SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Santa Clara Mayor Responds to Trump's World Cup Threats Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor has responded to Trump's threats about moving the World Cup games; an Oakland neighborhood is menaced by a serial rock-thrower; and a petition seeks to replace Bad Bunny as Super Bowl halftime performer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Final Sunday Streets of 2025 Is This Weekend Gavin Newsom is promising $11 insulin in California; some November election ballots turned up at a Sacramento homeless encampment; and the last Sunday Streets of the year is this weekend, and it also comes with some renegade parties.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Deputy Fired for Alleged Sexual Assault of Trans Woman in SF County Jail The SF Sheriff’s Office is calling it “sexual misconduct," while the SF Public Defender’s Office says it was a “nonconsensual” sexual assault, but something got a deputy fired for an alleged incident with a trans woman prisoner.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Says If Trump Sends Troops to SF, She’ll Prosecute Them If They Use Excessive Force SF DA Brooke Jenkins sounds a lot like Chesa Boudin in her latest remarks about Trump sending troops to SF, saying she’d prosecute the troops if they use excessive force, though she’s always dismissed those charges against SF cops.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: This Year's Diwali Menu at Besharam Chef Heena Patel has already spent years delighting San Francisco eaters with her interpretations of vegetarian Indian — specifically Gujarat — cuisine. And her celebratory menu at Besharam for Diwali, available this weekend only, is not to be missed.
SF News AI Companies Now ‘Disrupting’ SF Rental Market By Giving People Free Apartments, Rent Stipends It will make renters sick that they have to compete with AI sector workers whose cash-flush companies pay their rent for them. It will make renters even sicker to hear those AI companies do this to make their workplaces like “a frat house.”
Arts & Entertainment Romy Mars, Daughter of Sofia Coppola, Follows Up Hit Single By Asking UC Berkeley Why They'd Invite Her to Speak Romy Mars, who represents a segment of self-aware, self-deprecating Gen Z nepo babies that may not be very large, has just gone viral on TikTok calling out UC Berkeley for inviting her to speak on campus, given she is 18 years old and doesn't feel qualified to speak about much.
SF Politics Longtime SF Mayor Whisperer Ron Conway Puts Fellow Billionaire Marc Benioff on Blast The fallout continues from Marc Benioff's New York Times interview last week, in which the full-time Hawaii resident seemingly approved of Donald Trump's authoritarian use of the National Guard in liberal cities he doesn't like.
Business & Tech Potential SF Vanderbilt Campus Could Occupy the Chronicle Building, According to the Chronicle Some intriguing developments in San Francisco’s quest to lure Vanderbilt University to build a satellite campus here in SF, as the Chronicle reports that Vanderbilt might want their own Chronicle building to be part of the campus.
SF News Minor Earthquake Strikes Bay Area Shortly Before Annual Earthquake Drill It's Great ShakeOut Day in California, and just as preparations were being made for the annual earthquake drill, a 3.1M quake struck near Berkeley.
SF News San Jose Garbage Truck Hits and Kills Man Lying In an Alley and Covered in Blankets A man covered in blankets in the back alley of a San Jose strip mall was hit by a garbage truck and killed at about 4 am Thursday morning in San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Police Make Arrest In Shooting on Train SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto talks about Trump's threats to send the National Guard here; BART police have arrested a teen suspect in connection with a September shooting aboard a train in Oakland; and Rohnert Park police arrested a man for an alleged hate crime incident at a bowling alley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Triples Down on Sending Troops to SF, In White House Remarks Trump is yet again talking about sending troops to San Francisco; Trump is issuing blanket threats to Hamas; and Trump is really pissing off soybean farmers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Unsurprisingly, Downtown Bar Owners Not Happy That Lurie Is Adding 20 New Liquor Licenses to Union Square The 20 new liquor licenses Mayor Lurie is dropping on Union Square are getting predictable blowback from downtown bar owners, who are still struggling from the pandemic and not particularly keen on having 20 new competitors.
Arts & Entertainment Check Him Out: SF Zoo’s New Male Gorilla Cecil Makes His Public Debut This Weekend After months with no male gorillas in their troop, the San Francisco Zoo is set to introduce a 26-year-old male silverback gorilla named Cecil on Saturday, with high hopes that baby gorillas may soon follow his arrival.
SF News SF Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Mass Firings of Government Workers During Shutdown (For Now, at Least) SF’s US District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s attempt to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, effectively undoing many of those firings.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina's Very Popular SF Street Food Festival Returns After Five-Year Hiatus Those of us who lived in San Francisco in the last decade remember the ever-popular SF Street Food Festival — which thanks to widespread coverage on radio, web, TV, and in print was an immediate, very crowded success in its first year.
SF News Another Round of ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump Protests on Tap for Saturday In the Bay Area and Beyond After June’s ‘No Kings’ protests brought out millions nationwide, the rabble-rousers are having another go at it this Saturday, with more No Kings demonstrations scheduled for SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and other Bay Area municipalities.
SF News As Trump Decries Crime In San Francisco, City Is Poised for Lowest Homicide Rate Since 1954 It's a city in chaos, folks! The streets are bedlam! Billionaires think the president should call in the National Guard to calm things down! But, actually, crime continues to be down, and SF is on track to have yet another historically low homicide count.
SF Politics San Mateo County Sheriff Announces Retirement, Hours After Firing, Which Entitles Her to Full Pension, Benefits San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus perhaps saw her adamant appeals and denials as no-lose this year as county leaders sought to oust her, because now she appears to be retiring with her full pension and benefits.
SF News Another Oakland CHP Car Chase Ends in Crash, Four Injured, Fire Hydrant Gets Smashed A seven-mile California Highway Patrol chase from the Oakland Coliseum to the Uptown District left four people injured and a fire hydrant spewing a geyser Tuesday night, and the chase only ended when the suspect crashed into the hydrant.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In SF's Marina District Leaves Three Firefighters Hospitalized An early morning fire Wednesday in the Marina District led to two firefighters crashing through the floor of the engulfed building, and a third firefighter was also hospitalized.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Katie Porter Offers Sort-of Apology For Interview Spat Gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter is trying to manage the minor fallout from her minor viral flub; a tornado might have touched down in San Mateo County Monday; and 'Bitcoin Jesus' has agreed to pay a $50M tax bill.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marc Benioff Continues His Trump Turn, Brings Trump Adviser David Sacks to Dreamforce The South Lake Tahoe mayor who allegedly embezzled from a church has resigned; R&B vocalist D’Angelo has died at the age of only 51; and Dreamforce just had a surprise speech from Trump’s crypto czar and fundraiser David Sacks.
SF Politics Trump Yanks Mark Zuckerberg’s Leash Again, Meta Deletes Page That ICE Didn’t Like Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had “gone too far” earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied.
