Business & Tech Forget the 'Crypto Bowl,' This Super Bowl Will Be Chock Full of AI Ads — Here Are Five of Them Expect all the big players in AI to be spending lavishly on ads during the Super Bowl this year, including rivals OpenAI and Anthropic — with the latter taking not one but two swings at its bigger competitor.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get Between San Francisco and Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium Without a Car Rideshares and public transit can get Super Bowl and World Cup fans from San Francisco to Santa Clara for as little as $11 each way, or as much as $200 each way. Here’s how to navigate all of the available options.
SF News The Pro-ICE Billboard at Fisherman’s Wharf Has Been Removed, Supervisor Sauter Says The ICE fanboy billboard in Fisherman's Wharf had a pretty short run, because the district’s Supervisor Danny Sauter said on social media Wednesday that the Super Bowl-themed billboard near Per 39 has been removed.
SF News SF Teachers Union Announces Strike for Monday, But 11th-Hour Bargaining Continues Following two strike votes and the release of a fact-finding report, the San Francisco teachers' union says it will begin its first labor strike in almost 50 years on Monday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Merced High-Speed Rail Station Could Be Rebranded as 'Yosemite' There is talk of relocating Merced's high-speed rail station four miles outside of downtown, and calling it "Merced-Yosemite"; big waves are crashing at the beach today; and that Bad Bunny lookalike contest is tonight in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kimbal Musk No Longer on Burning Man Board Kimbal Musk quietly left the Burning Man board ahead of the latest Epstein Files revelations; SF teachers could go on strike Monday and they're having a press conference Thursday; and Nike is being investigated for "anti-white bias."
Arts & Entertainment Mystery Solved: Big Secret Super Bowl Event at Grace Cathedral Is NFL Commissioner's Private Party A secretive Friday night Grace Cathedral event that has been publicly named only as "private event” is shutting down streets for three days. Turns out it’s the private Super Bowl party for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Arts & Entertainment The Budweiser Clydesdales Have Set Hoof in SF for the Super Bowl, They’ll Be at Fort Mason Thursday The famed Budweiser Clydesdales have arrived in SF for their annual Super Bowl appearance, seen trotting Fort Point on Tuesday, before their big public appearance at Fort Mason all afternoon on Thursday.
SF News Castro Coffee Co. and Nail Salon Will Both Relocate as Castro Theatre Prepares to Reopen This is both Super Bowl Weekend and the grand reopening weekend for the Castro Theatre. And ahead of that big event, we have an update on the two small businesses at the front of the theater building.
SF Politics City Hall Produces Goofy Video to Tout How Ready They Are For Super Bowl Crowds It could be seen as protesting too much, but San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and his office have produced a slick but kind of awkward video in which various city departments confirm how "ready" they are to host the Super Bowl.
SF Politics Lurie Has Spent Nearly $900K of His Personal Wealth on Consultants Since Taking Office SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is extremely sensitive to how he is viewed by the public, so much so that we’re now learning he’s spent $870,000 out of his own pocket on PR consultants to manage his image in his first year in office.
SF Politics As Expected, Supreme Court Declines to Hear Prop 50 Challenge Gavin Newsom is gloating, and Trump may fume, but the Supreme Court has denied review of the case in which Republicans were, hypocritically, trying to challenge California's tit-for-tat gerrymandering effort.
SF Politics Seven Candidates for Governor Spar at San Francisco Debate, But It Was a Lackluster and Forgettable Affair Tuesday’s California gubernatorial debate gathered seven of the candidates right here in SF, and all seven were quite polished, but no one distinguished themselves in an event clearly overshadowed by the Super Bowl lead-up.
SF News Descendants of Black Family Who Were Run Out of Piedmont in the 1920s Sue the City For Reparations The descendants of Sidney and Irene Dearing have now filed a lawsuit in Alameda County seeking damages from the City of Piedmont over an egregious, century-old act of racial injustice.
Bay Area Sports NFL Begins Raking In Fan Dollars With Super Bowl Experience at Moscone Center For a $40 admission fee, you can get into the Super Bowl LX Experience at the Moscone Center and take a selfie next to an NFL helmet, or something.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tesla Drops Plans for Driverless Taxi Charging Station In SF Tesla has dropped plans for an AV charging station in a Jackson Square garage; unraveling the story of the collapse of CCA; and Melinda French Gates is disgusted with newly released mentions of Bill Gates in the Epstein Files.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yes, There Will Be Federal Agents in SF for the Super Bowl A PG&E executive was chased offstage by protesters at a tech conference; that coyote on Alcatraz is probably going to have to leave; and Mayor Lurie says he is welcoming federal agents to SF for the Super Bowl.
SF News Two Teen Suspects Arrested in Friday’s Fatal Shooting of 15-Year-Old Jayda Mabrey A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested Monday over the fatal Friday night Western Addition shooting of 15-year-old Jayda Mabrey, a shooting that also hospitalized two other victims.
SF News San Ramon Residents Still Bracing for 'Big One' After Day With 75 Earthquakes It hasn't been felt very much in San Francisco, but the earthquake swarm that has been rocking San Ramon for the past three months had its most active day on Monday, with a barrage of 75 small and mid-size earthquakes. And residents in the area are pretty on edge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Epstein Files Reveal Where He Dined With Zuckerberg In Bay Area, and He Was Denied a Table at Flour + Water The SF Bay Area has many cameos in the three million pages of new Epstein Files that just dropped, and Mark Zuckerberg has a very uncomfortable mention, while Flour + Water comes out looking good for denying Epstein a table.
SF Politics Offensive Billboards Appear In SF Promoting ICE as 'Defensive Player of the Year' Some hastily put together, pro-ICE electronic billboard ads, paid for by a shady outfit with no known donors, have appeared in San Francisco ahead of the Super Bowl, and maybe in other cities as well.
Bay Area Sports Hotels and Airbnbs Are Making Bank by Gouging Super Bowl Visitors This Week The inevitable surge pricing is now underway as the Super Bowl tourists come pouring into SF, with some hotels up to nearly $2,500 a night, and some SF Airbnb units costing $2,000 for the weekend stay.
SF News Fire on Pier 28 Causes Temporary Closure of Embarcadero A fire broke out in a pier building on Pier 28 Tuesday morning, the second here in just over a year, leading to a subsequent traffic snarl in the area of Embarcadero and Bryant streets.
SF Politics Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell Bow Out of First Gubernatorial Debate In SF Seven of the umpteen candidates running for California governor are confirmed to appear at a debate happening this evening in San Francisco's Bayview, and being broadcast live. But two of the more prominent ones will be absent.
Arts & Entertainment C-3PO Himself, Actor Anthony Daniels, Coming to Castro Theatre for May the 4th This year’s May the 4th Star Wars celebrations have the droid you’re looking for, as Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in eleven different Star Wars movies, comes to the Castro for an ‘Empire Strikes Back’ screening.
