SF News A's Legend Rickey Henderson Passes Away at 65 A two-time World Series Champion, 10-time All-Star, and 1990 American League MVP, Henderson is the all-time leader in career runs scored, leadoff home runs, stolen bases, and unintentional walks.
SF News Saturday Links: Mission Street Diner Jim's Restaurant Facing Potential Closure A longtime breakfast establishment is closing; Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown last night; and civics education in California is seeing disruptions from parents protesting course materials.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New SF Supervisor Sherrill Says Public Safety Is Number One Priority SF's newest Supe just laid out his priorities; Congress might have just barely averted a government shutdown; and it appears Party CIty's fun is about over.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas to Conduct the SF Symphony Again, But For One Night Only for His 80th Birthday Party Beloved and celebrated conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will once again conduct the San Francisco Symphony, but it’s for one night only in April in celebration of his 80th birthday, and he’ll only be conducting two numbers.
Arts & Entertainment The EndUp is Throwing Another Massive Free Outdoor Dance Party in Union Square Saturday Four renowned DJs and The EndUp will heat up Union Square’s Winter Walk on Saturday, with an all-ages house music dance party rager that’s absolutely free to attend.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Admits to $14 Million Deficit, Says Ticket Price Hikes May Be in the Works The Burning Man Project sent out their latest urgent fundraising email detailing a budget shortfall as high as $14 million, and longtime attendees are fuming that the organization keeps burning through so much money.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Horn Barbecue Moves Further East A new hi-fi bar and restaurant moves into the former Universal Cafe, Rose Pizzeria is opening a new cafe nearby in Berkeley, and Horn Barbecue has reopened its flagship, but in Lafayette.
SF News Famed SF Flower Mart Closing on Tuesday, Though Moving to Potrero Hill a Week Later The 112-year-old, way-too-early in the morning institution known as the SF Flower Mart will have its final day of operation at its longtime SoMa location on Thursday. But it will reopen at a new Potrero Hill location just a week later.
SF News Alameda County DA Drops Charge Against Remaining Officer In Mario Gonzalez Case With the departure of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, the DA's office is shedding one controversial case that had been revived under Price's watch, that of the in-custody death of Mario Gonzalez in Alameda in 2021.
SF News Mission Bay Coffee Shop Broken Into Twice In 24 Hours, Before It Even Opens A new coffee shop is slated to open in the former home of The Creamery at Fourth and Townsend streets, but the opening figures to be delayed, as the place was broken into twice on Sunday.
SF News SF Police Shoot and Kill Man Identified as Union Square Security Guard A hit-and-run incident on a sidewalk in Union Square Thursday evening was followed, hours later, by a confrontation with San Francisco police that left the driver in the alleged hit-and-run dead.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain Restarts Early Saturday A man was found bleeding from a stab wound at BART's Walnut Creek Station; the Milpitas family found dead in a murder-suicide has been identified; and the next series of atmospheric storms begins tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Daniel Lurie Getting Credit for Ending the Marriott Hotel Strike SF State was placed on lockdown over a threat that did not pan out; a Mission District mural vandal suspect has been arrested; and Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie is getting some credit for helping end the Marriott hotel strike.
Arts & Entertainment Here’s Some of the Artwork That May Be Coming to the Car-Free Great Highway Park Once cars are banished from the Great Highway in 2025 and a two-mile stretch of the highway becomes a public park, here are a few art installations that Rec and Parks is proposing for the new open space.
SF News What Was That Giant White Blimp That Was Just Hauling Ass Across San Francisco Skies? San Francisco skygazers noticed an unmarked and very large white blimp flying at an impressive speed above the city Thursday afternoon. It appears to be Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s new blimp, which is the biggest blimp since the Hindenburg.
SF News Striking Hotel Workers Reach Tentative Deal With Marriott Some of that hootin' and hollering and banging will quiet down near Union Square as some 1,500 striking hotel workers have reached a tentative deal with Marriott — a contract deal that Marriott did on its own, without Hyatt or Hilton.
SF News Fillmore Food Legend and Nia Soul Cafe Owner Pia Harris Has Died, Services This Weekend The Fillmore restaurant Nia Soul Cafe just opened last month after owner Pia Harris’s 15-year quest to make her catering business a brick-and-mortar restaurant. But Harris died from pancreatic disease complications just weeks after its grand opening.
SF News FiDi Restaurant Owners Accused of Using Pandemic Relief Funds to Flip Houses A husband and wife who ran a now defunct SF Financial District lunch spot have been indicted by the feds for improperly using pandemic relief funds for personal expenses, and allegedly laundering a large portion of the money through house flips.
SF News Amazon Teamsters Go on Strike at Seven US Facilities, Including the One In SF’s Bayview Hundreds of striking Amazon workers are picketing at the Amazon warehouse in SF’s Bayview District, joining thousands of other Amazon workers nationwide who went on strike Thursday morning looking for better wages and health care.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brace For a Parade of Storms A series of around six atmospheric river storms are lining up back to back; a man was arrested on suspicion of arson in Healdsburg; and last weekend's storm toppled 98 trees in city parks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pixar Series Sees Trans Storyline Axed The SFPD has made arrests in two recent homicides; Disney is cutting a trans storyline out of a Pixar series that was made for Disney+; and Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a bird flu emergency.
SF Politics Oakland City Council Approves Slashing Police, Fire, and Arts Departments to Trim $130 Million Deficit With the City of Oakland drowning in about $129 million in red ink, Oakland City Council voted to approve a plan to cut police overtime, close a few fire stations, and eliminate some arts programs in hopes of closing the deficit.
SF News Developers Swear They Will Finally Clean Up ‘SoMa Trash Lake’ After Years of Complaints For nearly three years, a vacant SoMa lot at Fifth and Clara streets has been accumulating water, garbage, and mosquitoes. Now three years and two lawsuits later, a new owner vows it should be cleaned up soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Stalwart Piccino Is Expanding to the Presidio, and Marin For 18 years, Piccino has been one of the reliably delicious favorites of the Dogpatch neighborhood, and now, after nearly two decades, the owners have decided to expand.
SF News Scientists Discover East Bay Squirrels Preying on Other Mammals for the First Time Researchers have found a population of California ground squirrels in an East Bay park that are actively hunting and eating voles, a behavior that has shocked squirrel experts.
