SF News ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Murder Suspect Found Not Guilty of Murder, Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter The man caught on video shoving 84-year-old "Grandpa Vicha" Ratanapakdee to his death in 2021 has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter — but not murder, likely meaning a much shorter prison sentence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Will Be Cutting Many SF Residents’ Power on Monday and Tuesday SFPD will have DUI checkpoints out after Saturday’s 49ers game, Mayor Lurie wants to cram DBI, Planing, and Permitting all into one department; and PG&E might be cutting your power early Monday or Tuesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Mosswood Meltdown Announces 2026 Lineup, Iggy Pop and Bikini Kill Are Headliners John Waters’s summertime punk-rock hoedown Mosswood Meltdown will return for a 17th year, this time with ageless wonder Iggy Pop topping Saturday’s bill, riot grrls Bikini Kill headlining Sunday, and the Dead Milkmen in the mix too.
SF News New Modular Bathroom Just Dropped in Precita Park, at Tiny Fraction of the Cost of $1.7 Million Noe Valley Toilet SF has finally figured out how to put affordable bathrooms in parks after that $1.7 million Noe Valley toilet fiasco, plopping down a new modular bathroom in Precita Park whose price tag is quite reasonable.
Arts & Entertainment Huge Free Bob Weir Memorial Scheduled for Saturday Afternoon at Civic Center Grateful Dead fans are going to need a lot more roses this weekend, as there’s going to be a massive, free public memorial gathering for the late, great Bobby Weir on Saturday afternoon starting at 12:45 pm at Civic Center Plaza.
SF News Deadly Bacterial Infection Breaks Out at Berkeley Homeless Encampment, Kills Two Dogs Berkeley residents are now going to have to learn about a deadly bacterial disease called leptospirosis, which has broken out at an encampment there and already killed two dogs, and it could also spread to and kill humans.
Business & Tech JP Morgan Conference Goes Full Woke and DEI, Women Executives in Pink Suits Flash-Mob Union Square The JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is back in town, and while biotech executives are 80% men, a renegade group of women executives took over Union Square in so many pink pantsuits it would have made Mary Tyler Moore proud.
SF Politics ‘Cars Back on the Great Highway’ Crowd at It Again, Vows Another Do-Over Ballot Measure on November 3 Less than 24 hours after D4 Supervisor Alan Wong failed to get a June 2 ballot measure to put cars back on the Great Highway, the Recall Joel Engardio crowd says they’ll do it instead, and say they want it on the November 3 ballot.
SF News Oakland Police Raid Suspected Gambling Den, Find Gambling, But Also Lots of Dynamite An explosive finding at the police raid of a suspected gambling den in East Oakland's Webster neighborhood, as the raid also turned up gambling machines, meth, opiates, guns, ammo — and even a whole bunch of dynamite.
SF News Supervisors OK Taking a Wrecking Ball to Vaillancourt Fountain, Rejecting Last-Chance Appeal Preservationists had a last chance to save the brutalist but broken-down Vaillancourt Fountain with an appeal hearing at the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, but the supervisors still approved removing the fountain in a 10-1 vote.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette Taco Ball With Adorably Outdated Kitschy Exterior Closes Permanently More arrests have been made in Saturday’s 16th and Mission BART stabbings; the CVS at Van Ness and Turk streets will soon bite the dust; and one of the last Taco Bells with the old "mission-style" exterior just shut down too
SF Politics Supervisor Alan Wong Fails to Get His Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to the Great Highway Newly appointed District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong just flunked his first big test, failing to meet a deadline on a ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway, after he made a big to-do over announcing the effort.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk, Belligerent Lady From Hazie’s Viral Video Won’t Face Charges Over Incident The last dust has apparently settled on the infamous ‘drunk lady at Hazie’s’ confrontation/bar-fight the night of SantaCon, and the pugnaciously wasted woman who provoked it all will not face public intoxication charges.
SF News Vanderbilt University Is Indeed Opening an SF Campus, and It Will Be at Potrero Hill’s California College of the Arts Get ready for Vanderbilt University San Francisco, and part of it will be called “California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt,” as Vanderbilt has basically bought up the dying husk of the California College of the Arts.
SF News Oakley Man Tries to Shoot Sheriff’s Deputy, Then Shoots Himself After Four-Hour Police Standoff A 54-year-old Oakley domestic violence suspect survived an attempt to shoot himself Monday afternoon, but that was after a four-hour standoff with Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies, one of whom he allegedly took a few shots at.
Arts & Entertainment Puppy Bowl Reveals 2026 Lineup, SF Stray Will Be Featured Competitor This year’s Super Bowl alternative, the annual Puppy Bowl, just introduced its tiny yapping dog contestants with names like Chappell Bone and RuPaw, but an SF entrant named Foggy may steal the show at this particular puppy play-off.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Bob Weir’s Last-Ever Live Performance Was That Golden Gate Park Dead and Company Show In SF If you saw any of those Dead and Company shows in Golden Gate Park in August, you saw the historic final performances of the dearly departed Bobby Weir, as those three shows ended up being the final times he took the stage.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Glorious 23-19 Playoff Win In Nailbiter Over Philadelphia Eagles The San Francisco 49ers knocked off the defending world champion Eagles in an old-time, bare-knuckled cold January playoff game, with a wild and wooly trick play helping deliver the win.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces 2026 Ticket Sales, and This Year You Can Buy Them on a ‘Payment Plan’ The first batch of Burning Man 2026 tickets is set to go on sale soon, and they’ll cost about $25 more this year, but the event is adding the whole ‘buy now, pay later’ thing by offering this year’s tickets on payment plans.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Time! Fresh Off-the-Boat Dungeness Crab Sales Start on Sunday at Fisherman's Wharf SF’s Dungeness crab season is finally underway, and the freshest crab you can possibly buy will be on sale starting this Sunday morning, bright and early, down at Fisherman’s Wharf’s Pier 47 where you can buy crab fresh off the boat.
Arts & Entertainment Sunset Night Market Back on for 2026, After 2025 Event Fell Victim to Political Battles The very non-political concept of a neighborhood night market got very political during the Recall Joel Engardio campaign, but the Sunset Night Market is back for 2026, and has its first event on Friday, February 27.
SF News D4 Supervisor Wong Says He’s Full Speed Ahead With Do-Over Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway We’re going to vote yet again on whether cars should be allowed on the Great Highway, or at least we are if District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong has his way, as he’s introducing another ballot measure, but he only has six days to do it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First New Measles Case of 2026 Has Arrived in the Bay Area Draymond Green admitted "I am very much still afraid of my mom;” the Mayor of San Jose came out swinging against the proposed billionaire tax; and thanks RFK Jr, the Bay Area now has its first new measles case of 2026.
SF News Rep. Ro Khanna Calls ICE Detention Center in Bakersfield a ‘Detention-Industrial Complex’ After Alarming Visit Conditions are absolutely inhumane at California's largest ICE holding center near Bakersfield, according to South Bay congressional rep Ro Khanna, who just had a visit to the for-profit prison facility being operated with your tax dollars.
Bay Area Sports Tom Brady Looking to Open an SF Sports Card Shop Right by Oracle Park San Mateo native and seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady owns an expanding sports trading card shop chain called CardVault, and the chain is reportedly looking to open a retail store almost right next to the Giants’ Oracle Park.
