SF News Candlestick Point Development to Finally Start Construction This Summer Over a decade since plans first began being drawn up for the redevelopment of the former Candlestick Park property and its parking lots, and 11 years after the stadium itself was demolished, we're finally seeing some movement down there.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Get Embroiled In the Culture War Battle They Didn't Need as JD Vance, Josh Hawley Weigh In on Pride Night Hats The San Francisco Giants, as plenty of people have already said, have more to worry about this season than whether or not a few homophobic pitchers feel put-upon for having to wear rainbow-themed caps on the annual Pride Night. But here we are.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Aisha Wahab Advances In East Bay House Race Progressive Aisha Wahab took the most votes in Tuesday's election and will advance to a runoff for Eric Swalwell's term remainder; the family of deceased 49er Aldon Smith is having his brain checked for CTE; and fans packed Levi's for another World Cup match.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Castro Bars Raise Privacy Concerns With Facial Recognition Cameras at the Door Three Castro neighborhood bars serving a primarily queer clientele are using facial-recognition cameras to help "verify guests" and check for fake IDs, but the company providing these cameras also can flag other things in its databases.
SF News SFPD Launches Pilot Program In SoMa That Will See Drones Arrive at Crime Scenes Before Cops Do A drone pilot program is being planned for this fall in SF's South of Market neighborhood in which the SFPD will be testing out the use of drones as pre-first responders to crime scenes or potential crime scenes, to provide assessments of the situations at hand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award For Outstanding Chef Goes to Quince's Michael Tusk, and Other Local Winners Revealed The chef and restaurant portion of the James Beard Foundation Awards happened Monday night in Chicago, and while LA continues to steal some of the West Coast spotlight from the Bay, a couple of prominent awards were won by local folks.
SF News Body Found at San Leandro Waste Management Facility Identified as Missing Emeryville Man An investigation is now underway to determine how a 30-year-old man who was last seen in Emeryville on May 31 ended up dead in dumpster, with his body turning up two days later at a San Leandro garbage facility.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Chakrabarti Going All In For Chan Saikat Chakrabarti has turned his campaign into a PAC supporting Connie Chan; the Giants could be giving its evangelical players a pass over those Pride Night hats; and why are there so many shopping carts stuck in Colma Creek marsh?
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoCal Faults Reach Historic Stress Levels, According to Study Stress has grown to the highest levels in 1,000 years on the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults; a mountain lion has been captured in Redwood City; and a restaurant co-owned by E-40 was robbed on Sunday.
Bay Area Sports Self-Described 'Christian' Homophobes In Giants' Bullpen Deface Pride Night Hats Well, the San Francisco Giants' pitching staff isn't winning any fans in the Bay Area's very large LGBTQ+ community, and several of them used Friday night's Pride Night game to show a quiet act of protest over the team's annual gesture of inclusivity.
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks to Happen on Golden Gate Bridge For Nation's 250th on July 4th For the first time in 14 years, and only the third time ever, there will be a big fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday on July 4th.
Bay Area Sports The Government of Qatar Gave All-Expense-Paid Trips to 1,000 Qatari Soccer Fans, Had Them March In SF Most countries don't pay for their fans' travel to see World Cup matches, but then most countries aren't as wealthy as Qatar and hoping to make a splash in their first World Cup that they actually qualified for.
SF Politics Newsom Says Trump Is Now Having DOJ Investigate Him and His Wife Next on the list of political enemies whom President Donald Trump has pettily sought to intimidate or punish using the Department of Justice is Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
SF News Trader Joe's Theft Suspect Killed In Struggle With Police Was Former Store Employee The details remain unclear surrounding a Friday death on Nob Hill in which SFPD officers were seen wrestling with an alleged thief outside the Trader Joe's, a struggle that ended with the two officers and the suspect all struck by a passing vehicle on California Street.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire Near Altamont Pass Quickly Contained A wildfire grew to 22 acres near the Altamont Pass Sunday afternoon; there were multiple big sideshows around San Jose Saturday night; and World Cup fans swarmed Levi's Stadium for the first match there between Qatar and Switzerland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Farewell to Shuggie's and Anomaly, Bonjour to Esme It's a week that has seen three high-profile closure announcements as well as fire-caused closure at Che Fico, but on the brighter side, Esme is now softly open on Divis, and we have more in This Week In Food.
SF News One Dead After Fiery Crash In Which Vehicle Flew Off Overpass In SF One person died and four others were injured in a fiery crash Thursday night just after midnight, in between SF's Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Temporarily Closed Due to Damage From Thursday Fire Chef-owner David Nayfeld said in a social media video Friday morning that Divisadero hot spot Che Fico, which had a fire in a chimney flue Thursday, suffered some damage and will have to close for an indeterminate period of time.
SF News [Update] Suspect Killed, Two SF Police Officers Injured After Being Struck By Vehicle on Nob Hill A strange incident was being reported on Nob Hill Friday morning in which three pedestrians, including two SFPD officers, were struck by a Lexus, and one person was reportedly pinned under the vehicle.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two People Shot Near Alameda Beach Two people were shot and wounded near Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda Thursday night; two women who were likely sleeping on a Santa Cruz beach were swept into the ocean by a rising tide; and more women describe sexual harassment and worse inside Cesar Chavez's farmworker movement.
SF News [Update] One-Alarm Fire In Chimney Flue Damages Che Fico San Francisco firefighters were battling a one-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon which broke out just before 4 pm, with black smoke seen billowing from the vicinity of the restaurants Che Fico and Foghorn Taproom.
SF News NorCal Hmong Cult Leader Sentenced to 225 Years For Molestation, Rapes The leader of a cultish religious group partly based in Oroville, in Butte County, was recently convicted of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape, and he's now been sentenced to 225 years to life — though he will be eligible for "elder parole."
Bay Area Sports How to Watch the First World Cup Matches, at Home or at an SF Bar There are many ways you can watch the World Cup matches at home or with friends, with the first matches being played today in Mexico, and Team USA playing its first match against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Year and a Half After Reopening, Park Tavern Is Closing For Good It's always sad when a bustling restaurant that felt like it had been there forever loses its mojo and withers away. But that was the case for North Beach's Park Tavern, not just once, but twice.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Foundation to Help Oakland Tackle Illegal Dumping Michael Moritz's Crankstart Foundation is giving Oakland a $9M hand with its illegal dumping problem; Olympian Eileen Gu's house in Sea Cliff has apparently been doing some dumping of its own; and SF Pride had an official kickoff variety show last night.
