SF News Another Scandal Hits San Jose Fire Department as Station Captain Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Drugs Just a couple years after the San Jose Fire Department was red-faced over on-duty firefighters visiting strip clubs, there’s another scandal where a station captain has been arrested on suspicion of stealing drugs.
Bay Area Sports As Warriors Face Rockets, Houston Fans Urge Ted Cruz to Not Attend Games, Because They Always Lose When He’s There The Golden State Warriors may have a secret weapon in their upcoming playoff matchup with the Houston Rockets, as Texas teams tend to lose when Senator Ted Cruz attends games, and Houston fans are urging him to stay home to avoid the “Cruz curse.”
Arts & Entertainment SF High School Freshman to Be Honored at NY's Jazz at Lincoln Center After Winning Prestigious National Competition 15-year-old San Francisco native Ethan Liao already played Carnegie Hall this year, and now he’s headed back to New York to Jazz at Lincoln Center after his new composition won a top national prize. We’ve got a taste of his very notable sounds.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Bar Shoji Begins Slinging Drinks and Sashimi Bar Shoji opens for cocktails and food, The Morris celebrates Chartreuse, and Loquat Bakery gets a rave for its Iraqi sandwich pop-up, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment 'No Tariffs on Endangered Species': The SF Zoo Panda Plan Is Apparently Still On The San Francisco Zoo is moving forward, undeterred, with their plan for panda diplomacy, and they say things are on track to bring a pair of giant pandas to SF in the next year.
SF News Alleged Pimp and Sex Worker Charged With Robbing and Pepper-Spraying 69-Year-Old Man at Oakland Hotel A 69-year-old man was either entrapped or actually trying to pay for sex with an 18-year-old, but he’s not the one facing charges, as the alleged sex worker and pimp are accused of robbing him, beating him up, and pepper-spraying him.
SF News 119 Years Ago Today, We Had a Devastating Earthquake and Fire, and Once Again We Commemorated It This was new Mayor Daniel Lurie's first 4 am wake-up call for a 5 am appearance at Lotta's Fountain, which he'll now be doing every year that he holds office.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Sues Trump Administration For the Second Day in a Row, This Time Over AmeriCorps Cuts California Governor Gavin Newsom is keeping his state Attorney General busy, suing the Trump administration twice in two days, the latest lawsuit challenging Elon Musk’s DOGE firing of thousands of AmeriCorps volunteers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Willie Brown Chimes In On Lurie's First 100 Days Former Mayor Willie Brown says he envies Lurie's first 100 days in office; UC Berkeley students and faculty protested again Thursday against Trump's actions; and city leaders in Santa Rosa are hoping to get a pro soccer team.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Parking Meter Prices to Increase by 25 Cents an Hour Oakland schoolteachers are threatening to strike again; famed road stop Pea Soup Andersen's could be razed for condos; and SF parking meters are getting a 25-cent-per-hour rate hike.
SF News Ground Is Broken For 168-Unit Affordable Project on Site of Pandemic-Time Tent Camp In Mission A site that had been one of several to spark controversy and protest in the last decade as market-rate developers were ravenous to build in the Mission District is now going to become the largest 100%-affordable development in the neighborhood in 20 years.
Business & Tech OpenAI’s Latest Hire Is… 95-Year-Old Labor Activist Dolores Huerta? Yes, artificial intelligence company OpenAI just hired longtime rabble-rouser Dolores Huerta as a member of their temporary philanthropic advisory board, though it could be a PR move to butter up regulators as OpenAI restructures to a for-profit company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Husband-and-Wife Team Behind Presidio Restaurant Dalida Are Expanding Into Presidio Heights Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the couple behind the almost two-year-old hit pan-Mediterranean restaurant Dalida, have inked a deal to open a second restaurant nearby.
SF News Pleasanton Man Who Turned Himself In For Mother's Murder Says He Got Tired of Her Nagging A Pleasanton man who confessed to stabbing his mother multiple times after turning himself in to police two weeks ago says he did so "quickly" and "humanely," after he had finally had it with her nagging.
SF News Seven Teens Arrested in Sonoma County After Two Separate Deplorable Attacks This Week Two separate attacks allegedly committed by teenagers rocked both Santa Rosa and Healdsburg on Tuesday, and a total of seven teens have been taken into custody in relation to a stabbing and a pistol-whipping.
Arts & Entertainment Steph Curry's Peacock Show 'Mr. Throwback' Canceled After Brief Season Despite some decent reviews, Steph Curry's first foray into live-action scripted television content is getting wiped off the slate at NBC and Peacock.
SF News Antioch Police to Recommend Charging Grandfather of Three-Year-Old Boy Who Shot and Killed Himself Antioch police think they’ve determined how a three-year-old boy acquired a gun and shot and killed himself last week, and they are pushing for gun-handling charges against the toddler’s grandfather.
Business & Tech Waymo Eyeing Expansion Into San Jose, and Also Much of the South Bay You might soon be able to take a Waymo all the way from SF to San Jose, as the self-driving robotaxis are apparently already halfway through their bureaucratic quest to win approval to operate in San Jose, plus much of Santa Clara County.
Business & Tech Federal Judge Rules Against Google In Second Antitrust Case, This One About Its Ad Network For the second time in less than a year, a federal court has dealt a blow to Google's business model, ruling that it holds an illegal monopoly in a key sphere of its operations.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Lurie Rings In 100 Days SF Mayor Daniel Lurie marks his first 100 days in office today; Kamala Harris is way ahead in a new poll about the CA governor's race; and Trump is mad at Jerome Powell.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Consumer Confidence Oddly High People are grousing once again about how long it takes to count votes in an Alameda County election; Warriors coach Steve Kerr makes a political statement; and Zoom had a massive outage today, as you may know.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Bar Ivy Room Is Boycotting All the Liquor Brands Who Yanked Their Pride Sponsorships After booze conglomerate Diageo pulled their sponsorship dollars from this year’s SF Pride festivities, Albany’s live music bar The Ivy Room has decided that they will no longer stock that company's brands, including Ketel One and Johnny Walker.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: City Hall Was Lit Up By Laser Cannons Last Night for SF’s 175th Birthday San Francisco celebrated its 175th birthday on Tuesday, and that’s why Tuesday night, some artists were shooting colorful ‘Laser Space Cannons’ toward the City Hall rotunda in celebration.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Studio' Star Seth Rogen Roasted Silicon Valley Titans at Recent Ceremony, and Jokes Were Cut From Video of It At a ceremony for a set of science prizes that has become a favorite event of VCs and tech titans, celebrity presenter Seth Rogen couldn't even take a few jabs about the money they all gave to Donald Trump without them being cut from the official video of the event.
Arts & Entertainment Theatrical Take on 'Paranormal Activity,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and Broadway Hit 'Stereophonic' All Coming to SF This next theater season in San Francisco is shaping up to be a good one, with several Broadway hits and new works coming our way.
