SF News San Mateo County Cities to Fly 'Progress Pride Flag' For Pride Month; SF to Fly Traditional Rainbow Flag Across San Mateo County, city and county flagpoles will be flying the Progress Pride Flag in place of the traditional rainbow Pride flag, in recognition of greater inclusivity.
SF News California to Drop All Capacity Limits, Require Vaccinations for 'Mega Events' Starting June 15 The California Department of Public Health released new details Friday about what pandemic-related restrictions will look like statewide come June 15 — and the short answer is there won't be many restrictions on daily life at all.
SF Politics DA Boudin Pushes Back on Police About Evidence Delay In Shooting Case Involving Murder Suspect Robert Newt DA Chesa Boudin tried to make it clear to the Police Commission this week that blame for the release of Robert Newt last month should be focused on the police and lengthy delays in forensic evidence testing.
SF News SF General Has Zero COVID Patients Right Now Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital hit a pandemic milestone on Thursday with zero COVID admissions, and no COVID patients at all in beds at the facility.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Wildfire Breaks Out at Mount Diablo There was a fatal officer-involved shooting in Pittsburg last night, human remains found in an East Bay Park have been identified as a missing San Leandro woman, and a wildfire was quickly contained on Mount Diablo this morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Signs Housing Density Bill Parts of the Bay Area are now in the "exceptional" drought tier, Napa County is looking for input in how to spend $26 million in federal funds, and Newsom signed a new density-zoning bill into law today.
SF News Cabal of Handbag Thieves Maybe Went From Union Square Saks to Palo Alto Neiman Marcus A heist of high-end handbags estimated to be worth $150,000 at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto may have been a second act for a group of enterprising thieves, who possibly also committed a similar theft in San Francisco a day earlier.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Falcon Chicks Hatched at UC Berkeley Has Been Named After Dr. Fauci The names of the three not-quite-fledgling falcons are Fauci, Kaknu, and Wek’-Wek’, with the latter two names being falcon figures from Native American traditions.
Arts & Entertainment Still Unnamed Circus Show Taking Shape at Club Fugazi, as the Former Beach Blanket Babylon Venue Gets Remodeled A circus show from two Bay Area natives is moving into the storied North Beach theater that was once a Beat Generation venue before becoming the longtime home of 'Beach Blanket Babylon'.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Festival Returns — With Reservations, Capacity Limits, Distancing Measures SF Mayor London Breed announced Thursday that the Stern Grove Festival will return to Sigmund Stern Grove this summer — but there's no lineup yet, and even though it starts after June 15 when theoretically the COVID precautions will be fewer, there are a whole bunch of COVID precautions.
SF News [Update] Three Teen Boys Playing With Fire Caused Destructive Blaze In Martinez A trio of boys who apparently dug a hole and lit a fire in the ground during windy conditions in the East Bay on Wednesday ended up causing an inferno that destroyed one home, dozens of vehicles, and threatened an entire neighborhood.
SF News Mountain Lion Returns to Bernal, Gets Tranq-Darted and Captured A mountain lion that made a couple of appearances in recent days in San Francisco and Daly City was finally captured Wednesday night and is being returned to the wild.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Massive New 'Co-Living' Development Proposed in Potrero A 450-unit "co-living" development is being proposed in Potrero Hill, 10 suspects are being sought in a handbag heist at Stanford Shopping Center worth $150K, and Marin County twin brothers pleaded guilty in a pandemic assistance fraud case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wind Gust Over 50 mph Recorded at SFO A house fire in Martinez caused excessive smoke and explosions on Wednesday with cars on fire too, very high winds are expected all night around the Bay, and you can now use Android phones to pay for BART and Muni.
Arts & Entertainment Following Dustup Over Honey Bears, LGBT Center Gets 'Queeroes' Mural A new mural is going up on the Octavia-facing side of the SF LGBT Center highlighting a dozen local and national queer heroes, including Harvey Milk, drag queens Juanita MORE! and Sister Roma, and drag performer turned politico Honey Mahogany.
SF Politics Chronicle Columnist Heather Knight Is Basically at War With Progressive Supervisors Knight has been taking on the Board of Supervisors on various issues, and things have been escalating in recent weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Phatima Rude, Queer Punk Drag Icon of SF Scene, Dies at 55 Phatima Rude, a drag queen who helped to define the raw and genderqueer aesthetics of San Francisco's drag scene of the 1990s and early 2000s, was found dead in their Portland, Oregon home on Tuesday. They were 55.
Arts & Entertainment Rare Corpse Flower Shows Up at Abandoned Gas Station In Alameda, and Residents Line Up for Photos Alameda residents were understandably delighted on Monday when a rare example of an Amorphophallus titanum or corpse flower showed up outside of any museum setting, just in a simple pot at an abandoned gas station for all to see.
SF News Suspect In Two Potrero Homicides Was Released Without Charges After April 4 Shooting; SFPD Seeks Public's Help Finding Him San Francisco police linked a man to dozens of spent shell casings from a shooting on April 4 in which no one was injured. The District Attorney's Office released him without charges, pending further evidence. He's now wanted for murder and attempted murder.
SF News [Update] Hit-and-Run Crash Near Civic Center Kills One Pedestrian, Injures Three Others A major collision occurred Tuesday night at the intersection of Polk and Hayes streets that took the life of a pedestrian, and one of the drivers involved reportedly fled the scene on foot.
SF News Humpday Headlines: One Dead In Cole Valley House Fire One person died and another was injured in a two-alarm fire on Schrader Street in SF, the two teenage victims in Tuesday's party bus shooting have been identified, and there are more camera sightings of that mountain lion seen in Bernal Heights.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara County Joins 'Yellow' Tier Salesforce Tower reopened for some employees to return to work today, a labor union is calling out a COVID outbreak at a Public Works operations yard, and Santa Clara County has joined SF and San Mateo in the 'Yellow' tier.
Arts & Entertainment SF's New 12-Screen Movie Theater With Seat-Motion and Scent Effects Opens Friday at Stonestown San Francisco is getting its first new movie theater in five years, which opens at an awkward moment when not only are theater chains struggling to claw their way out of a pandemic slump but Hollywood still is holding back a lot of its higher-profile releases.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Offers Second Pfizer Shots For Anyone Who Missed Theirs (For Limited Time) The Oakland Coliseum mass-vaccination site is winding down on May 23, and Alameda County is putting out a last call for anyone who received a first Pfizer dose and may have missed their second appointment.
SF Politics San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.
