Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Oasis Gets a Sylvester Mural PG&E has struck a deal to sell its downtown SF headquarters ahead of a move to Oakland, a person was fatally shot in Oakland's Chinatown, and SoMa nightclub Oasis dedicated a new mural to disco legend Sylvester today.
Arts & Entertainment Guaranteed Income Program for SF Artists Gets Expanded Thanks to $3.5M Gift From Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey is continuing to do nice things with his wealth, and on Friday we learned that his charitable group #StartSmall is giving $3.46 million to San Francisco's pilot program to give local artists $1,000 per month in guaranteed income.
Arts & Entertainment New Stonestown Movie Theater Opening Delayed; Will It Debut By Memorial Day Weekend? "Construction delays" and "unforeseen circumstances" are being blamed for a delay in the opening of the splashy, high-tech new Regal Cinema at the Stonestown Galleria.
SF Politics SF Legislators Call Bulls**t on School District's Scheme to Get $12 Million In State Funding for Reopening San Francisco's legislative delegation in Sacramento is calling out the SF School Board for their attempt to reap the benefits of a state funding program without actually complying with the spirit of the legislation that backed the program.
SF Politics Free Muni Might Happen Under a Three-Month Pilot, But Maybe Not As Soon as Supervisors Want There's been an argument in recent months over whether or not to use this limbo moment as the pandemic fades to finally offer Muni rides for free. But can the system handle a sudden surge in ridership (if that actually happens)?
SF News San Francisco Water Use Has Declined Since Last Drought — What Else Can You Do to Conserve? We're once again going to be having conversations this summer about water use, and hearing about ever more strict mandates coming down from counties and the state about what we use water for. But is San Francisco's household water use really the problem?
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: East Bay Sideshows End With 21 Cars Towed A string of sideshows Saturday night in multiple towns in Contra Costa County ended with one arrest, two people had to be rescued from a rip current at Ocean Beach on Sunday, and SF's largest downtown hotels are reopening.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Hit-and-Run on Polk Street The SFPD has made an arrest in Tuesday's hit-and-run collision at Polk and Hyde that took the life of a 29-year-old woman, and the suspect is the registered owner of the vehicle whose driver fled the scene.
Business & Tech Facebook's Cryptocurrency Dreams Are Not Dead; Diem Expected to Launch This Year Remember when Facebook started talking about launching its own crypto coin two years ago called Libra and everyone balked and then it kind of went away? Well, it didn't totally go away, it's now called Diem, and the project is still moving forward toward a launch.
SF News San Mateo County Cities to Fly 'Progress Pride Flag' For Pride Month; SF to Fly Traditional Rainbow Flag Across San Mateo County, city and county flagpoles will be flying the Progress Pride Flag in place of the traditional rainbow Pride flag, in recognition of greater inclusivity.
SF News California to Drop All Capacity Limits, Require Vaccinations for 'Mega Events' Starting June 15 The California Department of Public Health released new details Friday about what pandemic-related restrictions will look like statewide come June 15 — and the short answer is there won't be many restrictions on daily life at all.
SF Politics DA Boudin Pushes Back on Police About Evidence Delay In Shooting Case Involving Murder Suspect Robert Newt DA Chesa Boudin tried to make it clear to the Police Commission this week that blame for the release of Robert Newt last month should be focused on the police and lengthy delays in forensic evidence testing.
SF News SF General Has Zero COVID Patients Right Now Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital hit a pandemic milestone on Thursday with zero COVID admissions, and no COVID patients at all in beds at the facility.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Wildfire Breaks Out at Mount Diablo There was a fatal officer-involved shooting in Pittsburg last night, human remains found in an East Bay Park have been identified as a missing San Leandro woman, and a wildfire was quickly contained on Mount Diablo this morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Signs Housing Density Bill Parts of the Bay Area are now in the "exceptional" drought tier, Napa County is looking for input in how to spend $26 million in federal funds, and Newsom signed a new density-zoning bill into law today.
SF News Cabal of Handbag Thieves Maybe Went From Union Square Saks to Palo Alto Neiman Marcus A heist of high-end handbags estimated to be worth $150,000 at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto may have been a second act for a group of enterprising thieves, who possibly also committed a similar theft in San Francisco a day earlier.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Falcon Chicks Hatched at UC Berkeley Has Been Named After Dr. Fauci The names of the three not-quite-fledgling falcons are Fauci, Kaknu, and Wek’-Wek’, with the latter two names being falcon figures from Native American traditions.
Arts & Entertainment Still Unnamed Circus Show Taking Shape at Club Fugazi, as the Former Beach Blanket Babylon Venue Gets Remodeled A circus show from two Bay Area natives is moving into the storied North Beach theater that was once a Beat Generation venue before becoming the longtime home of 'Beach Blanket Babylon'.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Festival Returns — With Reservations, Capacity Limits, Distancing Measures SF Mayor London Breed announced Thursday that the Stern Grove Festival will return to Sigmund Stern Grove this summer — but there's no lineup yet, and even though it starts after June 15 when theoretically the COVID precautions will be fewer, there are a whole bunch of COVID precautions.
SF News [Update] Three Teen Boys Playing With Fire Caused Destructive Blaze In Martinez A trio of boys who apparently dug a hole and lit a fire in the ground during windy conditions in the East Bay on Wednesday ended up causing an inferno that destroyed one home, dozens of vehicles, and threatened an entire neighborhood.
SF News Mountain Lion Returns to Bernal, Gets Tranq-Darted and Captured A mountain lion that made a couple of appearances in recent days in San Francisco and Daly City was finally captured Wednesday night and is being returned to the wild.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Massive New 'Co-Living' Development Proposed in Potrero A 450-unit "co-living" development is being proposed in Potrero Hill, 10 suspects are being sought in a handbag heist at Stanford Shopping Center worth $150K, and Marin County twin brothers pleaded guilty in a pandemic assistance fraud case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wind Gust Over 50 mph Recorded at SFO A house fire in Martinez caused excessive smoke and explosions on Wednesday with cars on fire too, very high winds are expected all night around the Bay, and you can now use Android phones to pay for BART and Muni.
Arts & Entertainment Following Dustup Over Honey Bears, LGBT Center Gets 'Queeroes' Mural A new mural is going up on the Octavia-facing side of the SF LGBT Center highlighting a dozen local and national queer heroes, including Harvey Milk, drag queens Juanita MORE! and Sister Roma, and drag performer turned politico Honey Mahogany.
SF Politics Chronicle Columnist Heather Knight Is Basically at War With Progressive Supervisors Knight has been taking on the Board of Supervisors on various issues, and things have been escalating in recent weeks.
