SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Finds 16 More Pounds of Fentanyl In Oakland Bust The SFPD just seized a lot more illegal fentanyl and other drugs in an Oakland bust, an SF man was arrested for a May assault on an elderly woman on the Embarcadero, and food trucks are returning to downtown along with a trickle of office workers.
Arts & Entertainment Legoland Discovery Center Debuts In South Bay, Complete With Miniaturized Bay Area Northern California's first Legoland Discovery Center opened today in Milpitas, and it comes with its own 4D cinema, hands-on workshops, and a miniaturized diorama of San Francisco and Bay Area landmarks that took 45 builders and 1.5 million bricks to construct.
SF News Onetime SF Socialite Ann Miller, Who Left the City to Become a Nun 30 Years Ago, Dies at 92 A wealthy San Francisco socialite who hobnobbed with Nancy Reagan, claimed Phyllis Diller as a friend, and collected loads of designer shoes before giving everything up to take a vow of silence and become a nun, has died. She was 92.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Is Set to Reopen In Time For Pride Weekend Fresh from a remodel and ready to welcome in crowds again, Oasis is preparing to host its grand reopening party on June 26, the Saturday of Pride weekend, and a Sunday rooftop day party for Pride as well, with more planned in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Become Permanent, But Supervisors Are Keen on Imposing More Rules The 2,100 new Shared Spaces and parklet platforms around San Francisco are potentially becoming permanent fixtures, but if the Board of Supervisors has their way there will likely be a host of new restrictions and regulations.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Lineup Includes Perfume Genius, Too $hort, Thievery Corporation Barely two weeks before the first free concert, the Stern Grove Festival has released its lineup for the summer Sunday series, and it's a fun one. But don't miss your reservation window!
SF News Herd Immunity For San Francisco May Be Just Three Weeks Away There are still a few unknowns, and it would be unwise to declare ourselves definitively out of the woods, but some often-quoted experts at UCSF are sounding pretty bullish about San Francisco's shot at herd immunity.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Woman Arrested for Killing Young Son A 35-year-old San Jose woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her 7-year-old in Las Vegas, a new wildfire broke out in the CZU Lightning Complex burn area, and two more Bay Area counties are likely entering the "Yellow" tier in the final week of colored tiers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Condo Market In SF Is Going Crazy The condo market in SF just had its busiest three months in 16 years, small fires were popping up all over the Bay today, and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is the highest paid CEO in the Bay Area by a lot.
SF News 27-Story Residential Tower Likely to Add to Quickly Changing SoMa Skyline A 27-story residential tower — an infill development slated for a SoMa alley that's been in the design and planning stages for over four years now — is set to get its entitlements this week, if all goes well at the Planning Commission.
SF News Manny's In the Mission Once Again Tagged With Anti-Jewish Graffiti Manny's, the politically engaged Mission cafe owned by newly named SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel, was tagged over the weekend with graffiti that could be seen as hate speech.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Is Opening a New Restaurant... In LA Along with longtime Chez Panisse chef and NY Times contributor David Tanis, Alice Waters is taking on her first new restaurant project since Cafe Fanny closed almost a decade ago.
SF News Marin Resident Calls Off Solo Kayak Trip to Hawaii, Calls For Rescue Off Santa Cruz French-born kayaker Cyril Derreumaux, who is a resident of Larkspur, had to call for an emergency rescue Saturday night about 50 miles off the Santa Cruz coast — just six days into his attempted solo rowing trip from the San Francisco Bay to Hawaii.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Homeless Men Found Dead In Berkeley Two homeless men were found deceased in Berkeley's Civic Center Park on Sunday, the fight goes on over "anchor-outs" in Richardson Bay, and Alameda County's COVID death toll recently dropped dramatically and the explanation is odd.
SF News Castro Valley Woman Calls Amazon Driver a B**ch, Gets Beaten, Driver Arrested An Amazon delivery driver in the East Bay took out some anger on a 67-year-old customer Thursday evening, all of it caught on video, and the driver has since been arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant News: The Brixton Comes to Hayes Valley, Vico Cavone Takes Former Firewood Space In Castro The Brixton is taking over the former Stacks in Hayes Valley, The Sentinel is back slinging sandwiches downtown, and the Castro is getting a new Italian restaurant this fall from a longtime Poesia guy.
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
Business & Tech Mid-Market's NEMA Seeks City Approval For Corporate Rentals In what appears to be the first instance of a building owner seeking approval from the city under a new ordinance limiting the number of units that can be corporate rentals, the developer behind the NEMA building downtown is looking to convert 200 units.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Suspending Trump for Two Years, Or Until He's No Longer a Danger to the Republic Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
SF News We Are In For an Especially Sh**ty Fire Season, and It's Already Begun In terms of wildfires in Northern California this year, it's not a matter of if but a matter of when, where, and how terrible. That's according to new maps showing the extreme fire potential taking shape with dry fuels across the region.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Vaccinated Napa Woman Dies From COVID The first California vaccine lottery drawing happens today, the Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing about gas line safety, and a San Francisco man recently returned a Bob Dylan record to a library 48 years late.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Charges to Be Filed Against Nuru For Odd Knife Incident No charges are being filed against Mohammed Nuru in that knife incident and the DA says it was just a misunderstanding, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis says she won't play politics with the recall, and Honey Mahogany talks about her political ambitions after becoming SF Democratic Party Chair.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails and Outdoor Dining Extended In California Restaurants and bars in California can continue selling to-go booze through the end of the year, and outdoor parklet dining and alcohol sales are being extended as well, ahead of state laws that will solidify both.
SF Politics Details About Nuru Arrest Remain Sketchy as Supervisors React With Terms Like 'Unravel' and 'Downfall' It may be that we won't ever get a completely reliable description of events of what happened with disgraced former Public Works head Mohammed Nuru to lead to his arrest Wednesday on a robbery charge. But that hasn't stopped some city officials from reacting.
SF News Video: Pacific Heights Man Engages In Racial Profiling, Questions Bike Messenger About Stolen Packages Another white person in Pacific Heights has been captured on video being an asshole to a person of color, this time questioning a man who was delivering Narcan to a nearby halfway house.
