Arts & Entertainment Weekend Concert In Golden Gate Park After Outside Lands Will Feature Alt-Metal Bands System of a Down and Deftones There will just be one extra day of music this year on the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, and the metal-heavy lineup was just announced.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is at War With the Brazilian Judiciary Now Brazilian politics are, like America's, in a volatile and divisive place. And Xitter is reportedly being weaponized in ways that violate Brazilian law — which does not have complete protections for free speech. So Elon Musk is basically threatening to shut down all operations in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink IKEA-Adjacent Saluhall Opens Thursday: Will SF Clamor For Vegan Tacos and Soft-Serve? The IKEA-affiliated Ingka Centres collaborated with a British hospitality firm to create a new paradigm for the mall food court. Will cocktails, Scandinavian pastry, and abundant plant-based options bring in crowds?
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 15 Cats Abandoned Outside East Bay Hospital A pedestrian was killed crossing the 101 freeway near SFO; 15 cats and kittens were dumped outside Kaiser's San Leandro hospital; and a downtown SF post office might get named after Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First Republic Branches All Becoming JP Morgan, or Closing The Parkmerced standoff with a barricaded man was resolved peacefully; SF-based First Republic Bank will cease to exist as of Memorial Day weekend; and the Kimpton Alton Fisherman's Wharf hotel has been surrendered to its lender.
SF News SF City Attorney Threatens Lawsuit Over Plan to Add 'San Francisco' to Oakland Airport Name The situation has heated up a week after Port of Oakland officials suggested they wanted to rebrand Oakland Airport by adding "San Francisco Bay" to its name. Now San Francisco is threatening legal action.
SF News [Update] SFPD Takes Barricaded Individual at Parkmerced Into Custody After Standoff Hostage/crisis negotiators were on the scene at Parkmerced in San Francisco Monday morning, after a man barricaded himself inside an apartment after allegedly making threats.
SF News Don't Look at the Sun: Solar Eclipse Will Be Very Partial In Bay Area It's a big day for one swath of the country, where for two or three minutes people with eclipse-watching glasses will be able to watch a total eclipse for the last time in 20 years — at least in the US.
SF News Eclipse Day Headlines: A Warm Weather Week Ahead Santa Rosa could be getting a huge new affordable housing project thanks to the "builder's remedy"; there was another small earthquake this morning centered up in the North Bay; and we have a warm weather week ahead, with things shifting again on Friday.
SF News 3AM Sideshow Takes Over Bay Bridge A sideshow that may have been the culmination of several others on the Peninsula Saturday night broke out around 3:15 am Sunday on the eastbound deck of the Bay Bridge, east of Treasure Island.
SF News Sunday Links: Crows Are Taking Over SF An early morning crash in Concord killed one person and injured several others; the winning Powerball ticket was sold in Oregon; and the crow population in San Francisco seems to have exploded.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Mission District Homicide A suspect was arrested Friday night in connection with the fatal afternoon shooting outside of El Capitan Hotel at Mission and 20th streets.
SF News 3.4M Earthquake Centered In East Bay Felt In SF Saturday Morning There was just an earthquake in the Bay Area Saturday morning, a small 3.4M tremor that was centered on the Hayward Fault just south of the UC Berkeley campus.
SF News Saturday Links: Fire Breaks Out On Treasure Island There was a fire in an abandoned building on Treasure Island Friday; the victim in Friday's Mission Street shooting was a Venezuelan barber; and Tesla is allegedly rolling out its own line of robotaxis in August.
Arts & Entertainment 'Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord' Brings Back Uncomfortable Pandemic Memories With Humor We are at the point where art is being made about the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, and performance artist Kristina Wong has a one-woman piece about her unique experience that just had its San Francisco premiere at ACT's Strand Theater on Thursday.
SF News Man Fatally Shot Outside El Capitan Hotel on Mission Street In SF One man was fatally shot Friday afternoon outside the El Capitan Hotel on Mission Street near 20th Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Restaurant Openings Start to Tick Up A new speakeasy bar has opened on Polk Street, Go Duck Yourself is coming soon to Bernal Heights, and Little Star Divisadero is staying open until September now.
SF News United Airlines Jet Clips Wing of Another United Jet at SFO In yet another incident involving a United Airlines plane at SFO, a jet pulling into the gate Thursday night clipped the wing of another plane, causing the two planes to be temporarily stuck together.
SF News 'California Forever' City Plan In Solano County Isn't Polling Well A new poll suggests that California Forever has a major uphill climb to get a ballot measure passed this November that will allow their new city-from-scratch project to move forward.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Lays Off Over 600 Workers Apple laid off 614 workers in Santa Clara; police in Fremont nabbed an arson suspect for setting small fires in Fremont and Newark; and there was a 4.7M earthquake in New York City this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Performers at Immersive Theater Piece 'The Speakeasy' Allege Harassment and Other Problems as Show Remounts The Speakeasy, an immersive theater piece set in the 1920s that ran for 425 performances pre-pandemic in a subterranean space in North Beach called The Palace Theater, is reopening tonight. And as it does, former cast members are raising alarms.
SF News Wealthy Peninsula Town Could Get Denser Housing Forced Upon It As State Revokes Its Housing Element The state may be making an example of Portola Valley, which has failed to complete the rezoning necessary to get its Housing Element certified, and now the "builder's remedy" could go into effect.
Business & Tech Uber Eats Already Outsourcing Delivery to Robots Via Partnership With Waymo Uber once had grand plans to operate its own driverless taxis, but now it's playing nice and partnering with Waymo to have food delivered without humans involved in Phoenix.
Business & Tech One SF Engineer Might Have Just Saved the World From a Massive Cyberattack A 38-year-old software engineer for Microsoft was apparently curious, eagle-eyed, and lucky enough to have discovered a pernicious bit of code in the widely used Linux operating system, that someone, somewhere, had gone to some lengths to hide.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Makes Mayoral Campaign Unofficial-Official; Breed Camp Already On the Attack SF Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who we've known is running for mayor for over a month now, is finally ready to make his official announcement, but first he leaked it to several news outlets again.
