SF News Saturday Links: 1,200 Anti-Trump Protests Nationwide, SF’s Civic Center Saturday A huge protest will be at Civic Center today alongside 1,200 others nationwide; Concord landlords paid fake activists to wear "Repeal Rent Control" shirts to a city council meeting; and the 2025 Sunday Streets schedule has been announced.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Law Firm Sues Trump On Behalf of 500 Firms Usha Vance's former law firm filed a federal lawsuit against Trump, along with more than 500 others; shots were fired during an armed robbery in Brentwood on Friday afternoon; and an American "danger tourist" visited remote, indigenous North Sentinel Island, leaving behind a Coke.
SF Politics 49ers’ Favorite Perjury-Committing Santa Clara Elected Official Avoids Jail, Gets 40 Days of County Work Former Santa Clara city councilmember Anthony Becker was convicted of perjury for trying to do the 49ers a favor, but he won’t do jail time, and will just get 40 days of community service.
SF News Rents Rose Last Year In SF Faster Than Any Other US City San Francisco's notoriously high rents are on the rise again, and fast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Outer Sunset Gets a Fancy New Brewpub A new brewpub and bar called Fifty Vara debuts in the Sunset, Draymond Green's new Civic Center restaurant Meski opens its doors, and Niku Steakhouse is temporarily closed by a fire, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech Trump Extends TikTok Ban/Sale Another 75 Days, as Tariffs Blow Up Current Deal Just as a deal to place TikTok in the hands of US owners was almost in place, China pulled ByteDance out of that deal in response to our tariffs, though Trump is selling this as him just extending the deadline.
Arts & Entertainment Eddie Izzard Shows Endurance and Wit In Solo 'Hamlet' Great comedians sometimes make for great actors, and Suzy Eddie Izzard joins those ranks with her solo performance of 'Hamlet,' now playing at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF News San Pablo Police Report Strange Pattern of Elderly People Being Targeted for Thefts by Seemingly Good Samaritans A new pattern of theft popping up in San Pablo is hardly the smash-and-grab variety, but one where some apparently nice youngsters roll up in a car offering free jewelry, only to steal elderly peoples’ real jewelry.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown First Thursdays Announces Extension of Event Through End of Year Downtown First Thursdays (DFT) celebrated a full 12 months of monthly parties on Thursday night with Mayor Daniel Lurie and around 18,000 people in attendance.
SF News Steph Curry’s Company Abruptly Kills Off Plans to Build His Business Headquarters In Dogpatch A stunning reversal after Steph Curry’s off-court business Thirty Ink made the splashy $8.5 million purchase of a new Dogpatch headquarters, as Curry’s people now say they’re backing out of the deal over some bizarre squabble over union carpenters.
SF Politics Newsom Wants to Negotiate Separately For California With Global Trading Partners, Asks for Tariff Exemptions Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday asked other countries to exempt California exports from retaliatory tariffs, in an effort to save the state's agricultural industry in particular amid Trump's asinine trade war.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Small Earthquake Rattles East Bay The City of San Francisco just canceled a number of grants given under the Dream Keepers initiative; a 3.1M earthquake rumbled north of Concord Friday morning; and the death toll in the LA wildfires just rose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron Lays Off 600 Employees at San Ramon Headquarters A big ol’ dirt truck overturned and sullied I-680 in the East Bay; the well-reviewed Carol Doda documentary is now on streaming; and Chevron is laying off 600 San Ramon employees.
SF News The Removal of the Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness Just Got One Step Closer to Reality SF’s formula retail ban might be removed from a 23-block stretch of Van Ness Avenue, as the SF Planning Commission just unanimously passed a recommendation to exempt Van Ness from limits on large chain stores.
Business & Tech Bay Area Tech Stocks Get Destroyed By Trump Tariffs, SF CEO Screams Obscenity on Live Earnings Call Remember when all those Bay Area tech CEOs cuddled up to Trump with $1 million inauguration donations? Boy did that just blow up in their faces! They lost billions today, and one yelled “Oh sh*t!” when he checked his stock on a live earnings call.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Canceled Due to Lack of Funds The annual Fillmore Jazz Festival, which typically livens up the stretch of Fillmore Street from Turk up to California Street over July 4th weekend, has been canceled for 2025.
SF Politics Suspended SF City Hall Director Now Claims She Was Ousted For Whistleblowing On a Sex-Abuse Case The strange case of an allegedly moonlighting City Hall director just got stranger, as she claims she wasn’t put on leave over a side gig, but because she was about to blow the whistle on “the sexual abuse of a minor in a city-funded foster care program.”
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Tickets Will Be Doled Out By Lottery This Year, and Community Box Offices The organizers of the annual Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco are switching things up again for the summer concert series, after a few post-pandemic years in which a first-come-first-serve, online ticketing system left many fans out of luck.
SF News Family of Bob Lee Sues Momeni Family For Cover-Up, and Condo Building For Releasing Post-Stabbing Footage The promised civil lawsuit arrived late last week from the brother, ex-wife, and children of late tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and it accuses the family of Nima Momeni of helping him to cover up his crime.
Arts & Entertainment First Ever Pride Music Festival Comes to Pier 80 on Pride Weekend, Featuring Kehlani, Tinashe, and Kim Petras A first-of-its-kind music festival is taking over the same pier that Portola happens on this Pride Weekend, giving fans a new place to celebrate Pride Saturday.
SF Politics Feds Release New Sheng Thao Documents, Showing Depth of Her Boyfriend’s City Hall Involvement Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s romantic partner Andre Jones is accused of taking a $95,000 no-show job from Thao’s big-bucks donors. But newly released documents say he showed up plenty on high-price junkets to Vietnam and the SXSW festival.
Arts & Entertainment Claude the Albino Alligator Gets His Own Webcam as Academy of Sciences Rings In 172 Years A live webcam feed of Claude, the California Academy of Sciences' famed albino alligator, launches Friday morning as part of Academy Day.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Body Found In Car on 101-S A dead body was found in the backseat of a car parked on the shoulder of 101 in San Mateo; a man was shot in an armed robbery in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood; and VTA train service returns today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pleasanton Man Confesses to Killing Mother A 31-year-old Pleasanton man turned himself in for the killing of his mother; a power outage hit the Castro, Noe Valley, and Mission; and new details have emerged in the 2023 Nashville school shooting.
Arts & Entertainment New Website Lets You Tour and Check Out the View From the Top of Sutro Tower You are not allowed to climb up to the top of Sutro Tower. But a new “immersive” feature on the tower’s official website lets you walk around the top of the tower and enjoy the view, though it is definitely not for people who have a fear of heights.
