SF Politics VP JD Vance Headed to Bay Area for Silicon Valley Fundraiser Our graceless Vice President JD Vance will be headed back to the Bay Area, which he once called home in his own venture capital days, for a fundraiser in Atherton on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Homegrown Drag Festival Oaklash Returns This Weekend With Yvie Oddly and Much More Once again this weekend, the Oaklash Festival is prancing back into Oakland with some of the best and edgiest drag performances in the Bay, and multiple events over three days.
SF News South San Francisco Police Fatally Shoot Man With Replica Firearm There was an officer-involved shooting that proved fatal in South San Francisco Wednesday, and police say that the suspect they were chasing aimed what appeared to be a firearm at them.
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.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In Mid-Afternoon Near Fisherman's Wharf, Suspect Turns Himself In There was an apparent homicide near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon, likely with multiple witnesses, and a male suspect quickly turned himself in to police.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Sheriff's Deputies Injured In Crash The body of a UC Santa Cruz undergrad was found after a swimming mishap; two SF sheriff's deputies were involved in a Mission District crash; and the Supreme Court hears the Trump birthright citizenship challenge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergey Brin Settles Private Plane Wrongful Death Suit Sergey Brin has settled a wrongful death suit involving the pilots of his private plane who died in 2023; the man who died trying to save a dog at Ocean Beach has been identified; and In-N-Out Burger's pink lemonade isn't pink anymore.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Musician Ruby Ibarra Takes Top Prize in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest The winner of the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, from NPR Music, is East Bay-born Filipina American rapper, spoken word artist, and singer Ruby Ibarra.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Likely Problematic Golden State Killer Film Starring Vincent Gallo and James Franco Lands Distributor Two actors with troubling pasts when it comes to women and co-stars, James Franco and Vincent Gallo, are the stars of a low-budget feature that was made last year about Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo, and it apparently found a distributor at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Buried Treasure Chest Found In SF In 11 Hours By Skilled Treasure Seeker Someone in San Francisco is $10,000 richer today after deciphering a cryptic poem, mapping out a semi-remote location, and following the clues to an area in a city park.
SF News Arrest Leads to Seizure of Meth at Vallejo Home, as Well as Endangered Monkey, Live Rattlesnakes A traffic stop in Solano County led to the arrest of a Vallejo man and subsequent search of his home, which led to the discovery a lot of meth, an endangered baby spider monkey, and two live rattlesnakes.
SF Politics Newsom Proposes Rollback of Health Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants California Governor Gavin Newsom continued his rightward shift with a surprise announcement Wednesday proposing a freeze on healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants in the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Civic Leaders Push to Remove Richmond Bridge Bike Lane Marin County leaders and others are calling for an end to the dedicated bike lane on the Richmond Bridge; SF Mayor Daniel Lurie signs order for more police staffing; and the Menendez brothers have been resentenced.
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 News Ex-Boyfriend Arrested In Connection With Stabbing of Man and Woman at Berkeley Vista Point It's been confirmed that the prime suspect in an attack on two people parked at a Berkeley hills vista point two Saturdays ago was an ex-boyfriend of one of the victims.
Arts & Entertainment Another Small Bay Area Theater Group, Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Co., Cancels Its Season In what could be a precursor to full closure, Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company announced today that it is "suspending" its 2025-26 season due to financial instability.
SF News One Person Killed In Bayview Hit-and-Run, Marking Sixth Pedestrian Death of 2025 In less than five months' time, six people have been killed walking on San Francisco streets, the latest a 47-year-old man in the Bayview district.
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.
