SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Shooting Leaves One Dead A 36-year-old man was shot while driving in downtown Oakland early Monday; one block in the Marina sees the city's most calls about blocked driveways; and Sam Altman says he can't eat out in public anymore.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Sushi, Tacos, Beer New high-end sushi comes to Hayes Valley, some great new tacos arrive in the Castro, and a huge new Korean marketplace that wants to compete with H Mart is headed for Daly City.
Bay Area Sports SF's New WNBA Team, the Golden State Valkyries, Just Hit 10,000 Season Ticket Deposits, Will Host Block Party Saturday It's been just three days since we learned the name of the WNBA expansion team that is coming to San Francisco next year, and interest in the women's league and this SF team seems very, very high.
SF News Pelosi Attacker David DePape Gets 30 Years In Federal Case; State Trial Begins Next Week The first of two sentences which will likely put 43-year-old wingnut David DePape behind bars for the rest of his life was handed down Friday in federal court.
SF Politics Supervisors Stymie Mayor Breed In Panda Fundraising Plan, Creating First Roadblock A San Francisco supervisors' committee on Thursday effectively shot down a resolution concerning Mayor London Breed's announced plan to bring Chinese pandas to the San Francisco Zoo.
SF News Highway 1 Reopens Ahead of Schedule, Making Way for Big Sur Travel Ahead of Summer Highway 1 has reopened to regular traffic, thanks to a new signal system that will allow traffic to flow in one direction at a time past the area where a rockslide made part of the roadway disappear in late March.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Justice Alito Flew an Upside-Down Flag On His Lawn David DePape faces sentencing in federal court today for the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi; protesters who took over a building at UC Berkeley have been arrested; and Justice Samuel Alito will have to answer for a 'Stop the Steal' symbol that appeared on his lawn in January 2021.
Arts & Entertainment World Premiere Musical 'Galileo' Turns the Famed Astronomer Into a Rock Balladeer In the new musical 'Galileo,' which had its world premiere Wednesday night at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway star Raul Esparza commands the stage as the maverick Seventeenth Century astronomer, in a rock musical that is at turns both audacious and confounding.
SF News Unsheltered Homeless Population In SF Nearly Unchanged Since 2022, Overall Number Rises 7% Despite spending many millions of dollars to address the issue of homelessness in San Francisco, the city got some disappointing news Thursday with the release of the latest (preliminary) point-in-time census count of the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash, Oakland's Drag and Queer Performance Festival, Returns This Weekend For Its Seventh Year The Oaklash Festival is coming stomping and sashaying back this weekend, celebrating drag and queer performance in all its forms for a diverse and adoring Bay Area audience.
SF News Number of Homeless In Berkeley Drops 45% In Promising Sign; Oakland's Number Still On the Rise, Though The number of unsheltered homeless people in Berkeley dropped by nearly half in the two years between the biennial point-in-time homeless censuses in 2022 and 2024, according to a preliminary report.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.0M Earthquake Hits NorCal Coast A 4.0M earthquake rumbled in Humboldt County around midnight last night; the SF State protest encampment is scaling back; and the Supreme Court rejected a challenge over the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Final Section of Harvey Milk Terminal to Open In June A big rig carrying 73,000 pounds of rice overturned in Oakland near the Bay Bridge this morning; the number of homeless families living in SF has doubled; and the last renovated section of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at SFO opens on June 11.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused of Hate Crimes In Castro Who Said Being LGBTQ Goes 'Against God' Is Acquitted of All Charges The San Francisco Public Defender's Office today announced the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who had been in jail since an arrest last June in connection with a series of incidents described as hate crimes in the Castro.
SF News FBI Issues Unusual Warning About Potential Terrorist Threats to LGBTQ Pride Celebrations ISIS-affiliated terrorists or their supporters could be plotting an attack on a public gathering during Pride Month, and the FBI and Homeland Security have issued a public warning in order to raise awareness of the potentially heightened threat.
SF News Woman Dragged By Cruise Robotaxi Gets Over $8 Million Settlement A woman who was struck and dragged about 20 feet by an autonomous Cruise vehicle last year has reportedly been awarded a settlement of $8 million to $12 million from parent company General Motors.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Farmworker Housing Approved In Half Moon Bay Hearing to get a new trial for Scott Peterson gets underway; a house fire in Brisbane was caused by dryer lint; and a project to build farmworker housing in Half Moon Bay was approved by the city's planning commission after lengthy debate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Restaurants Are Trying an Odd Legal Argument to Get Out of the Surcharge Ban Restaurateurs in California are very nervous about how their businesses will fare when they have to stop adding surcharges to customers' checks and either raise menu prices or lower wages, or both, starting in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Will Open At Long Last On Friday Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.
SF Politics London Breed, Aaron Peskin Beg Off From Monday Mayoral Candidate Debate By TogetherSF, Will Host Their Own Thing A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
SF News American Eagle Outfitters Is the Latest Store to Depart Ailing Downtown SF Mall The Emporium Centre San Francisco, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, continues on the vacancy train with the announcement of the July closure of American Eagle Outfitters, one of the larger remaining stores in the mall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saigon Sandwich, Dalida Among the New Additions to the Food Lineup at Outside Lands 2024 The food lineup for this year's Outside Lands just dropped, and it includes a slew of past festival favorites, along with several notable newcomers to the fest from the local food scene.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gaza Protest Targets North Bay Congressman Protesters are sitting in on the San Jose State campus as of Monday; a protest arrived at a fundraiser for North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in Sonoma; and succession drama roils a family-owned winery in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kamala Drops an F-Bomb An SF man with six prior convictions has been arrested for an April murder in Oakland; gas prices in CA could go up 50 cents next year; and VP Kamala Harris dropped a very public F-bomb Monday in a conversation with a comedian.
SF News SF's 'Doomed' Downtown Actually Back to Almost Normal at Night, Some Nights A new dataset suggests that while SF still lags way behind New York and other cities in terms of daytime, mid-week foot traffic, people are now frequenting bars and restaurants in downtown SF almost at pre-pandemic levels.
