SF News Weekly Anti-Trump Protest Outside SF’s Tesla Showroom Still Going Strong, Much to Neighbors’ Ire Since launching in early 2025, the anti-Trump protest at Van Ness and O’Farrell has consistently drawn a crowd every Saturday at noon, and some nearby residents are apparently fed up with the noise, as the city has received hundreds of complaints this year.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Skrillex is Playing Pier 80 Tonight, So Expect Noise Complaints From Both Sides of the Bay Windows will likely rattle everywhere from Potrero Hill to Alameda island Tuesday night, as ravelords Skrillex and Four Tet are playing Pier 80 in a show whose sound check last night indicated that things are going to get very loud.
Arts & Entertainment Alameda Complains Less, SF Complains More About Noise From This Year's Portola Festival The first two Portola Music Festivals in 2022 and 2023 elicited widespread noise complaints, particularly from residents on the island of Alameda — who said they were kept up with rattling windows and unpleasant, dubstep-borne bass vibrations all weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Hundreds of Richmond Residents Complained About an Incessant, Late-Night Bass Beat, Mayor Uses Reward to Find Culprits A lot of people living in Richmond and nearby towns posted to Nextdoor and Facebook late Saturday/early Sunday to complain about a never-ending, droning bass beat coming from somewhere, and keeping them up well past 2 a.m. Mayor Tom Butt got on the case, and apparently has figured it out.
SF News Engineers Furiously Trying to Fix Golden Gate Bridge’s Constant Humming Sound It’s a humdinger of a problem for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District that the bridge still “sings” during high winds, but the transit agency won’t say about who’s fixing it or how.
SF News Are These San Francisco's Noisiest Neighborhoods? When real estate industry website Trulia set out to map the noisiest neighborhoods in San Francisco, they did so by pulling "about five years" of "police data on noise complaints,
