SF News Mayor Appoints Task Force To Recommend Muni Fixes Ahead Of Hiring New Director Mayor London Breed, in her continued frustration with the SFMTA, has put together a working group to review all Muni service and recommend changes, months ahead of hiring a new agency director.
Arts & Entertainment Scamp the Tramp Wins Top Prize At the 2019 World's Ugliest Dog Competition The annual Sonoma-Marin Fair happened last week, ending Sunday, and Friday was the big day for the fair's nationally celebrated World's Ugliest Dog competition. Taking home first prize this year was this little guy, named Scamp the Tramp.
SF News East Bay Laments '510' Identity Loss As New '341' Area Code Rolls Out It's happening. Long the land of 510, which residents held onto as a point of pride and badge of East Bay cred, the area including Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, Alameda and other towns west of the hills will soon be getting a second area code: 341.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Standoff Ends Badly In San Jose Park Presidio Boulevard was closed this morning following a crash, a non-profit that hires ex-cons to clean up streets opens a new office on Sixth Street, and a vigil was held Sunday for the slain rookie cop in Sacramento.
Arts & Entertainment Clusterfest Attendees Frustrated By Indoor Shows, Line For John Mulaney The decision this year to move headlining comics indoors to Bill Graham Civic Auditorium has proven to be highly unpopular with a lot of Clusterfest attendees, as the venue's seating capacity means not everyone has been able to get in when they want.
SF News Sunday Links: Man Fatally Shot By Rangers In Big Sur Park Two people were killed in a vehicle collision in the Bayview early this morning, the plane involved in a deadly Hawaii crash had an incident in the Bay Area in 2016, and fentanyl killed more people than heroin in SF last year.
SF News Trump Changes His Mind On ICE Raids, Says They'll Be Delayed Planned ICE raids that were set to happen on Sunday in San Francisco and nine other cities are being delayed by at least two weeks, President Trump says. And it looks like Speaker Pelosi helped get the delay.
Arts & Entertainment Amy Poehler Spotlights LGBTQ Comedians At Clusterfest Many fans may have been hoping for a surprise appearance by Tina Fey. But comedian and jill-of-all performing arts trades Amy Poehler used her hour-long, headlining set at Clusterfest on Friday to raise the profile of a couple of LGBTQ comics.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Animal Shelter Sees Wave Of Canine Flu Police seized a huge cache of illegal fireworks from a Redwood City home, Sacramento police say young officer was ambushed, and canine influenza has swept through an Oakland animal shelter.
SF News Day Around The Bay: UC System Will Double-Check Athlete Admissions In Wake of Scandal BART is getting an Inspector General, salmon season is the best in years for local fishermen, and SoMa is getting another tall building, a 42-story condo tower.
Arts & Entertainment SF Gay Men's Chorus Celebrates The 50th Anniversary of Stonewall With New Show Clusterfest isn't the only thing happening in Civic Center this weekend. There's also three performances by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus at the Sydney Goldstein Theater (formerly Nourse Theater at 275 Hayes Street).
SF News ICE Plans To Raid Many Immigrant Families' Homes In San Francisco On Sunday President Trump, in his eagerness to play to his xenophobic base, may have let the cat out of the bag this week about a pending, widespread operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — via tweet, of course.
Arts & Entertainment Watch SF Street Performer Quincy Nelson Film A Spider-Man Music Video On Market Street Quincy Nelson, one of the costumed buskers of Fisherman's Wharf who dances for tips from tourists dressed as Spider-Man, showed up on Market Street Thursday twerking atop a traffic light at the corner of 4th Street.
SF News BART Gets A Rare Bit Of Good News From The Trump Administration With $1.25 Billion Grant BART applied for a grant from the Federal Transit Administration back in 2017, asking for $1.25 billion to increase capacity. The application stalled for 18 months, but on Thursday, BART got word that the grant had been approved.
SF News SF District Attorney George Gascon Looks To Be Running For DA In Los Angeles San Francisco's popular district attorney George Gascon unexpectedly announced last fall that he would not be seeking a third term. But now, just as unexpectedly, he's apparently been making preparations for a campaign for the DA's job in Los Angeles.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho's Eastern European Spot In the Old Farina Will Be Called Dear Inga We finally have some updates about the Liholiho Yacht Club team's plans for the old Farina space on 18th Street, which is planning for a September opening.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E Still Wants To Give Those Bonuses Neighbors continue to protest one man's yard swastika in El Sobrante, the suspect in the San Mateo stabbing murders was booked into jail, and an SRO resident in the Tenderloin is on hunger strike over her rent rate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect ID'd In Sacramento Cop Killing BART announces $1 billion in federal grant money to ease over-crowding, the big 5M project breaks down in SoMa, and several East Bay communities mourn the loss of Officer Tara O'Sullivan.
Arts & Entertainment Headliner John Mulaney To Do Two Sets At Clusterfest Saturday Friday marks the kickoff of the third annual Clusterfest, the SF comedy and music festival that's co-produced by Comedy Central and Superfly, and some things with the schedule have been shaken up.
SF News Amid Multiple Closures, Hayes Valley's Well-Loved Retail Scene Seems To Be Suffering With the closure of Will Leather Goods, it seems like stores have only been closing in the neighborhood for months.
Business & Tech Slack Stock Soars, Triples Company's Valuation In its untraditional public offering Thursday, Slack's stock took off in early trading, and currently is at over $41 per share — well over the reference price announced late Wednesday of $26 per share.
SF News Suspect And Second Victim Identified In Dual San Mateo County Stabbing Deaths A suspect was identified Wednesday afternoon in the bizarre stabbing deaths of two male victims on consecutive nights on a remote road in San Mateo County.
SF News Bay Area-Born Police Officer Killed In Sacramento After Answering Domestic Dispute Call 26-year-old Officer Tara O'Sullivan, originally from Pleasant Hill, was the first officer killed in the line of duty in Sacramento in 20 years.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kamala Proposes Federal Law For Free PreP SF gets a step closer to having its own public bank, Mill Valley is trying to outlaw certain types of landscaping as fire hazards, and Grocery Outlet's IPO is going well so far.
SF News Day Around The Bay: It Takes A $61/Hour Job To Pay For A Two-Bedroom in SF The Board of Supes remains at odds with Mayor Breed after Tuesday's meeting, Ghost Ship co-defendant Max Harris reverses himself, and palm trees are coming down in Hayes Valley.
