SF News Day Around the Bay: Heavy Wind Gusts Knock Over Valencia Street Parklet There’s a couple BART station closures in the East Bay this weekend; a fire in Brentwood damaged multiple homes; and today’s heavy winds just plain knocked over the parklet at Valencia Street’s Radio Habana Social Club.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Market Street’s Sushi Zone Is Closing in July, But Insists They’re Looking for a New Location The 28-year-old no-frills sushi spot Sushi Zone has announced they’re wrapping up their time on Market Street in mid-July, likely forced out by a new incoming tenant, but owners say they’re determined to find a new location.
SF News ICE Agents Try to Camp Out at Dodger Stadium, LAPD Promptly Shoos Them Away Here’s one time we’ll actually cheer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as ICE agents tried to set up shop in the Dodger Stadium parking lot before tonight’s game, but the Dodgers say that “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.”
Business & Tech Zoox Opens Factory In Hayward, City Very Pleased About This Amazon-owned autonomous taxi company Zoox has opened a new production facility in Hayward, which is already employing around 100 technicians, and the City of Hayward is quite happy to welcome them.
SF Politics Tech PAC TogetherSF Rebrands as ‘Blueprint for a Better SF,’ Still Spending Rich Peoples’ Money to Swing Elections After a less-than-successful showing in last November’s elections, there’s another shakeup at the tech PAC TogetherSF, as they now call themselves Blueprint for a Better San Francisco, but apparently they do not have Michael Moritz money anymore.
SF News Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Pleads Guilty In 32-Year-Old Cold Case In Sacramento County The guilty pleas continue to rack up for Matthew Muller, the man convicted in the infamous 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins which was the subject of Netflix's American Nightmare.
SF News New Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Hopes For Safe Juneteenth Celebration, Asks Revelers Not to Repeat Last Year On Juneteenth last year at Oakland's Lake Merritt, celebrations gave way to a raucous sideshow which then gave way to a brawl and a mass shooting that left 14 people wounded. Oakland city leaders are promising a safer situation this year.
SF News Racist History of Piedmont to Be Commemorated With Memorial For First Black Family Driven Out A very racist episode in the history of the City of Piedmont, in the East Bay, is likely going to be commemorated with a memorial sculpture park, as the town's leaders announce this Juneteenth.
Bay Area Sports The Golden State Valkyries’ Caitlin Clark Game Is Tonight, It’s On TV On KPIX Tickets are going for as much as $2,500 a pop as WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark makes her first-ever appearance at the Chase Center Thursday night, so you will be pleased to know you can just sit home and watch it for free on KPIX’s CBS Bay Area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Fire Burns Hundreds of Porta-Potties A brush fire in Antioch grew to 290 acres and prompted an evacuation warning Wednesday; a fire in East Oakland burned hundreds of portable toilets; and SpaceX had another massive explosion on the launchpad.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Conducts Multiple Tenderloin Drug Busts The SFPD made 25 arrests in coordinated drug raids in the Tenderloin; John Fisher is selling the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team; and there are still tickets for the SF Gay Men's Chorus Pride Concert this weekend.
SF Politics Lurie Names New Planning Department Director, Seemingly Against Wishes of Half the Planning Commission SF’s new Planning Department director is not off to a good start with the Planning Commission that she’ll work with, as half the commission stormed out of Wednesday morning’s vote to approve Sarah Dennis Phillips as that director.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Laughing Monk Brewing Expands With New Nopa Location Laughing Monk Brewing, which has had a taproom in the Bayview for nine years, is taking over a large space that's been vacant since last summer on Fulton Street in NoPa.
SF News SF Just Got Another 'Magic Mushroom Church’ in Russian Hill A “mushroom church” called the Rising Phoenix Entheogenic Temple just opened its second San Francisco location, some six months after a much larger mushroom church left town claiming they were the victims of “religious discrimination.”
Business & Tech Meta's AI Efforts Include Huge Privacy Flub; Sam Altman Says Meta's Been Trying to Poach OpenAI Staff It looks like we're back to "move fast and break things" at Meta, with Meta.ai appearing to be off to a troubled start, exposing users' very private search queries in a bizarre public feed. And the company has reportedly been offering $100 million signing bonuses to OpenAI staff?!
SF Politics Newsom Calls Trump 'Truly Disturbed' For Threatening to Withhold Federal Disaster Aid From Los Angeles The latest escalation in President Trump's feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom finds him quite characteristically and yet again threatening to withhold federal funds from the state, and Newsom is already punching back.
SF News Muni Service Cuts Kick In Saturday, Five Bus Lines Getting Their Routes Trimmed The 21-Hayes will cease to be, effective this Saturday, getting merged into a new line called the 6-Hayes-Parnassus, as five Muni lines are getting their routes snipped in hopes of cutting SFMTA’s ballooning budget deficit.
SF News Suspect Accused In Marina District Antisemitic Attack Charged With Hate Crime A suspect in an antisemitic attack on two people last weekend in SF's Marina District has been charged with a hate crime and is being arraigned today.
SF Politics Supreme Court's Conservatives Let Stand Tennessee's Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth In an outcome that had been broadly predicted in the legal and LGBTQ+ communities, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Tennessee's statewide ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors may stand.
SF News Here We Go Again — PG&E Says First Power Shutoffs of Fire Season ‘Likely’ This Weekend A pretty wide net of PG&E customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties could see their first wildfire-related PG&E power shutoff of the season as early as Thursday, thanks to this weekend’s looming high winds and dry conditions.
SF News Humpday Headlines: More National Guard Troops Sent to LA For No Reason Trump activates an additional 2,000 National Guard troops in LA; workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland are on strike over pay; and the SFMTA board voted on banning RV parking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Inches Into a Couple More Peninsula Cities (But Still Can’t Go to SFO) The “People’s March” is returning for 2025 but not at the same time as the Pride Parade; a prisoner who escaped from FCI Dublin in 1994 was finally arrested; and Waymo is now operating in six more cities along the Peninsula.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Market Block Party ‘Unstaged’ Returns Thursday, This Time With To-Go Cocktails Last year’s first Thursdays block party Unstaged is now a third Thursdays party, returning this week. It won’t have the F-line streetcar running as a mobile jazz club, but it will have to-go cocktails from your favorite mid-Market establishments.
SF News 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested After Alleged Vandalism of Pink Triangle In SF The giant Pride Month Pink Triangle on Twin Pinks was reportedly defaced Tuesday afternoon, and police were called and quickly arrested a suspect who was in the act.
Business & Tech TikTok to Remain in Legal Limbo Another 90 Days as Trump Signs Another Executive Order Chinese-owned company ByteDance is getting another 90 days to figure out how to separate its American user base of TikTok and sell the business to an American company, even though there's been no movement on this since Trump announced his tariffs.
