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.
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.
