Arts & Entertainment New Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco Announces Opening Date, First Exhibitions, New $1M Gift San Francisco's newest art museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF), is readying for an October opening, and this week the non-collecting museum announces its latest philanthropic bequest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ittoryu Gozu Chef to Open Japanese-Style Hi-Fi Bar In SoMa With Grilled Meats, Cocktails Wagyu steak specialist Marc Zimmerman and his Ittoryu Gozu chef de cuisine are set to open a casual offshoot restaurant called Yokai, in the former Salt House space in SoMa.
SF News Pantless Carjacking Suspect Arrested After Chase In Solano County A woman wearing no pants who was a suspect in a Marin County carjacking was spotted by authorities in the Delta town of Rio Vista on Friday night, and she gave chase, leading to a multi-agency response.
SF News Trial Kicks Off In 26-Year-Old Kristin Smart Murder Case 26 years and two months since she was last seen alive, Kristin Smart's accused murderer finally goes on trial this week along with his alleged accomplice dad, in a Salinas court.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Mask Mandate Expires Today BART's mask mandate expires today, a small plane crash in Napa killed two onboard and caused a vegetation fire Sunday, and Elon Musk is looking to delay his Twitter trial until February.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Park Opens to the Public This Weekend, At Long Last After breaking ground nearly three years ago, the pandemic-delayed Presidio Tunnel Tops park is making its big debut on Saturday and Sunday, with special events — and hopefully pretty decent weather.
SF News CDC Says More Monkeypox Vaccine Coming Next Week to San Francisco, Other Cities With Growing Cases After demand has soared for monkeypox vaccinations in the Bay Area and elsewhere, and as low existing supplies have been used up, the Centers for Disease Control assures us that more vaccine is coming, possibly by next week.
Arts & Entertainment After Deal With USF Falls Through, SF Art Institute Again Looks to Be Shutting Down The insolvent, 151-year-old San Francisco Art Institute once again looks to be out of options, after a merger deal brought by the University of San Francisco has fallen through.
SF News We Are On La Niña Watch For Third Year In a Row, Which Could Be Bad for Drought The last two drought-y winters in California have been La Niña winters, and if a third one is taking shape, that is almost certainly bad news for the state's drought
SF News Current COVID Surge Likely As Large or Larger Than Winter Omicron Surge According to wastewater testing in the Bay Area, the amount of COVID virus in circulation in July is up at levels not seen since January — the numbers just aren't being reflected in official case counts because no one is getting PCR-tested.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Muni Bus and Truck Collide In the Haight A Muni bus and a pickup truck were in a crash on Haight Street this morning, a San Francisco firefighter was injured falling down an elevator shaft in Sea Cliff, and the SF school board is holding a special meeting this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Buzzy SF Restaurants Are Trying Out New Models For Compensating Workers — And Checks Are Going Up In Price There was much talk in the restaurant industry throughout the pandemic about how the restaurant business was broken, how kitchen staff in particular have historically been mistreated and underpaid, and how things would need to change if restaurants wanted to staff up again.
SF News A Double-Decker Sightseeing Bus Caught Fire and the Driver Disappeared A double-decker tour bus went up in flames Wednesday night, apparently while traveling south on 101 out of the city, and when CHP arrived on the scene the driver was nowhere to be found.
SF News 61-Year-Old Woman Injured In Early Morning Mission District Shooting A woman was shot and injured early Thursday morning while sitting near the intersection of 16th and Mission streets.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 100-Acre Benicia Fire Contained Overnight A vegetation fire that broke out Wednesday evening in Benicia grew to 100 acres before being contained, Twitter saw a brief outage this morning, and experts are saying the BA.5 wave could get much bigger.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Health Department Pauses Monkeypox Vaccinations Pending New Supplies The SF Dept. of Public Health has closed its vaccination clinic at SF General until new monkeypox supplies arrive, Elizabeth Holmes's sentencing has been delayed, and the SF Board of Supervisors has expanded a Bayview park project.
Arts & Entertainment 'Ticket to Ride' Board Game Unveils San Francisco Edition Fans of the board game Ticket to Ride who are also residents of/fans of San Francisco will likely be excited by the new SF edition, which comes complete with cable-car and ferry routes.
SF News Truck Fire In Sonoma County Sparks One-Acre Wildfire; Firefighters Quickly Contain It Due to Favorable Conditions A vehicle fire in Cloverdale caused a bit of panic Wednesday afternoon as Sonoma County braces for another dramatic fire season still ahead.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Climb Back to February Levels In Bay Area and California; Cases May Be Headed For Another Peak Hospitalizations continue rising, driven by the May and June surge of Omicron variants in the Bay Area and beyond. And case counts, though unreliable, still paint a picture of continued or accelerating surging.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Museum to Get New Patio Restaurant From Gussie's Chicken & Waffles Chef Town Fare Cafe, the restaurant at the Oakland Museum of California, isn't exactly new. But it's been remade twice now under different chefs, and the latest iteration debuts today with a menu of Southern classics and new-school cocktails, and a brand new patio.
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Vows Crackdown on Tenderloin Drug Sales 229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
Business & Tech Twitter Files Its Lawsuit Against Musk In Delaware Chancery Court, Accuses Him of Creating Negative 'Public Spectacle' The promised lawsuit has been filed, and among other things, Twitter is accusing would-be buyer Elon Musk of "refus[ing] to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests."
SF News Defunct West Marin Golf Course Being 'Rewilded' Into Nature Preserve In a positive story of ecosystem restoration and climate resilience in Marin County, a former golf course was purchased by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land and is in the process of being devolved into its former state as a floodplain and wildlife habitat.
SF Politics New SF DA Brooke Jenkins Meets With Boudin's Staff, Asks to Review All Unclosed Plea Offers It's the first week of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's tenure in the SF DA's Office, and she has told the staff she wants to review all still-unclosed plea offers — and she says she may reconsider drug cases in particular, regardless of a defendant's immigration status.
SF News Bay Area Tech CEO Arrested for 1992 Cold Case Murder In Mountain View A 1992 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman, Laurie Houts, was strangled to death in Mountain View has now led to a re-arrest of a prime suspect who was already tried twice for the crime, and the suspect is a Bay Area tech CEO who has been living abroad.
