SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monk’s Kettle Closing Its Mission District Location, Moving to Rockridge The 16-year run of Mission brewpub Monk’s Kettle is coming to an end on 16th Street, but they’re moving to a larger spot in Oakland’s Rockridge. And they’ve got choice words for the role delivery apps played in their SF location’s demise.
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Concert In Golden Gate Park After Outside Lands Will Feature Alt-Metal Bands System of a Down and Deftones There will just be one extra day of music this year on the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, and the metal-heavy lineup was just announced.
SF News Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is at War With the Brazilian Judiciary Now Brazilian politics are, like America's, in a volatile and divisive place. And Xitter is reportedly being weaponized in ways that violate Brazilian law — which does not have complete protections for free speech. So Elon Musk is basically threatening to shut down all operations in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink IKEA-Adjacent Saluhall Opens Thursday: Will SF Clamor For Vegan Tacos and Soft-Serve? The IKEA-affiliated Ingka Centres collaborated with a British hospitality firm to create a new paradigm for the mall food court. Will cocktails, Scandinavian pastry, and abundant plant-based options bring in crowds?
SF News SF Deputy Sheriff Arrested and Charged for Allegedly Stalking, Strangling Ex-Girlfriend A 49-year-old SF deputy sheriff is currently in custody for what’s alleged to be a seven-month pattern of violence, stalking, and use of surveillance devices on his estranged partner.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 15 Cats Abandoned Outside East Bay Hospital A pedestrian was killed crossing the 101 freeway near SFO; 15 cats and kittens were dumped outside Kaiser's San Leandro hospital; and a downtown SF post office might get named after Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First Republic Branches All Becoming JP Morgan, or Closing The Parkmerced standoff with a barricaded man was resolved peacefully; SF-based First Republic Bank will cease to exist as of Memorial Day weekend; and the Kimpton Alton Fisherman's Wharf hotel has been surrendered to its lender.
SF News Hulking Eyesore at Mission and 21st Streets Finally Gets Plans to Be Rebuilt as Art Gallery, Retail Space The three-story husk of a building at 2551 Mission Street has been vacant and accumulating graffiti now since 1987, but efforts to transform it into art galleries and retail spaces are finally showing some progress.
SF News Early Monday Morning RV Fire In SF's Bayview Spreads to Nearby Warehouse Before Being Extinguished An RV fire broke out around 2:30 am Monday morning on Newhall Street in the Bayview District, and quickly spread to an adjacent warehouse. The fire was extinguished within a half-hour, but the RV is obviously totaled.
Arts & Entertainment Missy Elliot Announces Summer Tour With Busta Rhymes and Ciara, Coming to Oakland in July Get your freak on when Missy Elliott comes to the Oakland Arena in July with Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland, as tickets go on sale this week for Misdemeanor’s first tour in 20 years.
SF News SF City Attorney Threatens Lawsuit Over Plan to Add 'San Francisco' to Oakland Airport Name The situation has heated up a week after Port of Oakland officials suggested they wanted to rebrand Oakland Airport by adding "San Francisco Bay" to its name. Now San Francisco is threatening legal action.
SF News Biden Taking Another Crack at This Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Thing After his original plan to forgive $400 billion in student loan debt was shot down by the Supreme Court, President Biden is embarking on a renewed effort that would wipe out substantial amounts of student debt for 23 million Americans, and cancel that debt outright for some.
SF News [Update] SFPD Takes Barricaded Individual at Parkmerced Into Custody After Standoff Hostage/crisis negotiators were on the scene at Parkmerced in San Francisco Monday morning, after a man barricaded himself inside an apartment after allegedly making threats.
SF News Patient Logbook Goes Missing at SF General Hospital, Security Review Underway A big privacy problem has come to light at Zuckerberg General Hospital, as a patient logbook containing personal and medical information has disappeared and cannot be accounted for, and the hospital is conducting security reviews.
SF News Don't Look at the Sun: Solar Eclipse Will Be Very Partial In Bay Area It's a big day for one swath of the country, where for two or three minutes people with eclipse-watching glasses will be able to watch a total eclipse for the last time in 20 years — at least in the US.
SF News Eclipse Day Headlines: A Warm Weather Week Ahead Santa Rosa could be getting a huge new affordable housing project thanks to the "builder's remedy"; there was another small earthquake this morning centered up in the North Bay; and we have a warm weather week ahead, with things shifting again on Friday.
SF News 3AM Sideshow Takes Over Bay Bridge A sideshow that may have been the culmination of several others on the Peninsula Saturday night broke out around 3:15 am Sunday on the eastbound deck of the Bay Bridge, east of Treasure Island.
SF News Sunday Links: Crows Are Taking Over SF An early morning crash in Concord killed one person and injured several others; the winning Powerball ticket was sold in Oregon; and the crow population in San Francisco seems to have exploded.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Mission District Homicide A suspect was arrested Friday night in connection with the fatal afternoon shooting outside of El Capitan Hotel at Mission and 20th streets.
SF News 3.4M Earthquake Centered In East Bay Felt In SF Saturday Morning There was just an earthquake in the Bay Area Saturday morning, a small 3.4M tremor that was centered on the Hayward Fault just south of the UC Berkeley campus.
SF News Saturday Links: Fire Breaks Out On Treasure Island There was a fire in an abandoned building on Treasure Island Friday; the victim in Friday's Mission Street shooting was a Venezuelan barber; and Tesla is allegedly rolling out its own line of robotaxis in August.
Arts & Entertainment ‘SF Weed Week’ Hopes to Fill Void of Canceled 4/20 Party, With Promotional Marketing Events Would you rather go to branded promotional industry events for 4/20 instead of whatever party might happen at Hippie Hill? If so, boy does SF Weed Week have a marketing-type lineup for you.
Arts & Entertainment 'Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord' Brings Back Uncomfortable Pandemic Memories With Humor We are at the point where art is being made about the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, and performance artist Kristina Wong has a one-woman piece about her unique experience that just had its San Francisco premiere at ACT's Strand Theater on Thursday.
SF News Valencia Street Shop Owner Declares Hunger Strike Over Bike Lane With Gloriously Rambling Graffiti Message The owner of Valencia Street art gallery Rossi and Mediterranean restaurant Yasmin has declared a hunger strike to protest the center-running bike lane on that corridor, and his graffiti declaration is quite a mouthful.
