SF News Day Around The Bay: Last Flight From SFO To China Scheduled For Tomorrow Night The last flight from SFO to China for at least six weeks is scheduled to depart tomorrow night, the car burglary suspect that died in yesterday’s high-speed Vallejo police chase has been identified, and this past January was the warmest one ever recorded by NOAA.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry's Gardener Aaron Keefer Is Bringing Eco-Conscious Craft Cannabis To Sonoma After being acquired by cannabis agriculturalists Sam Magruder and co-proprietor Gian-Paolo Veronese in 2017, a quaint Petaluma farmstead is gung ho on cultivating a more modern mainstream green — weed.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From San Francisco's 162nd Chinese New Year Parade Thousands convened at Market and 2nd Streets Saturday where the SF festivities began to celebrate the Year of the Rat — hissing firecrackers, lanky dragons, chromatic fashions, and all — in the largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia.
SF News Window Blown Out From Millennium Tower, No Injuries Reported Today's 30-plus-mile-an-hour winds shattered a window on the 41st floor of the tilting SoMa building; the Big Bad Wolf could never.
SF News BART To Change Services Starting Tomorrow, Significant Updates For Yellow And Green Lines Brace yourself for longer headway times between BART trains on Sundays, certain rail car services ending at Concord instead of Pleasant Hill, and a host of other noteworthy adjustments the rapid transit agency will kick off Monday morning.
SF News Sunday Links: Strong Weekend Winds To Blow Into Monday Looks like Saturday and Sunday's strong Bay Area winds will carry into Monday morning, a late-evening car accident in Montclair left two dead and a 5-year-old boy and adult man in critical condition, and UCSF’s Dr. Charles Chiu has developed a more immediate test for coronavirus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Line 51 Brewery And Tasting Room Opens In Oakland, Complete With Charming Transit Bus Tap Mass transit fans and beer aficionados alike, rejoice. Oakland's newest watering hole combines the best of both those worlds, pouring a selection of on-tap IPAs and ales from the side of a retired and restored AC Transit bus from 1972.
SF News Bay Area Woman Among Those Quarantined For Coronavirus Onboard British Cruise Ship In Japan What was meant to be a carefree 15-day vacation at sea, San Francisco resident Julie Choy now finds herself in a viral hellscape, trapped inside her small windowless room aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship — some 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area.
SF News Saturday Links: 4-Year-Old Child Killed In East Bay Hit-And-Run A 4-year-old was killed in an East Bay hit-and-run Friday around 5 p.m., Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey plans to grow the company’s workforce outside of San Francisco, and it was actually hotter in Antarctica than it was in Los Angeles this past Thursday.
SF News South Bay Badger And Coyote Filmed ‘Playing’ In Historic First, Cuteness Ensues As if pulled straight from 1940's animated Disney film, a coyote was filmed gamboling with a peculiar playmate — a North American badger — in a South Bay tunnel, the first time this behavior has ever been recorded inside a man-made structure.
SF News Transamerica Pyramid Sells For A Dizzying $700M Arguably our city’s most iconic tower, the Transamerica Pyramid has — after hitting the market last August — reportedly sold to a New York developer for a heart-stopping $700M.
Arts & Entertainment Nia Vardalos's 'Tiny Beautiful Things' Is a Moving Winter Balm at SF Playhouse Adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Tiny Beautiful Things recounts the story of Cheryl Strayed’s experiences as an anonymous advice writer whose column “Dear Sugar” on The Rumpus made her something of an enigmatic national phenomenon.
Bay Area Sports Niners Fans Gutted After 4th Quarter Loss, Twitter Mourns All signs were pointing toward a San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl LIV victory, but then the Kansas City Chiefs put 21 points on the scoreboard in Q4 — and pulled the rug out from underneath the Niners and their now despondent fans.
SF News San Francisco Man Wants To Give A Slice Of Pizza To Each Of The City's 8,000 Homeless In a bid to inspire others to treat our city's homeless with more compassion and empathy, one Alexander Debelov wants to do something novel for his birthday this year: put a slice of pizza in each homeless San Franciscan's hands.
SF News Sunday Links: Happy Palindrome Day Super Bowl LIV kicks off at 3:30 p.m. (PST), two people were severely injured in a late-night fire at a Visitacion Valley home, and, no, you're not crazy — today's date really does read the same way forward and backward.
SF News Defacer Breaks 2 Tons Of Window Glass At St. Mary’s Cathedral A sole late-night hooligan destroyed nine large glass windows at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco Friday, leaving an estimated two tons of shattered glass to later be hauled off.
SF News A Parking Spot In South Beach Is Selling For $100K Currently, the median price for a house in the United States sits at $200,000. Half that amount, however, could secure you a conveniently located, covered parking spot in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Prepares For Rowdy Super Bowl Celebrations City officials say they'll deploy more police and safety officers throughout San Francisco tomorrow to handle Super Bowl crowds, a man died in an early-morning fire at a Walnut Creek condominium complex, and the historically all-boys Riordan High School will start accepting girls.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina To Host Final Two-Hour 'Mother' Next Saturday At Oasis Following on her announcement last fall that she would be stepping away from her ownership role at the nightclub in order to spend more time relaxing in Palm Springs, Heklina has just announced the date and details of the final Mother show.
SF News New Bill Would Make 18- and 19-Year-Olds Juveniles Under California Law Spearheaded by state Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), SB-889 hopes to reclassify 18- and 19-year-old Californians as juveniles or "emerging adults" in the state's criminal system, allowing them to receive support from more appropriate youth-focused services.
SF News Ocean Acidification Is Literally Dissolving The Shells Of Dungeness Crabs San Franciscans fawn over Dungeness crab. Cracking their carapaces and dunking the retrieved meat into melted butter, consuming these crustaceans is a local right of passage. But if our oceans continue to acidify, that bit of ceremony could go the way of Friday nights once spent at Blockbusters.
SF News Chesa Boudin Withdraws Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Attacked SF Police Officer In December In a move bound to ruffle some feathers — one coming after Boudin effectively ended cash bails in San Francisco on Wednesday — the newly elected DA has chosen to hold off on the charges against a 24-year-old man accused of attacking an SF police officer in December.
Sunday Links: Anti-Abortion Activists March Through SF, Again Thousands of anti-abortion activists marched downtown yesterday in the 16th annual Walk For Life rally, Ron Howard's documentary on the 2018 Camp Fire draws praise and applause at Sundance, and BART is going to build 22 canopies over four different station entrances along Market Street.
SF News This 'Most Silicon Valley' Job Posting Goes Viral For Its Laughable Absurdity Are you something of a self-knighted travel agent, one who’s also gifted at long division? Do you, too, possess buckets of athleticism? Can you both bake and ice a (vegan) cake with ease? If you've nodded to all the above, then this Menlo Park-based nanny gig might just be right for you.
SF News SF Opens First Transitional Housing Project For Transgender And Gender Non-Conforming Adults Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony along Washington Street in Chinatown marked the grand reveal of a first for the city: A transitional housing project aimed at helping transgender and gender non-conforming San Franciscans.
