SF News SF City Hall Approves Mission Apartment Building, Despite Outrage That Landlord Is Profiting Off Fatal Fire The site of a deadly 2015 fire at Mission and 22nd streets has sat vacant and swampy for ten years, but the landlord whose neglect allegedly caused that fire has been rewarded with permission to build a fancier and more lucrative 10-story replacement.
Arts & Entertainment A 2025 Bay to Breakers Preview for People Who Plan to Be Partying Sunday brings the 112th annual ‘running of the drunks’ known as Bay to Breakers. Here are some tips to prepare a solid costume, conceal your booze, and quickly find liquor stores when you’re out way deep in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Driver Accused In Killing Family of Four In West Portal Now Accused of Hiding Wealth The elderly woman at the center of a vehicular homicide case and a civil wrongful death case stemming from the horrific March 24 crash at West Portal that killed a family of four is now accused of trying to shield her wealth from the wrongful death suit.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Union Square Nintendo Store Opens to Huge Crowds, and Mascot Animals Crossing All Over the Place Today was the long-awaited opening day of the new San Francisco Nintendo Store in Union Square, and it was on like Donkey Kong as many video game fans and their favorite mascots hedgehogged the spotlight.
SF Politics VP JD Vance Headed to Bay Area for Silicon Valley Fundraiser Our graceless Vice President JD Vance will be headed back to the Bay Area, which he once called home in his own venture capital days, for a fundraiser in Atherton on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Homegrown Drag Festival Oaklash Returns This Weekend With Yvie Oddly and Much More Once again this weekend, the Oaklash Festival is prancing back into Oakland with some of the best and edgiest drag performances in the Bay, and multiple events over three days.
SF News South San Francisco Police Fatally Shoot Man With Replica Firearm There was an officer-involved shooting that proved fatal in South San Francisco Wednesday, and police say that the suspect they were chasing aimed what appeared to be a firearm at them.
SF Politics 39-Year-Old Bernie Bro Challenging Nancy Pelosi for Her SF Congressional Seat in 2026 Former Silicon Valley engineer and one-time AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti is lodging a longshot bid for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, with a sizable personal fortune, but very little name recognition.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In Mid-Afternoon Near Fisherman's Wharf, Suspect Turns Himself In There was an apparent homicide near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon, likely with multiple witnesses, and a male suspect quickly turned himself in to police.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Sheriff's Deputies Injured In Crash The body of a UC Santa Cruz undergrad was found after a swimming mishap; two SF sheriff's deputies were involved in a Mission District crash; and the Supreme Court hears the Trump birthright citizenship challenge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergey Brin Settles Private Plane Wrongful Death Suit Sergey Brin has settled a wrongful death suit involving the pilots of his private plane who died in 2023; the man who died trying to save a dog at Ocean Beach has been identified; and In-N-Out Burger's pink lemonade isn't pink anymore.
Arts & Entertainment SF Night Market Mania in Full Swing, Both Cole Valley and Castro Have Night Markets This Weekend The night market frenzy that’s sweeping San Francisco has one of those double-shot weekends on the horizon, with Cole Valley Nights on Thursday, and the Castro Night Market on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Transamerica Pyramid Opens Time Capsule That’s Been Secretly Hiding There for 50 Years The Transamerica Pyramid just opened a time capsule of historical SF antiquities from its early days in 1974, including relics showing how much people hated it at the time, and you can check out these artifacts for yourself starting Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Musician Ruby Ibarra Takes Top Prize in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest The winner of the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, from NPR Music, is East Bay-born Filipina American rapper, spoken word artist, and singer Ruby Ibarra.
SF News SF DA Charges Man Who Allegedly Had an Entire Kilo of Fentanyl In His Car There are drug dealers, and then there are people who are rocking a whole kilogram of fentanyl in the Tenderloin. One of those alleged kilo-holders is now jailed and facing charges, and is also accused of having huge volumes of heroin and meth.
SF News Supervisor Calls For Hearings Into Whatever’s Going On at Beleaguered SF Parks Alliance The cancellation of the free movies in the park series may just be the tip of the iceberg of the financial problems of the SF Parks Alliance, and Sup. Shamann Walton is calling for hearings into why the group doesn’t seem to have money it should have.
Arts & Entertainment Likely Problematic Golden State Killer Film Starring Vincent Gallo and James Franco Lands Distributor Two actors with troubling pasts when it comes to women and co-stars, James Franco and Vincent Gallo, are the stars of a low-budget feature that was made last year about Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo, and it apparently found a distributor at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Has 4-1 Money Advantage to Fight the Recall, and the Recall’s Head Organizer Just Quit The same recall fever that Joel Engardio rode into office could still boot him out, as the recallers say they’re “on track” to make the ballot. But the recall’s main organizer just quit, and Engardio has big donations from local tech founders and CEOs.
Arts & Entertainment Buried Treasure Chest Found In SF In 11 Hours By Skilled Treasure Seeker Someone in San Francisco is $10,000 richer today after deciphering a cryptic poem, mapping out a semi-remote location, and following the clues to an area in a city park.
SF News Arrest Leads to Seizure of Meth at Vallejo Home, as Well as Endangered Monkey, Live Rattlesnakes A traffic stop in Solano County led to the arrest of a Vallejo man and subsequent search of his home, which led to the discovery a lot of meth, an endangered baby spider monkey, and two live rattlesnakes.
SF Politics Newsom Proposes Rollback of Health Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants California Governor Gavin Newsom continued his rightward shift with a surprise announcement Wednesday proposing a freeze on healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants in the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Civic Leaders Push to Remove Richmond Bridge Bike Lane Marin County leaders and others are calling for an end to the dedicated bike lane on the Richmond Bridge; SF Mayor Daniel Lurie signs order for more police staffing; and the Menendez brothers have been resentenced.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rattlesnake Advisories Issued for East Bay Parks Glide’s lunch with Marc Benioff auction is back for 2025; a Bay Area rapper has won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest; and the East Bay Regional Park District is warning to be on the lookout for rattlesnakes.
Business & Tech Google Agrees to Pay $50 Million Settlement In Racial Discrimination Lawsuit A group of nearly 4,000 current and former Black Google employees will split a $50 million pot after the online search giant agreed to that settlement in a lawsuit that alleges Black employees were paid lower wages and denied promotions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Pizza, Bagel, & Beer Festival Back in North Beach This August, Tickets Now on Sale SF’s favorite belly-busting beer bust is back this August, as the third annual SF Pizza, Bagel, Beer Festival returns to North Beach on August 16, and tickets — which always sell out — just went on sale.
