Arts & Entertainment Chris Stapleton to Do SF Show at Bill Graham on Super Bowl Weekend There will be a big concert in the middle of SF's Civic Center the night before Super Bowl Sunday in February, with headliner Chris Stapleton joined by at least one other artist, Grammy-winner Sierra Farrell, and other concerts TBA.
Business & Tech Palo Alto-Based Startup Admits Its ‘Smart Weather Balloon’ Likely Hit and Grounded a United Airlines Flight A Palo Alto startup that makes weather balloons admits it was “likely” their balloon that struck a United Airlines flight this past Thursday, cracking the windshield, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Vows Legal Action If Trump Sends In National Guard, Joins Amicus Brief at Supreme Court Mayor Daniel Lurie might be trying to avoid a verbal confrontation with President Trump, but City Attorney David Chiu came out swinging Tuesday about this National Guard business.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Season Preview: We May Have Steph Curry and Seth Curry on the Same Team Your Golden State Warriors tip off their 2025-26 NBA season tonight against the Lakers. And this year, they’ll likely have another Curry, as little brother Seth Curry is expected to join Steph Curry on this season’s Warriors roster.
Business & Tech Academy of Art, Which Assembled Huge and Controversial SF Real Estate Portfolio, Now Selling a Portion of That Portfolio It's a sign of the times for Academy of Art University, the San Francisco-based art college that once attracted students from all over the country and now has many of its students taking classes remotely.
SF News Serial Harasser Bill Gene Hobbs Apparently Out of State Prison, Back to Harassing Women on SF Streets SF’s most notorious serial groper and harasser is reportedly out of prison and back on SF streets, and was spotted Monday approaching women in the Castro and Dolores Park, often “yelling indecipherably.”
SF News Oakland Woman Describes Days of Torture, Rape, and Sexual Trafficking By East Palo Alto Man She Met Online An East Palo Alto man with multiple violent charges on his record, several of which involved assaults on women, allegedly met a woman on Facebook Dating in June and proceeded to kidnap, rape, brutalize, and sexually traffic her over a six-day span.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vallejo Man's Bulldog Was Dognapped During Robbery A Vallejo man is offering a reward for the return of his stolen bulldog; a Daly City man was arrested in connection with a pair of assaults last week; and someone has been tucking transphobic messages inside books in a Noe Valley bookstore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Lurie Says National Guard Can't Arrest Drug Dealers SF Mayor Daniel Lurie issues a new statement about Trump's National Guard threat; BART has not clarified what the 'equipment issue' was this morning; and police in Atlanta may have thwarted a mass shooting at the airport there.
SF News Trump Military Accident In San Diego Manages to Hit Highway Patrol With Artillery Shrapnel Yes, there were “live weapons over the freeway” on I-5 near San Diego Saturday for a JD Vance and Pete Hegseth party, but the show had to be called off early, as the artillery blew off prematurely and pelted CHP vehicles with shrapnel.
SF News Aggressive Sea Otter Possibly Back At It Stealing Surfboards In Santa Cruz A surfer had a run-in with a sea otter last week in the same vicinity that the infamous Otter 841 was menacing surfers and kayakers two years ago, in what turned out to be a hormonal reaction to being pregnant.
SF News BART Turning to ‘Community-Driven’ Workshops In Latest Attempt to Clean Up 16th and Mission As pretty much every attempt to reduce blight around the 16th and Mission BART station has failed, BART is now floating the idea of a “community-driven process” of meetings and workshops to revitalize the beleaguered station area.
SF News Castro Dispensary Owner and Legendary SF Cannabis Activist Terrance Alan Has Died Former Cafe Flore owner Terrance Alan started as a member of the “gay weed mafia” that won medical marijuana legalization in 1996, and co-founded the SF Entertainment Commission, but the Flore Dispensary owner has just passed away at age 73.
SF News Trump-Appointed Judges on Ninth Circuit Side With Trump, Allowing National Guard Troops to Be Sent to Portland The nightmare of Donald Trump wielding the National Guard as his personal army in cities where he claims, without evidence, that this intervention is needed, is going to continue for now, after a decision filed Monday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
SF News First Atmospheric River of the Season Might Bring Rain By Friday This La Nina season is shaping up to be an early and wet one already, and after last week's rain, more is heading toward Northern California as soon as Friday.
SF News Motorcylist Dies In Collision on I-80 In Emeryville One person died in a collision on the eastbound side of I-80 in Emeryville Sunday afternoon, which led to lane closures and a significant traffic backup.
Bay Area Sports Banged-Up 49ers Gang Bullies Their Way to 20-10 Win Over Falcons In Big National TV Game With many of the 49ers’ biggest stars out with injuries, running back Christian McCaffrey put the team on his back and racked up 201 yards just by himself, as the Niners pummeled the Falcons for a big 20-10 win.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Widespread Outage Linked to Amazon Web Services A number of online platforms were impacted by an Amazon Web Services outage early Monday; two consolidated lawsuits are ramping up against social media platforms; and the new iPhone is outselling the last model.
SF News Equipment Problem In Transbay Tube Leads to Major BART Delays A problem that arose just as the Monday morning rush hour began is creating yet another headache for commuters who rely on BART.
SF News Trump (Again) Says National Guard Is Coming to San Francisco Next, May Use Insurrection Act In a Sunday morning interview with Fox News, Trump reinforced his plans to send National Guard troops to San Francisco while potentially invoking the Insurrection Act. He said “they want us in San Francisco” and San Francisco was great before it went “woke.”
sports San Jose Sharks Apologize for Pro-ICE Jumbotron Message During Hispanic Heritage Night During the first intermission at Saturday night’s hockey game between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins at SAP Center, an offensive fan-submitted message flashed across the scoreboard in support of ICE. The team later apologized for the oversight.
SF News Sunday Links: Pro-Trump Counter-Protestors Crash ‘No Kings’ Rally in Palo Alto Some Glen Park residents are perplexed by Time Out's coining their beloved neighborhood as cool; Mayor Lurie was conspicuously absent from Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in SF; and some MAGA supporters showed up to Palo Alto’s “No Kings” protest.
SF News [Update] Former Oakland Raiders Player Dies in Custody After Scuffle With Police The Oakland Police Department says when officers responded to a report of a break-in at a residence, they were informed that someone tied to the break-in was suffering from a medical emergency. After a brief scuffle, the suspect became unresponsive before dying at the hospital.
SF News [Update] GoFundMe Creates Placeholder Pages for 1.4 Million Nonprofits, Many Without Their Knowledge Friends of the San Bruno Public Library discovered that GoFundMe created a donation page for it to “claim” without notifying its office. The site made 1.4 million such placeholder pages, which need to be manually unpublished if nonprofits wish to opt out.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: SF Photobook Fair, Annie Sprinkle’s ‘Bazoombas,’ and Local Indigenous-Owned Businesses Fundraiser for Madrone’s Oscar Myers; local Indigenous-owned businesses; processing trauma through surfing; learning about SF via Muni; downtown alley transformation; Photobook Fair weekend; Annie Sprinkle celebrates Earth and boobs; lavender and bees; SF’s 55-acre garden.
