SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Powerball Jackpot Hits $625M The city just settled with a bicyclist who was hit by a police car in 2016, a former UC Berkeley student is accusing a football coach of sexual harassment, and UCSF workers are on strike.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Butterfly Swarm Arrives In NorCal Butterflies are getting spotted in the Presidio and up the coast, that parody Devin Nunes account now has a half million followers, and the Giants just added Matt Joyce to their outfield.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse To Launch $20 Monthly Movie Passes By Year-End Just about everybody's favorite local movie theater since it opened four years ago, Alamo Drafhouse, is set to launch a new subscription service along the lines of the troubled Moviepass.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Legend Peaches Christ To Present 'First Wives Fight Club' April 7 Starring Ginger Minj, Raja, and Brooke Lynn Hytes The latest drag parody extravaganza at the Castro Theatre from local workhorse Peaches Christ is a mash-up of 90s film classics First Wives Club and Fight Club. And it's a musical.
SF news Newsom Pulls National Guard Troops From Border, Puts Them To Work In Fire Prevention Instead Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that in defiance of the Trump administration, he's pulling a bunch of California National Guard troops from the southern border and putting them to work for CalFire doing forest thinning and fire prevention work.
SF News Applaud Yourselves: Dolores Park Not Nearly As Trashed As Usual After SF's First Warm Weekend Of 2019 After a balmy, sunny weekend brought everybody out to San Francisco's favorite party park, Rec & Parks is saying that people are getting much better at carrying out their own trash and not leaving it all on the ground like animals.
SF News Florence Fang Vows To Fight Hillsborough To Keep Her 'Flintstones House' Dinosaurs "This is intolerance and elitist behavior from the town of Hillsborough," says Fang's attorney, former SF Supervisor Angela Alioto.
Arts & Entertainment The Space Lady, Freshly Out Of Retirement, Plays The Verdi Club Friday Longtime denizens of the Castro or Haight may recall a kooky busker with a winged metal viking helmet who played a little Casio keyboard and sang ethereal, psychedelic versions of pop songs.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Google Fined $1.7 Billion By The EU The EU has now fined Google/Alphabet $10 billion total, Mike Pence just dropped into the Bay Area, and Pinterest just signed a huge lease in SoMa.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Russian Hill Crash Disrupts Cable Car Service Three were injured in a Tuesday afternoon crash near Fisherman's Wharf, Emeryville Police investigated a suspicious package at Home Depot, and an SF Supervisor wants to ban e-cigarette sales.
SF News Salesforce To Release More Tickets For Free Tours Of Tower's Top Floor The first batch of tickets for monthly free tours of the "Ohana Floor" of Salesforce Tower got snapped up in record time, and now Salesforce says it will release a new batch covering dates from July through the end of the year, starting in April.
Arts & Entertainment The Black Keys & Modest Mouse Join Fall Lineup At New SF Arena The Chase Center has just announced that The Black Keys will be performing in SF on November 20, joining the slowly trickling-out lineup at the new Warriors arena.
SF News Yet Another High-Rise Proposed For Downtown Oakland An Oakland developer has just submitted plans for a new 22-story highrise at Harrison and 14th Street that would combine 127 residential units and office space on the lower floors.
SF News Devin Nunes Is Suing Twitter and Two Parody Accounts And It's Hilarious Republican congressman and devoted Trump defender Rep. Devin Nunes of California has filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter and a couple of parody accounts that enjoy making fun of him, and SNL couldn't have written a funnier script than this lawsuit and the ensuing Twitter pile-on.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Band To Play Chase Center On September 10 As "Reveal Week" continues, the Chase Center announced the second act to open at the brand new, 18,000-seat venue in September, and it's good old 90s college rock crooner, Dave Matthews.
SF News Tuesday Morning Links: Curry Sinks 61-Foot Three-Pointer Local news stations are freaking out about home invasion footage in a nursery, Van Ness is a mess, and the Richmond Bridge fixes will go on at least six months.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Drops Full-Length Trailer For 'Toy Story 4,' Featuring Forky the Spork After months of anticipation and a teaser that introduced a new character — a spork with arms and googly eyes — Disney-Pixar has finally let us see the full-length trailer for 'Toy Story 4.'
SF News Day Around The Bay: Driver Knocks Over Pole, Disrupts Divisadero Traffic The intersection remains closed — the Divisadero lanes anyway — and the 24 bus is being rerouted around the situation. Also, Trump might get to add judges to the Ninth Circuit?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chow Space On Church To Become Cook Shoppe, From Owner Behind Upcoming Gramercy Park Brasserie Across The Street The recently shuttered Chow already has a taker who has plans to reopen the restaurant with as much of the same staff as he can, a similarly neighborhood-centric spot called Cook Shoppe.
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'The Great Leap' Tells A Very San Francisco Tale With Global Reach Lauren Yee's The Great Leap tells a story with so much connection to San Francisco, it seems odd that the play actually premiered last year in Denver before moving on to a six-week run in New York.
SF News Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Copies Of The New Zealand Shooting Video The horrifying 17-minute Facebook Live video made by the accused New Zealand shooter proliferated on social media in the first 24 hours, and Facebook says it removed 1.5 million copies in that first day alone — 1.2 million of which were caught on upload.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica and SF Symphony Team Up For Inaugural Concert at Warriors Arena The first concert at the Chase Center on September 6 was just announced, and it's going to be a 20th anniversary reunion concert for SF's own Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony, who last played together in 1999.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle Might Reopen This Year Following Multi-Year Battle With Neighbors Telegraph Hill landmark Julius' Castle may finally be seeing the light at the end of a years-long tunnel that included a lengthy Planning review, and a lawsuit by NIMBY neighbors paranoid about traffic.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lyft Releases Revenue Numbers, Launches Roadshow Lyft is seeking a pre-market valuation somewhat lower than the $25 billion that was expected. Also, two people were shot in two days on East Bay freeways.
SF News Sunday Links: Missing Snowboarder Found Dead A 40-year-old Vallejo man was found dead at North Star, an elderly man survived a leap out of his car on 280, and Pelosi is calling for an override vote.
