SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ginger's Rises Again The FiDi's only gay bar returns, Fiorella expands to Noe Valley, and longtime Mission stalwart Regalito is going to become something new in a matter of months.
SF News One Lake Merritt Shooting Victim Was a Bystander Allegedly Targeted by Teen Suspect The family of one of the victims in last week's mass shooting event at Lake Merritt is telling a disturbing story that could amount to a hate crime, and this victim was not even a participant in the unsanctioned Juneteenth party that was going on.
SF News High-Speed Rail Now Has Full Environmental Approvals For SF-to-LA Route While still sorely short on funds to actually get built, California's high-speed rail project reached a planning milestone on Thursday, with full approval now secured for a rail line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
SF Politics Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Broad Implications for Homeless Encampment Sweeps In California The Supreme Court has, predictably, ruled in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, weighing in for the first time on the issue of homelessness and how cities and states may legally enforce laws around public camping.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Environmental Group Sues Navy Over SF Shipyard Cleanup An environmental group has made good on a legal threat to sue the Navy over the Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup; the Supreme Court has overturned yet another huge precedent with wide-ranging consequences; and several UC Berkeley swimmers are headed to the Olympics.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History of Pride Weekend In San Francisco San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
SF News Rainbow Family Gathering Ordered Out of National Forest For First Time, Threatened With Fines It's not all peace, love, and mushroom tea in the Plumas National Forest, with around 500 members of the Rainbow Family gathering five miles north of Antelope Lake, and federal authorities are trying to kick them out.
SF News Fire Destroys Warehouse In West Oakland Next to Wood Street Encampment A three-alarm fire broke out Wednesday night at a roofing supply warehouse in West Oakland, and the fire appeared to have started outside the building, possibly in a debris pile.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Hampers More EPA Efforts A teen had to be rescued in Alameda after getting stuck in some shoreline mud; Tesla's been ordered to stop polluting; and the Supreme Court released another handful of big decisions, including one about the EPA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Curious Coyote Wanders Onto Pink Triangle In SF Thieves used a car to ram and burglarize a cigarette store in SF's Richmond District; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is fundraising to fight the recall; and a curious coyote wandered onto the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks Tuesday.
SF News BART Offering 'Most Robust Service Ever' For Pride Sunday BART is planning to run trains every five minutes through San Francisco starting Sunday morning, in what it says is its "most robust service ever" for San Francisco's Pride Parade.
SF News Dyke March Officially Cancelled, But May Happen Anyway It hasn't exactly been the most organized and controversy-free event of the Pride Season, but this year's Dyke March is apparently coming with some extra organizational turmoil.
SF News Legal Dispute Could Impact Opening of Ultra-Luxe Private Club at Transamerica Pyramid A potential legal battle between the developer and owner of the Transamerica Pyramid and the high-end private club that was supposed to become a main tenant there makes it sound like all is not well with this partnership.
SF News Supreme Court Briefly Leaks Decision Indicating It Will Temporarily Allow Emergency Abortions to Continue In Idaho The Supreme Court may be sidestepping a thorny abortion case, but the result appears will be that a lower court's pause on Idaho's near-total abortion ban will continue.
SF News Derailed Maintenance Vehicle Leads to BART Delays, Emergency Track Work A BART maintenance vehicle derailed early Wednesday near 19th Street Station in Oakland, and this has led to some emergency work and the halting of some service out of Richmond.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Supreme Court Sides With Biden Administration on Social Media Misinformation The Supreme Court ruled in favor of social media companies and the Biden Administration with regard to curbing misinformation online; BART has halted Red Line service; and Santa Rosa is dealing with a large power outage.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Market Street May Get a Block Party on the Same First Thursdays as the Party on Second Street The stretch of Market Street between Powell Street and Civic Center has long been the subject of great hope for city officials, and those hopes have been raised and dashed many times over the years.
SF News Apache Fire Near Chico Destroys Two Buildings, Triggers Evacuations A fire broke out in Butte County Monday evening and according to Cal Fire it was spreading at a dangerous pace before coming under more control Tuesday morning.
SF News Runaway Vendor Cart Rolls Down Dolores Park Hill, Injures Woman A freak accident happened Saturday in Dolores Park in which a vendor's pushcart rolled away down a steep embankment and into a crowd of people.
SF Politics In Latest PR Effort, California Forever Opens Healthcare Clinic In Rio Vista As they attempt to win over hearts and minds to their plan to build a new city in eastern Solano County, the group California Forever has just pledged to bolster healthcare access in the county.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dry Lightning Striking All Over California One California county saw 1,000 lightning strikes overnight; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's comms guy has left his job; and Elon Musk has fathered yet another kid, his twelfth.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Attorney Says He's No Longer Representing Oakland Mayor Attorney Tony Brass has fired Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao as a client, after she decided to make some combative public statements Monday; the 30-year-old KlaasKids Foundation is shutting down; and you may hear some thunder around the Bay tonight.
SF News SFUSD May Lay Off 600 Teachers and Staff In the Next Two Years Under Budget Plan As the San Francisco Unified School District submits to state oversight amid an ongoing budget crisis, we're now learning that the current plan to close a major deficit may include around 610 layoffs over the next two years.
SF News BART Police Confront and Arrest Stabbing Suspect Outside Powell Station A woman was arrested Monday morning on Market Street outside of the Powell Street BART station after she allegedly slashed a man on the train platform with a knife after the two exited a train.
