Bay Area Sports 49ers-Branded CA License Plates Are Coming, and You Might Be Able to Get One for Free A drive to get the California DMV to produce a 49ers logo-license plate looks likely to be successful, and you might even be able to get yours free, but you’ll have to act fast.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Tiny Home Homeless Housing Facility Opens at 16th Street BART, Behind Big, Black Gates The on-again, off-again effort to open 60 tiny homes for the homeless is complete, though a large fence surrounds the entrance of the new facility called “Mission Cabins” in apparent hopes that passersby won’t notice it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Another Sign of Life Downtown, Michelin-Starred Chef From Baumé Is Opening a New French Brasserie French-born chef Bruno Chemel is making a return to the San Francisco restaurant scene after two decades, and he'll be opening something called Le Parc Bistrobar a few blocks from Union Square this summer.
SF News Developer Unveils Rendering of Expanded, 576-Unit Residential Project on Presidio Heights Hospital Site The proposed development at the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at 3700 California Street has grown significantly larger, and now we have a better picture of what it would look like.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF News Multiple Sideshows Break Out In Oakland; Three Cars Set Ablaze, One Car Rams OPD Cruiser Oakland saw another series of chaotic sideshows Saturday night beginning around midnight and extending well into the morning hours of Sunday. And police did try to intervene, and multiple people were taken into custody.
SF News Protests Block Golden Gate Bridge, All Northbound Lanes of 880 In Oakland Tax Day protests over the war in Gaza have caused a commute nightmare for anyone trying to get to San Francisco from the North Bay, or anyone traveling north on I-880 toward Oakland or San Francisco.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: South Bay Man Arrested for Impersonating a Cop A man was convicted last week in a fatal 2021 shooting at the 24th Street BART station; a man was arrested by Santa Clara County deputies for impersonating a police officer; and Clarence Thomas was absent from the Supreme Court today.
SF News 11 People Rescued In Two Separate Boat Capsize Incidents, One Off Ocean Beach and One In Tomales Bay Two boats capsized in the Bay Area this weekend in separate incidents amid windy conditions, leading to 11 people requiring emergency rescue from cold waters.
SF News Sunday Links: Shooting Kills Two In Napa A rare shooting in Napa left two women dead on Saturday; a tiny house in Cupertino sold over asking, and asking was $1.7M; and the Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off in Japantown.
SF News Shooting on SF's Sixth Street Injures One A shooting early Saturday morning in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood left one person injured.
SF News Saturday Links: China Basin Park Opens A pedestrian was run over by a SamTrans bus in Redwood City; a ceasefire protest in South San Francisco turned violent; and China Basin Park has opened by McCovey Cove and it received a positive Chronicle review.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Night Market Returns The body of a 15-year-old boy swept away Thursday in the rushing current of the Russian River has been found; a Berkeley parent is suing the school district over an Israel-Palestine curriculum; and the Chinatown Night Market returns tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New IKEA Food Hall Has Complaint From Illustrator Who Says Their Logo ‘Blatantly Copied’ His Work A mere one day after opening, SF’s IKEA-adjacent food court Saluhall has drawn the ire of an SF illustrator who says their ‘eyes-ears-nose-mouth’ logo is a rip-off of his own illustration published in The New Yorker.
SF News SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.
Arts & Entertainment Heavy Metal Concert Set for Weekend After Outside Lands Sells Out In 90 Minutes It looks like Another Planet Entertainment knew what they were doing with the alt-metal programming for the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie Raising Eye-Popping Sums of Money From VCs and His Family Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is walloping the competition in the mayoral money race, with about four times as much cash raised as Mayor Breed, most of it coming from tech founders, venture capitalists, and his mom.
SF News You May See More Muni Fare Inspectors on Buses This Year as SFMTA Vows Crackdown on Fare Evasion Some state bailout funds that are flowing to the SFMTA came with the condition that the agency do more to crack down on fare evasion. So you will likely start seeing more scofflaws getting tickets for not having proof of payment.
SF News [Update] Body of Boy Swept Away In Russian River Has Been Found A teenager who has been missing since Thursday afternoon after being swept up by the rushing Russian River in Sonoma County has been found dead.
SF News Oakland Port Commissioners Vote to Change Airport Name, Setting Up Legal Battle With San Francisco The Port of Oakland's Board of Commissioners took their controversial vote on Thursday, and it was unanimous. They want to change the name of Oakland Airport to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport," and San Francisco is going to have some words with them.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Overturned Trailer Briefly Blocks All of I-880 South A woman in a wheelchair was struck and injured in the Tenderloin; an overturned big rig trailer caused an early morning traffic nightmare on I-880 south; and the Warriors aren't giving up just yet.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Temple SF Nightclub in SoMa Announces It’s Closing Permanently Robotaxi company Cruise is trying to get its permits to operate in SF again; a Richmond man has been charged for last week’s fatal Mission Street drive-by shooting; and SoMa’s Temple SF will close for good on May 25.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 Outdoor Free Movies In the Park Lineup Has Arrived Hey, ‘Barbie’, ‘Bullitt’, and ‘Labyrinth’ are among your summer outdoor movies in various SF parks this year, as the SF Parks Alliance brings back the popular outdoor movie series Sundown Cinema.
