Chase Strangio is the first transgender attorney to argue a case before the US Supreme Court. Strangio’s story is told in a documentary at next week’s Frameline film festival, and the court’s decision is also expected to come down during Frameline.
Screens are everywhere in 'Co-Founders,' the inventive, tech-centric, Bay Area-set new musical that just had its world premiere Thursday at ACT's Strand Theater. And, just maybe, it presents a vision for how technology will integrate into the musical theater we see produced in the coming years.
Ciaorigato opens its doors in the Tenderloin, Toy Boat comes back to life in the Richmond, and a Michelin-star husband-and-wife team resurfaces with a new spot in Menlo Park, all in This Week in Food.
Miguel Angel Lopez has lived in the Bay Area for 27 years, and is father to three US citizens. But the “law and order” Trump administration has ignored legal orders to let him stay here, and he was just deported to Mexico.
SF streets will be packed with people protesting Trump and ICE at Saturday’s “No Kings” rally, but in a Friday press conference with Mayor Lurie, Sheriff Paul Yamamoto declared “Our jails are prepared to accept guests with no reservations.”
In some very good news for fans of the former Benjamin Cooper and its cozy, hidden-from-the-street space near Union Square, it has reopened as a new bar with a similarly sexy vibe.
Two years into her already reduced, nine-year prison sentence, convicted healthcare fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has put her lawyers to work again in the hope of getting her sentence reduced by another two years due to her upstanding behavior as an inmate.
California Senator Alex Padilla is getting newfound stardom after he was shockingly wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a DHS press conference Thursday, and the little-known, soft-spoken senator just got a much higher-profile.
A second medical emergency in five days at North Berkeley BART disrupted train service Friday morning; a meth-laced greeting card was intercepted at Santa Rita Jail; and 'Luigi: The Musical' opens tonight.
A federal judge issued a restraining order Thursday and declared President Trump's move to federalize the National Guard in Los Angeles "illegal," but two hours later, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit temporarily blocked that order.
Trump signed his measure today blocking California’s electric vehicle mandate; Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has of course been delayed again; and PG&E’s so-called “upgrade” of their online system has locked a ton of customers out of their accounts.
BART officials are revising their explanation of why a fire broke out on the tracks of the San Leandro station and affected service for days, and the problem is apparently a “systemwide” issue that could come up again at any of the 50 BART stations.
A mixed bag in a new legal ruling about a big and contentious Berkeley homeless encampment, as a judge says the encampment can be swept, but people with disabilities camping there are allowed to stay put and leave their stuff.
It's been a colder-than-average June thus far in San Francisco, with a stubborn marine layer that barely clears much of the city in the afternoons, keeping temperatures a few degrees below average.
The work of queer photographer William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) went under-appreciated during his lifetime, which was cut short by AIDS, though in recent years his photographs of life in the Haight-Ashbury just before the Summer of Love have resurfaced thanks to a 2021 book of his work.
The Los Angeles ICE raids are spreading northward in California, with new workplace raids targeting immigrant farmworkers now taking place along the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley, and employees are terrified to go to work.
Someone managed to drive their Tesla Model S into the middle of Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights overnight and left it there.
The Trump dictatorship now features goons wrestling with and forcibly removing a United States senator from an event at a federal office building because he was apparently asking questions they didn't like.
A San Francisco supervisor made an emergency trip to SFO late Wednesday night after learning that two Palestinian men with valid visas who had traveled here to speak at interfaith events around the Bay were being denied entry to the US.
SF author Rebecca Solnit had her Facebook account suspended after she posted an essay about the LA protests, but Facebook undid the suspension about 24 hours later, and this all likely happened because of the slapdash AI that Facebook uses for content moderation.
Relatives of the woman found dead Sunday in Napa say she was pregnant with twins; the legal showdown between CA and the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment heads to court today; and over 200 people are dead in a plane crash in India.
Burglars targeted the home of Brian Montana, the man shot by South SF police in April, and his widow; the FBI is looking for a woman they say led an aggressive skirmish during an ICE protest in Concord; and the entire board of the Fulbright Scholarship program has resigned because of Trump meddling.
The May 28 killing of Oakland high school math teacher Dr. Marvin Boomer when he was struck by a speeding vehicle the CHP was chasing has set off more debate over high-speed police chases, and now the Highway Patrol has released video of the pursuit.
San Francisco and the nation’s first Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger has reached the end of the two-year tenure of that position, but dig in your heels, because the city is on the verge of announcing our next SF Drag Laureate.
A new fish counter, with both a fast-casual restaurant and a fish market component, has just opened at the Ferry Building from Nopa chef-owner Laurence Jossel.
