SF News Two Unrelated, Fatal Drownings Occur Within an Hour of Each Other Sunday In Russian River The deceivingly strong underwater currents of Sonoma County’s Russian River tragically claimed two more lives Sunday afternoon in separate incidents in Monte Rio and Forestville, and one of the victims was a teenage boy.
SF News Video: Nutty Robbery Suspect Driver Dashes Wrong Way on Bay Bridge in July 4 Melee An alleged July 4 robbery in SF led to some fleeing suspects evading police, and SFPD just released wild drone video of the suspects trying to get away by driving the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge into oncoming traffic.
Business & Tech Good News for Union Square, as Bang & Olufsen Is Returning, in the Old Britex Fabrics Location Danish luxury electronics retailer Bang & Olufsen actually closed their Union Square store long before the pandemic and subsequent downtown SF downturn, but they're coming back this October in the former Geary Street Britex Fabrics space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Long-Stalled Reopening of Don Ramon’s Turns to Crowdfunding to Make Its Final Push The new incarnation of the longtime SoMa Mexican restaurant Don Ramon’s could be just months from opening at the Embarcadero Center, but only if longtime fans come through on a new crowdfunding campaign to help finance its buildout.
SF News Trump Administration Sues California, Claims We’re Driving Up the Price of Eggs The latest legal fight between Trump and California cracks open an argument that California’s anti-animal cruelty laws are responsible for spikes in egg prices, even though the price of eggs has stabilized since the bird flu emergency ended.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Want to Design One of Those ‘Hearts in SF?’ Here’s Your Chance That big NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway is this weekend; an immigrant activist who Trump jailed for 104 days is suing for $20 million; and this is your chance to design one of those famed “Hearts in San Francisco.”
SF News Sure Enough, SFO Not at All Receptive to Oakland Airport’s New Proposed ‘San Francisco' Name In their ongoing quest to put the words ‘San Francisco’ in their name, the Oakland airport recently floated the new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’ SFO officials have responded that they hate it, and they’re not pulling back their lawyers.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo’s Relentlessly Adorable Red Panda ‘Tenzing’ Has Died While the SF Zoo tries to bring in giant panda bears, the zoo’s tinier specimen of the Himalayan red panda, 12-year-old viral video star and crowd favorite Tenzing, passed away this week from apparent complications of a parasitic infection.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Warriors’ Jimmy Butler Opens Coffee Pop-Up In Former Lucca Ravioli, and Boy Is It an Instagram and Influencer Trap Would you wait in line for 45 minutes to pay $10 for a cup of coffee? Then you will love Bigface, Jimmy Butler’s celebrity-branded coffee pop-up that’s currently taking over the Square Corner Store in the former Lucca Ravioli space.
SF News Early Morning East Bay Freeway Gunfire Sends One Person to the Hospital Someone started firing shots at a Tesla 3 driver at about 12:30 am this morning on I-680 about five miles north of Danville, and while the driver took a bullet to the head, their injuries are relatively minor and they’re expected to survive.
SF News Embarcadero Plaza’s Maligned Brutalist Fountain Likely Done For, According to Rec and Parks Official It’s another rectangular tube in the coffin for the Embarcadero Plaza’s 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, as a top SF Rec and Parks official told an audience at a Tuesday night meeting that restoring the fountain is “beyond our project budget.”
Arts & Entertainment Former AMC Van Ness 1000 Movie Theater Reopens This Weekend as ‘Apple Cinemas Van Ness’ The movie theater chain Apple Cinemas has nothing to do with the Cupertino tech company Apple, but now they're in charge of resurrecting the old AMC 1000 Van Ness theater, and the movies start playing there Thursday.
SF News Multiple Law Enforcement Groups Raid SF Home Linked to Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Owner After last week’s Yolo County fireworks warehouse explosion killed seven people, an Inner Richmond home linked to the warehouse owner was raided Tuesday by SFPD, Yolo County Sheriff’s deputies, and the Sacramento Sheriff's Bomb Squad.
Arts & Entertainment A Sneak Peek at the Burning Man 2025 Art Projects (Which Are Not Even at Burning Man Yet) It’s still nearly two months until Burning Man even starts, but we can already get a look at the biggest art projects heading out to the desert. And some Burning Man tickets are still available, if you want to head out there with them.
SF News 15-Year-Old Antioch Teen Shot and Killed at July 4 Block Party In SF's Bayview Antioch 15-year-old Tyrell Washington was visiting SF’s Bayview District on July 4 to be with friends and family. He was among five people shot at a block party there, and he’s the only one who did not survive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Killed in Yolo County Fireworks Explosion Were SF Locals The latest corpse flower bloom is underway; Matt Haney’s ‘4 am Last Call’ bill might get killed by a committee chair; and two of the seven people killed in last week’s NorCal fireworks explosion had attended SF’s Buena Vista Horace Mann school.
Arts & Entertainment With Sadness, Oakland Zoo Forced to Put Down Longtime Fan Favorite Petting Yard Goat The Oakland Zoo’s aging petting yard goat Jellybean is off in the great petting zoo in the sky, as her arthritic condition became too much to bear, and the zoo "made the difficult decision" for July 3 to be her final day.
SF News ICE SUV Plows Through Protesters at SF Courthouse, as Protest Turns Ugly An especially brutal incident occurred at an SF immigration courthouse Tuesday morning, as protesters attempted to block an ICE SUV that was apparently transporting an arrested immigrant, and the SUV simply plowed its way through the demonstrators.
SF News San Leandro 18-Year-Old Released From Jail After Killing Girlfriend, Claims Shooting Was Accidental High school senior Angelo Ray was charged with murder for shooting and killing his 17-year-old girlfriend in May, but he claims the shooting was accidental, and a judge granted his release as he awaits trial.
SF News As Trump Hopes to Yank $4 Billion From California High-Speed Rail, State Looks for Private Funding The Trump administration says they’re pulling $4 billion in federal funding for California’s now-three-decade-old dream of an SF-to-LA high-speed rail system, and the project’s new leader is looking for ways to get investors to subsidize it.
SF Politics Elon Musk Declares He’s Starting a New Political Party, Tesla Promptly Loses $68 Billion In Value In One Day On Saturday, Elon Musk declared he was starting a new political party to declare war on both Democrats and Republicans. By the time the markets closed on the first business day after that, Tesla shareholders lost a collective $68 billion.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Haight Street Bar Hobson’s Choice to Be Resurrected as The Green Heron, From the Red Tail Wine Bar Team Something’s flying into the former Hobson’s Choice bar location at Haight and Clayton streets, a new concept called The Green Heron, from the same team behind SF’s two locations of The Red Tail Beer and Wine Bar.
SF News SF Overdose Deaths Back on the Rise, After an Encouraging Decline in 2024 The sharp decline in San Francisco overdose deaths in 2024 appears to be reversing itself in 2025, and the infusion of new synthetic opioids into the market has this year on pace to be SF’s deadliest year for overdoses since, well, 2023.
SF News SF City Hall Not at All Pleased With Those ‘Guerilla Benches’ That Some Renegades Placed at Bench-Less Muni Stops A month after a group of transit activists installed “guerilla benches” at SF bus stops that had no benches, the city’s Public Works Department says they will demand that these activists remove the unauthorized benches.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Getting a New Male Gorilla From the Louisville Zoo There will of course be SFPD DUI checkpoints this holiday weekend; yet another new SF block party debuts on July 4; and the SF Zoo is getting a new male gorilla to replace Oscar Jonesy who died in February.
