Bay Area Sports Warriors Fans Heckled Charles Barkley, Threw Stuff at TNT Booth After Warriors Win Charles Barkley is persona non grata in San Francisco, especially after a couple of weeks of NBA Playoffs coverage in which he took every opportunity to denigrate the city itself amid his usual crapping on the Warriors.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Public Schools See Spike In COVID Cases Public schools in San Francisco just saw a COVID case count similar to January, a fire broke out at a Pittsburg church early this morning, and in case you missed it the Warriors are in the NBA Finals for the first time in three seasons.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Schedules Town Hall On Fatal Shootings For Late Friday of Holiday Weekend The SFPD is holding its town-hall meeting on the May 19 Mariposa Park shooting at 3 p.m. Friday, former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has won her wrongful termination suit, acclaimed local sushi master Ken Tominaga has died.
SF News Census Confirms the Size of SF's 2020 Pandemic Exodus: 6.3% or 55,000 People San Francisco's one-year population decline between 2020 and 2021 now has an estimated figure from the U.S. Census Bureau to attach to it. And it's considerable!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Coasters Fed Up With Taquerias That Can't Fold Burritos Invent Edible Tape For Holding Burritos Together Do you live someplace outside of California and your local taqueria (or whatever they call those there) is the world's worst when it comes to properly folding and rolling a burrito?
SF Politics SF Transgender District to Boycott City-Sponsored Pride Events In Response to Mayor's Support of Police "The mayor’s decision — her seat of power, and her role and leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the world creates a domino effect," the district says in a statement.
SF News Sacramento Second-Grader Brings Gun to School; Fremont High Schooler Arrested For Threats In the wake of Tuesday's horrific mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, local law enforcement has been on high alert looking out for copycat attempts. And in one disturbing incident that happened the same day as the Texas shooting, a young child in Sacramento brought a gun and ammo to school.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Hits Noe Valley Around 751 homes and businesses in Noe Valley were still without power this a.m. after an outage Wednesday night, Nazi-related vandalism was found at Piedmont High School, and Oakland restaurant Lucky Three Seven has reopened after last week's shooting death of its co-owner.
Arts & Entertainment Penthouse Condos In Russian Hill Eichler Tower Owned By Wilsey, Shultzes to Hit Market for $29M A pair of truly unique, top-of-the-world, master-of-the-universe-type properties sitting at one of the highest points in San Francisco are about to come on the market. And they're in a storied tower that has been home to San Francisco's wealthy for decades.
SF News Medical Examiner Suggests SF Police Officers Fatally Shot Two Men, One of Whom Was Unarmed, One Had Knife The SFPD will be under scrutiny in the coming months for the fatal shooting of civilians, in this case two men who were possibly both homeless who were engaged in an altercation at Mariposa Park when officers arrived last week.
SF News California Water Officials Pass Ban on Ornamental Lawn Watering, More Restrictions Coming On Tuesday, state officials approved a program to cut water usage across California by 10 to 20 percent, and this includes a blanket ban on the watering of ornamental lawns in communal areas of subdivisions and on all commercial properties.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Highly Armed Man Arrested in San Jose for Stalking Former Employers San Jose police say they may have headed off a potential mass shooting, two people were shot in separate incidents in San Francisco, and the Bay Area's daily COVID case rate has risen 25 percent in the last week.
SF News Photo Goes Viral of Santa Cruz Raccoon That Got Stuck Face-First In a Roof Hole A mother raccoon who was reportedly trying to rescue her kits from the other side of a hole in a Santa Cruz home's roof got herself comically stuck, ass up, and a local animal shelter publicized the photo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Breweries In San Francisco and the East Bay Craft beer has been booming in the Bay Area for over a decade, and many breweries are turning out excellent, incredibly interesting beer. SFist brings you the best of what we think SF, Oakland, and Berkeley have to offer, beer-wise.
SF Politics Peskin Seeks to Expand Rent Control to New Construction In SF Via Charter Amendment The SF Board of Supervisors will be seeing two proposed amendments to the city charter introduced at their Tuesday meeting, both of which set up fights between the progressive bloc of supervisors and Mayor London Breed over housing.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations in California Up 100% From Mid-April Low; Bay Area Returns to Early March Levels Hospitalizations of patients with COVID-19 — some of whom may have been hospitalized for another ailment and happened to be COVID-positive — have ticked back up across California as a result of the latest surge.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: First CA Monkeypox Case Likely In Sacramento The first case of monkeypox in California has likely been found in Sacramento, the CDC is releasing some of its smallpox vaccine stockpiles, and Nancy Pelosi is publicly responding to the archbishop's abortion fight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Menlo Park Gas Station Charging $8/Gallon The Bay Area cycling community is mourning one of their own killed in Texas in an apparent love triangle, a grass fire near San Ramon spread to 25 acres, and a gas station in Menlo Park is charging $8/gallon for gas.
Arts & Entertainment New Movie About Robert Oppenheimer and the A-Bomb Shot On Location at UC Berkeley on Friday Director Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight) and the cast and crew of the in-production film 'Oppenheimer' were on the UC Berkeley campus Friday, filming some exterior shots with vintage cars from the early 1940s.
SF News Former Country-Western Gay Bar Property In SoMa Back on Market A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Señor Sisig Headed to Ferry Building With Expanded Menu and Cocktails Food truck star Señor Sisig is planning a third brick-and-mortar location, and it promises to be the swankiest location to date for the brand in San Francisco's Ferry Building.
SF News With Shelter-In-Place Hotel Program Winding Down, Some Hotels Are Suing the City for Damages The owners of multiple hotels that were leased by the city for its pandemic housing program are reportedly filing or planning to file lawsuits over damages they claim were done to their buildings as a result of the program.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Encampment Fire Spreads to Mission District Building A tent fire spread to a commercial building on 15th Street in the Mission, a 28-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Santa Rosa, and the 135-acre Quail Fire in Solano County is now 90% contained.
SF News Unhappy That He Hasn't Been Mentioned Lately In Abortion Fight, SF Archbishop 'Bans' Nancy Pelosi From Receiving Communion Here we go again with SF's unhinged Catholic conservative archbishop trying to get attention.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom's Presidential Ambitions On Back Burner, Says He Has 'Sub-Zero Interest' In Running In 2024 There's been plenty of speculation that Gavin Newsom's public sparring with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting them up to be rivals for the White House someday. But for now, as Newsom runs for a second term as California's governor, he says he's rooting for Kamala Harris.
