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.
SF News SF's TV-Friendly Medical Examiner Leaving For Better Paying Job In Central Valley SF's chief medical examiner since 2015, Dr. Michael Hunter — also known for his work on a cable TV series — is leaving the job for a major pay raise in San Joaquin County.
SF News Sonoma County Man Pleads No Contest In 2004 Jenner Beach Murders, Killing Of Brother On the eve of his trial for both the 2017 murder of his brother and the highly publicized 2004 double homicide of a couple who were camped on a beach in Jenner, 40-year-old accused killer Shaun Gallon entered a new plea of no contest Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Klay Tore His ACL The Toronto Raptors' president apparently shoved an Alameda deputy, the Ritz in Half Moon Bay is being fined over beach access issues, and a tree crushed a car on Sutter Street.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Unarmed Man Fatally Shot By Police In San Leandro Defense witnesses testify to the character of Max Harris in the Ghost Ship trial, BART board rejects fare hikes, and a visit to the Rat Bar.
Arts & Entertainment Mezzanine Gets Three-Month Extension, May Get More Thanks To Sup. Matt Haney The Board of Supervisors has been known to push its weight around and impose zoning controls when popular entertainment venues and bars are at risk, and that is now the threat by District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney to the landlords of Mezzanine.
SF News Anonymous Anti-Transphobia Group Puts Hangtag 'Alerts' On Muni Trains The incendiary language points to the work of Gay Shame, but these professionally printed hangtags saying "Transphobia Prohibited" came from an ostensibly new underground group called Anti-Transphobia Action.
Bay Area Sports Tickets For Final Warriors Game Ever In Oakland Going For $900 to $35,000 As the clock ticks down to tip-off at tonight's Game 6 of the NBA Finals, prices for Warriors tickets on the resale site TickPick are also ticking down a bit, but the average list price this morning was $5,822.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Loves The $8 Slices At Flour + Water Pizzeria, But Twitter Critics Are Skeptical A $10 lunch or dinner in this town that didn't come from a taqueria or a Burger King is sadly a rarity these days.
SF News San Mateo Cop Catfished By Gender-Swap Filter, Arrested For Contacting A Minor A 20-year-old in the Bay Area says that he went seeking potential predators on Tinder by using Snapchat's gender-swap filter, and claiming to be a 16-year-old girl. The guy he ensnared turned out to be San Mateo police officer, and that officer was arrested and placed on administrative leave.
SF News Salesforce Tower Needs To Offer More Tours Than One Day A Month The company released some more free tickets for tours of the 61st floor which were snapped up in record time, but four time slots once a month seems stingy, no?
