SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Point Man Fatally Stabbed, Woman Arrested A vegetation fire in San Jose grew to 10 acres on Thursday; a man was fatally stabbed in a home in Bay Point and a 57-year-old woman was arrested at the scene; and SF has landed on a list of safest cities for travelers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four Nabbed for Stealing Halloween Decorations in El Cerrito The NFL Pro Bowl will be played at the Moscone Center; Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning off his watches after his last movie flopped so hard; and four people have been arrested for stealing Halloween skeletons from yards in El Cerrito.
SF News Planning Commission Approves Lurie’s Proposal to Let People Park In Their Own Driveways After a media dust-up over an SF couple who got fined $1,500 just for parking in their own driveway, the SF Planning Commission just approved Mayor Lurie’s proposal to simply allow people to legally park in their own SF driveways.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Behind Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse Opens New Bar With Rotating Globally Inspired Menus A new cocktail destination debuts in North Beach today called Long Weekend, and its menu and decor will change on a rotating basis, focusing on a single global city at a time.
SF News 22-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Allegedly Selling Fentanyl to Two Santa Rosa Teens Who Fatally OD'd Two Santa Rosa teens died from overdoses, and two more were hospitalized in February after ingesting what they thought was cocaine but "was most likely fentanyl." The 22-year-old who sold it to them is now facing murder charges.
SF Politics Trump and Lurie Have Their Moment as Oakland Braces For Its Own Possible Federal 'Surge' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has spent months treading carefully when it comes to discussing national politics, has now emerged as an unlikely recipient of praise from President Donald Trump, among Democratic mayors.
SF Politics Marc Benioff Helped Talk Trump Out of Federal 'Surge' In San Francisco; White House Says 'We'll Be Watching' After potentially helping encourage Trump two weeks ago in his quest to invade Democratic-led cities, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was reportedly one of several "friends" Trump spoke to Wednesday who talked him out of a planned incursion in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Outlaw’ Bernal Hill Swing Gets Featured In SF Tourism Ad Campaign A slick new prime-time TV ad features the beloved — but illegal — Bernal Heights Hill swing that Rec & Parks keeps tearing down, so we spoke to the person that just keeps putting the swing back up, about its newfound TV fame.
SF News Rallies and Marches Planned Thursday as Federal Agents Arrive In East Bay As federal agents are now arriving in the Bay Area, there are rallies and marches scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening to protest whatever it is Trump’s goons may be planning to do.
SF Politics Trump Tells Mayor Daniel Lurie That Federal Deployment In SF Is Called Off In a confusing turn of events, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he had a phone call with President Trump Wednesday night, and the president said he was calling off any federal deployment in the city. But does that mean federal agents will focus on Oakland or another locale?
SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: City Lights Unfurls Protest Banners City Lights Bookstore has put up banners on its facade quoting a poem about tyranny by founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti; BART's board discusses Monday's disruption; and Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Driver Charged In Marin Crash The teen girl in April's deadly crash in Marin County has been criminally charged; Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI units; and Paramount is making offers on Warner Bros. Discovery.
SF News Former SF Sheriff Chief of Staff Will Not Stand Trial for Hit-and-Run Where He Lied, Chronicle Obtains Video of Crash Former SF Sheriff's Office chief of staff Richard Jue got lucky with a diversion program sentence rather than having to stand trial for a March hit-and-run where he lied to investigators, and the Chronicle just obtained video of the crash.
SF Politics 'Don't Take the Bait': Bay Area Leaders Plead With Potential Protesters to Stay Peaceful as Trump Sends Federal Agents Thursday could bring chaos to the Bay Area, and local leaders are hoping against hope that any protesters can temper their passions long enough to avoid what Trump and his team surely want, which are television images of violence and protest chaos that they can use to make their case for fascism.
SF Politics Now There’s Speculation That Supervisor Connie Chan Might Run for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat Scott Wiener shook up the race by announcing this morning he’s running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, but the publication Politico just shook it up even more, saying that SF Supervisor Connie Chan might run for that seat against him.
SF News Trump's Federal Invasion of San Francisco to Begin on Thursday It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
Bay Area Sports Giants Hire College Coach Tony Vitello as New Manager, First College Coach to Jump Straight to MLB Manager SF Giants president Buster Posey is taking a big swing by hiring the first ever college coach with no MLB experience whatsoever as the team’s new manager, as University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello will now manage the Giants.
SF Politics Newsom Deploying National Guard to Support Local Food Banks, In Response to Government Shutdown In a political gesture to match Trump's own, many political gestures, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he was deploying the National Guard, like he did during the pandemic, to support food banks in California.
Arts & Entertainment Napa’s Blue Note Club Is Closing Permanently, But Teasing a Possible New SF Space The nine-year-old Blue Note Napa just announced they’ll close after a final show on New Year’s Eve, but the club’s top brass are dropping some notes that they may intend to open a San Francisco venue instead.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf’s Oldest Restaurant Castagnola’s Will Reopen, After Settling Messy Lawsuit With the City The crab cocktail will flow again at Fisherman’s Wharf steak-and-seafood spot Castagnola’s, which has been closed since the pandemic and embroiled in a $1.1 million lawsuit over unpaid rent, but they’ve just settled that lawsuit.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Formally Announces Run for Congress, Ahead of Any Pelosi Decision State Senator Scott Wiener confirmed the news that was leaked last week that he will run for Nancy Pelosi's seat in the US House of Representatives, regardless of whether Pelosi plans to retire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Serial Harasser Already In Jail In SF Serial harasser of women Bill Gene Hobbs was arrested in SF again Tuesday for violating his parole; South Lake Tahoe has chosen a new mayor; and we are now in the second-longest government shutdown in US history.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lurie Touts ‘Zero Arrests’ at SF No Kings Protests, Probably Hoping to Keep Trump’s Troops Out The 40-year-old Mission Street restaurant Mission Hunan is closing; the alleged mistress in a Walnut Creek double-homicide is facing more charges; and Mayor Lurie is hyping up the "zero arrests” at Saturday’s SF No Kings protests.
Bay Area Sports OMG, Now Anh Phoong’s Law Firm Is Putting Her Ads on the Sacramento Kings’ Jerseys This Year The NBA’s Sacramento Kings have “GOT-PAIN” on their jerseys this year, as Anh Phoong’s law firm has secured a space that her law firm’s logo will appear as the ad on the Kings’ jerseys all season long.
