SF News Burners Leave Behind 'Shoe Cemetery,' Plenty of Muddy 'Moop' to Clean Up Burning Man staff are not rushing anyone off the playa this year, as a massive cleanup still needs to take place amid some quickly hardening, alkali mud.
SF News Ninth Circuit Denies City Request to Modify Lower Court Injunction on Encampment Clearing The Ninth Circuit has ruled on a motion from the city to modify that injunction on homeless encampments, and the wording of the ruling only adds more questions to this debate.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sea Lion Deaths In Sonoma Blamed On Disease Sea lion deaths on the Sonoma coast have a different cause than a similar die-off in SoCal; Oakland's Skyline High School cancels classes after shooting; and Biden nominates Rep. Barbara Lee for U.N. event.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Tyler Florence Will Be Reviving Those Two Cafes On Either Side of Union Square The cafe spaces on either side of Union Square will almost surely be seeing some new life soon, and celebrity chef Tyler Florence is behind the project.
SF News United Airlines Experienced Systemwide Outage That Briefly Grounded All Planes Tuesday For what sounds like less than an hour on Tuesday, all United Airlines flights were grounded and prevented from taking off due to an as-yet-unexplained "technology issue."
SF News East Bay Man Arrested For Apparent Fencing Operation With $190K Worth of Retail Goods A 52-year-old man was arrested at his home in El Sobrante last week and was found in possession of nearly $200,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods from retailers including Lululemon, Victoria's Secret, CVS, Walgreens, and Target.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Owners Confirm Reopening at New Location on Folsom Street Legendary SoMa nightclub The Stud is indeed reopening a few blocks from where it lived until 2020, and the drag shows are set to begin again maybe by early next year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Sees Its 19th Pedestrian Death This Year A 7-Eleven store in Oakland was the scene of a robbery and then the discovery of a dead body; San Jose saw its 19th pedestrian death so far this year; and I-80 westbound reopened Monday in the late afternoon.
SF News Burning Man Exodus Set to Begin Monday Amid Still Muddy Conditions; Man Burn Set for Monday Night The traditional burning of the man at Burning Man was delayed by two days due to an unusual rainstorm and extremely mucky conditions on the playa Saturday. And organizers said they would open the exit gates Monday and begin letting people leave.
SF News Labor Day Headlines: Smash Mouth Frontman Steve Harwell Dies at 56 The former lead singer of Bay Area band Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, has died at age 56; BART is hoping to boost ridership during Transit Month; and tourism in SF seems be up this Labor Day Weekend.
SF News SF Fire Department Now Says Two Cruise Cars Blocked First Responders at Scene of Crash, Contributing to Victim's Death An incident report made by the fire department on August 14 suggests that an ambulance was briefly prevented from transporting a patient who was bleeding out following a collision in SoMa.
SF News 1992 Cold Case Murder of Laurie Houts Once Again Left In Limbo as Longtime Suspect Is Cleared on Double-Jeopardy Grounds A Bay Area slaying that has gone without any justice for nearly 30 years was back in the news this week, as the case against longtime suspect John Kevin Woodward was dismissed by a judge on double-jeopardy grounds.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Police Tout 300 Drug Dealer Arrests In Three Months, 160 Kilos Seized The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar With Food From Nopalito Vets, Stoa, Debuts In Lower Haight A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.
SF News Late Summer Brings Another Violent Week to Oakland, With Six Homicides Since Sunday Oakland is seeing another tragic week of fatal shootings — and it is feeling like a repeat of last year, with the homicide count rapidly approaching the deadly toll of 2022.
SF News Imagined New City In Solano County Gets Its First Website, With Illustrations The coming-out-from-the-shadows process of Flannery Associates, the VC-backed group hoping to build a new city in Solano County continues with a new, fairly surface-level website for the project, the parent company of which we now know is called California Forever.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Signs Lease for Former Slack Building Downtown Fast-growing AI firm Anthropic is subleasing Slack's former HQ at 500 Howard; the feds are considering moving marijuana out of the list of Schedule I drugs; and westbound I-80 will be closed around the Carquinez Bridge for five days starting tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Bar and Restaurant Holbrook House Opens In Downtown SF Next Week With Martini and Champagne Call Buttons It always helps to have a gimmick when you're opening something new in this town, and the minds behind Holbrook House — the grand new restaurant opening September 6 in the old bank building at One Sansome — have come up with a clever one.
SF News Mayor London Breed Posts Video of Encampment Clearing Operation On Willow Street, Says City Is 'Working Hard' Thursday morning brought the latest encampment sweep on Willow Street, one of several alleys off of Van Ness near Polk Gulch that have been perennially popular campout spots for the city's homeless.
SF News New York Times Takes Deep Dive Into 2017 Albany High School Instagram Scandal Over a Racist Meme Account Back in 2017, the small East Bay town of Albany was roiled by the discovery of a wildly racist "finsta" account that posted memes as well as doctored photos of students of color at Albany High School. The aftermath was violent, lengthy, and litigious.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Has Gotten Richer, Queerer, Slightly Less White The annual Black Rock City Census data is out for 2022, and it paints a picture of the desert festival getting marginally more diverse than it was a decade ago, and a fair bit less traditionally heterosexual.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In 2022 San Carlos Beheading Will Stand Trial The man accused in the gruesome killing of an ex-girlfriend in San Carlos last September is heading to trial; CHP arrested a driver following a 20-mile chase into Lafayette and a rollover crash; and Mitch McConnell froze up again during a press conference.
Bay Area Sports SF Pickleball Fans Delight In Irony of Presidio Heights NIMBY Trying to Shut Down a Public Court While Owning One Herself A petition circulated last weekend by a Presidio Heights resident has been a source of much hilarity after pickleball players linked it to a real estate listing for a home with its own backyard pickleball court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Croissant Maker Arsicault Bakery Heads to Cool New Building In Mission Rock One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.
