SF News Saturday Links: State Bill Would Relax Height Limits Within Half-Mile of Transit Hubs About 100 people gathered to protest the detainment of a 73-year-old grandmother Friday night; SFUSD said it will fill its vacant school crossing guard roles by the end of the year; and a new bill would allow for apartment buildings up to nine stories adjacent to transit stations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lawmakers OK Bill to Rollback Cannabis Tax to 15%, Awaiting Newsom’s Approval Valkyries Coach Natalie Nakase was awarded ‘Coach of the Year’ and Vs guard Veronica Burton received ‘Most Improved Player;’ nasal sprays containing azelastine may help prevent contracting COVID-19; and the state excise tax on cannabis could go back down to 15% from the current 19% soon.
Arts & Entertainment Vacant Haight Street Dispensary Space Now Home to Once-Bankrupt Marijuana Company Eaze The former Berner’s on Haight dispensary was Haight Street’s first legal dispensary, changed its name to Blaze on Haight, and then went out of business. Now it’s open again under the brand Eaze, who themselves declared bankruptcy earlier this year.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Reservoir' at Berkeley Rep Plumbs the Depths of Addiction and Familial Love Berkeley Rep's 2025-26 season opened this week with playwright Jake Brasch's semi-autobiographical play 'The Reservoir,' which is an unconventional, mostly unsentimental examination of the parallels between severe alcoholism and dementia.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Beer and More Beer East Brother Beer Co. brings the Rec Room to the Metreon, Park Station debuts in Alameda, and Hon's Wun-Tun House expands to the Sunset, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano 2025 Now Underway In Golden Gate Park, and Celebrating Its 10th Anniversary Twelve pianos are now placed in Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden to host more than 100 performers over the next two weekends, and it’s the 10th anniversary of this extraordinarily charming fall event.
SF News Expect the Heat to Return to the Bay Area Monday and Tuesday San Francisco's first significant bout of "real summer" or "September summer" looks to be headed here on Monday, with the possibility of those unsettling offshore winds that leave the city feeling hot hot hot.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Plan Narrowly Passes Planning Commission, Right Along Party Lines A ten-hour-long Planning Commission meeting allowed Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan to clear its first legislative hurdle on Thursday, but the SF Board of Supervisors seems primed to add a ton of amendments to the ambitious upzoning proposal.
SF News Two Zizian Defendants Back In Solano County Court, One Seeking New Attorney There has been some movement in the cases of the multiple people tied to a small but violent, cult-like group that originated in the Bay Area several years ago. And two suspects were back in court this week in Solano County.
SF News UC Berkeley Hands Feds List of 160 Allegedly ‘Anti-Semitic’ Students and Staff, in Total Capitulation to Trump After months of pressure from the Trump administration, UC Berkeley has handed the feds a list of 160 students and faculty accused of “anti-semitism,” with no detail on what merits this allegation, and it’s probably just Palestine protests.
SF News BART to Pay $6.75M to Settle Lawsuit From Woman Shot By BART Police In Union City A woman who was pulled over by BART police last November and accused of doing donuts in a station parking lot, and who then tried to drive away from officers, ended up shot three times, and now she is getting a significant legal settlement.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 22-Year-Old Arrested In Kirk Shooting A 22-year-old Utah man with apparent anti-fascist views has been taken into custody for the murder of Charlie Kirk; a woman found dead in a Napa hotel appears to have taken her own life; and a new park opens on Treasure Island Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uh-Oh, Brock Purdy Is Injured, Could Be Out for Up to Five Weeks A dead body was found Thursday morning in the Berkeley Marina; an East Bay elementary school has a flea infestation; and Brock Purdy is out this Sunday and maybe longer with multiple injuries.
SF News Father of Man Killed at Burning Man Implores Trump and FBI to Intervene in Homicide Investigation Nearly two weeks after the suspected murder of a Russian national at Burning Man, the victim’s father in Russia is calling on President Trump and the FBI to get more involved with the seemingly stalled investigation.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Final Game Tonight Determines Who They Play in the Playoffs, and the Game’s on KPIX Thursday night’s Golden State Valkyries game will determine whether their playoff matchup will be against the #1 team in the WNBA, or a red-hot team on a 15-game winning streak, or a team they might stand a pretty good chance against.
Arts & Entertainment 'Shucked' at the Curran Is a Pun-a-Minute, Corn-y Good Time 'Shucked,' a new Broadway musical that delighted audiences in New York in 2023, arrived in San Francisco this week on its first national tour, and it's a genuinely funny, light-hearted treat of a show in an old-timey vein.
SF News BART Board Does Some Grilling, Managers Give Some Explanation About Last Week's Systemwide Meltdown Today was a BART directors board meeting day, and it fell just six days afer the transit system experienced a systemwide meltdown just before the morning commute — for the second time in four months.
Arts & Entertainment ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ at the Victoria Theatre Works All Day as a Screwball 1980s Nostalgia Romp Dolly Parton herself wrote the music to ‘9 to 5:The Musical,’ running this month at the Victoria Theatre, a slapstick revue featuring over-the-top wigs and a comedic commitment to specifically recreating the year 1980.
SF News [Update] Father Fatally Stabbed In Front of Child at Busy Intersection Near Balboa Terrace Elementary School A man was fatally stabbed in broad daylight Wednesday afternoon at the busy intersection of Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in San Francisco.
SF Politics Does It Matter That Charlie Kirk Joked About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, Said 'Patriot' Should Bail Out Attacker? The many, many troubling things that right-wing activist Charlie Kirk said in the public spotlight during his brief career are being trotted out online in the immediate aftermath of his horrific assassination, including comments he made about the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full 2025 Lineup, With Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Samara Joy, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The final acts have just been announced for next month's 25th anniversary Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy added to a lineup that already included String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Dengue Fever.
SF News Attempted Robbery at Oakland Pawn Shop Leads to Shootout With Staff, Two Suspects Killed Six people were shot Wednesday evening, two of them fatally, in a shootout between the staff at an East Oakland pawn shop and five armed suspects attempting to rob the place, according to police.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kaiser Makes COVID Vaccine Available to All The suspect remains at large in the Utah killing of Charlie Kirk, but a gun has been recovered; a stabbing in SF on Wednesday left a person with grave injuries; and Kaiser Permanente is making the COVID vaccine available to all who want it, in spite of FDA guidance.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two More Victims Found In India Basin Shooting The number of victims in Tuesday's India Basin shooting has risen to six; Kamala Harris turns on Biden and others in her new book; and a 'person of interest' is reportedly in custody in today's assassination of Charlie Kirk.
SF Politics Anti-SF Troll and ‘San Fransicko’ Author Michael Shellenberger Now Allowed Into White House Press Briefings Apparently having a Substack newsletter is enough to get you a White House press credential as long as you’re enough of a Trump suck-up, as we now see ‘San Fransicko’ author Michael Shellenberger in White House press briefings.
