SF News Day Around the Bay: SoCal Faults Reach Historic Stress Levels, According to Study Stress has grown to the highest levels in 1,000 years on the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults; a mountain lion has been captured in Redwood City; and a restaurant co-owned by E-40 was robbed on Sunday.
Bay Area Sports Self-Described 'Christian' Homophobes In Giants' Bullpen Deface Pride Night Hats Well, the San Francisco Giants' pitching staff isn't winning any fans in the Bay Area's very large LGBTQ+ community, and several of them used Friday night's Pride Night game to show a quiet act of protest over the team's annual gesture of inclusivity.
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks to Happen on Golden Gate Bridge For Nation's 250th on July 4th For the first time in 14 years, and only the third time ever, there will be a big fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday on July 4th.
Bay Area Sports The Government of Qatar Gave All-Expense-Paid Trips to 1,000 Qatari Soccer Fans, Had Them March In SF Most countries don't pay for their fans' travel to see World Cup matches, but then most countries aren't as wealthy as Qatar and hoping to make a splash in their first World Cup that they actually qualified for.
SF Politics Newsom Says Trump Is Now Having DOJ Investigate Him and His Wife Next on the list of political enemies whom President Donald Trump has pettily sought to intimidate or punish using the Department of Justice is Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
SF News Trader Joe's Theft Suspect Killed In Struggle With Police Was Former Store Employee The details remain unclear surrounding a Friday death on Nob Hill in which SFPD officers were seen wrestling with an alleged thief outside the Trader Joe's, a struggle that ended with the two officers and the suspect all struck by a passing vehicle on California Street.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire Near Altamont Pass Quickly Contained A wildfire grew to 22 acres near the Altamont Pass Sunday afternoon; there were multiple big sideshows around San Jose Saturday night; and World Cup fans swarmed Levi's Stadium for the first match there between Qatar and Switzerland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Farewell to Shuggie's and Anomaly, Bonjour to Esme It's a week that has seen three high-profile closure announcements as well as fire-caused closure at Che Fico, but on the brighter side, Esme is now softly open on Divis, and we have more in This Week In Food.
SF News One Dead After Fiery Crash In Which Vehicle Flew Off Overpass In SF One person died and four others were injured in a fiery crash Thursday night just after midnight, in between SF's Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Temporarily Closed Due to Damage From Thursday Fire Chef-owner David Nayfeld said in a social media video Friday morning that Divisadero hot spot Che Fico, which had a fire in a chimney flue Thursday, suffered some damage and will have to close for an indeterminate period of time.
SF News [Update] Suspect Killed, Two SF Police Officers Injured After Being Struck By Vehicle on Nob Hill A strange incident was being reported on Nob Hill Friday morning in which three pedestrians, including two SFPD officers, were struck by a Lexus, and one person was reportedly pinned under the vehicle.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two People Shot Near Alameda Beach Two people were shot and wounded near Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda Thursday night; two women who were likely sleeping on a Santa Cruz beach were swept into the ocean by a rising tide; and more women describe sexual harassment and worse inside Cesar Chavez's farmworker movement.
SF News [Update] One-Alarm Fire In Chimney Flue Damages Che Fico San Francisco firefighters were battling a one-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon which broke out just before 4 pm, with black smoke seen billowing from the vicinity of the restaurants Che Fico and Foghorn Taproom.
SF News NorCal Hmong Cult Leader Sentenced to 225 Years For Molestation, Rapes The leader of a cultish religious group partly based in Oroville, in Butte County, was recently convicted of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape, and he's now been sentenced to 225 years to life — though he will be eligible for "elder parole."
Bay Area Sports How to Watch the First World Cup Matches, at Home or at an SF Bar There are many ways you can watch the World Cup matches at home or with friends, with the first matches being played today in Mexico, and Team USA playing its first match against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Year and a Half After Reopening, Park Tavern Is Closing For Good It's always sad when a bustling restaurant that felt like it had been there forever loses its mojo and withers away. But that was the case for North Beach's Park Tavern, not just once, but twice.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Foundation to Help Oakland Tackle Illegal Dumping Michael Moritz's Crankstart Foundation is giving Oakland a $9M hand with its illegal dumping problem; Olympian Eileen Gu's house in Sea Cliff has apparently been doing some dumping of its own; and SF Pride had an official kickoff variety show last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flag Warning for North, East Bay Hills A "severe" Red Flag Warning has been issued starting at 11 pm tonight for the North and East Bay hills; SFUSD's Maria Su made it through her congressional hearing without much drama; and the trial of the accused Palisades Fire arsonist began today.
Arts & Entertainment Will Another Planet Continue Doing Extra Golden Gate Concerts After Outside Lands? A new report estimates that the Bay Area saw $245.1 million in extra economic activity last summer thanks to the three consecutive weekends of major concerts in Golden Gate Park, produced by Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF News SFPD Offering $250K Reward, Asks For Public's Help In Solving Doodler Murders San Francisco police are again trying to raise the profile of the so-called Doodler killings in the mid-1970s, in which six men, all likely led there for clandestine gay hookups, were murdered on and around Ocean Beach and Lands End.
SF Politics SF Filmmaker and Booster Group Drop Celebrity-Filled 'Comeback City' Video Joe Talbot, the director of 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco,' and the group Believe In SF have just unveiled a new video promoting the city's comeback, featuring Joe Montana, Steph Curry, Dominique Crenn and others.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shootout That Injured Officer and Suspect According to department protocol, the SFPD has released their formal presentation of the bodyworn camera footage from the night of May 31, when police say a robbery suspect fired at them and multiple officers returned fire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Victim Identified In Likely Hit-and-Run In Excelsior The victim in a probable hit-and-run incident last week in the Excelsior was a 26-year-old SF resident; Aaron Peskin responds to the passage of Prop B; and a San Jose man is convicted for seeking insurance coverage for his road rage.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Gets Shouted Down By LGBTQ Protesters at Two Separate Events as Pride Month Kicks Off Mayor Daniel Lurie has not exactly been warmly embraced by everyone in the city's LGBTQ+ community in the last week, as Pride Month celebrations begin.
Arts & Entertainment October EDM Festival In Napa to Grow This Year, Feature Kygo and Zedd An electronic music festival that launched last year at Napa's Meritage Resort is returning in early October, and will expand from one to two days, with headliners Kygo and Zedd.
