SF News Oakland Man Accused of Trying to Sexually Traffic Woman Who Mistook His Car for Uber A man has been arrested and appeared in court Tuesday in Oakland to face a gun charge, but investigators say that he tried to force a woman he didn't know into prostitution earlier this month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Justice For Heklina' Protest March and Vigil Planned on Folsom Street Monday Following a march taking place in London to protest the apparent police bias that has held up the investigation into the 2023 death of SF drag legend Heklina, a similar march and vigil, with two "angry drag shows," will be happening here in SF.
SF News Water Main Break Leaves Bernal Heights’ Cortland Avenue With Sinkhole, Cars Diverted A block of Cortland Avenue at Moultrie Street is fully shut down to car traffic Wednesday morning after a water main ruptured, but 24-Divisadero buses are still running normal routes.
SF News Humpday Headlines: A Tesla Drive-In Movie Theater? A judge could decide the fate of the VTA workers' strike; The Atlantic has published all of the Signal thread from those Trump officials; and Elon Musk is looking to open a Tesla charging station that doubles as a 24-hour diner and drive-in theater.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Napster Still Exists, Somehow Just Sold for $207 Million A toxic algae bloom is killing sea lions all over the California coast; Elon Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ emails are now creating bouncebacks because the mailbox is full; and the dead, dusty bones of Napster just sold for more than $200 million.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Fires Football Coach Troy Taylor After Bullying Scandal, People Want Them To Hire Andrew Luck The once-mighty Stanford football program just fired its coach amid a four-season tailspin, and some are clamoring for star quarterback Andrew Luck, who’s been recently hired to run the football program from an administrative standpoint.
SF News Watch: Older Woman In Berkeley Gives a Whoopin’ to Pro-Trump Counterprotester Who Tried to Stun-Gun Her The Bay Area’s latest viral video star is a woman who opened a can of whoop-ass on some young Trumper half her age after he tried to stun-gun her at a Berkeley Tesla protest Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Appears to Be Plotting a New Fine Dining Restaurant Where His Old One Used to Be In the Westin St. Francis There are few details and zero confirmations so far from the hotel or the MINA Group, but all signs point to an impending return of celebrity chef Michael Mina to the grand space off the lobby at the Westin St. Francis, after an ongoing renovation is complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Brucato, a New Restaurant and Distillery Tasting Room, Opening Next Month In the Mission A trendy new local maker of excellent amari — Italian-style, herbal digestif and aperitif liqueurs — Brucato Amaro, has set an opening date for their first tasting room, which is doubling as a full-service restaurant and cocktail bar.
SF Politics Ousted Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone Speaks Out, Blasts Both Lurie and Breed Freshly fired SF Police Commissioner VP Max Carter-Oberstone gave a lengthy exit interview, and painted both Mayor Lurie and ex-Mayor London Breed as being imperious, vindictive, and defensively secretive.
SF News San Francisco Federal Buildings Spared, For Now, as GSA Pares Down Its List of Real Estate to Sell Two federally owned office buildings in San Francisco, one dating to the 1930s and the other a contemporary architectural landmark built less than 20 years ago, are not on the drastically pared-down list of "assets for disposition" now on the General Services Administration website.
SF News Union Square Chanel Store Rammed by Car In Apparent Smash-and-Grab Attempt Yet another would-be smash-and-grab was unsuccessful at the Union Square Chanel store early Monday morning, though the would-be burglars did serious damage to the storefront, and police suspect the same burglars tried this again at a nearby McDonald’s.
SF News Oakland and Half Moon Bay Both Broke High-Temp Records Monday This mini-heatwave we're having, a welcome introduction to the official spring season — even though the Bay may still be in for some wintry turns before all is said and done — included some record-setting high temperatures on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Doja Cat, Hozier, and Tyler, the Creator to Headline Outside Lands 2025 The lineup is out, as expected, this morning, and it includes several of the guessed-at acts that were teased in videos by the promoters over the weekend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara County Raises Trans Flag The trans flag has been raised in front of Santa Clara County's Government Center, where it will remain indefinitely; the innocent passenger killed in a high-speed-chase crash in Pittsburg has been identified; and a Trump-appointed judge on the Ninth Circuit made a questionable gun video.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Hall Bad at Rooting Out Conflicts of Interest A new report confirms what everyone knows about SF City Hall and conflicts of interest; Willie Brown is auctioning off some of his wardrobe; and the Trump administration has made its first of likely many jaw-dropping military intelligence flubs.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Is Back at the Chase Center This Weekend, But Ticket Demand Is Surprisingly Weak The March Madness college basketball “Sweet 16” games come back to the Chase Center Thursday, but ticket prices for the games here are slumping, thanks to low-interest match-ups of schools that are located 2,000 or so miles away.
SF News Flight to Shanghai Diverted to SFO, Because the Pilot Forgot Their Passport The latest major US airline snafu does not involve any of Elon Musk’s DOGE staffing cuts, but instead just some United Airlines pilot forgetting their passport, forcing an emergency landing at SFO.
SF News Great Highway Walls Vandalized Yet Again, With Angry Graffiti From Apparent Park-Haters Saturday night was the second time since the Great Highway closed that its concrete walls were defaced with graffiti, this time with misspelled messages of “gentriffy” and “Your bringing trouble.”
SF Politics Another Federal Judge Pushes Back on Trump Immigration Action, Suggests It's Racist Another federal judge in San Francisco is voicing concern about the legality of an action being taken by the Trump administration, and suggesting that deporting hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan migrants with legal status may just be racist.
SF News Bail Set for $1.5M for Napa Mother Arrested In DUI That Left Two Kids Dead A mother who was arrested and charged with DUI and vehicular manslaughter last week made her first court appearance Monday after being released from the hospital in Napa County.
SF News New 16th Street Police Presence Just Moving Blight to Nearby Alleys, Residents Say The hulking police RV and crew of officers now stationed at 16th and Mission may have cleaned up that one corner, but has moved new pockets of crime and drug bazaars to nearby small alleys, making life for residents there a newfound hell.
Arts & Entertainment Charli XCX, Doechii, and Olivia Rodrigo Among the Possibly Teased Headliners of Outside Lands 2025 The organizers of Outside Lands have once again used a set of visual clues to tease the lineup of this year's festival, with some of the clues a bit more obvious than others.
SF News Wife of Slain Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi Located and Arrested In Mexico The wife and sole suspect in the murder of a Cal Fire captain in Southern California last month has been taken into custody and will face a murder charge in San Diego County.
SF News Amidst 'Fiscal Cliff’ Panic, Scott Wiener Introduces BART and Muni Funding Package As fears set in that BART trains would run just once an hour and Muni might cut frequency by 50%, state Senator Scott Wiener is proposing a funding package to save them, but it involves voters approving a new sales tax.
