Arts & Entertainment Photos: ‘Jesus Ken’ Wins Hunky Jesus Contest as Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Celebrate Their 45th Anniversary ‘Barbie’-mania had one more hurrah at Easter Sunday’s Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park, with a perfectly Mattel-produced Jesus Ken winning the title and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honoring their 45th anniversary.
SF News SFO Officials Push Back On Proposed Name Change For Oakland Airport Oakland Airport has been seeking ways to boost its profile among travelers, and on Friday the Port of Oakland announced that it was considering a name change to incorporate "San Francisco" into the name. And officials at SFO are not having it.
SF News Road Collapse On Highway 1 Strands Around 1,600 People In Big Sur Over Holiday Weekend Anyone who took a daytrip to Big Sur on Saturday, or those who were perhaps spending a weekend there, were surprised to learn they were stranded Saturday evening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Mayor Wants to Choose Next Police Chief Without Commission Input Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wants to make a change to the city charter regarding the police commission; that $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers takes effect today; and two people died in a wrong-way crash on I-580 Sunday.
SF News Man Stabbed Near Whole Foods in SF's Balboa Park Neighborhood SFPD arrested a suspect accused of stabbing a man near a San Francisco Whole Foods Sunday morning.
SF News Easter Sunday Links: Plane Crash Near Tahoe Neighborhood Leaves Two Dead Two passengers died in a single-engine plane crash near a Tahoe residential neighborhood, although the plane missed the neighborhood; SF Carnaval's King and Queen were crowned; and SF police arrested 54 in a bust in the Tenderloin.
SF News Ex-Caltrain Employees Accused of Building Secret Homes in Stations With Public Funds The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against two former Caltrain employees for allegedly misusing public funds to construct personal residences within train stations.
SF News Saturday Links: 3-Alarm Fire in the Mission Overnight Saturday Injures Two Two people are injured after a three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Mission District in the early hours of Saturday morning; NYT has a new profile on tech investor Garry Tan; and Bay Area officials are warning about rising measles cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Stage Rally at SF Waterfront Event for New Ship, USNS Harvey Milk The new navy vessel named after former SF supe Harvey Milk made its maiden voyage Thursday to SF; pro-Palestinian protesters held a rally at the ship's ceremony; and Mayor London Breed is headed to China to strengthen relations and try to get SF a giant panda in April.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Trendy L.A. Seafood Spot Comes to Ghirardelli Square Broad Street Oyster Co. just opened its first Bay Area location at Ghirardelli Square, a hot taqueria from Richmond arrives in the Castro, and the Chronicle reviews Z&Y Peking Duck.
SF News City of SF Taking Over Lease for Five Floors of the Former Uber Headquarters, May Buy the Whole Building It’s like a 180-degree turn from the “Twitter Tax Break” days, as the City of San Francisco is grabbing office space in the 1455 Market Street building that used to be headquarters to Uber and Stripe, with an option to buy the whole building.
SF News Report: SF Rents Still Coming Down, Despite Rents Going Up Pretty Much Everywhere Else Nationwide The San Francisco rental market is still facing a sluggish recovery, which is great news for local apartment-hunters, as the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in SF is now 3.3% lower than it was a year ago.
SF News Newsom Announces He’s Putting 480 More Street Cameras Up In Oakland to Go After Suspected Criminals A new batch of 480 car-surveilling security cameras are going up on the streets and highways of Oakland, in Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to crack down on Oakland crime.
SF News Gay Dad From Danville, Turned In By His Husband For 1998 Murder, Sentenced to 16 Years A man who had been living the suburban dream in the East Bay with twin daughters and a doctor husband ended up in a messy divorce. And perhaps in a bid for custody of their children, his husband turned him in to police for a crime he had privately confessed to years earlier.
SF News Another United Flight From SFO Has Engine Issues, Has to Be Diverted to Denver The steady stream of mechanical problems with Boeing jets on United Airlines continues, this time with a Thursday night flight to Paris that only made it as far as Denver, because of engine issues.
SF News One of Two Alleged Smoke Shop Burglars Charged With Murder In Wrong-Way Crash Near Bay Bridge Two men who were in a vehicle driving the wrong way up an I-580 ramp near the Bay Bridge toll plaza earlier this month and collided with a BMW, killing the driver, are facing multiple charges, and one has been charged with the BMW driver's murder.
SF News Fatal Shooting at Powell Street Station In SF Leaves One Dead There was a homicide Thursday night in Hallidie Plaza, outside the Powell Street BART/Muni station, and it is under investigation.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Juul Settlement Money Going to SFUSD The SF Unified School District is getting a bunch of money from that Juul settlement; an arrest was made in a Wednesday freeway shooting in the East Bay; and Biden's fundraiser with Clinton and Obama in NYC raised $25 million.
SF News Opening Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Restrict Parking Lot Access to Squelch Fan Protest BART is touting that they’re arresting lots more people on their trains these days; the Giants sadly released Pablo Sandoval once and for all; and the Oakland A’s refused to open their parking lot Thursday afternoon because of fan protesters.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day Doing Small Show Tuesday at The Fillmore to Raise Awareness of Climate Change Impacts Bay Area music legends Green Day are putting on a show next week at the historic, and very intimate Fillmore, and tickets are available to the public.
SF News Oakland Cigarette Shop Busted for Selling Marijuana, and Maybe a Little Meth A raid on a cigarette shop in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood turned up pounds of marijuana, cases of illegal menthols, two loaded guns, and what police call “suspected crystal methamphetamine.”
SF News Former Windsor Mayor Won’t Face Criminal Charges (For Now) on Numerous Sex Assault Allegations Ex-Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli was accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, but the state AG’s office says they don’t have the evidence to prosecute him, though several accusers’ civil cases will still proceed.
Arts & Entertainment The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, Playing Sold Out Shows at Chase Center Tonight and Sunday Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are in San Francisco for shows tonight and Sunday, and in their honor, the city has temporarily renamed Warriors Way, aka South Street, in the band's honor.
SF News Concord Man Found Guilty In Bizarre North Beach Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Incident An East Bay man now faces up to 14 years in state prison for an unhinged incident last fall that began at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
SF News One Last Storm to Come Before Rainy Season Officially Ends Sunday The rain is still coming as California's typical rainy season is winding down, and rainfall totals show an above-average season for parts of the Bay Area, which is great news for mitigating the drought.
