SF News Sword-Attack Suspect Arrested; Victim Released From Hospital The MAGA-hat wearing suspect in last Friday's sword slashing outside the Church of 8 Wheels roller disco has been found and arrested.
Arts & Entertainment Pink Martini, Digable Planets, Psychedelic Furs Announced For Stern Grove 2019 The lineup for this year's Stern Grove Festival includes the 90s throwback hip-hop stylings of Digable Planets, the international eclecticism of Pink Martini, and, as always, the San Francisco Ballet and SF Symphony.
SF News Berkeley Engineer Enters Not Guilty Plea In Bizarre Poisoning Case 34-year-old David Xu, a senior materials engineer and an alum of UC Berkeley, appeared in an Alameda County courtroom Thursday to enter a plea in a case in which he's accused of systematically poisoning a co-worker.
Arts & Entertainment 'In Old Age' At The Magic Is A Haunting Tale Of Found Connection That Falls Slightly Short The world premiere of In Old Age, the fifth play in Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play cycle about a Nigerian-American family, played to an eager audience Wednesday night at The Magic Theatre.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink El Porteno Restaurant Owners Snap Up Baobab and Alba Ray's Spaces The owners of El Porteño Chifa Peruana, the Excelsior-based restaurant that's not to be confused with El Porteño Empanadas, have just made two big investments in Mission restaurant real estate.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'The Jungle,' Now Playing At The Curran Opening night is tonight for The Jungle, the immersive theater piece that has transformed The Curran from a 1,600-seat proscenium theater into a 600-seat Afghan cafe inside a French refugee camp.
SF News Mayor London Breed Shouted Down At Community Meeting On Embarcadero Navigation Center Mayor Breed made an apparently unexpected appearance at a planned community meeting Wednesday night and not everyone was glad to see her.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Mission Condo Project Faces Pushback A seven-story condo project on 14th Street goes to Planning, Bay Area bridges deemed deficient, and another gray whale has turned up dead in the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Gushes With Water Once More The spillway was put to use for the first time since 2017, more Bay Area parents appeared in court in the college fraud case, and Walnut Creek Police arrested an allegedly scary creep.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Che Fico Offshoot Is Prepping For Late April Opening On Divis Ultra-hot Divisadero spot Che Fico is trying again with its downstairs, street-level, former cafe space, and it's going to be a combo salumeria and wine-focused Italian trattoria.
Arts & Entertainment Avett Brothers' Musical, 'The African Mean Girls Play' Announced For Berkeley Rep's New Season The first season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre under incoming artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer includes a world premiere with music by the Avett Brothers.
SF News Apple Exec and ACLU Are Suing Homeland Security Over An SFO Search Prominent privacy advocate and Apple executive Andreas Gal has teamed up with the ACLU on a lawsuit against the federal government concerning invasive practices by Customs and Border Patrol.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Rooftop Bar Everdene Opens Tonight At Virgin's New SoMa Hotel The new Virgin Hotels San Francisco opened in February, and tonight, April 3, is the debut of its swanky new rooftop bar — chilly weather be damned.
SF News Another Week, Another Castro Retail Closure: IXIA 'Tis the season, I guess, for retail turnover in the Castro, and now Hoodline brings word that the next to go is beloved, stick-obsessed floral designer IXIA.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Spotted Looking 'Happy' In The Marina, Recognized By Her Voice Disgraced local biotech whiz kid and accused fraudster Elizabeth Holmes came throatily back into the news with that HBO doc, and now Inside Edition is chasing her around SF.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dixon Families Mourn Teen Boys Who Died Saving Dog Muni drivers who sleep in their cars between shifts are fighting for higher pay, BART's police chief is stepping down after less than two years, and Outside Lands has had its 10-year permit approved.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Atmospheric River Will Dampen Giants' Home Opener A 14-year-old girl struck by a car near Lake Merced last month has succumbed to her injuries, the Full House house is going back on the market, and there was another fatal domestic incident in Pittsburg.
Arts & Entertainment New LEGO Take On SF's Skyline Makes Salesforce Tower Look Especially Sex Toy-Esque LEGO's sort-of-for-adults architecture series has released an updated San Francisco skyline building kit, and not only does the TransAmerica Pyramid not look quite like itself, but Salesforce Tower is looking even more dildo-ish than in real life.
Arts & Entertainment Museum of 3D Illusions Provides Wharf-Adjacent Instagram Pitstop The newest in SF's array of ticketed Instagram traps is the Museum of 3D Illusions, which is not a museum so much as a series of painted backdrops, but you should be used to these things by now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Aster Closes On Guerrero; Guamanian Spot Prubechu Set To Open The Daniel Patterson-owned, Brett Cooper-helmed, Michelin-starred Mission spot Aster served its last dinner on Saturday after Cooper's previously announced departure for Southern California.
SF News Flintstone's House Is Not Florence Fang's Primary Residence, But It Is Her 'Happy Place,' Says Attorney While her client fights for her right to be kooky in her lawn decoration choices on property that she owns, Florence Fang's attorney Angela Alioto gives us a closer look the Flintstone's House in Hillsborough.
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Trial Kicks Off, May Last Up To 18 Weeks The two defendants in the manslaughter case stemming from the December 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland are finally facing trial over two years later, and families of the 36 victims are expected to attend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Breed Willing To Compromise On Navigation Center Two teens died in Dixon in an accidental electrocution in a field, Breed says she'd consider fewer beds at the proposed Embarcadero shelter, and a downtown developer is backing out of a grocery store promise.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Berkeley Engineer Charged In Poisoning Case The person who died in the early Sunday crash on Cesar Chavez was a 31-year-old woman, CVS is closing two more SF stores, and a Southwest flight out of Oakland had to make an emergency landing.
Arts & Entertainment Playwright Mfoniso Udofia Explores A Unique Immigrant Family Saga In Her 9-Play 'Ufot Cycle' Acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia did not set out to write plays, let alone to write an ambitious nine-play cycle that spans decades and chronicles multiple generations of a single family.
