SF News Day Around the Bay: 78-Year-Old Pedestrian Hit and Killed by Driver in SoMa A wrong-way and alleged DUI crash took one life near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; legendary SF sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster is suspending operations; and a two-block radius in SoMa is seeing a lot of pedestrian fatalities.
SF News SFUSD Payroll Snafus Still Abound, Despite $20 Million New Payroll System The new school year is looking at a terrible start for SF teachers and school employees who might actually hope to get paid on time, as the district’s new $20 million payroll system is botching and missing paychecks right out of the gate.
Business & Tech Video: SF Man Climbs on Top of Waymo, Beats It With His Belt, Eventually Smashes Windshield A South of Market pedestrian made his feelings known about a self-driving Waymo this week, climbing onto the vehicle’s hood, beating the automobile with his belt, and eventually smashing its windshield (because he was standing on it).
SF News BART To San Jose Project Seems to Be Settling on Single-Tunnel, or ‘Single-Bore’ Design The latest update on the BART to San Jose project of course comes with more cost overruns and time delays, but transit officials say a single-tunnel design would involve fewer cost overruns and time delays than a double-tunnel design.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries ‘Egg’ Hatches, Out Comes Their New Muppet-Like Mascot Violet Mahna Mahna! Your WNBA Golden State Valkyries busted out their new mascot Violet at Monday night’s game, and this very Muppet-resembling mascot is capable of doing the splits and back handsprings.
SF News Local Health Emergency Declared In Yolo County Town That Had Fireworks Warehouse Explosion Yolo County officials are warning residents that the remaining ash and debris from last month’s deadly fireworks warehouse blaze could still be hazardous, and have declared a local health emergency while they sift through that rubble.
SF Politics Former SF City Hall Official Harlan Kelly Appeals His Corruption Conviction, From Prison Having served about one year of his four-year prison sentence, former SF Public Utilities Commission general manager Harlan Kelly is appealing his conviction for City Hall fraud and lying on a bank loan application.
SF News Brother of Notorious SF Social Media Figure Ricci Wynne Also Arrested on Human Trafficking Charges Just nine months ago, right-wing SF social media personality “Raw Ricci” Wynne was arrested on pimping and pandering charges. Now his younger brother is also facing human trafficking, pimping, and pandering charges in San Francisco.
SF News Much of Bay Area Lagging Far Behind Even SF on State-Mandated Housing Goals It’s no secret that San Francisco is falling short of its state-mandated housing goals, having permitted only 5% of what new state requirements demand. But many cities across the Bay Area are doing worse, and struggling to hit just 1% or 2%.
SF News One Killed, Another Injured In Crash on I-280 In San Francisco A man was killed and a woman severely injured when their car went off the road and crashed into a median Saturday morning, going southbound on Interstate 280 in SF near the Cesar Chavez Street exit.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2025 Day Two: Karl the Fog Gives Tyler, the Creator and Vampire Weekend Magical Lighting Effects Chalk one up for the lighting crew at Outside Lands, as they turned Saturday night’s thick fog into a canvas for some surreal and mesmerizing lighting effects for Tyler, the Creator, Gesaffelstein, Vampire Weekend, and “Yeah!,” even Ludacris.
SF Politics AWOL Texas Democrats Huddling With Newsom, Pelosi in Sacramento to Discuss Redistricting Some of the Texas Democratic elected officials who’ve left their state in hopes of thwarting Trump’s redistricting plans are now in California, talking strategy with Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi.
SF News Video: Influencer Bro Gets Caught Vaping on SFO-Bound Flight, Claims He Was ‘Assaulted’ When Busted A self-described “AI Expert and Celebrity Pickleball Coach” got popped vaping in the bathroom of an SFO-bound flight Monday, and then promptly berated the flight attendant, claiming, “You assaulted me!"
SF News Lifelong Grateful Died Fan Died From Medical Emergency While Dancing at Sunday Night’s Dead & Company Show A 54-year-old Michigan man who was visiting San Francisco to see Dead & Company last weekend experienced a sudden medical emergency during the show, and passed away shortly thereafter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yolo County Casino Suffers Tuberculosis Exposure Jilted Philz Coffee employees will get some sort of bonus after all with the company’s sale; upzoning notices are set to rankle SF’s west side; and Cache Creek casino has had some tuberculosis exposure.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Put Giant Purple Egg Outside Chase Center, In Apparent Marketing Ploy A four-foot-tall, Valkyries-purple egg appeared in front of the Chase Center Thursday morning, and the team is playing coy about what is obviously some marketing stunt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Is Getting One of Those Boozy Taco Bell Cantina Locations Great news for fans of Taco Bell and/or alcohol, as a booze-serving Taco Bell Cantina is coming to Fisherman’s Wharf, in the former Chipotle space in the Anchorage Square shopping center.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces Livestream Schedule, and Yes, Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator Will Be Streamed You can still catch this weekend’s Outside Lands sets of Tyler, the Creator, Hozier, Doja Cat, and a lot more, even if you’re not going to Outside Lands, as the festival will be livestreaming those sets on Twitch and Amazon Prime.
SF News New Sea Lion Disease Outbreak In Pacific Ocean This Year Killing Animals, and Also Threatening Dogs Bay Area sea lions are getting sick at a very high rate this year with a disease that is transmissible to people's pets, and the disease called leptospirosis is currently transmitting among sea lions at "unheard-of" levels.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rainbow Grocery Gearing Up to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary Next Weekend SF’s favorite worker-owned co-op grocery store is about to ring in its 50th anniversary, and the nutritional yeast will be flying at Rainbow Grocery’s 50th anniversary block party next Sunday in SoMa.
SF News Monday’s Early Morning Outer Sunset Raid Linked to Oregon Stolen iPhone Ring An odd development in Monday morning’s 3 am raid of an alleged illegal nightclub suspected of hosting drugs and sex crimes, as one of those arrested had been wanted by the feds for gunpoint robberies of iPhone shipments in Oregon.
Bay Area Sports A Rash of Dildos Have Been Thrown Onto the Court During Valkyries Games, and Players Have Had It Not one but two Golden State Valkyries games have been disrupted by fans throwing dildos onto the court in the past week, and a third WNBA dildo-tossing incident Tuesday night has the league talking about stiff penalties.
Business & Tech Report: Uber Has Sexual Assaults Reported on the Platform Every Eight Minutes A new exposé into the sexual assault problem on Uber shows that an assault is reported by an Uber driver or passenger every eight minutes, and that the company has intentionally been dragging its feet on letting women request women drivers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire in Benicia Shuts Down Many Lanes of I-680 Francis Ford Coppola has been hospitalized with a heart issue; experts say AI has already eliminated 10,000 jobs in 2025; and a three-alarm grass fire managed to shut down both directions of traffic of I-680 in Benicia.
Business & Tech Apple Sues the New Apple Cinemas at 1000 Van Ness, Claiming Trademark Infringement Not even one month after the movie theater chain Apple Cinemas took over the vacant 1000 Van News theater, the computer company Apple, Inc. is suing them over their name, saying that it’s meant to deceive consumers.
