SF News SFUSD Proposed School Closure List Is Out: 11 Elementary, K-8 and High Schools May Close or Merge A couple hours ahead of a planned announcement by the San Francisco Unified School District, the school closure shortlist has come out, and though it does not represent a finalized list, it will give parents and teachers an idea of what's to come.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Planned Offshoot Restaurant Project, Both Dead For Good, Owner Says Bar Agricole, which reopened this spring in a new location, as a companion bar to Osito, quietly closed its doors in July and won't be reopening, apparently ever, anywhere.
SF News 20-Year-Old Sonoma County Man Charged With Murder Following High-Speed Rohnert Park Crash The man arrested over the weekend after a series of crashes in Sonoma County that authorities attributed to road rage, one of them fatal, has now been charged with murder and hit-and-run, the district attorney confirms.
SF News Muni Experiences Major Meltdown With Downed Overhead Line In Tunnel Near Civic Center It's not clear how many hours we may be looking at here, but Muni was melting down Tuesday morning, with no light-rail trains able to pass through the Market Street subway tunnel in the downtown direction.
SF News Charges Against Two Alameda Cops In Mario Gonzalez Case Dropped; Third Officer Still Faces Charges An Alameda County judge sided with defense attorneys Monday and dismissed manslaughter charges against two of the three Alameda police officers involved in the April 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF School Closure Shortlist Drops Today SF Unified will reveal its school closure "eligibility" list today, but not a final list; a new poll finds Bay Area residents broadly support Prop 36; and a protest against encampment sweeps outside Berkeley's old City Hall continues to grow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bob Lee Murder Trial Begins Next Week The trial of Nima Momeni for the 2023 murder of Bob Lee starts next Monday; the Livermore PD calls out Pamela Price over one particular case; and mail-in voting starts today in San Francisco.
SF News This Past Week Was a Reminder of Why You Can't Trust Weather Apps for SF Heatwaves Weather apps like the iPhone's, and even the National Weather Service, under-predicted this past week's heatwave in San Francisco — and said it was only going to be a three-day warming spell, which clearly it was not. Why did this happen?
Arts & Entertainment It Was Very, Very Hot For the 50th Anniversary of the Castro Street Fair Sunday People came out in droves but most were trying to huddle in the shadier parts of the Castro neighborhood for the 50th anniversary of the Castro Street Fair on Sunday.
SF News Beware Phony QR Code Scam Popping Up on SF Parking Meters Some fairly sophisticated scam artists have been slapping QR-code "Pay by Phone" stickers on SF parking meters, and the SFMTA just caught on last week.
SF Politics Former Mayors Willie Brown, Art Agnos, and Frank Jordan Call For Criminal Investigation of Mark Farrell Campaign It's not exactly an October surprise, but it is an escalation of the ongoing parade of negative attention on Mark Farrell, who by some polls has been the frontrunner in the San Francisco mayoral race.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's Fleet Week! Fleet Week kicks off Monday in SF; the heatwave has peaked but it's still not quite over; and Mark Zuckerberg just overtook Jeff Bezos to become the second richest person in the world, thanks to Meta's stock price.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Divis Gets a New Wine Bar A new wine bar with Vietnamese small plates is opening on Divisadero, a new Central Asian and Uzbek restaurant has opened in Lower Nob Hill, and Cafe Bastille is shuttering after 35 years, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Stanford Upholds Its Conservative Bona Fides, Hosts Symposium For COVID Skeptics and Anti-Maskers "What's happening at Stanford?" writes one medical school dean on social media, regarding the Pandemic Policy symposium at Stanford University today, featuring a number of Fauci-hating anti-maskers who took constroversial stances on public health policies during the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef at SoMa Restaurant Aphotic Announces Closure, Cites 'Desolate Convention Center Suck Hole' Michelin-starred downtown fine dining spot Aphotic is shutting its doors in December after about 20 months in business, and chef-owner Peter Helmsley sounds pretty down about the Moscone Center-adjacent neighborhood he's been operating in.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Kicks Off In Full Sun; Friday Lineup Includes Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney Starting at 1 pm Friday, the music will be playing in Golden Gate Park as the 24th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off amid a persistent heatwave.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Arena Concert Inexplicably Delayed Over Safety Concerns A Hans Zimmer concert at Oakland Arena had an inexplicable two-hour delay that frustrated fans Thursday; the US added 254,000 jobs last month; and a new report confirms that Trump withheld disaster aid to California because it's a blue state.
SF Politics Katie Porter for Governor? Poll Suggests She Might Do Well Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is not running for reelection in her purple Southern California district following her unsuccessful run for Senate, is hinting she would consider running for governor in 2026.
Arts & Entertainment SF Disability Justice Activist Alice Wong Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, as Does Cabaret Star Justin Vivian Bond The MacArthur Fellows for 2024 have been announced, and among them are San Francisco-based disability justice activist and writer Alice Wong, and onetime SF resident and famed cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond.
Arts & Entertainment Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf Closes for Good After 61 Years Madame Tussauds, which had operated the longtime wax museum at Fisherman's Wharf for the last decade, has permanently closed up shop, and this staple attraction of the Wharf for several generations is no more.
SF News Fell Street DMV Site to Become 372 Affordable Housing Units The 1960-built Department of Motor Vehicles office and its parking lot at the tip of the Panhandle in San Francisco will be redeveloped as affordable housing, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Heatwave Won't Let Up A medical emergency shut down some BART service in the East Bay Wednesday night; Eric Swalwell endorses the recall of Pamela Price; and this week's heatwave has gotten an extension.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mark Farrell Failed to Disclose $675K Loan In Election Filing SF mayoral candidate Mark Farrell failed to disclose a large loan for the purchase of his home four years ago; the eventual developer of the Coliseum site says it is not behind on any payments to Oakland; and a Bank of America outage that freaked out customers is being resolved.
SF News Two Tenderloin Drug Dealers, Convicted In 2021, Fled to Honduras and Have Now Been Caught and Sentenced A drug kingpin who pleaded guilty to supplying street-level dealers in SF's Tenderloin with about two tons (1775 kilograms) of meth and cocaine between June 2018 and his arrest in 2019, fled the country while out on bond three years ago. But he was found, extradited, and has now been sentenced.
SF News Revised Tower Plan at South Van Ness and Market Adds Ten Stories, Totals 950 Units A very tall new residential tower may still rise at the site of the former Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness, with the developer submitting revised plans to the city for the long-stalled project.
