SF News BART Awards Contract For 775 New Supposedly Evasion-Proof Replacement Fare Gates The West Oakland BART station will get the first batch of futuristic and allegedly evasion-proof fare gates this December, and the whole system will have them by 2025, as the transit agency hopes to stop chronic fare evasion.
SF News Hayes Valley Residents Pushing Back Against Affordable Housing Development at Site of PROXY Proxy fight indeed, as between 50-75 units of affordable housing are slated to be built at Hayes Valley’s outdoor event and retail space PROXY, but now neighbors are fighting to retain the parcel as open space.
SF News Rogue Bike Brigade Once Again Commandeers Bay Bridge, on the Exact Same Day They Did It Last Year There’s no bike lane on the western span of the Bay Bridge, so a few hundred bicyclists took that matter into their own hands and made the entire eastbound deck a bike lane Sunday, clogging traffic for about a half-hour.
SF News Antioch Sideshow Injures Three, Plows Over Fire Hydrant, Leaves Car In River A very wet ending to a very wild sideshow early Sunday morning in Antioch, where a fire hydrant was knocked over and left gushing, a car flew into the San Joaquin River, and one bystander suffered major injuries.
SF News Crime in Oakland Soaring Across the Board, According to New Statistics It’s not just sideshows, as every major crime category shows sharp increases in Oakland, with spikes of 20%, 40%, or even 90% in specific crime categories compared to before the pandemic.
SF News DA Jenkins Drops Charges for Pretty Much Everyone Arrested at Dolores Hill Bomb Last Month It's a predictable ending to the mass arrest of everyone who happened to be standing near last month’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboard rally — the DA is dropping the charges against all but two of the 34 adults arrested in the roundup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Taqueria, Arguably the Creator of the ‘Mission Burrito,’ Celebrates 50 Years in Business 50 years after opening, La Taqueria is still getting lines down the block on Mission Street, and has both James Beard honors and “Burrito Bracket” awards to show for its five decades of greasy goodness.
SF News Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street Bike Lane Officially Opens, Though It’s Not Fully Built Yet The red tide algae blooms in Bay Area waters appear much less deadly than last year, Santa Clara is predictably issuing fines for Taylor Swift playing past curfew, and the Valencia Street bike lane is officially open but drawing yet more criticism.
Arts & Entertainment Two Tina Turners Tell A Tumultuous, Terrific Life Story in ‘Tina - The Tina Turner Musical’ at the Golden Gate Theatre A dazzling and kinetic Tina Turner musical biography goes for nearly three hours at the Golden Gate Theatre, but the musical stylings of a ten-year-old playing a young Tina are simply the best moments of the show.
SF News Throwback Thursday: A Sitting U.S. President Died in San Francisco, 100 Years Ago This Week Warren G. Harding, roundly considered one of the worst U.S. Presidents of all time, kicked the bucket exactly 100 years ago this week at SF’s Palace Hotel, which is still the Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery streets.
SF News Antioch Church Mission Group Trapped in Niger Amidst Military Coup Nearly a dozen volunteers with Antioch’s Cornerstone Christian Center are stranded in the West African country of Niger, as a nine-day Vacation Bible School trip very unfortunately coincided with a military coup that closed off the country’s borders.
SF News Yet Again, CNN Reporter Gets Car Broken Into While Covering Crime in Oakland It’s the third car break-in suffered by CNN reporter Kyung Lah in the Bay Area, though the smash-and-grab her rental car endured Wednesday was just a smash, as there was nothing in the car to grab.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Music Club Amado’s Reeling From Basement Flood, Needs Community Support The Mission District live music venue Amado’s took a $500,000 hit with a flooding incident this summer that turned its downstairs area “into a swimming pool,” and the club is looking to its fans and regulars to help them bail out from the extensive damage.
SF News The 28R-19th Avenue Muni Line Returns From Its Pandemic Slumber On August 21 Muni riders who have business along 19th Avenue have a speedy old friend coming back, as the long-suspended 28R-19th Avenue line will be reinstated for service two weeks from Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to Host ‘After-Hours’ Music Festival Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra The Bay Area’s music festival-mania is coming to Lake Merritt’s Children’s Fairyland, which will play host to a September nighttime festival called “Through the Looking Glass,” with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Oakland-based pop star Spellling.
SF News Wild San Mateo Road Rage Incident Ends With Father Being Mowed Down by Automobile A Sunday melee on the suburban streets of San Mateo allegedly escalated from vehicular stalking, to threats with a knife, to a man being struck by a car, and one 24-year-old suspect is facing multiple charges.
SF News Police Arrest Suspect in Haight-Ashbury Sandwich Shop Attack, Suspect Has Multiple Other Warrants An arrest has been made in the July 19 punching of the owner of Sandy’s muffuletta shop, and the 30-year-old suspect has previous arrest warrants for sexual battery and gun charges.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Is Getting a Street Named After Him in Vallejo The naked woman who was firing gunshots at the Bay Bridge toll plaza has been charged, Oakland’s Chop Bar has closed after 14 years, and E-40 is getting a street named after him in his hometown of Vallejo.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF News George Lucas Sues Neighbors, Town of San Anselmo for Ownership of Driveway That May Not Be on His Property Attorneys for ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas blame “century-old surveying errors” for the inconvenient fact that a piece of land where one of his driveways sits may not be his land, so he’s suing the town and the heirs to his neighbors’ estates.
SF News French Bulldog Likely Exposed to Fentanyl in Nob Hill Park, Treated With Narcan Apparently Narcan also works on dogs who’ve consumed fentanyl, as a one-year-old French bulldog learned that the hard way after likely ingesting fentanyl last week in Nob Hill, though the dog is now recovered and healthy.
SF News Another US Postal Service Mail Carrier Robbed, This Time in the Richmond District Another robbery of a mail carrier happened in the Richmond District Friday afternoon, and it’s not just a Bay Area thing, as robberies of postal workers have nearly doubled nationwide over the last year.
SF News Fish Beware, Another ‘Red Tide’ Toxic Algae Bloom Could Be Coming To Bay Area Waters This Summer We could see a repeat of last summer’s “red tide” toxic algae bloom that caused a mass fish kill-off at Lake Merritt, as scientists have observed the telltale reddish-brown water at shorelines in Berkeley, Emeryville, and Albany.
Arts & Entertainment KGO Anchor Dan Ashley and His Band Added to Outside Lands Lineup Dad rock fans rejoice! 59-year-old ABC-7 news anchor Dan Ashley, who does indeed moonlight as a rock’n’roll singer, has just had his band added to the Saturday lineup for Outside Lands.