The 5 best hiking trails to hit on Super Bowl Sunday
Where to go while everyone else is glued to their giant flatscreens
How Jeffrey Epstein advised Minerva University
Newly released emails show how the founders of San Francisco’s most ‘elite’ school needed help — and an occasional place to crash — from the disgraced financier
Working overtime
Representatives for the teachers union are preparing for a long weekend of negotiations with SFUSD
For more than a decade, ‘Weird Al’ burlesque troupe has had a ball
How Tight & Nerdy went from Oakland oddity to SF IndieFest documentary subjects
Substack reports mass data leak: ‘This sucks. I’m sorry’
The popular newsletter platform was breached in October 2025
A billion apologies
The founders of this weekend’s March for Billionaires still won’t say if they’re joking, but they did want us to know we can’t count
Care and feeding of the Super Bowl
How local businesses get tapped to serve at the biggest game of the year
Where everybody gnomes your name
If the New England Patriots win the Super Bowl, you can thank a garden gnome at Connecticut Yankee in Potrero Hill
Of course the March for Billionaires website is AI slop
No one knows if the march is the real deal, but its website is definitely pretty fake
COMMENTARY
Paper tiger
The ‘California Post’ covers the Golden State from the point of view of a transplant who hates it here
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYS ITSELF
High and low
In ‘The Organization,’ San Francisco’s glass towers and unfinished tunnels map a city where accountability only runs downhill
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These SF Bay Area companies have ICE and CBP contracts
A handful of small Bay Area firms are profiting handsomely by assisting ICE
After the General Strike, the food fight
San Francisco businesses from bakeries to movie theaters are joining in to raise money for anti-ICE and pro-immigrant organizations
Parents of SFUSD students hold their breath
The state monitor overseeing SFUSD’s finances weighs in, cautiously, on the negotiations
Manic Monday: Even AI turns to crabs eventually
Plus, the Billionaires March, a blind item for female founders, and more madness from the tech world to start your week
Busy bees
Backyards around the city are all abuzz with hidden micro apiaries
POLITICS
O, brother, where post thou?
Real estate agent Alexander Lurie, like his mayor half-brother Daniel, is going all in on social media
BUSINESS
Time to Rho
As its San Francisco team swells, the fintech startup Rho is moving to greener pastures
TECH
What, exactly, is OpenAI in 2026?
A new rumor that OpenAI will release earbuds hints at internal anxieties over revenue and the future of the company
FOOD & DRINK
These are the San Francisco businesses on strike Friday
Over a dozen businesses across the city plan to close on Friday in observance of the national day of protest against ICE
IMMIGRATION
What will SF law enforcement do if ICE kicks in your door? Ask again in a few weeks
If SFPD, the Sheriff, and the DA have a plan to protect our Fourth Amendment rights, they’re not sharing it
