SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of the Coolest Tucked-Away Bar Spaces In the City Comes Alive Again Near Union Square In some very good news for fans of the former Benjamin Cooper and its cozy, hidden-from-the-street space near Union Square, it has reopened as a new bar with a similarly sexy vibe.
SF News With Appeal Options Nearly Exhausted, Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Two-Year Sentence Reduction Two years into her already reduced, nine-year prison sentence, convicted healthcare fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has put her lawyers to work again in the hope of getting her sentence reduced by another two years due to her upstanding behavior as an inmate.
SF Politics After Getting Shoved to Ground and Handcuffed by Feds, Senator Alex Padilla Goes on Media Blitz California Senator Alex Padilla is getting newfound stardom after he was shockingly wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a DHS press conference Thursday, and the little-known, soft-spoken senator just got a much higher-profile.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Medical Emergency at North Berkeley BART A second medical emergency in five days at North Berkeley BART disrupted train service Friday morning; a meth-laced greeting card was intercepted at Santa Rita Jail; and 'Luigi: The Musical' opens tonight.
SF News National Guard Presence to Remain In LA Into Next Week After Ninth Circuit Blocks Lower Court Order A federal judge issued a restraining order Thursday and declared President Trump's move to federalize the National Guard in Los Angeles "illegal," but two hours later, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit temporarily blocked that order.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Online System ‘Upgrade’ Knocks Untold Number of Customers Out of Their Accounts Trump signed his measure today blocking California’s electric vehicle mandate; Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has of course been delayed again; and PG&E’s so-called “upgrade” of their online system has locked a ton of customers out of their accounts.
SF News Last Month's BART Fire at San Leandro Was Actually a ‘Systemwide’ Issue, and Could Happen Again at Any Station BART officials are revising their explanation of why a fire broke out on the tracks of the San Leandro station and affected service for days, and the problem is apparently a “systemwide” issue that could come up again at any of the 50 BART stations.
SF News Federal Judge Says Berkeley Can Sweep Large Homeless Encampment, But That People With Disabilities Can Stay A mixed bag in a new legal ruling about a big and contentious Berkeley homeless encampment, as a judge says the encampment can be swept, but people with disabilities camping there are allowed to stay put and leave their stuff.
SF News Weekend Likely to Stay Cool With Sunny Friday Afternoon Forecast; Next Week May Be More of This June Gloom It's been a colder-than-average June thus far in San Francisco, with a stubborn marine layer that barely clears much of the city in the afternoons, keeping temperatures a few degrees below average.
Arts & Entertainment Before There Was Pride: William Gedney's Pre-Stonewall Photos of Queer Men In San Francisco The work of queer photographer William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) went under-appreciated during his lifetime, which was cut short by AIDS, though in recent years his photographs of life in the Haight-Ashbury just before the Summer of Love have resurfaced thanks to a 2021 book of his work.
SF News ICE Raids on Farms Making Their Way Up to NorCal, Farmworkers Statewide Are Terrified The Los Angeles ICE raids are spreading northward in California, with new workplace raids targeting immigrant farmworkers now taking place along the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley, and employees are terrified to go to work.
SF News A (Probably Drunk) Tesla Driver Parked Their Car In the Middle of Alta Plaza Park Someone managed to drive their Tesla Model S into the middle of Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights overnight and left it there.
SF Politics California Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed From Kristi Noem Event In LA By Federal Goons The Trump dictatorship now features goons wrestling with and forcibly removing a United States senator from an event at a federal office building because he was apparently asking questions they didn't like.
SF News Two Palestinian Men Have Their Visas Invalidated at SFO After Arriving for Interfaith Mission A San Francisco supervisor made an emergency trip to SFO late Wednesday night after learning that two Palestinian men with valid visas who had traveled here to speak at interfaith events around the Bay were being denied entry to the US.
Business & Tech Facebook Suspends, and Then Reinstates, Author Rebecca Solnit’s Account Over LA Protest Post, In an Apparent AI Flub SF author Rebecca Solnit had her Facebook account suspended after she posted an essay about the LA protests, but Facebook undid the suspension about 24 hours later, and this all likely happened because of the slapdash AI that Facebook uses for content moderation.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Killed In Napa Homicide Was Pregnant With Twins Relatives of the woman found dead Sunday in Napa say she was pregnant with twins; the legal showdown between CA and the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment heads to court today; and over 200 people are dead in a plane crash in India.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Home of Man Killed By South SF Police Robbed By Opportunist Suspects Burglars targeted the home of Brian Montana, the man shot by South SF police in April, and his widow; the FBI is looking for a woman they say led an aggressive skirmish during an ICE protest in Concord; and the entire board of the Fulbright Scholarship program has resigned because of Trump meddling.
SF News Highway Patrol Releases Video of Oakland Car Chase Crash That Took the Life of Innocent Bystander Schoolteacher The May 28 killing of Oakland high school math teacher Dr. Marvin Boomer when he was struck by a speeding vehicle the CHP was chasing has set off more debate over high-speed police chases, and now the Highway Patrol has released video of the pursuit.
Arts & Entertainment D'Arcy Drollinger’s Reign as SF Drag Laureate Coming to an End, Search for New Drag Laureate Underway San Francisco and the nation’s first Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger has reached the end of the two-year tenure of that position, but dig in your heels, because the city is on the verge of announcing our next SF Drag Laureate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa Fish Debuts at Ferry Building, With Fish & Chips, Tuna Melts and More A new fish counter, with both a fast-casual restaurant and a fish market component, has just opened at the Ferry Building from Nopa chef-owner Laurence Jossel.
SF News Analysts Warn That Trump Could Send National Guard Here to San Francisco, Too We could see scenes in San Francisco like what’s happening in Los Angeles, as political analysts say it’s possible, and even likely, that Trump will send National Guard members or Marines into San Francisco as anti-ICE protests continue.
Arts & Entertainment Clay Theatre to Be Restored and Revived as Moviehouse Amid Billionaire's Upper Fillmore Revamp We have news this week about the historic Clay Theatre on upper Fillmore, which went dark in early 2020 and has been closed ever since.
SF News ‘No Kings’ Protests Set to Rabble-Rouse In SF and Nationwide Saturday During Trump’s Military Parade While President Trump has a phenomenally wasteful $45 million military parade planned for his birthday Saturday, SF, Oakland, the Bay Area, and the whole country will be taking to the streets themselves for a nationwide “No Kings” protest.
SF News Santa Clara County Pledges to Continue Gender-Affirming Care Using Local Funds Prompted by a move from the Trump administration to prohibit Medicaid funds from being used for gender-affirming care for trans people, Santa Clara County is prepared to use some reserve budget funds to offset the cuts.
SF Politics Nonprofits Rally Against Lurie’s Budget Cuts to Homeless Programs, One Director Even Goes on Hunger Strike A group of nonprofits are rallying at City Hall Wednesday because Mayor Lurie’s budget slashes programs addressing homelessness, and they say that under Lurie’s budget, the problem in San Francisco will just get worse.
