SF News The Removal of the Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness Just Got One Step Closer to Reality SF’s formula retail ban might be removed from a 23-block stretch of Van Ness Avenue, as the SF Planning Commission just unanimously passed a recommendation to exempt Van Ness from limits on large chain stores.
Business & Tech Bay Area Tech Stocks Get Destroyed By Trump Tariffs, SF CEO Screams Obscenity on Live Earnings Call Remember when all those Bay Area tech CEOs cuddled up to Trump with $1 million inauguration donations? Boy did that just blow up in their faces! They lost billions today, and one yelled “Oh sh*t!” when he checked his stock on a live earnings call.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Canceled Due to Lack of Funds The annual Fillmore Jazz Festival, which typically livens up the stretch of Fillmore Street from Turk up to California Street over July 4th weekend, has been canceled for 2025.
SF Politics Suspended SF City Hall Director Now Claims She Was Ousted For Whistleblowing On a Sex-Abuse Case The strange case of an allegedly moonlighting City Hall director just got stranger, as she claims she wasn’t put on leave over a side gig, but because she was about to blow the whistle on “the sexual abuse of a minor in a city-funded foster care program.”
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Tickets Will Be Doled Out By Lottery This Year, and Community Box Offices The organizers of the annual Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco are switching things up again for the summer concert series, after a few post-pandemic years in which a first-come-first-serve, online ticketing system left many fans out of luck.
SF News Family of Bob Lee Sues Momeni Family For Cover-Up, and Condo Building For Releasing Post-Stabbing Footage The promised civil lawsuit arrived late last week from the brother, ex-wife, and children of late tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and it accuses the family of Nima Momeni of helping him to cover up his crime.
Arts & Entertainment First Ever Pride Music Festival Comes to Pier 80 on Pride Weekend, Featuring Kehlani, Tinashe, and Kim Petras A first-of-its-kind music festival is taking over the same pier that Portola happens on this Pride Weekend, giving fans a new place to celebrate Pride Saturday.
SF Politics Feds Release New Sheng Thao Documents, Showing Depth of Her Boyfriend’s City Hall Involvement Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s romantic partner Andre Jones is accused of taking a $95,000 no-show job from Thao’s big-bucks donors. But newly released documents say he showed up plenty on high-price junkets to Vietnam and the SXSW festival.
Arts & Entertainment Claude the Albino Alligator Gets His Own Webcam as Academy of Sciences Rings In 172 Years A live webcam feed of Claude, the California Academy of Sciences' famed albino alligator, launches Friday morning as part of Academy Day.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Body Found In Car on 101-S A dead body was found in the backseat of a car parked on the shoulder of 101 in San Mateo; a man was shot in an armed robbery in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood; and VTA train service returns today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pleasanton Man Confesses to Killing Mother A 31-year-old Pleasanton man turned himself in for the killing of his mother; a power outage hit the Castro, Noe Valley, and Mission; and new details have emerged in the 2023 Nashville school shooting.
Arts & Entertainment New Website Lets You Tour and Check Out the View From the Top of Sutro Tower You are not allowed to climb up to the top of Sutro Tower. But a new “immersive” feature on the tower’s official website lets you walk around the top of the tower and enjoy the view, though it is definitely not for people who have a fear of heights.
SF News Giant Safeway Sign at Church and Market Is Switching From Neon to LED This Year The 71-year-old, 85-foot-tall Safeway sign at Church and Market streets is slated for an overhaul this year, as Safeway plans to switch it from a traditional neon sign to a more modern LED light sign.
SF News Downtown Mall Death Spiral Continues With Departures of Nine Retailers "Bloomingdale’s was the last straw" says one employee at an SF Centre retailer that closed Monday, and eight other stores are either set to close or have already closed at the beleaguered mall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs at State Bird, Mijoté, and Saison All Named as Finalists for James Beard Awards While San Francisco doesn't have any new restaurants in contention at this year's "Oscars of Food," several local chefs and one beverage professional are in the running for awards this year.
Business & Tech Amazon and Founder of OnlyFans Put In Last-Minute Bids to Buy TikTok A deadline is approaching with the expiration of Trump's executive-order reprieve for TikTok, and several last-minute bidders have emerged.
Business & Tech ‘Monster in the Mission' Developer Now Faces Monstrous Debts, Salacious Sexual Harassment Lawsuit The developer behind the infamous “Monster in the Mission” project has recently lost two major Bay Area properties to loan defaults, and its founder is embroiled in a sexual assault lawsuit that has some wild allegations involving cocaine and pornography.
SF News 7-Year-Old Girl Killed By Falling Boulder at Tahoe Resort We're now learning some details about a tragic accident that took place Saturday at a Tahoe area ski resort, in which a young girl lost her life.
SF News SFMTA Board Approves Sweeping Muni Service Cuts To Take Effect This Summer Six Muni bus lines will either be consolidated, or have their Market Street service eliminated, as the SFMTA Board of Directors voted Tuesday to lop off some Muni service in an attempt to put a dent in the agency’s budget deficit.
SF Politics Xavier Becerra Throws His Hat In the Ring In California Governor's Race Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, former congressman, and former Attorney General of California Xavier Becerra has officially joined an already crowded field of Democrats who may be challenging Kamala Harris in the race for California Governor next year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bay Area Woman's Family Sues Trump Hotel Over Death The family of a Bay Area woman who died after a revolving door incident at Trump's Vegas hotel is suing; the Supreme Court rules against flavored vape makers; and Neil Young worries he'll be barred from the US.
SF News April Fool’s Day Around the Bay: Bob Lee’s Family Has Sued His Convicted Killer Nima Momeni Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater was named one of the “coolest” movie theaters in the world; Senator Cory Booker just broke an all-time record with a 25-hour filibuster; and the family of Bob Lee is bringing a civil lawsuit against his convicted killer Nima Momeni.
Bay Area Sports A’s First Game in Sacramento Was a Complete Debacle, and Losing 18-3 Was Probably the Least Embarrassing Part The Sacramento A’s first home game was an 18-3 blowout loss, but still worse, the radio broadcast conked out seven times, scoreboards went out, there was a drone delay, and chants of “Sell the Team!” rocked the new ballpark Sutter Health Park.
SF News Elon Musk Gets His Way, Private Jets Can Keep Their Flight Data Secret After a Florida college kid got on Elon Musk’s wrong side by posting the travel coordinates of Musk’s private jet, the FAA just caved to the billionaire class and will allow private jets to keep their flight data secret.
SF News City of Oakland Gives Notice to Homeless Encampments Next to Lake Merritt The City of Oakland, which like San Francisco has struggled to address widespread camping on sidewalks and elsewhere in the city amid on ongoing homelessness crisis, gave a seven-day warning on Monday to an encampment around Peralta Park.
