SF News Two-Thirds of SF Families Qualify for the City’s Free Subsidized Child Care, But Few Know About It San Francisco expanded an existing program this week launched by former mayor London Breed that now provides free or deeply discounted child care for two-thirds of SF families with children five and under, but due to lack of public awareness, most eligible families still don’t know it exists.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Over 200 California State Parks Will Be Free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Boudin Bakery’s master chef is preparing an 8-foot-long sourdough alligator for Claude the albino alligator’s memorial Sunday; Matthew McConaughey trademarked his likeness from being used by AI without permission; and Newsom announced that 200 state parks will be free Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Old Hibernia Bank on Valencia Street Could Become a Restaurant, Bookstore, and Event Venue Someone bought that former Hibernia Bank and Social Security building at 22nd and Valencia streets for $11 million, and now there's scuttlebutt they hope to turn it into a combination restaurant, bookstore, and upstairs event space.
Arts & Entertainment A Dolly Parton 80th Birthday Bash Is Happening Sunday at the Make-Out Room, So Steel Your Magnolias As we celebrate Dolly Parton’s 80th birthday, the Make-Out Room will wig out with the Dolly Parton Birthday Bash, featuring a Dolly look-alike contest, a Dolly vinyl dance party, and more, in a benefit for Dolly’s Imagination Library.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Pizza Lands In Hayes Valley A new Neapolitan pizza shop has arrived in Hayes Valley, Turtle Tower opens a new location in Cow Hollow, and Tacos Oscar comes to the Lower Haight, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech It Looks Like Elon Musk's Suit Against OpenAI Over Abandoned Nonprofit Mission Is Headed to Trial It had seemed earlier like Elon Musk's dogged, seemingly vengeful pursuit of OpenAI, which he co-founded, over its swerve toward being a for-profit enterprise, wasn't going anywhere. But a ruling from judge on Thursday points to the parties heading to a trial sometime this year.
SF News Former Oakland Cops Appeal 'Ghost Chase' Liability Case to Supreme Court Two Oakland police officers got in a heap of trouble three and a half years ago when an unauthorized and arguably unnecessary chase they initiated resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. They now want the Supreme Court to relieve them of any 14th Amendment claims of fault.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Taco Bell Cantina at the Wharf Had a Grand Opening Party and It Was Lit Hundreds of people showed up Thursday for the official grand opening of the new Taco Bell Cantina at Fisherman's Wharf, even though it's been open for two weeks.
SF News Alameda County Will Consider Establishing ‘ICE-Free Zones,’ Potentially Banning ICE From County-Owned Property The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will vote on a measure that would set “ICE-free zones” where ICE agents would not be allowed to set foot. But it remains to be seen whether any of this is even legally enforceable.
SF Politics Yes, London Breed Is a Little Bitter That Lurie Is Getting Credit For Things She Started A year since she stepped off the public stage and retreated to lick her wounds, former SF Mayor London Breed sat down for an interview with the New York Times.
SF News One Person Fatally Shot In Potrero Hill In SF's First Homicide of 2026 San Francisco saw its first homicide of the new year Thursday night, with one person found fatally shot at the edge of Potrero Hill.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Baby Sea Lion Rescued From Mountain View Parking Lot A malnourished baby sea lion found in Mountain View is recovering; Governor Newsom is in SF today to discuss homeless initiatives; and ICE's detainee population reaches a new record high.
SF News ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Murder Suspect Found Not Guilty of Murder, Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter The man caught on video shoving 84-year-old "Grandpa Vicha" Ratanapakdee to his death in 2021 has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter — but not murder, likely meaning a much shorter prison sentence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Will Be Cutting Many SF Residents’ Power on Monday and Tuesday SFPD will have DUI checkpoints out after Saturday’s 49ers game, Mayor Lurie wants to cram DBI, Planing, and Permitting all into one department; and PG&E might be cutting your power early Monday or Tuesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Mosswood Meltdown Announces 2026 Lineup, Iggy Pop and Bikini Kill Are Headliners John Waters’s summertime punk-rock hoedown Mosswood Meltdown will return for a 17th year, this time with ageless wonder Iggy Pop topping Saturday’s bill, riot grrls Bikini Kill headlining Sunday, and the Dead Milkmen in the mix too.
Arts & Entertainment Street That Runs In Front of Academy of Sciences to Be Renamed for Claude the Alligator The street that runs from JFK Drive and in front of the California Academy of Sciences will be renamed in honor of the late Claude, the albino alligator, who died last month at age 30.
Arts & Entertainment Rumor Swirls That Taylor Swift Will Be In San Francisco for the Super Bowl It's not too huge of a leap to imagine that the one and only T-Swift will be coming to the Bay Area with fiance Travis Kelce for Super Bowl Weekend, with Kelce's organization, Tight End University, set to co-host an event with Sports Illustrated.
SF News New Modular Bathroom Just Dropped in Precita Park, at Tiny Fraction of the Cost of $1.7 Million Noe Valley Toilet SF has finally figured out how to put affordable bathrooms in parks after that $1.7 million Noe Valley toilet fiasco, plopping down a new modular bathroom in Precita Park whose price tag is quite reasonable.
Arts & Entertainment Huge Free Bob Weir Memorial Scheduled for Saturday Afternoon at Civic Center Grateful Dead fans are going to need a lot more roses this weekend, as there’s going to be a massive, free public memorial gathering for the late, great Bobby Weir on Saturday afternoon starting at 12:45 pm at Civic Center Plaza.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Timothy Busfield Investigated In 2001 Sexual Misconduct Incident at Sacramento Theater As 'West Wing' and 'Thirtysomething' actor Timothy Busfield faces child molestation charges in New Mexico, a 25-year-old investigation has surfaced involving the actor at the regional theater he co-founded in Sacramento.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gives His First State of the City Address, Says 'People Are Proud to Live Here Again' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie delivered his first State of the City address Thursday morning, concluding his first year in office and kicking off Year Two, calling 2025 one of the safest in city history.
SF News Deadly Bacterial Infection Breaks Out at Berkeley Homeless Encampment, Kills Two Dogs Berkeley residents are now going to have to learn about a deadly bacterial disease called leptospirosis, which has broken out at an encampment there and already killed two dogs, and it could also spread to and kill humans.
SF News Bright Streak In Bay Area Sky Wednesday Night Was ISS Astronauts Returning Home A bright light with an extended tail seen burning across the night sky in the Bay Area early Thursday was no ordinary meteor.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Gets Its Own Speed Cameras Oakland has installed 18 speed-detection cameras around the city; there was a 3.1M earthquake near San Jose; and the Santa Cruz City Council has voted to end its Flock Safety contract.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 Fully Back Open In Big Sur, After Three Years Repair work has been completed two months early on the landslide-covered section of Highway 1 in Big Sur; the SFPD releases photos of a Tenderloin assault suspect; and the last restaurant at SF's dead mall food court has closed.
