Arts & Entertainment It Was Very, Very Hot For the 50th Anniversary of the Castro Street Fair Sunday People came out in droves but most were trying to huddle in the shadier parts of the Castro neighborhood for the 50th anniversary of the Castro Street Fair on Sunday.
SF News Dramatic Video Shows Oakland Police Rescue Drowning Man From Lake Merritt Channel Bodycam video from the Oakland Police Department shows a high-stakes drowning situation in the Lake Merritt Channel, but officers were able to rescue a man by jumping into the water themselves to pull him ashore.
SF News Beware Phony QR Code Scam Popping Up on SF Parking Meters Some fairly sophisticated scam artists have been slapping QR-code "Pay by Phone" stickers on SF parking meters, and the SFMTA just caught on last week.
SF News Gaza Protest In Mission District on Eve of October 7 Anniversary, Manny’s Gets Tagged Hard Again The day before the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the now-year-long response of sustained Israeli counterattacks, a Sunday Mission District protest drew 1,500 people but left the event space Manny’s coated with malicious graffiti.
SF Politics Former Mayors Willie Brown, Art Agnos, and Frank Jordan Call For Criminal Investigation of Mark Farrell Campaign It's not exactly an October surprise, but it is an escalation of the ongoing parade of negative attention on Mark Farrell, who by some polls has been the frontrunner in the San Francisco mayoral race.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's Fleet Week! Fleet Week kicks off Monday in SF; the heatwave has peaked but it's still not quite over; and Mark Zuckerberg just overtook Jeff Bezos to become the second richest person in the world, thanks to Meta's stock price.
SF News UC Berkeley Student Wins $100k on ESPN's 'College Gameday' Daniel Villaseñor, a civil engineering student at UC Berkeley, won $100,000 on ESPN's College Gameday broadcast of Saturday's football game between the Cal Golden Bears and the University of Miami.
SF News Sunday Links: End to Heatwave In Sight The current heatwave appears to be finally ending; Lake County's Glenhaven Fire has had its forward progress stopped; and the Cal Bears football team blew a 25-point lead last night.
SF News Police Unions in Alameda County Unite, Call For Pamela Price's Recall At a press conference in Emeryville, held earlier this weekend, the police unions announced in a joint statement that they are all in favor of having Price recalled, sharply rebuking her for being extremely soft on punishing repeat offenders.
SF News Saturday Links: Glenhaven Fire Only 20% Contained The Glenhaven FIre is still raging; a San Jose councilmember is disputing the allegations against him; and Donald Glover is cancelling his tour
SF News Day Around The Bay: 400 Acre Fire in Lake County Forces Evacuations, Destroys Structures A new wildfire is raging in Lake County; Gavin Newsom is pouring even more money into clearing encampments; and a "Friday Night Freak-Off" in Oakland has been cancelled.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Divis Gets a New Wine Bar A new wine bar with Vietnamese small plates is opening on Divisadero, a new Central Asian and Uzbek restaurant has opened in Lower Nob Hill, and Cafe Bastille is shuttering after 35 years, all in This Week in Food.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Suspends Pre-Trial Ankle Monitor Program, Claims Courts Are Forcing Them To Suspects awaiting trial in SF will no longer be assigned to home confinement or an ankle monitor, and must proceed directly to jail, because the SF Sheriff’s Office is yanking the ankle monitor program over a legal rift on warrantless searches.
SF News Stanford Upholds Its Conservative Bona Fides, Hosts Symposium For COVID Skeptics and Anti-Maskers "What's happening at Stanford?" writes one medical school dean on social media, regarding the Pandemic Policy symposium at Stanford University today, featuring a number of Fauci-hating anti-maskers who took constroversial stances on public health policies during the pandemic.
SF Politics Your November Ballot’s Prop 33 Rent Control Measure Could Repeal Costa-Hawkins Statewide California rent control advocates could score one of their biggest wins ever this November 5 if they pass Prop 33, which would legalize rent control across the state, and effectively repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Act.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef at SoMa Restaurant Aphotic Announces Closure, Cites 'Desolate Convention Center Suck Hole' Michelin-starred downtown fine dining spot Aphotic is shutting its doors in December after about 20 months in business, and chef-owner Peter Helmsley sounds pretty down about the Moscone Center-adjacent neighborhood he's been operating in.
SF News Daly City Gym Custodian Shot and Killed by Disgruntled Customer Who Followed Him Home A 60-year-old custodian at Daly City’s Fitness 19 gym was followed home and shot by a gym member last Saturday night, and the San Mateo County DA says the whole thing was tied to a dispute over the alleged shooter’s hygiene habits at the gym.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Kicks Off In Full Sun; Friday Lineup Includes Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney Starting at 1 pm Friday, the music will be playing in Golden Gate Park as the 24th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off amid a persistent heatwave.
SF News Multiple SFPD Plainclothes Officers Shot at in SoMa, Suspect in Custody Several blocks of Market and Mission streets were roped off Thursday night, after a suspect opened fire on multiple plainclothes officers. No one was hit by any bullets, and the suspect was taken into custody.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Arena Concert Inexplicably Delayed Over Safety Concerns A Hans Zimmer concert at Oakland Arena had an inexplicable two-hour delay that frustrated fans Thursday; the US added 254,000 jobs last month; and a new report confirms that Trump withheld disaster aid to California because it's a blue state.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That Union Square Jollibee in the Former Payless Is Supposedly Opening This Year SF temperatures baked in the mid-90s for the second day in a row; an SF firefighter will not get jail time for attacking another firefighter with a wrench; and that Jollibee in the former Payless ShoeSource is vowing to open by year’s end.
SF Politics Katie Porter for Governor? Poll Suggests She Might Do Well Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is not running for reelection in her purple Southern California district following her unsuccessful run for Senate, is hinting she would consider running for governor in 2026.
Arts & Entertainment Popular SF Artist and Oasis Muralist Diego Gomez Brutally Attacked, Placed in Intensive Care SF muralist Diego Gomez, who painted much of The Oasis and is also known as drag personality Trangela Lansbury, is in intensive care after a Monday attack in the Tenderloin left him with multiple facial fractures.
SF Politics Mark Farrell and Ahsha Safai Come Together for Improbable ‘1-2’ Ranked-Choice Alliance In Mayoral Race Some strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum have come together in the SF mayor’s race, as moderate Mark Farrell has made a puzzling partnership with Ahsha Safai in hopes of gaming the ranked-choice votes.
Arts & Entertainment SF Disability Justice Activist Alice Wong Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, as Does Cabaret Star Justin Vivian Bond The MacArthur Fellows for 2024 have been announced, and among them are San Francisco-based disability justice activist and writer Alice Wong, and onetime SF resident and famed cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond.
