Bay Area Sports Warriors Face Crunch Time In Playoff Race, With Just Four Games Left In Regular Season Your Golden State Warriors are practically locked in a six-way tie in the playoff seeding with four games left, and could land in the playoffs with home court advantage through the conference semifinals, or could find themselves stuck in a Play-In Game.
SF News Now Mayor Lurie Is Proposing Five New Boozy ‘Entertainment Zones’ In SF There are currently five to-go cocktail-serving “entertainment zones” either approved or proposed in San Francisco, but Mayor Lurie is pushing for five more, to bring more high-octane street parties during events where streets are closed to traffic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4AM Last Call Comes Back as Proposed Legislation, This Time With Matt Haney Behind It Assemblymember Matt Haney has taken up the cause of the extension of last call at California bars to 4 am, structuring some new legislation around so-called "Hospitality Zones."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizza Shop Opens Next Week at Mission Rock The new outpost of Flour + Water Pizzeria, and the first of what are planned to be several satellite Flour + Water Pizza Shops in the city, is opening next Monday at the new Mission Rock development.
Bay Area Sports Shockingly, the Red-Hot SF Giants Have the Best Record In Major League Baseball, For the Moment No one saw this coming! Your San Francisco Giants suddenly have the best record in baseball, ahead of the superstar-studded, mega-salaried LA Dodgers and New York Yankees.
SF News Zara Gives Good News to Union Square With Flagship Store Planned Fast fashion retailer Zara is planning to relocate a block away from its existing location in Union Square and open a huge new flagship store at the corner of Post and Powell.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Back On Thanks to Donation This year's Fillmore Jazz Festival, which had been canceled as of last week due to lack of funds, has been saved thanks to local billionaire Chris Larsen.
SF Politics Oakland Fires Sheng Thao’s Former Chief of Staff Over Note That Refers to Using Black People as ‘Tokens’ Former Sheng Thao chief of staff Leigh Hanson was kept on after the recall, but was fired Sunday over a 2024 meeting note that referred to Black people as “tokens,” though she says it was a reference to certain Black people being paid by the recall campaign.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three-Year-Old Killed In Petaluma Accident A three-year-old child was killed in an apparent DUI accident involving a Bobcat on private property in Petaluma; an SUV went over the seawall along Marina Green Drive; and former FCI Dublin guard 'Dirty Dick' won't be taking the stand in his own defense.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Cesar Chavez Parade & Festival Free cone day Tuesday; comedians roast the audience on Wednesday; transit-oriented stories on Thursday; Cesar Chavez parade and festival on Saturday, as well vintage show at Fort Mason.
Arts & Entertainment Interesting Humans: Arthur Dong, Pioneering Gay, Asian American Filmmaker Highlighting the uplifting stories of Bay Area residents and the communities they support, featuring Arthur Dong, San Francisco native and gay Chinese American filmmaker; Hafeth “Omar” Mansouri and his canine colleague Major of "Corner Stories;" and trans barber Santana Vasquez.
Arts & Entertainment Cal Academy Workers Union Spreads Awareness On Fight For Fair Wages On Academy Day During the California Academy of Sciences anniversary event on Friday, staff members represented by the union, CalAcademy Workers United, were spreading the word about their ongoing struggle negotiating a fair contract with management.
SF News Sunday Links: UCSF Neurologist Wins $3 Million Prize For Groundbreaking Multiple Sclerosis Research UCSF neurologist Stephen Hauser won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for his multiple sclerosis work; one resident was killed and three injured in an early morning fire on Sunday in Fremont; and an anonymous benefactor has been fulfilling innovative locals' wishes.
SF News Thousands Attend ‘Hands Off’ Anti-Trump Protests Across Bay Area, Nationwide Thousands of demonstrators showed up to “Hands Off” protests across the Bay Area on Saturday, and at least 1,400 nationwide, in the biggest show of resistance yet against the current administration.
SF News 120 Firefighters Called To Nob Hill Apartment Building Blaze, Arson Suspected An arson investigation has been initiated over a four-alarm fire that broke out at a Nob Hill apartment building on Saturday evening, bringing over 120 firefighters to the scene and injuring three residents.
SF News Suspect In San Mateo Stalking Case Arrested On Weapons Charges At LAX 28-year-old Leqiang Wang of San Mateo was arrested at LAX on Thursday after police found an arsenal of automatic rifles, silencers, and other firearms at Wang’s home while investigating Wang as a potential suspect in a stalking case.
SF News Saturday Links: 1,200 Anti-Trump Protests Nationwide, SF’s Civic Center Saturday A huge protest will be at Civic Center today alongside 1,200 others nationwide; Concord landlords paid fake activists to wear "Repeal Rent Control" shirts to a city council meeting; and the 2025 Sunday Streets schedule has been announced.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Law Firm Sues Trump On Behalf of 500 Firms Usha Vance's former law firm filed a federal lawsuit against Trump, along with more than 500 others; shots were fired during an armed robbery in Brentwood on Friday afternoon; and an American "danger tourist" visited remote, indigenous North Sentinel Island, leaving behind a Coke.
SF Politics 49ers’ Favorite Perjury-Committing Santa Clara Elected Official Avoids Jail, Gets 40 Days of County Work Former Santa Clara city councilmember Anthony Becker was convicted of perjury for trying to do the 49ers a favor, but he won’t do jail time, and will just get 40 days of community service.
SF News Rents Rose Last Year In SF Faster Than Any Other US City San Francisco's notoriously high rents are on the rise again, and fast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Outer Sunset Gets a Fancy New Brewpub A new brewpub and bar called Fifty Vara debuts in the Sunset, Draymond Green's new Civic Center restaurant Meski opens its doors, and Niku Steakhouse is temporarily closed by a fire, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech Trump Extends TikTok Ban/Sale Another 75 Days, as Tariffs Blow Up Current Deal Just as a deal to place TikTok in the hands of US owners was almost in place, China pulled ByteDance out of that deal in response to our tariffs, though Trump is selling this as him just extending the deadline.
Arts & Entertainment Eddie Izzard Shows Endurance and Wit In Solo 'Hamlet' Great comedians sometimes make for great actors, and Suzy Eddie Izzard joins those ranks with her solo performance of 'Hamlet,' now playing at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF News San Pablo Police Report Strange Pattern of Elderly People Being Targeted for Thefts by Seemingly Good Samaritans A new pattern of theft popping up in San Pablo is hardly the smash-and-grab variety, but one where some apparently nice youngsters roll up in a car offering free jewelry, only to steal elderly peoples’ real jewelry.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown First Thursdays Announces Extension of Event Through End of Year Downtown First Thursdays (DFT) celebrated a full 12 months of monthly parties on Thursday night with Mayor Daniel Lurie and around 18,000 people in attendance.
