SF News SF Seniors Sad as City College Announces the End of Its Older Adult Classes City College of San Francisco has long been a unique institution in many ways. But now its chancellor has announced the cancellation of its beloved Older Adults program, which provided 64 free, non-credit courses to around 2,000 SF residents in their 70s and 80s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle To Test Eliminating Single-Use Coffee Cups Next Year Blue Bottle Coffee just announced that it will be doing away with all disposable coffee cups and coffee-bean bags at two pilot locations in the Bay Area in 2020.
SF News Stolen Van Full of 30 Dogs Recovered In Oakland, 3 Dogs Missing A cargo van full of dogs who were being transported cross-country was stolen out of a hotel parking lot in Fremont Sunday, and while the van has been found with most of the dogs still inside, owners of the dogs are naturally freaking out.
SF News 50-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bayview A shooting on Saturday evening took the life of a 50-year-old man in the Bayview district.
SF News PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Settlement for Victims of Wildfires, Ghost Ship Fire PG&E announced Monday that it had reached a settlement valued around $13.5 billion to compensate victims of wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 that have been linked to the utility's equipment, as well as to families of the victims of the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: West Portal Cleans Up After Saturday Flood A tourist from SF captured the eruption of the White Island volcano on camera, BART police are conducting sweeps for fare evaders at Embarcadero, and the 49ers eked out a dramatic win against the Saints.
SF News Rainstorm Floods Muni and Multiple Corners of San Francisco As has happened many times before, heavy rain flooded parts of the Muni Metro system on Saturday, shutting down train service into Saturday evening between Embarcadero and West Portal.
Arts & Entertainment On This Day 50 Years Ago, The Rolling Stones Did A Disastrous Bay Area Show That History Calls 'The End of the 60s' It was supposed to be "The West Coast Woodstock," but Altamont instead became synonymous with the death knell of The Sixties, a symbol of the darkness that lay just below the surface of the music-loving, free-loving hippie movement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Struck By Muni Train Near Oracle Park A 61-year-old woman was nearly killed by a Muni train Thursday night, there is a very real fear of mudslides this weekend in the North Bay, and the Castro's Squat & Gobble is closing after 22 years.
Arts & Entertainment Nordstrom to Lose Two Floors at Westfield Centre, Making Way For Office Space The SF Planning Commission on Thursday approved a plan to convert the top two floors of Nordstrom at the Westfield mall into 50,000 square feet of new office space.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Second-Graders Who Covered Lizzo Song Get to Meet Singer In Person A second-grade classroom that produced a viral hit rewrite of Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" last month was treated to a meet-and-greet with Lizzo before her set at San Jose's SAP Center Thursday night.
SF News Man Struck and Killed By Amtrak Train In Port Costa A man who was apparently walking in the train tracks by the East Bay town of Port Costa was killed by an eastbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor train Thursday night.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Director Calls For Audit Of Citations Wayne Merry, one of the first people to conquer Yosemite's El Capitan, has died at the age of 88; two homeless moms who have been squatting in a West Oakland house are getting evicted; and more rain is rolling into the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrests Made In Lafayette Home Invasions Uber just reported it saw 3,000 sexual assaults last year, the person who died in the fall from Land's End has been identified as a 42-year-old SF man, and two Fairfield residents in their 20s are suspected in a pair of home invasions in the East Bay.
Arts & Entertainment 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical' Takes the Jukebox Musical To a Trite New Low While it's a fact of modern musical theater that jukebox musicals of both the biographical and non-biographical sort are popular money-makers, it's almost universally true that they tend to be despised by critics.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Eat Around SF's Union Square Between Harry Potter Shows (or Shopping) With holiday shopping season in full swing and the two-part Harry Potter show playing at the Curran for the next six months to a year (at least), you could probably use some ideas for when you're stuck and hangry in tourist trap central.
Arts & Entertainment 'Drag Queens On Ice' Celebrates 10 Years At Union Square Rink The now annual Drag Queens on Ice event began way back in 2009 as a lark by Stud hostess VivvyAnne ForeverMore. The event, which will have its 11th go-round Thursday night, has now expanded and gained official sponsorship from Alaska Airlines.
SF Politics Pelosi Claps Back When Asked If She 'Hates' President Trump Addressing reporters Thursday morning after the announcement that the House is officially drafting articles of impeachment, House Speaker and longtime Congresswoman from San Francisco Nancy Pelosi responded sternly to a reporter's question about whether she "hates" President Trump.
SF Politics Aging and Disabled Activists Gather at Mayor's Office to Protest for Housing Subsidies A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.
SF News East Bay Woman Mad About Son's Haircut Wanted For Ramming Barber With Her Car A 28-year-old Brentwood woman is suspected of violently ramming a barber in Antioch with her car after arguing with him over a bad haircut that he gave her son.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rebranding Project Begins For Transit Center A 25-year-old man was stabbed and gravely wounded in the Tenderloin Wednesday night, Kincade Fire victims may get property tax relief, and people are being warned not to drive to Tahoe on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Dies After Fall From Cliff At Lands End A Livermore man and woman were arrested on human trafficking charges, the Central Subway contractor is fighting over a rooftop park, and man has died after falling off a cliff at Land's End.
Arts & Entertainment Washington Square Park Reopens After Six-Month Renovation North Beach's jewel of a green space, Washington Square Park, reopens to the public today following a six-month rehab project by Rec & Parks that included upgraded irrigation and drainage systems.
Business & Tech It's Not Even Built Yet, But Downtown's 61-Story Oceanwide Center Is Already For Sale Chinese developer Oceanwide Holdings looks to be trying to exit the U.S. market, either partially or fully, putting its considerable development portfolio in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all on the market at once.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Being Sued By 20 Victims In Second Sexual-Assault Suit A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
