Arts & Entertainment Sadly, Great America Amusement Park Looks Like It’s Closing Permanently in 2027, Not 2033 as Previously Announced You might want to hurry on squeezing in your last trip to Santa Clara’s doomed Great American amusement park, as it now looks like the park’s on its final few years of operation after the land beneath it was sold to a real estate conglomerate.
SF News Large Warehouse Fire Raging In Oakland, Crews Allowing It to Burn Out A warehouse fire was raging Tuesday afternoon on Moorpark Street in Oakland, with 25 Oakland firefighters on the scene, but they’re not going into the warehouse to fight the fire because it’s burned so many times before.
SF News Casual Carpool Appears to Be Returning, Could Put the Pedal to the Metal Again Late This Summer The nearly 50-year-old Bay Area tradition of Casual Carpool, or getting rides to work with complete strangers who want carpool-lane privileges, was discontinued once the pandemic hit. But Casual Carpool is poised to possibly return this summer.
SF News Latest FCI Dublin Prison Controversy: Officers Getting Evicted From Mobile Homes That They Own While rumors continue to swirl that the East Bay’s shuttered Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin could be turned into a migrant detention facility, numerous officers are embroiled in a messy eviction from homes they own on the property.
Arts & Entertainment A Pretty Interesting Tall Ship Is Rolling Into SF This Weekend, and They’re Giving Tours of It for Free A one-time Nazi ship that is now property of the US Coast Guard will be spending Saturday in San Francisco, as the Coast Guard vessel Barque “Eagle” will be at Pier 17 and giving free tours all day Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment The Outer Sunset Is Having Another July 4th Parade, This Time on July 4th The long-dormant San Francisco July 4th parade was revived last year as a smaller family affair on the Great Highway, but it was curiously held on Pride Weekend. This year it’s back at what we now call Sunset Dunes, and it will in fact be on July 4th.
SF News Two Separate Large Brush Fires Raging In Contra Costa County, But Evacuation Warnings Lifted Two brush fires are burning 30 miles away from each other in Contra Costa County Monday afternoon, one in Rodeo that has reached more than 60 acres, and another near the foot of Mount Diablo for which the evacuation warning has already been lifted.
SF News Hundreds Rally In SF to Protest Trump’s Bomb Strikes on Iran Somewhere between 200 and 300 people demonstrated at the Embarcadero Sunday afternoon in protest of the US airstrikes against Iran, with many saying Trump is committing war crimes.
SF News More Details Emerge on SF Sheriff’s Chief of Staff’s Hit-and-Run Arrest; He Was Reportedly Driving City Vehicle We’re now learning that suspended SF Sheriff’’s Office Chief of Staff Richard Jue was driving a city-owned vehicle when he was allegedly involved with a hit-and-run and provided false information, and the vehicle he hit may have been a Tesla.
SF News SF Euthanizing Dogs at Highest Rate in 12 Years, Because of Shelter Overcrowding The COVID-era animal overadoption — and resulting overabandonment — is still creating havoc and heartbreak at SF pet shelters, which are seeing the highest euthanization rates since 2013 because people are giving up dogs like mad.
Arts & Entertainment New HD-Printed Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Exhibition Takes Over St. Mary’s Cathedral for the Next Three Months There’s a new selfie trap / art exhibit in town that tries to recreate the heights of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as ‘Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition’ is back in SF at St. Mary’s Cathedral for a three-month run.
SF News Socialite Vanessa Getty Sued Over March 2024 Porsche Wreck That Allegedly Left Other Driver Seriously Injured A prominent Getty is back in the news for unflattering reasons, as a new lawsuit blames Vanessa Getty’s distracted driving for a March 2024 car wreck that allegedly left another driver with a “traumatic brain injury.”
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Retiring, or Rather, ‘Repositioning’ to Become Pastor Emeritus at Third Baptist Church After fifty prolific years as the pastor at SF’s Third Baptist Church, the Reverend Amos Brown is stepping aside to the position of “Pastor Emeritus,” and there’s a big weekend of events to honor him, including a street renaming.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Heavy Wind Gusts Knock Over Valencia Street Parklet There’s a couple BART station closures in the East Bay this weekend; a fire in Brentwood damaged multiple homes; and today’s heavy winds just plain knocked over the parklet at Valencia Street’s Radio Habana Social Club.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Market Street’s Sushi Zone Is Closing in July, But Insists They’re Looking for a New Location The 28-year-old no-frills sushi spot Sushi Zone has announced they’re wrapping up their time on Market Street in mid-July, likely forced out by a new incoming tenant, but owners say they’re determined to find a new location.
SF News ICE Agents Try to Camp Out at Dodger Stadium, LAPD Promptly Shoos Them Away Here’s one time we’ll actually cheer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as ICE agents tried to set up shop in the Dodger Stadium parking lot before tonight’s game, but the Dodgers say that “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.”
SF Politics Tech PAC TogetherSF Rebrands as ‘Blueprint for a Better SF,’ Still Spending Rich Peoples’ Money to Swing Elections After a less-than-successful showing in last November’s elections, there’s another shakeup at the tech PAC TogetherSF, as they now call themselves Blueprint for a Better San Francisco, but apparently they do not have Michael Moritz money anymore.
Bay Area Sports The Golden State Valkyries’ Caitlin Clark Game Is Tonight, It’s On TV On KPIX Tickets are going for as much as $2,500 a pop as WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark makes her first-ever appearance at the Chase Center Thursday night, so you will be pleased to know you can just sit home and watch it for free on KPIX’s CBS Bay Area.
SF Politics Lurie Names New Planning Department Director, Seemingly Against Wishes of Half the Planning Commission SF’s new Planning Department director is not off to a good start with the Planning Commission that she’ll work with, as half the commission stormed out of Wednesday morning’s vote to approve Sarah Dennis Phillips as that director.
SF News SF Just Got Another 'Magic Mushroom Church’ in Russian Hill A “mushroom church” called the Rising Phoenix Entheogenic Temple just opened its second San Francisco location, some six months after a much larger mushroom church left town claiming they were the victims of “religious discrimination.”
SF News Muni Service Cuts Kick In Saturday, Five Bus Lines Getting Their Routes Trimmed The 21-Hayes will cease to be, effective this Saturday, getting merged into a new line called the 6-Hayes-Parnassus, as five Muni lines are getting their routes snipped in hopes of cutting SFMTA’s ballooning budget deficit.
SF News Here We Go Again — PG&E Says First Power Shutoffs of Fire Season ‘Likely’ This Weekend A pretty wide net of PG&E customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties could see their first wildfire-related PG&E power shutoff of the season as early as Thursday, thanks to this weekend’s looming high winds and dry conditions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Inches Into a Couple More Peninsula Cities (But Still Can’t Go to SFO) The “People’s March” is returning for 2025 but not at the same time as the Pride Parade; a prisoner who escaped from FCI Dublin in 1994 was finally arrested; and Waymo is now operating in six more cities along the Peninsula.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Market Block Party ‘Unstaged’ Returns Thursday, This Time With To-Go Cocktails Last year’s first Thursdays block party Unstaged is now a third Thursdays party, returning this week. It won’t have the F-line streetcar running as a mobile jazz club, but it will have to-go cocktails from your favorite mid-Market establishments.
SF News Protesters Take Over Board of Supervisors Meeting, Completely Shut the Meeting Down In a protest that had little or nothing to do with Donald Trump, dozens of pro-union protesters managed to shout down and shut down Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, in a demonstration against Mayor Lurie’ proposed budget cuts and layoffs.
