SF News Nine-Year-Old Girl Attacked and Bitten by Sea Lion at Monterey Peninsula Beach A sea lion attacked a nine-year-old girl who was taking a surf lesson at Monterey County’s Asilomar State Beach, though the young surfer is doing just fine, except for a few sea lion-bite puncture wounds.
Arts & Entertainment Rooky Ricardo’s Record Shop Owner Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer Lower Haight record shop Rooky Ricardo’s has survived 38 years under the ownership of Dick Vivian, but Vivian is now battling Stage 3 pancreatic cancer and receiving chemotherapy, and the shop’s only going to be open on weekends for now.
SF News Richmond Police Shoot and Kill Man Who Was Allegedly Wielding Knives and Threatening People Police in Richmond shot and killed a man Monday night while responding to an incident where that man reportedly had multiple knives and was threatening to kill people inside a Richmond home.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Instagram-Famous Dog Brixton Is Battling Cancer, Faces Mounting Medical Bills Perhaps San Francisco’s most recognized dog on the social scene, a party-hopping 11-year-old golden retriever named Brixton, has been diagnosed with lymphoma, and is looking at a very costly fight for recovery.
Arts & Entertainment MC Hammer Sued by Bank That Claims He’s $76,000 Behind on His Car Payments Oakland-born rapper MC Hammer may have a problem that’s “2 legit” for even him to quit, as Chase Bank has sued him for failing to make payments on a $115,000 Land Rover that he bought in 2023.
SF Politics SF Sheriff Gets Blowback Over Puzzling Endorsement of MAGA Crusader for Governor The registered-Democrat and relatively left-leaning SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto shocked the political class with his unexpected endorsement of a hard-right MAGA firebrand for governor, but says it’s just because the two of them are friends.
SF News ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers on Shotwell Street Not Really Discouraging the Sex Trade There A group of fed-up Shotwell Street residents has dropped their lawsuit against the city for not doing enough to clean up the street-level sex trade, but they still say the city is not doing enough to clean up the street-level sex trade.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Radio Announcer Greg Papa Diagnosed With Cancer, Is ‘Stepping Away’ From Broadcasts for Now The voice of the 49ers and former longtime voice of the Raiders Greg Papa announced Friday that he’s being treated for cancer, and will not be calling 49ers games anytime soon, but hopes to return to the booth.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock The once-trendy, San Francisco-born coffeeshop chain Philz Coffee has struck a deal to be sold off to a private equity firm for $145 million, but any employees who bought stock are getting the shaft, as they won’t see a penny of that money.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ Officially Unveiled in Excelsior to Kick Off Grateful Dead Anniversary Bash The Excelsior District street Jerry Garcia grew up on has been honorarily renamed Jerry Garcia Street, on what would have been Jerry’s 83rd birthday, and just hours before Dead & Company kick off those Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows.
SF News San Ramon School District Pays $7 Million to Alleged Sex Abuse Victims Who Accuse the District of a Cover-Up Two women who say that a San Ramon Valley High teacher sexually abused them when they were high school students were just awarded a nearly $7 million settlement, though oddly, that teacher is reportedly still credentialed.
SF News Bombs Found in Petaluma Home of Arson Suspect (Who Happens to Be a Former Cop) A strange story out of Petaluma, where a former police officer suspected of arson had his home searched in an investigation, and sheriff’s deputies found bombs, meth, and drug paraphernalia.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Throngs of Deadheads Descend on SF for This Weekend’s Dead & Company Shows A firefighter was injured while battling a squatter blaze in West Oakland; someone threw a sex toy onto the court at a Valkyries game; and SF is bracing itself as legions of Deadheads get ready to run amok for the Dead & Company shows.
Arts & Entertainment People Are Spotting That OpenAI Movie Being Shot at Locations Around San Francisco A Hollywood comedy about OpenAI’s firing and rehiring of Sam Altman as CEO is now being shot around San Francisco, and people are spotting big stars like Jason Schwartzman and Monica Barbaro in Dolores Park, the Marina, and SoMa.
SF News No More Warnings: SF Speed Cameras Will Start Issuing Fines, Starting Tuesday Don’t say you weren’t warned, as those new speed-monitoring cameras up all over San Francisco will stop cutting slack and start hitting speeding drivers with fines of at least $50, beginning this Tuesday, August 5.
SF News Sued by Trump Administration for Alleged Anti-Semitism, Oakland Coffee Shop Owner Speaks for First Time North Oakland cafe Jerusalem Coffee House was sued by the Trump administration for allegedly kicking out a customer wearing a Star of David hat. Now two months after that lawsuit was served, the owner made his first public remarks.
Bay Area Sports Former Warriors Star Gilbert Arenas Arrested on Charges of Running Illegal High-Stakes Poker Den The strange career of early 2000s Golden State Warrior Gilbert Arenas has just taken an even stranger turn, as the man we called “Agent Zero” was taken into federal custody for allegedly running a big-bucks illegal poker operation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another SF Cafe Trying ‘Robot Baristas,’ This Time at the Former Creamery Spot Near SoMa Caltrain “AI slop” may soon be available in liquid form, as yet one more forthcoming SF cafe is trying the robot barista idea, but also adding AI-generated art and music plus “tech-forward coffee” at the former Creamery space on Fourth Street.
SF News Supervisor Engardio Gets Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps In the Outer Sunset After a Handful of Sideshows There Sideshows started popping up in the unexpected neighborhood of the normally not-at-all rowdy Outer Sunset in May, and now the district’s Supervisor Joel Engardio has had speed bumps installed there in hopes of bringing the donuts to a halt.
SF News Supervisors Reject Appeal of 16th & Mission Housing Project for Formerly Homeless The former "Monster in the Mission” condo project is now slated to be 100% affordable housing, but some residents tried to block the project over housing so many of the formerly homeless. The SF Board of Supervisors shot down their appeal.
SF Politics Supervisor Matt Dorsey Pisses Off LGBTQ Community With Proposal to Revoke Same-Sex Partner Benefits Law We have the puzzling optics of an openly gay SF supervisor wanting to repeal the city’s domestic partner benefits law, but Supervisor Matt Dorsey says he’s just trying to save some money on city contracts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some SF Residents Being Arrested By ICE Are Being Shipped to Hawaii SF is currently under a Tsunami Watch; Trump made a pretty self-incriminating remark on the Epstein matter; and SF immigrants are being whisked off to an ICE detention center 3,000 miles away in Hawaii.
SF News Oakland Man Charged With Murder for Alleged DUI Hit-and-Run That Killed 76-Year-Old Woman Retired 76-year-old schoolteacher Darlene Scalf was visiting Oakland from Louisiana when she was killed by a hit-and-run driver the morning of July 13, and the driver was allegedly intoxicated and is now facing murder charges.
SF Politics Report: SF Democratic Party Delays Engardio Recall Endorsement Vote, In Another Setback for Engardio The SF Democratic Party may be packed with moderates who support Supervisor Joel Engardio, but they’re leaving him twisting in the wind for now, and declining to vote for another month on whether to endorse for or against the recall.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Monday Night’s Lighting of the 100-Foot-Long Sea Serpent Sculpture In Golden Gate Park The largest public art installation in Golden Gate Park history was lit up and started breathing bubbles Monday night, as the 100-foot-long sea dragon sculpture called Naga now rules the roost over Rainbow Falls Pond.
