SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Looking For Man Who Punched A Baby On Muni Friday Morning An SFPD drug bust in the Tenderloin netted 13 arrests; the victims of the fatal shooting in Napa last weekend were identified as a young mother and teenager; and a man apparently punched a baby on a Muni bus unprovoked Friday morning.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Now Selling Very Elegant Bongs and Pot Pipes, Just In Time for 4/20 Some highly artistic cannabis smoking paraphernalia is now on sale at the SFMOMA gift shop, which has gone to pot and is now selling upscale porcelain pipes and water bongs.
Arts & Entertainment A ‘Magic Mushrooms Church’ Is Providing More 4/20 Porta-Potties and Crowd Control Than the City Is The cancellation of Hippie Hill’s official 4/20 celebration seems unlikely to keep thousands of pot-smoking revelers out of Golden Gate Park, and so a psilocybin-themed church is stepping up to provide porta-potties, a medical tent, and water bottles.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Popping Up, and Fried Chicken It's the first day for Minnie Bell's fried chicken in the Fillmore, Bar Agricole is popping up at Quince, and Saison co-owner and sommelier Mark Bright is opening a new SoMa wine bar.
SF News Peskin, Breed Both Say They Are Trying to Get Macy's to Stay In Union Square Supervisor and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin was on TV Thursday night discussing the city's efforts to cajole the Macy's organization to change its mind about closing the San Francisco store.
SF News Oakland Murder Case to Test Notion of Guilt By Provocation, After Home Invasion Suspect Is Killed One of two men who allegedly committed a home-invasion robbery is being tried in Alameda County for the murder of his accomplice, even though the person who pulled the trigger was the homeowner they were allegedly robbing.
SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud Reopening Will Revisit All Seven Decades of the Club's Existence, Hour By Hour San Francisco's oldest and arguably most beloved LGBTQ party space, The Stud, is set to make a grand reentrance on Saturday, with a new outfit and in new digs, celebrating every era that the place has lived through.
SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo to Receive Panda Loan From China A giant panda, or a pair of pandas, will be coming to the San Francisco Zoo sometime in the future, as Mayor London Breed has succeeded in her mission to coax some Panda Diplomacy out of China.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Now Required to Fix Elevators Quickly After a settlement in a lawsuit from disability rights advocates, BART is now legally required to fix elevators and escalators quickly; an inmate from Alameda County escaped a prison camp; and Tesla is recalling all its Cybertrucks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFMTA to Do 'Intensive' Sweep For Parking Violations In May The SFMTA is going to be doing an "intensive" crackdown on parking next month; an East Bay rapper has been charged with robbery and false imprisonment; and Redwood City is looking to permanently ban cars from a section of Broadway.
SF News One Dead After Car Goes Off Cliff Along Highway 1 in Coastal San Mateo County Traffic was disrupted in both directions of Highway 1 north of Half Moon Bay Thursday afternoon, as a car went over a cliff shortly before 1 pm, and the driver of that car has been pronounced dead.
SF News 71-Year-Old Driver Skates With Lenient Probation Sentence In Crash That Killed Four-Year-Old Girl There’s a mini-storm of social media outrage after DA Brooke Jenkins brokered a settlement where the driver who killed a four-year-old girl near the Caltrain station last August will get just two years probation, community service, and a safety class.
SF News BART Legacy Cars to Be Fully Retired After Celebration and Ceremonial Final Runs on Saturday BART's Fleet of the Future is ready to become the Fleet of the Present, and the legacy fleet of cars with their upholstered seats will be relegated to history after some final runs in the East Bay on Saturday.
SF News The Oakland Police Department Is Facing Yet Another Scandal A year and change after the Oakland Police Department saw its umpteenth chief ousted over an internal affairs scandal, yet another internal affairs scandal has come to light, just as newly hired Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is preparing for his first day on the job.
SF News Confused Waymo Cars Block 101 On-Ramp In Potrero Hill, Then Go Down Closed Road It’s SF driving 101 that you should not follow a confused self-driving Waymo vehicle down a closed road, but that’s what happened Tuesday night near Highway 101 in Potrero Hill, after a stalled Waymo traffic jam led to the robotaxis veering into a closed lane.
SF News San Francisco Has Filed Its Promised Lawsuit Against Oakland and Its Port Commission Over Airport Renaming As expected, the City of San Francisco has filed a trademark infringement suit against the Port of Oakland's Board of Commissioners and the City of Oakland over a plan to rename Oakland Airport.
Business & Tech Google Fires All 28 Workers Who Pulled an In-Company Protest Against Israeli Defense Contract In a not-at-all surprising development, Google has fired the 28 workers who staged a sit-in protest Tuesday in a top executive’s office, all in protest of a billion-dollar contract Google has with the Israeli government during the Gaza conflict.
SF News Homicide Suspect From Sacramento Shot and Killed By Oakland Police Oakland police fatally shot a man Wednesday night outside a home in West Oakland while assisting Sacramento police, who were attempting to arrest the man in connection with a homicide.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sting Operation Targets Drivers In West Portal SF city leaders gathered for the annual 1906 earthquake commemoration at Lotta's Fountain this morning; police conducted a sting in West Portal targeting non-yielding drivers; and 23andMe might be taken private.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zookeeper Chased By Grizzly Bear In Near-Miss Incident Some SF Zoo staffers are complaining about problems with safety at the zoo; the suspect in the early April shooting death on Mission Street has pleaded not guilty; and buses were seen leaving FCI Dublin today, transferring prisoners out.
SF News SF Police Vow DUI Patrols Will Be Out in Force for 4/20 The “DUI Saturation Patrols” we normally associate with Saint Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday will be rolling out for this Saturday’s 4/20 observances, as SFPD hopes to discourage people from driving while stoned.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Now Selling Off the Seats They’re Ripping Out for Another Planet’s Renovation You can now buy the seats that Another Planet Entertainment has removed from the Castro Theatre at $349 a pop (or two for $499), though critics say the theater has “committed a massacre and are now selling the body parts for profit.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Toast'N Egg Brings Trendy Korean Street Toasts to the Sunset In what the owner hopes is the first of many locations across the country, Toast'N Egg is about to debut at Irving Street and 20th Avenue, serving variations on the popular egg-filled Korean street toasts known as gilgeori.