SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sup. Sherrill Wants to Make It Easier for Movie Theaters to Serve Booze In what could be a high-octane shot for movie theaters across SF, District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill hopes to relax the rules around giving liquor licenses to movie theaters, so that more theaters can serve beer and wine.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Large Tree Falls on Nob Hill After Water Main Break Prop 50's big win is being seen as a major victory for Newsom; a 78-year-old Santa Rosa man got a 3-year sentence for his 10th DUI; and we can expect rain off and on throughout the day Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Atmospheric River Storm Coming Tomorrow Morning Muni underground service conked out for a while Tuesday morning; Trader Joe’s peaches are now part of the listeria scare; and the very wet business of atmospheric river storms is expected to return Wednesday morning.
SF Politics Trump Already Claiming Today’s Prop 50 Vote Is Rigged, Threatening Lawsuit The polls have not yet even closed on California’s Prop 50 redistricting measure, but Trump is already insisting that the vote is “rigged,” which means he knows Prop 50 is going to win by a landslide and is looking for excuses.
SF News 26-Year-Old U-Haul Driver Described By Other Protesters as 'Lone Actor' Charged With Assaulting Federal Officers A 26-year-old man is now facing federal charges for a bizarre act that capped off a mostly peaceful day of protests outside the Coast Guard facility where federal agents were being staged for a local operation that called off by President Trump.
Arts & Entertainment Latinx Drag Queens to Put on Anti-ICE Show at Oakland's White Horse Friday A trio of Latinx drag performers are putting on a show Friday in Oakland in protest of ICE — and the cast includes recently detained performer Hilary Rivers, who spent three months in ICE detention.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off the Grid Food Truck Party Getting Its Own Holiday Food Pop-Up In Union Square The folks behind the beloved local food truck meetup series Off the Grid are getting their own brick-and-mortar place in Union Square’s former Uniqlo store, and the place will be called Off the Grid’s Holiday Food Market.
SF Politics Senator Alex Padilla Will Not Run For Governor, Will Remain In Senate California Senator Alex Padilla announced Tuesday that he will not be seeking the governor's office in 2026, as he'd been rumored to be considering in the last two months. Instead, he will remain in the Senate through the end of Trump's current term.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Holding Rally for Cat Slain by Waymo, Promises Autonomous Car Legislation There's a rally Tuesday afternoon for the bodega cat KitKat who was run over by a Waymo, and it’s being organized by Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who’s vowing legislation for local controls of self-driving vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment Bevy of Queer Performers Added to Reopening Slate at Castro Theatre After the reopening residency by Sam Smith is done in March, Another Planet Entertainment has booked a slate of queer (and/or queer-friendly) performers for the Castro Theatre, in a clear gesture of good will toward the LGBTQ+ community in the neighborhood.
Business & Tech Convicted Crypto Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Appealing Conviction, Wants Retrial or Trump Pardon Notorious cryptocurrency huckster Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a new trial on all the fraud counts that netted him a 25-year prison sentence, while his parents are angling to get Trump to give their rich-kid son a pardon.
SF News Macy's Not Closing Anytime Soon, Will Partner With Local Developer to Redevelop Union Square Property In what surely seems like a win for downtown and for Mayor Daniel Lurie, regardless of whether he had a hand in it, Macy's has confirmed that it will not be closing its Union Square flagship store anytime soon, and will instead work with a developer to reimagine the property.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dick Cheney Is Dead Former VP Dick Cheney has died at age 84; wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour are forecast in the storm that's arriving on Wednesday; and East Bay Congressmen Swalwell and DeSaulnier say ICE is ramping up activity on Election Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video Released of Oakland Museum Heist Surveillance video is out from last month's Oakland Museum heist; Supervisor Jackie Fielder is calling for AV regulation after the death of KitKat the bodega cat; and the situation with air traffic controllers may be getting worse.
SF News Vaillancourt Fountain Will Now Likely Be Removed, as SF Arts Commission Approves Taking the Fountain Down A 15-month-long controversy over the possible removal of the brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is over, as the SF Arts Commission just voted 8-5 to take it down, though they say it will be put into storage and it could possibly be rebuilt.
SF News Two People Killed in Early Monday Morning Liquor Store Fire in Redwood City A fire just before 5:30 am Monday morning at a Redwood City strip-mall liquor store took the lives of two people who were apparently trapped inside, both of whom were declared dead upon being discovered.
SF News SF’s RV Parking Ban Is Now In Effect, So We’ll See How This Works Out Mayor Lurie’s long-promised two-hour limit on RV parking on SF streets took effect Saturday, though its effect may be limited, as many of the RVs already have a six-month extension lined up to stay parked right where they are.
SF Politics Trump Administration Agrees to Fund 50% of SNAP Benefits For November As court-ordered over the weekend, the Trump administration is tapping emergency reserve funds to pay out partial SNAP benefits for the month of November, despite there being funds available to pay full benefits.
SF Politics Charlie Kirk’s Memorial-Rally Road Show Coming to Berkeley on November 10 Slain conservative activist’s Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA traveling rally “American Comeback Tour” is coming to UC Berkeley in just one week, so the university is forced to reconsider security after Kirk’s assassination.
SF News Muni Is Finally Retiring the Last of the 30-Year-Old Breda Light-Rail Trains November 12 is the last day for any fans to take a final ride on one of the light-rail trains that have been running through the streets and tunnels of San Francisco since 1996, as the last of them is finally getting retired.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Manhandle Hapless NY Giants 34-24, Already Match Last Year's Win Total There sure were a lot of 49ers fans in the stands 3,000 miles away in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, and they were rewarded with the sight of a dominant Niners win, despite quarterback Mac Jones getting a gusher of a nosebleed.
SF News Sex Worker Gets Five Years For Killing John at Crissy Field Parking Lot In a federal murder case that hinged on trans issues and the dangers of sex work, a 22-year-old sex worker has been sentenced to five years for the killing of a man who picked her up for sex and drove her to the Crissy Field parking lot.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 'Dilbert' Creator Asks Trump For Cancer Treatment Help A 9-year-old boy was shot and injured in Antioch; East Bay resident and 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he is 'declining fast' and sought cancer treatment help from Trump; and more rain is on the way this week.
Arts & Entertainment Gap Inc Removes Jeans From Website After SF Shop Owner Accuses Them of Copying Design When vintage store the Future Past in SF’s Inner Richmond put Gap Inc. on blast, accusing its Banana Republic brand of blatantly copying owner Lindsey Hansen’s original upcycled jeans design, the company removed the jeans from its store and website.
SF News Former Santa Clara Property Manager Accused of Selling Tenants’ Info in Major Identity Theft Case A former apartment manager in Santa Clara County is suspected of orchestrating a major identity theft scheme in which she allegedly sold tenants’ personal data while also using their identities to create fake IDs and credit cards in their names.
