Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Litquake, Drag Bingo, Roller Disco, and Circus Bella Last week: SF is searching for a new Drag Laureate, SoMa's getting the “Four Seasons of bathhouses,” and Rikki's, the Castro's first women's sports bar, is open. This week: Roller disco, drag bingo, Circus Bella, and more.
SF News SF’s Controversial Vaillancourt Fountain Deemed 'Hazardous,’ Now Getting Fenced Off to the Public The fugly but beloved-to-some Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza was already on the ropes and uncertain to be kept around, but now the city is fencing it off, as a new architectural report says it's a hazard to the public.
Arts & Entertainment SF and Another Planet Entertainment Bringing Another Huge Free Dirtybird Rave Back to Embarcadero in June Outside Lands promoter Another Planet Entertainment is doing at least one more free concert in downtown SF this summer, as they have once again tapped EDM label Dirtybird Records to throw a one-day free DJ show at the Embarcadero on Saturday, June 14.
Arts & Entertainment Very Unattractive Embarcadero Fountain May Be Demolished, But Its Fans Are Fighting to Preserve It The brutalist and not particularly well-liked Villaincourt Fountain at the Embarcadero Plaza might be getting demolished and removed, but a gang of enthusiasts, including the designer Villaincourt himself, are on a bender to preserve it.
Arts & Entertainment At Least Downtown SF Doesn’t Have A Giant Marilyn Monroe Upskirt Statue Like Palm Springs Did Commentary surrounding the newly installed 'R-Evolution' sculpture brings to mind the heated battle over a Marilyn Monroe upskirt statue in Palm Springs last year. In both cases, many folks have mused, “Nobody asked for this.”
SF News Living Seawall Pilot Shows Early Success in Boosting Bay Biodiversity Back in the summer of 2022, 288 specially designed tiles were installed along San Francisco’s Embarcadero seawall, which are now brimming with marine life, including barnacles, mussels, and algae.
Arts & Entertainment That 45-Foot-Tall Nude Woman Statue Is Coming to SF After All, and Will Be at Embarcadero Plaza Union Square was forced to disrobe its plans for placing a 45-foot-tall Burning Man statue of a nude woman there, but the statue has found a different home at the Embarcadero, and will have its unveiling on April 10.
SF News DA Jenkins Won’t Charge Suspect in Last Month’s Market Street Stabbing A mid-November fatal stabbing on Market Street outside the Embarcadero BART station will not be charged as a murder, as DA Brooke Jenkins says her office cannot prove the suspect wasn’t acting in self-defense.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern French Bistro — With DJ Booth — Opens In Former Hard Water Space on Embarcadero A new French bistro, with a focus on Champagne and small plates, has just debuted at Pier 3 on SF's Embarcadero, from the owner of Sens at Embarcadero Center, and Barcha in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Giant New Statue of Woman in Jogging Gear Goes Up Along Embarcadero There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
SF News Plan to ‘Lift’ the Ferry Building by Seven Feet Raises Alarm of Ferry Building Operator SF is embarking on a plan to “lift” the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.
SF News Army Corps of Engineers Unveils Plan to Raise the Embarcadero as Much as 7 Feet for Rising Sea Levels Since we as a society are basically giving up and letting climate change happen, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Port of SF have released their plan to raise SF’s shoreline by as much as seven feet in response to the inevitable climate floods.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Suspect Arrested for Doing $10,000 Damage to Restaurant That Hadn’t Opened Yet A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Team Behind Rooh Readies to Open New Mediterranean Restaurant on Embarcadero With Former Bellota Chef The team behind the popular upscale Indian restaurant Rooh, which has locations in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and New Delhi, is expanding once again, and their restaurant Alora has an experienced chef on board with plenty of experience in Italian and Spanish cuisine.
SF News CNBC Host and Strident SF Hater Jim Cramer Now Says He’s ‘Fired Up’ to Be In SF Cable news shouter Jim Cramer once claimed SF and the Embarcadero were so dangerous he wouldn’t let his staff “go out there by themselves, even in daytime.” But guess who’s now tweeting pictures from a luxe Embarcadero hotel, saying he’s “fired up” to be here.
SF News Three More Arrests Made In June's Rolling Gun Battle Down Embarcadero The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.
Bay Area Sports Don't Call It Pickleball: SF Is Now Getting Two Padel Courts Down at Embarcadero Plaza Another racket sport that isn't tennis and isn't pickleball which has gained broad popularity across the globe, padel, is going to be getting its own dedicated courts down at Embarcadero Plaza.
SF News Ferry Building Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary Thursday With ‘A Very Ferry Birthday Party’ There’ll be free Humphry Slocombe ice cream, live music, (not free) Fort Point beer and more at Thursday’s Very Ferry Birthday Party to celebrate 125 years of the SF Ferry Building’s glorious but complicated history.
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.
SF News Scaffolding Is Up, Ferry Building Paint Job And Restoration Is Underway The Ferry Building’s 125-year anniversary renovation has started, and while much of the clock tower is now concealed by scaffolding, a fresh coat of paint in the custom color “Ferry Building Gray” will bring the structure back to its original 1898 hue.
SF News Check Out the Upcoming Ferry Building Renovations, Including a New Coat of Paint Just in time for the Ferry Building’s 125th birthday, we have fresh new renderings of the enhancements coming to the plaza and marketplace, including a new coat of paint with a custom color called “Ferry Building Gray.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trendy New STK Steakhouse Hit With Wage Theft Suit, Employees Say They Were Forced to Work With COVID Just one month after opening, buzzy nightclub-restaurant STK Steakhouse is already dogged by a class-action lawsuit over wage and tip theft, plus employees claiming they were forced to work while testing positive for COVID-19.
Arts & Entertainment Hop on Board This 97-Year-Old Ferry Boat, Now Parked Permanently at Pier 9 The Klamath, built in 1925, is the new floating office space for the Bay Area Council, but it’s free to visit and enjoy the ferry boat’s rooftop garden during weekday business hours and the first Saturday of each month.
SF News Now the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema is Closing, as COVID Continues to Ravage Movie Theaters Thursday night is your last chance to see a movie at the Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema, as the place is closing permanently at the end of the night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Boulevard Has Windows Smashed, Suspect Has Caused Trouble There Before Someone in San Francisco seems to have an issue with recently reopened Parisian-themed restaurant Boulevard, smashing its windows with a wine bottle, and on another occasion assaulting a manager.
