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.
Arts & Entertainment Pop Stars Troye Sivan and Charli XCX Announce Chase Center Date for Their 'Sweat' Tour Things are going to get pretty gay at Chase Center on October 20 when Australian ur-twink Troye Sivan and British hyperpop star Charli XCX bring their co-headlining tour to town.
Bay Area Sports Klay Thompson’s Disastrous 0-10 Night Ends Warriors’ Season, and Possibly His Warriors Career Your Golden State Warriors will miss the playoffs after getting blown out in their Play-In Tournament game against the Sacramento Kings Tuesday night, and Klay Thompson going 0-10 on shooting and completely scoreless does not bode well for his Warriors future.
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming ACT and Berkeley Rep Seasons Feature Four World Premieres, 'Uncle Vanya' Featuring a Downton Abbey Star The 2024-25 seasons have been announced at the Bay Area's two biggest regional theaters, and highlights include two new hip-hop musicals, a new adaptation of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute,' and a new production of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' featuring Hugh Bonneville.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Protesters Released From Jail, But Still Might Face Felony Charges SF DA Brooke Jenkins released the couple dozen people who were in jail for blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in Monday's Gaza ceasefire protest, and they haven’t even been charged, though Jenkins is vowing they’ll be investigated for possible felony charges.
SF News Four People, Including Two Housemates, Now Charged With Murder In Fentanyl-Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler Two alleged drug dealers have now been charged with murder in connection with the August 2023 death of 18-month-old Winter Rayo, whose parents were also charged with murder.
SF News Tenderloin Residents and Businesses Pushing Back Against Proposed Turk Street Homeless Shelter A proposal to turn three vacant storefronts at Turk and Hyde streets into a homeless services center has some Tenderloin residents and businesses fuming, and saying that the Tenderloin is bearing the burden of too many of these facilities.
SF News Authorities ID Body of Missing East Bay Mother-In-Law Found In Oakland Estuary Six weeks after a San Pablo man was arrested and charged with the murders of his wife and mother-in-law, police have confirmed that the mother-in-law's remains have been found.
SF News Humpday Headlines: All Alaska Airlines Planes Grounded By FAA The FAA issued a ground stop for all Alaska and Horizon flights this morning; CA public health officials are warning about a death from a hemorrhoid cream bought on Facebook; Dubai is in chaos after heavy rains.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Political Activist Faces Fresh Sexual Assault Allegations, Promptly Resigns A new giant discount store has opened on Mission Street; Tadich Grill was curiously left off the Chronicle’s “Top Classic SF Restaurants” list; and a well-known progressive community organizer has resigned amidst a report detailing sexual assault accusations from three more women.
SF News Mystery Buyer Who’s Bought Nearly a Block of Fillmore Street — Including the Defunct Clay Theatre — May Be Identified The Chronicle may have solved the riddle of the mystery buyer who bought the old Clay Theatre and five other buildings on the same block, and unsurprisingly, the person appears to be a wealthy venture capitalist.
SF News Los Gatos-Based HGTV House-Flipper Sentenced to Four Years In Jail for Real Estate Fraud Who’d have thought that a house-flipping character calling himself “Mr. Flip It” on an HGTV reality show would be neck-deep in real estate fraud? South Bay man Charles "Todd" Hill was just sentenced to four years for a $10 million scheme.
SF News Less Than Three Years After That Lavish City Hall Ceremony, Socialite Ivy Getty Is Getting a Divorce Welp, young love doesn't always endure. And 29-year-old heiress Ivy Getty is already getting a divorce from her actor/photographer husband Tobias Engel, after less than four years married.
SF Politics Sports Gambling Won’t Make 2024 California Ballot, as Tribes and Betting Apps Are Still at Each Other’s Throats We will not be barraged with sports gambling campaign ads for the November election, as two ballot measures to legalize sports betting in California have been shelved. But we will still be barraged with ads for gambling apps that Californians cannot use.
SF News CHP Reveals Concrete Drum Tactic Used By Protesters Which Hindered Their Removal Monday Many wondered — especially those stuck in traffic! — why it took hours to remove the handful of protesters who created a barricade across the northbound lanes of I-880 Monday morning. Well, they did something fairly clever with barrels, which is a variation on the "sleeping dragon" technique.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famous Rotating Turntable Bar Atop SF's Hyatt Regency to Reopen The word "iconic" gets way overused these days, but I can safely say the rotating former Equinox restaurant and bar atop downtown SF's Hyatt Regency is an iconic piece of the city's hospitality history, and the hotel is bringing it back.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: Mission District’s Beauty Bar Has Closed Permanently, Was Reportedly Sold They’ve polished their last nail and served their last shot at the Mission and 19th street kitsch nightclub Beauty Bar, which apparently closed and laid off all staff over the weekend following a reported sale.
SF News Three Arrests Made In Shooting of Two Teens In Napa We still do not know the complete circumstances that led to the shooting of two young women in Napa on Saturday, but now one man and two similarly young women have been arrested.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Saw More Rain Than Seattle This Winter SF saw five more inches of rain this past winter than Seattle, thanks to El Nino; more Gaza protests are expected today; and a total of 38 arrests were made in connection with Monday's protests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Victims Shot In Napa May Have Been Teen Girls The two female victims in a Saturday shooting in downtown Napa may have been no older than 15; a man's body was found in the Berkeley Marina Saturday; and the Oakland Coliseum concessionaire has warned workers against talking publicly about the A's departure.
Bay Area Sports 49ers-Branded CA License Plates Are Coming, and You Might Be Able to Get One for Free A drive to get the California DMV to produce a 49ers logo-license plate looks likely to be successful, and you might even be able to get yours free, but you’ll have to act fast.
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.