SF News Day Around the Bay: Assistant SFPD Chief Announces Retirement A 26-year-old San Francisco woman died Saturday from a skiing injury at Palisades Tahoe; Assistant SFPD Chief David Lazar is retiring; and SF non-profits say they are being hurt by Dream Keeper grant cuts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4AM Last Call Comes Back as Proposed Legislation, This Time With Matt Haney Behind It Assemblymember Matt Haney has taken up the cause of the extension of last call at California bars to 4 am, structuring some new legislation around so-called "Hospitality Zones."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizza Shop Opens Next Week at Mission Rock The new outpost of Flour + Water Pizzeria, and the first of what are planned to be several satellite Flour + Water Pizza Shops in the city, is opening next Monday at the new Mission Rock development.
SF News Zara Gives Good News to Union Square With Flagship Store Planned Fast fashion retailer Zara is planning to relocate a block away from its existing location in Union Square and open a huge new flagship store at the corner of Post and Powell.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Back On Thanks to Donation This year's Fillmore Jazz Festival, which had been canceled as of last week due to lack of funds, has been saved thanks to local billionaire Chris Larsen.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three-Year-Old Killed In Petaluma Accident A three-year-old child was killed in an apparent DUI accident involving a Bobcat on private property in Petaluma; an SUV went over the seawall along Marina Green Drive; and former FCI Dublin guard 'Dirty Dick' won't be taking the stand in his own defense.
SF News Rents Rose Last Year In SF Faster Than Any Other US City San Francisco's notoriously high rents are on the rise again, and fast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Outer Sunset Gets a Fancy New Brewpub A new brewpub and bar called Fifty Vara debuts in the Sunset, Draymond Green's new Civic Center restaurant Meski opens its doors, and Niku Steakhouse is temporarily closed by a fire, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Eddie Izzard Shows Endurance and Wit In Solo 'Hamlet' Great comedians sometimes make for great actors, and Suzy Eddie Izzard joins those ranks with her solo performance of 'Hamlet,' now playing at ACT's Strand Theater.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown First Thursdays Announces Extension of Event Through End of Year Downtown First Thursdays (DFT) celebrated a full 12 months of monthly parties on Thursday night with Mayor Daniel Lurie and around 18,000 people in attendance.
SF Politics Newsom Wants to Negotiate Separately For California With Global Trading Partners, Asks for Tariff Exemptions Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday asked other countries to exempt California exports from retaliatory tariffs, in an effort to save the state's agricultural industry in particular amid Trump's asinine trade war.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Small Earthquake Rattles East Bay The City of San Francisco just canceled a number of grants given under the Dream Keepers initiative; a 3.1M earthquake rumbled north of Concord Friday morning; and the death toll in the LA wildfires just rose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
