Arts & Entertainment Documentary About Legendary North Beach Topless Dancer Carol Doda Hits Theaters In March A documentary about San Francisco's famed, pioneering topless dancer Carol Doda (RIP), which premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival last fall, will be getting a theatrical release.
SF News Phoenix Hotel Property Hits Market For $15M, Could Be Redeveloped as 450 Residential Units The beloved, retro, SoCal-motel-feeling Phoenix Hotel, which has always been a charmingly out-of-place oasis in between Civic Center and the Tenderloin, may not be long for this world as the property has just hit the market for $15 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wiener Proposes New Downtown Booze Zones Where You Can Walk Around With To-Go Drinks State Senator Scott Wiener has introduced new legislation to create "Entertainment Zones" to help San Francisco's downtown with its economic recovery, activating certain designated areas where people would be free to roam with their booze.
SF News Suspect In Crissy Field Murder Heard In Jailhouse Phonecall Saying Victim 'Deserved' to Be Killed The 20-year-old sex worker who was arrested in November for a murder that took place in the Crissy Field parking lot was allegedly heard confessing in a jailhouse call to her mother, and she sounded remorseless about the crime.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Man Paroled In Murder Case Involving Toddler A man was fatally shot in a Rohnert Park parking lot Thursday night; another man was shot and injured during an attempted robbery in Oakland; and a man convicted of the 2000 beating death of a 3-year-old in SF is being paroled.
SF News Legal Team for Nima Momeni Gets Further Delay for Change-of-Venue Hearing A San Francisco judge was supposed to hear arguments Thursday about whether or not accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni can get a fair trial in San Francisco, or whether the trial should be moved to another county. But that didn't happen.
SF News Coyote Howls at the Moon (and Sirens) Now Pervasive Around Alamo Square, Numbers of Coyotes Uncertain Since late December, a pack — or at the very least a pair — of coyotes have been making regular nighttime noise in and around Alamo Square, even though sightings of the wild dogs remain few and far between.
SF News New Homeless Census to Be Conducted Tuesday In San Francisco; Oakland and Berkeley Did Theirs Today The biennial Point-in-Time Count of San Francisco's homeless population is happening Tuesday, January 30, and it's the first time since 2022 that the city will get a semi-accurate picture of how many people are living here unsheltered.
Business & Tech Waymo Looks to Expand to the Peninsula, SFO, and Sunnyvale Just as the City of San Francisco is suing the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) over the expansion of robotaxi permits, Alphabet-owned Waymo wants to expand its permits further to cover the Peninsula and part of Santa Clara County, as well as LA.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Probably Keep Mindlessly Casting Doubt on Mail-In Ballots and Election Integrity All Year on X Elon Musk has proven himself no better and no wiser than the many, many idiots who chatter about conspiracies and the "Deep State" on social media, the only difference being he's a billionaire who owns a social media platform who should know better.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sunset District Sees Power Outage SF's Sunset District had a major power outage Thursday morning; BART was experiencing delays due to an "obstruction" on the tracks near Civic Center; and tickets for Sunday's NFC Championship game are very expensive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man With Gun Arrested for Indecent Exposure Outside SF School A man was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly sitting in his car outside Washington High in SF; Rep. Josh Harder wants the DEA to criminalize Tranq; and six bodies were found in the Mojave desert under strange circumstances.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Shot While Serving Eviction In Union City, One Day After Similar Incident In Oakland Sheriff's deputies are facing violent pushback while serving eviction notices in the East Bay this week, and one was shot and wounded Wednesday afternoon in Union City.
SF News High-Speed Rail Still Seems Like a Far-Off Dream, But Designers Are Finalizing the Train Interiors As things move ahead, with a hope and a prayer, on California's high-speed rail project, the first segment of which is on track to open in 2030, we have some new renderings of what the train interiors may look like.
SF News Another Bay Area Carjacking Involves Child Left In Backseat; Child Found Safe, Suspects Arrested Via 'Find My Phone' Just last month we had an incident in San Francisco in which a car was stolen with a child still in the backseat, and now we have another in Oakland, which happened on Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award Semifinalists Include Hayes Valley's Kiln and Rintaro Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett The James Beard Award "long list" is out, and while it hardly guarantees any more Bay Area love than the awards saw fit to dole out last year (which was almost none), there are at least a dozen local chefs and restaurants in contention for shortlisting.
Study: Climate Change Likely to Mean San Francisco's Population Will Grow as Other Cities Falter A new study suggests a pretty positive century ahead for population growth on the West Coast, and cities like San Francisco that are less car dependent and already dense are likely to fare
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Walgreens Set to Close In SF A standoff ensued Tuesday night in Oakland after an eviction notice was served; a woman was rescued from floodwaters atop her car in Livermore; and a Walgreens in downtown SF is set to close.
SF News Woman Dies In Domestic Violence Shooting In Brentwood, Man Takes His Own Life After 12-Hour Standoff A Brentwood woman is dead at the hands of her significant other, and authorities engaged in a standoff with the apparent shooter outside a bedroom in Brentwood for 12 hours before he ultimately took his own life Tuesday morning.
SF News Pair Arrested In 2019 Suitcase Murder In San Francisco Finally Convicted Two people who were apprehended fairly quickly following a grisly torture and murder case that took place inside a mid-Market apartment in 2019 are finally facing sentencing following a jury verdict.
SF Politics Florence Kong, Former SF Contractor Linked to Mohammed Nuru Bribery Ring, Gets One of the Largest Ethics Fines In City History Florence Kong, one of the many, many people ensnared in a federal probe of San Francisco City Hall that dates back to 2019 and beyond, has just agreed to an eyebrow-raising $750,000 settlement with the city.
SF News Man With Machete Arrested on Crowded BART Train In SF A machete-wielding man, who was reportedly just casually waving his large knife around while seated on a crowded BART train, was arrested Monday morning in San Francisco, and it sounds like he's been a frequent flyer with local authorities.
SF News Wily and Elusive Dog Gets Into Muni Tunnel, Disrupts Service and Evades Capture for Hours San Francisco commuters who use the Muni underground likely encountered some trouble Monday if they were trying to get home after 6 p.m., and it's because of what SFMTA officials said was a "determined and elusive" dog running in the downtown tunnel.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Tonga Room Nixes Ceramic Tiki-ware A planned condo tower at the base of Telegraph Hill has grown from 16 to 24 stories; the Tonga Room is replacing all of its ceramic mugs with more standard glassware, after many thefts; and Greta Gerwig got snubbed in the Oscar nominations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whole Foods Space at Eighth and Market Is Up For Lease Chunli Zhao, the man accused in last year's mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, was just formally indicted by a grand jury; the short-lived Whole Foods space on mid-Market is up for lease; and Judge Judy is out campaigning for Nikki Haley.
