SF News DA Jenkins Drops Charges for Pretty Much Everyone Arrested at Dolores Hill Bomb Last Month It's a predictable ending to the mass arrest of everyone who happened to be standing near last month’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboard rally — the DA is dropping the charges against all but two of the 34 adults arrested in the roundup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Taqueria, Arguably the Creator of the ‘Mission Burrito,’ Celebrates 50 Years in Business 50 years after opening, La Taqueria is still getting lines down the block on Mission Street, and has both James Beard honors and “Burrito Bracket” awards to show for its five decades of greasy goodness.
SF News Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street Bike Lane Officially Opens, Though It’s Not Fully Built Yet The red tide algae blooms in Bay Area waters appear much less deadly than last year, Santa Clara is predictably issuing fines for Taylor Swift playing past curfew, and the Valencia Street bike lane is officially open but drawing yet more criticism.
Arts & Entertainment Two Tina Turners Tell A Tumultuous, Terrific Life Story in ‘Tina - The Tina Turner Musical’ at the Golden Gate Theatre A dazzling and kinetic Tina Turner musical biography goes for nearly three hours at the Golden Gate Theatre, but the musical stylings of a ten-year-old playing a young Tina are simply the best moments of the show.
SF News Throwback Thursday: A Sitting U.S. President Died in San Francisco, 100 Years Ago This Week Warren G. Harding, roundly considered one of the worst U.S. Presidents of all time, kicked the bucket exactly 100 years ago this week at SF’s Palace Hotel, which is still the Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery streets.
SF News Antioch Church Mission Group Trapped in Niger Amidst Military Coup Nearly a dozen volunteers with Antioch’s Cornerstone Christian Center are stranded in the West African country of Niger, as a nine-day Vacation Bible School trip very unfortunately coincided with a military coup that closed off the country’s borders.
SF News Yet Again, CNN Reporter Gets Car Broken Into While Covering Crime in Oakland It’s the third car break-in suffered by CNN reporter Kyung Lah in the Bay Area, though the smash-and-grab her rental car endured Wednesday was just a smash, as there was nothing in the car to grab.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Music Club Amado’s Reeling From Basement Flood, Needs Community Support The Mission District live music venue Amado’s took a $500,000 hit with a flooding incident this summer that turned its downstairs area “into a swimming pool,” and the club is looking to its fans and regulars to help them bail out from the extensive damage.
SF News The 28R-19th Avenue Muni Line Returns From Its Pandemic Slumber On August 21 Muni riders who have business along 19th Avenue have a speedy old friend coming back, as the long-suspended 28R-19th Avenue line will be reinstated for service two weeks from Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to Host ‘After-Hours’ Music Festival Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra The Bay Area’s music festival-mania is coming to Lake Merritt’s Children’s Fairyland, which will play host to a September nighttime festival called “Through the Looking Glass,” with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Oakland-based pop star Spellling.
SF News Wild San Mateo Road Rage Incident Ends With Father Being Mowed Down by Automobile A Sunday melee on the suburban streets of San Mateo allegedly escalated from vehicular stalking, to threats with a knife, to a man being struck by a car, and one 24-year-old suspect is facing multiple charges.
SF News Police Arrest Suspect in Haight-Ashbury Sandwich Shop Attack, Suspect Has Multiple Other Warrants An arrest has been made in the July 19 punching of the owner of Sandy’s muffuletta shop, and the 30-year-old suspect has previous arrest warrants for sexual battery and gun charges.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Is Getting a Street Named After Him in Vallejo The naked woman who was firing gunshots at the Bay Bridge toll plaza has been charged, Oakland’s Chop Bar has closed after 14 years, and E-40 is getting a street named after him in his hometown of Vallejo.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF News George Lucas Sues Neighbors, Town of San Anselmo for Ownership of Driveway That May Not Be on His Property Attorneys for ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas blame “century-old surveying errors” for the inconvenient fact that a piece of land where one of his driveways sits may not be his land, so he’s suing the town and the heirs to his neighbors’ estates.
SF News French Bulldog Likely Exposed to Fentanyl in Nob Hill Park, Treated With Narcan Apparently Narcan also works on dogs who’ve consumed fentanyl, as a one-year-old French bulldog learned that the hard way after likely ingesting fentanyl last week in Nob Hill, though the dog is now recovered and healthy.
SF News Another US Postal Service Mail Carrier Robbed, This Time in the Richmond District Another robbery of a mail carrier happened in the Richmond District Friday afternoon, and it’s not just a Bay Area thing, as robberies of postal workers have nearly doubled nationwide over the last year.
SF News Fish Beware, Another ‘Red Tide’ Toxic Algae Bloom Could Be Coming To Bay Area Waters This Summer We could see a repeat of last summer’s “red tide” toxic algae bloom that caused a mass fish kill-off at Lake Merritt, as scientists have observed the telltale reddish-brown water at shorelines in Berkeley, Emeryville, and Albany.
Arts & Entertainment KGO Anchor Dan Ashley and His Band Added to Outside Lands Lineup Dad rock fans rejoice! 59-year-old ABC-7 news anchor Dan Ashley, who does indeed moonlight as a rock’n’roll singer, has just had his band added to the Saturday lineup for Outside Lands.
SF News Semi-Truck Full of 40,000 Pounds of Chocolate Goes Up in Blazes in Placer County A real meltdown in the Placer County city of Colfax, as a semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds of chocolate burst into flames early this morning on I-80, and that 40,000 pounds of chocolate is still sitting there in the sun.
SF News Bay Area Shelters Overwhelmed With Rabbits as People Keep Dumping Bunnies in Parks An unusual run of people abandoning domesticated rabbits in parks has Bay Area shelters hopping to get creative, and SF Animal Care & Control is waiving rabbit adoption fees for the month of August.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack Both Close Permanently Both Lou’s Fish Shack and Pompei’s Grotto have been closed the whole the pandemic, and they won’t reopen, as they’re both taking exit deals to relinquish their properties to the Port of San Francisco.
SF News DA Jenkins Releases Castro Car-Flip Carjacking Suspects, Drops Charges Pending More Evidence Former DA Chesa Boudin probably would have been crucified for this, but DA Brooke Jenkins has dropped all charges and released the two suspects in last Saturday’s alleged carjacking gone wrong that resulted in the car flying off the Sanchez Street stairway hill.
SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
