SF Politics New January 6 Video Shows Pelosi Calling Trump a 'Domestic Enemy In the White House’ Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had choicer words than we realized for Donald Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection, calling Trump “a domestic enemy in the White House” and saying, “He’s gotta pay a price for that.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina Alum Opening New Hot Dog Stand at Ferry Building A chef known for her Louisiana-style gumbo and po'boys is pivoting to selling zhuzhed-up hot dogs at a new Ferry Building kiosk that opens next week.
SF News SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”
SF Politics Trump Reposts Blowjob Joke About Kamala Harris and Willie Brown And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
SF News SFDPH Is Handing Out Anti-Psychotic Drugs to Meth Users to Keep Them Out of the Emergency Room For the last two years, SF General Hospital has been proactively trying to limit ER visits and public episodes among meth users by providing them with an anti-psychotic drug called Olanzapine that’s being called “the next Narcan” for stimulant addiction.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused of Aiding Burglary That Led to Oakland Police Officer's Shooting All charges have been dropped in the case against Marquise Cooper, one of four suspects who has been jailed in connection with the December 29 shooting death of Oakland police officer Tuan Le.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Big Rig Hits Freeway Sign, Shuts Down 680 A big rig struck a freeway sign on I-680 in Pleasanton; a Berkeley homeless man was arrested for killing another man; and one of the suspects in the beating of a Dublin High School student was reportedly a parent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pop Star M.I.A. Goes on Pro-Trump Rant Just a Month Before Portola Festival Set Tesla batteries are being blamed for a grass fire in Lafayette; Bay Area biotech giant Genentech will lay off nearly 100 employees; and pop singer M.I.A just took a hard Trumper turn a month before her Portola Festival performance in SF.
Bay Area Sports Levi’s Stadium Getting a $200 Million Facelift as Super Bowl and World Cup are Coming In 2026 With the 2026 Super Bowl and several World Cup games coming to Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers say they’re sprucing the place up with plenty of enhanced 4K, 5G, and whatever amenities there are in the pricey luxury suites.
SF News SF School With Large Low-Income Population Gets First Free Supermarket In a CA School A San Francisco middle school in the Portola District, identified as serving one of the most food-insecure populations of students in the SF Unified School District (SFUSD), now has a free grocery market in the school, with the help of Amazon.
SF News Update: Parent and Four Teens Attack Dublin High Student, Football Players Break It Up We don’t know why a parent and four other teens followed a high school student into a locker room and beat him up Friday, but the school’s principal is vowing that arrests are on the way.
SF News San Jose Woman and 14-Year-Old Boy Killed In Wrong-Way Crash on Highway 85 A horrific wrong-way crash occurred Monday afternoon in which a pickup truck being driven by a Florida man collided head-on with a woman's Tesla, killing her and her 14-year-old passenger.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Once Again Capitulates to Conservatives Over COVID Misinformation, Hunter Biden Laptop Faced with right-wing criticism that taking down false posts somehow “censored Americans,” Facebook-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threw in the towel and said that his social media companies will be more hands-off with misleading posts.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Nude Female Figure Likely to Be Installed In Union Square This Winter A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.
Arts & Entertainment SFO Bomb-Sniffer Dog Wins TSA 'Cutest Canine' Contest Barni, a 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer whom you may have encountered while waiting in a TSA line at San Francisco International Airport, just won a prize for being cute from the TSA.
Business & Tech Amazon Submits Their Plans for That Mission Bay Delivery Warehouse They Had to Put On Ice The SF Board of Supervisors put Amazon’s proposed Mission Bay “fulfillment center” in a two-year time-out, but that pause is now finished, and Amazon just unboxed their plans for the facility at Seventh and Berry streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, The Slanted Door Is Returning to Its Original Spot on Valencia Street We called it back in May, and it has come to pass: Chef Charles Phan is bringing The Slanted Door full circle back to its original digs in the Mission District, five years after closing the restaurant at the Ferry Building.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: East Bay BART Station Briefly Shut Down Over Weapon A person brandishing a weapon caused a major disruption at West Dublin/Pleasanton Station; the Kremlin is trying to calm fears about Telegram; and an SF homeless advocate says latest encampment sweeps aren't helping.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elton John Pulls Out of Dreamforce Concert A 26-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with the early July Thompson Fire near Oroville; an arrest has been made in Friday's homicide in Dublin; and Elton John has backed out of performing in SF at Dreamforce.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Yanks Her Support From Commission Reform Measure, Alleging It’s Just a Slush Fund for Mark Farrell SF Mayor London Breed just un-endorsed the Prop D ballot measure to trim the number of commissions at City Hall, amidst continuing allegations that rival Mark Farrell is just using the Prop D contributions to finance his own mayor’s race.
Business & Tech Apple Gears Up to Unveil First Generative AI Phone, the iPhone 16, on September 9 — But AI-Powered Siri Likely a Year Off It's once again about time for Apple's annual, post-Labor Day product launch event, and this year it comes with a semi-big new product, with a lot of caveats.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Sets Date to Blow Up Tropicana Hotel So the Oakland A’s Can Build Their Ballpark There The now-defunct Tropicana Las Vegas resort and casino has been sentenced to death by implosion on October 9 so the carpetbagging Oakland A’s can try to build a stadium there, and the destruction will come complete with "a drone and fireworks show."
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Continues to Get More Queer, Wealthier, Majority Female The Burning Man Census for 2023 is now out, just as Burners are arriving on the playa for another late-August week of revelry in the Black Rock Desert. And many of the demographic trends seen in the 2022 census are continuing.
