SF News Lake Merritt Shooting Leaves 6 Injured, 1 Dead; Oakland Police Investigating Potential Motives Just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, gunfire was reported about a mile north of the Lake Merritt Amphitheater — the location where thousands of people had gathered to commemorate Juneteenth. Oakland police later confirmed one person died and another six were injured during the shooting.
SF News Father's Day Links: Power Restored to 50,000 East Bay Residents After Saturday Outage Around 50,000 residents in Fremont and Union City saw their lights go out Saturday, SF art galleries are experiencing a boom in popularity, and yesterday’s one-alarm apartment building fire has now displaced at least 60 people.
SF News Over 1,000 Endangered (and Gorgeous) Snakes Were Recently Discovered Near SFO San Francisco garter snakes — one of the rarest, arguably most breathtaking reptiles in the United States — were once thought to number as little as a thousand examples in the wild; some 1,300 more are now believed to exist on a 180-acre parcel of wetlands near SFO.
Arts & Entertainment This Uncovered Footage Shows SF Drag Queens Living Their Best Lives at a 1968 Costume Ball 60 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for men wearing women's clothing in public to be arrested. Nevertheless: A group of drag queens prancing along Columbus Avenue in San Francisco — circa 1968 — carried on living their most authentic (and fabulously camp) lives.
SF News Saturday Links: 20 People Rescued From One-Alarm Tenderloin Fire Twenty people were rescued (fifteen of them injured) in an early Saturday morning apartment fire at 421 Leavenworth Street, CA's Flex Alert has been lifted, and Biden's 13-year-old German Shepherd, Champ, has passed away.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents Are Now Up a Solid 4% Over Last Month The average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has risen an even 4% since May, an early Friday morning car crash demolished the parklets at Aquitaine and The Boombox, and as it turns out: Baltimore was the only U.S. city to see a larger exodus than SF last year.
SF News East Bay Man Faces Assault Charges for Throwing Bottle of Water at Gavin Newsom A Berkeley man lived the dream and threw a bottle of water at Gavin Newsom, but now faces charges of assaulting a public official and resisting an officer.
Arts & Entertainment New 'Welcome Center'/Counterculture Museum Shop Opens at Haight & Ashbury At the corner of Haight & Ashbury, a new Haight-Ashbury-themed store and "counterculture museum shop" for tourists has just opened, and it's called Haight & Ashbury.
Arts & Entertainment News Anchor-Turned-Sculptor Dana King Unveils Her Sculpture 'Monumental Reckoning' In Golden Gate Park In honor of Juneteenth, local sculptor Dana King is unveiling a significant new installation at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park, titled "Monumental Reckoning."
SF News Willow Fire Near Big Sur Prompts Evacuation for Tassajara Zen Center A wildfire broke out Thursday night in the Los Padres National Forest, just north of the burn scar from last year's Dolan Fire, and right beside the area that burned in 2016's Soberanes Fire.
SF Politics Another Attack On an Elderly Asian Person, Another Round of the Blame Game Between Police and DA Wednesday's random stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman on her morning walk on Post Street has once again prompted finger-pointing among law enforcement, specifically after the suspect was revealed to be another repeat offender who's been in and out of the county jail in the last few years.
SF News You Can Now Show a Digital Vaccine Card on Your Phone With California's New Online System Don't call it a vaccine passport! But California now has made vaccination records available digitally through an online portal, which creates a scannable QR code that you can show to get into stadiums, concert venues, and the like.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom Says He Doesn't Want Tourists Choosing Florida A gas leak prompted a small crisis in the Inner Richmond Thursday evening, the Chronicle actually reported on Peskin's alcoholic behavior over a decade ago, and Cal/OSHA says vaccinated workers can take off their masks after all.
SF News Mills College Enters Negotiations to Become Part of Northeastern University After an anouncement this spring that Mills College may cease to exist as an undergraduate college and stop granting degrees in 2023, a new development suggests that Mills may live on after all, albeit as part of a larger institution.
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Trap Off-Brand Lego 'Brick Bar' Pop-Up Coming to SF This Fall The Brick Bar, billed as "the most talked about pop-up bar," is heading to an undisclosed location in San Francisco this October.
SF News Listen: ‘Celebrity Muni Announcements’ From London Breed, Renel, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Here’s audio of the new Muni ‘celebrity’ transit announcements, though Mayor Breed’s is drawing some heckles from the social media peanut gallery.
SF Politics Sup. Rafael Mandelman Introduces Legislation to Protect Renters' Amenities Imagine living in an apartment with a garage parking space for 20 years and then being told that the garage is being converted into a new unit and you'll have to park elsewhere. That's the sort of the landlord move that some new proposed legislation at the SF Board of Supervisors hopes to prevent.
Arts & Entertainment Waterfront Property Featured In 'Last Black Man In San Francisco' To Become SF's Most Expensive New Park A formerly fenced off, dilapidated boatyard that sits between the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods is soon becoming part of a stretch of greenway that extends along 1.7 miles of the southeastern shoreline of San Francisco.
SF News San Jose Restaurant Crash Blamed On Cocaine, Blowjob A tragic incident last Friday outside a sports bar in San Jose, in which a woman at the bar was killed when a pickup truck crashed into an outdoor dining area, apparently involved oral sex and an intoxicated patron.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Gonna Be a Hot One Try to conserve power today and tonight during this heatwave, local infectious disease experts talk about where they'll still wear a mask, and the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Useless Bickering In Sacramento About High-Speed Rail Some SF restaurants are keeping masks on employees (but not all), California lawmakers are squabbling over high-speed rail funding again, and Chez Panisse announced that it isn't reopening until October.
SF News Coit Tower Will Reopen on Thursday San Francisco’s favorite phallus, and home to arguably the best 360-degree panoramic view in the city, Coit Tower, is open again Thursday with masks required only in the elevators.
SF News 94-Year-Old Asian Woman Stabbed In the Tenderloin, Suspect Has Long Rap Sheet, Was Out on Bail A 94-year-old Asian woman was reportedly stabbed Wednesday morning in San Francisco in what's been described as an unprovoked attack.
SF News There Will Be Another March on Polk Street on Pride Sunday Returning to the protest origins of Pride, and for the second year in a row without an official (and heavily corporate-sponsored) SF Pride parade, there will be a People's March and Rally down Polk Street and in Civic Center on Pride Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: With Capacity Limits Lifted, the Castro Comes Alive Again With fifteen months of COVID-19 restrictions behind us, the Castro’s bars and restaurants were bumping Tuesday night with San Franciscans celebrating the end of social-distancing rules.
