SF News Massive 5M Office and Condo Project Set To Begin Construction In SoMa The long-delayed 5M project, a dramatic renovation of several South of Market blocks, will add a 400-condo skyscraper, gobs of new office space, and a grass rooftop park to the Chronicle building.
SF News Sonoma Couple Kills 180-Year-Old Tree Trying To Move It, Gets Fined $600,000 This beautiful, 180-year-old heritage oak tree is now demolished, and the property owners are paying a huge fine for a sloppy relocation attempt that went very, very wrong.
SF News Second BART Tunnel? Hell, Let’s Add a Third Bay Crossing, Says East Bay Planner The third BART rail across the Bay would actually be an “aerial bridge” from Millbrae to Bay Fair, under a proposal from a respected architect and planner.
SF News ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ Director Kevin Epps Re-Arrested In 2016 Murder Case Director Kevin Epps was already arrested once for this shooting in his Glen Park home, and the DA claims to have strong new evidence against him.
SF News Bay Area Population Booming, The Rest Of California Not So Much The state population grew by 0.5% in 2018, small potatoes by California standards, but the Bay continues to be a magnet, if a bit less so than two years ago.
Arts & Entertainment 20th Annual How Weird Street Faire Keeps It Weird In SoMa Howard Street was awash with onesies, furries, and ravers as the How Weird Street Faire turned 20 Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Condo: The Elbo Room Will Remain a Bar, Soon to be Rechristened the Valencia Room Get ready to stumble at the Valencia Room, possibly opening this month, with no plans to slap condominiums on top.
SF News Homeless Couple Lives the Dream, Moves Into $4 Million Piedmont Home A good samaritan welcomes an unhoused couple into his posh suburban Oakland home, neighbors predictably call police on the regular.
SF News SFPD Trumpets Drop in Use-of-Force, Shooting Incidents It’s been nearly a full year since the San Francisco Police Department shot anyone, which they say shows a successful implementation of new use-of-force policies.
SF News MacArthur Maze Overhaul Now Off the Table as Oakland Gives Caltrans an Earful Oakland and Emeryville have put the kibbosh on a three-year, $180 million rebuild of the MacArthur Maze, at least for now.
SF News Huge Percentage of Kids Unvaccinated for Measles at Seven Bay Area Schools The measly rate of measles vaccinations is fueling the current outbreak, and only 22% of students at one Marin school are vaccinated.
SF News Suspect Released in Brutal SoMa Fish Tank Murder Case, Neighbors Furious Still no justice for the murder of Clara Street resident Brian Egg, and his friends and family are even more upset as a former suspect has been released from jail where he'd been held on unrelated charges.
SF News So-Called ‘Historic Laundromat’ Property Sold, But High-Rise Still Likely to Replace It The Wash Club lavanderia has a new owner who will probably attempt to develop a similar eight-story complex to the one its previous owner proposed that will generate the same criticism.
SF News Embarcadero Homeless Shelter Approved, Opponents Vow To Challenge It In Court The debate over the Embarcadero homeless Navigation Center is surely not over, but the city officially gave it the green light Tuesday night.
SF News A Couple of 100-Year-Old San Franciscans Reminisce on the Good Old Days A pair of centenarian SF natives remember their high school days (before there was a Golden Gate Bridge), and when lamplighters would hand light the gas streetlamps along a cobblestoned Market Street.
SF News Supes to Withhold $62 Million In Funding Until Muni Can Figure Out Why Train Doors Are Closing on Passengers After a train door closed on an elderly woman and dragged her for an unwanted ride, the supervisors will unapprove millions for new trains that they approved
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Hunky Jesus Contest Returns to Dolores Park for Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s 40th Anniversary Forrest Gump Jesus ran away with the competition, as the Sisters’ annual Easter Sunday hoppening drew thousands for pastel-colored blasphemy.
SF News 4/20 Blankets Golden Gate Park With The Smoke Of 19,000 Stoners, Park Shockingly Clean On Sunday Watch clouds of marijuana smoke engulf Hippie Hill, with scenes from Saturday’s 4/20 party and its Sunday morning aftermath.
SF News Apologies Fail to Quell Furor Over Jeff Adachi’s Police Report Being Shopped to Media for $2,500 The highly unusual cash offer for dirt on the late Public Defender draws apologies from police, and outrage from Adachi’s family and the Board of Supervisors.
SF News New Muni Train Door Trapped Woman's Hand, Dragged And Injured Her The billion-dollar fleet of the future has doors that lock on objects and people, and have already dragged and hospitalized an elderly woman.
SF News Zuckerberg Hospital Revises Insane Billing Practices After Media Exposés Fully insured people will no longer be billed $20,000 for a broken arm, as media reports shame Zuckerberg General Hospital into reversing their “aggressive” billing tactics.
SF News City Downsizes Embarcadero Homeless Shelter Proposal, NIMBYs Still Not Having It A reduction of more than 100 shelter beds fails to satisfy waterfront homeowners, who still say they’ll sue to prevent a homeless Navigation Center.
SF News Scooters Could Double In Numbers as City Considers Expanding Pilot Program The scaled-back scooter fleet might get major reinforcements, as the SFMTA is pleased with how the scooter program is moving along.
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Armistead Maupin Says SF's New Culture Is 'A Bit Dull' At ‘Tales of the City’ Premiere SFist talked to Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, and a whole gang of characters both old and new as the Netflix ‘Tales of the City’ reboot premiered Wednesday night.
SF News The Bay Area May Not Have the Nation's Largest Homeless Population, But We Have The Most Unsheltered One San Francisco’s homeless account for only one-fourth of the greater Bay Area homeless population, and the broader Bay Area ranks pretty terribly at providing supportive housing.
