SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Earthquake Rumbles Off the CA Coast A 3.4M earthquake struck this morning about 50 miles from Eureka, under the Pacific; Richmond just saw its first homicide of the year; and it's Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven stores.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Want to Design One of Those ‘Hearts in SF?’ Here’s Your Chance That big NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway is this weekend; an immigrant activist who Trump jailed for 104 days is suing for $20 million; and this is your chance to design one of those famed “Hearts in San Francisco.”
SF News Sure Enough, SFO Not at All Receptive to Oakland Airport’s New Proposed ‘San Francisco' Name In their ongoing quest to put the words ‘San Francisco’ in their name, the Oakland airport recently floated the new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’ SFO officials have responded that they hate it, and they’re not pulling back their lawyers.
SF News Cannabis Farm In SoCal Sees Chaotic ICE Raid; Subsequent Protest Met With Tear Gas A chaotic scene on California's Central Coast is making the national news Thursday evening as an ICE raid at a cannabis farm was met with a protest, and federal agents and National Guard troops then began deploying tear gas and rubber bullets.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo’s Relentlessly Adorable Red Panda ‘Tenzing’ Has Died While the SF Zoo tries to bring in giant panda bears, the zoo’s tinier specimen of the Himalayan red panda, 12-year-old viral video star and crowd favorite Tenzing, passed away this week from apparent complications of a parasitic infection.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminated, 100-Foot-Long Sea Creature Installation Coming to Golden Gate Park What's being billed as the largest piece of public art ever to be installed in the history of Golden Gate Park is going to debut later this month along JFK Promenade.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Woman Still Suing Thai Restaurant For Serving Her Spicy Meatballs That She Says Injured Her It would seem strange for a doctor to file a frivolous injury lawsuit, so we'll give the benefit of the doubt to the case of a San Jose woman, who is a doctor, who claims that an extra-spicy Thai dish caused her permanent internal injuries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Warriors’ Jimmy Butler Opens Coffee Pop-Up In Former Lucca Ravioli, and Boy Is It an Instagram and Influencer Trap Would you wait in line for 45 minutes to pay $10 for a cup of coffee? Then you will love Bigface, Jimmy Butler’s celebrity-branded coffee pop-up that’s currently taking over the Square Corner Store in the former Lucca Ravioli space.
Business & Tech Musk Threatens to Bring Tesla's LiDAR-Free Robotaxis to Bay Area Within Months Lest we thought that Elon Musk was finally done with the Bay Area, having closed down Xitter's offices and moved several of his companies to Texas, he's now claiming that Tesla's robotaxis will be coming to compete with Waymo soon.
SF Politics Sunset Night Market on Pause, Possibly Falling Victim to Recall Fight Involving Supervisor Joel Engardio If you ask the folks trying to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio, the merchants and the community don't want the popular Sunset Night Market to return this summer — but also, if you're a fan, it's Engardio's fault that it's not coming back.
SF News Early Morning East Bay Freeway Gunfire Sends One Person to the Hospital Someone started firing shots at a Tesla 3 driver at about 12:30 am this morning on I-680 about five miles north of Danville, and while the driver took a bullet to the head, their injuries are relatively minor and they’re expected to survive.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Dumpster Fire Spreads to Excelsior Building A dumpster fire spread to a residential building in SF's Excelsior this morning; trash collectors are on strike in over a dozen Bay Area cities; and Napa police seek the public's help in a homicide investigation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Is Updating Its Floppy-Disk-Based Train Control System Muni is beginning the $700M project to upgrade its antiquated train-control system; a planned new nightclub in the Castro has been scrapped; and Sam Altman says he feels just "fine" about Mark Zuckerberg poaching his employees.
SF News Embarcadero Plaza’s Maligned Brutalist Fountain Likely Done For, According to Rec and Parks Official It’s another rectangular tube in the coffin for the Embarcadero Plaza’s 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, as a top SF Rec and Parks official told an audience at a Tuesday night meeting that restoring the fountain is “beyond our project budget.”
Arts & Entertainment Former AMC Van Ness 1000 Movie Theater Reopens This Weekend as ‘Apple Cinemas Van Ness’ The movie theater chain Apple Cinemas has nothing to do with the Cupertino tech company Apple, but now they're in charge of resurrecting the old AMC 1000 Van Ness theater, and the movies start playing there Thursday.
SF News Multiple Law Enforcement Groups Raid SF Home Linked to Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Owner After last week’s Yolo County fireworks warehouse explosion killed seven people, an Inner Richmond home linked to the warehouse owner was raided Tuesday by SFPD, Yolo County Sheriff’s deputies, and the Sacramento Sheriff's Bomb Squad.
SF News Berkeley Professor Says He Was Beaten, Likely Gay-Bashed, on Pride Saturday in Dolores Park A gay professor of film media and French at UC Berkeley, Damon Young, says he was attacked and beaten by a group of teens as he tried to leave a crowded Dolores Park on the Saturday of Pride Weekend.
SF News Paul Flores Files Second Appeal of Conviction In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart An emotional juror who had a tearful outburst, a non-expert witness suggesting roofies were involved, and two unrelated accusations of rape are among the errors Paul Flores and his attorney say occurred during his 2022 trial for the murder of Kristin Smart.
Arts & Entertainment A Sneak Peek at the Burning Man 2025 Art Projects (Which Are Not Even at Burning Man Yet) It’s still nearly two months until Burning Man even starts, but we can already get a look at the biggest art projects heading out to the desert. And some Burning Man tickets are still available, if you want to head out there with them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trump Hat Reportedly Spotted Behind Counter at Swan Oyster Depot, Prompting Yelp Revolt Well, for those looking for another reason not to stand in an hour-long line at Swan Oyster Depot, a local food influencer has one for you.
SF News 15-Year-Old Antioch Teen Shot and Killed at July 4 Block Party In SF's Bayview Antioch 15-year-old Tyrell Washington was visiting SF’s Bayview District on July 4 to be with friends and family. He was among five people shot at a block party there, and he’s the only one who did not survive.
Business & Tech Linda Yaccarino Is Taking Her Leave of X After Two Years as CEO Nobody really thought she'd make it a full two years being CEO at Elon Musk's more chaotic version of Twitter, but Linda Yaccarino somehow did — or she was under contract — and now she'll be taking the rest of the summer off.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Nvidia Becomes First $4 Trillion Public Company A 12-year-old and a 17-year-old have been arrested for a string of ATM armed robberies in Livermore; the feds are suing CA over its trans athlete policy; and Nvidia is now the world's first $4 trillion public company.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Killed in Yolo County Fireworks Explosion Were SF Locals The latest corpse flower bloom is underway; Matt Haney’s ‘4 am Last Call’ bill might get killed by a committee chair; and two of the seven people killed in last week’s NorCal fireworks explosion had attended SF’s Buena Vista Horace Mann school.
Arts & Entertainment With Sadness, Oakland Zoo Forced to Put Down Longtime Fan Favorite Petting Yard Goat The Oakland Zoo’s aging petting yard goat Jellybean is off in the great petting zoo in the sky, as her arthritic condition became too much to bear, and the zoo "made the difficult decision" for July 3 to be her final day.
