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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 15-month-old boy who fell from a third-story window in the Mission District last week has died from his injuries.
The charging of an electric scooter was apparently to blame for a one-alarm fire at Leavenworth and McAlister streets Monday morning, and while the blaze was out within an hour or so, one person was hospitalized and three more people were displaced.
A recall election last week decided the fates of two school board members in the Sunol Glen Unified School District who were elected during the pandemic, and they're out.
Although the removal of homeless encampments had not completely stopped in San Francisco, a panel of federal appellate judges just ordered an injunction to be lifted that clears a legal hurdle to the city's efforts to clear illegal encampments.
The Oakland City Attorney may have some insights into what’s being investigated after the FBI raid on the mayor’s home, and Sheng Thao’s partner has been named. Oh, and a karaoke club with alleged drug sales and human trafficking just entered the scandal.
A man accused of shoving a woman into a BART train last week and causing her death was missing from a scheduled court appearance Monday morning due to hospitalization.
