Arts & Entertainment History Tid-Bit: Ministers In Berkeley Tried To Blame 1906 Earthquake on 'Wickedness' In San Francisco A headline from the Oakland Tribune dated May 9, 1906 asked the incendiary question, "Was the Earthquake and Fire Result of Alleged Wickedness In San Francisco?"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Chefs Still Pissed About Impossible Burger Shortage, While The Faux Meat Flows To Burger King San Francisco chefs who feel they played a role in popularizing the Impossible Burger are steaming mad that Bay Area-based Impossible Foods cut off their supplies for weeks while apparently fulfilling a contract with Burger King.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley To Try Offering Loaner Metal Coffee Cups To Reduce Waste The city of Berkeley is going to be testing out a program in which reusable coffee cups are loaned out through an app-based service and then returned like library books, in order to reduce paper waste.
Arts & Entertainment Steve Earle, Iron & Wine, and Calexico All Part of Teaser Lineup For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 As is tradition, organizers of this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival have begun teasing out the lineup with a mystery medley, and so we now know who a few of the performers will be, including Bettye LaVette and The Meat Puppets.
SF Politics Supervisors Put Off Proposed Homelessness Commission Under pressure from the mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declined to approve a ballot measure that would have asked voters if they believe there should be a commission overseeing the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Flyers for 'Straight Pride Parade' Circulate In Modesto A standoff in the Oakland hills ends with two suspects arrested, the DMV is on a half day today, and the Board of Supervisors approved the creation of an Office of Racial Equity.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Road Rage On 280 Leads To Shooting In SF Tech giants in the Bay Area to be subject to a new DOJ probe, new evidence has been unsealed in the Bryan Carmody/SFPD warrant case, and nesting pigeons delayed a BART escalator repair.
SF News 7-Story Building At Church And Market Will Be Furnished Airbnb-Type Rentals With 30-Day Minimum Stays Ugh. The 52-unit development that's nearly complete at the prominent flatiron corner of Church and Market, whose design was the subject of lengthy hems and haws by the neighborhood, isn't even going to be regular housing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Andronico's Market Coming To a Long-Ago Safeway Next To Seacliff A grocery store property in the Outer Richmond that tried to go down-market as a Fresh & Easy location a few years ago is going to pivot to an upscale clientele as Safeway plans to put an Andronico's there.
SF News Video Shows Tenderloin Crash; Pedestrians Hit Were Celebrating Anniversary Newly released dash-cam video shows the moment a Tesla went speeding through an intersection in the Tenderloin on Sunday, fatally striking 39-year-old Benjamin Dean and gravely injuring his wife of three years, Kelly Dean.
SF News Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Debuts To The Public At SFO With Tribute Wall To LGBTQ History Tuesday is the big public opening day for Harvey Milk Terminal One, which opens its first gates to travelers after a two-year, $2.4 billion construction process. Nine of an eventual 25 gates are now open, along with a new boarding area and a tribute wall to Harvey Milk himself.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-You-Can-Eat Taco Fest In San Jose Runs Out Of Tacos, Chaos Ensues An apparently poorly organized taco and beer festival in the South Bay on Saturday promised unlimited tacos and beer tastings, but for the second time (!) vendors ran out of food and beer and it was just a whole lot of line-standing.
SF News ICE Fail: Only 35 Arrests Made Out Of 2,100 Immigrants Targeted Likely due to a month of leaked warnings and an aggressive education campaign by immigrant attorneys and advocates, the planned raids this month on immigrant families by Immigration and Customs Enforcement appear to have been a grand failure.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Punch Line Comedy Club Gets New Lease A driver was injured in another freeway shooting in Oakland, an impressive water recycling project is going on beneath Powell Street BART, and Walk SF is holding a pedestrian safety rally this morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Burgers In San Francisco From the high-end, restaurant sort of burger you'll find at Nopa and Spruce to the odes to gooey, greasy-spoon burgers you'll get at Pearl's and Double Decker, SF has the whole gamut of gut bombs to treat yourself with on Cheat Day. These are our favorites.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Man Arrested For Grandmother's Murder A grass fire near Lake Berryessa has spread to 45 acres, a sleeping man was stabbed in an unprovoked attack in the Mission Monday afternoon, and the Getaround driver of the Tesla involved in Sunday's crash in the Tenderloin has been identified.
SF Politics Watered-Down Version Of SF's Tech Cafeteria Ban Returns To Supes' Agenda A controversial proposed ban on in-house cafeterias at San Francisco tech companies is returning in a revised (and much less onerous) version before the Board of Supervisors this week.
Arts & Entertainment Fifth Annual 'Flower Piano' Wraps Up In Botanical Garden After 12 Days Of Open-Air Musical Delights Today is the final day to head out to the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park to hear people playing a dozen pianos in a pastoral setting. And over the last week and a half there have been plenty of Instagram and YouTube videos of the festivities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Years After Hit-and-Run Death of Gus's Community Market Owner, A Suspect Is Arrested In Stockton It's been nearly two years since the vehicular manslaughter death of 57-year-old Konstantinos “Gus” Vardakastanis, founder of the Gus's Community Market mini-chain in San Francisco. And now authorities have detained a suspect in the unsolved hit-and-run.
SF News Second 'BBQ'ing While Black' Event Draws Even Bigger Crowd At Lake Merritt Marking a year since the infamous "BBQ Becky" incident, in which an officious white lady called the cops on two black men who were barbecuing beside Lake Merritt in April 2018, hundreds turned out for the second "BBQ'ing While Black" event on Sunday.
SF News Homeless Likely To Blame For Six Brush Fires In Two Weeks In McLaren Park Ten more acres of John McLaren Park were scorched on Sunday afternoon before a brush fire could be contained there — the third such fire in the hilly city park in eight days, and the sixth in a two-week period.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tesla Used In Sunday Crash Was Rented On Getaround A car fire shut down General Douglas MacArthur Tunnel in the Presidio, ICE has been using Oakland Airport for mass deportations for the last decade, and noted satirist Paul Krassner has died.
SF News Two-Car Collision In Tenderloin Kills Husband, Injures Wife In Crosswalk A husband and wife from Clovis, California were struck and one of them was killed in a crosswalk at Taylor and O'Farrell Sunday afternoon after a Tesla reportedly ran a red light.
SF News Sunday Links: Central Subway Project Running Out of Money A motorcyclist was killed in Concord after being ejected and hit by a car, Balboa Park neighbors are divided over the proposed vehicle "triage" center for the homeless, and the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda celebrates the Apollo 11 moon landing.
SF News Well Known Skateboarder Tomoko Oikawa Suffers Brain Injury During Dolores Hill Bomb The annual event known as Dolores Hill Bomb, in which a bunch of skaters — including professionals — commandeer the hilly part of Dolores Street next to the park, has marked another casualty.