SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock The once-trendy, San Francisco-born coffeeshop chain Philz Coffee has struck a deal to be sold off to a private equity firm for $145 million, but any employees who bought stock are getting the shaft, as they won’t see a penny of that money.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Farewell to Boulette's Larder One of the Ferry Building's OG restaurant operations has given up the ghost, Trick Dog has won a prestigious prize, and a new Korean cafe is coming to Dogpatch, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Toilet of One's Own San Francisco friends, we bring you Apartment Sadness, an SFist column that was once a more frequent feature on the site, back in the heady days of the early to mid-2010s, when it seemed like rents in the city would never stop spiking.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ Officially Unveiled in Excelsior to Kick Off Grateful Dead Anniversary Bash The Excelsior District street Jerry Garcia grew up on has been honorarily renamed Jerry Garcia Street, on what would have been Jerry’s 83rd birthday, and just hours before Dead & Company kick off those Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Revives His Pandemic Burger Pop-Up In Yountville For 10-Week Run A burger pop-up that chef and restaurateur Thomas Keller did back in 2020 is coming back to life in the former home of his Mexican restaurant.
SF News San Ramon School District Pays $7 Million to Alleged Sex Abuse Victims Who Accuse the District of a Cover-Up Two women who say that a San Ramon Valley High teacher sexually abused them when they were high school students were just awarded a nearly $7 million settlement, though oddly, that teacher is reportedly still credentialed.
Business & Tech Nvidia May Be Opening SF Office at New Mission Rock Complex The multi-building development at Mission Rock that's co-owned by the San Francisco Giants may be getting another high-profile tenant: chip-maker Nvidia.
SF News Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Moved to the Same Minimum-Security Prison Where Elizabeth Holmes Is Serving Time You can see the shitstorm clouds forming, can't you? Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate slash girlfriend slash procurer slash co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is looking for a pardon, and Donald Trump would love nothing more than for her to exonerate him in this whole mess.
SF News Bombs Found in Petaluma Home of Arson Suspect (Who Happens to Be a Former Cop) A strange story out of Petaluma, where a former police officer suspected of arson had his home searched in an investigation, and sheriff’s deputies found bombs, meth, and drug paraphernalia.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kamala Tells Colbert She Wants a Break From Public Office Kamala Harris was on the 'Late Show' talking about her plans to 'travel the country' but not be campaigning; a missing 16-year-old Fremont girl appears to have run away; and Oakland police say they've seized two cars that were involved in sideshows.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Throngs of Deadheads Descend on SF for This Weekend’s Dead & Company Shows A firefighter was injured while battling a squatter blaze in West Oakland; someone threw a sex toy onto the court at a Valkyries game; and SF is bracing itself as legions of Deadheads get ready to run amok for the Dead & Company shows.
SF News Victim In Murder Near City College Was Intervening In Harassment of Women; Two Children Witnessed Killing We have a few more details about a grisly homicide that occurred over the weekend in San Francisco's Ingleside District, and we now know that the killing occurred on a Muni platform.
Arts & Entertainment People Are Spotting That OpenAI Movie Being Shot at Locations Around San Francisco A Hollywood comedy about OpenAI’s firing and rehiring of Sam Altman as CEO is now being shot around San Francisco, and people are spotting big stars like Jason Schwartzman and Monica Barbaro in Dolores Park, the Marina, and SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Prominent Midcentury Building By 101 Freeway In Novato Will Become Museum Dedicated to Charles and Ray Eames The abandoned former Birkenstock factory in Marin County and the 88.5 acres it sits on have been acquired by the heirs of design icons Charles and Ray Eames, who have plans to build a major art and design museum there that will also house the Eames Archives.
SF News No More Warnings: SF Speed Cameras Will Start Issuing Fines, Starting Tuesday Don’t say you weren’t warned, as those new speed-monitoring cameras up all over San Francisco will stop cutting slack and start hitting speeding drivers with fines of at least $50, beginning this Tuesday, August 5.
SF News San Jose Tattoo Artist and Activist Who Was Fighting Deportation Gets Arrested for Alleged Attempted Carjacking An immigrants' rights activist who had rallied significant community support in recent weeks as he fought his own potential deportation, was arrested in Berkeley on Sunday for allegedly trying to steal several cars.
SF News Sued by Trump Administration for Alleged Anti-Semitism, Oakland Coffee Shop Owner Speaks for First Time North Oakland cafe Jerusalem Coffee House was sued by the Trump administration for allegedly kicking out a customer wearing a Star of David hat. Now two months after that lawsuit was served, the owner made his first public remarks.
Business & Tech Tesla Rolls Out Ride-Hail Service In Bay Area, Careful Not to Call It 'Robotaxi' So, it seems that Tesla still doesn't have permits to operate a self-driving taxi service in California. But after launching just such a service for a select few users in Austin, the company appears to be doing the same thing in the Bay Area, but here they're not calling it self-driving.
Bay Area Sports Former Warriors Star Gilbert Arenas Arrested on Charges of Running Illegal High-Stakes Poker Den The strange career of early 2000s Golden State Warrior Gilbert Arenas has just taken an even stranger turn, as the man we called “Agent Zero” was taken into federal custody for allegedly running a big-bucks illegal poker operation.
Arts & Entertainment Shaboozey to Play Free Concert In San Francisco's Civic Center; Poolside Playing Union Square The last two free concerts being put on by Another Planet Entertainment in SF this summer have just been announced, and they'll be happening the first two weekends in September.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pelosi Endorses Kounalakis for Governor Someone was shot in Oakland's Northgate neighborhood for the second night in a row; Nancy Pelosi appeared to endorse Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis for governor; and SF's sheriff has endorsed a MAGA guy for governor because he's a fellow sheriff.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Death on the Russian River A 34-year-old East Bay man died after jumping from a rope swing on the Russian River; the Manhattan gunman purchased his rifle from his casino boss in Las Vegas; and Colorado dentist James Craig has been sentenced to life for poisoning his wife.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another SF Cafe Trying ‘Robot Baristas,’ This Time at the Former Creamery Spot Near SoMa Caltrain “AI slop” may soon be available in liquid form, as yet one more forthcoming SF cafe is trying the robot barista idea, but also adding AI-generated art and music plus “tech-forward coffee” at the former Creamery space on Fourth Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Start Planning: Outside Lands Set Times, 'Secret' Menu Items Revealed Featuring Mucho Caviar Those heading to Outside Lands next weekend can start strategizing about sets they need to see, and lamenting about the impossible choices that inevitably arise with schedule conflicts. Also, this year's slate of special, limited-edition menu items is out.
SF News Supervisor Engardio Gets Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps In the Outer Sunset After a Handful of Sideshows There Sideshows started popping up in the unexpected neighborhood of the normally not-at-all rowdy Outer Sunset in May, and now the district’s Supervisor Joel Engardio has had speed bumps installed there in hopes of bringing the donuts to a halt.
