Arts & Entertainment All About Juneteenth, the Holiday Celebrating the End of Slavery Last weekend, Juneteenth celebrations happened across the Bay Area, and today is the actual holiday, June 19, commemorating a day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and told some 250,000 slaves that they were free.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Hawaiian Spot Aina Makes Temporary Closure Permanent Brunch hot spot Aina, which opened in Dogpatch in 2016 after gaining a following as a pop-up, has shuttered for good following a six-month closure that had been announced as temporary.
SF News Two Apparent Homicides In Two Days Along The Same San Mateo County Road San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies have been on Skyline Boulevard near Woodside two nights in a row for other purposes, and twice they've come upon murder scenes. It's still unclear if the incidents are connected, but it's been a strange couple of nights on this winding, remote, two-lane road.
SF News Humpday Headlines: The Fifth Freeway Shooting In a Week The fight rages on over that mural at George Washington High School, SF won't be getting a safe-injection site just yet, and the SFPD is still pushing to get Tasers.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Small Fire Breaks Out At Mission Bay Food Truck Park The Board of Supervisors just took a final vote to ban e-cigs, Max Harris admitted to lying to a cop in the Ghost Ship trial, and get set for more sunny weather on Wednesday.
SF News Juul Just Bought A 28-Story Office Tower On Mission Street Worth an Estimated $400 Million If you had any doubt as to whether tobacco was still a winning business proposition in America in 2019, you should look no further than Juul. The SF-based e-cigarette brand just inked a deal to buy 123 Mission Street, a 28-story office tower with 363,000 square feet of highly valuable real estate.
Arts & Entertainment SF Queens On How 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Has Hurt (and Helped) The Larger World of Drag After being entirely overlooked on a recent New York Magazine ranking, along with every other established drag queen in the country who hasn't been on the show, SF's local queens reflect on the current state of drag in a 'Drag Race'-dominated world.
SF News Washington Square Park Takes Its Turn For Six-Month Closure, Upgrades Following on the renovations in recent years of Alamo Square and Dolores Parks, North Beach's Washington Square Park is now taking its turn — specifically to upgrade a 65-plus-year-old irrigation system that was wasting more water than any other city park.
Business & Tech Facebook Unveils Details On Its Crypto Coin, Libra, And Its Plan To Track Every Dollar We Spend It's been the buzz of Crypto Twitter and tech blogs for months, but today we have details of Facebook's next step toward world domination — and the next move that's most definitely going to raise eyebrows among regulators in Washington.
SF News Amazon Wants To Get Your Booze Delivered ASAP In San Francisco Amazon has filed for a license in San Francisco to deliver beer, wine, and spirits via its Prime warehouse in Dogpatch, competing with apps like Postmates, Drizly, and Saucy.
SF News Possibly Sickly Humpback Whale Still Refusing To Leave The Bay, May Be Getting Better A humpback whale who spent two weeks lounging around Alameda — earning the nickname Allie — appeared to have crossed the Bay Monday and was spotted in Islais Creek Channel, near the industrial part of Dogpatch in San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Another East Bay Freeway Shooting Two supervisors say teacher stipends aren't working, a suspect is at large following a burglary and shooting in Hayward, and the youngest person ever just climbed El Capitan.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Max Harris Testifies In Ghost Ship Trial A seven-story building wants to go in on Church Street where Sparky's used to be, Elon Musk thinks he deleted his Twitter account but maybe not, and the first ever Pride flag was raised at the state capitol.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa's Leather-Themed Eagle Plaza Breaks Ground on 12th Street The historically leather-bar-filled neighborhood of SoMa is finally getting its long-promised public park outside the Eagle Tavern. But it won't be done in time for Folsom Street Fair.
SF News Mayor Breed Discusses Her $5 Million 'Rapid Re-Housing' And Eviction Prevention Budget Perhaps in an attempt to get ahead of the story, discussed over the weekend, about the pushback she's getting from the Board of Supervisors for her affordable housing-expediting City Charter amendment, Mayor London
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie To Close After 12 Years, On September 1 Well-loved pie cafe Mission Pie will be vacating its prime spot at Mission and 25th after September 1, and owners Krystin Rubin and Karen Heisler say it's a bittersweet but necessary end to a 12-year run.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Dinner Menu At Mahila, The New Noe Valley Malaysian Spot From Azalina Eusope Azalina Eusope has had an inspiring, methodical trajectory from immigrant street-food vendor to full-service restaurant owner in the last 10 years. Her restaurant, Mahila, just opened on Saturday in the former Contigo space.
SF News Monday Morning Catchup: Shooting In Caldecott Tunnel BART is phasing out paper tickets this year, Anchor Brewing may be having an identity crisis, and that food-service worker strike at SFO is still on the horizon.
SF News Sunday Links: Corgi Con Draws 1,000 Dogs A grass fire in Antioch was sparked by illegal fireworks, all debris fires have been suspended in six NorCal counties because of wildfire risks, and Ocean Beach was overrun with Corgis on Saturday.
Bay Area Sports ICYMI: This Video Of Drake Taking Credit For the Raptors' Win Is Insane Drake probably shouldn't give impromptu press conferences. Just saying.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Cops Can't Stop the Sideshows A 23-year-old man was arrested in Concord after making threats to shoot up a synagogue, Pelosi was in town for Mayor Breed's women's summit, and a runaway golf cart injured five at Pebble Beach.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flint's BBQ Is Coming Back As A Pop-Up Facebook is unveiling its cryptocurrency Libra next week, BLM wants to cap Burning Man attendance where it was last year, and BART's new cars are soon going to be built locally, in Pittsburg.
SF News SFMTA Wants Your Input About Extending The Central Subway Past Chinatown Want to take a train from Union Square to the Presidio? That could be an option. Someday.
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Vinod Khosla Believes That AI Will Replace Musicians and Songwriters In 10 Years You may be hooked on your algorithm-generated Discover Weekly playlist listening on Spotify, but what if machine learning could auto-generate music tailored to your exact taste and mood? That's what local billionaire Vinod Khosla thinks will be happening within 10 years.
SF News Duboce Park Area Resident Detained For Chasing Down, Allegedly Assaulting Car Burglar In the heat of Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, one SF resident near Duboce Park decided to take justice into his own hands after seeing a man outside his apartment breaking into his car.
