Bay Area Sports Charles Barkley Donates $250K to Glide After Years of Dissing SF Whether he's just a good Samaritan after all or his PR team decided he needed to make amends, NBA commentator Charles Barkley ponied up $250,000 to help the poor and homeless in San Francisco while he was here for All-Star Weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lunar New Year Celebration Draws Big Crowd A dragon drone show had to be canceled for Saturday's Chinese New Year celebration due to technical problems; protesters march from San Mateo to SF; and DOGE is accessing IRS records.
Business & Tech The Search for Ethical Tech Alternatives As major tech companies become more invasive, users are turning to privacy-focused alternatives. Proton has a solid suite of offerings, but mixing things up is probably the way to go.
Arts & Entertainment Tripling in Size, The Tenderloin Museum Doubles Down on Its Legacy The Tenderloin Museum is tripling in size, adding a neon gallery, and relaunching 'Compton’s Cafeteria Riot' to honor the neighborhood’s rich history of activism, nightlife, and LGBTQ+ resistance.
SF News Thieves Are Obsessed With The Berkeley North Face Outlet Store One of several suspected thieves to target the Berkeley North Face Outlet store is Brezjana Wilson, who was arrested last month after she was allegedly captured on surveillance footage rappelling through a skylight into the store.
SF News Sunday Links: Protesters Rally Outside Tesla Showrooms Discouraging Buyers Protestors gathered outside of Tesla showrooms across the Bay Area calling for a boycott yesterday; a group of activists in Kentucky recently purchased land that was being considered for a new federal prison; and Canadian sports fans are booing the American anthem at international games.
Arts & Entertainment New Book Reframes The Story of Magid Bateh, The Young Arab Boy Accused Of Burning Down Jefferson Elementary School in 1959 Local author Raine Bajalia-Evans recently released a book about her uncle Magid Bateh, who in 1959 was wrongfully accused of burning down his school in the Sunset in 1959.
Arts & Entertainment 'Back to the Future: The Musical' Is a Kitchsy and Fun (If Forced) Take on the Classic Film The latest movie-to-musical adaptation to hit the national tour circuit is 'Back to the Future: The Musical,' and I may be in the minority among the theater-going public in wishing it was more than just a spectacle.
Arts & Entertainment Ruth Asawa's Arts Education Advocacy, 'San Francisco Fountain', Honored This Week The city of San Francisco declared February 12th Ruth Asawa Day back in 1982, Asawa's 'San Francisco Fountain' turned 52 yesterday, and tickets to SFMOMA's Ruth Asawa Retrospective go on sale soon.
Politics White Teen Sues UCSF Benioff Over Internship For Minority Students Conservative law firm Pacific Legal Foundation, which pursues cases against diversity and inclusion, is suing UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital on behalf of a white high school student in Berkeley.
SF News Saturday Links: Amy Tan's Personal Archives Added To U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library Collection ESPN announcer misidentifies Golden Gate Bridge; education park ranger writes heartfelt message after sudden firing; California ranks third in the country to be single.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Giant Pillow Fight Is Back On The giant pillow fight is back at Embarcadero tonight; the man suspected of murdering Too Short’s brother turns himself in; and some experts think Kamala Harris might be seriously considering running for California governor.
Bay Area Sports Sotheby’s Is Auctioning Off the NBA All-Star Game Players’ Game-Worn Jerseys, Including Steph Curry’s Should you be willing to spend several thousand dollars on the exact jersey that Steph Curry or LeBron James will be wearing in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, Sotheby’s is selling them, and right now the bidding for Steph’s jersey is at $13,000.
SF Politics Wingnuts Impersonating DOGE Officials Enter SF City Hall, Demand to 'See Files' Let the emboldened nutjob lunacy begin! Much like in the first year of Trump's first presidency, we can expect there to be uprisings and shenanigans here in the Bay Area by his — and Elon Musk's — emboldened acolytes.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, You Can Just Sit Home and Watch the Chinese New Year Parade on TV or the Internet Should you prefer to avoid the crowds but still watch Saturday’s Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown, you can still catch the biggest Chinese New Year Parade outside of Asia just by tuning in on TV or the internet livestream.
Business & Tech Uh-Oh: Reddit Says It Will Start to Paywall Some of Its Subreddits The free ride might be over soon for Reddit lovers, as the company’s CEO said on a Thursday ‘Ask Me Anything’ that they might start charging subscriptions for certain Subreddits.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Behold Piccino Presidio Piccino Presidio debuts, Outer Orbit's future looks uncertain, and The Morris team branches out with a French-inspired spot in Oakland's Grand Lake, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics The Expected Mass Firing of Biden-Appointed US Attorneys Is Underway, Including Northern California’s The frankly expected firing of most US Attorneys appointed by Biden has come to pass, and our US Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail Ramsey just got the axe.
SF News 25-Year-Old Australian Woman Arrested at SFO With Alleged 20 Kilos of Meth An Australian woman says she was offered a free vacation to San Francisco if she agreed to transport a suitcase containing 20 kilos of methamphetamine.
SF News ICE Might Be Looking to Use Shuttered Dublin Women's Prison as Immigrant Detention Center The nightmare of undocumented immigrants being rounded up en masse into camps could be closer to reality than we think, as a rumor is now out there that ICE has been sniffing around FCI Dublin, the shuttered women's prison in the East Bay.
Bay Area Sports Yes, Charles Barkley Is In San Francisco for NBA All-Star Weekend, and Local Fans Have Already Booed Him Despite NBA television personality Charles Barkley’s claim that he was “not going to that rat-infested place out in San Francisco” for the NBA All-Star Game, he is very much here, and was quickly booed on-air Thursday as he gleefully antagonized local fans.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Landslides Temporarily Block 101-S Lanes In Marin Three separate landslides blocked multiple lanes of US 101 southbound in Sausalito Thursday night; PG&E posts another record profit; and TikTok is back in the Apple and Google app stores.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rain Expected to Let Up by Noon Friday, Shouldn't Ruin Big Weekend Witnesses say they didn’t even hear police sirens before Sunday’s police car chase parklet crash; there will be no “men vs women” three-point shooting contest at the NBA All-Star festivities; and the rain has already canceled one NBA party but showers are expected to end.
SF Politics More San Mateo County Sheriff Drama; Deputies Accused of Sleeping on the Job, Allowing a Rape Behind Their Back There’s more soap opera developments with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, with two county judges sending a letter that deputies were sleeping or playing on their phones while watching prisoners, and allowed a rape while they weren’t looking.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Felt In SF Comes After Series of Small Temblors In Hayward Is something happening on the Hayward Fault? We can't say if these are precursors to something bigger or just your average minor earthquake swarm. But the Hayward Fault has been moving today.
