Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Public Memorial Is This Weekend For Claude the Albino Alligator Fans of Claude, the albino alligator who resided in a private grotto at the California Academy of Sciences for 17 years, will have a chance to mourn en masse this weekend in Golden Gate Park.
SF Politics Federal Court Says Prop 50 Gerrymander Is Good to Go, Cites Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Maps A baldly hypocritical effort by the Republican Party to challenge Democrats' tit-for-tat gerrymander measure, Prop 50, has been shot down by a federal court, paving the way for California to redraw its congressional district maps as it sees fit.
SF News Oakland Police Raid Suspected Gambling Den, Find Gambling, But Also Lots of Dynamite An explosive finding at the police raid of a suspected gambling den in East Oakland's Webster neighborhood, as the raid also turned up gambling machines, meth, opiates, guns, ammo — and even a whole bunch of dynamite.
Business & Tech California Now Investigating xAI Over Grok's Non-Consensual Deepfake Imagery Elon Musk is facing his umpteenth controversy this week as the worldwide outcry grows over the Grok chatbot's image-editing capability, which combined with X has created a tool for producing and spreading non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes and child sexual abuse material.
Arts & Entertainment Guy Fieri Hosting 'World's Largest Tailgate' on Super Bowl Sunday at Cow Palace; Noah Kahan Doing Warfield Show Adding to the week of events surrounding Super Bowl LX will be a huge food-and-drink fest on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb 8) at the Cow Palace, with Bay Area native son Guy Fieri hosting. And Noah Kahan is doing an exclusive thing at the Warfield that will be hard to score a ticket for.
SF News Supervisors OK Taking a Wrecking Ball to Vaillancourt Fountain, Rejecting Last-Chance Appeal Preservationists had a last chance to save the brutalist but broken-down Vaillancourt Fountain with an appeal hearing at the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, but the supervisors still approved removing the fountain in a 10-1 vote.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Has Another Power Issue There was a fatal crash on I-80 in Vacaville Wednesday morning; BART had another power issue that disrupted Yellow Line service; and a suspect was caught ripping copper wire from the tracks at the South SF Caltrain station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette Taco Ball With Adorably Outdated Kitschy Exterior Closes Permanently More arrests have been made in Saturday’s 16th and Mission BART stabbings; the CVS at Van Ness and Turk streets will soon bite the dust; and one of the last Taco Bells with the old "mission-style" exterior just shut down too
SF Politics Supervisor Alan Wong Fails to Get His Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to the Great Highway Newly appointed District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong just flunked his first big test, failing to meet a deadline on a ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway, after he made a big to-do over announcing the effort.
SF Politics Louisiana Officials Have Indicted a Bay Area Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills The state of Louisiana is looking to extradite a Sonoma County doctor whom they're accusing of providing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman — something that state officials already tried to do with a New York doctor last year.
Supreme Court All But Certain to Rule That Laws Barring Trans Students From Sports Are Constitutional The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases, one out of West Virginia and one out of Idaho, relating to trans kids and adults playing in intramural and collegiate sports. And a ruling is very likely to break on predictable, ideological lines, 6-3.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk, Belligerent Lady From Hazie’s Viral Video Won’t Face Charges Over Incident The last dust has apparently settled on the infamous ‘drunk lady at Hazie’s’ confrontation/bar-fight the night of SantaCon, and the pugnaciously wasted woman who provoked it all will not face public intoxication charges.
SF News Vanderbilt University Is Indeed Opening an SF Campus, and It Will Be at Potrero Hill’s California College of the Arts Get ready for Vanderbilt University San Francisco, and part of it will be called “California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt,” as Vanderbilt has basically bought up the dying husk of the California College of the Arts.
SF News Williams-Sonoma to Close Its Flagship Union Square Store as Chanel Prepares to Move In It's not new news that Williams-Sonoma is planning to depart from Union Square, but now the time has come, as Chanel plans to relocate to the building at the top of the park.
Arts & Entertainment 'Dilbert' Cartoonist Scott Adams, Who Spent His Final Years as a Trump-Loving Podcaster, Dies at 68 Scott Adams, the comic-strip satirist of office culture who later fashioned himself a self-help guru and anti-woke crusader, has died of the aggressive form of prostate cancer that he revealed he had last year.
SF News Oakley Man Tries to Shoot Sheriff’s Deputy, Then Shoots Himself After Four-Hour Police Standoff A 54-year-old Oakley domestic violence suspect survived an attempt to shoot himself Monday afternoon, but that was after a four-hour standoff with Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies, one of whom he allegedly took a few shots at.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Announces Throwback-Heavy Lineup Including Backstreet Boys, LCD Soundsystem, and Chaka Khan Napa Valley's BottleRock festival, which has always skewed toward an older demographic than Outside Lands and other festivals, is leaning pretty heavily on the nostalgia with the 2026 lineup.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Closing Arguments Happening In 'Grandpa Vicha' Murder Trial Closing arguments are today in the trial of Antoine Watson for the 2021 killing of Vicha Ratanapakdee; the Trevor Project just received a $45M donation from MacKenzie Scott; and BTS is back on the road and coming to the Bay Area in May.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cyclist Fatally Struck By SMART Train In Santa Rosa A cyclist was fatally struck by a SMART train in Santa Rosa this morning; Steve Kerr makes comments about the Minneapolis ICE shooting that go viral; and Minneapolis is now suing the Trump administration over the "federal invasion."
Arts & Entertainment Puppy Bowl Reveals 2026 Lineup, SF Stray Will Be Featured Competitor This year’s Super Bowl alternative, the annual Puppy Bowl, just introduced its tiny yapping dog contestants with names like Chappell Bone and RuPaw, but an SF entrant named Foggy may steal the show at this particular puppy play-off.
Arts & Entertainment Video: SNL'S Chloe Fineman Enjoys Sauna and Bay Dip In Sausalito Funny lady Chloe Fineman, who is a fairly active content creator on Instagram, was in the Bay Area recently enjoying a Scadinavian-style sauna that's set up right on a floating dock in Sausalito.
Bay Area Sports East Bay's Own Alysa Liu Qualifies For US Olympic Figure Skating Team For the Second Time Clovis-born Alysa Liu, who now hails from Richmond and who went to high school in Oakland, skated in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at the age of 16. After briefly retiring, she is back and just made Team USA once again at the US Championships on Sunday.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Seeks New State Legislation for Court-Ordered Mental Health Medication San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Assemblymember Catherine Stefani announced a new state bill Monday, authored by Stefani, that would allow judges to order involuntary mental-health medication in some circumstances.
Business & Tech xAI's Grok Being Blocked, Investigated By Multiple Countries Over the Creation of Sexualized Deepfakes Elon Musk's no-holds-barred AI chatbot Grok is again having one of its holds barred as regulators across the globe are balking at its widespread production of sexualized images, based on real images posted to X.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Bob Weir’s Last-Ever Live Performance Was That Golden Gate Park Dead and Company Show In SF If you saw any of those Dead and Company shows in Golden Gate Park in August, you saw the historic final performances of the dearly departed Bobby Weir, as those three shows ended up being the final times he took the stage.
