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.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Lineup Includes Perfume Genius, Too $hort, Thievery Corporation Barely two weeks before the first free concert, the Stern Grove Festival has released its lineup for the summer Sunday series, and it's a fun one. But don't miss your reservation window!
SF News Herd Immunity For San Francisco May Be Just Three Weeks Away There are still a few unknowns, and it would be unwise to declare ourselves definitively out of the woods, but some often-quoted experts at UCSF are sounding pretty bullish about San Francisco's shot at herd immunity.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Woman Arrested for Killing Young Son A 35-year-old San Jose woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her 7-year-old in Las Vegas, a new wildfire broke out in the CZU Lightning Complex burn area, and two more Bay Area counties are likely entering the "Yellow" tier in the final week of colored tiers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Condo Market In SF Is Going Crazy The condo market in SF just had its busiest three months in 16 years, small fires were popping up all over the Bay today, and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is the highest paid CEO in the Bay Area by a lot.
SF News 27-Story Residential Tower Likely to Add to Quickly Changing SoMa Skyline A 27-story residential tower — an infill development slated for a SoMa alley that's been in the design and planning stages for over four years now — is set to get its entitlements this week, if all goes well at the Planning Commission.
SF News Manny's In the Mission Once Again Tagged With Anti-Jewish Graffiti Manny's, the politically engaged Mission cafe owned by newly named SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel, was tagged over the weekend with graffiti that could be seen as hate speech.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Is Opening a New Restaurant... In LA Along with longtime Chez Panisse chef and NY Times contributor David Tanis, Alice Waters is taking on her first new restaurant project since Cafe Fanny closed almost a decade ago.
SF News Marin Resident Calls Off Solo Kayak Trip to Hawaii, Calls For Rescue Off Santa Cruz French-born kayaker Cyril Derreumaux, who is a resident of Larkspur, had to call for an emergency rescue Saturday night about 50 miles off the Santa Cruz coast — just six days into his attempted solo rowing trip from the San Francisco Bay to Hawaii.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Homeless Men Found Dead In Berkeley Two homeless men were found deceased in Berkeley's Civic Center Park on Sunday, the fight goes on over "anchor-outs" in Richardson Bay, and Alameda County's COVID death toll recently dropped dramatically and the explanation is odd.
SF News Castro Valley Woman Calls Amazon Driver a B**ch, Gets Beaten, Driver Arrested An Amazon delivery driver in the East Bay took out some anger on a 67-year-old customer Thursday evening, all of it caught on video, and the driver has since been arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant News: The Brixton Comes to Hayes Valley, Vico Cavone Takes Former Firewood Space In Castro The Brixton is taking over the former Stacks in Hayes Valley, The Sentinel is back slinging sandwiches downtown, and the Castro is getting a new Italian restaurant this fall from a longtime Poesia guy.
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
