Business & Tech Facebook Suspends, and Then Reinstates, Author Rebecca Solnit’s Account Over LA Protest Post, In an Apparent AI Flub SF author Rebecca Solnit had her Facebook account suspended after she posted an essay about the LA protests, but Facebook undid the suspension about 24 hours later, and this all likely happened because of the slapdash AI that Facebook uses for content moderation.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Killed In Napa Homicide Was Pregnant With Twins Relatives of the woman found dead Sunday in Napa say she was pregnant with twins; the legal showdown between CA and the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment heads to court today; and over 200 people are dead in a plane crash in India.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Home of Man Killed By South SF Police Robbed By Opportunist Suspects Burglars targeted the home of Brian Montana, the man shot by South SF police in April, and his widow; the FBI is looking for a woman they say led an aggressive skirmish during an ICE protest in Concord; and the entire board of the Fulbright Scholarship program has resigned because of Trump meddling.
SF News Highway Patrol Releases Video of Oakland Car Chase Crash That Took the Life of Innocent Bystander Schoolteacher The May 28 killing of Oakland high school math teacher Dr. Marvin Boomer when he was struck by a speeding vehicle the CHP was chasing has set off more debate over high-speed police chases, and now the Highway Patrol has released video of the pursuit.
Arts & Entertainment D'Arcy Drollinger’s Reign as SF Drag Laureate Coming to an End, Search for New Drag Laureate Underway San Francisco and the nation’s first Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger has reached the end of the two-year tenure of that position, but dig in your heels, because the city is on the verge of announcing our next SF Drag Laureate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa Fish Debuts at Ferry Building, With Fish & Chips, Tuna Melts and More A new fish counter, with both a fast-casual restaurant and a fish market component, has just opened at the Ferry Building from Nopa chef-owner Laurence Jossel.
SF News Analysts Warn That Trump Could Send National Guard Here to San Francisco, Too We could see scenes in San Francisco like what’s happening in Los Angeles, as political analysts say it’s possible, and even likely, that Trump will send National Guard members or Marines into San Francisco as anti-ICE protests continue.
Arts & Entertainment Clay Theatre to Be Restored and Revived as Moviehouse Amid Billionaire's Upper Fillmore Revamp We have news this week about the historic Clay Theatre on upper Fillmore, which went dark in early 2020 and has been closed ever since.
SF News ‘No Kings’ Protests Set to Rabble-Rouse In SF and Nationwide Saturday During Trump’s Military Parade While President Trump has a phenomenally wasteful $45 million military parade planned for his birthday Saturday, SF, Oakland, the Bay Area, and the whole country will be taking to the streets themselves for a nationwide “No Kings” protest.
SF News Santa Clara County Pledges to Continue Gender-Affirming Care Using Local Funds Prompted by a move from the Trump administration to prohibit Medicaid funds from being used for gender-affirming care for trans people, Santa Clara County is prepared to use some reserve budget funds to offset the cuts.
SF Politics Nonprofits Rally Against Lurie’s Budget Cuts to Homeless Programs, One Director Even Goes on Hunger Strike A group of nonprofits are rallying at City Hall Wednesday because Mayor Lurie’s budget slashes programs addressing homelessness, and they say that under Lurie’s budget, the problem in San Francisco will just get worse.
SF News In National Address, Newsom Calls Out Trump's Authoritarianism, Says We're at a 'Perilous Moment' Governor Gavin Newsom gave a stern speech Tuesday night that was carried nationally on radio and television, calling out Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles as "authoritarianism," and saying it was a "perilous moment" for our democracy.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Recovering After Unplanned Track Fix In SF BART was recovering after some emergency track work in SF Wednesday morning; a protest in Oakland ended peacefully, until a sneaker store got looted nearby; and Elon Musk now says he regrets "some" of what he tweeted about Trump last week. Like the Epstein thing?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now Lurie Takes His Turn Trying to Crack Down on RV Dwellers Manny’s got tagged and vandalized pretty hard during Monday’s ICE protests; the killer of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey has been paroled; and Mayor Lurie is taking his stab at clearing the RV dwellers out of SF parking spaces.
Arts & Entertainment Three Little Las Vegas Sphere-Style Geodesic Domes Are Coming to Pier 70 The domes and pyramid seen in these renderings will light up with psychedelic displays when a “multisensory playground” for grown-ups comes to Dogpatch’s Pier 70 next year, hosting raves and Pink Floyd laser light shows and such.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It’s Open Season for Open Containers on Valencia Street, Where To-Go Cocktails Are Launching Five Days a Week Those boozy "entertainment zones” sweeping the city just got a new twist, as Valencia Street will start allowing the sale of to-go beer, wine, and cocktails five days a week, even on days when the street is not shut down for a street festival.
SF News SF Immigration Court Abruptly Closes as Protesters Gather Outside An immigration court in downtown San Francisco shut down early on Tuesday with no explanation given, while protesters and immigration advocates gathered outside — and following the arrests of at least two people by ICE agents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro's First Women's Sports Bar, Rikki's, Opens Wednesday A bar dedicated primarily to celebrating women's professional and collegiate sports, which also doubles as the first lesbian bar to open in the Castro in decades, makes its debut on Wednesday.
SF News Department of Justice Sues Oakland Cafe for Kicking Out Guy Wearing Star of David Hat Ironically, a cafe called Jerusalem Coffee House kicked out a patron wearing a Star of David hat last October. Now Trump's Department of Justice has taken note, and is suing that Oakland cafe.
SF News Leaders of Cult-y 'Orgasmic Meditation' Group OneTaste Convicted In Forced Labor Trial Two women who ran the San Francisco-based wellness company OneTaste, which promoted the physical and spiritual health benefits of the female orgasm, were convicted Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.
SF News Thousands Pack the Mission for Peaceful ICE Protest; SFPD Pulls Pepper Spray On Separate, Smaller Civic Center Protest As many as 10,000 protesters jammed the streets of the Mission District Monday night in yet more public opposition to ICE actions in California, but a small splinter group hit Civic Center late at night, leading to arrests and SFPD pepper sprayings.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Napa Homicide After Brief Manhunt Police in Napa have made an arrest in an apparent domestic violence homicide that occurred Sunday, leaving one woman dead.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Zuckerberg Wants to Develop Super AI at Meta Mark Zuckerberg apparently is building a team to develop a "superintelligence" at Meta; Afghan cricket players may be barred from matches scheduled in Oakland due to Trump's travel ban; and Mayor Daniel Lurie is facing pressure to stand up to Trump.
SF News Co-Owner of Midway to Open the 'Four Seasons' of Gay Bathhouses In SoMa Local contractor Kevin Born is looking to take advantage of the recent change in San Francisco law allowing adult bathhouses to exist again, and he has plans to create a luxury version of a bathhouse in a two-story building he owns on 12th Street in SoMa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Delfina Closes For the Night Due to Mission Protest The VTA is looking for a new contractor for the San Jose BART tunnel; RFK Jr. has removed all the members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee; and at least one SF Mission District restaurant is closed for the night amid the anti-ICE protest in the neighborhood.
