SF News Day Around the Bay: Officials Say Stay Out of Water at Ocean Beach Over the Weekend At least 12 people were stabbed at a Hamburg train station; Stanford students are on day 11 of a hunger strike over the school’s ties to Israel; and officials warn residents to stay out of the water at Ocean Beach following recent deaths and multiple rescues.
SF News Trump Still Barreling Forward With Certifiably Insane Plan to Reopen Alcatraz as a Prison President Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons officials insist they are moving forward with their out-to-lunch scheme to reopen the tourist site Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison, despite that this is all galactically unrealistic.
SF News Muni’s Boat Tram and Other Vintage Streetcars Begin Their Summer Return to Service Today Oh boy! The streetcar known as Boat Boi is among the vintage Muni streetcars that will be back in action for the summer months starting today, and there’s a real-time map where you can track which of your favorites are running, and where.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Beloved Mission Rooftop Bar Reopens, and It's Cuban Now Regalito's replacement is on deck, El Techo reopens next week as a Cuban spot, and Niku Steakhouse is reopening after a fire, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Drug Smugglers Sneaking Synthetic Marijuana Into Jails By Soaking It Into Fake Legal Papers Santa Rita Jail and other prisons across the state are on high alert that a potent synthetic cannabis substitute is being smuggled into their jails, soaked into completely fake legal documents that the prisoners can just shred up and smoke.
Arts & Entertainment 'Parade' Tells Story of Infamous Injustice In Atlanta Through Haunting Score A Tony-winning musical that tells the tragic, frustrating story about a Jewish man who was likely wrongly accused of murder and convicted on flimsy evidence in the Jim Crow South has just landed at SF's Orpheum Theater.
SF News Mayor Lurie Yanks Funding for SF Parks Alliance, Amidst Multiple City Probes Into Agency's Finances The nonprofit that throws those free movie nights in SF parks is now in a blockbuster financial scandal, so Mayor Lurie has put a pause on their funding, and three city departments are now conducting audits and investigations.
Business & Tech 1,500 Residential Units Proposed on Former Tennis Club Property In SoMa A change made in March to the Central SoMa Plan has already yielded some interest from a developer, with a long-stalled development property at 88 Bluxome now back in the mix as a high-rise residential complex.
SF News Fatal Shooting In Oakland's San Antonio Neighborhood Leads to Standoff With Suspect, and Arrest A 24-year-old man was shot Thursday morning in Oakland's San Antonio neighborhood, and he succumbed to his wounds early Friday, marking Oakland's 32nd homicide of the year.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Person Shot In SF's Potrero One person was shot and injured in Potrero Hill Thursday afternoon; I-580 was shut down by a grass fire; and Harvard is suing the Trump administration yet again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART’s Green Line Won't Be Running Again Until Tuesday The fired SFPD officer who allegedly caused a DUI crash pleaded not guilty; the Golden State Valkyries won their first game ever; and BART’s Green Line won’t run again until Tuesday, but you can still transfer trains and get anywhere.
SF News Wine Country Developer Arrested by Feds, Charged With Fraud and Money Laundering Federal officials allege that Sonoma County real estate tycoon Kenneth Mattson bilked nearly 200 investors out of at least $46 million in a series of fraudulent real estate deals, and arrested him today in a wine country gymnasium parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Native and Rupaul's Drag Race Winner Sasha Velour Brings Her 'Big Reveal' Live Show to Berkeley Rep Sasha Velour, the winner of Season 9 of 'Rupaul's Drag Race,' is returning to her birthplace of Berkeley to perform in drag for the first time there next week, kicking off a tour with a two-week residency at Berkeley Rep.
SF Politics US Senate Votes to Block California’s Electric Car Mandate, State Certain to Sue The GOP-controlled US Senate just voted Thursday to revoke California’s mandate to switch to only electric cars by the year 2035, in an obvious middle finger to California from politicians who claim to support “states’ rights.”
SF News Recology Mechanic's Death Still Shrouded In Mystery as Company Stays Quiet About Details The circumstances of the accidental death of Recology employee Alfredo Romero last Friday remain under wraps. And Romero's family says that not only did the company get his name wrong when they called to tell them about the accident, they refuse to explain how the death occurred.
Business & Tech The Old Lucca Ravioli Space to Become a ‘Corner Store’ for Tech Payment Processing Company Square Valencia Street’s former Lucca Ravioli space will now be handling a different kind of dough, as the point-of-sale system Square is taking the place over and turning it into something like an Apple Store for their own products.
Arts & Entertainment 95-Year-Old Artist Behind Often Reviled Embarcadero Plaza Fountain Flies to SF to 'Save' It The sculptor behind the 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, which won't ever be called the most popular piece of public art in SF, took it upon himself to fly here this week and call for a preemptive hearing on its fate.
SF Politics Recall Joel Engardio Crowd Says They Have Enough Signatures to Force the Recall Election The effort to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio claims it’s hitting a major milestone today, as organizers say they have more than the 10,000 signatures needed to put the recall on the ballot, and they’re submitting them this afternoon.
SF News Big Fireworks Show Near North Beach Over the Weekend Was For Private Corporate Anniversary Party An elaborate, 12-minute, professional fireworks spectacular that took many SF residents by surprise last Saturday night turns out to have been a private show for which advance notice wasn't given to the public.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Killed In Fiery Head-On Crash In Brentwood Two drivers were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday night on Highway 4 in Brentwood, which led to an EV battery fire; a divided Supreme Court shoots down a religious charter school; and homeless tents in SF are at a five-year low, but complaints are up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Strange 'Bubble Planet' Attraction Opens In Oakland JC Penney is closing at San Bruno's Tanforan Mall; a weird immersive attraction called Bubble Planet has opened next to Lake Merritt in Oakland; and that George Lucas museum in LA just laid off some staff ahead of its 2026 opening.
SF News Those New SF Speed Cameras Are Catching 1,000 Speeders Every Day, Most on Fulton Street They’re still just giving out warnings for lead-foot drivers who are caught by those new speed-detecting cameras, but data from the first month of the program shows that a stunning 44% of all citations citywide were issued to drivers on Fulton Street.
Arts & Entertainment Seth Rogen Movie Shoot Creating All Sorts of Hubbub Across San Francisco Is Hollywood star Seth Rogen spending Wednesday in the cordoned-off bar the Make-Out Room? It’s possible, as he and Olivia Wilde have been spotted in SF, apparently shooting their new romcom called 'The Invite.'
SF News [Updated] SF Muni Recovers After 'Debris' Issue Closes Downtown Stations There was no Muni underground service between Embarcadero and Van Ness stations Wednesday afternoon, following a maintenance problem that is apparently centered at the Embarcadero end.
Business & Tech Former Apple Designer Jony Ive's Secretive Startup Working on AI Hardware of Some Kind, OpenAI Acquiring It A big deal in the local tech world was announced Wednesday, as OpenAI is reportedly acquiring Johnny Ive's secretive hardware startup io for $6.5 billion.
