SF Politics San Francisco Will Lift Its Curfew Thursday The unprecedented 8 p.m. curfew imposed by Mayor London Breed on Sunday will come to an end after four consecutive nights, lifting at 5 a.m. on Thursday, June 4.
Arts & Entertainment AMC Theatres In Danger of Complete Financial Collapse In a regulatory filing today, AMC Theatres says that it has "substantial doubt" it will be able to continue operations this year even after sheltering restrictions are lifted and cinemas are allowed to reopen.
Bay Area Sports Warriors' Season Officially Over As NBA Moves Forward With 22-Team Format for Orlando-Based Season Closer In a surprise to no one, the Golden Gate Warriors' season has effectively ended as word arrives that the NBA will be resuming the 2019-20 season without them in Orlando.
SF News National Guard Moves In After Another Night of Looting In Vallejo; Band Of 40 Cars Surrounds Police Station While protests and acts of looting were smaller and fewer on Tuesday night elsewhere in the Bay Area, tensions remained high in the city of Vallejo, where dozens of reports of looting, shots fired, and vandalism came in to the police.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Officer-Involved Shooting In San Jose May Have Involved Protesters The SF Board of Supervisors may let the city's curfew expire on Sunday, the Defense Secretary has broken with Trump on the use of military force against protesters, and demonstrations in Oakland calmed down on their sixth consecutive night, with no arrests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo City Hall Uninhabitable After Fire The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduling an emergency hearing on police reform, SF and Peninsula see "unprecedented" drop in rents, and a tech-focused civil rights group is suing over Trump's order last week.
SF News Thousands Gather in Peaceful Protest at SF's Ocean Beach A demonstration billed as a Sunset Solidarity March for Black Lives Matter took place Tuesday afternoon along the Great Highway by Ocean Beach, and images appeared to show at least 1,000 people in attendance.
SF News Looters Stole At Least 73 Cars From a Dodge Dealership In San Leandro It turns out the looting situation in San Leandro on Sunday night was even more extensive and egregious than already reported, as we're now learning about a car dealership that lost between 70 and 100 vehicles to looters.
SF News Three Dead, Two Wounded In Multiple Shootings in East Oakland Three people including a 15-year-old boy were killed Monday night in a string of shootings in different parts of East Oakland.
SF News Health Experts, Governors Fear Mid-June Spike In COVID-19 Cases From Protests Four consecutive days of nationwide protests, with protesters numbering in the tens of thousands in some cities — some masked, some not — have health experts and state and city leaders worried about a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks.
SF News 100 Arrested In Oakland Following Peaceful March; Empty Hilltop Mall Looted In Richmond Tear gas was deployed Monday against protesters in both Walnut Creek and Oakland, where around 100 people were arrested, 80 of them for violating the city's 8 p.m. curfew.
SF News Richmond Man Arrested For Murdering Grandmother Was Found Eating Her Body A suspect was arrested Monday in the city of Richmond for allegedly killing and cannibalizing a female relative, later identified as his grandmother.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Biden Mocks Trump's Bible Photo Op AC Transit is halting bus service at 7:30 p.m. amid curfews, the Union Square Business Improvement District has surveillance footage of looters, and Peninsula apartment rents are plunging.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Sends Military Troops Into D.C. to Aid Law Enforcement Trump is invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, Gov. Newsom is calling for an end to protest chaos, L.A. is under a 4 p.m. curfew today, and another Tesla worker is speaking out about a lack of safety at the Fremont plant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aunt Charlie's Lounge in the Tenderloin Launches Campaign to Save Itself From August 1 Closure The Tenderloin's last remaining LGBTQ bar, Aunt Charlie's Lounge, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $100,000 to save itself from going under in the next two months.
SF News Conspiracy Theorists Now Promoting Rumor That George Floyd Didn't Die On YouTube and Twitter George Soros, a "riot manual" given to antifa by Democrats, and a conspiracy theory that George Floyd's death was faked are all part of the current YouTube/Twitter/Facebook cesspool.
Arts & Entertainment At Virtual Drag Funeral, The Stud Gets a Send-Off By Many 'Widows' On Sunday, after the keys were handed back to the property owners who will likely demolish the building before long, a couple thousand fans and lovers of The Stud gathered online to mourn the loss of a beloved bar and nightclub, and watch some drag.
Business & Tech Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walk-Out To Protest Zuckerberg's Handling of Trump Mark Zuckerberg may have a mutiny on his hands this week as a significant number of Facebook employees are reportedly protesting the company's stance on President Trump and the inflammatory messages he has cross-posted on both Facebook and Twitter.
SF News Protests and Looting Have Everything to Do With Trump, Unemployment, and COVID, Activists Say Veteran activists say it's impossible to separate the pandemic and its impacts, as well as the unpopularity of President Trump, from what we are seeing on city streets. Meanwhile, Trump is telling governors that they need to "dominate" protesters with force.
SF News Jamie Foxx Joins Faith Leaders and Mayor London Breed For 'Kneel-In' at City Hall Actor Jamie Foxx is in San Francisco today to join inter-faith leaders, Mayor London Breed, and Supervisor Shamann Walton for a kneel-in outside City Hall at 11 a.m. to protest police violence and systemic racism.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Police Officer Shot California has ordered all state buildings in downtown areas closed today, looters laid waste to a San Leandro Walmart and set it on fire, and a fourth night of protests in Oakland left a police officer shot.
SF News 80 Arrested In San Francisco Sunday; Molotov Cocktails, Handgun Seized As San Francisco began imposing its first night of an 8 p.m. citywide curfew, SFPD officers made around 80 arrests, many of them for violating that curfew, but some for more destructive acts.
SF News Protest In Oakland Turns Violent, 22 Arrested, Looters Detained, Officers Injured, Federal Officer Killed The scenes of protest followed by some scenes of destruction and confrontations with law enforcement were echoed across the country Friday night. But scenes like this are fairly familiar in Oakland, and not all the vandalism and looting was necessarily done by "protesters," per se.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 30-Year-Old Cyclist Killed Near Golden Gate Park 23 Sonoma County wineries are reopening for visitors this weekend, Marin County is opening beach parking lots and outdoor dining on Monday, and a demonstration against police brutality is happening in San Francisco on Saturday.
SF News Activists Block Highway 101 In San Jose To Protest George Floyd Killing Protesters broke off from a peaceful demonstration near San Jose City Hall Friday afternoon, and a large group marched onto the 101 freeway and halted traffic, holding signs that said "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe."