Arts & Entertainment American Finance Is the Stuff of Epic Drama In 'The Lehman Trilogy' at ACT American corporate history doesn't often inspire poetry, let alone theater. But such is the feat of the epic historical play 'The Lehman Trilogy,' a London import now making its West Coast premiere at ACT, directed by Oscar- and Tony-winner Sam Mendes.
SF Politics Trump Convicted, Xitter Goes Wild You may have heard by now that, in the last hour, an American president was for the first time convicted of a felony in criminal court. 34 felonies, actually.
Arts & Entertainment Crowd of 25,000 Expected In Civic Center Plaza for Fred Again/Skrillex Show Saturday Will it be easy to hang around nearby and listen to the electronic music show Saturday in Civic Center Plaza even if you didn't get a ticket? Maybe! But promoter Another Planet says their equipment will be able to focus the sound pretty well so as not to disturb too may neighbors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunette, the New Cambodian Spot From Nyum Bai Chef Nite Yun, Opens This Weekend at the Ferry Building The much anticipated new Cambodian noodle shop from the chef at the wildly popular Nyum Bai in Oakland is finally arriving this weekend at SF's Ferry Building.
SF News Heat Dome May Bring Us Another Heatwave Next Week, With Triple-Digits Possible In Some Spots Weather forecasters seem to agree that by Wednesday of next week, it should be feeling very warm throughout California. But a heat dome taking shape over the western half of the US will either bring us a major heatwave, or just a mild warming trend in the Bay Area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Arrests Seven In CVS Robbery San Francisco police arrested seven people Wednesday for an alleged group heist at a CVS in Ingleside; a Bay Area doctor returns home from Rafah; and the Supreme Court sides with the NRA in a First Amendment case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Affordable Project Breaks Ground on Former Bus Depot Site There was a groundbreaking ceremony for a new affordable project in SoMa; the SFMTA got a federal accessibility grant; and of course Samuel Alito won't recuse himself from the January 6th/Trump cases.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barebottle Is Throwing a Beer Festival You Can Bring Your Kids To Barebottle Brewing Co., whose Bernal Heights taproom is well known as a family-friendly hangout, is capitalizing on their reputation and hosting a first-of-its-kind family-friendly beer festival this summer in Salesforce Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Awaited Marina Outpost of Original Joe's Opens Thursday A new location of Little Original Joe's, this one with seating and a full bar, is set to open Thursday at the corner of Chestnut and Scott streets in the Marina.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day-By-Day Lineups Revealed, Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday Saturday is looking like the best day of the Outside Lands festival this year, as Another Planet Entertainment has just unveiled the single-day lineups for August 9 to 11.
SF News SF Sheriff's Department Training Exercise That Sickened San Bruno Schoolkids Used Old, Possibly Toxic Munitions There seems to be more to the story of some noxious tear gas that leaked out of a building where an SF Sheriff's Department training exercise was going on last week in San Bruno.
SF Politics 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag, Part of City Collection For Decades, Quietly Removed From SF's Civic Center Plaza A flag that had caused zero controversy for much of its time in a San Francisco city-owned collection of historic flags, which have flown outside City Hall since the 1960s, has been quietly removed by Rec & Park staff after it has come to take on new meaning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Scott Peterson Back In Court The David DePape state trial gets underway; Scott Peterson is back in court to argue for his new trial; and residents in a South Lake Tahoe neighborhood are upset after a man shot a bear cub.
SF News 'Bad Breath Rapist,' On the Run For 16 Years, Found and Arrested In the East Bay A fugitive who had been on trial for sexual assault almost 17 years ago in Massachusetts was recently apprehended by US Marshals in the East Bay, where he had apparently been staying for some time.
SF News SF Health Department Urges Queer Community to Get Vaccinated Against Mpox Ahead of Pride As the summer and Pride season are upon us, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging everyone who wants to — but particularly men, trans people, and nonbinary people who have sex with men — to get the two-dose regimen of the mpox (aka monkeypox) vaccine.
SF News David DePape Offers Apology at Second Sentencing, Says He's Doing Better Mentally Following an error by a judge at the first sentencing for Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape, DePape was resentenced Tuesday morning in federal court to 30 years in prison.
SF News BART Track Work to Cause Suspension In Service Between 24th Street and Daly City This weekend, June 1 to 2, there will be no BART service — as in no trains running, bus bridge instead — between 24th Street & Mission Station and Daly City, so plan accordingly.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leads to Crash Near Oakland-San Leandro Border A man was found fatally shot Monday night after he crashed his car in San Leandro, near the Oakland border.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Encampment Fire Inside Old Industrial Building The SFFD put out a fire inside an industrial building in the Bayview; workers on the Alcatraz ferry went on strike over the holiday weekend; and Steph and Ayesha Curry just had a fourth child.
SF News Oakland Firefighters Contain Huge Four-Alarm Blaze at Lumber Warehouse A massive fire broke out at the Economy Lumber warehouse in East Oakland Sunday night, sending thick smoke billowing over the city.
SF News Memorial Day Headlines: Neighbors Hold Fundraiser Barbecue For Fire-Displaced Dogwalker Neighbors had a block-party fundraiser Sunday for the fire-displaced family on Grove Street; an SF man was shot and critically wounded in Oakland; and 50 residents of a senior care facility in Oakley were displaced by a sewage leak.
SF News Sunday Links: Lowriders On Parade The lowriders were on parade this morning in the Mission for Carnaval; the Chronicle delves into a new wage-theft complaint at Horn Barbecue; and Bradley Cooper and Steph Curry were tossing cheesesteaks into the crowd at BottleRock.
SF News Elderly Woman Struck By Cable Car Wins $11 Million Settlement From SF A woman who was struck and injured by a cable car in Russian Hill in December 2022 has won an $11 million settlement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Tadich Gets a Pan, But Scoma's Keeps Delivering After Six Decades Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Bettola gets set for opening in the Inner Richmond, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan pans Tadich Grill but says 60-year-old Scoma's on Fisherman's Wharf is still keeping quality high.
SF News The Same Insurrectionist Flag That Flew Over Samuel Alito's Beach House Just Flew Over a Building In SF's Jackson Square In an eery sign suggesting that Trumpists and fomenters of civil war are everywhere among us, a flag that was flown by January 6th insurrectionists, and recently by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made an appearance this week atop a building in San Francisco's Jackson Square.
