Arts & Entertainment Classic Kitsch Game Show ‘Hollywood Squares’ Roars on Stage This Weekend as ‘San Francisco Squares’ Lacy Camden leads a giant tic-tac-toe tower of local drag and nightlife stars in a warped reboot of the game show ‘Hollywood Squares,’ in Saturday night’s on-stage ‘San Francisco Squares’ where the cash and prizes all go to charity.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Island’s Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering Has Its 50th Anniversary Thursday It was 50 years ago this Thursday that San Francisco’s own annual ‘Unthanksgiving’ started on Alcatraz Island, and as always, this year’s sunrise ceremony will be streaming online if you can’t make it to Alcatraz at 6 am.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Panthers 20-9 In Monday Night Football Game Memorable Mostly Just for Nut-Punch Fight The 49ers easily manhandled a terrible Carolina Panthers team 20-9 on Monday Night Football, but everyone’s talking about a dirty punch to the unmentionables of Niners’ Jauan Jennings’s that set off a post-game fracas.
Business & Tech The Hilton Union Square and Parc55 Sold for $408 Million, Though Were Previously Worth $1.5 Billion We’re just now learning the sale price of a hotel deal that happened three months ago, and SF’s largest hotel the Hilton Union Square, plus the also-very-large Parc55, sold for $408 million, though they’d been worth $1.5 billion in 2016.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: How SF’s Cable Cars Get Decked Out With Their Holiday Decorations The “cable car elves” have struck again, and 12 SF cable cars are now resplendent in holiday razzle-dazzle, though it turns out this decoration job is done entirely by a team of volunteers.
Arts & Entertainment Vogue Theater Got Its Neon Sign Fully Restored, Public Lighting Ceremony Is Next Week Presidio Heights’ 119-year-old Vogue Theater has just had its marquee neon sign fully restored to its former glory, and will have a public lighting ceremony next Wednesday, December 3, followed by a free screening of the 1936 gem “San Francisco.”
SF News Obscure, 12-Year-Old Port of Oakland Coal Battle Could End Up Bankrupting City of Oakland The City of Oakland signed a development deal for a coal-shipping terminal in 2013, and then backed out over environmental protests. Now that’s coming back to haunt them, as legal rulings against their flip-flop could cost the city hundreds of millions.
SF News Proposal to Bring Semi Trucks Back to Oakland’s I-580 Rigs Controversy Across East Bay Semi trucks have not been allowed on Oakland’s I-580 in 74 years, as big rigs have had to take I-880 instead. Caltrans is considering undoing that policy, and everyone who lives anywhere near either interstate has an opinion about it.
SF News Meet the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ Baron of California, Who’s Influenced Housing Battles Statewide One developer in Beverly Hills has become the poster child for the “builder’s remedy” free-for-all in the current housing wars, but surprise surprise, he does not even intend to build the projects that he’s suing cities to get approved.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Hit With New Scandal of Officers Allegedly Taking Video of Women's Strip Searches Nearly 20 women just filed a claim against the city saying that SF Sheriff’s deputies recorded their strip searches on video while laughing, with some deputies even threatening to post the video online.
SF News SF’s Beleaguered Former Westfield Mall Now Actively Kicking Out Its Few Remaining Tenants A very small number of shops has scraped by to survive the death spiral of the mall known as the San Francisco Centre. But now the mall's new owners are reportedly kicking out those couple-few remaining stores, too.
SF Politics State AG Rob Bonta Dragged Back Into Sheng Thao Scandal, With Claims There Is ‘Compromising’ Video of Him A witness in the Sheng Thao investigation claims there is “compromising” video tying state Attorney General Rob Bonta into the whole mess, which may be a hogwash claim, but Bonta has spent about $500,000 on lawyers to defend himself.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Giving Up All of Its Remaining Chimpanzees Trump’s DOJ probe into Adam Schiff might be falling apart; we’ve now got solid national weather forecasts for Thanksgiving week travel; and the SF Zoo will become chimp-less as they lose their last three chimpanzees.
Arts & Entertainment Mammoth Mountain Opens Ski Season, But Heavenly, Boreal, and Northstar Just Delayed Their Openings Mammoth Mountain opened its ski resort today, and Mount Rose opens Friday, but a slew of Tahoe ski resorts have pushed back their openings indefinitely because there’s just not enough snow at the moment.
Business & Tech DoorDash Wins Its Appeal to Test Food Delivery Drones in the Mission, and the Teamsters Aren’t Happy Delivery platform DoorDash bought a warehouse at 16th and Folsom to test delivery drones, but the Teamsters challenged their permit on zoning grounds. Now the drones will fly, after the SF Board of Appeals shot down the Teamsters' appeal.
Bay Area Sports Don’t Look Now, But There’s a Giant Floating Soccer Field In San Francisco Bay With the National Women’s Soccer League Championship looming on Saturday in San Jose, the league is trying to make waves of publicity with a floating soccer field on a container ship that’s currently stationed in San Francisco.
SF Politics Lurie’s Reported ‘Short List’ for District 4 Supervisor Appointment Becomes Public After the bungled Beya Alcaraz appointment for District 4 supervisor, Mayor Lurie reportedly has a short list of candidates he’s considering as the new replacement, and thankfully, they are all more experienced than his last pick.
SF News Martinez Mother Accused of Stabbing and Killing Her Own 19-Year-Old Daughter There was a fatal stabbing Tuesday afternoon at a Martinez apartment complex, and police say that a 36-year-old woman stabbed and killed her 19-year-old daughter after “a physical altercation.”
SF News ICE Agents Show Up Near West Oakland Elementary School, Resulting in Car Chase and Irate Parents Parents dropping off their kids at Hoover Elementary School got a rude surprise in the form of ICE agents in the vicinity, with a car chase and crash resulting, and now the parents are banding together to prevent any ICE arrests.
SF News Jack London Square Loosens Zoning to Attract More Businesses, and They’ve Already Got a Dave & Buster’s Coming There’s long been a rule that businesses at Jack London Square can only be those for tourists or maritime pursuits. The zoning is now changed for businesses that appeal to locals, in hopes of reviving the plaza.
SF Politics Very Wealthy But Completely Uncharismatic Tom Steyer Now Running for California Governor A crowded field to replace Gavin Newsom in the 2026 governor’s elections just got more crowded, as SF’s own liberal billionaire Tom Steyer has joined the race, in an announcement where he declares, “Bullsh*t, man!”
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Video of Them Shooting A Dog and Its Owner in Union Square Melee After officers shot an aggressive dog and its owner on the afternoon of Sunday, November 9, the SFPD has released bodycam footage of what led up to the shooting, and how the suspect threw a plastic bottle at officers after they shot his dog.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergey Brin’s Blimp Shows Up Over SF Skies Again Tuesday SF Sketchfest has released its 2025 lineup; Lurie’s “family zoning” plan is getting an easy run through committees; and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s big, inflated airship had San Franciscans looking at the skies and scratching their heads again today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now the Fillmore Has Its Own Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone,’ Where To-Go Cocktails Are Good To Go As booze-filled “entertainment zones” where people can buy to-go cocktails spread across San Francisco, now the Fillmore has one too, or rather, it has one big entertainment zone and another small one.
Business & Tech Tesla Human Robotaxi Driver Falls Asleep at the Wheel While Driving Passenger, Video Goes Viral Tesla robotaxis currently have human drivers while the company gets its permissions worked out, but one SF Tesla robotaxi rider saw their human driver fall asleep at the wheel multiple times on their ride.
