SF News Day Around the Bay: More Than Half of Americans Want Better AI Safeguards, Says Poll SF's first televised Lowrider Parade is happening Saturday; a man slid to his death while descending Mount Shasta; and a Pew Research poll found that 53% of Americans want more government protections surrounding AI in their daily lives.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom’s Ex-Wife and Don Jr.'s Ex-Girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Now the US Ambassador to Greece One-time Gavin Newsom wife turned TV personality Kimberly Guilfoyle lost her engagement to Donald Trump, Jr. when Don Jr. found someone younger and blonder, but she’s being rewarded for her silence by being named US Ambassador to Greece.
SF News [Update] Shots Reportedly Fired at ABC Affiliate In Sacramento One can only imagine the motivations for a person doing a drive-by shooting to send an apparent message at Sacramento's ABC10, the same week that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air for comments about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: An Ernest Offshoot Comes to SoMa Ernest chef Brandon Rice is expanding with Lawrence in SoMa, Sangria & Salt takes over the former Cha Cha Cha in the Mission, and the Jewish deli-inspired Super Mensch makes its debut in the Marina, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Teen Accused of Shooting 49ers’ Ricky Pearsall Won’t Be Tried as an Adult, and Pearsall Forgives Kid Anyway The teen who shot 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall will be tried as a juvenile and not as an adult, a court has decided, but Pearsall said he would like to meet his shooter again, and perhaps strike up a friendship.
SF News City Contractor Urban Alchemy Acknowledges Some Overspending as SF Supervisors Mull Contract Extension The local nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which took on favored-contractor status at San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing in recent years, is increasingly coming under the microscope of city leaders amid signs of contract violations.
SF News Design Approved For Sparkly Revamp of Powell Street The three blocks of Powell Street between the cable-car turnaround and Union Square are set to see some light installations, cafe tables, new paving and more under a new proposed revamp.
SF News The Lucky Supermarket in Bayview Is Closing November 1, Just Three Years After Its Grand Opening Nearly three years to the day after its highly touted grand opening, the Bayview Lucky Supermarket is closing permanently on November 1, and leaving a big grocery-store size hole in the food desert neighborhood.
SF News Double Homicide Shocks Walnut Creek, Two Women Found Dead Inside Home Two women who were apparently related to one another were found dead inside a Walnut Creek home late Thursday night, and police are investigating the matter as a double homicide.
SF News Sheriff's Former Chief of Staff Victor Aenlle Sues San Mateo County for Defamation, Wrongful Termination The saga down in San Mateo County over the board of supervisors' effort to remove Sheriff Christa Corpus can add a fresh lawsuit to its roster, this one from the sheriff's alleged lover and former chief of staff, Victor Aenlle.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Singer D4vd Cancels SF and LA Shows Amid Homicide Investigation Singer D4vd has canceled his Friday Warfield show amid a homicide investigation in LA; a Gaza protest group disrupted traffic Friday in Oakland; and Mt. Diablo High's football field has been repaired after last month's fire.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Busting Out Those Vintage Buses Again for Muni Heritage Weekend Those rain and lightning storms seem like they will miss the Bay Area; Jon Stewart is back on ‘The Daily Show’ tonight apparently to avenge Jimmy Kimmel; and the old-time buses and street cars are back for Muni Heritage Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment The New, Reborn Club Deluxe Gets City Hall Approval for Live Music Until 2AM, Seven Nights a Week The Upper Haight's old Club Deluxe had live music until 1 am on weekends, but the new forthcoming reborn Club Deluxe just won approval for bands to jam til 2 am, seven nights a week, though they probably won’t go that late.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 10 Casual Tasting Menus to Try In San Francisco Right Now The tasting menu format has gone in and out of fashion at different times in our recent food culture, but it is very much alive and well around San Francisco in 2025.
SF News Apparent Murder Weapon Found in Burning Man Homicide, But Still No Suspects Identified The Pershing County, Nevada’s Sheriff’s Office says they’ve recovered a large knife they suspect is the murder weapon used to kill a 37-year-old Russian national at Burning Man, and that it was used to stab him in the neck.
SF Politics Antifa a 'Terrorist Organization'? Good Luck Figuring That Out Predictably, though still confusingly, President Trump has declared Antifa as a "major terrorist organization," even though it isn't an organization, it's an umbrella term for a decentralized anti-fascist movement.
SF News Tahoe Community Torn as State Plans to Euthanize Mama Bear That Keeps Breaking Into Homes A bear nicknamed “Hope” is slated for euthanization after a reported dozen incursions into people’s homes in just the last three months, but Tahoe bear activists are fighting back, while concerned about what will happen with Hope’s young cub.
Business & Tech Vehicle Fleet Management Company to Take Part of Twitter's Former Space on Mid-Market Elon Musk has found a taker for at least part of the former Twitter headquarters in the former Twitter Building on mid-Market, aka the former San Francisco Mart, aka Market Square.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Eliminated In Last-Minute, Nail-Biting One-Point Playoff Loss The Golden State Valkyries squandered a 17-point lead and ended up being eliminated in a one-point playoff loss Wednesday night — but the bigger embarrassment might belong to ESPN, whose announcers’ microphones died out through much of the fourth quarter.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Benicia Told to Conserve Water After Pipeline Burst Residents of Benicia are being told to reduce water use by almost half after a pipeline rupture; an animal welfare activist is on trial in Sonoma County over a chicken farm incursion; and the NHTSA investigates Tesla over faulty door locks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jimmy Kimmel's Show Yanked Off Air Over Kirk Shooting Comments A man was stabbed Wednesday outside the Daly City BART station; the suspect in a hit-and-run rampage in Berkeley has been ID'd; and Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has been pulled off the air "indefinitely" over comments he made Monday about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
SF News Three People Shot at Concord Parking Garage, Multiple Suspects Arrested An unexplained shooting in a Concord parking garage Tuesday night has left three people hospitalized, though Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies quickly identified and detained multiple suspects.
SF News Former Anchor Frank Somerville's Domestic Dispute Story Differs From Daughter's, According to Police After his arrest Monday night in Oakland, former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville publicized his side of a domestic battery story involving his 20-year-old daughter. But it seems that his daughter's version is different, and both are pressing charges against each other.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Must Win Playoff Game Tonight or Be Eliminated, Even as Coach Named WNBA Coach of the Year Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase was just named WNBA Coach of the Year Wednesday, but that is little consolation, as the Valkyries need to win tonight’s playoff game against the Minnesota Lynx or else their season is over.
SF News Man Who SF Medical Examiner Wrongly Declared Dead In 2021 Is Now, In Fact, Dead Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has in fact now died.
