SF News SoMa Shopkeepers Assaulted By Shoplifting Suspect The owners of a deli in SoMa were severely beaten on Monday by a suspect who had just stolen a beverage and walked out of the store, according to the SFPD.
SF News Biden Sends $37M In Wildfire Mitigation Funds to Sonoma, Promises Raises For Firefighters Sonoma County was one of the first in the country to apply for a grant under a new FEMA program dedicated to pre-disaster mitigation, and President Joe Biden announced today that they would be getting the aid immediately.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Domestic Terrorists May Target July 4th Gatherings Homeland security is warning of extremist group chatter about targeting mass gatherings over the Fourth, Pride weekend crowds left behind a lot of trash in Dolores Park, and Francis Ford Coppola is selling off his Sonoma wineries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Club Fugazi Show Gets a Name A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 34-year-old was injured in a Monday shooting in the Tenderloin, Newsom has signed the $5.2 billion rent-relief bill into law, and Scoot has lost its permit to operate in SF.
Business & Tech In Effort to Placate Employees, Uber Backtracks On Back-to-the-Office Plan Uber is the latest company to offer increasing flexibility for its workforce that has gotten very comfortable with their telecommuting situation.
SF News 70% of Latinx People In SF Have Had at Least One Vaccine Dose; 81% Vaccinated Citywide San Francisco announced what it said was an "important milestone" on Tuesday, saying that 70% of eligible Latinx residents, i.e. those over the age of 12, have received at least one vaccine dose as of today.
SF News Possibly Aggressive Coyote Menaces Children In SF Botanical Garden There's been some fairly odd and aggressive behavior by one or more coyotes in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park recently, which may have something to do with a litter of coyote pups spotted there this spring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Octavia Reopens For the First Time Since the Pandemic With New Chef de Cuisine, More Pasta At long last, Melissa Perello's Michelin-starred Pac Heights hot spot Octavia is reopening tonight, serving dinner for the first time since the pandemic hit last March.
SF News Will This Be the First Wildfire Smoke to Blanket SF? Lava Fire Grows to 20 Square Miles The Lava Fire currently burning east of I-5 in Siskiyou County tripled in size overnight and has now scorched 13,000 acres, or about 20 square miles. The blaze is hundreds of miles from San Francisco, but it's taking shape to being the first truly major fire of the season in our half of the state.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom Sues Over Lack of Party Affiliation on Recall Ballot Governor Gavin Newsom is suing CA Secretary of State Shirley Weber over the fact that "Democratic" doesn't appear below his name on the recall ballot, and L.A. County health officials are encouraging everyone to keep wearing masks indoors due to the Delta variant.
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.9M Hayward Fault Earthquake Centered Near San Leandro Felt In SF Just before 6:30 p.m. on Monday, a 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the East Bay was felt all over the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein's Tahoe Estate Hits Market for $41M The victim in that shark attack near Half Moon Bay has shared his whole story, DA Chesa Boudin is recusing himself in a weird case about a theft of school board recall petitions, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband have listed their Tahoe compound for $41 million.
Arts & Entertainment 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to Return to Curran In January as One-Part, One-Night Play The Tony Award-winning two-part play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is going to return, both to Broadway and to San Francisco, in a revised and much shorter form — with the creative team having worked during the pandemic to turn this into a one-part show.
Business & Tech Facebook's Market Cap Tops $1 Trillion for the First Time After Antitrust Case Is Dismissed Facebook has now joined the ranks of trillion-dollar companies, alongside the only other companies to reach such a market capitalization, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
SF News Road Show by Julian Assange's Family Makes Stop In Oakland; Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg Speak The family of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is staging events around the country this summer to advocate for the dropping of the United States' extradition request and the Espionage Act charges against him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Equator Coffees to Take Over as Vendor at Golden Gate Bridge's Historic Round House Cafe The Art Deco-styled Round House Cafe on the SF side of the Golden Gate Bridge is getting a new tenant, and it's none other than Marin County-based Equator Coffees.
SF News Florence Fang Settles Lawsuit With Hillsborough Over Her Flintstone Lawn Ornaments The Flintstone House in Hillsborough will keep its tacky statuary and cartoon sculptures, and the town has agreed to pay the homeowner for her trouble following a two-year dustup that centers on taste and private property rights.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Second Swimmer Drowns In Lake Berryessa "Safe and sane" fireworks are being sold all over the Bay even though they remain wildfire hazards, a swimmer has drowned at Lake Berryessa for the second weekend in a row, and Pride Sunday was a party all over the city.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's First Ever Black Pride Kicks Off With Bar Crawl, Expo, and 'Slayers Ball' Coinciding with the traditional last-weekend-in-June Pride celebration in San Francisco, Oakland Black Pride is having its first-ever series of events focused on the Black LGBTQ+ community of the East Bay.
Bay Area Sports Bay Bridge Series Kicks Off at Oracle Park and It's the Biggest Local Event Since Pandemic Began The SF Giants and the Oakland A's are repeating the time-honored tradition tonight of the Bay Bridge series, competing against each other in a set of three East Bay vs. West Bay games at Oracle Park.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa LGBTQ Mainstays Oasis and The Eagle Reopen For Pride; Oasis Unveils New Party Slate Both Oasis and the Eagle Tavern are reopening indoors and out this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing LGBTQ nightlife back to SoMa in time for Pride.
SF News Pride Revelers Beware: Muni Shuts Early, Uber and Lyft Rides Are Going to Be Expensive You may want to strap on some good walking shoes if you're planning to party-hop during this late-pandemic Pride Weekend in San Francisco, because things aren't exactly back to normal with public transportation or the world of rideshares.
SF News Willow Fire In Monterey County Reaches 26% Containment, Evacuations Lifted Some mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted in the remote mountains of the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur as firefighting crews have gained the upper hand on the week-old Willow Fire.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Almost Half of SF Businesses Still Closed? A new city report finds that 45% of SF small businesses remain closed, a group representing Black city employees objects to SF's mandate that they all be vaccinated, and the death toll at the Miami condo collapse site is at 4 but expected to rise dramatically.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homelessness Dept. Wants $15M So It Can Keep Spending $60K Per Tent Per Year A 21-year-old woman visiting SF says she was shot through her car door in the Mission on Sunday, SF's Dept. of Homelessness still wants to spend too much on those tents, and one of those swanky Light House condos on Dolores Park is back on the market.
