SF News Several Antioch and Pittsburg Police Officers Arrested In Early Thursday Morning FBI Raids Some serious rubber hit the road in the ongoing Antioch Police Department scandal, as the FBI arrested and indicted a handful of both Antioch and Pittsburg PD officers on criminal conspiracy charges early Thursday morning.
Arts & Entertainment 'We Love SF' Campaign Launches to Counter Negative Narratives About the City A small-scale campaign that seems to be part PR and part event promotion, dubbed WeLoveSF, is seeking to upend the "doom loop" and drug-crime narratives that have dominated media coverage about San Francisco all of this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners of Beer Hall On Polk Take Over Former Mikkeller Brewpub Near Union Square The space that was home to beer bar and gastropub Mikkeller at the foot of Mason Street is going to be coming alive again soon, once again as a brewpub.
SF News SF's Famed Tuesday Noon Sirens Still Shut Down and Silent, Their Return Delayed Indefinitely This is a test for SF's Department of Emergency Management, as the beloved and crucial Tuesday noon sirens are still effectively on mothballs three years past their scheduled return — and the department is struggling to find the funding to fix them.
SF News SF City Attorney Files Motion to Halt Roll-Out of More Self-Driving Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis City Attorney David Chiu is ramping up the pushback against Waymo and Cruise self-driving robotaxis in SF, filing a motion with the state to reverse their approval of unlimited robotaxis on San Francisco streets.
Business & Tech Judge Asked Whether Elon Musk Wanted to 'Cozy Up' to Trump By Refusing Order In January 6th Case We just learned this week that Special Counsel Jack Smith definitely got Donald Trump's DMs from his defunct Twitter account, but now we're getting court transcripts showing how it went down.
Sponsored Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket @ The Greek in Berkeley On August 18, 2023, at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, fans of alternative music will bear witness to a great moment as beloved bands Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket take the stage together in Berkeley for a night of unforgettable live performances.
SF News 71-Year-Old Woman Arrested For SF Crash That Killed Young Girl San Francisco police have arrested the driver of an SUV that crashed into a family crossing the street near Caltrain and Oracle Park on Tuesday, killing a four-year-old girl.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Paradise Gets Fire Warning Sirens Paradise, California is getting a wildfire alert siren system; another wildfire near the Oregon border has grown to 1,000 acres; and Cruise is now blaming a Friday incident on human interference with its cars.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brands Suspend Ads on X Over Pro-Nazi Content At least two big brands, Adobe and Gilead, have suspended their ads on Twitter/X over Nazi content; Twitter apparently did give up some of Donald Trump's DMs; and another Cruise car drove into a construction site in SF.
Arts & Entertainment You Can Now Buy a Coit Tower-Shaped Sex Toy, Known as the ‘Coitus Tower’ What self-satisfying San Franciscan wouldn’t want this masturbatory aid called the Coitus Tower? It of course pays homage to the SF’s Coit Tower that was ‘erected’ in 1933.
SF News Drastic Teacher Shortage at Lincoln High as Students Return Today There are shortages across the SF Unified School District as students return to classroom Wednesday, but few as pronounced as at Lincoln High School, where they're lacking teachers for five academic subjects.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Corzetti, a New Italian Spot From Adriano Paganini, Comes to Hotel G In Union Square A new Italian restaurant from the restaurant group behind hit spots like Beretta, A Mano, and The Tailor's Son, called Corzetti, has taken over the space at the corner of Geary and Mason, in the rebranded Hotel G.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Gets Reinstated by Medi-Cal, in Massive Win for the Facility After 17 months of turmoil, decertification, and attempts to close Laguna Honda Hospital, the hospital is now largely out of the woods after a full reinstatement by the state’s Medi-Cal program.
SF News July Was Second-Deadliest Month Yet For SF Overdoses, With 71 Dead, Mostly From Fentanyl It’s now almost a foregone conclusion that 2023 will be the deadliest year on record for San Francisco overdoses, as a brief decline in accidental overdoses in SF has unfortunately reversed with 71 overdose deaths recorded in the month of July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Two Years as Rotating Pop-Up Venue, Lord Stanley Returns In October In Slightly New Form The formerly Michelin-starred Lord Stanley on upper Polk Street will be reborn this fall with a new chef in the kitchen, and a slightly different concept from the one it had before shuttering during the pandemic two years ago.
SF News Head Fire In Siskiyou County Grows to Over 3,000 Acres, Triggers Evacuations The largest of over a dozen lightning-caused wildfires in far northern California has now prompted an evacuation order for 325 square miles, in an area of Klamath National Forest, west of Yreka.
SF News ‘Succession’ Cast Member, One Other Person Bitten by River Otters East of Tahoe The hot-tempered otter summer continues, this time in the northern Sierra Nevada region, as river otters bit people in two separate incidents, one involving an actor who was on “Succession.”
SF News Widow and Daughter of SF Man Killed With His Sons In Excelsior In 2008 Were Just Killed In a NorCal Crash A tragic connection has emerged between a violent vehicle collision that occurred last week in Calaveras County and a case of mistaken identity that led to a gang killing of a man and his two sons in San Francisco 15 years ago.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Person On BART Tracks In Downtown SF Causes Delays BART was experiencing serious delays in all directions due to a person who was walking on the tracks in downtown SF; Alameda County law enforcement are looking for five carjackers; and the Maui fire death toll hits 106.
SF News Four-Year-Old Girl In Stroller Struck and Killed Near Caltrain Station In SF A family visiting from out of town was crossing the intersection at Fourth and King streets in San Francisco Tuesday when an SUV making a turn struck a child being pushed in a stroller.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Harvey’s in the Castro Will Be Reborn as ‘Brut,’ Coming Next Year Some manner of police activity is snarling traffic in Rincon Hill, SF City Hall corruption has produced another resignation and a sizable fine, and we just got plenty more new information about the bar replacing Harvey’s in the Castro.
SF News SF Jury Acquits Woman Who Stabbed the Guy Who Sent Her Kids Revenge Porn Videos A San Francisco woman beat the rap on a felony assault charge, as the jury was shown evidence that the fellow she stabbed had secretly recorded the two of them having sex, and then sent the video to her teenage children.
SF News SF Police, Sheriffs Making Bank On Overtime, Some With Take-Home Pay Exceeding $500K The annual salary report on how much money each San Francisco public employee makes has just been released, and SF police and sheriff’s office employees are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off the Grid Fort Mason Returns With Theme Nights, Starting With 'I Heart SF' Event Featuring Classic SF Fare After taking a summer hiatus, Off the Grid returns to the Fort Mason Center on eight Friday nights in September and October — and there's a new VIP-esque option that lets you reserve tables and get table service.
