SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Gonna Be a Hot One Try to conserve power today and tonight during this heatwave, local infectious disease experts talk about where they'll still wear a mask, and the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Useless Bickering In Sacramento About High-Speed Rail Some SF restaurants are keeping masks on employees (but not all), California lawmakers are squabbling over high-speed rail funding again, and Chez Panisse announced that it isn't reopening until October.
SF News 94-Year-Old Asian Woman Stabbed In the Tenderloin, Suspect Has Long Rap Sheet, Was Out on Bail A 94-year-old Asian woman was reportedly stabbed Wednesday morning in San Francisco in what's been described as an unprovoked attack.
SF News There Will Be Another March on Polk Street on Pride Sunday Returning to the protest origins of Pride, and for the second year in a row without an official (and heavily corporate-sponsored) SF Pride parade, there will be a People's March and Rally down Polk Street and in Civic Center on Pride Sunday.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown: 'The Only Thing San Francisco Is Progressive On Is Sex' Longtime San Francisco civil rights activist and Black community leader Rev. Amos Brown, who also served on the Board of Supervisors from 1996 to 2001, sat down for a recent interview with the Chronicle — and he minced no words about the city's history when it comes to the treatment of Black people.
SF News Any Smoke You Smell Outside Right Now Is Probably Coming From Arizona Due to a particular wind pattern and wildfires in southern Arizona, smoke appears to be drifting a very long way and reaching parts of the Bay Area today.
SF News San Francisco's Cable Cars Will Be Free to Ride When They Come Back in August SF's iconic cable cars are set to return to limited service in August, and both locals and tourists will be able to ride them for free for the entire month.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Farms Get Cut Off From State Water Supply This week's heatwave is cause for wildfire concern in the North Bay, Californians may be asked to conserve power over the next two days, and Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody looks back on the last fifteen months.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF City Hall HR Employee Gets Forgery Charge An SF firefighter died after fighting a fire at SFO last week, a former City Hall employee is facing felony forgery charges, and BART riders are not looking forward to the trains becoming crowded again.
SF Politics Peskin Apology Adds to Already Dramatic Board of Supervisors Meeting as Tensions Mount With Mayor Supervisor Aaron Peskin appeared at his first public meeting Tuesday afternoon since announcing last week that he would be seeking professional treatment for alcohol abuse. But that wasn't the only drama.
SF News Seven-Bedroom Pac Heights Mansion Sets New Record for Most Expensive Home Sold In SF at $43.5M A mansion on Billionaire's Row in Pacific Heights changed hands in recent months and, for the second time in three years, it has set a record-high price for a home sale in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Reopens This Week; Marlowe Aims For Early July Prolific SF restaurateur Anna Weinberg says she's "ready for the roaring 20s," but her restaurants won't all be reopening at once due to much-cited staffing challenges that are impacting the whole industry.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot Near Civic Center Alley A man was shot and killed Monday night near one end of an alley near Civic Center, one of several alleys that have been the sites of violent crime in recent months.
SF News Newsom Announces $1.5M Vaccine Lottery Winners at Universal Studios, With Minions, Transformers, and Trolls It was a cartoony pony show Tuesday morning befitting our big and baffling state, and our showboat Governor Gavin Newsom was greeted as he arrived on stage by a weird voiceover of Optimus Prime saying "It is a privilege to be by your side."
SF Politics Around 100 Youth Climate Activists Marched From Paradise to Nancy Pelosi's Front Door, Demanding Action In a symbolic march from a community devastated by a wildfire three years ago to the doorsteps of politicians in power, a group of around 100 youth climate activists led by the Sunrise Movement demonstrated outside the homes of Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein Monday.
SF News Big Reopening Day Headlines: Electronic Vaccine Cards Coming for CA Residents Newsom says "It's a good day," the University of California says it will require everyone to be vaccinated to return to campus after all, and California will be creating electronic vaccination cards after all but not calling them "passports."
SF News Day Around the Bay: 30-Acre Brush Fire Contained In San Jose The Silicon Fire was likely sparked by a mylar balloon hitting electrical lines, the SFPD is investigating a Sunday shooting in the Tenderloin, and California is now giving away six "dream vacations" to the vaccinated in another lottery drawing.
Arts & Entertainment Pfeiffer Falls Trail at Big Sur Reopens Friday After 13-Year Closure After a 2008 wildfire destroyed much of the infrastructure of the most popular hiking trail in Big Sur, it's taken all these years to complete a $2 million project to replace it all. But now the public will finally get to hike down to Pfeiffer Falls once again, starting Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Chronicle Publishes a New Top 91 Restaurants In Four Parts, Ignores Wine Country In the quest to do best-of lists at the Chronicle Food Department without actually replicating Michael Bauer's once-popular Top 100 Restaurants list, there have been some false starts since Soleil Ho began her tenure as critic two years ago.
SF News New Analysis Finds Younger Latinx Residents of Santa Clara County Were Far Likelier to Die of COVID-19 Than White Residents Providing further evidence of the racial inequities of the pandemic, new analysis of COVID cases and deaths in Santa Clara County finds that the virus killed mostly elderly white residents, but deaths among Latinx residents skewed much younger.
Arts & Entertainment Billy Idol, Steve Martin, and Gogol Bordello Among Eclectic 2021 Lineup at Mountain Winery Mountain Winery, the festive and picturesque outdoor concert venue in Saratoga, just announced the lineup for its 62nd concert season, following a year without concerts.
SF News Mid-Market Supportive Housing Building Burns, Displacing 80 Formerly Homeless Residents A building near 7th and Market went up in a two-alarm blaze on Sunday night, displacing 80 formerly homeless residents and possibly causing damage to the Strand Theater next door.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Stolen Yorkie Found! A couple visiting SF for their anniversary was reunited with their stolen Yorkshire terrier, a new survey finds California teachers exhausted from distance learning, and Colma is having a party tomorrow to celebrate everything reopening.
Arts & Entertainment 'Paradise Square,' a Musical About 19th Century New York That Played at Berkeley Rep In January 2019, Heads to Broadway A musical that was in development over the last decade and was last seen by an audience here in the Bay Area, 'Paradise Square,' is planning a Broadway run starting next February.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ernest: An Early Contender for Best New Restaurant In SF Open since March in the loft-like space once occupied by Coffee Bar at Florida and Mariposa, Ernest is the kind of restaurant that makes San Francisco the dining destination that it is — and it joins us at a time when we could all use a little culinary surprise and delight.
