The Sundance Film Festival is accepting inquiries from cities hoping to lure it away from Park City, Utah, where it has been every non-pandemic January since 1981.

Here’s why San Francisco should aggressively launch a bid to become the home of Sundance: trib.al/jzv4Psd

San Francisco Police officers are issuing more traffic citations than in years past, reversing a precipitous decline in the number of tickets issued over the last decade, according to new data from the city’s Police Department. trib.al/PRsnoqU

“Matt Taylor’s Chardonnays taste and smell like cool forests, salty ocean air and ripe California citrus. They’re astounding,” writes wine critic Esther Mobley. trib.al/9xon3gH

Instead of trading away a wide receiver Thursday night, San Francisco picked one in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. trib.al/DUOvSZh

A group of students took over White Memorial Plaza on Thursday evening to erect an encampment, similar to other demonstrations seen at U.S. universities over the past week to protest Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza. trib.al/GePuarI

The Democratic congressman and U.S. Senate candidate got a rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped his bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage. trib.al/M5B33QK

A woman and a man accused in the fatal shooting of a loss prevention officer at a Home Depot store in Pleasanton pleaded no contest this week to various felony charges as part of a plea deal, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. trib.al/jf6wEIS

With former Florida wideout Ricky Pearsall now a member of the 49ers, it appears as though one of the team's incumbents, Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk, will soon be on someone else’s roster, columnist Michael Silver writes. trib.al/gahmQOS

S.F. traffic tickets are skyrocketing. Here’s where police are stepping up enforcement:

-Market and Octavia Streets and Highway 101
-Geneva Avenue and Mission Street
-Gough Street at Haight Street and Market Street

Read below for more intersections. trib.al/u7vnIKn

Tupac Shakur’s estate is considering legal action against Drake in response to a diss song titled “Taylor Made Freestyle” that features an AI-generated cameo of the late rapper. Their attorney has demanded the song be removed from all streaming platforms. trib.al/RSgkI21

Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, spent a weekend getaway on the California coast in Carmel-by-the-Sea — joined by model Gigi Hadid and actor Bradley Cooper. trib.al/mOwDLxc

San Francisco police are investigating a burglary at the Board of Education office near Civic Center after school district staff arrived to work Monday and found items missing from their desks. trib.al/shkojPZ

Kid Cudi has been forced to cancel his forthcoming Insano: Engage the Rage Tour — which included a stop at Chase Center in San Francisco this summer — after breaking his foot at Coachella over the weekend. trib.al/hmvyD77

A state Supreme Court lawsuit claiming California’s death penalty law is incurably racist and should be overturned has drawn some high-powered support from two of the court’s former justices, as well as a number of county prosecutors and state legislators. trib.al/UYUefBV

OPINION: 'Black Californians play an outsized role in which party will control the House this upcoming term,' writes Justin Ray, a Los Angeles-based journalist. trib.al/HBQ4Ds8

Critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan has a confession: she likes it when restaurant servers are mean. trib.al/w2wOiGh

San Francisco police said Thursday that they were investigating a fatal shooting that occurred in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 13.

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A family of four — two parents and two children — was killed in a single-vehicle car crash that occurred late Wednesday in Pleasanton. trib.al/wHgqHcB

Forget Austin and Miami: Young techies bailing out of the Bay Area are setting their sights on the pricey Big Apple instead for its nightlife and booming job market. trib.al/D2SorXJ

REVIEW: The protagonists of Netflix’s “Dead Boy Detectives” are often disembodied. But unlike them, their show is one solidly put together bingeable series. trib.al/GdQ3sgu