The Outside Lands lineup this year looks a lot like the Portola Fest lineup of the last couple of years, with acts like Charli xcx and RÜFÜS DU SOL topping the bill.
Daniel Lurie says that at least 500 City Hall jobs are on the chopping block, a move he avoided last year through accounting tricks, and Lurie may not exactly be Mr. Popular anymore once that axe comes down.
We heard a few weeks ago that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan were, for reasons we can only guess, seeking out a new home in Miami, and the deal reportedly closed on Monday.
Continuing the tradition of tech CEOs appearing to be transparent performing their mea culpas on social media, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Xitter Monday to say a few things about that rushed Friday deal with the Pentagon, following the collapse of a deal with Anthropic.
Some SF City Hall gossip is rearing its head again alleging that former SF Mayor London Breed appointed Supervisor Stephen Sherrill in order to score a job with big-bucks benefactor Michael Bloomberg.
A Santa Rosa couple is unable to leave Israel due to the airports being shut down; global stocks tumbled due to the Iran war; and last night's lunar eclipse was obscured by fog.
A 20-year-old suspect has been arrested for a series of armed doughnut shop robberies; ABC 7 meteorologist Spencer Christian underwent heart surgery and is recovering; and the Iran War is seriously impeding global air travel.
In one of several cases to hit the Supreme Court this term involving trans people, the court has opted to weigh in where they did not necessarily need to in the case of California's law shielding trans, nonbinary and questioning kids from being outed to their parents against their will.
The gold medal-biting, thizz-facing visage of Alysa Liu now graces this fabulous mural that was just unveiled in Temescal, the latest Oakland celebration of the medal-winning Olympic skater.
Now in her second season on Saturday Night Live, Bay Area native Ashley Padilla has proven to be a versatile and hilarious cast member who's already beating out all her castmates this season in total screen time and sketch appearances.
An East Bay man says OpenAI pressured him into dropping two AI ballot measures he introduced that would’ve created stricter regulations after it was revealed he’s the stepbrother of a senior Anthropic employee, but he says he wrote the proposals himself — with legal help from chatbots.
The San Francisco Ballet is the latest performance outfit to declare they will cancel their scheduled shows at the Kennedy Center since Trump bastardized the place, added his name to it, and declared himself its chairman.
A mother was badly injured and her two-year-old daughter was killed in a pedestrian crash Friday in Mission Bay/Mission Rock, and bystanders allege that the driver appeared to try to flee the scene.
Despite Trump calling SF’s Anthropic a “Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about” and banning government use of their AI tool Claude, the administration still had to use Claude in its Iran attacks.
Concerns about the behavior of Waymo's autonomous taxis, following the December blackout in which the cars clogged intersections and created potential hazards, are being raised at a Monday hearing at SF City Hall.
Oakland marked its 12th homicide of the year to date on Sunday; there was a rally at SF's Ferry Building in support of the US and Israel's attack on Iran; and Congress is having a war powers debate, a little late.
The ‘Fire Horse,’ which arrives every 60 years, is long associated with upheaval and transformation, appearing at pivotal moments in modern San Francisco history as far back as the Gold Rush era and revealing recurring social patterns across generations.
SF’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development is rolling out $6.3 million in funding for its small business grant programs, including $50,000–$100,000 to fill vacant storefronts in select neighborhoods, and up to $10,000 for new equipment — with key deadlines May 29 and March 6.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was confirmed dead following Saturday’s US-Israeli military strike; three bystanders were shot in Oakland early Sunday; and real estate investor Luke Brugnara faces felony charges for installing the controversial fence in Daly City.
Just a couple hours after Trump announced the federal government was cutting ties with Anthropic for refusing to grant the Pentagon full access to its tools Friday, Sam Altman announced OpenAI received the contract instead, which includes the safeguards Anthropic was denied.
A local law firm filed a lawsuit against Flock alleging federal agencies accessed data from the SFPD’s cameras more than 1.6 million times, and a recent audit by El Cerrito's police department found that several federal agencies briefly accessed its data.
Two of the survivors of last week's deadly avalanche near Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have now spoken out about the group's decision to venture out in blizzard conditions.
This week: Too Short’s ‘Blow the Whistle’ at 20, local Black figures through history, cheap eats in the Sunset, the library’s small business resources, and Sports Basement comedy club. Plus: walking the Bay Bridge, descending the Hawk Hill stairs, and exploring Black history through music.
The US and Israel launched a targeted strike against Iran Saturday, who said it will retaliate; the names were released of the sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot East Bay musician Anthony Ant earlier this month; and a two-year-old was killed while crossing the street in SF’s Mission Bay Friday.
Trump was not happy about Anthropic’s refusal to allow the Pentagon access to its technology; Henrietta Lacks’ estate won a settlement from Swiss drugmaker Novartis for profiting off her cells for decades without their knowledge; and Randa’s Market in the Mission has a new cat named ‘Shadow.’
