Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday to Rock Out the Mission District with Lo-Fi Magic The seventh annual DIY “front porch” music festival SF Porchfest brings 74 live acts to 13 stages (well, porches) in the Mission District on Saturday, in what will be the biggest SF Porchfest ever held.
SF News Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect, Though He Likely Won’t Be Executed The San Mateo County District Attorney said in court Tuesday that he’s seeking the death penalty for accused Half Moon Bay mass shooter Chunli Zhao, though this is mostly a symbolic move, as the state doesn't execute people anymore.
SF News 40-Minute East Bay Highway Patrol Car Chase Tuesday Went All the Way From San Ramon to Milpitas The California Highway Patrol’s Contra Costa division was kept busy Tuesday afternoon with another high-speed car chase that went on for 40 minutes, though this one fortunately did not end with any deadly consequences or injuries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Drops a New NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Bay Area Goes Nuts An Antioch grandfather pleaded not guilty in that shooting death of his toddler grandson; Meta is buying a bunch of nuclear power to run its AI; and E-40 proves he’s absolutely still got it in his new NPR Tiny Desk concert with an eight-piece band.
Arts & Entertainment Hollywood Making a Movie About That OpenAI Sam Altman Firing Drama, and It Will Be Partially Shot In SF The movie industry trade publications are buzzing that SF will be the backdrop of a forthcoming movie about Sam Altman getting fired and rehired at OpenAI, and it’s likely going to be a comedy starring Andrew Garfield.
SF News Pete Hegseth Orders the Navy to Strip Harvey Milk’s Name Off Naval Ship The US Navy’s oiler ship known as the USNS Harvey Milk was christened in 2016, but Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ordering Milk’s name stripped off the ship, and he’s reportedly doing this during Pride Month on purpose to enrage people.
SF News Crypto Mogul Chris Larsen Kicking Down Nearly $10 Million to SFPD for More Surveillance Efforts Ripple Labs and its co-founder Chris Larsen are trying to kick down a $9.4 million gift to the SFPD in the form of drones and surveillance gadgets, a new “surveillance gadget” coordinating center, and an apparent $2 million video wall.
SF News SF Parks Alliance Shutting Down, As Millions of Dollars In Other Groups’ Money They Were Holding Has Disappeared The show’s over for that nonprofit that organized free movie screenings in SF parks, as the SF Parks Alliance has reportedly decided to dissolve amidst a criminal investigation and the allegation that they’d mismanaged millions of dollars.
SF News Oakland Elementary School Mortified as Racial Slur Ends Up in Children's Yearbook The PTA at Oakland's Montclair Elementary School is frantically trying to undo the damage, as their new and just-released yearbook contains a pretty outrageous racial slur from a reprinted 1940s-era newspaper clipping.
SF News SFPD Makes an Arrest in Last Month’s Outer Richmond Hit-and-Run That Injured a Five-Year-Old Both a mother and her five-year-old child were hospitalized after a hit-and-run driver collided with them on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, but now a 35-year-old suspect is in custody.
SF News Surfer Lives to Tell After Shark Attacks His Surfboard In San Mateo County A Saturday afternoon shark attack at San Mateo County’s Montara State Beach has left a surfboard ruined, but the surfer himself was able to avoid getting bitten, and the beach was closed off for the remainder of the weekend.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Talks Retirement Plans: Maybe PGA Tour, Maybe TV Analyst, Maybe NBA Team Ownership The 37-year-old Stephen Curry probably has a couple more years of basketball left in the tank, but just gave an interview about his potential retirement plans, and how he’ll still be a prominent figure in the sports world.
SF News Sunday Night’s La Onda Headliner Had to Cancel Because Trump Administration Revoked Their Visas Two bands, including Sunday night’s headliner Grupo Firme, were forced to cancel their sets at this weekend’s La Onda festival in Napa, because the Trump administration denied their visas over claims their music “glorifies cartel violence.”
Bay Area Sports NBA Community in Mourning, as Klay Thompson’s Dog Has Died A melancholy ‘happy trails’ to Klay Thompson’s 13-year-old English bulldog Rocco, who has unfortunately gone on to that great splash puddle in the sky, though does so with a legacy of 61,800 Instagram followers.
SF News Lurie Announces $100,000 Contest to ‘Reimagine’ Market Street, Maybe With More Waymos or Something Mayor Daniel Lurie just announced a $100,000 prize to “reimagine” Market Street, though it may have helped if he had actually announced this more than six days before the contest's deadline.
SF News As Oakland Schools Superintendent Steps Down, Controversies Rage Over Alleged Threats of Violence The Oakland Unified School District school year has closed on one hell of a note, with a superintendent dismissed with no explanation, and allegations that a teachers' union official threatened a principal by saying she would “fucking beat her ass.”
SF News Bombshell Report Says Elon Musk Was Using Copious Amount of Drugs While In Trump's Orbit Blaze one up to check out the biggest scandal of the day, as the New York Times has an exhaustive new exposé on how Elon Musk was hopped up on ketamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and Adderall on the Trump campaign, and maybe in the White House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those SF Dead & Co Tickets Go on Sale Friday Morning SF Pride has cobbled together a few new sponsors amidst their mass sponsor retreat, the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are tonight, and those Dead and Company Golden Gate Park concert tickets go on sale at 10 am sharp Friday morning.
SF News Trump Administration Goes After Fresno-Area Track and Field Competition Over Trans Athlete Heading into this weekend’s State Track and Field Championships, the California Interscholastic Federation made a rule change to appease the Trump administration’s furor over a trans athlete being allowed to participate.
SF News One Person Dead After Wednesday Night High-Speed CHP Chase in Oakland In an incident that will surely fan the flames of the debate over high-speed police chases, one pedestrian is dead after California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a high-speed chase near Lake Merritt Wednesday night.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: That Square ‘Corner Store’ Has Opened in the Former Lucca Ravioli SFUSD has backtracked on a controversial new grading system; the fired Oakland schools superintendent is speaking out; and we have our first look at the Square pop-up that just opened in the old Lucca Ravioli space.
SF News There’s a Scary New COVID Variant, and Stanford Scientists Say It’s Already in California New COVID variant just dropped, one which has apparently wrought a fair amount of sickness in China, and researchers say it’s already been in California for a month. We’ll see how the new anti-vaxx leaders in Washington, DC handle this one.
SF News A Year After Murder of 19-Year-Old Lowell Grad In Dolores Park, One Suspect Arrested The community mourned last June when recent Lowell High grad Luis Arguello Inglis was shot and killed in Dolores Park. Now a year later, a suspect has been arrested and is in custody.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Layoffs Hit Amusement Parks Great America and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom A corporate takeover is raising fears at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat; Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX launch failed to launch; and a bunch of management is getting laid off at two of the Bay Area’s biggest amusement parks.
SF News Bernal Heights All Aflutter Over Family of Owls Who’ve Moved In A family of great horned owls is nesting atop a pretty visible tree in Bernal Heights, and the growing young owlets have become a neighborhood sensation.
