Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen 'Murder She Wrote' Parody Comes to PianoFight A drag queen parody version of the classic 80's/90's whodunnit series starring Angela Lansbury has arrived in San Francisco. And it appears there are multiple "Jessicas," as well as musical numbers, in the show.
SF News Offensive Campaign By LA-Based Activist Group Compares Wiener Housing Bill To 1960s Urban Renewal A well funded Los Angeles-based AIDS organization has focused its attention recently on an opposition campaign to thwart state Senate Bill 50 (SB50), the latest effort by Sen. Scott Wiener to push for greater housing density near transit hubs.
SF News Video Shows Elderly Woman Dragged By Muni Train Video has been released from an onboard camera on the N-Judah train whose door locked on the hand of an elderly woman and dragged her down the platform before causing her to fall onto the tracks.
Arts & Entertainment Former AMC Van Ness To Become '4D' Cinema From Korean Company The shuttered, bed-buggy movie theater at 1000 Van Ness will be revived as a new theater early next year from a South Korean cinema company that specializes in "4D" experiences that include live sensory effects like wind and rain.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SFPD Seeks Wine Bottle Attacker A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Fremont, an 18-year-old man went missing in the surf in Half Moon Bay, and Treasure Island is deemed environmentally safe by new Navy report.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baby Elephant Seal Draws Crowds at Aquatic Park The Ninth Circuit upholds CA's sanctuary laws, Jeff Adachi's widow calls the SFPD "despicable" for releasing death details, and the town of Paradise has very contaminated water.
SF News What Are You Still Doing At Work It's Gorgeous Outside We don't get dozens of days per year like this one here in SF. I suggest you get out, like now, and take advantage of it.
SF News This Is Your Obligatory 1906 Anniversary Reminder To Get Your Earthquake Kit Together Today marks the 113th anniversary of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, which largely decimated San Francisco and left a huge swath of the city homeless.
SF News Sen. Kamala Harris Calls Barr Press Conference On Mueller Report a 'Stunt' California Senator Kamala Harris is calling for an un-redacted version to be given to Congress, and she slammed Attorney General William Barr on Twitter Thursday.
SF News Lawyer For Australian Kidnapping Suspect Says He Was Having A Mental 'Break' 34-year-old Australian DJ Roscoe Holyoake appeared for an arraignment in a San Francisco court on Thursday, and he entered a plea of not guilty to charges of kidnapping and child endangerment.
SF News Thursday Morning Update: Measles Case Made It Onto Google Campus A jail transport bus gets in fiery collision on I-880, why whales are dying of malnutrition, and Facebook "unintentionally" stole peoples' email contact lists.
Arts & Entertainment Curtain Is Closing On Beach Blanket Babylon After 45 Years On Wednesday night, iconic San Francisco revue Beach Blanket Babylon announced that this is its last year at the North Beach theater it has called home since 1974. The periodically updated show will play its last show New Year's Eve.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pet Raccoon Missing In Dogpatch A motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a big rig on 280, Stanford has cleared three faculty members in connection with the Chinese gene-editing scandal, and a pet raccoon has been on the loose for two months in Dogpatch.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tiburon Sunny-Day Spot Sam's Anchor Cafe Reopens After Remodel Just in time for our latest taste of balmy spring weather, Sam's Anchor Cafe is reopening Thursday following an extensive six-week remodel that attempts to activate and brighten up the restaurant's under-used indoor spaces.
SF News Thwarted Castro Kidnapping Suspect Was Questioned Two Months Ago In Strange Incident Involving A Child The Australian DJ arrested last Friday in the bizarre attempted kidnapping of a two-year-old child was reportedly questioned by police in Sydney in late February following another weird incident that also involved a small child.
SF News Former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer To Speak At Berkeley Wednesday UC Berkeley's College Republicans group is hosting Sean Spicer Wednesday evening for a talk "about media bias and the threat that it poses to our republic."
Business & Tech Facebook Algorithm Purposely Played Up Stories About Politics, Crime, and Tragedy While Mark Zuckerberg was talking out one side of his mouth in January 2018 about encouraging more "meaningful interactions" with friends and family, Facebook was simultaneously tweaking its News Feed algorithm to display more posts on the topics of "politics, crime, or tragedy."
SF News Chase Center Could Get Its Own Ferry Terminal An idea is moving forward for a temporary ferry terminal to serve the new Warriors arena in Mission Bay, which could be operational by the time the arena opens this fall, fingers crossed.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Muni Ends Frustrating 'Switch-Backs' on T-Line A wrong-way driver was killed on Highway 37, investors sue Apple, and Muni T-line trains won't strand people at 23rd Street anymore.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Major BART Delays Destroy Evening Commute The Board of Supervisors is considering raising the paper bag fee at SF grocery stores to 25 cents, a threat at Mission High School, and two more dead whales washed up around the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Getting 17 New Tennis Courts There's a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, April 17 for a $27 million Rec & Parks project to completely demolish and replace the 118-year-old Golden Gate Tennis Center near the Conservatory of Flowers.
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Amazing Acro-Cats Return To Fort Mason In May The Georgia-based troupe of (sort of) circus-trained house cats known as The Amazing Acro-Cats are coming back to San Francisco five years after their 2014 debut here. And they do tricks! Like, on command! Sometimes!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Opening Very Soon at 18th & Valencia The much anticipated pizzeria spinoff of Flour + Water is prepping for its opening according to a new job posting, which means Missionites and everyone else will soon have a more central spot wherein to carb load in high style.
Business & Tech Parents Of Slain Woman Launch #WhatsMyName Safety Campaign For Rideshare Users The parents of a South Carolina college student who was kidnapped and killed last month, allegedly by a man whose car she got into believing it was her Uber, are trying to raise awareness of the dangerous trend of people getting into strangers' cars thinking they're rideshares.
SF News Castro Attempted Kidnapping Suspect Was Visiting Australian DJ, 'Smiled' After Releasing Kid The story of Friday's thwarted, broad-daylight kidnapping in the Castro neighborhood continues to be way strange, and now we have a suspect with some public social media accounts.
