Bay Area Sports Toronto Raptors Fans Shot Off 3 AM Fireworks To Disturb Warriors' Sleep Some fans of the Toronto Raptors apparently shot off fireworks in the wee hours of Thursday morning outside the hotel where the Warriors are spending the week, ahead of tonight's Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Gorgeous Trailer For 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco', Which Premiered At The Castro Last Night Writer-director Joe Talbot's feature-film debut, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and as it heads into wide release, it just had its official premiere at the Castro Theatre on Wednesday.
SF News Oakland-Based Pot Delivery Company Green Coast Lays Off 136 Workers Signs of the market correction in the legal marijuana sphere abound, and now a prominent Bay Area dispensary that is a delivery-only operation is significantly cutting its workforce.
SF News Racist-Texting Former Cop To Be Sentenced For Bank Robberies Back in February we learned that suspended SFPD officer Rain Daugherty, who earlier was part of that 2015 racist-texting scandal, had pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery. Today he's getting sentenced, and he may get up to three years.
SF News Burning Man's Federal Permit Still Hinges on Final Environmental Impact Statement Drama between the Burning Man organization and the Bureau of Land Management is nothing new. But as the festival has ballooned in size over the last decade, tensions are running high around the latest approval process for Burning Man's 10-year permit.
SF News Thursday Morning Updates: Muni and BART Delays Hamper Commute Multiple Muni delays and a BART switching problem were messing up Thursday's commute, the Assembly votes to cap rent increases, and a 40-year-old man mysteriously died in custody at Santa Rita Jail Wednesday right before his release.
SF News Day Around The Bay: PhD Thesis Stolen In North Bay Backpack Robbery A rampaging driver injured two pedestrians and busted up several cars in the Tenderloin and SoMa today, a fire on the BART tracks caused some delays, and Tesla is scaling back shifts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4505's Long-Delayed Oakland Expansion Opens Soon; Brenda's Due In Temescal By Late Summer Two San Francisco institutions with southern flair are opening new locations across the Bay, the first being 4505 Burgers & BBQ which is finally opening in the former Glenn's Hot Dogs space in Oakland's Laurel District.
SF News Pedestrian Struck And Gravely Injured At Geary And Laguna A female pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries early Wednesday morning after being hit by a vehicle at the intersection Geary Boulevard and Laguna Street, in Japantown.
SF News PrEP Could Become Over-the-Counter Drug In California A bill just approved by the California State Senate would make Truvada, the HIV drug that's been found to be effective at preventing new HIV infections, available for over-the-counter use for 30 days.
Arts & Entertainment Hiero After Dark Comes To The Midway Saturday, Featuring EarthGang Bay Area hip-hop fans know and love the low-key Oakland music festival called Hiero Day, which happens every Labor Day weekend. Now the group behind it, Hiero Imperium, is hosting a nighttime edition in San Francisco this weekend, at The Midway.
Business & Tech Low Uber Rating? Company To Start Kicking 'Below Average' Riders Off The App Have you made a driver pull over one too many times so you could boot? Or worse, actually puked in the backseat of an Uber? You may just find yourself removed from the privilege of using Uber in the near future.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Bar Eddie Rickenbacker's Set To Close, Relocate After Rent Hike A watering hole beloved by a certain segment of downtown workers, once known for its collection of Tiffany lamps and suspended vintage motorcycles, is closing its doors at the end of June after its rent has tripled in the last six years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Fatal Collision On Bay Bridge Causes Major Traffic Westbound traffic getting to the Bay Bridge has been terrible this morning, the suspect in Saturday's fatal shooting has been ID'd, and Oakland took another step toward legalizing 'shrooms.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Aluminum Cans Spill Across I-880 A spill of "millions" of cans caused a traffic jam in the East Bay this morning, the minor league Fresno Grizzlies have apologized for a video played during a Monday game, and Saturday's shooting victim has been ID'd.
SF News Scott Wiener's Latest 4 A.M. Last Call Bill Clears Senate, Heads To Assembly Remember that bill to extend alcohol service hours in select California cities, once a dream of former State Senator Mark Leno, and more recently taken up multiple times by State Senator Scott Wiener? Well it's back alive, and there's a new governor in office who might not veto it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Announces 71 Bib Gourmand Honorees Ahead Of New California Guide As we learned in March, the San Francisco Bay Area won't have its own Michelin Guide starting this year, as we get folded into a new California-wide guide that once again brings Los Angeles into the Michelin fold (along with Sacramento and San Diego).
SF News 'Thrive City' Is the New Name for the Development Around the Chase Center, Thanks To Kaiser The new mini-neighborhood around the Chase Center in Mission Bay, which includes 29 new retail shops and restaurants, is going to be dubbed Thrive City thanks to a sponsorship deal from Kaiser Permanente.
SF News BART Police Issue New Warning Amid Uptick In Cell Phone Thefts On Trains You've heard the advice before on BART and Muni, but maybe you need to hear it again: Keep your head up and not in your phone if you want to keep from having your phone snatched out of your hands by a thief.
SF News Local Unions Likely To Oppose Mayor's $600 Million Affordable Housing Bond What's set to be the largest housing bond in San Francisco history could be tanked on the November ballot by vocal opposition from local labor leaders who are concerned about a union-related provision relating to such housing bonds.
SF News Tuesday Morning Stories: Westfield Mall Evacuated The Westfield mall was evacuated Sunday evening on reports of "potential weapon," Oracle is laying off 350 people in the Bay Area, and teachers in Union City are still on strike.
SF News BART Has Twitter Spat With Elon Musk About Whether Trains Or Cars Should Be In Tunnels This weird Twitter thread began Friday in which Tesla CEO and unrepentant over-tweeter Elon Musk started arguing about whether trains or cars belong in tunnels.
SF News May Warmth Hits Late, Temperatures To Rise Starting Tuesday Say goodbye to the lame cold spell that has made May feel more like June around the Bay. We're finally getting a warming trend — with a fog break on Thursday — that will extend through next weekend.
SF News Memorial Day Headlines: Golden Gate Bridge Turns 82 The SF Police Commission has come out on the side of Chief Bill Scott, three teens were arrested in Antioch after an armed robbery and 30-mile chase, and Paradise has become a destination for disaster tourists.
SF News Sunday Links: Police Union Calls For SFPD Chief To Resign Neil Young's set got cut off by BottleRock's strict curfew Saturday night, three teens including two from SF were arrested following a head-on collision and multiple thefts in San Mateo County, and Warriors will be facing the Raptors starting Thursday.
