Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA to Feature Its First-Ever Solo Exhibition of the Work of Yayoi Kusama Starting in October The great polka-dot queen of contemporary art, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, will be featured in a year-long exhibition at SFMOMA that begins this October, and it will include her latest immersive "Infinity Mirror Room."
SF News SFPD Seizes 9.5 Kilos of Fentanyl In Two-Week Span of Drug Arrests In the span of 14 days, the San Francisco Police Department has seized more than one-third of the amount of fentanyl it seized in all of 2022, which is an indication of both the vast quantities being peddled and of stepped-up enforcement efforts.
Arts & Entertainment Your Chance to See Patti Smith and Bob Mould, For Free at Stern Grove, Comes With Ticket Drop Today Today, Thursday, at 2 p.m., the free tickets go live for Patti Smith's return to San Francisco, playing at the Stern Grove Festival next month with Bob Mould.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina's Two-Year-Old Tenderloin Food Hall Is Closing In September The food hall that opened in the spring of 2021 on a beleaguered corner of the Tenderloin, the La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, never succeeded in drawing in enough customers to justify the expense for private security and other costs. And now it is set to close on September 1.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: The Heat Dome Is Here A pedestrian was killed early this morning on I-880 in Oakland; the heat dome has arrived which will bring excessive heat to many parts of California the next several days; and Atherton police are warning elderly residents about scam artists in their midst.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect Sought In Assault on SF Postal Worker Alameda County DA Pamela Price is officially facing a recall campaign; UCSF is in talks to acquire St. Mary's and St. Francis Memorial hospitals; and the Postal Service is offering a reward for a suspect who assaulted a postal worker in SF and stole some postal keys.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Owners to Transform Former Broken Record Bar Into The Halfway Club, a Cocktail Bar With Food The former Broken Record space in Crocker-Amazon will be reborn this September as The Halfway Club, a new project from a pair of industry vets.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops To Get Additional Picnic Area On What's Now Sports Basement's Parking Lot There's a project that's about two years out to convert part of the current Sports Basement parking lot next to Crissy Field into an extension of the 14-acre Presidio Tunnel Tops park.
SF News Dognapper In the South Bay Demands Ransom, Gets Arrested Upon Delivering Dog An alleged dognapping occurred in Sunnyvale Monday, and the family called the cops after someone called to tell them he had their lost dog and wanted money to return him.
Business & Tech As Promised, Elon Musk Has Launched an AI Company, xAI Restless billionaire Elon Musk has just launched a sixth company that he'll be overseeing, this one hoping to get into the artificial intelligence space and, ahem, "understand the true nature of the universe."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No More Anchor Steam Beer: 127-Year-Old Brewery Shutters In San Francisco In very sad news for San Francisco at large, as well as the craft beer community, landmark Potrero Hill brewery Anchor Brewing Co. is shutting down brewing operations and declaring bankruptcy.
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Touts Accomplishments of Her First Year Police activity caused a major backup on 101 in SF on Tuesday evening; District Attorney Brooke Jenkins reflects on her first year in office; and South Lake Tahoe is getting a Margaritaville resort.
SF News SF Rec & Parks Planning Makeover of UN Plaza This Fall With Skate Park, Ping-Pong, and Teqball Tables Plans were filed this week for a new activation project in SF's generally drug-addled UN Plaza, in what appears to be an effort by City Hall to make some positive change and bring non-drug dealers and non-users to the plaza.
SF News Hit-and-Run Collision Takes Out Utility Pole at Gough and Golden Gate A yellow SUV slammed into a utility pole/traffic signal at Gough Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition on Tuesday, and a suspect reportedly fled the scene on foot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma's Own Guy Fieri Seen Palling Around With Trump In Vegas — This Should Go Well For Him Why did Anthony Bourdain (RIP) despise Guy Fieri so much? Well, we have a new clue, and it's how Fieri appeared to happily greet Donald Trump when the pair ran into each other at a UFC match in Las Vegas over the weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Bay Area Restaurants Added to Michelin Bib Gourmand Picks, Including SF's Bansang and Oakland's Snail Bar The new California Michelin Guide — with its updated star ratings — is set for release next week, just seven months after the last guide's delayed release. And today four Bay Area restaurants have been added to the Bib Gourmand roster of semi-affordable eats.
Business & Tech Threads Beats ChatGPT to 100 Million User Milestone; Twitter Traffic Allegedly 'Tanking' Meta's Threads app, which just went live last Wednesday evening, already reached 100 million users on Sunday, handily beating ChatGPT's recently set record for achieving that many users in a brief span of time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Declines to Block Microsoft-Activision Deal A federal judge in SF has declined to block Microsoft's $69 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard; Elizabeth Holmes has already seen her sentence reduced by two years, and a man was shot and injured in West Oakland Tuesday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Summer Warmth Is Coming to SF, Finally Writers have filed a new class-action suit against OpenAI and Meta over use of their work in language models; late snow-melt is causing a mosquito boom in the Sierra; and a heatwave is headed to the Bay which we'll even feel in SF.
SF Politics RV Lot Sheltering Dozens of Formerly Unsheltered Homeless People In SF to Remain Open Under Tentative Agreement An RV shelter park that opened early in the pandemic on a lot near the Bayview is now set to remain temporarily open as a shelter for the homeless, despite moves by the Port of SF to reclaim the property.
SF News Madonna's October Shows at Chase Center Officially Postponed Following Health Scare Madonna's "Celebration Tour" appears to be on hold, with the North American leg likely pushing into next year at this point, as she recovers from a major health issue that landed her in intensive care last month. That also means her appearances at the Chase Center have been postponed.
SF News BART Plagued By Multiple Problems Monday, Including Fire at Civic Center Station The BART system, which was already dealing with delays from an equipment issue in the East Bay Monday morning, was hit with multiple problems this morning including a disabled train, and police and fire activity at Civic Center.
SF News Report: Many Tenderloin Drug Dealers Hail From the Same Area In Honduras, Which Is Dotted With SF Swag Drug money made in the open-air markets of the Tenderloin and South of Market has fueled a "housing boom" in one impoverished area of Honduras. The Chronicle traveled there and conducted an 18-month investigation into this source of one of the dominant groups running SF's drug trade.
SF News Woman Shot and Injured Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Early Monday A 22-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the early morning hours of Monday near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Her injuries are not life-threatening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Protesters Gather at SFPD's Mission Station Over Hill Bomb Arrests BART was having major issues on its Green Line Monday morning; dozens of protesters marched on SFPD's Mission Station over the police response to Saturday's Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event; and the Ruby Princess finally set sail for Alaska with 600 fewer passengers.
