Bay Area Sports Giants to Screen Commemorative Rickwood Field Game at Oracle Park for Free, In Honor of Willie Mays The game commemorating baseball's Negro Leagues that is being played Thursday at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, which Giants legend Willie Mays had intended to attend in person before he passed away Tuesday, will be screened at Oracle Park for free.
Arts & Entertainment SF Hotels Roll Out Pride Flags to Compete With Castro's The Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill now has a bigger Pride Flag — and a Progress Pride Flag at that — than the Castro's flying atop the building. And the Beacon Grand's is even bigger.
SF News Cause of Death Determined In Case of East Bay Teen Found Dead In San Francisco Driveway The city medical examiner has made a determination in the cause of death of 15-year-old Jázmin Pellegrini, who was found dead in the driveway of a home in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood in April.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Power Outage at SFO Causes Ground Stop A power outage caused a brief ground stop at SFO this morning; fog will move back in over SF and parts of the East Bay today and tomorrow; and the Point Fire in Sonoma County appears under control and is 50% contained.
SF News Convicted Killer Paul Flores Ordered to Pay $346K In Restitution to Family of Victim Kristin Smart A judge on Monday ordered Paul Flores to pay $346,000 in restitution to the family of Kristin Smart, to cover expenses they say they incurred as a result of, and in the wake of, Smart's 1996 disappearance.
Arts & Entertainment Documentary About Sherri Papini Disappearance, 'The Perfect Wife,' Lands on Hulu This Week The sordid story of the faked 2016 disappearance of Redding housewife Sherri Papini, and her subsequent guilty plea in federal court to charges of lying to law enforcement and mail fraud, is now getting the documentary treatment on Hulu.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boichik Bagels Opens Second SF Location on Upper Fillmore The second of three locations of Boichik Bagels made its debut Tuesday morning on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights.
SF News San Leandro Police Chase Causes Another Dangerous, Fiery Crash In Oakland We have another story of a police chase that could have led to deadly consequences, only this time it appears everyone escaped uninjured.
SF News Three More Wildfires Broke Out Monday In Northern California; Sonoma's Point Fire Now 40% Contained It's been a wild few days for firefighters across California and in southern New Mexico, where at least a dozen wildfires have broken out, some of them fast-growing, fueled by dry conditions and high winds.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Muslims Harrassed During Communal Prayer In SF Park A group of people gathered for a Muslim prayer Monday for Eid al-Adha were harassed in SF; home values in Stinson Beach have exploded; and SF ranks dead last in a new study of the best- and worst-run cities.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big SF Landlord Facing Eviction From Its Offices A teen boy killed in Oakland has been identified as a Skyline High student; an American Airlines flight landed at SF with a damaged engine cover; and prominent SF landlord Mosser Capital apparently hasn't been paying its rent.
SF News Project to Redevelop Divisadero Car Wash Site Looks Alive Again, With 203-Unit Building Proposed The same day that we hear about signs of life at a large residential project at Van Ness and Market, another long-stalled, presumed-dead development project on Divisadero appears to be stirring awake as well.
SF News 'One Oak' Tower at Foot of Van Ness Might Get Built After All, But With Smaller Affordable Component A long-stalled residential tower slated to go into a lot at Van Ness and Market, which we thought was completely dead, may get revived by a new developer who is now taking a fresh look at the project's feasibility.
SF News San Jose Police SUV Destroyed By Rowdy Sideshow Participants There's often a hefty amount of "Why didn't the police do anything?" talk when footage of the latest sideshow comes out, and police frequently respond that unruly crowds can get dangerous for officers, especially lone officers, when they try to intervene on the party.
SF News Point Fire In Sonoma County Grows to 1,100 Acres as Seven Major Wildfires Burn Across the State Cal Fire firefighters are contending with multiple large wildfires across the state that all broke out over the weekend, and it seems like fire season is already in full swing, though it's still mid-June.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Stanford Graduates Walk Out of Their Graduation A group of Stanford students walked out of their graduation in protest of the war in Gaza; an SF venture capitalist is snapping up a group of Sonoma properties from an embattled investor; and the other half of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 opens to travelers today.
SF News NorCal Woman Killed By Black Bear Had Been Complaining About Animal Stalking Her Home For Months A 71-year-old woman became the first person in recorded California history to be killed by a black bear last fall. Following an investigation and interviews with people who know her, we now know the bear had been hanging around in the vicinity and stalking the woman's home for a while.
SF News Sunday Links: One Killed In Mission District Shooting One person was fatally shot early Saturday on Wiese Street in SF's Mission District; parts of Solano County are under a Red Flag Warning; and BART riders witnessed a scuffle over a gun on Saturday afternoon at 24th Street Station.
SF News Saturday Links: Downtown Mall Movie Theater May Have a Taker A security guard at a Fremont CVS was fatally shot on the job; Capitol Police will pay the SFPD to guard the Pelosis' house; the former Westfield mall movie theater may not be vacant for much longer.
Arts & Entertainment The EndUp Turns 50 and They're Taking Over Union Square With a Dance Party Saturday That venerable, inimitable, sloppy palace of bad decisions The EndUp was born 50 (and a half) years ago, and they're now getting around to celebrating — appropriately kinda late — with a Union Square takeover dance party.
SF News Juvenile Arrested In Civic Center Convenience Store Shooting; Store Part of Proposed Corner Store Curfew Legislation San Francisco police say they arrested a juvenile in connection with a Tuesday night shooting near Civic Center that occurred inside a corner store that is at the center of a potential Tenderloin crackdown.
SF Politics Clarence Thomas Quotes Dianne Feinstein In Ruling on Bump Stocks, Argues Congress Should Act to Ban Them The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that overturns a Trump era ban on bump stocks, largely because it was done by a federal agency and not by Congress. In writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas notes that the late Senator Dianne Feinstein predicted this would happen.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Feds Expand Crackdown In SF's Tenderloin Federal law enforcement is expanding its 'All Hands on Deck' initiative in SF's Tenderloin; there was a vigil Thursday for a hit-and-run victim in Bernal Heights; and two female Apple employees are suing over gender-based wage gaps.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, That Is Peaches Christ on Top of Salesforce Tower If you happen to catch a glimpse of Salesforce Tower just after midnight this month — and from dusk until dawn during Pride Week — you will see the giant head of drag queen Peaches Christ, and a video of her silhouette dancing.
SF News Transamerica Pyramid Set for Public Reopening In September, Lands TED's AI Conference The $400 million makeover of the Transamerica Pyramid is nearly complete, and while we don't know too much about the new restaurants on the way, we've got some new details about the renovation.
