SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Opens This Week Inside Former Bank of America Vault at 555 California A new restaurant from the team behind Trestle and the recently shuttered Stones Throw is set to open on Wednesday, April 24, and it's called The Vault.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Oakland Skater Turns Electric Board Into Miniature Bus One creative and industrious skateboarder in Oakland was spotted Monday tooling around in traffic aboard his own, personal, remote-controlled, vintage school bus.
SF News Muni Temporarily Disables Rear Doors On New Trains After several days of drama following a widely seen video of an elderly woman who got her hand caught in the door of a new Muni train and was subsequently dragged and injured, Muni is disabling the rear single doors on all 68 of the new trains.
SF News Tuesday Morning Stories: Cliffside Rescue Near the Golden Gate A huge fire is burning in a lumber yard in Stockton, Twitter beat earnings expectations, and the city is prepping the Mission for the removal of 51 ficus trees along 24th Street.
Bay Area Sports Former Warriors and Lakers Coach Luke Walton Sued For Sexual Assault Recently departed Lakers head coach, former Warriors assistant coach, and newly hired coach of the Sacramento Kings, Luke Walton, has been sued by a female sports reporter over an incident in which she says Walton sexually assaulted her.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Death At Rockridge Station Causes BART Delays A man was fatally struck by a BART train in Oakland this afternoon, a convicted cop killer was found dead in his San Quentin cell over the weekend, and Elizabeth Holmes appeared in court today.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 9 Cool Things To Check Out This Week It's going to be a (relative) scorcher this week, so get out of the office/house and do something fun, preferably outdoors. Here are a few ideas, though some are indoors.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Reportedly Signs $60 Million Three-Project Deal With Beyonce Los Gatos-based Netflix may have some more Beyoncé movies coming out, as we now learn that the 'Homecoming' documentary of her 2018 Coachella performance was just the beginning of a three-project deal.
SF News Video: Easter Sunday Fistfight On Highway 101 Near San Jose Two men got into a knock-down brawl in the middle of Highway 101 on Sunday evening, and at least one person in a passing car recorded it.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Shut Off In Sri Lanka Following Terror Attacks After Sunday's deadly suicide bombings that killed nearly 300 people, the government of Sri Lanka shut off nationwide access to most social media sites and apps citing safety concerns and the spread of false news reports.
SF News Weather Report: Get Ready For Some 90-Degree Days (Outside the City) A warming trend this week means a couple more super warm days in SF on Tuesday and Wednesday, and some really hot weather in the North Bay and East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Links: FEMA Opens Trailers In Paradise A hang glider died Sunday in Pacifica, Port of SF staff are recommending approval for the Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, and four shipping containers caught fire Sunday in the Port of Oakland.
SF News Palo Alto Woman Who Berated MAGA Hat Wearer Goes Missing, Likely Gone Off Grid A Bay Area woman who was caught in a right-wing media firestorm after she publicly berated an elderly man for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat in a Palo Alto Starbucks has apparently voluntarily disappeared.
SF News Sunday Links: Oakland Authorities Hope To Stop Easter Sunday Sideshows SF opens the nation's first transitional housing facility for homeless trans youth, Planning Commission considers density for single-family 'hoods, and street trees are coming down in the Mission.
SF News A Brief History of Berkeley's People's Park, Born 50 Years Ago Today On April 20, 1969, a group of activists, Berkeley residents, and idealistic Cal students took it upon themselves to take a blighted, empty lot next to the university campus and turn it into a public park.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco and Santa Cruz Prep For Clouds Of 4/20 Smoke UC Santa Cruz's annual "smoke out" still isn't sanctioned by the school, the state is now investigating the new Muni train troubles, and Fremont Street will be closed at night to remove Transbay Terminal shoring.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mystery Illness Strikes 50 Kids At Berkeley School Beware fentanyl-laced weed on 4/20, a truck fire causes traffic at Benecia-Martinez Bridge toll plaza, and a really ugly fence has just gone up around the fountain at UN Plaza.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Game of Thrones' Pop-Up Bar And Dinners Arrive At SoMa's 25 Lusk Though not affiliated with HBO, a Game of Thrones-themed pop-up dinner series kicked off last week at 25 Lusk. There's now a waitlist for seats, but you can stop by and get a drink next to the 27-foot dragon.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen 'Murder She Wrote' Parody Comes to PianoFight A drag queen parody version of the classic 80's/90's whodunnit series starring Angela Lansbury has arrived in San Francisco. And it appears there are multiple "Jessicas," as well as musical numbers, in the show.
SF News Offensive Campaign By LA-Based Activist Group Compares Wiener Housing Bill To 1960s Urban Renewal A well funded Los Angeles-based AIDS organization has focused its attention recently on an opposition campaign to thwart state Senate Bill 50 (SB50), the latest effort by Sen. Scott Wiener to push for greater housing density near transit hubs.
SF News Video Shows Elderly Woman Dragged By Muni Train Video has been released from an onboard camera on the N-Judah train whose door locked on the hand of an elderly woman and dragged her down the platform before causing her to fall onto the tracks.
Arts & Entertainment Former AMC Van Ness To Become '4D' Cinema From Korean Company The shuttered, bed-buggy movie theater at 1000 Van Ness will be revived as a new theater early next year from a South Korean cinema company that specializes in "4D" experiences that include live sensory effects like wind and rain.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SFPD Seeks Wine Bottle Attacker A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Fremont, an 18-year-old man went missing in the surf in Half Moon Bay, and Treasure Island is deemed environmentally safe by new Navy report.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baby Elephant Seal Draws Crowds at Aquatic Park The Ninth Circuit upholds CA's sanctuary laws, Jeff Adachi's widow calls the SFPD "despicable" for releasing death details, and the town of Paradise has very contaminated water.
SF News What Are You Still Doing At Work It's Gorgeous Outside We don't get dozens of days per year like this one here in SF. I suggest you get out, like now, and take advantage of it.
