SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Busting Out Those Vintage Buses Again for Muni Heritage Weekend Those rain and lightning storms seem like they will miss the Bay Area; Jon Stewart is back on ‘The Daily Show’ tonight apparently to avenge Jimmy Kimmel; and the old-time buses and street cars are back for Muni Heritage Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment The New, Reborn Club Deluxe Gets City Hall Approval for Live Music Until 2AM, Seven Nights a Week The Upper Haight's old Club Deluxe had live music until 1 am on weekends, but the new forthcoming reborn Club Deluxe just won approval for bands to jam til 2 am, seven nights a week, though they probably won’t go that late.
SF News Apparent Murder Weapon Found in Burning Man Homicide, But Still No Suspects Identified The Pershing County, Nevada’s Sheriff’s Office says they’ve recovered a large knife they suspect is the murder weapon used to kill a 37-year-old Russian national at Burning Man, and that it was used to stab him in the neck.
SF News Tahoe Community Torn as State Plans to Euthanize Mama Bear That Keeps Breaking Into Homes A bear nicknamed “Hope” is slated for euthanization after a reported dozen incursions into people’s homes in just the last three months, but Tahoe bear activists are fighting back, while concerned about what will happen with Hope’s young cub.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Eliminated In Last-Minute, Nail-Biting One-Point Playoff Loss The Golden State Valkyries squandered a 17-point lead and ended up being eliminated in a one-point playoff loss Wednesday night — but the bigger embarrassment might belong to ESPN, whose announcers’ microphones died out through much of the fourth quarter.
SF News Three People Shot at Concord Parking Garage, Multiple Suspects Arrested An unexplained shooting in a Concord parking garage Tuesday night has left three people hospitalized, though Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies quickly identified and detained multiple suspects.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Must Win Playoff Game Tonight or Be Eliminated, Even as Coach Named WNBA Coach of the Year Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase was just named WNBA Coach of the Year Wednesday, but that is little consolation, as the Valkyries need to win tonight’s playoff game against the Minnesota Lynx or else their season is over.
SF News Man Who SF Medical Examiner Wrongly Declared Dead In 2021 Is Now, In Fact, Dead Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has in fact now died.
SF News UC Students and Administrators Sue Trump Administration Over So-Called ‘Antisemitism’ Purge While the UC system may be giving in on Trump’s attempt to turn the University of California into Trump U, students and faculty are taking up the fight, and have sued the administration to stop the university's defunding and blacklisting of activists.
SF News 15-Year-Old Shot on BART In Oakland; Freeway Shooting on I-580 an Hour Later Two unrelated shootings in Oakland Tuesday night, one on BART and another on I-580 near Mills College, have left a 15-year-old in critical condition, and a Ford Fiesta shot up with bullet holes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Trying to Sell TikTok to His Buddies at Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz Coachella has already announced its 2026 lineup; a survivor of the Napa crash is speaking out for the first time; and Trump is trying to engineer the sale of TikTok to basically some of his highest-rolling donors.
SF News Berkeley Suspect Allegedly Pulls Triple Hit-and-Run, Hitting Pedestrians, Bicyclist, and Another Car A suspect who is now in custody went on an apparent hit-and-run rampage in Berkeley Tuesday morning in an allegedly stolen car, hitting two pedestrians, a bicyclist, and then another car, before unsuccessfully attempting to carjack two other vehicles.
Business & Tech Waymo Gets Its First Baby-Step Approval to Give Rides to SFO, Cars Will Have Human Drivers at First Waymo’s race to provide airport rides to SF International Airport now has a very well-defined set of approved steps, as the company just got the green light to start testing rides to SFO with human drivers behind the wheel.
SF Politics The 'Recall Joel Engardio' Election is Today, and 30% Have Already Voted by Mail Polls are now open in the tiniest election San Francisco has ever held, as only District 4 voters can vote today on the measure to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio, the first ever recall attempt of a sitting San Francisco supervisor in history.
Business & Peter Thiel Thinks He Knows Who the Antichrist Is, Gives SF Lecture Several wealthy right-wing tech bros got to hear Peter Thiel speak at SF’s Commonwealth Club Monday evening on the topic of the Antichrist, which is a funny thing to claim to know about when you’ve got all manner of Jeff Epstein connections.
Arts & Entertainment That Union Square Pop Mart Opened Today, For All Your Labubu-Buying Needs Chinese designer toy sensation Pop Mart soft-opened their highly anticipated new Union Square store Monday in what was once the flagship Skechers store at Powell and O’Farrell streets, providing another option for people who want more Labubus.
SF News Community Remembers SF Father Stabbed and Killed Outside SF Elementary School Last Week SF community figures are offering their condolences to the family of 35-year-old Robert Byrd II, who was stabbed and killed last Wednesday afternoon near Commodore Sloat Elementary School after picking up his eight-year-old son from school.
Arts & Entertainment Mario Coming to SF Nintendo Store This Weekend, Should You Think That Merits Rearranging Your Social Calendar To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the “Super Mario Bros” video game, SF’s Union Square Nintendo Store is bringing in Mario this weekend, or rather, someone in a Mario mascot suit that you can take pictures with.
Bay Area Sports Short-Handed 49ers Manage Ugly 26-21 Win Over Saints in New Orleans, as Defense Bails Them Out Again Journeyman castoff backup quarterback Mac Jones proved he had just enough in him to beat a terrible team, as he led the 49ers to a 26-21 win over the New Orleans Saints that was still more of a nailbiter than it should have been.
Arts & Entertainment Vacant Haight Street Dispensary Space Now Home to Once-Bankrupt Marijuana Company Eaze The former Berner’s on Haight dispensary was Haight Street’s first legal dispensary, changed its name to Blaze on Haight, and then went out of business. Now it’s open again under the brand Eaze, who themselves declared bankruptcy earlier this year.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano 2025 Now Underway In Golden Gate Park, and Celebrating Its 10th Anniversary Twelve pianos are now placed in Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden to host more than 100 performers over the next two weekends, and it’s the 10th anniversary of this extraordinarily charming fall event.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Plan Narrowly Passes Planning Commission, Right Along Party Lines A ten-hour-long Planning Commission meeting allowed Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan to clear its first legislative hurdle on Thursday, but the SF Board of Supervisors seems primed to add a ton of amendments to the ambitious upzoning proposal.
SF News UC Berkeley Hands Feds List of 160 Allegedly ‘Anti-Semitic’ Students and Staff, in Total Capitulation to Trump After months of pressure from the Trump administration, UC Berkeley has handed the feds a list of 160 students and faculty accused of “anti-semitism,” with no detail on what merits this allegation, and it’s probably just Palestine protests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uh-Oh, Brock Purdy Is Injured, Could Be Out for Up to Five Weeks A dead body was found Thursday morning in the Berkeley Marina; an East Bay elementary school has a flea infestation; and Brock Purdy is out this Sunday and maybe longer with multiple injuries.
SF News Father of Man Killed at Burning Man Implores Trump and FBI to Intervene in Homicide Investigation Nearly two weeks after the suspected murder of a Russian national at Burning Man, the victim’s father in Russia is calling on President Trump and the FBI to get more involved with the seemingly stalled investigation.
