SF News Chase Center Opening Night: Metallica Kills, Fans Thrash, and There Is No Traffic-pocalypse Friday night's inaugural concert at the shiny new Chase Center proved that you can stick an 18,000-seat arena in the middle of a busy city without any parking to speak of and people will figure it out.
SF News Saturday Links: Burning Man Camp Under Investigation By Anti-Defamation League Burning Man’s 20+-year-old "Barbie Death Camp and Bistro" is now reportedly investigated by the Anti-Defamation League, a Ghost Ship juror explains how the verdicts went down, and the Mission's art scene seems to be thriving.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers' Regular Season Begins Out of Town Sunday BART wants to buy a building in Oakland to avoid a rent hike, ferry service begins from the East Bay to SFO, and Guy Fieri is opening a fried chicken spot at Levi's Stadium.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Farmerbrown Owner Jay Foster: 'Success Merely Means Surviving' The owner of two recently shuttered San Francisco restaurants, Farmerbrown and Isla Vida, has written an essay for Bon Appetit about his experience of owning a popular soul food restaurant, and getting squeezed by impossible rents.
SF News 28 Bay Area Residents Charged By Feds In Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco on Thursday announced the filing of charges against 30 defendants — two corporations and 28 individuals — in an illegal kickback scheme connected to an East Bay home health care provider.
SF News Power Goes Out In Mission Bay Just As Metallica Is Warming Up For Chase Center Opening Is it a coincidence that a power outage just occurred in the blocks surrounding the Chase Center just as the big arena is powering up for tonight's grand opening show?
SF News 29-Year-Old Woman Falls To Her Death While Scaling Half Dome In Yosemite An Arizona woman slipped and fell 500 feet down the slope of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on Thursday, during the final portion of the climb that involves holding on to a cable.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Playful Pod of Risso's Dolphins Breach In Monterey Bay It's been a short workweek but it's felt like a long one for a number of reasons — gun debates, a deadly but slow-moving hurricane, a deadly boat fire, a dissatisfying verdict, Sharpie-gate. So please enjoy this little video break.
SF News Boat Owners In Deadly SoCal Fire Trying To Avoid Compensating Victims’ Families, Citing 168-Year-Old Law It’s the same technicality that owners of the Titanic used in 1912, and could result in the Santa Barbara-based aquatics company not paying the victims' families a single penny.
Arts & Entertainment Chase Center Hosts Saturday Block Party; Muni Adds Special Arena Bus Lines The Warriors just announced a block party set for tomorrow outside the Chase Center that is free and open to the public, featuring food, drinks, games, and appearances by the Warriors themselves.
SF News Ghost Ship Defendant Max Harris Quietly Leaves Jail; Fire Victims' Families Express Sorrow, Exhaustion The five-month ordeal that was the Ghost Ship fire trial and jury deliberations ended Thursday with no catharsis or closure for the families of the 36 people who perished in the December 2016 warehouse blaze.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Gig Workers Deliver Peanuts To Postmates, DoorDash A Santa Rosa weather scientist describes flying into the eye of Hurricane Dorian, a fatal crash occurred this morning on I-80 in Emeryville, and gig workers delivered peanuts in a symbolic gesture to DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 4 a.m. Last-Call Bill Becomes 3 a.m. Last-Call Bill Scott Wiener has compromised with the CA Assembly on a 3 a.m. last call bill for bars, four more NorCal residents have been ID'd as victims in Monday's boat fire, and Facebook launched its Dating app today.
SF News Civil Trial Against Ghost Ship Landlords and City of Oakland Will Proceed In 2020 While the families of the victims in the Ghost Ship fire case did not receive any satisfactory justice on Thursday, another case is making its way to court that will attempt to hold many more than just the two defendants, Derick Almena and Max Harris, responsible.
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Trial Verdict: Max Harris Acquitted, Jury Hung On Derick Almena Defendant Max Harris has been acquitted of 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, and the jury is hung on Derick Almena's guilt. Prosecutors will now have to decide if they will bring Almena to trial again.
SF News Derick Almena's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Explains Juror Removals In Ghost Ship Trial Deliberations The always talkative and colorful Tony Serra, who served as lead defense attorney for Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena, spoke to reporters outside the Alameda County courthouse Thursday and explained why several jurors were removed from deliberations by the judge two and a half weeks ago.
Arts & Entertainment Nobel-Winning Economist Says Burning Man Could Be A Model For Future Modes Of Makeshift Urbanization Paul Romer, the 63-year-old American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018, visited Burning Man for the first time this year, and he came away more fascinated and inspired than he expected to be.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
SF News Lots More Homeless Are Riding BART Trains All Day Than Last Year While complaints about the homeless on trains are not new, the problem appears to have gotten significantly worse on BART this year.
SF News Big Rig Crash On I-80 Causes Major Traffic, Dead Chickens A big rig carrying hundreds of live chickens crashed into an overpass support on westbound I-80 in San Pablo early Thursday, and after the truck caught fire many of the chickens sadly died. And it's a mess.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: KFOG's Last Day Features Nostalgic '[email protected]' A manhunt is on for a man considered armed and dangerous fleeing Merced County, a bunch of art stolen in the '90s has been found in LA, and a Berkeley couple is among the dead in Monday's SoCal boat fire.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ghost Ship Jurors Ask To Re-Hear Fire Captain's Testimony A convicted Santa Clara County murderer is suspected in a prison killing, SF's planning director of the last decade is stepping down, and the jurors in the Ghost Ship fire trial asked to re-hear some testimony on this, their fifth day in their current deliberations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Celeb Chef Tyler Florence To Open Steakhouse Called Miller & Lux Next To Chase Center Tyler Florence, the TV-famous chef who opened Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco nine years ago, is set to open a second project in the city after several other Bay Area projects have proven to be false starts.
SF News Suspected Arsonist Arrested In String of Buena Vista Park Fires Six fires have had to be put out in the last three weeks in Buena Vista Park, and the SFPD made an arrest of a suspect over the weekend that will hopefully put the alleged arson string to rest.
Sponsored Skate on Art at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture's Outdoor Roller Rink Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presents 'actions vent ascending frequencies,' a participatory art installation and roller rink experience that will be free to the public from September 13 through October 6, 2019.
