SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Chinese Consulate, Driver Shot A car crashed into the Chinese consulate at Geary and Laguna and shots were fired; Newsom vetoed a bill that would have outlawed caste-based discrimination; and a beloved pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill was vandalized.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
SF News Report of Man With Gun Leads to Evacuation of NoPa Shopping Center A report of a man with a gun inside a Chase Bank in the NoPa neighborhood prompted SFPD officers to evacuate a Lucky supermarket Monday afternoon.
SF News [Updated] Six People Injured When Cable Car Makes Hard Stop on Nob Hill A San Francisco cable car had to make a hard stop to avoid colliding with another vehicle Monday afternoon, resulting in some passenger injuries.
SF News Large Pro-Palestinian Rally Outside Israeli Consulate In San Francisco Met With Counter-Protest Following a major outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza over the weekend, pro-Palestinian rallies occurred Sunday in multiple U.S. cities which were met by groups supporting Israel, leading in some cases to skirmishes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Killed at 18th and Mission A man was fatally shot just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the Mission District; Mission cafe owner and SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel details his experience from Israel over the weekend; and Sonoma County was rocked by two small earthquakes Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa-Based Celebrity Chef Michael Chiarello Dies at Age 61 Michael Chiarello, a celebrity of food TV and a long-established Bay Area chef and restaurateur, died Friday at the age of 61.
SF News Woman Falls to Her Death From Building Roof In SF's Russian Hill During Blue Angels Show A woman died Saturday afternoon after a fall from a roof in Russian Hill, and details about the circumstances leading up to the fall have not been released.
SF News Sunday Links: Plane From SFO to Tel Aviv Turns Around Mid-Flight A United flight from SFO to Tel Aviv turned around mid-flight following the outbreak of attacks by Hamas; the SFPD arrested nine shoplifters in a 'blitz' operation at the SF Centre; and a winning $1.3M Powerball ticket was sold in San Francisco.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Bask In This Last Beach Day This is your last beach day, SF, with cooler temperatures on the way Sunday; a Tenderloin hotel is removing some anti-homeless sprinklers it installed; and a judge has denied a bid by Tesla to reduce a jury award in a case of workplace racism.
SF News President Joe Biden Suggests He Might Meet With Xi Jinping In San Francisco During APEC President Joe Biden left open the possibility Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have a sideline meeting of some sort in November while both are in San Francisco for APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders's Summit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chow Space In Castro Comes Alive Again as The Rustic A couple of significant reopenings happened across town this week, and a replacement restaurant for shuttered, Michelin-starred Marlena has made its debut in Bernal Heights.
Arts & Entertainment City of Alameda Now Wants Portola Music Festival Shut Down Forever After Second Year of Noise Complaints The inaugural Portola Music Festival last year drew some loud complaints from residents across the Bay in Alameda, when the oontz-oontz music went on later than they liked — which was until 11 p.m. Now, the City of Alameda is taking some action after a second year of complaints.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House Plans Sound Ferry Building-Esque With Multiple Food Vendors and Cafes, and a Plaza With Cart Vendors Plans for the re-imagining of the Cliff House, which had been shrouded in secrecy until just recently, reveal some exciting details about the new vision for the iconic building.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Hot Day May Break Temperature Records A heat advisory goes through Saturday now and local high-temp records may get broken today; expect the Blue Angels to roar overhead again around 3:15; and Mark Zuckerberg corrects a journalist about his sweater.
SF Politics Feinstein Eulogies By Harris, Schumer, and Pelosi Celebrate Her as Champion For Women Though interrupted a number of times — as predicted — by loud flyovers by the Blue Angels, the funeral service for Dianne Feinstein outside San Francisco City Hall went off without any other hitches Thursday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Night Market and Friday Parties Help to Launch 'Vacant to Vibrant' Program A night market on Thursday night hosted by Sucka Flea, and a bunch of individual parties at the pop-up businesses in the program, are celebrating the launch of SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, with the hope of breathing some new life into downtown.
SF News SF Police Arrest Man For Spree of Violent Assaults Downtown on Sunday San Francisco police announced the arrest of a man in connection with four separate, unprovoked attacks on other people in downtown early Sunday morning.
SF News Will the Blue Angels Be Buzzing Feinstein's Funeral? [Update: Yes] The funeral service for Dianne Feinstein kicks off at 1 p.m. in front of SF's City Hall, just as the Blue Angels pilots are set to begin doing their traditional Thursday-of-Fleet-Week practice flights.
SF News City of San Francisco Files Brief With Supreme Court on Homeless Encampment Case Even though San Francisco's own injunction on homeless encampment-clearing is not on trial at the Supreme Court, the city has now filed a brief in another case that is sure to have implications here.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Feinstein Funeral No Longer Open to the Public The Feinstein memorial at City Hall won't be open to the public, officials now say; City Hall is closed for all in-person services today; and Nancy Pelosi offers her remembrances of her friend, Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Dinged With Violations After City Inspection A resident of one of the latest iterations of the pod-style sleeping arrangements we saw during the most recent SF tech boom boasted about the cheapness of his rent on social media, leading to TV media coverage and, now, a city inspection.
Arts & Entertainment 'Terror Vault: Initiation' at the Old Mint Will Have You Running Scared From Cultists It is an anxiety-inducing scenario, being led through a truly labyrinthine set of rooms and sets, up staircases and ladders and down chutes and more staircases, inside a building that feels as already haunted as San Francisco's Old Mint.
Business & Tech Google Is Opening a Visitors' Center at Its New Campus In Mountain View for Tech Tourists Fans of the Google brand and mythology, as well as the architecturally curious, will be able to check out a new visitors' center at the company's "Gradient Canopy" office complex in Mountain View starting next week.
SF Politics East Bay School Board Member Who Voted Against LGBTQ Flags Says He's Been Getting Harassed The ostensibly conservative dude who was one of two school board members in the tiny East Bay school district of Sunol to vote against having any Pride or other flags on campus last month says he's been receiving death threats.
