SF News Sunday Night’s La Onda Headliner Had to Cancel Because Trump Administration Revoked Their Visas Two bands, including Sunday night’s headliner Grupo Firme, were forced to cancel their sets at this weekend’s La Onda festival in Napa, because the Trump administration denied their visas over claims their music “glorifies cartel violence.”
SF News Davis Stabbing Suspect Takes Stand In His Own Defense In an unusual move several weeks into the trial of 23-year-old Carlos Dominguez, his defense attorneys have put him on the witness stand to testify about his mental state.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two More United Flights Diverted After Takeoff at SFO Two Palo Alto residents were awakened to a burglary in progress in their home; a pair of United Airlines flights were diverted for maintenance out of SFO; and Italy's Mount Etna began a major eruption earlier today.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Kabuki Meets Broadway in 'Pacific Overtures' Revival This weekend: Time lapse of the aurora borealis. Last Week: K-Pop fans, Musk on drugs, and a family of owls. This week: Kicking off Pride month with Drag Me Downtown and Bootie Mashup; plus Odd Salon, 'Pacific Overtures', and drink and draw.
SF News Trans Athlete AB Hernandez Wins Triple Medals at CA Track Finals Amid Policy Change, Protests Trans athlete AB Hernandez medaled in all three events at the CA state track finals over the weekend—just days after a last-minute rule change aimed at appeasing the Trump administration diluted her wins with shared titles.
SF News Driver Blames Tesla in Deadly January SoMa Crash, 20 Traffic Violations Linked to Same Name New details have emerged about the January SoMa crash that killed Mikhael Romanenko and his dog, injured seven others, and was perpetrated by a driver who may have at least 20 prior traffic violations—who now claims the Tesla accelerated on its own.
SF News Sunday Links: Person Rescued After Falling From Cliff Along Batteries to Bluffs Trail The city of Richmond is on level one alert after visible flaring at the Chevron Refinery; a Pleasanton man will serve 11 years for voluntary manslaughter in a 2021 Oakland shooting over a woman; and firefighters rescued someone who fell from a cliff.
SF News SF Driver Charged With Manslaughter, DUI After Dragging Woman in SoMa Crash A 28-year-old man has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter and multiple DUI offenses after he struck a pedestrian who was lying in a SoMa intersection on Tuesday, dragging her body for a block.
SF News Runaway Cement Truck Crashes Into Daly City Homes, Displacing at Least 14 Residents A runaway cement truck at a Daly City construction site rolled down a steep street and slammed into two homes late Friday morning, causing significant structural damage but no injuries.
SF News Saturday Links: CDC Clarifies COVID Guidelines, Reverses RFK Jr.'s Broader Rollback Claims Veteran educator Denise Saddler has been appointed interim superintendent of Oakland Unified School District; a man was shot and killed in Sunnyvale; and the CDC has walked back RFK Jr.'s earlier claims.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Team USA Swimmer to Take on Full CA Coastline in 2026 The Pink Triangle installation is set to return next week for its 30th Pride celebration; residents of Musk's Starbase, Texas, were told they might lose their property rights due to new zoning; and a former Olympic swimmer plans to swim the entire CA coast in 2026.
Bay Area Sports NBA Community in Mourning, as Klay Thompson’s Dog Has Died A melancholy ‘happy trails’ to Klay Thompson’s 13-year-old English bulldog Rocco, who has unfortunately gone on to that great splash puddle in the sky, though does so with a legacy of 61,800 Instagram followers.
SF News Lurie Announces $100,000 Contest to ‘Reimagine’ Market Street, Maybe With More Waymos or Something Mayor Daniel Lurie just announced a $100,000 prize to “reimagine” Market Street, though it may have helped if he had actually announced this more than six days before the contest's deadline.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Some Good Oakland Tacos Come West Ciaorigato sets an opening date, a famed LA doughnut spot is coming to the Bay Area, and Oakland's own Tacos El Ultimo Baile is opening a temporary SF outpost, all in This Week in Food.
SF News As Oakland Schools Superintendent Steps Down, Controversies Rage Over Alleged Threats of Violence The Oakland Unified School District school year has closed on one hell of a note, with a superintendent dismissed with no explanation, and allegations that a teachers' union official threatened a principal by saying she would “fucking beat her ass.”
Business & Tech X/Twitter Goes Down for Third Time In a Week, Just as Musk Drug Story Drops Xitter had something of a meltdown Friday, with many users reporting a total outage on the platform in the US, India, and elsewhere.
SF News If You Visited the H Mart In North San Jose or the Trader Joe's In Milpitas Last Week You May Have Been Exposed to Measles Public health officials in Alameda and Santa Clara counties have put out an alert about possible measles exposure that could have occurred at several retail locations in the last nine days.
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Writer Harper Steele, Longtime Friend and Documentary Partner of Will Ferrell, Named SF Pride Grand Marshal Harper Steele, the former head writer for 'Saturday Night Live' who gained national attention last year for the Netflix documentary 'Will & Harper,' has just been named the Celebrity Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride.
SF News Bombshell Report Says Elon Musk Was Using Copious Amount of Drugs While In Trump's Orbit Blaze one up to check out the biggest scandal of the day, as the New York Times has an exhaustive new exposé on how Elon Musk was hopped up on ketamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and Adderall on the Trump campaign, and maybe in the White House.
SF News Victim In CHP Chase Crash Identified as Oakland Math Teacher, as More Details Emerge The victim in Wednesday's fatal hit-and-run crash in Oakland stemming from a chase initiated by California Highway Patrol officers has been identified as a high school math teacher.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man In Wheelchair Struck In San Jose Hit-and-Run A 72-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair was struck by a car and seriously injured Friday morning in San Jose; a Catholic university on the Peninsula is selling its campus to UC; and the recall math isn't great for Engardio.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those SF Dead & Co Tickets Go on Sale Friday Morning SF Pride has cobbled together a few new sponsors amidst their mass sponsor retreat, the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are tonight, and those Dead and Company Golden Gate Park concert tickets go on sale at 10 am sharp Friday morning.
SF Politics SF City Hall Faces First Major Layoffs In 15 Years as Mayor Lurie Proposes Cutting 1,400 Jobs San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his intention to eliminate as many as 1,400 city jobs in order to close the current budget deficit, though the vast majority of those positions are currently unfilled.
SF News Bayview Community Activist Arrested In Four Killings Spanning 17 Years There was a potential major break in four separate cold cases this week in San Francisco with the arrest of a 44-year-old man who stands accused of a fatal shooting in 2019 and three killings 17 years earlier.
SF News Trump Administration Goes After Fresno-Area Track and Field Competition Over Trans Athlete Heading into this weekend’s State Track and Field Championships, the California Interscholastic Federation made a rule change to appease the Trump administration’s furor over a trans athlete being allowed to participate.
