Arts & Entertainment 4/20 on Hippie Hill Gets Canceled By Organizers, For 2024 At Least The organizers of the official Hippie Hill 4/20 event have canceled this year’s smoke-filled festivities over budget cuts and lack of sponsorship. But considering 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, mobs of stoners are probably going to show up anyway.
SF News Portola District Deaths Being Called Murder-Suicide The deaths of a couple found in their Portola District home Sunday evening are being attributed to a murder-suicide.
SF News Power Outage Hits Russian Hill, Pac Heights, Presidio and Marina District A fairly significant power outage left thousands in the dark Tuesday morning across a northern swath of San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls Rise Again A major bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after being struck by a container ship overnight; the SFPD has made an arrest in connection with a January homicide in Mission Bay; and tolls are rising again on the Golden Gate Bridge in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Double Rainbow Seen Over the Castro The man killed by a wrong-way driver in that MacArthur Maze crash has been identified; more rainy weather is arriving by midweek in the Bay; and Saturday's weather created a double rainbow over San Francisco.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Wants to Bring Car Traffic Back to Market Street Downtown — Is That Wise? It could just be campaign bluster and empty talk, but mayoral candidate Mark Farrell is among those talking about reopening Market Street to regular vehicle traffic. And Chronicle urban design critic John King has some thoughts.
SF News Pro-Choice Activists Rally at SF Federal Building for Abortion Pill Access, as Supreme Court Set to Hear Case In advance of the Supreme Court hearing arguments Tuesday on their first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, a group of activists took to the SF Federal Building Sunday to defend access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20 SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Has Done Away With 10% 'Dine-In' Surcharge, But Will Add 5% Charge Emerging from the pandemic, San Francisco restaurant Che Fico took a controversial approach to realigning the economics of dining, and now they're backing off a bit, at least by 5%.
SF Politics Supervisor Candidate Deletes Claims He’s a ‘Neuroscientist’ After Actual Neuroscientists Dispute It District 5 supervisor candidate Bilal Mahmood promoted himself as a “neuroscientist” in early campaign materials, but after actual neuroscientists questioned this, Mahmood's campaign scrubbed the claim off their website and advertising.
Business & Tech Judge Tells Musk His Lawsuit Against Hate-Speech Watchdog Group Is Just 'Punishment' For Their Speech Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk went after several nonprofit organizations last year for their speech last year. One of those lawsuits was just tossed out by a federal judge with a blistering, 52-page order.
SF News Elderly Woman Attacked and Beaten at Oakland Laundromat, Suspects Let Go and Only Charged With Misdemeanor Despite there being video footage of an obvious assault with several punches landed on an 65-year-old, 88-pound woman at a laundromat near Lake Merritt, only one of the two suspects was cited for a misdemeanor, and police released them.
SF News Two Dead In Double Shooting In San Francisco's Portola Neighborhood Two people were found fatally shot Sunday evening by San Francisco police inside a home in the Portola neighborhood.
SF News Pedestrian Injured After Being Struck by Car While Waiting for Bus in San Francisco's Richmond District A week after a family of four was tragically killed in a car crash at an SF bus station, another vehicle hit a pedestrian at a stop near Golden Gate Park, prompting calls for better speeding laws.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Trump Gets Reprieve From Appeals Court Three people were shot in a verbal dispute in East Oakland Sunday; residents of the West Portal neighborhood remain shaken after last week's fatal crash; and Donald Trump has gotten a reprieve from an appeals court in New York in his fraud case.
SF News Fake Post About SF 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor's Face on Them Goes Viral An SF artist really wanted to bring rice balls to Bay Area 7-Elevens — so she made a bunch with London Breed's face on them and got the hype going.
SF News Sunday Links: First Fatal Mountain Lion Attack in 30 Years Leaves One Dead in Northern California A mountain lion attack in El Dorado County, California claimed one life and left another person injured on Saturday; the SF Giants have a new surprising hobby; and a man who was threatening people at SF's Pier 14 then jumped into the Bay was taken into custody Saturday.
SF News After February Storms, California State Officials Double Water Allocation for Most Municipalities The CA Department of Water Resources increased its forecasted allocation to 30% of requested supplies for those south of the Delta (the majority of water users) up from a 15% allocation update announced last month.
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Cruz Kids Find Ancient Giant Sloth Fossil Elementary school students found a fossil sloth arm bone while playing in the woods near the Santa Cruz mountains; six Bay Area men caught in undercover online child sex crimes sting; and the Golden Gate Bridge toll is going up (again).
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate Out of All the U.S. States California's unemployment rate rose in February, although SF is still slightly below the national average; a San Francisco woman was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing $40,000 of stuff from stores; and London Breed lost a bet and sent Dungeness crab to Kansas City's mayor.
SF News Friday Morning Stabbing Marks SF’s Seventh Stabbing In Last 11 Days The knives are out in San Francisco these last couple weeks, as a Friday morning Mission District stabbing was the city’s seventh in 11 days, and four of them happened in the Mission District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Boichik Bagels Land In SF Saturday Wayfare Tavern confirms they are relocating a few blocks away, Boichik Bagels opens their first SF location Saturday in Laurel Heights/Presidio Heights, and Bar Jabroni makes a splash in the Lower Haight.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Coming Back On? Organizers Say They've Almost Hit Their $11 Million Goal The arts organization behind the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights project says they’re just $250,000 shy of the $11 million they need to turn those lights back on — and this time, cover both sides of the bridge with lights.
SF News Protesters Rally Against Light Sentencing For Defendant In 2021 Stabbing of Elderly Asian Woman The stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman in San Francisco's Tenderloin made many headlines when it occurred in June 2021, and that was in a year when there were many high-profile acts of violence committed against Asian seniors in particular.
Arts & Entertainment 21-Hour Marathon of All Nine 'Star Wars' Movies Happening at Alamo Drafthouse Are you such a big Star Wars fan that you'd like to sit through all nine movies of the saga in one go with a bunch of other Star Wars fans? Well, Alamo Drafthouse can give you this experience.
