Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Gets Roasted for Saying the Average American Has 'Fewer Than Three Friends’ While Pushing AI Chatbots Is Mark Zuckerberg okay? The internet is certainly questioning his grip on reality over his comment on a new podcast, while he was hyping Facebook’s AI chatbots, when he said that the average American has “fewer than three friends.”
Arts & Entertainment Your San Francisco Summer and Fall 2025 Street Fair Mega-Preview, Spanning From May to October With the start of May comes the kickoff of street festival and fair season, along with Bay to Breakers and plenty more fun to be had under the sun — when it decides to come out.
Arts & Entertainment Kezar Stadium Turns 100 on Friday, and Boy It Used to Be a Heck of a Lot Bigger The former home field of the San Francisco 49ers (and the Raiders!) Kezar Stadium has its 100th birthday on Friday, and it was once a global attraction sports and music destination before becoming the rec-level track meet field that it is today.
Business & Tech Sam Altman's World Networks Wants Union Square Shoppers to Come Get 'Scanned' and Prove They're Human A decidedly creepy but maybe ahead-of-the-curve business opened next to Macy's on Geary Street Thursday, across from Union Square Park, where a set of high-tech orb devices scan your iris and let you prove your own humanity.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Makes Initial Pitch to Rally Democratic Unity In SF Speech The woman who could have spared us the mess the country is currently in, former Vice President Kamala Harris, gave her first significant post-election speech on Wednesday in San Francisco, and it was an I-told-you-so moment for sure.
SF News SFPD Shoplifting Sting Nets 37 Arrests, Though for Only $2,500 Worth of Stuff Apparently many SFPD officers spent April camped out at a couple high-theft Safeway and Walgreens locations, and these operations brought the arrests of 37 suspects, who were allegedly stealing mostly candy and ice cream.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Is Firing Waltz CHP put out a new alert about a missing Oakland 3-year-old; May Day protests are happening around the Bay; and Trump is firing his first top aide, national security advisor Mike Waltz, the one who added the Atlantic guy to the Signal chat.
SF News Behavioral Health Emergency Temporarily Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge An abandoned car and a "behavioral health emergency" led to a major traffic backup on the Bay Bridge and into downtown San Francisco Wednesday afternoon and evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Warehouse Fire Sparked In Oakland Firefighters were battling a warehouse fire on Oakland's waterfront that sent thick smoke across the city; a Walgreens in the Mission is bearing a large pharmacy burden; and Trump insists in a new interview that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has an MS-13 tattoo.
SF News Antioch Grandfather Will Face Felony Charges for Letting Three-Year-Old Shoot and Kill Himself The grandfather who somehow allowed a three-year-old toddler to access a loaded gun and shoot himself will indeed face felony charges of child endangerment and criminal storage of a firearm.
Arts & Entertainment Now There’s a Luigi Mangione Musical Coming to San Francisco in June, and It’s Already Selling Out Fans of hunky accused CEO-killer Luigi Mangione are clearly dying to see ‘Luigi: The Musical,’ opening in June at the Taylor Street Theater, as opening night pretty much instantly sold out for this audacious original comedy-musical.
SF News Man Gets Five-Year Prison Sentence for Huge Marijuana Grow In Los Padres National Forest Found After Dolan Fire A 56-year-old man will be doing five years in prison for running a giant illegal cannabis grow that was discovered in a Monterey-area national forest after the Dolan Fire, which itself was started by another rogue marijuana grower.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Shot By Police In South San Francisco Is Identified as Death Metal Bandmember The man who allegedly engaged police in a shootout Monday in South San Francisco and was fatally shot himself has been publicly identified.
SF News Three Suspects Sought After Attempted Robbery and Shooting on 17th Street San Francisco police are looking for three male suspects after an attempted robbery that turned violent early Wednesday in the Mission District.
SF News Oakland Teachers' Union and District Reach Deal to Avert One-Day Strike A planned one-day strike by teachers in Oakland is now being called off after a last-minute deal was announced by the teachers' union.
SF News Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of DUI and Hit-and-Run, Seemingly In Their Own Patrol Car It’s probably not the best idea for a sheriff’s deputy to drive to a bar in their patrol car, get intoxicated, and then drive with the dashcam recording, a lesson that one Mendocino County sheriff's deputy is currently learning all too well.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Jeremy Renner Describes Tahoe Near-Death Experience In New Memoir Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner was as close to death as one can get after his 2023 snowplow accident in Tahoe, as he describes in his new memoir My Next Breath — and he may have, in fact, briefly died.
SF News Dazzling New Butterflies Introduced in Presidio to Replace Dazzling Butterflies That Went Extinct The Xerces blue butterfly that used to flutter across SF’s western dunes went extinct 80 years ago, but wildlife experts have identified the closest known relatives of that butterfly, and they just reintroduced a bunch of them in the Presidio.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Reptile Shop Finds Rare Two-Headed Snake A pet store in Berkeley that lays claim to the title of oldest reptile shop in the US, the East Bay Vivarium, has been taking care of a California king snake with a rare mutation — and even more rare is that it has survived over six months.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Harris Planning to Lay Into Trump In SF Speech Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to sharply criticize Trump in a speech in SF tonight; Oakland teachers are still intending to strike tomorrow; and we can expect some rain this weekend around the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Betty White Postage Stamps Have Arrived We’re now learning that Monday’s South San Francisco police shooting may have been over a tree-trimming dispute; Berkeley City Council passed another one of those Gaza resolutions; and the Betty White forever stamps are now arriving at SF post offices.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Couple Seeks to Create Dinner Party Vibe at New, Music-Centric Potrero Spot Side A A new restaurant serving bistro and comfort-food classics, done up with a Californian attention to freshness and seasonality, along with a side of live DJs takes over the former Universal Cafe space as of this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Gulch Wine and Spirits Emporium The Jug Shop Has Been Evicted Despite being an SF legacy business, 60-year-old SF wine and spirits store The Jug Shop appears to have served its last drop, as its owner confirms the shop has been evicted from their Polk Gulch location.
SF Politics SF Audit Finds City Hall Departments Overcharging Other City Hall Departments, Despite Nearly Billion-Dollar Deficit A report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst shows that City Hall departments are billing each other to the tune of nearly $80 million a year, and then not paying, allowing for confusion or even chicanery on the following year’s budget.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
