SF News Day Around the Bay: Hawaii Joins West Coast States in Vaccine Initiative Oakland celebrates Pride on Sunday — it's in front of City Hall this year; 50 years ago today a Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento; and Hawaii has joined California, Oregon, and Washington in creating a unified vaccine policy in the absence of CDC support.
SF News Spirit Airlines Is Pulling Out of the Bay Area Completely, After Having Filed for Bankruptcy The biggest budget airline in the US, Spirit Airlines, filed for bankruptcy last year, and as part of their restructuring, they’re pulling all service out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ama Set an Opening Date Ama sets an opening date at the Transamerica complex, sushi takeout hit Aji Kiji expands downtown, and Sunset Squares calls it quits, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Yet Another Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Party Happening Saturday at Pier 39 If you still have the appetite and remaining stash left for one more Grateful Dead 60th anniversary party in San Francisco, Pier 39 is throwing one all day Saturday, with some Dead cover bands, drink specials, and a “tie-dye making station.”
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Clinch Playoff Spot With Last Night’s Win, But Relegated to San Jose for Home Playoff Game The thrill of the Golden State Valkyries becoming the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs in their first year comes with the insulting reality that they won’t get a first-round playoff game on their own home court.
SF News Former Alaska Airlines Pilot Takes Plea Deal In Case Involving Mushrooms, Dangerous Cockpit Freakout A former pilot for Alaska Airlines who was flying on a jumpseat home to the Bay Area from a trip to Washington, who nearly brought down the plane he was flying in due to a hallucination, is taking plea deals in both state and federal court.
SF News Appeals Court Strikes Down Alameda County Law That Made It Illegal to Even Watch a Sideshow People who gather to watch sideshows garnered an unusual legal win, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just did donuts all over Alameda County’s law saying that it’s a crime to even watch a sideshow, and they struck that law down.
SF News Winery That Figures Into Pickett Fire Investigation Says Worker Doused Fireplace Ashes With Water The Pickett Fire in Napa County, which is still smoldering and stands at 93% contained after burning over 6,800 acres, may have been sparked on August 21 by discarded ashes from curing a new outdoor fireplace. But that has not been confirmed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 21st Amendment Shutting Down Permanently, Both SF Taproom and East Bay Brewery Will Close The grim times continue for the craft beer industry, as the SF-born brewery 21st Amendment has announced it is shutting down for good, and both the South Beach SF taproom and San Leandro brewery will close in November.
SF News Update: BART Resumes Service After Entire System Goes Down Due to Computer Failure There was no BART service across the entire system Friday morning due to a computer system failure that occurred before the trains were set to begin running at 5 am Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Are We Really Using the Term 'Boom Loop' Now? The Chronicle is trying to make 'boom loop' happen; Supervisor Joel Engardio is madly knocking on doors in his district; and Waymo can now go to San Jose Airport, just not to San Jose itself.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Is This Weekend, Kicks Off Tonight Supervisor Joel Engardio has a new scandal bubbling up at a very bad time; rumors are swirling that Senator Alex Padilla is running for governor; and Bernal Heights Outdoor cinema returns Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Few More Details Arrive About RT Bistro, the New Casual Spot Next Door to Rich Table We finally have some more news about RT Bistro, which will be the second expansion effort by the Rich Table team, and their fourth restaurant overall when it opens this fall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Annual Bizerkeley Food Fest Returns Sunday With Vegan Food to Please Even the Most Passionate Meat Lovers Northern California's largest vegan food festival is back on Sunday, as the Bizerkeley Food Fest busts out vegan food “for meat-eaters’ taste buds,” with vegan versions of KFC bowls, Jack in the Box tacos, and even vegan oxtails.
SF News SFPD Shoots Man With 'Edged Weapon' on 101 Near Cesar Chavez, Traffic Expected to Be Snarled for a While An unidentified pedestrian was walking on 101 Thursday morning, and was shot by an SFPD officer after allegedly threatening officers with an “edged weapon.” The man survived, but northbound traffic on 101 remained a mess for much of Thursday afternoon.
Business & Tech Tesla Opens Up Robotoaxi App to All In SF, But Can They Even Do That? Tesla is pushing ahead with its Robotaxi service in SF, despite what we thought were a lot more regulatory hurdles that, as far as we know, Tesla's autonomous taxis have not actually gone through.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ambitious and Fancy New Bakery-Cafe Parachute Debuts at Ferry Building A new bakery and cafe from the team behind Michelin-starred Sorrel, specializing in glistening viennoiserie and cheffed-up twists on classic French pastries, had its debut Thursday morning at the Ferry Building.
SF News SF Rents Rising Rents Faster Than Anywhere In the Country, So Thanks a Lot, AI Industry There should be no more talk of a “San Francisco exodus,” as rents are spiking here more than anywhere in the nation, and apartments are leasing faster in SF than in any other city in the US.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: NorCal DJ Spins a Set at the Top of Yosemite's Half Dome, Lugs Gear All the Way Up There With Him A very California adventure for a Bay Area DJ known as Habitaat, who dragged his musical gear all the way up to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite, and performed a live set to an audience of no one in particular.
SF News Man Fatally Shot On Street In SF's Tenderloin A man who was shot early Wednesday in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood has succumbed to his wounds, marking the city's latest homicide.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Illegal Gambling Den Shut Down In Alameda Alameda police say they shut down an illegal gambling den operating inside a home; residents of Chinese Camp describe surviving the TCU Lightning Complex; and Senate Republicans may actually be doing their job and calling out RFK Jr. on vaccines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Men Charged In 2023 Bayview Shooting of Dirtbiker Two men have now been charged with murder in connection with an August 2023 drive-by shooting of a dirtbiker in SF; the Mexican national soccer team had their truck burglarized in Oakland; and a judge sides with Harvard in war with Trump.
SF News Port of SF Releases Plans for Sleek New Fisherman’s Wharf Plaza Where Alioto’s Used to Be We learned in June that the Port of SF would be demolishing the shuttered Alioto’s restaurant and putting a new plaza in its place, and today they released a few renderings of the forthcoming plaza's design.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown’s Sam Wo Restaurant Is Indeed Reopening, Hopes to Return to Late-Night Glory Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown is set to reopen yet again this Friday, under the new ownership of two veteran Bay Area restaurateurs, after the 116-year-old favorite seemingly closed for good in January.
SF News Burning Man Homicide Victim Identified as Russian National Who Helped Build Artwork We now have more information about the mysterious death that occurred on the playa over the weekend, during the burning of The Man, and the victim has finally been identified.
