SF News Alleged Drunk Driver In Deadly Napa Crash Had 3 Previous DUI Convictions The 53-year-old Stockton man who was driving a minivan and was allegedly intoxicated when he crashed into a tree and killed six of his passengers apparently had three prior DUI convictions, and also did not have a valid driver’s license.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Finally Cut Kicker Who Almost Lost Them the Game Sunday An Oakland police raid at a liquor store put an elementary school on lockdown; Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies seized 500 pounds of meth; and the 49ers cut Jake Moody after two very discouraging seasons.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area’s World Cup Ticket Lottery Begins Wednesday — But Only If You're a Visa Customer In a sign of just how crassly commercialized next summer’s World Cup games in Santa Clara are going to be, the World Cup ticket lottery begins on Wednesday, but you’re only allowed to enter the first round of the lottery if you’re a Visa customer.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Proposal Starts Slogging Through City Hall, With Both NIMBY and YIMBY Opposition Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan could be his signature accomplishment and add 36,000 housing units citywide. Or it could get people pissed enough to recall him. We’ll start learning which this week when it heads to the Planning Commission.
SF News Late Summer Yellowjacket Menace Hitting Hard In Marin and Sonoma Counties The yellowjacket population is surging in both the East Bay and North Bay this summer, and since the bugs are very aggressive and can sting multiple times, county authorities have their hands full cleaning out an unusually large number of nests.
Arts & Entertainment People Tightrope-Walked a 1,600-Foot Highline Next to the Golden Gate Bridge This Past Weekend Roughly two dozen people attempted — and five people succeeded — to tightrope walk a 1,600-foot path on nylon rope next to the Golden Gate Bridge this past weekend, 75 feet above the ground in Marin County’s Kirby Cove.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Got Hit and Mangled by Cybertruck While on Playa, Faces Months-Long Recovery A man who came to Burning Man from Minnesota found himself run over by a Tesla Cybertruck on the playa and had to be airlifted to a hospital, and he was left with some very injured feet.
SF News Mission District Tiny Homes for Formerly Homeless Site Closing, But for More Housing for the Formerly Homeless After a year-and-a-half of there being 68 tiny homes in a former Walgreens parking lot at 16th and Mission streets, they’re being torn down, but will be replaced by a larger housing complex that will also house people coming out of homelessness.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win 17-13 Opening Day Thriller In Seattle, But Boy Do They Have Kicker Problems The 49ers delighted fans with a rip-roaring fourth quarter come-from-behind victory Sunday, but kicker Jake Moody is once again Public Enemy #1 in San Francisco, as by no means should this have needed to be a come-from-behind victory.
SF Politics John Burton, ‘Liberal Lion’ and Architect of Famed SF Political Machine, Has Died at 92 A titanic figure in the California Democratic party in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, and co-architect of the “Willie Brown-John Burton political machine,” former statehouse leader and US Rep. John Burton has died while in hospice care.
SF News Spirit Airlines Is Pulling Out of the Bay Area Completely, After Having Filed for Bankruptcy The biggest budget airline in the US, Spirit Airlines, filed for bankruptcy last year, and as part of their restructuring, they’re pulling all service out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
Arts & Entertainment Yet Another Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Party Happening Saturday at Pier 39 If you still have the appetite and remaining stash left for one more Grateful Dead 60th anniversary party in San Francisco, Pier 39 is throwing one all day Saturday, with some Dead cover bands, drink specials, and a “tie-dye making station.”
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Clinch Playoff Spot With Last Night’s Win, But Relegated to San Jose for Home Playoff Game The thrill of the Golden State Valkyries becoming the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs in their first year comes with the insulting reality that they won’t get a first-round playoff game on their own home court.
SF News Appeals Court Strikes Down Alameda County Law That Made It Illegal to Even Watch a Sideshow People who gather to watch sideshows garnered an unusual legal win, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just did donuts all over Alameda County’s law saying that it’s a crime to even watch a sideshow, and they struck that law down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 21st Amendment Shutting Down Permanently, Both SF Taproom and East Bay Brewery Will Close The grim times continue for the craft beer industry, as the SF-born brewery 21st Amendment has announced it is shutting down for good, and both the South Beach SF taproom and San Leandro brewery will close in November.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Is This Weekend, Kicks Off Tonight Supervisor Joel Engardio has a new scandal bubbling up at a very bad time; rumors are swirling that Senator Alex Padilla is running for governor; and Bernal Heights Outdoor cinema returns Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Annual Bizerkeley Food Fest Returns Sunday With Vegan Food to Please Even the Most Passionate Meat Lovers Northern California's largest vegan food festival is back on Sunday, as the Bizerkeley Food Fest busts out vegan food “for meat-eaters’ taste buds,” with vegan versions of KFC bowls, Jack in the Box tacos, and even vegan oxtails.
SF News SFPD Shoots Man With 'Edged Weapon' on 101 Near Cesar Chavez, Traffic Expected to Be Snarled for a While An unidentified pedestrian was walking on 101 Thursday morning, and was shot by an SFPD officer after allegedly threatening officers with an “edged weapon.” The man survived, but northbound traffic on 101 remained a mess for much of Thursday afternoon.
SF News SF Rents Rising Rents Faster Than Anywhere In the Country, So Thanks a Lot, AI Industry There should be no more talk of a “San Francisco exodus,” as rents are spiking here more than anywhere in the nation, and apartments are leasing faster in SF than in any other city in the US.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: NorCal DJ Spins a Set at the Top of Yosemite's Half Dome, Lugs Gear All the Way Up There With Him A very California adventure for a Bay Area DJ known as Habitaat, who dragged his musical gear all the way up to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite, and performed a live set to an audience of no one in particular.
SF News Port of SF Releases Plans for Sleek New Fisherman’s Wharf Plaza Where Alioto’s Used to Be We learned in June that the Port of SF would be demolishing the shuttered Alioto’s restaurant and putting a new plaza in its place, and today they released a few renderings of the forthcoming plaza's design.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown’s Sam Wo Restaurant Is Indeed Reopening, Hopes to Return to Late-Night Glory Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown is set to reopen yet again this Friday, under the new ownership of two veteran Bay Area restaurateurs, after the 116-year-old favorite seemingly closed for good in January.
Business & Tech Parc 55 and Hilton Union Square Hotels Finally Have a Buyer, After Two Long Years Languishing in Receivership SFs largest hotel, the Hilton Union Square, and the also very large Parc 55 have finally found an interested buyer, ending two years of limbo for a pair of SF’s most prominent downtown hotels.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Giants Get Into Bench-Clearing Brawl In First Inning, But Still Win Eighth of Their Last Nine Games Your San Francisco Giants are suddenly red hot and back in the Wild Card race, after a Tuesday night game that developed into a bench-clearing brawl just two batters into the game.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Knock Off Defending Champions, Could Clinch Playoff Spot Thursday Night The first-year Golden State Valkyries could soon punch their ticket to the playoffs after an upset win over defending champions the New York Liberty on Tuesday night, and they’d be the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs.
