SF News Ongoing Wine Country Real Estate Scandal Draws Scrutiny of Lender Who Financed Accused Fraudster A new wrinkle in the case of a Sonoma County real estate tycoon accused of bilking nearly 200 investors out of $46 million, as it turns out most of his properties were financed by a single lender, raising questions about what they knew.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heads Up, Tipped Employees: ‘No Taxes on Tips’ Still Means Some Taxes on Your Tips The devil is coming out of the details of Trump’s “no taxes on tips” policy, and it turns out tipped employees still have to pay taxes on those tips but then deduct them afterwards, and automatic service charges are still fully taxed.
Bay Area Sports Giants Fire Manager Bob Melvin, After Two Seasons of Mediocre At-Best Baseball Giants president Buster Posey has decided that .500 baseball is not going to cut it in the same division as the star-studded Dodgers, firing manager Bob Melvin Monday morning just as the Giants wrapped up their 2025 season.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fumble, Bumble, Stumble Their Way to 26-21 Loss to Jacksonville Jaguars The 49ers gave up two interceptions, two fumbles, and a punt turn for a touchdown in a demeaning loss to the Jaguars, and punctuated this by telling Jacksonville's coach, “I’ll f*ck your world up,” and “I will f*cking end your f*cking life.”
Arts & Entertainment It's Official: Castro Theatre to Reopen as The Castro In February 2026 Closed for renovations since February 2024, the Castro Theatre has just announced it will be reopening in February 2026, as operators Another Planet plan to have their $41 million overhaul completed by then.
Arts & Entertainment DJ Bus Station John Injured in SoMa Fall, Robbed While Laying on the Ground Folsom Street Fair weekend will be a lot less joyful on the dance floors, as local DJ Bus Station John had his shoulder shattered in a recent sidewalk fall, and then someone robbed him while he was injured on the ground.
SF News Oakland Police Get Their Way on High-Speed Chases, Can Now Chase Suspects at Any Speed After months of debate, the Oakland Police Commission approved a new policy allowing officers to engage in high-speed chases at any speed, though police say they’ll only do it in cases of violent criminals.
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star IShowSpeed Hits SF, Meets Mayor Lurie, Has People Pushed Around, Watches a Sideshow Gen Z YouTube icon IShowSpeed drew Beatlemania-level excitement and received a dignitary’s welcome from Mayor Daniel Lurie in the Bay Area Thursday, though he and his fans were not always on their best behavior.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Only Netflix Subscribers Will Be Able to Watch the Giants’ Opening Day Next Season Brock Purdy will likely be starting for the 49ers again Sunday; some woman put billboards along the Peninsula asking if anyone will marry her; and you will need to have a Netflix subscription if you want to watch the Giants’ Opening Day game in 2026.
Arts & Entertainment De Young Museum to Host America’s First Ever Manga Museum Exhibition, Starting This Saturday The de Young Museum is displaying the first ever manga themed exhibition in a major American museum, starting this Saturday, and you better believe that Saturday’s opening event has been declared a “Cosplay Day.”
SF News Uniqlo Reportedly In Talks to Open a Downtown SF Store Again, Maybe in the Vacant Old Navy Space After the flagship, three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021 as that shopping district dove down the abyss, we’re now getting word that Uniqlo may want back into the downtown SF game, and might even be eyeing the vacant Old Navy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Nanking Cookbook Arrives Next Week, Written by the Restaurant's Own Fang Family The 37-year-old Chinatown favorite House of Nanking is releasing a cookbook next week, full of decades worth of the restaurant’s most popular recipes, plus a number of long-lost dishes that haven’t been on the menu in years.
SF News SF’s Once-Biggest Landlord Veritas Defaulting on Another $652 Million in Loans, 66 Buildings May Be Up for Grabs A total of 66 apartment buildings with nearly 1,600 units belonging to the mega-landlord Veritas could be on the selling block come December, as Veritas is defaulting on yet another giant loan to the tune of $652 million.
SF News Monterey’s KION-TV Shuts Down Its Newsroom, Will Apparently Just Play KPIX News Monterey County CBS affiliate KION appears to be the victim of some local TV downsizing, abruptly killing its news department Wednesday morning, and their news will now be called “KPIX News on KION,” which sounds like just KPIX News.
SF News Unusually Aggressive Squirrel Has Attacked and Sent Two People to the Hospital In Marin County There’s a woodland creature you don’t want to mess with in the Marin County community of Lucas Valley, as what is believed to be the same squirrel attacked two different women in a two-day span, and both women were sent to the hospital.
SF News The Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Complex on Top of New Asia Restaurant Finally Happening, With New State Grant The old-style banquet hall is coming back to Chinatown’s New Asia restaurant that is now a grocery store, along with 175 units of affordable housing on top, thanks to a $33.5 million state grant that Mayor Lurie says just came through.
SF News Oakland Reopens Those Three Fire Stations They Had to Shut Down Because of Their Budget Deficit A $130 million City of Oakland deficit forced the closure of three fire stations, which had residents rightfully scared. But the City Council found the money, and now all three are officially reopened.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 in Big Sur Gets a Reopening Date A Richmond UPS worker was crushed and killed by falling packages; Trump told the United Nations that their countries were all “going to hell;” and Highway 1 in Big Sur has a reopening date — which is still six months from now.
SF News UC Wins This Round Against Trump, Judge Reinstates $500 Million in Research Grants That Trump Yanked What started as some Trump claim that University of California colleges were antisemitic turned into a billion-dollar shakedown, but UC just won this fight (for now) as a judge ordered that $500 million in research grants be reinstated.
SF News Tesla Driver In Deadly January SoMa Crash Charged on Six Counts, But Judge Releases Him From Jail A 67-year-old man has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter for a January crash that killed a man and a dog plus injured seven people, but a judge just released him from jail, and his Tesla may have been at fault.
SF News Seemingly Bogus Mission District Immigration Attorney Fined $600,000 for Unlicensed Work The Mission District storefront that claims to house a “Law Group” does not, in fact, have any attorneys, and a court just ruled they have to pay $600,000 for conning payments from immigrants seeking legal services for years.
SF News Fired SFPD Nonprofit Leader, Under Investigation for Embezzling $100K, Sues for Her Final Paychecks A new Hall of Fame entry in the annals of chutzpah, as the former director of an SFPD-affiliated nonprofit who’s under indictment for embezzling $100 grand has sued the nonprofit for $26,000 in back pay she claims they still owe her.
SF News Mayor Lurie and SFPD Tout Dirt Bike ‘Crackdown’ That Yielded a Measly Four Arrests Daniel Lurie and the SFPD held a press conference Monday to toot their horns over “a crackdown on dangerous stunt driving” of dirt bikes, but the four arrests seems like a drop in the bucket given the huge groups we typically see doing this.
SF Politics Manny Yekutiel of Manny’s Fame Declares He’s Running for District 8 Supervisor While the election is nearly 14 months away, Manny’s owner Manny Yekiutiel announced he’s running for Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s current seat as District 8 supervisor, though he’s already got opponents lining up against him.
SF News SF Rec and Parks Chief Phil Ginsburg Stepping Down After 16 Years The head of the SF Rec and Park Department Phil Ginsburg announced his departure Monday, amid controversies over the car-free Great Highway and the finances of the SF Park Alliance, though it appears he just got a better-paying job.
