Arts & Entertainment SF Native Plays Joan Baez In the New Bob Dylan Biopic, Called Joan Baez to Run It Past Her San Francisco-born and Mill Valley-raised, actor Monica Barbaro not only plays Joan Baez in the new movie ‘A Complete Unknown,’ she sings the vocals and plays the guitar herself. That made for a very anxiety-inducing phone conversation with Joan Baez.
SF News SF Mosque Attendees Harassed With Hateful Acts on Christmas Eve Some character spent his Christmas Eve standing outside a Bernal Heights mosque, ripping pages out of the Quran, and menacing Muslims with a Thor-style giant hammer, in the latest incident of Muslim harassment in San Francisco.
SF News Reminder: Recology Will Take Your Christmas Tree for Free If You Put It Out With Your Trash and Recycling Don’t just abandon your natural Christmas tree on the street! Recology will gladly take it and dispose of it responsibly for free if you put it out with your trash and recycling bins during a specific window of time, starting next Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Gets a New ‘Sensory Space’ for Neurodiverse Travelers Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named a few more new staffers; the egg shortage is showing no signs of cracking for Bay Area grocers; and the SF International Airport just opened their new Sensory Room.
SF News 29-Year-Old Woman Busted in Sonoma for Organized Retail Theft, Tries to Tell Cops She’s 12 Years Old A 29-year-old Antioch woman with outstanding warrants was arrested with a carload of allegedly stolen merchandise in Sonoma, and her alibi that she was just some innocent 12-year-old girl did not fool the deputy sheriffs.
SF News Smash-and-Grab Burglars Ram Car Into Montclair Lucky Supermarket, Make Off With ATM A string of car-ramming burglaries continued in Oakland early Thursday morning, as the Lucky Supermarket in Montclair was rammed into with a vehicle by a team of thieves who went straight for the ATM.
SF News Man Dies After Saving His Family From Early Christmas Morning Fire In Oakland The Christmas morning actions of 37-year-old Steven Weatherford saved the lives of his aunt, uncle, and brother when their Oak Knoll house caught fire Christmas morning, but Weatherford himself would perish after saving his family.
SF News Christmas Eve Around the Bay: Christmas Tree Retailer Clancy’s Faces Uncertain Future at Inner Sunset Home Bissap Baobab has at long last won their liquor license fight; Marina and Cow Hollow residents have clawed back some free parking; and the future does not look bright for the Inner Sunset Clancy’s Christmas Trees.
Arts & Entertainment The Vacant Fisherman’s Wharf Madame Tussauds Is Getting a New Tenant — 'Smurfs: The Adventure' The vacancy blues are ending for the Fisherman’s Wharf building that had housed the now-shuttered Madame Tussauds, as a Smurfalicious new pop-up called Smurfs: The Adventure will bring a permanent new tenant to that Jefferson Street property in May 2025.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: Meet the Winners of the 2024 San Francisco Fire Department Holiday Decorating Contest Yule want to see these photos of the SF fire station that won the 2024 SF Fire Department Holiday Decorating Contest, plus pictures and video of the other runner-up stations that decked the halls hard to bring joy to the world.
SF News One Man Killed After Being Trapped Under High Surf Debris In Santa Cruz, Two Missing Near Monterey A man is dead in Santa Cruz after being trapped under the debris of the pier-smashing waves, and two people are missing near Monterey after being swept into the ocean, as the raging high surf conditions take a deadly toll.
SF News Five Seriously Injured After Two Ski Lift Chairs Collide at Tahoe's Heavenly Resort A nightmare came true for several skiers at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly Monday morning, as their ski lift chairs collided, and some victims reportedly fell 30 feet to the ground before being rushed to a hospital.
SF News Minivan Fire Shut Down Caldecott Tunnel Monday, Eastbound Lane Was Closed for Three Hours A minivan somehow caught fire in the Caldecott Tunnel at around 10 am Monday morning, snarling traffic for multiple hours, but the eastbound tunnel bore in which the vehicle caught fire was reopened at about 1 pm.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese Accused of Hiding $106 Million in Assets So They Wouldn't Have to Pay Sex Abuse Victims The Oakland Diocese declared bankruptcy in 2023 when forced to pay settlements to 330 victims of sex abuse at the hands of priests. Now victims’ attorneys say the church transferred more than $100 million into an inactive nonprofit to hide their assets.
SF News Burglars Ram Cars Into as Many as Ten Oakland Businesses In Weekend Smash-and Spree There are reports that as many as ten Oakland businesses had their storefronts rammed into by cars over the weekend, stealing ATMs and more, and police say surveillance video suggests each smash-and-grab was pulled off by the same crew.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas to Conduct the SF Symphony Again, But For One Night Only for His 80th Birthday Party Beloved and celebrated conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will once again conduct the San Francisco Symphony, but it’s for one night only in April in celebration of his 80th birthday, and he’ll only be conducting two numbers.
Arts & Entertainment The EndUp is Throwing Another Massive Free Outdoor Dance Party in Union Square Saturday Four renowned DJs and The EndUp will heat up Union Square’s Winter Walk on Saturday, with an all-ages house music dance party rager that’s absolutely free to attend.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Admits to $14 Million Deficit, Says Ticket Price Hikes May Be in the Works The Burning Man Project sent out their latest urgent fundraising email detailing a budget shortfall as high as $14 million, and longtime attendees are fuming that the organization keeps burning through so much money.
SF News Famed SF Flower Mart Closing on Tuesday, Though Moving to Potrero Hill a Week Later The 112-year-old, way-too-early in the morning institution known as the SF Flower Mart will have its final day of operation at its longtime SoMa location on Thursday. But it will reopen at a new Potrero Hill location just a week later.
SF News Mission Bay Coffee Shop Broken Into Twice In 24 Hours, Before It Even Opens A new coffee shop is slated to open in the former home of The Creamery at Fourth and Townsend streets, but the opening figures to be delayed, as the place was broken into twice on Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Daniel Lurie Getting Credit for Ending the Marriott Hotel Strike SF State was placed on lockdown over a threat that did not pan out; a Mission District mural vandal suspect has been arrested; and Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie is getting some credit for helping end the Marriott hotel strike.
Arts & Entertainment Here’s Some of the Artwork That May Be Coming to the Car-Free Great Highway Park Once cars are banished from the Great Highway in 2025 and a two-mile stretch of the highway becomes a public park, here are a few art installations that Rec and Parks is proposing for the new open space.
SF News What Was That Giant White Blimp That Was Just Hauling Ass Across San Francisco Skies? San Francisco skygazers noticed an unmarked and very large white blimp flying at an impressive speed above the city Thursday afternoon. It appears to be Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s new blimp, which is the biggest blimp since the Hindenburg.
SF News Fillmore Food Legend and Nia Soul Cafe Owner Pia Harris Has Died, Services This Weekend The Fillmore restaurant Nia Soul Cafe just opened last month after owner Pia Harris’s 15-year quest to make her catering business a brick-and-mortar restaurant. But Harris died from pancreatic disease complications just weeks after its grand opening.
SF News Amazon Teamsters Go on Strike at Seven US Facilities, Including the One In SF’s Bayview Hundreds of striking Amazon workers are picketing at the Amazon warehouse in SF’s Bayview District, joining thousands of other Amazon workers nationwide who went on strike Thursday morning looking for better wages and health care.
