Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers 2025 Fills SF Streets With Much Whimsy, Terrific Costumes, Quite a Few Keg-Stands There were a great many popes and many alcohol-related costumes at Sunday’s 112th running of the booze-bags known as Bay to Breakers, but a renegade, SF-themed pop-up restaurant called “Full House of Prime Rib” stole the show.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Claims That Aaron Peskin Is Somehow Orchestrating the Recall Joel Engardio Campaign Strange new drama as the Recall Joel Engardio campaign enters the final days of its signature-gathering, as State Senator Scott Wiener claims that Aaron Peskin is secretly running the recall. Peskin responds that “Scott Wiener is full of sh**.”
SF News Noe Valley Jokesters Want to Secede from SF and Join Marin County Instead A new Change.org petition is floating the idea of Noe Valley seceding from San Francisco and instead incorporating into Marin County, though this petition does not do much to explain the motivation here, and obviously this makes very little geographic sense.
SF Politics Retired Judge Totally at War With DA Brooke Jenkins, Files Appeal In Her Ethics Judgment Two people who filed ethics charges against SF DA Brooke Jenkins for improperly accessing sensitive information got Jenkins sentenced into a diversion program, and now they’re both appealing that sentence, saying Jenkins deserves a harsher punishment.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Debut at Chase Center Tonight, Boast the Most Expensive Game of the WNBA Season The expansion WNBA team the Golden State Valkyries are already setting sales records despite not even having played a game yet, but they play their first real regular season game tonight at the Chase Center.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Here’s Nicolas Cage Playing Raiders Coach John Madden in the 1970s NorCal wildfire season could kick up this weekend; a whimsical transit nerd speed-rode the entire Muni light-rail line; and here’s Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale as John Madden and Al Davis in a new movie.
SF News SF City Hall Approves Mission Apartment Building, Despite Outrage That Landlord Is Profiting Off Fatal Fire The site of a deadly 2015 fire at Mission and 22nd streets has sat vacant and swampy for ten years, but the landlord whose neglect allegedly caused that fire has been rewarded with permission to build a fancier and more lucrative 10-story replacement.
Arts & Entertainment A 2025 Bay to Breakers Preview for People Who Plan to Be Partying Sunday brings the 112th annual ‘running of the drunks’ known as Bay to Breakers. Here are some tips to prepare a solid costume, conceal your booze, and quickly find liquor stores when you’re out way deep in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Union Square Nintendo Store Opens to Huge Crowds, and Mascot Animals Crossing All Over the Place Today was the long-awaited opening day of the new San Francisco Nintendo Store in Union Square, and it was on like Donkey Kong as many video game fans and their favorite mascots hedgehogged the spotlight.
SF Politics 39-Year-Old Bernie Bro Challenging Nancy Pelosi for Her SF Congressional Seat in 2026 Former Silicon Valley engineer and one-time AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti is lodging a longshot bid for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, with a sizable personal fortune, but very little name recognition.
Arts & Entertainment SF Night Market Mania in Full Swing, Both Cole Valley and Castro Have Night Markets This Weekend The night market frenzy that’s sweeping San Francisco has one of those double-shot weekends on the horizon, with Cole Valley Nights on Thursday, and the Castro Night Market on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Transamerica Pyramid Opens Time Capsule That’s Been Secretly Hiding There for 50 Years The Transamerica Pyramid just opened a time capsule of historical SF antiquities from its early days in 1974, including relics showing how much people hated it at the time, and you can check out these artifacts for yourself starting Sunday.
SF News SF DA Charges Man Who Allegedly Had an Entire Kilo of Fentanyl In His Car There are drug dealers, and then there are people who are rocking a whole kilogram of fentanyl in the Tenderloin. One of those alleged kilo-holders is now jailed and facing charges, and is also accused of having huge volumes of heroin and meth.
SF News Supervisor Calls For Hearings Into Whatever’s Going On at Beleaguered SF Parks Alliance The cancellation of the free movies in the park series may just be the tip of the iceberg of the financial problems of the SF Parks Alliance, and Sup. Shamann Walton is calling for hearings into why the group doesn’t seem to have money it should have.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Has 4-1 Money Advantage to Fight the Recall, and the Recall’s Head Organizer Just Quit The same recall fever that Joel Engardio rode into office could still boot him out, as the recallers say they’re “on track” to make the ballot. But the recall’s main organizer just quit, and Engardio has big donations from local tech founders and CEOs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rattlesnake Advisories Issued for East Bay Parks Glide’s lunch with Marc Benioff auction is back for 2025; a Bay Area rapper has won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest; and the East Bay Regional Park District is warning to be on the lookout for rattlesnakes.
Business & Tech Google Agrees to Pay $50 Million Settlement In Racial Discrimination Lawsuit A group of nearly 4,000 current and former Black Google employees will split a $50 million pot after the online search giant agreed to that settlement in a lawsuit that alleges Black employees were paid lower wages and denied promotions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Pizza, Bagel, & Beer Festival Back in North Beach This August, Tickets Now on Sale SF’s favorite belly-busting beer bust is back this August, as the third annual SF Pizza, Bagel, Beer Festival returns to North Beach on August 16, and tickets — which always sell out — just went on sale.
SF Politics SF Planning Department Director Rich Hillis Resigns, May Have Been Nudged Out by Lurie Another high-level SF City Hall department head bites the dust in the Lurie administration, as Planning Department director Rich Hillis resigns after five years of steering the department through COVID and the Housing Element process.
SF News Report: One-Third of All California Prisoners Released Early During COVID Ended Up Back In Prison A new analysis tracks what became of California prison inmates released early during the COVID outbreaks of 2020 and 2021, and finds that just over 30% of them committed crimes again and found themselves back in prison.
SF News Presidio Terrace Senior Home on the Market for $58 Million, Could Become Large Development While there is no buyer announced yet for the shuttered six-acre St. Anne’s Home senior care facility, there’s plenty of interest in the property, and Inner Richmond residents may be gearing up for a fight over the size of whatever goes there next.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hemlock Tavern Space Slated to Reopen as Nightclub XeX Now seven years since the Hemlock Tavern closed and its building was torn down and rebuilt, a new techno-and-karaoke space called XeX (pronounced “ex,” which...?) will open there with two separate floors of nightlife.
SF News Newsom Calls on California Cities to Flat-Out Ban Homeless Encampments Governor Gavin Newsom is once again ramping up the rhetoric to try to get California cities to be more aggressive around clearing street encampments, but this time says he’ll be handing cities money for more shelter and services.
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Lined Up to Play In Golden Gate Park for Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Mayor Lurie made a big ripple with a Monday morning announcement that Dead & Co. will be playing a three-show weekend in Golden Gate Park August 1-3, which will now be the main event of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations.
Bay Area Sports Minnesota Fan Ejected After Two Racial Epithets Hurled at Draymond Green During Thursday’s Warriors Game Not one but two Minnesota fans yelled racist remarks at Draymond Green during Thursday's game, one getting ejected and the other high-tailing it out of the arena when security came at him, adding more tension to this playoff series.
