Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Artist Leo Villareal Is Lighting Up 15 Bridges In London The latest project from the Burning Man artist turned public-art guru Leo Villareal is called "Illuminated River," and it features different lighting schemes on each of the 15 bridges that cross the Thames in London.
Business & Tech Unionmade Shuts Retail Stores In Castro After 10 Years Yet another significant retail closure to tick off for the Castro neighborhood: Unionmade has closed both its men's and women's stores on 18th Street after a decade in business.
SF Politics Feds Investigate SF's Four-Year-Old Neighborhood-Preference Program For Affordable Housing The Trump Administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has put San Francisco on notice over an affordable housing policy that the Obama Administration had tacitly supported.
SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News Who Left Their Cat On The Bay Bridge? Animal Care & Control Now Has Him A cat on a leash was found perched on a ledge, hundreds of feet in the air, along the First Street onramp to the Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon during rush hour.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Small Plane Makes Emergency Ocean Landing In Half Moon Bay Someone was shot at Sixth and Market, Santa Rosa's Coffey Park is almost all rebuilt after the Tubbs Fire, and Juul is also fighting an e-cigarette ban in Livermore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo High Forces Students To Lock Up Phones Accused SoMa assaulter Austin Vincent pleaded not guilty to an earlier assault today and will remain in jail, a free-speech group has sued the SFPD over the raid on a journalist's home, and a San Mateo school is forcing all students to lock up their phones all day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town To Close In the Castro This Weekend, Transition To Event Space A little over a week after telling the Bay Area Reporter that the end might be close if customers didn't come in full force, the owner of Finn Town in the Castro, Rick Hamer, has announced plans to close at the end of this weekend.
Bay Area Sports Colin Kaepernick Says Mario Woods Shooting Inspired His Kneeling Protest The officer-involved shooting death of Mario Woods at the hands of the SFPD in December 2015 was a direct inspiration for the NFL "take a knee" protest that divided the country and negatively impacted the career of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Chocolate Shop Owner Attacked and Strangled, Saved By Son The owner of a popular truffle shop in North Beach says he was being strangled by an allegedly homeless man outside his store on Monday, and the attacker only relented when the owner's son came out with a baseball bat.
SF News Ghost Ship Defense Attorneys Move For Mistrial As Judge Charges Two Dismissed Jurors With Contempt In open court today the judge in the case announced that two of the three dismissed jurors are going to face contempt charges related to possible contacts with the media or internet use.
Business & Tech Facebook Will Now Let You Opt Out Of Having Your Every Move Tracked Online Over a year after the Cambridge Analytica debacle showed Facebook users how insidious the practice of personal data-collection has become, Facebook is giving users a new way to control how much data it's collecting on your activities outside Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Artist Had Elephant Sculptures and Truck Stolen In West Oakland Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Stories: 6 or 7 Ghost Ship Jurors May Have To Leave Soon Wildfires are down across California by 90% this year, the city of SF is giving teachers $3K bonuses, SFO's plastic water bottle ban takes effect, and some Ghost Ship trial jurors now have scheduling conflicts looming.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Death Penalty Sought For MacArthur Station Murder Suspect Muni had a meltdown at the end of rush hour Monday morning, a 32-year-old man in the Bayview suffered life threatening injuries after being punched, and a trailer fire sent smoke over Santa Rosa today.
Arts & Entertainment SF Animal Care's 'Officer Edith': 'There's Always A Skunk At the Bottom of a Hole' One of the darlings of the local government Twitterati, the voice behind the @OfficerEdith Twitter handle that tweets cute pictures of animals rescued by Animal Care & Control, is actually named Lt. Eleanor Sadler.
SF News Three Jurors Dismissed And Replaced On 10th Day Of Ghost Ship Trial Deliberations The judge in the trial of Ghost Ship fire defendants Derick Almena and Max Harris has dismissed three jurors — a quarter of the jury — for undisclosed reasons, and replaced them with three alternates.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RT Rotisserie Opens Second Location In Faletti/Nopalito Complex At Oak and Broderick Popular fast-casual Rich Table spinoff RT Rotisserie is getting set to debut a second location in the former DeLessio Market and Bakery space next door to Faletti Foods at 306 Broderick Street — exactly 12 blocks from the original location.
SF News Alameda Landlord Claims She Is Not Greedy As She Attempts To Evict 87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor A landlord in Alameda has been trying for a year to evict an elderly Holocaust survivor — and previously his terminally ill son, who has now died — reportedly over a $700/month rent hike.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Alamo Drafthouse Reopens After Small Electrical Fire; Refunds Offered If you had tickets for a movie tonight or were planning to see something at Alamo Drafthouse in the Mission in the next day or so, you may be out of luck as the theater is temporarily closed pending an SFFD inspection on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Hoorah! Curran Theater Will Continue To Be Run By Carole Shorenstein Hays Following Settlement With SHN Theater fans who worried that The Curran might stop importing interesting Broadway fare from New York due to a court fight can breathe a sigh of relief -- the theater can continue to book what it wants "without restriction."
SF News Once Again, A Foolish Driver Drove Through the Muni Tunnel At Duboce Park An SUV tore through the Sunset Tunnel on the N-Judah line on Saturday, this time making it all the way through and out the other side at Cole and Carl Streets.
SF News Homeless Man Accused In Assault To Be Jailed Today On Earlier Arrest Warrant Multiple other victims have come forward with stories of possible threats made by the same homeless man in last week's assault case, and now he's definitely landing in jail.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: PG&E Shares Plummet After Tubbs Fire Decision A woman was fatally struck by a BART train at Powell Sunday night, a registered sex offender chased several women around Santa Rosa, and Sacramento is suing seven homeless people in an unusual case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Friends Visit All 28 San Francisco Breweries In One Day A group of SF friends set out on Saturday, August 17 to hit every brewery in the city, beginning out at the ocean at 9:30 a.m. at Beach Chalet — a grand total of 28 stops. And they survived.
