Arts & Entertainment New 'Welcome Center'/Counterculture Museum Shop Opens at Haight & Ashbury At the corner of Haight & Ashbury, a new Haight-Ashbury-themed store and "counterculture museum shop" for tourists has just opened, and it's called Haight & Ashbury.
Arts & Entertainment News Anchor-Turned-Sculptor Dana King Unveils Her Sculpture 'Monumental Reckoning' In Golden Gate Park In honor of Juneteenth, local sculptor Dana King is unveiling a significant new installation at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park, titled "Monumental Reckoning."
SF News Willow Fire Near Big Sur Prompts Evacuation for Tassajara Zen Center A wildfire broke out Thursday night in the Los Padres National Forest, just north of the burn scar from last year's Dolan Fire, and right beside the area that burned in 2016's Soberanes Fire.
SF Politics Another Attack On an Elderly Asian Person, Another Round of the Blame Game Between Police and DA Wednesday's random stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman on her morning walk on Post Street has once again prompted finger-pointing among law enforcement, specifically after the suspect was revealed to be another repeat offender who's been in and out of the county jail in the last few years.
SF News You Can Now Show a Digital Vaccine Card on Your Phone With California's New Online System Don't call it a vaccine passport! But California now has made vaccination records available digitally through an online portal, which creates a scannable QR code that you can show to get into stadiums, concert venues, and the like.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom Says He Doesn't Want Tourists Choosing Florida A gas leak prompted a small crisis in the Inner Richmond Thursday evening, the Chronicle actually reported on Peskin's alcoholic behavior over a decade ago, and Cal/OSHA says vaccinated workers can take off their masks after all.
SF News Mills College Enters Negotiations to Become Part of Northeastern University After an anouncement this spring that Mills College may cease to exist as an undergraduate college and stop granting degrees in 2023, a new development suggests that Mills may live on after all, albeit as part of a larger institution.
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Trap Off-Brand Lego 'Brick Bar' Pop-Up Coming to SF This Fall The Brick Bar, billed as "the most talked about pop-up bar," is heading to an undisclosed location in San Francisco this October.
SF Politics Sup. Rafael Mandelman Introduces Legislation to Protect Renters' Amenities Imagine living in an apartment with a garage parking space for 20 years and then being told that the garage is being converted into a new unit and you'll have to park elsewhere. That's the sort of the landlord move that some new proposed legislation at the SF Board of Supervisors hopes to prevent.
Arts & Entertainment Waterfront Property Featured In 'Last Black Man In San Francisco' To Become SF's Most Expensive New Park A formerly fenced off, dilapidated boatyard that sits between the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods is soon becoming part of a stretch of greenway that extends along 1.7 miles of the southeastern shoreline of San Francisco.
SF News San Jose Restaurant Crash Blamed On Cocaine, Blowjob A tragic incident last Friday outside a sports bar in San Jose, in which a woman at the bar was killed when a pickup truck crashed into an outdoor dining area, apparently involved oral sex and an intoxicated patron.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Gonna Be a Hot One Try to conserve power today and tonight during this heatwave, local infectious disease experts talk about where they'll still wear a mask, and the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Useless Bickering In Sacramento About High-Speed Rail Some SF restaurants are keeping masks on employees (but not all), California lawmakers are squabbling over high-speed rail funding again, and Chez Panisse announced that it isn't reopening until October.
SF News 94-Year-Old Asian Woman Stabbed In the Tenderloin, Suspect Has Long Rap Sheet, Was Out on Bail A 94-year-old Asian woman was reportedly stabbed Wednesday morning in San Francisco in what's been described as an unprovoked attack.
SF News There Will Be Another March on Polk Street on Pride Sunday Returning to the protest origins of Pride, and for the second year in a row without an official (and heavily corporate-sponsored) SF Pride parade, there will be a People's March and Rally down Polk Street and in Civic Center on Pride Sunday.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown: 'The Only Thing San Francisco Is Progressive On Is Sex' Longtime San Francisco civil rights activist and Black community leader Rev. Amos Brown, who also served on the Board of Supervisors from 1996 to 2001, sat down for a recent interview with the Chronicle — and he minced no words about the city's history when it comes to the treatment of Black people.
SF News Any Smoke You Smell Outside Right Now Is Probably Coming From Arizona Due to a particular wind pattern and wildfires in southern Arizona, smoke appears to be drifting a very long way and reaching parts of the Bay Area today.
SF News San Francisco's Cable Cars Will Be Free to Ride When They Come Back in August SF's iconic cable cars are set to return to limited service in August, and both locals and tourists will be able to ride them for free for the entire month.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Farms Get Cut Off From State Water Supply This week's heatwave is cause for wildfire concern in the North Bay, Californians may be asked to conserve power over the next two days, and Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody looks back on the last fifteen months.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF City Hall HR Employee Gets Forgery Charge An SF firefighter died after fighting a fire at SFO last week, a former City Hall employee is facing felony forgery charges, and BART riders are not looking forward to the trains becoming crowded again.
SF Politics Peskin Apology Adds to Already Dramatic Board of Supervisors Meeting as Tensions Mount With Mayor Supervisor Aaron Peskin appeared at his first public meeting Tuesday afternoon since announcing last week that he would be seeking professional treatment for alcohol abuse. But that wasn't the only drama.
SF News Seven-Bedroom Pac Heights Mansion Sets New Record for Most Expensive Home Sold In SF at $43.5M A mansion on Billionaire's Row in Pacific Heights changed hands in recent months and, for the second time in three years, it has set a record-high price for a home sale in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Reopens This Week; Marlowe Aims For Early July Prolific SF restaurateur Anna Weinberg says she's "ready for the roaring 20s," but her restaurants won't all be reopening at once due to much-cited staffing challenges that are impacting the whole industry.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot Near Civic Center Alley A man was shot and killed Monday night near one end of an alley near Civic Center, one of several alleys that have been the sites of violent crime in recent months.
SF News Newsom Announces $1.5M Vaccine Lottery Winners at Universal Studios, With Minions, Transformers, and Trolls It was a cartoony pony show Tuesday morning befitting our big and baffling state, and our showboat Governor Gavin Newsom was greeted as he arrived on stage by a weird voiceover of Optimus Prime saying "It is a privilege to be by your side."
