SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Year and a Half After Reopening, Park Tavern Is Closing For Good It's always sad when a bustling restaurant that felt like it had been there forever loses its mojo and withers away. But that was the case for North Beach's Park Tavern, not just once, but twice.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Foundation to Help Oakland Tackle Illegal Dumping Michael Moritz's Crankstart Foundation is giving Oakland a $9M hand with its illegal dumping problem; Olympian Eileen Gu's house in Sea Cliff has apparently been doing some dumping of its own; and SF Pride had an official kickoff variety show last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flag Warning for North, East Bay Hills A "severe" Red Flag Warning has been issued starting at 11 pm tonight for the North and East Bay hills; SFUSD's Maria Su made it through her congressional hearing without much drama; and the trial of the accused Palisades Fire arsonist began today.
Arts & Entertainment Will Another Planet Continue Doing Extra Golden Gate Concerts After Outside Lands? A new report estimates that the Bay Area saw $245.1 million in extra economic activity last summer thanks to the three consecutive weekends of major concerts in Golden Gate Park, produced by Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF News SFPD Offering $250K Reward, Asks For Public's Help In Solving Doodler Murders San Francisco police are again trying to raise the profile of the so-called Doodler killings in the mid-1970s, in which six men, all likely led there for clandestine gay hookups, were murdered on and around Ocean Beach and Lands End.
SF Politics SF Filmmaker and Booster Group Drop Celebrity-Filled 'Comeback City' Video Joe Talbot, the director of 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco,' and the group Believe In SF have just unveiled a new video promoting the city's comeback, featuring Joe Montana, Steph Curry, Dominique Crenn and others.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shootout That Injured Officer and Suspect According to department protocol, the SFPD has released their formal presentation of the bodyworn camera footage from the night of May 31, when police say a robbery suspect fired at them and multiple officers returned fire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Victim Identified In Likely Hit-and-Run In Excelsior The victim in a probable hit-and-run incident last week in the Excelsior was a 26-year-old SF resident; Aaron Peskin responds to the passage of Prop B; and a San Jose man is convicted for seeking insurance coverage for his road rage.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Gets Shouted Down By LGBTQ Protesters at Two Separate Events as Pride Month Kicks Off Mayor Daniel Lurie has not exactly been warmly embraced by everyone in the city's LGBTQ+ community in the last week, as Pride Month celebrations begin.
Arts & Entertainment October EDM Festival In Napa to Grow This Year, Feature Kygo and Zedd An electronic music festival that launched last year at Napa's Meritage Resort is returning in early October, and will expand from one to two days, with headliners Kygo and Zedd.
SF News Assessor In Contra Costa County With Troubling Past Gets Raided By FBI The longtime county assessor in Contra Costa County, who just days earlier had symbolically passed the torch to his right-hand man after decades of being reelected himself, saw his home and office raided by the feds on Tuesday morning, and so did his successor.
Bay Area Sports Massive, Asinine Planned Boxing Match In Civic Center Isn't Happening President Trump may be getting his MMA fight in front of the White House in true Idiocracy-come-to-life style, but there won't be a similarly idiotic boxing match in front of San Francisco City Hall, as was being planned.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Another Clipper Glitch Lets BART Riders Ride Free A pedestrian killed last week in SoMa has been identified as a postal worker; a Clipper glitch let people ride BART for free on Monday; and there are several unnamed finalists for Oakland police chief, but they won't be revealed to the public.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Makes Guests Shelter-In-Place Following Threat A wildfire near the Yolo-Solano county border has grown to 360 acres; Prop D has officially been declared a failure; and the SF Zoo had a shelter-in-place situation Monday after a "swatting" incident or similar sort of phoned-in threat.
Business & Tech OpenAI Has Filed For an IPO, Company Says Timing Remains Up In the Air Following rumors about a pending IPO filing, and following the announcement of an IPO filing by competitor Anthropic, OpenAI has confirmed that it has made its confidential pre-IPO filing with the SEC.
Arts & Entertainment New SF Symphony Music Director Elim Chan Given Effusive Welcome at First Concert Since Being Hired Though she won't officially start her tenure as SF Symphony Music Director until next year, Elim Chan conducted her first two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall over the weekend in her capacity as Music Director Designate.
SF News Two Dead, One Oakland Police Officer Injured In High-Speed Crash In East Oakland A stolen SUV that was speeding and driving recklessly on the streets of East Oakland Monday reportedly crashed into an Oakland Police Department SUV, killing two passengers in the stolen vehicle and injuring an Oakland officer.
SF News Shooting at Kaiser Medical Offices In San Jose Leaves Two Injured A man and a woman were reportedly shot and critically injured Monday morning in what police are calling an isolated incident at a Kaiser medical office building in San Jose.
SF Politics Willie Brown Says Kamala Should Have Run For Governor; Other Dems Not Thrilled About Her Possible 2028 Run Former Vice President Kamala Harris could have a serious uphill climb, even within her own party and among Democratic donors, should she decide to run for president once again in 2028.
SF News Parts of North Bay Could See Power Shutoffs Wednesday as Hot and Windy Conditions Arrive We're having an early kickoff to fire season this year and/or there is no distinct fire "season" anymore, with an offshore wind event expected to raise wildfire risks across Northern California this week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 17-Year-Old Killed In SF Crash Had Just Graduated The 17-year-old boy killed in a May 30 freeway crash in SF has been identified; a 7.8M earthquake in the Philippines created no tsunami danger for the US coast; and thieves stole a bunch of rare Pokemon cards from a Brentwood store.
SF News 73-Year-Old East Bay Man Sues Alameda County Over Wrongful Conviction, Decades on Death Row A 73-year-old Black man is suing Alameda County and its District Attorney's Office for what he argues was an unconstitutional jury selection process that helped to ensure his conviction 35 years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Bar and Restaurant Arrives Near the Ballpark Bar Malone's has softly opened in the former District space on Townsend Street, Goop Kitchen is opening a second location in SoMa, and there may be some movement, finally, over at Anchor Brewing, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa, the Restaurant Anchor of a Neighborhood, Celebrates 20 Years Nopa, the bustling restaurant at the corner of Divisadero and Hayes in the Western Addition sub-neighborhood that came to be known as NoPa two decades ago, is celebrating 20 years in business this week, and they had a big bash to mark the occasion on Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Adds Extra Security For First Fridays Event After Multiple Violent Incidents Oakland officials and law enforcement are bolstering security for tonight's First Fridays event, after several post-event incidents in which violence has broken out near the event area.
