Arts & Entertainment

Berkeley Native and Rupaul's Drag Race Winner Sasha Velour Brings Her 'Big Reveal' Live Show to Berkeley Rep

Sasha Velour, the winner of Season 9 of 'Rupaul's Drag Race,' is returning to her birthplace of Berkeley to perform in drag for the first time there next week, kicking off a tour with a two-week residency at Berkeley Rep.

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Recology Mechanic's Death Still Shrouded In Mystery as Company Stays Quiet About Details

The circumstances of the accidental death of Recology employee Alfredo Romero last Friday remain under wraps. And Romero's family says that not only did the company get his name wrong when they called to tell them about the accident, they refuse to explain how the death occurred.

Arts & Entertainment

95-Year-Old Artist Behind Often Reviled Embarcadero Plaza Fountain Flies to SF to 'Save' It

The sculptor behind the 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, which won't ever be called the most popular piece of public art in SF, took it upon himself to fly here this week and call for a preemptive hearing on its fate.

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Big Fireworks Show Near North Beach Over the Weekend Was For Private Corporate Anniversary Party

An elaborate, 12-minute, professional fireworks spectacular that took many SF residents by surprise last Saturday night turns out to have been a private show for which advance notice wasn't given to the public.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Killed In Fiery Head-On Crash In Brentwood

Two drivers were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday night on Highway 4 in Brentwood, which led to an EV battery fire; a divided Supreme Court shoots down a religious charter school; and homeless tents in SF are at a five-year low, but complaints are up.

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Day Around the Bay: Strange 'Bubble Planet' Attraction Opens In Oakland

JC Penney is closing at San Bruno's Tanforan Mall; a weird immersive attraction called Bubble Planet has opened next to Lake Merritt in Oakland; and that George Lucas museum in LA just laid off some staff ahead of its 2026 opening.

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[Updated] SF Muni Recovers After 'Debris' Issue Closes Downtown Stations

There was no Muni underground service between Embarcadero and Van Ness stations Wednesday afternoon, following a maintenance problem that is apparently centered at the Embarcadero end.

Business & Tech

Former Apple Designer Jony Ive's Secretive Startup Working on AI Hardware of Some Kind, OpenAI Acquiring It

A big deal in the local tech world was announced Wednesday, as OpenAI is reportedly acquiring Johnny Ive's secretive hardware startup io for $6.5 billion.

Arts & Entertainment

BottleRock Kicks Off Friday In Napa and Tickets Are Still Available

Justin Timberlake, Green Day, Noah Kahan, and Benson Boone all top the lineup at this weekend's music festival for wine lovers — and celebrity chefs Bobby Flay, Kristin Kish, and Antoni Porowski will all be on the Culinary Stage.

SF News

Possible Suicide Cluster Linked to Zizian Group, on Top of Killings

With more stories emerging of individuals whose lives were impacted by the so-called Zizian cult in the Bay Area and beyond, it's become clear that there were more victims besides the six people who were killed at the hands of group members.

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Humpday Headlines: BART Service Mostly Restored After San Leandro Fire

BART has restored most service but Green Line service remains down today; a missing 2-year-old girl has been found in Oakland; and the Trump Justice Department is dropping federal oversight of the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments — but not Oakland's, yet.

Arts & Entertainment

New HBO Film From 'Succession' Creator Premieres Next Week Depicting Tech Billionaires During a Financial Crisis

A new, standalone feature film from 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, called Mountainhead, depicts four arrogant, fictional tech entrepreneurs cut from the same cloth as Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, et al, having a boys' weekend while the world experiences a financial meltdown.

Business & Tech

That $1B Pledge to Build Housing That Facebook Made Six Years Ago? It's Basically Dead

Back in his philanthropy era, Mark Zuckerberg made a grand pledge to put $1 billion toward building new housing, to combat the affordability crisis in California that companies like his had contributed to. But that project has quietly been jettisoned.

SF News

Dead Body Discovered While Clearing Large Homeless Encampment Near Oakland's Fruitvale

As the City of Oakland proceeds with an aggressive effort to clear dozens of homeless encampments that have sprung up around the city, police and cleanup crews made a grim discovery on Monday afternoon.

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'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Says He Has Same Form of Prostate Cancer as Biden

Scott Adams, the once celebrated cartoonist turned conservative firebrand living in the East Bay and doing a podcast, now says he only has a few months left to live, and that he has the same aggressive form of prostate cancer that is afflicting former President Joe Biden.

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Tuesday Morning Topline: Fire at San Leandro Station Disables Some BART Service

An electrical fire at San Leandro Station halted all BART service south of Lake Merritt; United Airlines has been having catering troubles at SFO; and Waymo has gotten the OK to expand service to San Jose.

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Day Around the Bay: Suspicious Fires Hit Outer Richmond School

A San Jose firefighter has been accused of stealing drugs; two suspicious fires occurred at an Outer Richmond school; and Billie Eilish just added two SF dates to her tour.

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SF Trans Community Rallies to Reclaim Historic Compton's Cafeteria Site In the Tenderloin

There was a rally Sunday, echoing a similar one in March, outside the site of the former Compton's Cafeteria in the Tenderloin to reclaim the site of a historic 1966 riot from its current use as a halfway house.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

32-Year-Old Downtown Restaurant One Market Calling It Quits

A restaurant that has been a business lunch and dinner go-to at the foot of San Francisco's Market Street since the early 1990s is now planning to close next month.

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'Hoarder' House In Noe Valley Goes Up In Flames, Two Dogs Killed, One Person Possibly Missing

A house on 26th Street between Castro and Diamond streets in Noe Valley caught fire early Monday morning, and while it's unclear if there were any human casualties, firefighters found two dead dogs.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Chronicle Critic Nearly Gets Booted From French Laundry as Thomas Keller Puts His Foot Down About Criticism

Thomas Keller seems to be battening down the hatches at the Michelin three-star French Laundry after a string of less-than-stellar reviews. And recently he went so far as to tell the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan that she wasn't welcome there.

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Monday Morning Headlines: Victim In Fisherman's Wharf Shooting ID'd

The victim in last week's shooting near Fisherman's Wharf has been identified; a fire at a downtown SF highrise was apparently caused by a tossed cigarette; and former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

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BART Riders and Police Injured In Some Sort of Pepper Spray Incident at Powell Station

An assailant may have sprayed pepper spray at police officers on the platform of Powell Street Station, or someone did, and the incident led BART trains to temporarily bypass the station Saturday afternoon.

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Boat-Dwelling Woman In Richardson Bay Who Bear-Sprayed Harbormaster In 2020 Avoids Jail Time

Sausalito and Marin County leaders have been dealing with the issue of less-than-seaworthy — and potentially polluting — boats, some with otherwise unhoused people living on them, for a number of years. But things really came to a head in the pandemic.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In Food: SF to Be Rolling In Great Pizza

An acclaimed Berkeley pizza spot is expanding to San Francisco, the Lord Stanley team is shifting its focus to Dogpatch, and St. Helena is getting a fancy new (museum) restaurant, all in This Week in Food.