SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Fatal Hit-and-Runs on the Peninsula A 50-year-old man was shot multiple times in Oakland; two women have been killed in the last three weeks in hit-and-run crashes on the Peninsula; and the death toll in the Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse has risen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 45-Foot-Tall Nude Woman Rises at Foot of Market Street Violent crime is down in SF at a much more significant rate than elsewhere in the US; stocks rebounded because Trump predictably backed down on his tariff threat; and that giant nude woman sculpture is in the process of getting installed at Embarcadero Plaza.
Business & Tech Arnold Schwarzenegger Now a Billionaire, According to Forbes’ Latest List There’s a few show biz types who just appeared for the first time on this year’s annual Forbes billionaire list, like Bruce Sprinsteen, Jerry Seinfeld, and the former ‘Governator,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger.
SF News Likely Thanks to DOGE, Government Claims HIV-Positive SF Man Owes Them $200K In Disability Payments The federal government just cut off 62-year-old HIV activist Paul Aguilar’s disability payments, but also claims he owes them back $200,000 in benefits they’ve already paid him over the last 11 years.
Business & Tech OpenAI's Feud With Musk Escalates With New Court Filing OpenAI has asked a federal court to get estranged billionaire co-founder Elon Musk to stop publicly bad-mouthing the company — which, they say, is unlawful and is doing harm to the company.
SF Politics Supervisor Chan Proposes Possible Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway, Which We Just Voted On Just five months after SF just voted to remove cars from the Great Highway, Supervisor Connie Chan floats voting on another ballot measure over cars on the Great Highway, which she would pursue if the Engardio recall makes the ballot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arquet Is the Name of the New Restaurant Coming to the Slanted Door Space, From the Sorrel Team The new, casual offshoot of Michelin-starred Sorrel that is getting ready to move into the prominent Ferry Building space that was formerly home to The Slanted Door now has a name and some further details.
SF News New California Bill Would Outlaw Arresting or Fining Unhoused People Camping In the Street Several California mayors (including SF’s own) cheered a June Supreme Court decision that allowed cities to arrest or prosecute those camping on the street. But a new proposed California law could bring that practice to a complete halt.
Business & Tech Sonoma-Serving Budget Airline Avelo Shuts Down Flights, Becomes Trump Deportation Contractor A budget airline that made a hub of Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Airport is closing that hub and turning its attention to providing charter flights for deported migrants out of Arizona, under contract with the federal government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critics Admit Some Top 100 Snubs Were Because They Didn't Make It to Every Nice Restaurant As suspected, time and budget were factors that came into play in the revived Top 100 at the Chronicle, so it's less of a Top 100 restaurants ranking so much as a "Top 100 restaurants we've been to" list.
SF News Three-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Himself In Antioch The Antioch Police Department is looking for answers over how a three-year-old boy came into possession of a gun at his grandparents' house, after the youngster shot himself in the face Tuesday night, and died shortly thereafter at a hospital.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Rare Whale Euthanized After Beaching In Bay A rarely seen whale in these parts was euthanized after beaching itself in Emeryville; DOGE is coming for all of your personal information; and UC students are protesting the revocation of visas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Lurie Lines Up Millionaires in Hopes of Revitalizing Downtown Trump’s largest tariffs go into effect at midnight; the 45-foot nude woman statue is now being installed at the Embarcadero; and Lurie has called in a bunch of CEO buddies to help supercharge the moribund downtown scene.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Full House' House Sells Again, This Time for $6M A few years after 'Full House' creator Jeff Franklin bought, renovated, and sold the Lower Pac Heights house originally used for exterior shots on the sitcom, the home has sold again, under its 2024 asking price.
SF News Disgraced San Jose City Councilmember Convicted of Molesting a Minor Decades Ago San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres had already been under fire for text messages seemingly soliciting a minor before he was arrested on sexual abuse charges. This morning, he pleaded no contest and was convicted.
SF News Castro Becomes SF’s Biggest Boozy 'Entertainment Zone’ Where Bars Can Sell To-Go Cocktails During Events The Castro Street Fair may be awash in to-go cocktails this year, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made the Castro the latest neighborhood to get “entertainment zone” privileges where bars can sell open containers to festival revelers.
SF Politics Supreme Court Thwarts SF Judge's Order to Reinstate Federal Agency Workers The court ruled Tuesday 7-2, on a narrow legal basis, to block an order from an SF-based federal judge to reinstate fired probationary workers at six federal agencies.
SF Politics Supervisor Bilal Mahmood Says He’s Been Diagnosed With Autism New SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood says he was diagnosed with Level 1 autism a few years ago, as part of his announcement to declare the month of April 2025 as Autism Awareness Month in San Francisco.
SF News Accused Murder Suspect and Zizian Cult Member Accuses Jailers of 'Detransitioning' Her In Court Outburst One of the suspected cult members who is set to stand trial for the attempted murder of Curtis Lind and the murder of fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian in 2022, Alexander "Somni" Leatham, had another outburst in a court appearance Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment Diana Ross, Orville Peck, and Sleater-Kinney Are Coming to Stern Grove The Stern Grove Festival lineup is out, and the big news is that the great Diana Ross is coming for Big Picnic Weekend in August.
SF Politics State Bar Orders DA Jenkins Into a Diversion Program Over Ethics Violation Allegations The California State Bar is responding to a series of ethics complaints against SF DA Brooke Jenkins by sending her into a diversion program for low-level offender attorneys, the exact type of program she campaigned against Chesa Boudin for using.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry, Saison, Chez Panisse All Snubbed on Chronicle's New Top 100 Some controversial cuts were going to be inevitable when the Chronicle's two main food critics set about reviving the Top 100 restaurants list this year. But, call me crazy, just-OK taco shops do not belong in the top 20 when over a dozen Michelin-starred spots are getting snubbed completely.
SF News One Injured In Afternoon Shooting on SF's Fillmore Street A rare bit of violence occurred Monday afternoon on Fillmore Street, not far from the shuttered Fillmore District Safeway.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Considers Selling Off East Bay Land The BART board is set to begin looking at selling off some 235 acres of unused land it owns in the East Bay; Meta is closing some offices in Fremont; and a Tesla charging station had all of its charging cables cut.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Assistant SFPD Chief Announces Retirement A 26-year-old San Francisco woman died Saturday from a skiing injury at Palisades Tahoe; Assistant SFPD Chief David Lazar is retiring; and SF non-profits say they are being hurt by Dream Keeper grant cuts.
