Arts & Entertainment

Big Outdoor House Music Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Returns to Golden Gate Park Saturday

Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Ibiza and Burning Man on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream brings back its outdoor, daytime house music party with DJ Lee Burridge.

SF Politics

Breed and Supervisors Arguing Publicly After Committee Rejects Breed’s Police Commission Pick

With two of Mayor Breed’s nominees for the Police Commission up for a vote, a Board of Supervisors committee rejected Breed’s pick Debra Walker, setting off Twitter spats between the mayor and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, but the full board will have the final say on this.

Bay Area Sports

Oakland Ballers Have First Woman Pitcher to Start Game in League History, Which Results In Win

Anything you can do, yadda yadda yadda… Oakland Ballers pitcher Kelsie Whitmore became the first woman to start a game in the history of the club’s minor-league Pioneer League, and the end result was a 9-8 victory.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Trumpers Descend on SF for Rally, Met by Inflatable Trump Chicken

We now know where that Union Square Nintendo store is going to be; San Franciscans are suddenly smoking less weed than they have in years; and MAGA masses are in the Marina to cheer on Trump — but they’re met by a giant Trump Chicken in a prison jumpsuit.

SF News

New State Legislation Targets Street Vendors Selling Stolen Goods, Permitted Vendors Are All For It

The latest attempt at a crackdown on illegal street vending is a law that hopes to separate the legal, permitted vendors from the folks just selling stolen stuff, and the legal vendors on Mission Street say it’s a step in the right direction.

Arts & Entertainment

Juanita MORE! Hosting Pride Month Fundraiser Friday at Saks Fifth Avenue, Has Now Raised $1 Million in Charitable Donations

The fashion of Mr. David Couture and the fashion icon Juanita MORE! will hold a free fundraiser for LYRIC this Friday at SF’s Saks Fifth Avenue, as Juanita has now raised a staggering $1 million for local charities over the last 30 years.

SF Politics

Tonight’s SF Trump Fundraiser Shows the MAGA-fication of So-Called ‘Moderates’

Bay Area VC billionaires and podcast bros will roll out the red carpet for convicted felon Donald Trump Thursday night at a Pacific Heights fundraiser, a sign of the increasing commingling of political “moderates” with full-on Trumpers.

Arts & Entertainment

‘Full House’ House Back on the Market, Asking $6.5 Million

Oh mylanta! The Lower Pac Heights house that served as the exterior of the household on famed sitcom ‘Full House’ is back on the market for $6.5 million, and apparently they’ll throw in vintage concrete slabs that have Bob Saget and John Stamos’s handprints on them, for an undisclosed extra price.

Business & Tech

Sigh, Someone’s Trying to Do This NFT-Only Club and Workspace Thing Again, Calling It a ‘Crypto Sanctuary’

Despite the collapse of the so-called “NFT restaurant” that was supposed to come to Salesforce Transit Center, and the broader flame-out of the NFT and Web3 boondoggles, someone still thinks that an NFT-only members club in SoMa can appeal beyond a shrinking subset of crypto bros.

Arts & Entertainment

‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ at the Victoria Theatre Is an Absolute Pride Month Gem

The acclaimed LBGTQ musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ finally gets its San Francisco run at the Victoria Theatre, with Katya Smirnoff-Skyy in a hilarious and crowd-pleasing Pride Month production.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Lower Haight Bar The Page Gets Their Live Music Permit, Despite Neighbors’ Noise Objections

The happy hour live shows at The Page will continue, as the SF Entertainment Commission granted the bar a Limited Live Performance permit on Tuesday — though a few neighbors showed up to complain that the music is too damned loud.

SF News

11-Year-Old Girl Identified as Victim of Fatal Memorial Day Drowning In Alameda Creek

A child drowned in Alameda Creek on Memorial Day, and despite the efforts of the first responders, that child died at the hospital. We’re now learning she was 11-year-old Dana Nino Gonzalez.

SF News

Very Hot Day Around the Bay: All of the Berkeley Falcon Chicks Have Now Started Flying

Today’s heat wave is likely to continue into Wednesday; a free grocery store is coming to the Bayview District; and all four of this year’s rapidly growing Berkeley falcon chicks have now taken flight.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

New Bar in the Former Home of The Uptown Delayed in Light of Owner’s ‘Serial Evictor’ Past

There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.

Bay Area Sports

Brand New Baseball Team the Oakland Ballers Play Their Debut Home Opener Tonight

Play ball, Ballers! Oakland’s new minor-league baseball team is causing some major excitement in West Oakland, as the Oakland Ballers prepare for their Tuesday night home opener at Raimondi Field.

SF News

Car Fire in Caldecott Tunnel Snarls East Bay Traffic, Closes Parts of the Tunnel for Hours

It was tough driving in Orinda on Tuesday after a car caught on fire in the Caldecott Tunnel, causing the closure of the tunnel’s two eastbound bores and leaving many motorists stuck inside.

SF News

Person Stabbed on Muni Monday at 18th and Mission Streets, Suspect Still at Large

There was a stabbing Monday afternoon shortly before 4 pm on a Muni bus in the Mission District, and while the victim does not face life-threatening injuries, the suspect has not been apprehended.

SF News

CFO of Shen Yun-Affiliated Media Outlet Arrested for $67 Million Money-Laundering Scheme

Just days after Trump was found guilty, the CFO of the far-right newspaper Epoch Times was arrested and charged in a $67 million money-laundering crypto scam. The Epoch Times, of course, promotes and helps fund the ubiquitously advertised propaganda musical Shen Yun.

SF News

Bird Flu Has Arrived In SF; Two Chickens Test Positive, Traces of Virus Found In Wastewater

The seemingly distant-sounding threat of H5N1 avian flu is now a reality here in San Francisco, as two chickens at a local live market have tested positive for the virus, and traces of it were detected in SF’s wastewater.

SF News

Hit-and-Run Disrupts Walnut Creek Farmers’ Market; Two Critically Injured, Suspect Arrested

An early Sunday morning hit-and-run sent two people to the hospital with critical injuries and canceled this weekend's Walnut Creek Farmers’ Market, but the suspect driver has been arrested, and the market will return as usual next Sunday.

SF News

Muni Workers Might Go On Strike This Summer as Union Rejects Proposed Contract

Well, this could shake up the mayoral race, as well as ruining everyone’s commute possibly as soon as July, as the union of Muni operators, fare inspectors, and mechanics has rejected their new proposed labor agreement and might go on strike this summer.

Arts & Entertainment

San Francisco Has Lost Its Bid for the Sundance Film Festival

Sorry, movie star fans, but the exceedingly glamorous Sundance Film Festival will not be held in San Francisco in 2027, as our bid to be the festival’s new home was rejected.

SF Politics

We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17

After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.

Arts & Entertainment

Sup. Engardio Touts New SF July 4 Parade, Which Would Not Be on July 4, But Instead on Pride Weekend

District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is announcing plans to bring a Fourth of July parade to SF this year. Predictably, it’s in his district, but unpredictably, it’s five days before July 4, and overlapping with Pride Weekend.

SF News

SFPD Has ‘Possible Suspect’ In Case of Dog Walker Whose Home Burned After Racist Threats

Police say they’ve executed two search warrants and have a “possible suspect” in connection to an Alamo Square dog walker who’d received racist threats prior to his house burning, though it’s unclear whether these leads are concerning the threats, the house fire, or both.