SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Celebrity Chef Tailgate Event Is Happening on Super Bowl Sunday, This One In Santa Clara In addition to the previously announced, Guy Fieri-hosted tailgate party at the Cow Palace on Super Bowl Sunday, the all-star Players Tailgate event will be happening closer to Levi's Stadium.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Promoter Goldenvoice Announces Yet Another SF Techno Concert Series, This Time at Pier 48 South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is among the headliners of a new three-month electronica concert series called Club Darc, being thrown at Pier 48 in Mission Rock, lasting from late February until mid-May.
SF News Suspect Dives Into Russian River Twice While Trying to Evade Sonoma Deputies, Gets Arrested A wanted felon led Sonoma County sheriff's deputies on a one-hour chase Thursday in which a vehicle pursuit turned into a foot pursuit and then a water pursuit in the frigid Russian River.
Bay Area Sports Late 1990s Oakland Raider Kevin Johnson Found Dead at LA Homeless Encampment, Police Suspect Murder It's another sad story of an NFL player falling on hard times after his career — likely due to head injuries. Ex-Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Kevin Johnson was found dead at an LA encampment in what appears to be a homicide.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: First Measles Case In Napa In 14 Years Napa County has just reported its first measles case since 2012; more details emerge about Thursday's police shooting on I-80; and people in Minneapolis are staging a general strike today in protest of ICE.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Bay Lights Are Already Testing for Their Eventual Return This Winter The TikTok transfer to American ownership is finally going through; a SoMa liquor store curfew got one step closer to reality; and check out the Bay Bridge, because the Bay Lights are being tested for their glorious upcoming return.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Steps Down From Leadership In State's Jewish Caucus After Change In Gaza Stance As state Senator Scott Wiener continues to try to thread the needle of being a moderate Democrat who has historically supported Israel but now kind of needs the pro-Palestinian vote, he is stepping down from a role he's held for five years in the state's legislative Jewish Caucus.
Bay Area Sports Rumors Swirling That Steve Kerr Might Be Fired, Or Might Quit, as Warriors Coach at the End of the Season This could be the last dance for the Golden State Warriors with Steve Kerr as their coach, as the national media says some team members are thinking the unthinkable, that Kerr might be let go at the end of this NBA season.
Business & Tech Glassdoor Ranks In-N-Out as Best Place to Work in California, Ahead of Nvidia, Google, and Facebook We had to do a double-double take at Glassdoor’s new Best Places to Work 2026 list, as they ranked fast-food chain In-N-Out as a better place to work than the cushy, high-paid confines of Nvidia, Facebook, and Google.
Arts & Entertainment Art Installation Goes Up on Mission Street Facade of the Almost Empty SF Centre Mall It may be a dead mall with almost no tenants left inside — the official closing is apparently this weekend — but thanks to a nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization of downtown, one side of the former Westfield mall is getting a massive photographic mural.
SF News Two Former Rohnert Park Cops Who Posed as Feds to Steal Cash and Marijuana Get Their Sentencing Delayed A couple of one-time Rohnert Park police officers spent years posing as ATF agents and shaking down legal medical marijuana drivers for their cash and stash, and they got busted, but now their sentencing is delayed.
SF News Suspect Allegedly Striking Passing Cars With Tire Iron Leads to Fatal Police Shooting on I-80 In Hercules A massive traffic backup Thursday morning in the East Bay that was tied to a large police response in the westbound lanes of I-80 turns out to have been caused by a confrontation with police that led to the fatal shooting of a suspect.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Ryan Coogler and Delroy Lindo Enjoy Record 16 Oscar Nominations for 'Sinners' 13 years after his feature film debut Fruitvale Station, Oakland native son Ryan Coogler is setting Oscar records with his hit film Sinners, which received 16 nominations for this year's Academy Awards.
SF Politics SF’s New Inspector General, Fresh Off Mohammed Nuru Case, Opens Tip Line So You Can Report City Hall Corruption If you think there’s corruption at SF City Hall, you can now report it yourself and maybe start an investigation, thanks to SF’s first-ever Inspector General Alex Shepard who just started the new watchdog job this month.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Activity Shuts Down I-80 In East Bay A major traffic nightmare was happening due to a police situation on I-80 westbound in Hercules; a multi-county chase ended in a police shooting Wednesday in San Jose; and SF's Compton's Cafeteria building goes before the Historic Preservation Commission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Construction Begins on City College's Diego Rivera Performing Arts Center The new home for that massive Diego Rivera mural owned by City College breaks ground Thursday; Olympic gold medalist skier Eileen Gu will be the grand marshal of the Lunar New Year Parade; and ICE is circulating a memo suggesting they can break into people's houses.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Officially Asks Trump to Commute Her Sentence As has been suspected for months, after exhausting her appeals, Elizabeth Holmes is seeking clemency and early release from President Trump, who seems to dole out such pardons willy-nilly, so she might get lucky.
SF News Convicted Killer In Notorious 2001 SF Dog-Mauling Attack, Marjorie Knoller, Now Up for Parole Again Yes it has been 25 years since the infamous dog-mauling murder case was SF’s Trial of the Century, but now decades later, the woman convicted of letting her dogs rip a neighbor to shreds is up for parole for a third time.
SF News Wednesday FBI Raids Hit Alleged Chop Shops Across East Bay, Related to Suspected Diesel Fuel Theft Ring Four very junkyard-looking locations in Oakland, Richmond, and San Leandro were on the business end of FBI raids Wednesday, in an investigation of what the FBI and Bay Area police think is a diesel fuel theft ring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Bay Area Bars and Restaurants Honored as James Beard Award Semifinalists Restaurants and bars in SF and all around the Bay have been "long-listed" for the 2026 James Beard Foundation Awards, including Happy Crane, Sons & Daughters, and House of Prime Rib.
SF Politics Newsom Shoved Aside From Planned Event at Davos, Likely Because Trump Decreed It After Governor Gavin Newsom made some remarks disparaging to Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday, he was promptly shut out of the US pavilion and an on-stage event he was supposed to participate in was canceled.
SF News Missing 29-Year-Old Rohnert Park Man Found in Submerged Tesla at Bottom of Bodega Bay The 10-day search for a man gone missing in Rohnert Park has come to a heartbreaking end, as the missing 29-year-old was found dead and submerged in a Tesla at the bottom of Bodega Bay, though foul play is not suspected.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Community Group to Host Bad Bunny Lookalike Contest During Super Bowl Week Tell all your friends who constantly get mistaken for Bad Bunny, there's going to be a contest for that during Super Bowl Week in San Francisco.
SF News Tenants at Uptown Oakland Building That Just Suffered a Fire All Receive Eviction Notices Insult has been added to injury for the estimated 200 people who were displaced by Monday morning’s apartment fire in Oakland’s Uptown, after their landlord issued them all eviction letters.
SF News Sunset District Businesses File Lawsuit Over December Power Outage A group of Sunset District businesses are filing a lawsuit against PG&E seeking compensation for lost business during the December 20 power outage, which for some lasted multiple days.
