Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Tiny Home Homeless Housing Facility Opens at 16th Street BART, Behind Big, Black Gates The on-again, off-again effort to open 60 tiny homes for the homeless is complete, though a large fence surrounds the entrance of the new facility called “Mission Cabins” in apparent hopes that passersby won’t notice it.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New IKEA Food Hall Has Complaint From Illustrator Who Says Their Logo ‘Blatantly Copied’ His Work A mere one day after opening, SF’s IKEA-adjacent food court Saluhall has drawn the ire of an SF illustrator who says their ‘eyes-ears-nose-mouth’ logo is a rip-off of his own illustration published in The New Yorker.
SF News SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie Raising Eye-Popping Sums of Money From VCs and His Family Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is walloping the competition in the mayoral money race, with about four times as much cash raised as Mayor Breed, most of it coming from tech founders, venture capitalists, and his mom.
SF News [Update] Body of Boy Swept Away In Russian River Has Been Found A teenager who has been missing since Thursday afternoon after being swept up by the rushing Russian River in Sonoma County has been found dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Temple SF Nightclub in SoMa Announces It’s Closing Permanently Robotaxi company Cruise is trying to get its permits to operate in SF again; a Richmond man has been charged for last week’s fatal Mission Street drive-by shooting; and SoMa’s Temple SF will close for good on May 25.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 Outdoor Free Movies In the Park Lineup Has Arrived Hey, ‘Barbie’, ‘Bullitt’, and ‘Labyrinth’ are among your summer outdoor movies in various SF parks this year, as the SF Parks Alliance brings back the popular outdoor movie series Sundown Cinema.
SF News FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’ As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
SF News Oakland’s ‘F*** Everyone Gang’ Accused of Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Merchandise In Just Two Months One alleged gang member of something called the “F*** Everyone Gang” is in custody on charges of stealing $970,000 worth of merchandise, and police found him after he used his getaway vehicle in a music video.
SF News OJ Simpson Has Died at Age 76, His Family Announces While known for a stellar football career and a bizarre high-profile murder trial that gripped the nation, OJ Simpson was also a San Francisco native who attended Galileo High and City College. He died Wednesday of prostate cancer.
SF News Mike Tyson’s Celebrity-Branded Marijuana Gets Recalled Statewide Because It Has Mold In It Another black eye for boxer Mike Tyson’s attempt to become a marijuana mogul, as the California Department of Cannabis Control has ordered a statewide recall of two of his “Undisputed” cannabis flower products.
SF News Legal Mission Street Vending Site Being Shut Down for Lack of Customers When City Hall banned vending on Mission Street, it offered two alternative sites for legal vendors. But now the city is shutting one of them down, because no one ever goes there.
SF News SF Man Charged With Hate Crime Over Attack on Three Chinese-American Nonprofit Workers A racist provocation in Russian Hill was caught on video that showed three Chinese-American nonprofit workers being harassed by a passerby, and the passerby now faces assault and hate crime charges.
SF News Someone’s Trying to Make a San Francisco-to-LA Overnight Train Happen Again There’s another attempt underway for an SF-to-LA overnighter that would compete with airline travel, this time a train service, which has made progress on getting access to the existing train tracks the trip would require.
SF News Lower Nob Hill Mosque Vandalized, Congregants Harassed At Least Twice During Ramadan An individual was caught on security camera smashing the windows of the Masjid Al-Tawheed mosque on Sutter Street last week, and reportedly returned again Tuesday to harass the assembled congregants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Librarians Rally For More Security at Local Branches An Oakland woman has been charged for setting another woman on fire; California courts have sided with a Trumper who wants to run for two offices at once; and librarians at local SF branches held a rally demanding more security.
SF News State Audit Blasts California for Spending $24 Billion on Homelessness, But Not Tracking Whether Much of It Works A new report from the California State Auditor finds the state has spent $24 billion on homelessness since 2018, only to see things get worse, and dings the state for not keeping track of whether much of this money is even accomplishing anything.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monk’s Kettle Closing Its Mission District Location, Moving to Rockridge The 16-year run of Mission brewpub Monk’s Kettle is coming to an end on 16th Street, but they’re moving to a larger spot in Oakland’s Rockridge. And they’ve got choice words for the role delivery apps played in their SF location’s demise.
SF News Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
SF News SF Deputy Sheriff Arrested and Charged for Allegedly Stalking, Strangling Ex-Girlfriend A 49-year-old SF deputy sheriff is currently in custody for what’s alleged to be a seven-month pattern of violence, stalking, and use of surveillance devices on his estranged partner.
SF News Hulking Eyesore at Mission and 21st Streets Finally Gets Plans to Be Rebuilt as Art Gallery, Retail Space The three-story husk of a building at 2551 Mission Street has been vacant and accumulating graffiti now since 1987, but efforts to transform it into art galleries and retail spaces are finally showing some progress.
SF News Early Monday Morning RV Fire In SF's Bayview Spreads to Nearby Warehouse Before Being Extinguished An RV fire broke out around 2:30 am Monday morning on Newhall Street in the Bayview District, and quickly spread to an adjacent warehouse. The fire was extinguished within a half-hour, but the RV is obviously totaled.
