SF News SF Gay Man Shot In Apparent Hate-Crime Incident In SoMa A man who says he was just heading home after being out for drinks with friends last week in SF's SoMa district was shot in the hip in a random attack that he says was motivated by homophobic hate.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: East Bay Hang-Gliding Accident Claims One Life Dr. Bob Wachter is saying the current COVID surge in SF is "big-time" now, a body found in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Monday is being treated as a suspicious death, and one man died and a woman was injured in a hang-gliding crash in Milpitas.
SF News SFPD Releases Body-Cam Footage of Police Shooting That Killed Two Men In Mission Bay The SFPD fulfilled its transparency obligation to hold a virtual town-hall meeting Friday — late in the afternoon before a holiday weekend — to discuss the events of May 19 that led to police fatally shooting two men who had been engaged in a fight with each other.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dim Sum Carts Are Rolling Again at State Bird Provisions In Another Sign of Normalcy The dim sum-style service with trays and carts is back at State Bird Provisions, and all is right with the world.
SF News Dr. Monica Gandhi: Models Suggest Current COVID Surge Will Be Over By Pride Weekend Good news for Pride revelry! Even though the current uptick in COVID cases doesn't seem to be stopping anyone relatively young from partying right now, one local infectious disease expert says that the surge should peak in the next week or so if it hasn't already, and be over by late June.
SF News Vague Threat Against 'RHS' On Social Media Incites Panic at One Fairfield High School — and Other High Schools Nationwide With 'R' Names A threat made on Snapchat referring to "RHS" has led to classes being canceled and students being sent home at high schools all over the country with names that begin with "R."
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.
