Business & Tech Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Says Google and Meta Are Enabling Putin's War Machine By Banning Ads Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny gave an address to an international democracy summit suggesting that tech platforms like Google and Facebook have given a "gift" to Putin by shutting down all advertising.
Arts & Entertainment Hadestown Opens In San Francisco, Embuing a Tragic Tale With Moving Songs and New Orleans Jazz With Hadestown, the Tony-winning musical that has finally made it on tour and landed in San Francisco, the Orpheus and Eurydice myth becomes fodder for music and metaphor, and Greek tragedy never sounded so melodic and bittersweet.
SF News Whales Are Making Pitstops In the Bay Again In Their Migration North May and June have become prime whale-watching times in San Francisco Bay the last five or six years, with both gray and humpback whales increasingly entering the Golden Gate in search of food as they travel to their summer feeding grounds in Alaska.
SF News San Francisco's Daily COVID Case Numbers Begin to Fall, But Test-Positivity Rate Remains High This latest Omicron-subvariant surge may have peaked in SF in the last week or so, as was predicted by infectious disease modeling. But the city's rate of new COVID tests coming back positive was the highest it's been since January.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major BART Computer Failure Causes Delays The televised January 6th Committee hearings begin tonight, BART had a major computer meltdown this morning that shut down the system for 30 minutes, and there's no timeframe for the residents of 33 Tehama returning home.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Motorcyclist Killed In SF Freeway Accident Identified The motorcyclist killed in a brutal accident in SF on Tuesday has been ID'd, BART is giving half-off rides in September, and we now have a map of how different SF neighborhoods voted in the Boudin recall.
SF News In Ominous Sign for This Fire Season, Two Brush Fires Break Out Next to Homes In East Bay Subdivisions In One Day Firefighters in Contra Costa County were battling two vegetation fires Wednesday that broke out dangerously close to densely populated subdivisions, in Antioch and in Bay Point. And a third fire also broke out today in Livermore.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maybeck's Set to Reopen In the Marina With New Menu, New Partners From Baker & Banker Maybeck's, the cozy Marina restaurant that first opened its doors in 2015, largely flew under the radar of the city at large up until the pandemic began while becoming a solid neighborhood favorite.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Garlic Festival Apparently Happening In Stockton In August, Under New Organizers As promised/threatened last month by the organizers of the annual San Joaquin Asparagus Festival, a new garlic festival is coming to the Central Valley ostensibly to replace the canceled Gilroy Garlic Festival.
SF Politics Humpday Election-Result Headlines: Muni Bond Iffy, Newsom and Pelosi (Obviously) Won Their Primaries Prop A — the $400M Muni bond — is still short by 3% with some ballots left to count, Bonta sailed to victory as CA's likely fully elected Attorney General, and former SF Supervisor Malia Cohen will face off against Republican Lanhee Chen in the oddly dramatic race for Controller.
SF Politics San Francisco Voters Recall DA Chesa Boudin and Everyone Including Ann Coulter Has Something to Say About It SF voters who were convinced that recalling progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin would solve the city's crime troubles may not all appreciate being cheered on by Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter, but that is what's happening.
Arts & Entertainment 'Ramses the Great' Egyptian Artifact Exhibit Comes to the deYoung This Summer A touring exhibition of rare Egyptian artifacts, some unearthed just in recent years, will be coming to the deYoung Museum starting August 20.
SF News SPCA Now Teeming With Dogs, Adoption Fees Waived In SF for All of June The SPCA put out the call on Twitter on Monday, dubbing this their Summer of Lovin' event, with all adoption fees waived on "adult" dogs aged 5 months or older.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rejects Oakland Couple's Case Opposing Tenant Payouts, In Win For Tenants' Rights The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review for a case brought by an Oakland couple regarding their owner move-in eviction, in a blow to all landlords who want to legally challenge city requirements regarding tenant buyouts in no-fault evictions.
SF News Early Morning Fatal Motorcycle Crash Near Bay Bridge Interchange In SF Causes Huge Traffic Headaches A fatal crash involving a motorcyclist ended up impacting traffic in multiple directions early Tuesday because of where it took place, and well into rush hour traffic was still snarled and slow all the way across the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Submits Incident Report Pertaining to Old Fire It's the umpteenth election day of 2022 and we're voting both on a DA recall and a new congressperson, Oakland police are investigating two fatal overnight shootings, and PG&E could end up being to blame for last week's Old Fire in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Acquitted In Kate Steinle Shooting Sent to Texas Jose Inez Garcia Zarate has been sentenced to time served in a federal gun case and will now face a judge in Texas over an immigration charge, another naturopathic quack pleads guilty over fake COVID vaccine pellets, and a Slanted Door pop-up comes to Berkeley.
SF News Mission Bay Residents File Class-Action Lawsuit Against San Francisco Over Sinking and Cracking Sidewalks A problem that's been visible — and trip-able — for Mission Bay residents for years, the uneven sinking of sidewalks and streets around the relatively new buildings in the neighborhood, is heading to court.
SF News Another Tourist Couple Loses Pet In Smash-and-Grab Car Burglary, Says City Should Do More to Alert Tourists There is another story of a pet being stolen in the course of a smash-and-grab car burglary in San Francisco, and this time it was a beloved Chihuahua puppy stolen near Fisherman's Wharf.
SF Politics NY Mag Does Cover Story on Dianne Feinstein Featuring Scarily Unflattering Photo It's a testament to the dearth of print media in San Francisco's current era that New York Magazine has just done a cover story and lengthy, historical profile of Dianne Feinstein this week.
Business & Tech You're Finally Going to Be Able to Unsend and Edit Sent Texts on the iPhone Apple announced some software updates Monday as part of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, which include the *gamechanging* new ability to edit and unsend texts in Messages after you've sent them.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday's Rain Broke 90-Year-Old Record In SF A Safeway employee was fatally shot during a robbery in San Jose, Elon Musk has made his threat to abandon the Twitter deal formal, and Sunday's rainfall total in downtown SF broke a record set in 1934 — though most of the rain fell in the North Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Midnite Bagel Opens to Moderately Long Lines In the Inner Sunset After months of anticipation, Midnite Bagel quietly opened its first brick-and-mortar shop this week in the Inner Sunset, and by Saturday word had gotten around.
SF News Another Plan For a Rundown SF Pier Emerges With Another Floating Pool, Plus a Food Hall Developers continue eyeing the sometimes vacant and mostly underutilized Port of SF properties along the Embarcadero, hoping to redevelop them into more active — and profitable — uses. But a host of regulations and legal obstacles make it an uphill climb.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.
