SF News Day Around the Bay: 100-Acre Fire Burning In Winters Near Solano County A 100-acre wildfire is burning near the edge of Solano County in Winters, the Edgewood Fire in San Mateo County has reached 42% containment, and one person was critically injured in a house fire in SF's Mission District today.
Arts & Entertainment Update On the UC Berkeley Falcon Chicks: They've Fledged and Started Flying In just seven weeks' time, the two little fluffy peregrine falcon chicks in the UC Berkeley Campanile nest have become fully fledged juveniles — and over the last weekend, they both took their first flights.
SF News Dede Wilsey Comments on Paul Pelosi's (Alleged) Drunk-Driving Incident Paul Pelosi's DUI arrest over Memorial Day Weekend in Napa has become major fodder for right-wing loons who have been misinformed that he's skirting any charges, but society doyenne Dede Wilsey says it's a shame he was arrested at all.
SF News Mayor London Breed Has COVID, Will Be Sidelined For SF Pride Festivities Mayor London Breed has tested positive for COVID, like nearly every elected official in the last couple of months, and this means she will be quarantining on Pride Weekend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Train Partially Derails Causing Minor Injuries A BART train partially derailed in Concord Tuesday due to heat-caused warping of a train track, a grass fire continues burning in San Mateo County, and permits have been revoked for a Pink Saturday event in the Castro just days ahead of it occurring.
SF News Person Shot at Oakland's Wood Street Encampment, Dies A man was fatally shot Tuesday at the sprawling, multi-block Wood Street homeless encampment in West Oakland — and it's the second shooting to occur there in two months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena to Pop Up at Hotel Zeppelin; Hotel's Restaurant Rambler Remains Closed A temporary hotel restaurant hiatus in Union Square just came to our attention via an announcement of a pop-up happening there — which will feature Michelin newcomer of last year Marlena, the Bernal Heights home of which is undergoing a remodel.
SF News SFPD Now Says That 'About 17 Officers Were Injured' During Thursday's Warriors Celebrations In the Mission Without specifying any details about the injuries — and oddly we're only hearing about them five days later — the SFPD's Mission Station tweeted about multiple officers being injured during the hoopla in the Mission on June 16.
SF News Early Monsoons In Southwest Bring Possibility of Thunderstorms In NorCal Moonsoonal moisture is on its way over California this week, which will bring the possibility of some light rain, and also, more ominously, lightning in some already fire-prone areas.
SF News Marin Kayaker Who Needed Coast Guard Rescue Last Year Attempts SF-to-Hawaii Solo Trip Once More At some point the Coast Guard has to be like "This guy again?", but a French-born kayaker with a custom-made vessel and an irrepressible desire to put himself in harm's way is attempting a solo journey across the Pacific for a second time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Saw More Riders Monday Than At Any Point In 27 Months BART saw around 200,000 riders for Monday's Warriors festivities, residents of 33 Tehama still have not been allowed home following flooding, and firefighters quickly tamped down a brush fire in Hunters Point Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Opens In North Beach There were a bunch of heat-related first-aid calls during the Warriors parade, a Spare the Air day has been declared for Tuesday, and North Beach now has its own El Farolito.
Bay Area Sports Photos From the Warriors' Victory Parade Up Market Street In San Francisco Public Works will be cleaning up that blue and gold confetti for weeks, after a million fans came and were showered with about a million pounds of the stuff, alongside the Golden State Warriors and the team brass.
SF News One Person Fatally Shot In the Marina District Sunday Night A shooting that apparently occurred in the middle of the street claimed one life Sunday night in the Marina District, just steps away from busy Chestnut Street.
Bay Area Sports Video: Draymond Green Dropped Multiple F-Bombs on Live TV Pre-Parade Before the Warriors and their busses slowly creeped their way up a crowded Market Street on Monday for their NBA Championship victory parade, the team and their coaches were assembled on a stage at the foot of Market Street, and few of them were asked to speak.
SF News Late-Night Car Crash on Bay Bridge Kills One, Injures Four A crash early Sunday on the Bay Bridge claimed the life of a 22-year-old man and injured four others, and led to all westbound lanes on the bridge being temporarily closed.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Preps For Warriors Mania SF has been cleaning up Market Street in preparation for the Warriors' victory parade, huge and chaotic sideshows shook up Santa Rosa on Saturday, and around 200,000 baby salmon were just released in to the Bay.
Bay Area Sports Warriors' Victory Parade to Roll Up Market Street Monday Morning It will be the first big parade and public gathering on Market Street since the pandemic began — preceding the Pride Parade by six days — when the Golden State Warriors have their first championship victory parade in four years on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Local Queer Singer Michael Martinez Releases Moving Song About Coming Out, Just In Time for Pride San Francisco-born singer-songwriter Michael Martinez is still finding his way toward a career in the music business of the 2020s — which so far involves playing a lot of small gigs, and telling his friends to stream his first single on repeat on Spotify with the volume down while they sleep.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] One of the Conservatory of Flowers' Corpse Flowers Is Now In Bloom It's that time again over at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, with one of their five corpse flowers about to be in full bloom for the first time in five years.
SF News Shooting at Oakland Sports Bar Kills One; Same Bar Saw a Shooting In 2019 One person was fatally shot and at least three others were injured in a shooting at an Oakland sports bar Thursday night, not long after the Warriors clinched the NBA Championship.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Revised Millennium Tower Fix Gets Sign-Off A revised plan to shore up the foundation of Millennium Tower has been approved by an independent panel, a bicyclist was killed in a hit-and-run in Oakland last night, and the SpaceX employees who wrote that open letter about Musk have been fired.
Bay Area Sports Levi's Stadium Will Be a Host Site for the 2026 World Cup The bid by Bay Area business leaders and the 49ers brass to bring some 2026 World Cup matches to Levi's Stadium has won out, and soccer fans across the state can cheer "olé."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery's Tumultuous Last Few Years Get 'The New Yorker' Treatment Expansions to Los Angeles and South Korea, the launch of a coffee roasting business, the closure of three high-profile restaurants, a unionization effort, and the divorce of its founders are just part of what's covered in a new piece in The New Yorker about Tartine Bakery.
Business & Tech SpaceX Employees Say Elon Musk's Twitter Persona Is an 'Embarrassment' as Musk Addresses Twitter Employees The same day that Elon Musk was addressing the employees of Twitter — which could become the fifth company Musk currently lords over if a deal to buy it goes through — employees at SpaceX posted an open letter urging the rest of SpaceX's leadership to acknowledge and account for Musk's behavior.