Bay Area Sports The Homeless World Cup, a Soccer Tournament for Formerly Homeless Players, Comes to Sacramento On Saturday, the Homeless World Cup kicks off in Sacramento, with formerly homeless players from dozens of countries competing in a small-scale soccer tournament over a week.
SF News San Francisco Was Declared Dead, and Full of AIDS and Drugs and Homeless People, Multiple Times In the Last 50 Years The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.
SF News Ninth Circuit, With Trump Appointees In Dissent, Upholds Homeless People's Right to Exist On the Street The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling this week that upholds an earlier precedent that precludes city governments from punishing homeless people for sleeping on streets if they lack alternative shelter to offer them.
SF News SFPD Releases Image of Suspect In Assault on Elderly Man in UN Plaza The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who was seen on surveillance video violently pushing an 83-year-old man to the ground on Tuesday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Cruise Ship Still Docked at Pier 27 After Collision The Ruby Princess, which crashed into the dock at Pier 27 on Thursday, remains in port with new passengers onboard; a hiker found dead on a peak in Modoc County has been ID'd as an Oakland man; and police are warning people about robberies at ATMs in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment 2022 Tony Winner For Best New Musical, 'A Strange Loop,' Comes to SF Next Season at A.C.T. The acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson that took Broadway by storm last year, 'A Strange Loop,' will be coming to San Francisco next season directly from engagements on Broadway and London's West End.
SF News San Francisco's Chief Economist Says 'Doom Loop' Talk Overblown, Consumer Spending Nearing Pre-Pandemic Levels Continuing their mea culpa over all that "doom loop" coverage they've done for several months, the San Francisco Chronicle has a piece today where they — finally! — get SF's own Chief Economist Ted Egan to weigh in with his sober opinion on the matter.
SF News US Marshals Help Oakland Police Make Arrest In Chicago In Shooting of Flower Delivery Man Oakland police announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the June 21 fatal shooting of Brazilian flower delivery man Matheus Gaidos in Oakland's Koreatown.
SF News Notorious Ruby Princess Cruise Ship, Which Carried Early COVID Cases, Just Crashed Into Pier 27 The Princess Cruises ship called the Ruby Princess, which already has some poor PR history from the pandemic, just had a bit of a snafu while trying to dock Thursday morning at Pier 27.
SF News 25-Year-Old and 24-Year-Old From Bay Area Meet With Misadventures at Waterfalls Over Holiday Weekend A 25-year-old woman from San Francisco was killed Tuesday falling down a waterfall in South Lake Tahoe, and a 24-year-old man from Petaluma is missing and still not found after meeting with a similar misadventure Sunday in Yosemite.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two More Conferences Cancel at Moscone for 2024 SFPD is searching for a female suspect in Monday's Bayview shoving homicide; a toddler was killed in Vallejo by a car backing out of a driveway; and two moderate-sized conferences have canceled at the Moscone Center for next year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 63-Year-Old SF Woman Dies After Being Pushed to Ground A 63-year-old woman died from her injuries after being pushed to the ground in the Bayview; a 23-year-old woman was injured in a drive-by Tuesday in Visitacion Valley; and Meta has launched Threads a bit ahead of schedule.
SF News Dr. Bob Wachter Ends His UCSF 'Grand Rounds' YouTube Forum Stressing COVID Is Not Fully Behind Us Three years and three months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF Dr. Bob Wachter has done his last "Grand Rounds" forum on YouTube, but he stresses that the novel coronavirus and its variants will remain very much a part of our lives.
SF News Sacramento Man Arrested For Levi's Stadium Stabbing at Soccer Match A suspect has been arrested for attempted murder after being seen on surveillance video allegedly stabbing a fellow soccer fan at Levi's Stadium over the holiday weekend.
SF News NXIVM Cult Figure Allison Mack Released From Federal Prison In Dublin One Year Early A year ahead of schedule, former 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack walked out of the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute — also known as FCI Dublin — on Monday, after serving two years of a three-year sentence.
SF News Fatal July 4 Shooting In Bayview Being Investigated as a Homicide A man was found on a Bayview District street Tuesday night with gunshot wounds that proved to be fatal, and the case is being treated as a homicide.
Business & Tech Meta's 'Twitter Killer,' Called Threads, Launches Thursday It looks like Mark Zuckerberg and his crew at Meta wanted to fast-track their Twitter competitor just as other products like BlueSky are drawing away disgruntled Twitter users. And now the new app, called Threads, hits the App Store Thursday.
SF News Post-Fourth Headlines: Illegal Fireworks Spark 50 Fires In East Bay Six people were injured in a shooting in Hayward Tuesday night; there were at least a half dozen mass shootings around the country over the long weekend; and firefighters in Contra Costa County responded to 50 fires caused by fireworks.
Arts & Entertainment Sutro Tower Will Have Red, White and Blue Lasers Shooting Through It This Week In honor of the Fourth of July, and commemorating the 50th birthday of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, there will be lasers shooting up through the radio tower for five nights this week.
SF News July Fourth Headlines: Man Stabbed During Soccer Match at Levi's Stadium A man was stabbed during the CONCACAF Gold Cup match at Levi's Stadium Sunday; there were two mass shootings around the country on Monday; and at least three women have been robbed near Alamo Square in similar fashion to recent robberies in Noe Valley.
Business & Tech Musk's Move to Limit Tweet Views Looks to Be Another User- and Advertiser-Alienating Blunder Over the holiday weekend, Twitter users started getting messages about having "exceeded" their "rate limit" for viewing tweets, and it turns out this was non-CEO-CEO Elon Musk's latest effort to crack down on data scraping, which in turn pissed off a legion of loyal users.
SF News One Suspect Killed, Two Arrested After Struggle With CHP Officer Near San Leandro An incident that began with a police chase involving an allegedly stolen car on I-580 in the East Bay ended early Monday morning with one suspect fatally shot, either by a CHP officer or an Alameda County Sheriff's deputy.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Yep, It'll Be Another Foggy Fourth The forecast is for fog and marine layer to obscure lots of fireworks displays again; there's a major backup in processing passport applications at the State Department; and the former Harvey's in the Castro will become a new nightclub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena Just Lost Its Two Chefs, Who Are Moving On to a New Project Bernal Heights fine-dining gem Marlena has lost the husband-and-wife chef team who took the three-year-old restaurant to Michelin-star status in its first year in business, despite opening at the height of a pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Team Opens Salon and Private Event Space In Former Cookhouse In North Beach As Michelin three-star Quince prepares to reopen this summer and celebrate its 20th birthday, owners Lindsay and Michael Tusk have announced the opening of their new private event space and test kitchen upstairs from Vesuvio in North Beach.
