Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has Lost Its Bid for the Sundance Film Festival Sorry, movie star fans, but the exceedingly glamorous Sundance Film Festival will not be held in San Francisco in 2027, as our bid to be the festival’s new home was rejected.
SF Politics We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17 After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Sup. Engardio Touts New SF July 4 Parade, Which Would Not Be on July 4, But Instead on Pride Weekend District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is announcing plans to bring a Fourth of July parade to SF this year. Predictably, it’s in his district, but unpredictably, it’s five days before July 4, and overlapping with Pride Weekend.
SF News SFPD Has ‘Possible Suspect’ In Case of Dog Walker Whose Home Burned After Racist Threats Police say they’ve executed two search warrants and have a “possible suspect” in connection to an Alamo Square dog walker who’d received racist threats prior to his house burning, though it’s unclear whether these leads are concerning the threats, the house fire, or both.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Clear Lake Algae Bloom So Large It Can Be Seen From Outer Space Both SF Four Seasons hotels are now on the market; a politically conservative Sonoma County real estate firm is facing a federal fraud investigation; and a Clear Lake algae bloom can now be seen from outer space.
SF News SFPD Will Place Its New Surveillance Cameras at 24th and Mission, 19th and Mission Streets After SF voters allowed cops to put more surveillance cameras all over the streets of San Francisco, the SFPD has decided where they will place the first two of them: 24th and Mission streets, and 19th and Mission streets.
SF News Record Pier 39 Sea Lion Population Explodes Even Further, Now There’s More Than 2,000 of Them A sea of sea lions at San Francisco's Pier 39 has gotten even larger, and there is now an all-time record of more than 2,000 sea lions at the pier, smashing a 30-year-old record.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Suspected of Slow-Walking Police Commission Appointments, Causing Meeting Cancellations The SF Police Commission is supposed to meet three times a month, but they’ve canceled five of their last eight meetings, and there is speculation that Mayor London Breed is engineering absences so the commission can’t meet regularly.
SF News Fire Consumes Castro Valley’s Lake Chabot Public Market, Seven Small Businesses Likely Destroyed A three-alarm fire around 2:30 am Thursday morning engulfed Lake Chabot Public Market in Castro Valley, and the seven businesses that called the food hall home have apparently lost everything.
Bay Area Sports Surging Giants Now in Thick of Wild Card Race, Nearly Come to Blows as Benches Clear Against Phillies We almost got a good brawl in Wednesday’s Giants game against the Philadelphia Phillies, but more importantly, the slow-starting Giants have now won 10 of their last 13 and are right in the Wild Card hunt.
SF News More Details Emerge on Last Week’s Graduation Shooting In Oakland, Four Suspects Taken Into Custody There are now four suspects who’ve been taken into custody in connection with the shooting that followed graduation ceremonies at Oakland's Skyline High School, and their getaway car may have been a stolen Maserati.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protesters Block Entrances to UC Santa Cruz, Classes Moved Online Both entrances to UC Santa Cruz were blocked Tuesday, and classes moved online, as that school becomes the latest UC campus flummoxed by the disruptions of pro-Palestine protesters.
SF News Violent Brawl and Student Stampede at Novato Middle School Has Parents Up In Arms Novato’s Sinaloa Middle School was the scene of a brawl between four teenage girls Friday, which begat a mob of students stampeding the campus and sometimes trampling one another, which then begat a large meeting with irate parents Tuesday night
SF News Day Around the Bay: Surfboard-Stealing Otter Resurfaces in Santa Cruz Some lane closures and street repairs will muck up traffic on part of 19th Avenue this week; an extremely rare whale was spotted near Point Reyes; and Santa Cruz’s infamous Otter 841 has reappeared and is taking over people’s surfboards again.
Arts & Entertainment Skrillex and Fred Again to Play Outdoor Show Saturday Night at Civic Center Plaza, Though It’s Already Sold Out Does it matter that the freshly announced Skrillex and Fred Again show this weekend at Civic Center Plaza is already sold out, considering the show will be outdoors, and these gentlemen are not known for being particularly quiet? We’ll find out Saturday.
SF News SF’s Water Pollution Lawsuit Against the EPA Is Heading to the US Supreme Court The US Supreme Court is wading into the mess of San Francisco’s wastewater and sewage treatment controversy, and will take the case in which SF sued the EPA over how much sewage they can allow into the Pacific Ocean.
SF News SFUSD Will Ask Voters to Approve a Nearly $800 Million Bond Measure in November, Largest in City History The financially troubled San Francisco Unified School District will come asking voters for a bond measure that’s in the neighborhood of nearly a billion dollars in November, the most expensive bond measure ever in SF.
SF News Nearly Three-Hour Police Standoff In San Jose Ends With Discovery of Woman’s Dead Body San Jose police responded to reports of a possible shooting Monday night, with a suspect barricading himself inside a home for nearly three hours once they arrived, and a woman's dead body being found in the home after he surrendered.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Settle Ongoing Lawsuits Against Santa Clara, But Santa Clara’s Mayor Says It’s ‘a Loan-Shark Type Deal’ The San Francisco 49ers organization agreed to cough up more money to the City of Santa Clara by settling two lawsuits, but the city bizarrely must still pay for “buffet service” for 49ers fans in the most expensive seats, and there’s a new $4 charge on Levi’s concert tickets.
SF News Yet More Turmoil at SF’s Aquarium of the Bay, Which Just Lost Its Accreditation A terrible week gets even worse for SF’s Aquarium of the Bay and its parent nonprofit Bay.org, as the aquarium just lost its accreditation with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, amidst an almost-daily array of other scandals for the nonprofit.
Business & Tech Nintendo Announces They’re Opening a Store in SF’s Union Square, Only Their Second Store in the US Mario, Luigi, and Pokémon are swooping in to hopefully save San Francisco’s Union Square, as the video game giant Nintendo just announced they’re taking over one of the many vacant retail spots in the beleaguered shopping district sometime in 2025.
SF News Update: Shooting Follows Graduation Ceremony at Oakland's Skyline High; Three Injured, One Person Arrested Graduation ceremonies went terribly wrong at Skyline High School in Oakland Thursday night, as a shooting after the ceremony left three people injured, and one suspect has reportedly been arrested.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Record Travel Volume Expected for Memorial Day Weekend Berkeley's famed baby falcons now have names from their naming contest; Alcatraz ferry boat drivers might be going on strike soon; and Memorial Day weekend travel volumes are expected to meet or exceed the all-time record.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink JFK Promenade’s Summer Pop-Up Beer and Wine Garden Returns, Now With Cocktails and Called ‘The Whale’s Tail’ This weekend kicks off the third year in a row for the Beer and Wine Garden in Golden Gate Park, but this year they’re serving cocktails too, and renaming it “The Whale’s Tail.”
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire 2024 Will Indeed Happen, Rescheduled to September 21 The 25th anniversary How Weird Street Faire was abruptly postponed not even 48 hours before its gates were scheduled to open in early May, but the festival has announced it will be held on September 21, 2024, with an “Autumn Equinox” theme.
