SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Mid-Spring Debuts Standard Deviant opens a new brewery and taproom in Dogpatch, SPQR launches a raw bar, and 7 Adams adds a new seven-course option, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Haight Street’s Trax Bar Is Closing, But Will Reopen as ‘Mary’s on Haight’ A story about a longtime neighborhood queer bar closing during Pride Month isn't great. But in the case of Trax in the Haight, it will reopen soon as a "straight-friendly gay dive bar" called Mary's.
SF News 'Gone Girl' Hoaxer Sherri Papini, Who Continues Telling Her Stories In New Doc, Now Being Evicted By Ex-Boyfriend Some news stories just never seem to end, and/or some figures who make it into the news like to continue doing things to make themselves news again.
SF News First Cohort of Lowell High ‘Lottery Kids’ Just Graduated, and They Did Pretty Well Academically SF's Lowell High School has already reversed its short-lived lottery admission policy, but the first graduating class from that era just graduated, with grades that were more or less close to the "merit-based" admissions students.
Business & Tech San Mateo Company Claims They’ve Got a ‘True Flying Car,’ Taking Pre-Orders Now A local startup says their flying car is now operable, they’ve got a hype video for it, and insist they are now taking pre-orders for this $300,000 vehicle. But there may not be many places in the Bay Area you can legally fly it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Toronado Deal Appears In Jeopardy as Staff and Patrons Balk at Potential Tech Bro Takeover It appears there was a deal moving forward to sell craft beer haven Toronado to a new owner, and that owner was even making plans to install a rooftop beer garden. But founder and longtime owner Dave Keene appears to have had second thoughts.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pride Event In Redwood City Attacked By Two Teens Two 13-year-old were arrested after allegedly throwing fireworks at a Pride event in Redwood City; the jail healthcare provider at Santa Rita settled a wrongful death claim; and Menlo Park residents debate developments on downtown parking lots.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Tears Through Inner Richmond Row Houses, Displaces 35 A major blaze broke out overnight in SF's Inner Richmond, destroying or damaging five row houses on 5th Avenue between Balboa and Anza streets, leaving one pet cat dead and 35 people displaced.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Lost $150 Billion In Value Today Amidst Trump-Musk Spat Mayor Daniel Lurie surprisingly slammed the Twitter tax break; a new trove of unearthed Sly and the Family Stone recordings is coming out this summer; and Tesla lost $150 billion in value just today over that whole hilarious Trump vs. Elon skirmish.
SF News Jilted Neighborhood Groups Vent Over How Much of Their Money the SF Parks Alliance Made Disappear We heard from several small organizations Thursday about how much of their money the SF Parks Alliance blew through before that group dissolved this week, but it sure looks like there will be subpoenas issued, and audits to autopsy what all went wrong.
SF News SF Art Institute Will Reopen With the New Name California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA) The team including Laurene Powell Jobs that bought up the 152-year-old SF Art Institute just announced it will reopen with the new name California Academy of Studio Arts, or just “CASA” for short.
SF News California Forever Group Moves to Join Forces With Suisun City, Buy Downtown Properties We heard back in January that the billionaire-backed group hoping to build a new utopian city in Solano County was pivoting and hoping to get their land annexed by the existing town of Suisun City. Will this plan work out better than their first one?
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Sasha Velour Is Giving Beauty, Fierceness, Surprise, and a Lecture on Drag In New Solo Show at Berkeley Rep At turns deeply personal, delightful, and stridently academic, Sasha Velour's 'The Big Reveal Live Show!' brings with it a solid helping of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.
SF News Healdsburg Woman Heard Using N-Word In Viral TikTok Video Speaks Out, Insists She's Not Racist A May 23 TikTok video of a Healdsburg woman hurling a racial epithet at a team of movers racked up millions of views and became a viral “Karen video,” but that woman, who’s since moved out of state, blames the whole thing on being bipolar.
SF Politics The Inevitable Trump-Musk Feud Has Arrived, and Should Be Hilarious Musk is digging up Twitter receipts on Trump, who has contradicted himself so many times you'd be a billionaire if you had a nickel for each. And the feud that went very public as of Thursday morning is likely to get very, very funny, our teetering democracy aside.
SF News ACLU Sues Sonoma County Over Drone Use, Could SF Be Next? A pair of Sonoma County farm owners say that county’s drone surveillance program is unconstitutional, and they’ve enlisted the ACLU to bring a lawsuit, which could set a legal precedent affecting SFPD’s new drone-happy policies.
SF News ICE Detains 15 More People at SF Immigration Court, Supervisor Calls It 'Unconscionable' and 'Authoritarian' Immigration agents reportedly detained 15 people Wednesday, including a three-year-old child, outside an immigration court in downtown San Francisco, where people were appearing for annual check-ins on their immigration cases.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Travel Bans, Again Some new tiled steps in Portola now can't be paid for without Parks Alliance funds; a federal judge halts encampment clearings in Berkeley; and the Supreme Court issues a series of unanimous decisions.
SF Politics SF’s 10 Wildest Nonprofit Spending Scandals of the Last Five Years, Ranked This week’s blow-up of the SF Parks Alliance only underscores the staggering number of SF nonprofits with improper spending scandals, and other riches-to-rags financial improprieties that have happened here over the last five years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vintage View of SF's Market Street In the Mid-1960s The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is taking a formal step toward removing the sheriff; the Trump administration has returned a wrongfully deported Guatemalan man; and a nice bit of video surfaces of 1960s-era Market Street.
Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday to Rock Out the Mission District with Lo-Fi Magic The seventh annual DIY “front porch” music festival SF Porchfest brings 74 live acts to 13 stages (well, porches) in the Mission District on Saturday, in what will be the biggest SF Porchfest ever held.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gott's Opens New Cookie Counter at Ferry Building Gott's Roadside has just debuted a new cookie counter at the north end of the Ferry Building's main food hall, featuring multiple cookie flavors and dipping milks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Historic Polk Street Gay Bar The Cinch Gets New Owner Who Vows Not to Change Much The second-oldest continually operating queer bar in San Francisco, Polk Street's The Cinch Saloon, is getting a new lease on life following the death of one of its longtime owners two years ago.
SF News Convicted Killer Nima Momeni Has New Lawyers, Won't Be Sentenced Until August or Later Nima Momeni, the man who was convicted last fall in the 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, is still awaiting sentencing, and he has new lawyers who are discussing an appeal.
SF News Harvey Milk's Nephew on Navy Ship Name-Stripping: 'I Don't Think He'd Be Surprised' Reactions are streaming in across the Bay Area and beyond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pride Month shot across the bow at the queer community, announcing his intention to strip the name of LGBTQ civil rights icon Harvey Milk from a Navy ship.
