SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Garlic Festival Apparently Happening In Stockton In August, Under New Organizers As promised/threatened last month by the organizers of the annual San Joaquin Asparagus Festival, a new garlic festival is coming to the Central Valley ostensibly to replace the canceled Gilroy Garlic Festival.
SF Politics Humpday Election-Result Headlines: Muni Bond Iffy, Newsom and Pelosi (Obviously) Won Their Primaries Prop A — the $400M Muni bond — is still short by 3% with some ballots left to count, Bonta sailed to victory as CA's likely fully elected Attorney General, and former SF Supervisor Malia Cohen will face off against Republican Lanhee Chen in the oddly dramatic race for Controller.
SF Politics San Francisco Voters Recall DA Chesa Boudin and Everyone Including Ann Coulter Has Something to Say About It SF voters who were convinced that recalling progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin would solve the city's crime troubles may not all appreciate being cheered on by Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter, but that is what's happening.
Arts & Entertainment 'Ramses the Great' Egyptian Artifact Exhibit Comes to the deYoung This Summer A touring exhibition of rare Egyptian artifacts, some unearthed just in recent years, will be coming to the deYoung Museum starting August 20.
SF News SPCA Now Teeming With Dogs, Adoption Fees Waived In SF for All of June The SPCA put out the call on Twitter on Monday, dubbing this their Summer of Lovin' event, with all adoption fees waived on "adult" dogs aged 5 months or older.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rejects Oakland Couple's Case Opposing Tenant Payouts, In Win For Tenants' Rights The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review for a case brought by an Oakland couple regarding their owner move-in eviction, in a blow to all landlords who want to legally challenge city requirements regarding tenant buyouts in no-fault evictions.
SF News Early Morning Fatal Motorcycle Crash Near Bay Bridge Interchange In SF Causes Huge Traffic Headaches A fatal crash involving a motorcyclist ended up impacting traffic in multiple directions early Tuesday because of where it took place, and well into rush hour traffic was still snarled and slow all the way across the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Submits Incident Report Pertaining to Old Fire It's the umpteenth election day of 2022 and we're voting both on a DA recall and a new congressperson, Oakland police are investigating two fatal overnight shootings, and PG&E could end up being to blame for last week's Old Fire in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Acquitted In Kate Steinle Shooting Sent to Texas Jose Inez Garcia Zarate has been sentenced to time served in a federal gun case and will now face a judge in Texas over an immigration charge, another naturopathic quack pleads guilty over fake COVID vaccine pellets, and a Slanted Door pop-up comes to Berkeley.
SF News Mission Bay Residents File Class-Action Lawsuit Against San Francisco Over Sinking and Cracking Sidewalks A problem that's been visible — and trip-able — for Mission Bay residents for years, the uneven sinking of sidewalks and streets around the relatively new buildings in the neighborhood, is heading to court.
SF News Another Tourist Couple Loses Pet In Smash-and-Grab Car Burglary, Says City Should Do More to Alert Tourists There is another story of a pet being stolen in the course of a smash-and-grab car burglary in San Francisco, and this time it was a beloved Chihuahua puppy stolen near Fisherman's Wharf.
SF Politics NY Mag Does Cover Story on Dianne Feinstein Featuring Scarily Unflattering Photo It's a testament to the dearth of print media in San Francisco's current era that New York Magazine has just done a cover story and lengthy, historical profile of Dianne Feinstein this week.
Business & Tech You're Finally Going to Be Able to Unsend and Edit Sent Texts on the iPhone Apple announced some software updates Monday as part of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, which include the *gamechanging* new ability to edit and unsend texts in Messages after you've sent them.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday's Rain Broke 90-Year-Old Record In SF A Safeway employee was fatally shot during a robbery in San Jose, Elon Musk has made his threat to abandon the Twitter deal formal, and Sunday's rainfall total in downtown SF broke a record set in 1934 — though most of the rain fell in the North Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Midnite Bagel Opens to Moderately Long Lines In the Inner Sunset After months of anticipation, Midnite Bagel quietly opened its first brick-and-mortar shop this week in the Inner Sunset, and by Saturday word had gotten around.
SF News Another Plan For a Rundown SF Pier Emerges With Another Floating Pool, Plus a Food Hall Developers continue eyeing the sometimes vacant and mostly underutilized Port of SF properties along the Embarcadero, hoping to redevelop them into more active — and profitable — uses. But a host of regulations and legal obstacles make it an uphill climb.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.
SF News Air Force Sergeant Turned Boogaloo Murderer Steven Carrillo Takes Plea, Will Be Sentenced Friday The former Air Force Sergeant who terrorized both Santa Cruz and Oakland almost exactly two years ago this week, on a violent tear inspired by the internet-based Boogaloo movement to kill members of law enforcement, is set to be sentenced for one of his murders.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Travelers Unaware of New Mask Rule at Oakland Airport Mask confusion abounds at Oakland Airport, almost all of California is back in the CDC's red tier for high COVID transmission, and alums from the Stanford frat banned from campus after a 2020 overdose death are suing the school.
SF News Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.
SF News Alameda County Opts to Require Masks Again In Most Indoor Settings — Is Anyone Really Listening? As the latest COVID surge persists, with hospitalizations and cases seemingly not yet a crest in Alameda County, county Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss has reinstated a broad mask mandate that we haven't seen the likes of for several months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plans Move Ahead for Two-Story, NFT-Backed Japanese Restaurant on Transit Center Roof, From Iyasare and Maruya Chefs The chef at acclaimed Berkeley Japanese restaurant Iyasare, Shotaro "Sho" Kamio next year plans to open the first w space on the roof of Transbay Transit Center.
SF News Ex-Boyfriend of Alexis Gabe Killed By Police While They Were Attempting to Serve Arrest Warrant for Murder The ex-boyfriend at whose home Alexis Gabe was last seen alive in January was about to be arrested for her murder outside Seattle. But he allegedly charged at police with a knife and was shot dead.
SF News Eighth & Mission Still a Dangerous Place as Two More People Are Shot The corners around the intersection of 8th and Mission streets in San Francisco's SoMa district are an increasingly dangerous place to be, and two more people were shot there early Wednesday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.1M Earthquake Jolts Contra Costa County A 4.1M earthquake struck near Bay Point just after 5 a.m. today, the Oakley PD says that there will be a "significant update" in the Alexis Gabe missing persons case, and the suspected San Jose Home Depot arsonist made a court appearance.
