SF News June Heatwave Heading for Bay Area Next Week — Will SF Feel It? A heatwave is set to bring 100-degree temperatures to parts of the inland Bay Area next week, but, as is often the case, it may just be a normal if sunny week in most of San Francisco with a steady ocean breeze.
SF News South Bay Tech Businessman and His Wife Accused of Trafficking 100+ Women, Operating Six Brothels A Milpitas tech businessman and wife stand accused of pimping, pandering, money laundering, and human trafficking following a two-year investigation into their alleged brothel business.
SF News Five Bay Area Residents Win $50,000 Prizes In Second Vaccine Lottery Drawing California's vaccine lottery continued with its second drawing on Friday, awarding 15 more Californians with $50K for getting a COVID vaccine — including one more from San Francisco.
SF News COVID Cases Spike In Sonoma County Among the Young and Unvaccinated Just days away from the June 15th lifting of most public health mandates, Sonoma County is seeing a disturbing uptick in COVID cases that could be mirrored elsewhere in the state as the summer goes on.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Gets Its High-Speed Rail Funds Back The State of California has clawed back almost $1B in high-speed rail funding that was canceled under Trump, many Californians don't want to take their masks off next week, and the Embarcadero COVID testing site is closing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That YOLO Club Is Opening On 11th Next Week The San Jose shooter had been written up and investigated within the VTA for multiple aggressive incidents, car burglaries are up this year over last in one SF district, and one of last week's vaccine lottery winners has gone on camera to talk about it.
SF News Asian Public Defender Gets Heat From Family Over Defending Mentally Ill Man Who Assaulted Elderly Woman The Taiwan-born SF public defender assigned to the case of Steven Jenkins — the 39-year-old homeless man accused in the March 17 assault on 75-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie — says he's taken some heat from some family members.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress by Boon to Debut Next Week In the Storied Empress of China Space In SF's Chinatown The long-awaited new arrival in the Empress of China space in San Francisco's Chinatown is finally opening, just in time for mask rules and capacity restrictions to be lifted statewide.
SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He's Entering Rehab for Alcohol, Apologizes for 'Tenor' of His Public Relationships Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who over the last year has been called out on social media a couple of times for sounding drunk during Zoom meetings of the SF Board of Supervisors, announced Thursday that he is entering a treatment program for alcohol abuse.
SF News Shooting at Market and McAllister Gravely Injures One Man; SFPD Says to Avoid the Area An investigation is ongoing into a Thursday morning shooting near the intersection of Market and McAllister streets in San Francisco, and police are advising the public to avoid the area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Concord Restaurant Tells Customers 'Don't Pull a Karen' Over Slow Service Due to Labor Shortage The manager of a Korean BBQ spot in the East Bay was under fire on social media for a posted sign in the restaurant asking customers to be patient with the level of service which has been impacted by hiring trouble — and it's something being felt all over the Bay Area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Car Burglary Suspect Fires Shot at Witness Witnesses confronting alleged car burglars near the Embarcadero had a gun fired at them on Wednesday night, a hit-and-run crash flipped a car on Sutter Street, and mask rules for the unvaccinated are largely going to be on an honor system after next week unless businesses do their own carding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anti-Vaxxers Storm Marin Meeting, Tear Off Masks The SFPD has arrested a San Bruno man in a Marina District shooting last week, anti-vaxxers stormed a public meeting with a congressman in Marin County, and Santa Clara County is imposing its first mandatory water restrictions in the drought.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Virgil's Space Next to El Rio to Become Space-Themed Bar Called Mothership The former Virgil's Sea Room is going from vaguely seafaring-themed to space-travel themed, and the new name for the place will be Mothership.
SF News High-End Handbag Heisters Hit Stanford Shopping Center Yet Again A gang of grab-and-run thieves descended on the Louis Vuitton store at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto this week and stole an estimated $100,000+ in pricey handbags.
SF News Chicken John Back In the News After Racial Epithet Incident In the Mission He's now been "fired" from Ritual Coffee, which was founded by his wife, after he was heard using the N-word in a contentious exchange over a parking spot in the Mission.
SF Politics SF Supes Reject CEQA Challenge to The Creamery's Move to the Mission, Upsetting Anti-Gentrification Activists A tech-famous coffeeshop that was the storied birthplace of Airbnb and Stripe, The Creamery, is likely getting to move ahead with its plans to relocate to 14th and Mission streets from its former digs in SoMa after months of pushback.
SF News Well Known Corner Store Owner In Lower Pac Heights Loses Eye In Stabbing The longtime owner of a corner store on Franklin Street in San Francisco was brutally stabbed multiple times last week in an incident of random violence that followed his storefront being smashed by a car.
SF News San Francisco Finally Says Yes, You Can Take Your Masks Off on June 15 (Except on Muni) Business owners around the city have been waiting patiently to find out whether mask rules and capacity limits would actually be lifted in San Francisco when they are in the rest of the state on June 15. And now we know.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Cal/OSHA May Change Its Mind About Masks at Work At the urging of the state health officer Cal/OSHA may reconsider its guidance about masks in the workplace, an SF mother describes a robbery at gunpoint in the Mission, and Apple employees are grumbling about having to go into the office three days a week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Finds 16 More Pounds of Fentanyl In Oakland Bust The SFPD just seized a lot more illegal fentanyl and other drugs in an Oakland bust, an SF man was arrested for a May assault on an elderly woman on the Embarcadero, and food trucks are returning to downtown along with a trickle of office workers.
Arts & Entertainment Legoland Discovery Center Debuts In South Bay, Complete With Miniaturized Bay Area Northern California's first Legoland Discovery Center opened today in Milpitas, and it comes with its own 4D cinema, hands-on workshops, and a miniaturized diorama of San Francisco and Bay Area landmarks that took 45 builders and 1.5 million bricks to construct.
SF News Onetime SF Socialite Ann Miller, Who Left the City to Become a Nun 30 Years Ago, Dies at 92 A wealthy San Francisco socialite who hobnobbed with Nancy Reagan, claimed Phyllis Diller as a friend, and collected loads of designer shoes before giving everything up to take a vow of silence and become a nun, has died. She was 92.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Is Set to Reopen In Time For Pride Weekend Fresh from a remodel and ready to welcome in crowds again, Oasis is preparing to host its grand reopening party on June 26, the Saturday of Pride weekend, and a Sunday rooftop day party for Pride as well, with more planned in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Become Permanent, But Supervisors Are Keen on Imposing More Rules The 2,100 new Shared Spaces and parklet platforms around San Francisco are potentially becoming permanent fixtures, but if the Board of Supervisors has their way there will likely be a host of new restrictions and regulations.
