Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day Two: Drag Race Stars, Lana Del Rey, and Michael Bublé? Day Two of Outside Lands 2023 saw major crowds show up for Lana Del Rey and Foo Fighters, as well stellar sets by Maggie Rogers, Conan Gray, and Alvvays, a raucous good time at the Dolores' stage, and a surprise special guest on the main stage.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day One: People Came So Ready to Dance They Broke a Floor, Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monae Dazzled The first day of Outside Lands 2023 was a literal smash, as revelers in the SOMA Tent danced so hard they broke the floor, while Kendrick Lamar delivered a powerful set in the foggy mist, and Janelle Monae got remarkably sexy with go-go dancers.
SF News SFPD Arrests Tenderloin Dealer, Seizes Five Pounds of Narcotics and a Ghost Gun As part of the ongoing crackdown on drug sales and use in San Francisco's Tenderloin, an Oakland man was arrested this week and his home was searched, leading to a significant seizure of illegal drugs.
SF News Investigation Finds Pilot Error Was to Blame In Harrowing United Flight's Plunge Toward Ocean After an SFO-bound United flight from Maui last December took a steep, terrifying dive toward the ocean about a minute after takeoff, the feds said they would be investigating, and the results of that investigation are now in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud May Find New Life a Few Blocks Away From Its Former Home In SoMa It looks as though the Stud Collective has landed on a potential new space for the legendary bar and nightclub that tragically closed at the start of the pandemic. And it's just a few blocks away, on Folsom Street.
Business & Tech State Commission Votes to Approve Autonomous Taxi Expansion In San Francisco In Historic Vote The California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 on Thursday night, after over seven hours of public comment, to approve the expansion of robotaxi service in San Francisco to 24 hours — and approved both Cruise and Waymo to take paid fares at all hours.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 225,000 Outside Lands Tickets Have Been Sold The gates to Outside Lands open shortly and 225.000 tickets have been sold; the death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to at least 55; and a flash-mob-style robbery hit a YSL store in Glendale.
Business & Tech Over 200 Members of the Public Set to Give Comment at PUC Hearing on Robotaxis The hearing on expanding autonomous-vehicle taxi service in San Francisco has gotten underway at the California Public Utilities Commission — and a long line of attendees and possible speakers during the public-comment portion was visible at Van Ness and McAllister on Thursday morning.
Arts & Entertainment As One Local Theater Faces Possible Closure, Bay Area's Regional Theaters Seek Stability — and New Subscribers Regional theaters around the country are continuing to struggle in their recovery from pandemic shutdowns. And while several of the Bay Area's regional theaters appear to be coming back strong, all of them may not make it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Duc Loi Supermarket, the Go-To Banh Mi Spot In the Mission, Is Closing Next Week It's your last weekend to grab a banh mi from Duc Loi at 18th and Mission, as the 36-year-old Vietnamese grocer and sandwich counter is closing up shop — though the store will continue on under new ownership.
SF News Pelosis Grant Access to Their Home to Defense and Prosecution In David DePape Federal Trial The federal trial for David DePape, the accused attacker of Paul Pelosi, is scheduled to get underway in November. And this week, Paul and Nancy Pelosi granted access to their home to attorneys defending DePape, as well as to federal prosecutors.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Mayor London Breed Evacuated From Maui The death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to 36; SF Mayor London Breed was on a personal vacation on Maui when the fire struck and she evacuated to Oahu; and the current COVID test-positivity rate in California could be quite high if Walgreens data is any indication.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found on Alameda Shoreline A woman's remains were found near Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda; the clerks at a Stockton 7-11 won't be charged for beating a would-be thief; and Bob the Drag Queen is a late replacement for Trixie Mattel at Outside Lands.
Business & Tech One Autonomous Vehicle Appeared to Chase a Fire Truck; Another Blocked a Fire Truck From Getting Out of Its Station On the eve of a key vote by a state commission on whether to allow Cruise and Waymo to further expand their autonomous vehicle testing and begin taking paid passengers all over SF, we're getting to see some of the 55 incident reports filed by the SF Fire Department involving AVs.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Outside Lands By Public Transit or Bike We've tried to get the word out every year, and we'll try again: Getting into and out the far reaches of Golden Gate Park on Outside Lands weekend is not something you should be trying to do by car. You will regret it.
SF Politics Special Counsel Got Search Warrant For Trump's Twitter Account, and Twitter Fought It There might be something in Donald Trump's DMs that's relevant to Special Counsel Jack Smith's January 6th case, and we're just now learning that Smith got a search warrant for Trump's dormant Twitter account back in January.
SF News Sen. Dianne Feinstein Suffers Minor Fall While at Home In San Francisco It's not great when TMZ is breaking the news about Dianne Feinstein landing in the hospital. But that is what happened Tuesday night, after the 90-year-old senator reportedly tripped in her San Francisco home.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Inner Sunset Fire Damages Apartment Building, Hardware Store A two-alarm fire in the Inner Sunset impacted at least 12 residential units; a Novato man was arrested twice for hate crimes; and Oakland has had three homicides in 72 hours.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leaves One Dead at Lake Merritt BART Station There was a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland, adding to an already violent summer in Oakland.
SF News In the Wake of 'Party Mom' Case, Los Gatos Is Trying Multiple Things to Curb Teen Drinking In Los Gatos, they're going to be holding workshops and conducting a survey of students, parents, and teachers about alcohol and drug use, and try to show kids that most of their peers aren't drinking or doing drugs as much as they may think.
SF News Red Lanterns Return to SF Chinatown After Being Destroyed In Winter Storms The iconic red lanterns that dangle over Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown needed replacing after getting battered and tattered in this past winter's severe storms. And now, after a fundraising campaign, they are back.
SF News San Francisco IKEA Store Has An Opening Date, and It's Very Soon After what seems like — and actually was — years of waiting, we have an opening date for the new downtown IKEA store in San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports Video: Steph Curry Gets On Stage, Sings With Paramore at Chase Center Is it weird or wonderful that Steph Curry loves this TikTok-popular, 90s-sounding pop-rock band Paramore so much that he got on stage to sing their biggest hit with them at the Chase Center Monday night?
SF News Broad Daylight Stabbing on SF's Market Street Leaves One Injured A man was stabbed Monday afternoon in downtown San Francisco, and the victim reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brazen Thieves With Trash Bags Hit Oakland 7-11 Stores Groups of thieves have hit multiple Oakland 7-11 stores, sweeping merchandise into trash bags; CNN has a new piece about the crime surge in Oakland; and apparently Newsom and DeSantis will be debating each other.
