SF News Wildfire Season Already? Four Fires This Weekend In Bay Area and Beyond Spur Concerns This weekend's Snell Fire in Napa County is now 100% contained after burning 103 acres, but despite this year’s rainy winter, a weekend of several NorCal fires has officials warning that precautions are still very much necessary.
SF News President Biden Arriving In Bay Area Today For Multi-Day Visit Biden’s in the Bay Area starting this afternoon to tout a climate project and of course raise money for his reelection campaign, and oddly, Ron DeSantis will be here courting donors tonight too.
Bay Area Sports Giants Sweep Dodgers In Series Where L.A. Had Disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Did the Dodgers curse themselves with their clumsy disinviting and reinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night? Because the Giants swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles during the series, their first sweep of the bums in L.A. in 11 years.
SF News Another Bay Area Movie Theater Closes, This Time the 88-Year-Old Albany Twin We’ve seen this movie many times before as theaters try to emerge from the pandemic slump, but this one's truly the end of an era, as the 88-year-old Albany Twin theater on Solano Avenue suddenly closed permanently on Thursday.
Business & Tech Meta Is Abandoning Their COVID-19 Misinformation Policy on Facebook and Instagram Great news for your crazy uncle: Facebook and Instagram will no longer remove posts with COVID misinformation in countries that no longer have a COVID-19 public health emergency declaration, which is basically most of the world.
SF News Two United Airlines Employees Charged With Stealing Copious Amounts of Marijuana From Passenger Baggage Both the FBI and the drug dealers were wise to a scheme where two airline employees were allegedly stealing mass amounts of marijuana from San Francisco airport passengers’ luggage and selling it themselves.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment Gets Their Way On Castro Theatre Renovations In Decisive City Hall Vote Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their wish on their proposed Castro Theatre renovations Thursday, though also agreed to a laundry list of compromises dictating their film and LGBTQ programming, and even what concessions they sell at the snack bar.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AT&T Closing Its Flagship Union Square Store MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pissed off the city of Oakland with inaccurate remarks, the SF Gay Softball League is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and yet another Union Square flagship store is closing.
SF News KRON4 Is Becoming a CW Network Affiliate, Will Broadcast TV Shows In Prime Time Shows Instead of Local News The four hours of local news every weeknight on KRON4 will be replaced by the likes of ‘Riverdale’ and ‘FBoy Island,’ as KRON4 will become an affiliate of the CW Network on September 1.
Arts & Entertainment Free Drag Shows Make Up a Whole New Scene In SF During Pride Month Drag performers are kicking their heels out to Financial District bars, Salesforce Park, and even Ocean Beach in a series of free drag shows for Pride Month.
SF News Big Ol’ Black Bear Makes Self Right At Home In Marin County Front Yard The rare sight of a black bear was captured on security camera footage from a San Rafael home, and it's reportedly the second bear sighting in Marin County in the past month.
SF News CHP Drug Crackdown May Involve Low-Level Stops That SF Police Commission Voted To Ban The Chronicle did a ride-along with California Highway Patrol officers on their fentanyl crackdown efforts, and found they may be pulling people over for low-level traffic stops that have been likened to racial profiling.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment Wants To Bring Free Outdoor Concerts To Downtown SF, Starting Next Year No acts have been named, but Another Planet Entertainment is proposing a batch of at least three free outdoor concerts in San Francisco next year, at Civic Center Plaza, Embarcadero Plaza, and Union Square, for the next three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Notoriously Nasty Burger King at Civic Center Has New Tenant: Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Outfit The beleaguered Burger King at Market and Grove Streets vacated that space in 2019, and now has a new tenant in ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens ghost kitchen operation.
SF News Driver Killed In Fatal San Jose Crash As SUV Veers Off Road, Catches Fire An early morning SUV crash closed off two lanes of traffic on I-680 near Warmsprings in San Jose Wednesday, and the driver did not survive after their SUV went off the highway and caught fire upon hitting trees.
SF Politics Supervisors Relax Zoning Laws In Union Square and Downtown In Hopes of Filling Vacancies City Hall’s answer to the Union Square retail exodus is to bring in new things that aren’t retail, and the Board of Supervisors just voted unanimously Tuesday to loosen zoning laws on Union Square and downtown commercial conversions.
SF News Westfield Mall’s Century Theater Closing Permanently On Thursday Thursday is the last day of screenings at the Century 9 theater in the Westfield San Francisco Centre, as another tenant is bailing on the shopping mall that owner Westfield Corporation is also walking away from.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wild Parrots Are Now the Official Animals of San Francisco Another batch of “Straight Pride” flyers turned up in Santa Rosa, two carjacking suspects died after a police chase in San Leandro, and City Hall just made wild parrots “the official animal of the City and County of San Francisco.”
SF News SF Agrees to Pay Hotel Whitcomb $19.5 Million for Shelter-In-Place Damages, In Largest Hotel Settlement Yet Who says SF hotels can’t make money these days? The still-shuttered mid-Market Hotel Whitcomb was just awarded $19.5 million in a damage settlement over the facility’s use as a shelter-in-place hotel.
SF Politics Tucker Carlson Gets Cease-And-Desist Letter From Fox News, Hires Former SF GOP Chair As Lawyer It was already going to be massively entertaining to watch Fox News wage legal war on Tucker Carlson over his Twitter show, but now add to the mix that Carlson’s attorney is former SF GOP chair Harmett Dhillon, who’s facing her own set of financial impropriety allegations.
SF News SFPD Finds Large Haul of Guns and Drugs While Arresting Suspected Illegal Gun Suppliers In North Beach An SF man was arrested for firing shots at police on two occasions in January, and the ongoing investigation led SFPD to the North Beach home of an alleged gun supplier, and boy did they find guns and drugs while searching his residence.
SF News Man Stabbed Multiple Times Near North Beach, Suspect In Custody A Monday night stabbing at Broadway and Battery Street has left one man hospitalized, but the suspect was still at the scene when police arrived, and was taken into custody.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Plan ‘Reverse Boycott’ At Tuesday Night’s Game To Protest Possible Las Vegas Move The elephant of Oakland Athletics fandom will roar Tuesday night, as an A’s-Rays game will see a “reverse boycott” intended to show Major League Baseball that Oakland has better fans than Las Vegas ever will.
SF News Fed-Up Neighbors Place Planters On Harrison Street Sidewalks to Deter Encampments The 1,400-pound metal planters seem to have done the job thus far at preventing encampments from returning after the large plant pots were installed after Carnaval, but have started another round of “hostile architecture” debate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Will Stop Selling Beer Outside California, Cancels Its Seasonal Anchor Christmas Ale People are probably going to blame the 2021 label redesign, but it’s probably more the economic realities of the beer industry that Potrero Hill-based Anchor Brewing Company will stop distributing outside California, and will no longer brew its annual Anchor Christmas Ale.