Arts & Entertainment Yes, Virginia, There Will Be a ‘Golden Girls Live!’ For Christmas 2023, Despite Heklina’s Passing The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.
SF News After Two High-Profile Crashes, SF Police Commission Wants Review of Vehicle Pursuit Policy An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Revised California Budget Bails Out Public Transit to the Tune of $5 Billion A major heat wave is expected for the coming July 4 weekend, a bizarre and unidentified creature has been spotted in Lake Merritt, and Gavin Newsom has backtracked somewhat on slashing public transit funding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Scooter’ Crowned World’s Ugliest Dog 2023 at Sonoma-Marin Fair SF office vacancy has hit an all-time record of 32%, more glass just fell from a downtown high-rise even in nice weather, and a bald Chinese Crested named Scooter just won the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.
SF News Wiener Proposes $1.50 Bridge Toll Hike To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ With Muni at risk of slashing 20 lines and BART threatening to eliminate weekend service, state Senator Scott Wiener hopes to eliminate their deficits with a $1.50 toll increase on seven Bay Area bridges.
SF Politics YIMBYs Cry Foul Over Lack of Housing Approved Since Passage of SF Housing Element SF has approved barely eight new housing units per month since the city passed its ambitious Housing Element plan, but the reality is that developers haven’t been applying for many permits.
SF News Oakland’s 24-Hour Colonial Donuts On Lakeshore Avenue Rocked by Armed Robbery No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
Arts & Entertainment Renegade ‘People’s March’ Returns Sunday of Pride Weekend, To Prioritize Activism Over Capitalism The fourth annual People’s March and Rally is set for Sunday, right at the same time as the more commercialized larger Pride Parade, to “offer an alternative for those who prefer the harder edge of protest.”
SF News SF Fire Chief Fumes Over Self-Driving Robotaxis Blocking First Responders Dozens of Times This Year San Francisco Fire Department Chief Jeanine Nicholson notes there have been 39 incidents of Cruise and Waymo robotaxis blocking first responders this year alone, and says the robot cars are “not ready for prime time.”
SF News Mayor Breed Floats the Idea of Turning Westfield Mall Into… A Soccer Stadium? Here’s an out-of-left-field solution to the highly uncertain future of Union Square’s Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping mall — Mayor Breed pitched the idea Thursday that it could become “a whole new soccer stadium.”
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Shot and Killed Near Powell Street BART The pushback continues over Ron DeSantis’s Tenderloin video, two Oakland twins were drafted consecutively in the NBA Draft, and a man was shot and killed Thursday night near the Powell Street BART station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Warriors Acquire Chris Paul in Draft Day Trade The SF Fire Department chief is up in arms over the self-driving robotaxis obstructing emergency vehicles, Mayor Breed moved to make office-to-housing conversions easier, and the Warriors just traded Jordan Poole for twelve-time all-star Chris Paul.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Sicilian Gelato Shop Hila Now Open In Valencia Street’s Former Xanath Ice Cream Store The Batman and Mr. Potato Head of Valencia Street ice cream shop Xanath are gone, but in their place is a new Sicilian gelateria called Hila, and the newlywed owner has a real sweet story.
SF News Winter Storms Rekindle Fears That Oroville Dam Could Burst Over, With Catastrophic Consequences It’s hard to get one’s head around the magnitude of calamity if the tallest dam in the U.S. were to overtop. But that almost happened to the Oroville Dam in 2017, and this year’s epic storms have engineers on edge that the dam could indeed break.
SF News Rainwater Is Oddly Accumulating In Caldecott Tunnel, Despite Lack Of Recent Rain Motorists are noticing “mystery water” flowing through one of the bores of the Caldecott Tunnel, which is raising concerns about the tunnel’s structural integrity, but Caltrans insists this can be fixed with a little drainage work.
Arts & Entertainment 78-Member, All LGBTQ+ International Pride Orchestra Performing First Ever Concert Thursday Night You may not have ever seen the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera, but you can see some of their musicians perform live, as the brand new International Pride Orchestra debuts Thursday with an all-star cast of all LGBTQ+ musicians in an event hosted by Peaches Christ.
SF News Both the 49-Van Ness and 22-Fillmore Have Seen Their Ridership Surge Beyond Pre-Pandemic Levels No “fiscal cliff” for these two Muni bus lines, as both the 22-Fillmore and 49-Van Ness are rocking ridership levels even higher than before the pandemic. The trouble is that it may be because like many San Franciscans, these lines don’t go downtown.
SF News Leaning Millennium Tower Finally Fixed? Structural Retrofit Finished, Tower Tilting Slightly Less The $100 million fix to the notoriously leaning Millennium Tower is completed, and early results show the encouraging development that it’s already reversed its tilt by, well, an inch.
SF News Thieves Use a Forklift to Break Into and Rob Oakland Cannabis Business There were three attempted robberies of cannabis dispensaries and businesses in West Oakland early Tuesday morning, and in one particularly brazen pot burglary, the thieves rammed their way into the storefront with a forklift.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFMOMA Will Offer Free Admission This Saturday For Pride A new study disproves a ton of prominent myths about California homelessness, the bizarre “That’s Fentalyfe” ad campaign is expanding, and SFMOMA will have a free admission day for Pride Weekend.
SF Politics Gay Shame Pillories London Breed, Gay SF Supervisors in Pride Month Installation at ATA The queer activist collective Gay Shame is at it again, this time with a Pride Month installation at Valencia Street’s ATA that delivers satirical mockeries of Mayor Breed, and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey.
Bay Area Sports Giants to Play a Game on Willie Mays’s Hometown Field In Alabama Next Season It’s not the Field of Dreams game, but Major League Baseball is planning some “Specialty Games” to honor the legacy of the Negro leagues, and one of them will be the Giants playing on the very field where Willie Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons.
SF News SFPD Says 95% of Their Drug Arrests Under Current Crackdown Are People From Out of Town The new SF drug dealing and use crackdown has now yielded 45 arrests according to data presented by SFPD, and of those, police say only three of them live in San Francisco.
SF News 73-Year-Old Oakland Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run, Driver Suspected of Street Racing A Friday night hit-and-run near Fruitvale in Oakland took the life of 73-year-old Santu Maya, and police believe the suspect vehicle was engaged in illegal street racing.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Scoffs at ‘Good Morning America’ For Saying It Was Too Dangerous To Shoot A Segment at Union Square SF Mayor London Breed has some words for a 'Good Morning America' reporter who claimed it was “simply too dangerous” to shoot a segment in Union Square, even though they clearly shot the segment anyway.