SF Politics AWOL Texas Democrats Huddling With Newsom, Pelosi in Sacramento to Discuss Redistricting Some of the Texas Democratic elected officials who’ve left their state in hopes of thwarting Trump’s redistricting plans are now in California, talking strategy with Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aaron London, of AL's Place Fame, Launches Boxed Cookie Brand Chef Aaron London, who once had a Michelin star at his Mission restaurant AL's Place, walked away from the hospitality industry in 2022, and now we know what he's been up to in the years since.
SF News Video: Influencer Bro Gets Caught Vaping on SFO-Bound Flight, Claims He Was ‘Assaulted’ When Busted A self-described “AI Expert and Celebrity Pickleball Coach” got popped vaping in the bathroom of an SFO-bound flight Monday, and then promptly berated the flight attendant, claiming, “You assaulted me!"
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Wash Your Dishes In the Bathroom Sink It did not take long to land on this "student room" for rent in the Portola neighborhood, where for $1200 a month you get a small room, bathroom, private entrance, and a non-kitchen.
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out In Napa County, Dubbed the Berry Fire, Spreads to 50 Acres A brush fire spreading at a "moderate" speed began Friday morning near Lake Berryessa in Napa County, and has already scorched around 50 acres.
SF News Lifelong Grateful Died Fan Died From Medical Emergency While Dancing at Sunday Night’s Dead & Company Show A 54-year-old Michigan man who was visiting San Francisco to see Dead & Company last weekend experienced a sudden medical emergency during the show, and passed away shortly thereafter.
SF Politics Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis Drops Out of Governor's Race, Will Run For Treasurer Deciding early that she doesn't want to do battle with Xavier Becerra and Katie Porter, Eleni Kounalakis dropped out of the 2026 race for California governor on Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Rescued From Bay Near Pier 1 1/2 SFFD rescue personnel pulled a man out of the Bay this morning; Outside Lands kicks off at noon; and an interactive map shows differing levels of shaking that are likely across SF in a major earthquake.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yolo County Casino Suffers Tuberculosis Exposure Jilted Philz Coffee employees will get some sort of bonus after all with the company’s sale; upzoning notices are set to rankle SF’s west side; and Cache Creek casino has had some tuberculosis exposure.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Put Giant Purple Egg Outside Chase Center, In Apparent Marketing Ploy A four-foot-tall, Valkyries-purple egg appeared in front of the Chase Center Thursday morning, and the team is playing coy about what is obviously some marketing stunt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Is Getting One of Those Boozy Taco Bell Cantina Locations Great news for fans of Taco Bell and/or alcohol, as a booze-serving Taco Bell Cantina is coming to Fisherman’s Wharf, in the former Chipotle space in the Anchorage Square shopping center.
SF News NYT Gives Some Slightly Better PR to Berkeley Rationalist Group After Zizian Arrests The New York Times published a piece this week profiling the Berkeley-based Rationalist movement and its arguably cult-y, religious-y ways, and they never once mention the probably actual cult that spun out of their group.
SF News Broad Daylight Shooting Leaves One Injured In SF's Tenderloin San Francisco police are hunting for a suspect in a shooting Thursday afternoon in SF's Tenderloin district which left one person injured.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces Livestream Schedule, and Yes, Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator Will Be Streamed You can still catch this weekend’s Outside Lands sets of Tyler, the Creator, Hozier, Doja Cat, and a lot more, even if you’re not going to Outside Lands, as the festival will be livestreaming those sets on Twitch and Amazon Prime.
Business & Tech Free Streaming Platform Tubi Announces New SF Headquarters; OpenAI Takes More Space In Mission Bay While new leasing activity for office space is still fairly quiet around downtown San Francisco, a couple of prominent companies are making moves in further positive signs of an upswing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels Opens Second Location In Financial District The second outpost of Shlok's Bagels & Lox softly opened Thursday morning in the Financial District, with a grand opening scheduled for Monday, August 11, and this time it's an actual shop you can walk into.
SF News New Sea Lion Disease Outbreak In Pacific Ocean This Year Killing Animals, and Also Threatening Dogs Bay Area sea lions are getting sick at a very high rate this year with a disease that is transmissible to people's pets, and the disease called leptospirosis is currently transmitting among sea lions at "unheard-of" levels.
Business & Tech United Airlines Tech Glitch Causes Almost 300 Flight Delays In and Out of SFO United Airlines was recovering Thursday from a technology problem Wednesday afternoon that temporarily grounded all of its flights and caused widespread delays, as well as some flight cancellations.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Hiroshima Anniversary Commemorated In SF The 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was marked in Golden Gate Park; West Nile Virus is back in the news in Solano County; and experts don't think that In-N-Out's move into Tennessee will hurt its brand.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Airlines Grounds All Flights at SFO United Airlines grounded all its flights temporarily into and out of SFO; COVID is on a swift uptick still in California; and the Stanford Daily is suing the federal government on free speech grounds.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rainbow Grocery Gearing Up to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary Next Weekend SF’s favorite worker-owned co-op grocery store is about to ring in its 50th anniversary, and the nutritional yeast will be flying at Rainbow Grocery’s 50th anniversary block party next Sunday in SoMa.
SF News Monday’s Early Morning Outer Sunset Raid Linked to Oregon Stolen iPhone Ring An odd development in Monday morning’s 3 am raid of an alleged illegal nightclub suspected of hosting drugs and sex crimes, as one of those arrested had been wanted by the feds for gunpoint robberies of iPhone shipments in Oregon.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped In Case of Richmond Realtor Who Shot Romantic Rival Alameda County prosecutors have dropped the charges against Terryan McDowell, the Richmond-based realtor who fatally shot a romantic rival at the Oakland apartment of the woman they were both seeing.
Bay Area Sports A Rash of Dildos Have Been Thrown Onto the Court During Valkyries Games, and Players Have Had It Not one but two Golden State Valkyries games have been disrupted by fans throwing dildos onto the court in the past week, and a third WNBA dildo-tossing incident Tuesday night has the league talking about stiff penalties.
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For First-Time Outside Lands Festivalgoers It's that time of year again when Sunset and Richmond homeowners begin pulling out the orange cones to demarcate their driveways, and kids from across the Bay Area — along with recent transplants — begin preparations for their first experience of Outside Lands.
