Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Evicting Longtime Castro Coffeeshop and Nail Salon, Likely for Box Office Space for Castro Theatre It's been confirmed that two longtime businesses on the 400 block of Castro Street, Castro Coffee Co. and Castro Nail Salon, are being evicted in June by new building managers Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF News Trump Was Very Clearly Watching 'Escape From Alcatraz' on TV When He Wrote His Dumb Tweet And just like that, we have confirmation of the likely source of President Trump's Sunday whim to reopen Alcatraz — which will never happen — and it's the Clint Eastwood classic 'Escape From Alcatraz' from 1979.
SF News SFO Travelers Hit With Delays Due to Mess In Newark A major East Coast airport hub, particularly for United Airlines, has been in the throes of an air-traffic control staffing shortage that has led to cascading delays and cancellations around the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jules, the Brick and Mortar Version of the Hot Pizza Pop-Up, Sets an Opening Date in the Lower Haight We finally have an opening date for Jules, after a bit of delay, in the former Iza Ramen space in the Lower Haight.
SF News SFPD Chief Bill Scott Is Stepping Down — Did Lurie Push Him Out? San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott is stepping down after an eight-year tenure at the SFPD, following months of rumors that Mayor Daniel Lurie might be looking to make a change at the top of the department.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Shot In Downtown Oakland Two people were shot on Franklin Street in downtown Oakland Tuesday afternoon; Netflix seems to be weathering the economic storm quite well; and Joe Biden just gave his first interview since leaving office.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Osito Reportedly Closing Due to Rent Dispute A seemingly successful restaurant with Michelin-level accolades, chef Seth Stowaway's Osito, will be closing after this weekend, due to the high rent on the space, Stowaway says.
SF News Founders of OneTaste, the Cult-y SF Orgasm Group, Begin Federal Trial In NY The co-founders of SF-based female-orgasm evangelism group/"wellness startup" OneTaste, Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, are on trial in New York for labor-law violations, and that trial began on Monday.
SF Politics Conservative Supreme Court Justices Once Again Do Injustice to Trans Service Members The Supreme Court has, once again, dealt a blow to transgender people serving in the United States armed forces, allowing President Trump's executive-order ban to stand while its constitutionality is being broadly questioned by lower courts.
SF News United Airlines Jet Clips Wing of Another at SFO, Emergency Crews Respond There was a minor plane whoopsie at San Francisco International Airport Monday night when a United Airlines jet pushing back from the gate clipped the wing of a nearby plane.
Arts & Entertainment Beck Joins Outside Lands Lineup as Single-Day Tickets Go On Sale Another Planet Entertainment, the organizer of Outside Lands, announced a major new addition to this year's lineup on Tuesday, as well as the day-to-day lineups, just ahead of single-day tickets going on sale.
SF News Sideshows Have Made It All the Way Out to the Sunset, and Residents Are Pissed Sideshows, the dangerous, impromptu car-spinning gatherings that were once the purview of East Bay communities alone, have been moving across the bridge in the last couple of years, especially on warm weekends.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Teen Stabbed Near Balboa Park BART's San Bruno Station was closed Tuesday morning due to a medical emergency; a teenager was stabbed Monday near Balboa Park in an apparent attempted robbery; and Coffee Bar downtown had a rodent issue.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zendaya and Colin Kaepernick Stun at Met Gala Oakland police are investigating a deadly shooting on Arkansas Street; the Portola fest sounds like it's readying a lineup announcement; and Zendaya and Colin Kaepernick were among the guests at the Met Gala Monday night in New York.
SF News Man Stabbed, Possibly By Angry Ex, at UC Berkeley Overlook Parking Lot A young man was stabbed multiple times in the parking lot of Lawrence Hall of Science in the Berkeley hills, on the UC Berkeley campus, but the individuals involved don't appear affiliated with the school.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shooting Inside Downtown Oakland Restaurant Leaves Two Injured Shots were fired inside upscale Creole and Cajun restaurant Pierre Pierre, in the Oakland Tribune building, leaving two injured and prompting the chef to say that the restaurant would likely be moving out of downtown.
SF News 79-Year-Old Peninsula Woman With Dementia Still Missing After Five Days Over 100 volunteers have logged over 3,000 miles in the last four days searching for 79-year-old Elaine McKinley, who went missing from her hiking group in Portola Valley on Thursday.
SF News Wiener: Trump's Alcatraz Idea 'Absurd,' Would Be 'Domestic Gulag In the Middle of San Francisco Bay' Yet again, after all these years, the media is compelled to jump and respond to Trump's every mis-capitalized tweet from the toilet, and this time it was a ridiculous idea floated on Sunday to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: High Winds Expected This AM A scooter rider was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Oakland Sunday; a small earthquake rattled part of the North Bay this morning; and there's a high-wind advisory for parts of the Bay through 2 pm.
SF News Drug Much Deadlier Than Fentanyl, Carfentanil, Linked to Death In Santa Clara County The Bay Area has recorded its first death attributable to an overdose from a much more potent and deadly fentanyl analog, carfentanil.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Hayes Valley Sees One Restaurant Open, Another on the Way The Rich Table team is expanding once more, there's a new restaurant in the former Petit Crenn space and it opened this week, and Daytrip Counter debuts next week in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Sherri Papini Now Trying to Recant Confession, Says FBI Had It Wrong About Her Faked Kidnapping It maybe should not come as a surprise that convicted liar and self-kidnapper Sherri Papini, now out of prison, continues with the funny business with regard to her 2016 "kidnapping."
SF News 79-Year-Old Peninsula Woman Missing After Hike With Partner and Friends In Portola Valley An elderly woman with dementia reportedly ran ahead of her group while on a hike for her partner's birthday Thursday afternoon and has not been seen since, and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is conducting a search.
SF News Elderly Person and Dog Struck and Killed by Vehicle on Howard Street In SoMa A pedestrian and their pet were struck and killed in the area of Howard and Seventh streets in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lake Shasta Hits Capacity Once More CA's largest reservoir has hit capacity for the third year in a row; Santa Rosa police engaged in an intense standoff with a residential burglar; and Trump wants to rename Veterans Day.
