Arts & Entertainment Yes, Elon Musk’s Brother Is on the Burning Man Board of Directors Burning Man has added Elon Musk’s younger brother Kimbal Musk to its board of directors, stoking concern among Burners about connections between the annual desert event and the new Republican tech oligarchy overhauling the US government.
SF News Residents Sign Petition, Push Back on 22-Story Highrise In Outer Sunset Once again there is opposition to a large development on San Francisco's sleepy west side, and while the latest proposal isn't massively out of scale like the last one, it is still much bigger than anything the Outer Sunset has ever seen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels & Lox Announces New FiDi Location Local bagel purveyor Schlok's, which has won a cadre of fans who line up most mornings for their bagels at their Fell Street window, just announced a second location in downtown SF.
SF News Sutter Health Announces a New Billion-Dollar Medical Center In the Middle of Emeryville Move over, IKEA! Emeryville’s most visited new destination may become a just-announced $1 billion Sutter Health medical center, as the Berkeley area was soon to lose its last remaining full-service hospital.
SF News Report: Trump and Musk Want to Sell Off Two SF Federal Buildings There are reports that the Trump administration plans to shutter and sell off hundreds of US federal buildings around the country, including two in SF. It’s being sold as “efficiency,” but is probably just a middle finger to SF and Nancy Pelosi.
SF News Man Who Killed Maddy Middleton When He Was a Teenager Denied Parole By Jury Adrian 'AJ' Gonzalez has been ordered to remain in prison following a lengthy jury trial to determine whether he remains a potential threat to the public.
SF News Trump Orders Presidio Trust 'Eliminated' But That May Not Happen Another night in Washington and another executive order from Trump, this one ordering the elimination of four specific federal entities, including the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, declaring them examples of "waste and abuse."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Lurie Wants City Budget to Be Balanced Mayor Lurie is ordering 15% to 20% cuts across city departments; federal workers protest outside Tesla's Van Ness showroom; and Rep. Eric Swalwell hosts a packed town hall in the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Boy In Critical Condition After Outer Sunset Shooting A boy was shot near 37th and Santiago in the Outer Sunset Wednesday afternoon; an arrest has been made in the Feb. 3 hit-and-run in Oakland that killed a Berkeley professor; and China Live is likely staying put.
SF News Duboce Triangle Rattled After Monday Morning Shooting Spree Leaves Bullet Holes In Multiple Cars and Houses A 3:30 am shooting spree Monday morning in Duboce Triangle did not leave anyone injured or hit by gunfire, but multiple cars and houses had bullet holes, and 17 casings were recovered near Castro and Waller streets.
SF News Yet Another Battery Fire at Monterey County’s Moss Landing Power Plant, Just 33 Days After Its Last Battery Fire Following last month’s lithium battery fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, another fire broke out at the same plant Tuesday night, but this one did not require the evacuation of 1,200 people like the last one did.
SF News 'Zizian' Group Member Arrested In Sonoma Protest Confirmed Alive, Estranged From Group One figure who has been unaccounted for in the last couple of years as the so-called Zizian cult took a violent turn, Gwen Danielson, was rumored online to have taken her own life. Her father confirms that is not the case.
SF News Cold Case Murder of Woman Found In Tilden Park In 1990 Is Solved Through DNA A 35-year-old unsolved mystery from the East Bay has been solved, however the murder suspect is not around to face justice.
SF Politics Candidates Running to Replace Sheng Thao Face Off In First Oakland Mayoral Forum Three candidates running to replace the recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao had a mayoral forum Tuesday night, as that April 15 special election is starting to heat up between Barbara Lee, Loren Taylor, and Renia Webb.
SF News Does San Francisco Need to Appoint a 'Rat Czar'? A recent study confirmed what people have been noticing in San Francisco in recent years: We seem to have more rats than ever before. What is the city doing about it?
Business & Tech Sam Altman’s Other Startup Reportedly Looking to Lease 60,000 Square Feet In Mission Rock OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has another startup you may not have heard about called World that controversially collects biometric data, and it’s in talks to scoop up a reported two floors of a newly opened office building in Mission Rock.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Tyler Florence Walks Away From Union Square Cafes, b. patisserie May Move In Tyler Florence's much-publicized move into two empty restaurant spaces in Union Square is over after only a year, despite getting a grant from the city to help with the area's revitalization.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Paul Pelosi Receives Kidney Transplant Paul Pelosi just received a donated kidney from his daughter; the new owner of the Transamerica Pyramid is seeking high office rents; and court clerks in Alameda County are on strike today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Polo Ralph Lauren Store Is Coming to San Francisco Mayor Lurie has named his new SFMTA director; California may crack down on power-guzzling data centers; and SF’s first Polo Ralph Lauren store brings a bit of positive retail news to the city.
SF News More ‘Low Cost’ Liquor Licenses Coming to Union Square if Mayor Lurie and Scott Wiener Get Their Way State senator Scott Wiener and SF Mayor Daniel Lurie have teamed up on a quest to add 20 more “low cost” liquor licenses to Union Square in hopes of bubbling up more economic recovery in the neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Opening Event Returns to Day Drinking In Salesforce Park The big opening festival day for SF Beer Week — a Bay Area-wide event that encompasses hundreds of events at bars and breweries — is happening this Saturday in San Francisco, and it's returning to the smaller-format, outdoor setup it had two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bob’s Donuts on Polk Street Opens Friday, Just 300 Feet From the Old Bob’s Donuts on Polk Street After months of controversy over a substantial rent hike, Polk Street’s 24-hour fresh donut mecca Bob’s Donuts will open their much-ballyhooed new location across the street Friday, with a tote bag giveaway and multiple donut-eating contests.
SF News Arrests of Alleged 'Zizian' Cult Members Came After Another Dispute With a Landlord The three individuals tied to a cult-like group that has been linked to two Bay Area deaths and four on the East Coast were apparently up to their old tricks in rural Maryland when they were arrested on Sunday.
SF News Concord Police Shoot and Kill Man Who Was Allegedly Stabbing His Father Police in Concord were called to the scene around 1:30 am Tuesday morning on reports that a stabbing was in progress, reportedly that of a son stabbing his father, and police shot and killed that suspect after a standoff.
SF News North Bay Congressman Blasts Musk and Trump for Firing Wine Country Wildfire Smoke Researchers The DOGE mass-firings could have serious consequences come wildfire season, as Elon Musk has fired the UC Davis smoke researchers who were working on ways to mitigate the effects of wildfire smoke on wine grapes. And wine country’s congressional rep is furious.
