SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Found Safe After SF BART Station Kidnapping A 17-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped from the Powell Street BART station Tuesday night; the Bohemian Club is facing another lawsuit from employees; and the Pelosis have been buying up Nvidia stock.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Unveils Latest Menu With a Theatrical Twist, 'Dogs: The Musical' Yes, the menu looks like a Playbill for a musical called 'Dogs,' styled after Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats,' and many of the drink names are, also, spoofs of character names from 'Cats.'
SF News Current COVID Uptick Appears to Be Coming With New Symptoms, Like Stomach Issues California is experiencing much the same summer COVID upturn as the rest of the nation, and there’s some evidence that the symptoms of the new virus variants now include gastrointestinal issues too.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Laying Off More Workers Just as 'Inside Out 2' Becomes Its Highest-Grossing Film Ever In an unfortunate turn of events, Pixar is continuing with layoffs at its Emeryville animation studio in the same month that its latest release is smashing box office records and raking in cash at theaters worldwide.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Brunch 'Sunday's a Drag' Returns at New Location, North Beach's Club Fugazi Veteran SF drag queen and hostess Donna Sachet has revived her popular Sunday drag brunch, which for years was a staple of Harry Denton's Starlight Room in Union Square.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Reportedly at Risk Again, Amidst Rising Event Costs and Lower Foot Traffic After returning from a four-month hiatus earlier this year, we have a report that the popular First Fridays event in Oakland may be on the rocks again, with financial concerns over permitting costs and fewer vending spots.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Accused of Killing Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Will Stand Trial There's an update in a brutal stabbing case from March 2023 in which a beloved member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and Olivet Oakland Church choir was brutally killed in his own apartment.
SF News SFPD Might Expand Their Police Chase Policies to Allow Chases of Nonviolent Felony Suspects The Prop E measure that SF voters approved in March is coming home to roost, as the SF Police Commission is about to consider new rules that expand the types of cases where SFPD officers can engage in car chases.
SF News [Update] Missing Australian Businessman Turns Up In SF Hospital, In Coma, After Fall? An Australian grain executive on a business trip in San Francisco appears to have been violently robbed and injured, and was put into an induced coma after arriving in a local hospital without identification.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Says 'It's Up to the President to Decide' Whether to Stay in the Race Nancy Pelosi once again hedged about Biden staying in the race; Oakland police appear to be under-reporting crime data; and San Jose business leaders are pushing for more federal funding for the BART extension.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Company Takes Gold Medal at California State Fair Cannabis Awards Elton John was announced as the headliner for the big Dreamforce 2024 concert; Waymo and the rideshare companies might be taxed to save Muni; and a Bay Area cannabis company just won the gold medal at the California State Fair Cannabis Awards.
SF News The Oakland Zoo Will Soon Lose Its Last Remaining Elephant, 30-Year-Old Osh The only elephant left at the Oakland Zoo will be moving to a sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, and once the male elephant Osh is gone, there won’t be any more elephants at any zoos in the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Report: Hidden Cameras Rampant in Airbnb Units, Sexual Predators Allowed to Keep Hosting A new CNN report finds that Airbnb is receiving thousands of complaints a year about creepy hosts using security cameras to record their guests' intimate moments, and the company has allowed sex offenders to keep hosting, or even become “Superhosts.”
SF News South Bay Water Board Seeks to Make It Illegal to Camp Along Creeks, Waterways In the latest legal gambit to address homeless encampments in the Bay Area, the board of directors of Santa Clara Valley Water wants to make it illegal to camp in or along any of the 300 miles of creeks and waterways it manages.
SF News Orange Smoke Haze Could Be On Its Way to the Bay Area; Also, Inland Areas to Get More Extreme Heat This Week Another round of heat is coming Wednesday after a brief respite, though San Francisco won't feel too much of it. And wildfire smoke from far Northern California could end up hazing our skies as well.
Bay Area Sports Video: Stars Come Out for Willie Mays’s Celebration of Life at Giants Ballpark Everyone from Spike Lee to Bill Clinton to Barry Bonds and plenty more came out Monday for a star-studded two-and-a-half-hour tribute to the late Giants great Willie Mays at Oracle Park, paying a joyful homage to the “Say Hey Kid.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Just Like That, the Flintstone House Sushi Pop-Up Is Shut Down By Hillsborough's Town Council SFist called it last week when the story came out about a high-end omakase pop-up at the quirky Flintstone House down in Hillsborough: Sounds like owner Florence Fang, or the team working on the pop-up, did not seek any permits for this.
Sponsored Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka Set to Dazzle at Greek Theatre In what's shaping up to be a monumental sonic encounter, Another Planet Entertainment has announced the musical pairing of Grammy-winning artists, Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka. The event is slated for October 17, 2024, at the revered Greek Theatre in Berkeley.
SF Politics SF’s Moderate Candidates Duke It Out at Debate Peskin Skipped Because He Figured It Was Rigged Monday night saw another SF mayoral debate, this one largely dominated by the topics of crime and homelessness, but Aaron Peskin refused to show because he felt the organizers already had the fix in for Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie.
SF News Two Men Die By Drowning In Russian River In Four-Day Span Beware the deceptively strong underwater currents in the Russian River, because two young men have drowned in recent days while just trying to enjoy themselves and cool off in the river's waters.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Mother Grieves Second Child Lost to Gun Violence There is new information about a May 3 incident that may be linked to the unfolding Oakland scandal that ensnared the mayor; an Oakland mother talks about losing a second child in three years to guns; and those 13 teenage hikers near Tahoe have reunited with their families.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Rescued From Boat Fire Near Redwood City Two people had to be rescued from a boat fire in the Bay this afternoon; the Lake Fire in Santa Barbara County is threatening Neverland Ranch; and a White House press briefing turned into a shouting match today about Biden's health.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Dacari Spiers, Victim In Notorious 2019 SFPD Brutality Case One man has been arrested for killing the central figure in a high-profile 2019 police brutality case that dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as SFPD has arrested a 43-year-old man for the June fatal shooting of Dacari Spiers.
SF News Toddler Dies After Fall Out of Mission District Apartment Window A 15-month-old boy who fell from a third-story window in the Mission District last week has died from his injuries.
