Arts & Entertainment World Premiere Play 'The Thing About Jellyfish' Dazzles at Berkeley Rep Ali Benjamin's acclaimed 2015 young-adult novel The Thing About Jellyfish has now been adapted for the stage, and Berkeley Rep hosted the play's world premiere this week.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Google Removes Pledge From Its Website That It Won’t Use AI For Weapons Or Surveillance Bob Geary, 1980s ventriloquist cop, has died; Trump dumped 2.2 billion gallons of water from two California lakes last weekend; and a Wisconsin Democrat is set to introduce a bill called “Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy.”
SF News SF Zoo’s Last Remaining Male Gorilla, Oscar Jonesy, Has Died at Age 43 San Francisco and the SF Zoo’s gorilla preserve are mourning Thursday's death of 43-year-old Western Lowland gorilla Oscar Jonesy, who died unexpectedly following a medical procedure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Cassava Returns as Tiny Cafe The Cassava team is back with a new downtown cafe, Smoke Soul Kitchen debuts next week in the Bayview, and a new bar and restaurant has moved into the former Starline Social Club in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF News It’s On: San Francisco Sues Trump Administration Over Sanctuary City Crackdown SF City Attorney David Chiu is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration for targeting sanctuary cities, and Chiu’s odds may be good, because his office brought the same lawsuit against Trump in 2017 — and won.
SF News Lawsuit Filed Against Hercules Cops Who Tased a Man Who Suffered Epileptic Seizure A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Hercules Police Department and three officers over an April 2024 incident in which the officers forcibly restrained and tased a 21-year-old man who had just suffered his first-ever grand mal seizure.
SF News Development Delayed at Vacant Mission and 22nd Lot, Concerns Owner Is Profiteering Off Deadly 2015 Fire A 2015 fire at 22nd and Mission Streets fueled a theory that landlords were torching their own properties for profit. The site still sits empty and neglected, and the SF Planning Commission just delayed a plan for its notorious landlord to make that handsome profit.
SF News Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Makes First Appearance In Federal Court Recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first court appearance at a procedural hearing Thursday in federal court in Oakland, and the judge seemed to be throwing some shade in her direction.
SF News Vapor Room Owner Martin Olive Speaks After Being Shot Seven Times, Says He Did Not Know His Shooter Nearly two weeks after being shot on Ninth Street in front of his dispensary, Martin Olive is recovering well and giving interviews, and says he never met or interacted with the upstairs neighbor who tried to kill him.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kids Keep Climbing on This New Sculpture In Hayes Valley A knife-wielding homeless man injured an SFPD officer in NoPa; Nima Momeni is due in court today to schedule sentencing; and people keep climbing on this new sculpture at Patricia's Green.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shen Yun Reportedly Under Federal Investigation Over Visa Fraud Dogpatch’s Esprit Park has reopened after an $8.5 million remodel; the Castro creep who was allegedly exposing himself to teens has been charged; and Shen Yun is apparently under a federal DHS investigation for possible visa fraud.
SF News SF Zoo Already Advertising the Job ‘Assistant Curator of Giant Pandas' You’re not being bamboo-zled, the San Francisco Zoo is already advertising the job “Assistant Curator of Giant Pandas,” and they say the salary range is between $67,000-$72,000 per year, even though this panda thing is not a done deal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Sports Bar, Splash, Opens Friday Next to Chase Center One week ahead of the big All Star Game, the massive new sports bar Splash at Thrive City has opened, with 30,000 square feet of space for eating, drinking, game watching, and game playing.
SF News Mayor Lurie Launches SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ to Bolster Union Square Ahead of All-Star Game, Lunar New Year While this new SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ arrives the weekend before the double-team of the NBA All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade, the reconfigured police staffing will be in effect year-round in the Union Square tourism district.
SF News Lake Berryessa's 'Glory Hole' Spillway Activated For the First Time In Six Years Locals and regional water nerds alike have been flocking to see the massive, circular drainpipe-style spillway in action at Lake Berryessa this week, the first time it's been active since 2019.
SF News Bob Lee Murder Case Gets 'Dateline' Treatment Friday The 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco, a story very familiar to readers of SFist by now but maybe not to the rest of the country, will be featured in Friday's episode of 'Dateline' on NBC.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Find Some of the Much Sought-After Triple IPA Pliny the Younger This Weekend Russian River Brewing's perennial cult favorite beer Pliny the Younger — the rabid, continued popularity and cult status of which is baffling to some but completely justified to others — is more plentiful than it used to be.
SF News Oakland Firefighters Sound the Alarm Over Oakland Fire Station Closures in the Wake of LA Fires You might say Oakland firefighters have their hair on fire over the recent closures of two city fire stations, with four more closures potentially looming, as response times have more than doubled, and the risk of SoCal-style wildfire outbreaks has ballooned.
SF News Richmond Police Investigated By Attorney General Over Shooting of Unarmed Man A Tuesday shooting by Richmond police that was initially described as a standoff with a domestic violence suspect is being investigated by the California Attorney General's Office.
SF News Person Found Fatally Shot Behind Whole Foods In Redwood City A person was found dead of a gunshot wound Thursday morning in Redwood City, on a suburban street behind a Whole Foods.
SF News Two Found Dead In Standing Waters In Very Flooded Santa Rosa The body of an unidentified male of an unknown age was discovered in the waters of the extremely flooded roads of Santa Rosa early Thursday morning, bringing the death toll to two as Sonoma County continues to get walloped by rain.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Co. Leaders Urge Voters to Oust Sheriff San Mateo County leaders have launched their "Yes on A" campaign to oust Sheriff Christina Corpus; an Oakland man was convicted of pimping in Solano County; and today's storm is expected to bring high winds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian River Towns Flood In Low-Lying Areas Evacuation orders due to flooding remain in place along the Russian River; Oakland business owners are mad at Ayesha Curry; and NorCal reservoirs are quite full now.
SF News Landslide Destroys Sonoma County Home Rebuilt After 2017 Tubbs Fire A couple's home on Deer Trail Court in Santa Rosa was severely damaged, possibly beyond repair, in a landslide Tuesday evening after a day of heavy rains. And, tragically, this home had been rebuilt on the burn scar left from their previous home lost in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Is Determined to Fire Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone SF Police Commission Vice President Max Carter-Oberstone became famous for blowing the whistle on London Breed when she forced commissioners to sign secret resignation letters. Now new Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to fire him outright.
