measure today blocking California’s electric vehicle mandate; Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has of course been delayed again; and PG&E’s so-called “upgrade” of their online system has locked a ton of customers out of their accounts.
SF News Last Month's BART Fire at San Leandro Was Actually a ‘Systemwide’ Issue, and Could Happen Again at Any Station BART officials are revising their explanation of why a fire broke out on the tracks of the San Leandro station and affected service for days, and the problem is apparently a “systemwide” issue that could come up again at any of the 50 BART stations.
SF News Federal Judge Says Berkeley Can Sweep Large Homeless Encampment, But That People With Disabilities Can Stay A mixed bag in a new legal ruling about a big and contentious Berkeley homeless encampment, as a judge says the encampment can be swept, but people with disabilities camping there are allowed to stay put and leave their stuff.
SF News ICE Raids on Farms Making Their Way Up to NorCal, Farmworkers Statewide Are Terrified The Los Angeles ICE raids are spreading northward in California, with new workplace raids targeting immigrant farmworkers now taking place along the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley, and employees are terrified to go to work.
Business & Tech Facebook Suspends, and Then Reinstates, Author Rebecca Solnit’s Account Over LA Protest Post, In an Apparent AI Flub SF author Rebecca Solnit had her Facebook account suspended after she posted an essay about the LA protests, but Facebook undid the suspension about 24 hours later, and this all likely happened because of the slapdash AI that Facebook uses for content moderation.
SF News Highway Patrol Releases Video of Oakland Car Chase Crash That Took the Life of Innocent Bystander Schoolteacher The May 28 killing of Oakland high school math teacher Dr. Marvin Boomer when he was struck by a speeding vehicle the CHP was chasing has set off more debate over high-speed police chases, and now the Highway Patrol has released video of the pursuit.
Arts & Entertainment D'Arcy Drollinger’s Reign as SF Drag Laureate Coming to an End, Search for New Drag Laureate Underway San Francisco and the nation’s first Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger has reached the end of the two-year tenure of that position, but dig in your heels, because the city is on the verge of announcing our next SF Drag Laureate.
SF News Analysts Warn That Trump Could Send National Guard Here to San Francisco, Too We could see scenes in San Francisco like what’s happening in Los Angeles, as political analysts say it’s possible, and even likely, that Trump will send National Guard members or Marines into San Francisco as anti-ICE protests continue.
SF News ‘No Kings’ Protests Set to Rabble-Rouse In SF and Nationwide Saturday During Trump’s Military Parade While President Trump has a phenomenally wasteful $45 million military parade planned for his birthday Saturday, SF, Oakland, the Bay Area, and the whole country will be taking to the streets themselves for a nationwide “No Kings” protest.
SF Politics Nonprofits Rally Against Lurie’s Budget Cuts to Homeless Programs, One Director Even Goes on Hunger Strike A group of nonprofits are rallying at City Hall Wednesday because Mayor Lurie’s budget slashes programs addressing homelessness, and they say that under Lurie’s budget, the problem in San Francisco will just get worse.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now Lurie Takes His Turn Trying to Crack Down on RV Dwellers Manny’s got tagged and vandalized pretty hard during Monday’s ICE protests; the killer of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey has been paroled; and Mayor Lurie is taking his stab at clearing the RV dwellers out of SF parking spaces.
Arts & Entertainment Three Little Las Vegas Sphere-Style Geodesic Domes Are Coming to Pier 70 The domes and pyramid seen in these renderings will light up with psychedelic displays when a “multisensory playground” for grown-ups comes to Dogpatch’s Pier 70 next year, hosting raves and Pink Floyd laser light shows and such.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It’s Open Season for Open Containers on Valencia Street, Where To-Go Cocktails Are Launching Five Days a Week Those boozy "entertainment zones” sweeping the city just got a new twist, as Valencia Street will start allowing the sale of to-go beer, wine, and cocktails five days a week, even on days when the street is not shut down for a street festival.
SF News Department of Justice Sues Oakland Cafe for Kicking Out Guy Wearing Star of David Hat Ironically, a cafe called Jerusalem Coffee House kicked out a patron wearing a Star of David hat last October. Now Trump's Department of Justice has taken note, and is suing that Oakland cafe.
SF News Thousands Pack the Mission for Peaceful ICE Protest; SFPD Pulls Pepper Spray On Separate, Smaller Civic Center Protest As many as 10,000 protesters jammed the streets of the Mission District Monday night in yet more public opposition to ICE actions in California, but a small splinter group hit Civic Center late at night, leading to arrests and SFPD pepper sprayings.
Arts & Entertainment Funk Legend Sly Stone, Whose Career Was Born In SF, Has Died at 82 The founder of Sly and the Family Stone, a one-time San Francisco DJ who started the groundbreaking funk band that’s now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died Monday morning in Los Angeles from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
SF News Saturday Portola Rollover Crash Killed Driver, Left Dog Seriously Injured A fatal one-car crash this weekend at the border of the Portola and Bayview neighborhoods took the life of the driver who was in his 30s, while a dog who was in the car with him suffered serious injuries.
