Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: SF Neo-Futurists Dig a Hole, Youth Capture the Tenderloin, Rainbow Sierrans Hike This week: Kids capture Tenderloin in photos; Rainbow Sierrans hike decades-strong; “HOLE” digs theater at the beach; Fairfax still hums Summer of Love; Bimbo’s has secrets; Butterfly Fest blooms; Wonder Funday sparks STEAM; Architecture + the City unfolds; Voices of Adventure screens outdoors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hawaii Joins West Coast States in Vaccine Initiative Oakland celebrates Pride on Sunday — it's in front of City Hall this year; 50 years ago today a Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento; and Hawaii has joined California, Oregon, and Washington in creating a unified vaccine policy in the absence of CDC support.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: School Is Back in Session at San Francisco Unified School District Diana Ross electrified Stern Grove but complained about her sound; Taylor Swift fans have a theory she’s playing the Super Bowl in Santa Clara this year; and 50,000 SF schoolkids return to the classroom today as the 2025-26 school year is underway.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Contain 167-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County at 30% New plans for a 258-unit apartment building were announced for the long vacant 360 Fifth Street site in SoMa; a San Mateo County official pleaded not guilty to embezzling $800,000 over eight years; and a brush fire in Solano County has been contained at 30 percent.
SF News SFUSD Payroll Snafus Still Abound, Despite $20 Million New Payroll System The new school year is looking at a terrible start for SF teachers and school employees who might actually hope to get paid on time, as the district’s new $20 million payroll system is botching and missing paychecks right out of the gate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFUSD Opts For Less Controversial Ethnic Studies Curriculum The SF school district is opting for an off-the-shelf ethnic studies curriculum amid controversy; fears of ICE raids cause some CA cities to cancel July 4th celebrations; and the suspect in the shooting of two firefighters in Idaho was a transient living out of a vehicle they told him to move.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign to Break Ground in 2026 The funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband took place today — while their accused killer appeared in court; someone died after falling off a cliff near Devil’s Slide; and the Harvey Milk Plaza revamp is scheduled to start in 2026.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Kabuki Meets Broadway in 'Pacific Overtures' Revival This weekend: Time lapse of the aurora borealis. Last Week: K-Pop fans, Musk on drugs, and a family of owls. This week: Kicking off Pride month with Drag Me Downtown and Bootie Mashup; plus Odd Salon, 'Pacific Overtures', and drink and draw.
SF News Sunday Links: Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Explosion Declared Terror Attack A red flag, wildfire warning is in effect for some North Bay residents through Monday evening; SFUSD canceled its plans to lay off support staff for the 2025-26 school year; and a suspected car bomb explosion at a Palm Springs fertility clinic was declared a terrorist attack.
SF News Sunday Links: SFUSD Partially Ends Teacher Hiring Freeze, Launches 2025–26 Recruitment Musk's SpaceX site in Texas is now called the city of Starbase, which is already making moves to restrict public access to local beaches; Black Oakland business owners rally to support restaurant Pierre Pierre following a shooting there on Friday; and SFUSD has partially lifted its hiring freeze.
SF News SFUSD Avoids Teacher Layoffs Thanks to Early Retirements In a rare bit of good news for the San Francisco Unified School District and its ongoing budget woes, the jobs of at least 100 teachers have been saved thanks to other teachers taking early retirement incentive packages.
SF News Saturday Links: Arson and Vandalism Abound At Tesla Sites Nationwide And In France Seven Telsa charging stations in Boston and a Tesla dealership in France were set on fire; sources say the Trump administration has been falsely flagging the business expenses of USAID and EPA employees as "fraud;" and Walgreens has been acquired by a private equity firm.
SF News Sunday Links: Yosemite Workers Hang 'Distress Flag' From El Capitan Yosemite workers hang "distress flag" from El Capitan in view of Firefall spectators; SFUSD is discussing 559 preliminary layoffs on Tuesday; and protestors were outside Tesla again.
SF News SFUSD Superintendent Fuels False Rumor About ICE Agent on Muni Bus As fear continues to spread among immigrant communities across the country about potential deportation by the Trump administration, the San Francisco Unified School District didn't help the situation by spreading a rumor, now proven false, about ICE agents questioning kids on public transit.
SF News Report: SFUSD School Closures Would Have Sent Kids to Lower-Performing Schools Some damning new documents have been unearthed that show the spectacular mess that is the SF Unified School District bureaucracy, and how the school closures would have sent many kids to even worse schools than they'd previously attended.
SF Politics Four Seats Up for Grabs to Serve on School Board for the Incredibly Chaotic SFUSD The SF Unified School District is such a mess that most school board candidates declined to run for re-election. These are the people running for the four seats that are up for a vote on Election Day.
SF News New SFUSD Interim Superintendent Maria Su Makes First Public Remarks Since She Was Hired Friday After a whirlwind weekend that saw SFUSD Superintendent Matt Wayne resign Thursday and Dr. Maria Su installed as his interim replacement Friday, Su was introduced Monday and spoke publicly for the first time since her appointment.
SF News SF School District Superintendent to Resign After Mayor's Rebuke, School Closure Announcement Matt Wayne, the embattled superintendent of San Francisco schools, is handing in his resignation, two days after Mayor London Breed lashed out and called for a halt to the school-closure decision process, and said she'd lost confidence in the superintendent.
SF News In a Political Stunner, Mayor Breed Calls For ‘Immediate Stop’ to SFUSD School Closures, Trashes Superintendent Mayor London Breed cannot stop the San Francisco school closures, but she just lent her muscle and bully pulpit to the cause, suddenly declaring “It is time to immediately stop this school closure process.”
SF News Parents at SF Schools Slated for Closure Lament the Potential Loss for Kids The first of many pieces likely to appear in the coming days and weeks in the local media have appeared, quoting upset parents, following Tuesday's anouncement of 11 proposed school closures in the SF Unified School District.
SF News SFUSD Proposed School Closure List Is Out: 11 Elementary, K-8 and High Schools May Close or Merge A couple hours ahead of a planned announcement by the San Francisco Unified School District, the school closure shortlist has come out, and though it does not represent a finalized list, it will give parents and teachers an idea of what's to come.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF School Closure Shortlist Drops Today SF Unified will reveal its school closure "eligibility" list today, but not a final list; a new poll finds Bay Area residents broadly support Prop 36; and a protest against encampment sweeps outside Berkeley's old City Hall continues to grow.
SF News Supervisors Grill SFUSD Superintendent Over $20 Million Unaccounted For In Budget, Which Is Actually More Like $30 Million It was a supervisor-on-superintendent pile-on Tuesday afternoon, as the SF supervisors unloaded on embattled SFUSD superintendent Matt Wayne over a $20 million hole in the special ed budget, which was revealed to be nearly $30 million.
SF News 350 SFUSD Teachers Lack Proper Credentials, New Report Says Around 350 San Francisco Unified School District teachers have been found to lack an active teaching credential, according to a Friday press release from the district.
SF News Parents to Rally at SF School Board Meeting Tonight In Hopes of Halting School Closures Tuesday night’s SF Board of Education meeting is shaping up to be a raucous one, as parents and teachers are planning to rally before the 6:30 pm meeting, and will likely overflow into the meeting to protest the proposed school closures.
