SF News Lurie Strikes Deal With Caltrans to Sweep Encampments at Highway Off-Ramps and Overpasses We’ve all seen large homeless encampments beneath freeway overpasses in SoMa and the Mission, and Mayor Lurie just got the green light from Caltrans to start clearing encampments at eight major overpasses and entrance ramps.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia Amphitheater Getting $300,000 for Stage Upgrades, New Paved Walkways SF Rec and Parks has found a little money with which to give McLaren Park’s Jerry Garcia Amphitheater some new enhancements, with better seating and new paved walking paths that should be ready for the next annual Jerry Day celebration.
Bay Area Sports Mill Valley Woman Breaks Record for Fastest-Ever Swim From Farallon Islands to SF It’s not just the fastest swim ever for a woman, but the fastest swim for any swimmer ever to complete the dangerous 30-mile trek from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco, though the record is not yet certified by official record keepers.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Gets Electrocuted and Airlifted Out, as Flooding Remains a Problem This Year Someone was electrocuted at Burning Man Tuesday night and had to be airlifted out, as recurring thunderstorms are creating flooded conditions that are very risky for generators and electrical gear.
SF Politics Recall Engardio Race Delves Into Race Drama, Possible Political Dirty Tricks in Final Weeks Yes, that is a "Simpsons” meme in Supervisor Joel Engardio’s latest campaign video to fight the recall election, as some seemingly race-based messaging and alleged dirty tricks mark the final three-week sprint toward that special election.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Potrero Dive Bar Thee Parkside May Be Forced to Close, as Building Changes Hands Taylor Swift got engaged to her football man; Katie Porter is rising in the 2026 governor’s race polls, and a sale of the building has Thee Parkside worried that the bar will be kicked out soon.
Business & Tech Two Parents Sue OpenAI, Saying ChaptGPT Assisted Their 16-Year-Old Son’s Suicide The first-ever lawsuit against OpenAI for a wrongful death comes from two parents whose son used ChatGPT for advice on the noose with which he hanged himself, and the chatbot allegedly encouraged him to keep his suicidal thought private.
SF Politics California Republicans Already Spending Millions on Mailers to Fight Newsom’s Redistricting Ballot Measure Your mailbox may already be crammed with mailers from Republicans on a warpath against Gavin Newsom’s California redistricting measure, even though Newsom’s campaign is only five days old.
SF News Update: Apparent Illegal Fireworks Mishap Torches Mount Diablo High School Football Field What appears to be an illegal fireworks stunt gone wrong destroyed the football field at Mount Diablo High, just days before the team was slated to play its first home game of the season.
SF News 30-Year-Old SFPD Recruit Dies From Medical Emergency During Training Exercise The SFPD is mourning the loss of 30-year-old cadet Jon-Marques Psalms, who suffered a medical emergency during a training exercise last week, and died on Friday. He was honored with a Monday procession.
Arts & Entertainment Macaulay Culkin Coming to Bay Area for ‘Home Alone’ 35th Anniversary Screenings A now 44-year-old Macaulay Culkin is milking his 90s hit film ‘Home Alone’ for another round of fortune, and his 35th anniversary screening tour of the movie comes to San Jose and Oakland in November.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Battens Down the Hatches as Another Storm Approaches, and Oh, Channing Tatum Is There If you’re going to Burning Man, understand the going is about to get a lot tougher again, as another thunderstorm with 50 MPH winds is approaching Black Rock City. But hey, you might see “Magic Mike” Channing Tatum there!
SF News 425-Unit Potrero Hill Housing Project Breaks Ground After Five Years In Limbo, Now 100% Affordable A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.
SF News Retired SF Firefighter Wins $1.2M Settlement In Whistleblower Retaliation Case A longtime SF firefighter who’s now 60 years old just got a $1.2 million settlement, saying he was repeatedly passed over for promotions after his 2013 whistleblower case reporting racial discrimination.
SF News Video: Late-Night Oakland Sideshow Draws Crowd of 500 People, Likely Stolen Car Set on Fire There were at least four major sideshows early Sunday morning, three in Oakland and another in Richmond, but the one near Piedmont in Oakland drew 500 people, went on for three hours, and left a probably stolen Infiniti completely torched.
SF News Thursday’s San Rafael Apartment Fire Now Deemed ‘Suspicious,’ One Person Confirmed Dead Investigators are still going through the wreckage caused by Thursday morning’s San Rafael apartment building fire, and they’re now confirming at least one person died, but the origin of the blaze is being classified as “suspicious.”
SF News ‘Guerrilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Is Doing a Book Tour, Coming to San Francisco on October 5 It’s still not clear what Kamala Harris’s next act will be after losing the 2024 election, but for now she’s on a book tour, promoting her apparent behind-the-scenes account of her three-month presidential campaign called “107 Days.”
SF News US Citizen and SF Native Arrested by ICE After Protest We are now at the point where ICE agents are apparently arresting and detaining US citizens, as a San Francisco native became the third US citizen ICE agents have arrested this month in SF, though she was released on Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Celebrate 20th Anniversary, Party Planned for Saturday The California redistricting measure is officially coming to your November 4 ballot; Lil Nas X was arrested and may have overdosed; and the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps celebrate their 20th anniversary on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Set to Headline This Year's Dreamforce Concert, With Benson Boone Performing Too The corporate Salesforce conference Dreamforce has named Metallica as its headliner for the big concert they have every year, and Benson Boone will play too, but the bigger news may be that Dreamforce is moving to mid-October.
SF Politics Elon Musk Getting Sued Over His Sham $1 Million Trump Election ‘Sweepstakes’ While Trump was complaining about a rigged election, his boy Elon Musk was running a rigged sweepstakes for $1 million that people who entered could not actually win, and now he’s facing a class action lawsuit over it.
SF News Muni Drivers Up In Arms Over New Policy That Restricts Their Bathroom Breaks All SF Muni drivers must now request permission from their boss to take a bathroom break, and their union is complaining about these stricter new driver rules they say don’t even allow drivers to eat or use their phone while on breaks.
Arts & Entertainment That ‘Diplo’s Run Club’ Footrace Is Returning to SF in October Dancehall DJ and producer Diplo managed to get 13,000 people in SF to do his EDM-fueled early morning 5K run and live performance last year, so Diplo’s Run Club is returning to SF this October, but this time it’s in Golden Gate Park.
SF News 16 People Named in Alleged $400,000 Santa Clara County TJ Maxx Theft Ring Talk about getting the Maxx for the minimum! The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 16 people for allegedly stealing nearly $400,000 worth of TJ Maxx merchandise, and then reselling it at flea markets.
