Bay Area Sports US Patent Office Won’t Let Las Vegas A's Trademark the Name ‘Las Vegas Athletics’ Now that the A’s have moved to Las Vegas, they can’t even trademark their own new name, as the US Patent Office has rejected their request, and bootleg shirt makers are licking their chops.
SF News Man Charged With Threatening Barbara Lee Also Allegedly Threatened SF Judge An El Cerrito man who clearly has a bone to pick with liberals, and who allegedly channeled his anger into specific, violent threats via email to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, also apparently sent similar threats to federal judge Charles Breyer.
SF Politics In Final State of the State Address, Gov. Gavin Newsom Contrasts Himself With Trump, Calls DC 'Carnival of Chaos' Thursday was Governor Gavin Newsom's last opportunity for a big State of the State address before the California Legislature, and he used it to tout a small drop in homelessness, to admit to some failures, and to celebrate California standing up to the Trump administration.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Reopen With Screening of 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' on February 6 Following its two-year-long, $41 million renovation, the Castro Theatre will officially reopen to the public on February 6 with a film screening — and a very queer one at that.
SF Politics The Three Candidates Vying for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat Face Off on the Same Stage for the First Time With Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat legitimately up for grabs for the first time in nearly 40 years, the three challengers to succeed her — Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, and Saikat Chakrabarti — duked it out at a candidate forum Wednesday night.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Gives Odd, Mid-Trial Interviews to Local News Outlets, Offering Apology Perhaps knowing that things aren't looking great for her at trial, and apparently against the advice of her attorney, accused Los Gatos "party mom" Shannon O'Connor reached out to several news outlets to offer some of her own side of her story.
SF News Deadly ICE Shooting of Minnesota Woman Prompts Protests Across the Bay Area Hundreds marched through San Francisco's Mission District Wednesday night following a deadly shooting by ICE agents across the country in Minneapolis, and there was a simultaneous protest in Oakland as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Gives Extended Interview to the Times President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview to the NY Times; a child died from the flu last month in San Mateo County; and Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving his final State of the State address today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Lets Loose Parts of the Bay Area are under an "extreme cold watch" for Friday morning; another Oakland athletics coach had his life threatened; and ICE agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
SF News Building Where Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Took Place Is Up for Additional Historic Landmark Status Now that a private prison company is running a halfway house at the site of the famed transgender protest known as the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, trans activists are hoping to redesignate the site with another set of historical protections.
SF News Accused Killer Testifies In Murder Trial of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee The 2021 killing of Anza Vista resident Vicha Ratanapakdee has its murder trial underway, and accused 24-year-old killer Antoine Watson took the stand in his own defense Tuesday. His explanations, though, were largely incoherent.
SF News Suspect In Last Month’s SF General Hospital Stabbing Pleads Not Guilty, Attorney Says He Was Suffering 'Crisis’ The accused stabber in last month’s fatal attack on a UCSF social worker at SF General Hospital finally had a court appearance Tuesday, pleading not guilty, with his attorney saying “he was suffering a mental health crisis that day.”
SF Politics Downtown San Francisco Immigration Court Set to Close In a Year The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Alt-Rock Troll and Trump Fan Ariel Pink Set to Play SF Show at the Chapel Friday Indie musician Ariel Pink is coming to town just days after the fifth anniversary of January 6th — which he actually attended, at least the Trump rally part, though he denies joining the horde that stormed the Capitol.
SF News Testimony at Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Just as Lurid and Gross as You'd Imagine The trial continues this week of onetime Los Gatos resident Shannon O'Connor, who clearly wanted her sons and their friends to think of her a "cool mom" who'd let them drink, but the alleged teen parties she threw actually sound pretty sordid, and unsafe.
SF News SF Finally Shuts Down Tenderloin Massage Parlor That Was ‘Blatantly Operating as a Brothel’ The jig is up at the Tenderloin's Empire Relaxation Spa, which has been busted at least four times for selling sex, and now has been shut down permanently with the owners agreeing to pay a $275,000 settlement.
SF News Section of Highway 116 Near Guerneville Washes Out, Could Take a Year to Repair A section of winding Highway 116 slid into the Russian River in Sonoma County on Monday, and the washout near Monte Rio is only expected to grow as the rain-soaked banks of the river continue to be saturated and unstable.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisors Call For Hearing on December Power Outage Supervisor Alan Wong and others are calling for a hearing into PG&E's massive outage last month; Sonoma County is under a flood warning today; and Valero has begun shutting down its Benicia refinery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Blood-Soaked Fistfight Breaks Out at Disneyland Over People Cutting in Line This year’s SF Sketchfest will feature a live show on a moving BART train; a Union City man effectively busted himself for child porn; and a brawl broke out at Disneyland over line-cutting.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Introduces Measure to Shut Down More Liquor Stores Earlier, to Fight Sixth Street Blight That Tenderloin “corner store curfew” that shuts liquor stores down at midnight could be extended to a whole bunch of SoMa and beyond, as Supervisor Matt Dorsey wants corner stores shut down earlier in hopes of deterring crime.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Bartender Fired After Viral Incident Involving Drunk and Belligerent Customers The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.
Business & Tech Uber Unveils Robotaxi Design at CES In Las Vegas Uber's line of robotaxis that are set to hit the road in San Francisco sometime later this year made their big public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
SF News Judge Shoots Down Lawsuit to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway, Sunset Dunes Will Remain Car-Free Park A last-ditch lawsuit attempting to overturn 2024’s Prop K and bring cars back to the Great Highway has failed, as a judge just tossed out the lawsuit’s claim that the car-free Great Highway ballot measure skirted California law.
SF News West Portal's Long-Shuttered Empire Cinema Could Become Nine-Story, 64-Unit Housing Complex Under New Proposal The former CineArts at the Empire on West Portal Avenue is just a one-story structure, but could become a nine-story housing complex with 64 units under a just-announced proposal from the family that has long owned the building.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
