Arts & Entertainment Remains of Teen Girl Missing Since 2024 Found In Trunk of Car Belonging to Singer D4vd, Who's Playing the Warfield Friday A singer-songwriter who's currently on tour and set to play a show at The Warfield on Friday is now linked to a homicide investigation in Los Angeles, after a body was found in an abandoned car registered to him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Asinine Website Ranks SF Restaurant Patrons By Hotness, Using AI A guy who likes crunching publicly available data has turned his sights on a "hot or not" style ratings map for restaurants in San Francisco, LA, and New York, which is powered by AI and yields some highly questionable results.
Bay Area Sports Tennis Great Roger Federer, In Town For Laver Cup, Helps Christen Courts at McLaren Park, Golfs With Alcaraz Legendary tennis pro Roger Federer is in SF this week for the Laver Cup, the invitational tournament that pits European tennis players against other players from around the globe, and he was on hand Tuesday for the dedication of some newly surfaced public tennis courts at McLaren Park.
SF News UC Students and Administrators Sue Trump Administration Over So-Called ‘Antisemitism’ Purge While the UC system may be giving in on Trump’s attempt to turn the University of California into Trump U, students and faculty are taking up the fight, and have sued the administration to stop the university's defunding and blacklisting of activists.
SF News 15-Year-Old Shot on BART In Oakland; Freeway Shooting on I-580 an Hour Later Two unrelated shootings in Oakland Tuesday night, one on BART and another on I-580 near Mills College, have left a 15-year-old in critical condition, and a Ford Fiesta shot up with bullet holes.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tropical Storm Mario Moves Toward California Moisture from Tropical Storm Mario will likely be hitting us tomorrow or Friday; bail was denied for the suspect in last week's stabbing of a San Francisco father; and the local restaurant business appears to be on the upswing.
SF Politics Supervisor Joel Engardio Ousted In First Ever Recall of Its Kind As was widely predicted, SF's District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio has been recalled, in a first-of-its-kind recall election of a sitting supervisor, largely because he supported closing the Great Highway to car traffic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Trying to Sell TikTok to His Buddies at Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz Coachella has already announced its 2026 lineup; a survivor of the Napa crash is speaking out for the first time; and Trump is trying to engineer the sale of TikTok to basically some of his highest-rolling donors.
SF News Berkeley Suspect Allegedly Pulls Triple Hit-and-Run, Hitting Pedestrians, Bicyclist, and Another Car A suspect who is now in custody went on an apparent hit-and-run rampage in Berkeley Tuesday morning in an allegedly stolen car, hitting two pedestrians, a bicyclist, and then another car, before unsuccessfully attempting to carjack two other vehicles.
SF News Area Around Cesar Chavez Interchange 'Hairball' Cleared of Encampments Once More The encampment-clearing focus returned to "the hairball" Tuesday, with Caltrans and CHP personnel doing a sweep of those residing under the overpasses where Cesar Chavez Street meets Potrero Avenue, Bayshore Boulevard, and multiple 101 on- and off-ramps.
SF News San Francisco Remains a Safe Haven for the Childless and Child-Averse San Francisco is holding onto its title as the country's most childless major city, and in fact the numbers haven't budged in a decade.
Business & Tech Waymo Gets Its First Baby-Step Approval to Give Rides to SFO, Cars Will Have Human Drivers at First Waymo’s race to provide airport rides to SF International Airport now has a very well-defined set of approved steps, as the company just got the green light to start testing rides to SFO with human drivers behind the wheel.
SF News Former KTVU Anchor Frank Somerville Arrested Again In Oakland, Says It Stemmed From Fight With Daughter The saga of Frank Somerville, the former anchor of KTVU's popular nightly newscast, continues with another arrest, this time for battery, in what's now his fourth run-in with the law.
SF Politics The 'Recall Joel Engardio' Election is Today, and 30% Have Already Voted by Mail Polls are now open in the tiniest election San Francisco has ever held, as only District 4 voters can vote today on the measure to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio, the first ever recall attempt of a sitting San Francisco supervisor in history.
SF Politics City Audit Further Details $4.6M In Misspent Dollars By Former SF Human Rights Commission Chief The San Francisco public already knew about the not-all-above-board spending practices of disgraced former Human Rights Commission chief and Dream Keeper program head Sheryl Davis, but a new city audit puts an eye-popping pricetag on it: $4.6 million.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF's Sad Downtown Mall Now 93% Vacant The SF Centre mall is now 93% vacant; Oakland Airport wants in on the Waymo action; and the Pope just called out exorbitant CEO salaries like Elon Musk's.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Announces All-Out War on Liberal Groups BART says it will only do computer upgrades on weekends now; Trump, via JD Vance, declared all-out war on liberal groups today in frighteningly vague terms; and it's going to be even hotter around the Bay on Tuesday than it was on Monday.
Business & Peter Thiel Thinks He Knows Who the Antichrist Is, Gives SF Lecture Several wealthy right-wing tech bros got to hear Peter Thiel speak at SF’s Commonwealth Club Monday evening on the topic of the Antichrist, which is a funny thing to claim to know about when you’ve got all manner of Jeff Epstein connections.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wolfsbane, the New Dogpatch Restaurant From the Lord Stanley Folks, Sets Opening Date The new restaurant from the couple behind Michelin-starred Lord Stanley (RIP), Carrie and Rupert Blease, and their friend, chef Tommy Halvorson, is coming into focus, and the reservation books are now open.
Arts & Entertainment That Union Square Pop Mart Opened Today, For All Your Labubu-Buying Needs Chinese designer toy sensation Pop Mart soft-opened their highly anticipated new Union Square store Monday in what was once the flagship Skechers store at Powell and O’Farrell streets, providing another option for people who want more Labubus.
SF News Community Remembers SF Father Stabbed and Killed Outside SF Elementary School Last Week SF community figures are offering their condolences to the family of 35-year-old Robert Byrd II, who was stabbed and killed last Wednesday afternoon near Commodore Sloat Elementary School after picking up his eight-year-old son from school.
Arts & Entertainment Skaters Are Latest Group to Voice Opposition to Removal of Vaillancourt Fountain You may not know this, but the much reviled Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza has become an iconic backdrop, and set piece, for skateboarding videos over decades.
Arts & Entertainment Mario Coming to SF Nintendo Store This Weekend, Should You Think That Merits Rearranging Your Social Calendar To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the “Super Mario Bros” video game, SF’s Union Square Nintendo Store is bringing in Mario this weekend, or rather, someone in a Mario mascot suit that you can take pictures with.
Arts & Entertainment Shaboozey Honored With Diamond Record Plaque at Civic Center Concert Attended By Over 20,000 Saturday's free concert in Civic Center drew over 20,000 fans for a celebration of the 15th anniversary of SF-born record label Empire, headlined by Billboard hitmaker Shaboozey.
Bay Area Sports Short-Handed 49ers Manage Ugly 26-21 Win Over Saints in New Orleans, as Defense Bails Them Out Again Journeyman castoff backup quarterback Mac Jones proved he had just enough in him to beat a terrible team, as he led the 49ers to a 26-21 win over the New Orleans Saints that was still more of a nailbiter than it should have been.
