SF News Bayview Residents Quite Pleased That Their Sewage Treatment Plant Smells Less Terrible These Days A new sculpture makes the Bayview’s Southeast Treatment Plant easier on the eyes, but more importantly, a $717 million upgrade just made it easier on the nose for people who live near SF’s largest wastewater treatment plant.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Looking to Merge Highly Profitable SpaceX With Money-Losing xAI Recurring Epstein files character Elon Musk may merge one of his most successful ventures with one of his least, and is reportedly on the verge of combining rocket company SpaceX with Bay Area-based xAI.
SF News Salinas Man Throws Doberman Puppy at Cops to Evade Arrest, Still Gets Arrested Anyway A poor little stolen Doberman puppy was not only dognapped by a man allegedly carrying 68 grams of meth, the puppy was then used as a weapon and thrown at Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies when they tried to arrest the man.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Goes on Attack Against Dr. Oz Over Inflammatory Video Accusing LA Armenians of Mafia Fraud Dr Oz’s latest conspiracy theory says that the “Russian Armenia mafia” is running fake hospice centers in LA, and Gavin Newsom is taking legal action, as many of the businesses Oz highlights aren’t even hospice care.
SF News Super Bowl Drone Ban Declared at Several SF Locations, in Addition to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara It’s no surprise that drones are banned from the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium, but that ban has also been curiously extended to SF venues like the Ferry Building, the Moscone Center, and even Grace Cathedral.
SF News Man Charged With Attempted Murder Over Bizarre Car Chase That Almost Killed SFPD Officer in Oakland An SFPD officer assigned to Oakland was nearly killed on the job Tuesday, in an eventful car chase that featured a murder attempt, a wrong-way chase on I-580, and Oakland Police opening fire for reasons even they can’t explain.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Castro Theatre’s Long-Awaited New Organ Has Arrived Super Bowl tickets are hitting the event’s second-highest price ever; a Waymo hit an elementary school student in SoCal; and the Castro Theatre's much-anticipated new digital organ has arrived and will soon make its debut.
Arts & Entertainment Mission Cultural Center Abruptly Closes, Was Apparently Drowning in Red Ink Day of the Dead just won’t be the same without the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, but the 47-year-old arts space gave up the ghost Monday, and is now desperately trying to get an advance to continue existing in some form.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 168th Anniversary This Saturday, With $1.68 Jack Daniels Shots and More Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 168 years old on Saturday, and is celebrating with $1.68 Jack Daniels shots, free adobo, and a presentation on the restaurant's (often outlaw) 168-year history.
Business & Tech Giant Holographic Schlong on Muni Is Actually an AI Ad, Muni Yanks It From Circulation A real cock-up in the annals of Muni advertising, as users noted what appeared to be a holographic penis on the side of a bus, though it’s just an AI company ad that may have been approved willy-nilly.
SF Politics San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Declares He’s Running for Governor, Becomes Zillionth Democrat In the Race Yet another Democratic candidate has declared for the 2026 California Governor’s race, and the tech industry now has their favorite guy in the mix, with three-year San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan throwing his hat in the ring.
SF News Sup. Dorsey’s Latest Crusade Is to Hold Hearings Into Whether SF Drug Court Is Getting Too Lenient SF’s 30-year-old Drug Court was intended for non-violent drug offenders to avoid jail for low-level drug crimes. But now people with pretty violent charges are sneaking in, and Supervisor Matt Dorsey ain’t happy about it.
SF Politics SF Hosts Governor's Race Debate This Tuesday Night, at Bayview Opera House There’s just five months until we choose who will be the next California governor (or at least, have the primary election for that office), and six major candidates will be duking it out Tuesday night here in SF in a debate.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Cancels His Own $250 Million Deal to Save California Newspapers Just two years after Gavin Newsom brokered a $250 million deal with Google and Meta for them to help preserve the local newspapers that their business models have destroyed, Newsom himself is now dismantling the deal.
SF News Emeryville Protesters Storm Home Depot and Target to Pressure Them Against Cooperating With ICE Since Home Depot parking lots have become magnets for ICE arrests and deportations, a couple hundred protesters hit the Emeryville Home Depot Tuesday night to pressure the retailer to push back more against ICE.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Super Bowl Tickets Currently Going For a Minimum of $7,000 Apiece Turns out the Pac Heights mountain lion has been known to authorities for years; we’re learning that Tommy Lee Jones’s daughter was pregnant prior to her death; and next weekend’s Super Bowl tickets cost $7,000 minimum.
Business & Tech TikTok Users Claim Anti-Trump Posts Are Suddenly Being Censored, Gavin Newsom Vows Investigation After TikTok was sold to a cabal of Trump’s buddies and donors, users say their posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal are being buried with zero views, and now Gavin Newsom says the state will investigate.
Arts & Entertainment New Seth Rogen Movie That Was Shot in SF Gets Huge Ovation at Sundance, Sets Off Major Bidding War The new Seth Rogen movie that was shot in San Francisco is apparently quite good and got a standing ovation at Sundance, and now Hollywood studios are elbowing each other to buy the rights to what they think will be a huge hit.
SF News Extension of Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf Gets Its First City Hall Hearing Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to resurrect the old idea of extending the Central Subway out to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, but officials realize there’s no way this gets funded while Trump is still president.
SF News Early Morning Berkeley Fire Completely Destroys Warehouse in Gilman District The fire is now out, but a warehouse in Berkeley is now “completely destroyed” after a Tuesday morning fire ripped through the place, a fire that was visible from Interstate 80.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Triple-Murder Over East Oakland Liquor Store Pot Deal Gone Bad A 40-year-old man is charged with shooting and killing three people at the Sky Market corner store in Oakland's Woodland neighborhood, and the whole dispute was apparently an illicit marijuana deal gone wrong.
SF News Yes, ICE Says Their Agents Will Be All Over the Place at the Super Bowl In Santa Clara ICE may be bogged down in controversy for shooting and killing people in Minnesota, but they insist they’re not backing down on previously announced plans to have next weekend’s Santa Clara Super Bowl crawling with ICE agents.
SF News SF Crypto Baron and Political Megadonor Kicks Down $5 Million to Revitalize Tenderloin's Larkin Street Ripple Labs co-founder Chris Larsen is back with another splashy donation, this time $5 million for a plan to add new security gates to businesses on Larkin Street, plus to power-wash the sidewalks more and put up more lights.
SF News There’s Suddenly Talk of Extending the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf, Despite Muni’s Gigantic Deficit Who’s got the appetite for another billion-dollar transit overhaul that would tear up North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf with construction for years on end? Because the push to add more stops to the Central Subway begins today.
SF News SF Backs Off Plan to Landmark Noe Valley Church From the Movie ‘Sister Act,’ Because SF Archdiocese Doesn’t Want It Landmarked We’ve never seen an SF institution offered historical landmark status but then reject the offer, but the SF Catholic Archdiocese is fighting a landmark designation for their Noe Valley church featured in the movie ‘Sister Act.’
