SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pacific Heights Bistro Curbside Café Has Closed Permanently After A 34-Year Run The authentic French bistro Curbside Café quietly closed last week after 34 years at California and Fillmore Streets, saying simply that they were “not able to renew” their lease.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Launching ‘Sunset Fridays’ Happy Hour Event Every Friday This Summer, Starting This Weekend A “cocktails with animals” series kicks off Friday night at the San Francisco Zoo, as Sunset Friday lets you mingle with animals whilst enjoying a drink to the live music of SFJazz, every Friday night through the end of August.
SF News New Renderings Drop For 50-Story Tower In the Sunset That Is Absolutely Never Going to Get Built Reno-based developer CH Planning may just be trolling with this nonsense 50-story tower proposed two blocks from Ocean Beach, but they’re sticking to the bit, with a new batch of renderings of this gigantic middle-finger to the Sunset.
Business & Tech San Mateo-Based Startup Wins FAA Approval To Test Their Futuristic, $300,000 Flying Car There are still many regulatory hurdles to clear, but San Mateo’s Alef Aeronautics has won a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform limited testing on their “Model A” flying car.
SF News Mission District Fireworks Mayhem Leads To Late-Night Riot-Gear Police Skirmish The predictable onslaught of illegal Mission District July 4 fireworks displays turned into a hour-long melee between police and various skateboarders and sideshow aficionados, though the scene did not get as violent as last year’s Independence Day hullabaloo.
SF News DA Jenkins Will Drop Charges Against SFPD Officer In 2017 Shooting of Mentally Ill Man SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has cleaned house in one regard, now having dismissed charges in all three police shooting cases brought by her predecessor Chesa Boudin.
SF News Weekend Heat Wave Caused More Than 11,000 Bay Area Households To Lose Power Sunday Though Sunday was cooler than Saturday’s scorcher, PG&E outages still started striking the Bay Area, and particularly the East Bay, starting at about 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment SF Mime Troupe Tackles Homelessness In Their New Production ‘Breakdown,’ Premiering This Weekend A musical about homelessness? Leave it to the San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose hard-hitting ‘Breakdown: A New Musical’ opens this weekend in Berkeley, and comes to SF’s Dolores Park for July 4.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate — the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.
SF Politics DA Jenkins’s Drug Treatment Effort Not Really Working, Because No One’s Showing Up For Court It’s hardly encouraging that DA Brooke Jenkins's ten-month-old push to get low-level drug arrestees into treatment has only yielded three attempts to get people into treatment. It’s even less encouraging that none of them have shown up for their court dates.
SF News City Hall Hits the Brakes On New Pot Dispensary In What Used to Be a Lutheran Church A cannabis dispensary chain wants to start selling weed in what used to be Saint Paulus Lutheran Church at Polk and Sacramento Streets. But the SF Planning Commission refused to grant them a permit Thursday, over concerns they are “Big Canna” formula retail.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pier 39 Sea Lions Are Getting An Educational Center To Teach Us More About Them Your Golden Gate Bridge toll is going up July 1, the Petaluma “Influencer Mom” was sentenced to three months jail time for her kidnapping hoax, and the Marine Mammal Center is putting an educational pop-up about the sea lions at Pier 39.
SF News Affordable Housing Complex at Blighted Former Haight Street McDonald’s Site Finally Breaks Ground It’s a new beginning for what was once, arguably, the sketchiest McDonald’s in San Francisco, as they just broke ground on what will be a gorgeous 160-unit affordable housing complex on that long-vacant site.
SF Politics Giant Christian Cross Removed From Albany Hill Park, Lawsuit Will Decide Whether It Returns A 52-year-old, 28-foot cross that was lit up for Easter and Christmas at Albany Hill Park has been removed by the City of Albany because it promotes one religion over others, and to boot, its electrical writing may pose a fire risk.
SF News Governor Newsom Doubling the Number of State Officers Deployed in SF Fentanyl Crackdown Governor Gavin Newsom is doubling the number of Highway Patrol and California National Guard officers in his ballyhooed fentanyl crackdown in SF, and saying that this isn't "the old, failed war on drugs."
SF News The Stud’s Former Home Hit With Pride Weekend Graffiti Again, But Vandals Also Trashed Four Cars What’s become a Pride Weekend tradition returned with the annual tagging of the former Stud, but this weekend’s taggery spready to a half-dozen adjacent buildings, and four cars were thoroughly vandalized.
SF News More City Hall Housing Drama As Supes Approve 19-Unit Castro Conversion, But Shoot Down 10-Unit Nob Hill Project Two controversial housing projects that have taken many incarnations over the years had appeals before the supervisors Tuesday, and the SF Board of Supervisors approved a 19-unit Castro conversion, but denied a 10-unit Nob Hill conversion.
SF News Good Samaritan Saves Two From Burning Car That Smashed Into a Walgreens in Sunnyvale An early Sunday morning car accident in the Santa Clara County town of Sunnyvale saw a car hit a Walgreens and burst into flames, but an anonymous good Samaritan was able to pull two people from the wreckage, both of whom survived.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 48-Year-Old Russian Hill Vietnamese Restaurant Aux Delices Is Closing Permanently June 30 Friday will be the last day for pho, imperial rolls, and lemongrass steak at the long standing family-owned Vietnamese restaurant Aux Delices, as the husband-and-wife team who’ve run the place for decades has decided to retire.
SF News Alameda County Supervisors Vote to Make It Illegal to Even Watch A Sideshow It is now illegal to so much as even watch a sideshow in Alameda County, and you could get a $1,000 fine or six months in jail for being within 200 feet. But what if you just happened to be there, and weren’t watching the sideshow?
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Virginia, There Will Be a ‘Golden Girls Live!’ For Christmas 2023, Despite Heklina’s Passing The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.
SF News After Two High-Profile Crashes, SF Police Commission Wants Review of Vehicle Pursuit Policy An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Revised California Budget Bails Out Public Transit to the Tune of $5 Billion A major heat wave is expected for the coming July 4 weekend, a bizarre and unidentified creature has been spotted in Lake Merritt, and Gavin Newsom has backtracked somewhat on slashing public transit funding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Scooter’ Crowned World’s Ugliest Dog 2023 at Sonoma-Marin Fair SF office vacancy has hit an all-time record of 32%, more glass just fell from a downtown high-rise even in nice weather, and a bald Chinese Crested named Scooter just won the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.
SF News Wiener Proposes $1.50 Bridge Toll Hike To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ With Muni at risk of slashing 20 lines and BART threatening to eliminate weekend service, state Senator Scott Wiener hopes to eliminate their deficits with a $1.50 toll increase on seven Bay Area bridges.
