SF News California Could Ban TSA Line-Skipping Service ‘Clear’ From CA Airports Under New Bill The pricey, $189-a-year service called Clear that lets people cruise through airport TSA lines could be banned in California, under a proposed bill from state lawmakers who think its unfair to people can’t pay the extra 200 bucks.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Two Baby Falcon Chicks Hatch on Berkeley Falcon Cam, and on Earth Day to Boot That’s two newborn baby falcons just after hatching beneath their mom Annie atop the Berkeley Campanile on Monday morning, and two more little hatchlings are expected to bust out of their shells in the days to come.
SF Politics Supreme Court Sounds Inclined to Allow Cities to Clear Homeless Encampments, Enforce Camping Laws Somewhat predictably, the conservative-majority Supreme Court signaled during oral arguments Monday that it will rule in favor of the Oregon town whose law penalizing public camping was struck down by the Ninth Circuit.
SF News Report: More Than 80% of Middle-Income 'Below Market Rate’ Housing Units Sitting Vacant In SF, Partly Thanks to Red Tape It’s great that San Francisco developers are given incentives to set aside housing for middle-income families that can’t afford the pricier units. It’s not so great that a large percentage of these units are sitting empty because of bureaucracy and the state of the housing market.
Arts & Entertainment Chappell Roan, Tyla, STRFKR, and Le Sserafim All Being Teased In Outside Lands Lineup Teasers In a series of three teaser comix, Another Planet Entertainment has let it be known who a handful of the acts will be on this year's Outside Lands lineup. And one strong headliner guess is The Weeknd.
SF News Motorcyclist Injured Amid Dirt Bike and ATV Sideshow Near Lake Merritt A Sunday evening sideshow near Oakland's Lake Merritt ended with one motorcyclist needing medical attention.
SF News Notorious Formerly $1.7 Million Noe Valley Public Toilet Opens With ‘Potty Party,’ Scatological Costumes A stream of yellow and brown balloons and toilet-humor costumes came out for Sunday’s official opening of the Noe Valley public bathroom that was once supposed to cost $1.7 million, though its cost plopped down to just a couple hundred thousand dollars.
SF News Churchgoer Stabbed Outside Saints Peter & Paul Church In North Beach On Sunday, following a reported altercation with a homeless individual who had entered the church, a parishioner was stabbed outside Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kaiser Nurses Protest Use of AI In Healthcare Kaiser nurses say AI is being embraced too quickly at hospitals without being properly tested; a dead gray whale was seen in the Bay off Alameda; and ferry service between SF and Sausalito is suspended indefinitely.
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Hippie Hill 4/20 Draws Thousands of Pot Smokers, Despite Being Officially ‘Canceled’ Several thousand marijuana enthusiasts still showed up for a supposedly “canceled” 4/20 at Hippie Hill, and we’ve got pictures and video of Saturday’s weed-smoking shenanigans at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
SF News Sunday Links: Presidio Heights Couple, Embroiled in Pickleball Dispute, Sells Home For $7M Under Asking Price The SF couple, Karl and Holly Peterson, had started a petition about the noise of a nearby pickleball court when they had one in their own home; the Stud reopened Saturday; and BART officially retired its legacy fleet.
SF News Celebrate 4/20 in the Bay Area At These Hippie Hill Event Alternatives From food fests to drag shows, check out these weed-themed things to do in San Francisco and beyond Saturday.
SF News Saturday Links: Oregon Runner Sets New Record Time on the Lost Coast Trail An Oregon woman, Emily Keddie, ran the Northern Californian Lost Coast in a record 5.5 hours; SF celebrated Bicycle Day on Friday; and Sacramento music festival Sol Blume was canceled at the last minute.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Looking For Man Who Punched A Baby On Muni Friday Morning An SFPD drug bust in the Tenderloin netted 13 arrests; the victims of the fatal shooting in Napa last weekend were identified as a young mother and teenager; and a man apparently punched a baby on a Muni bus unprovoked Friday morning.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Now Selling Very Elegant Bongs and Pot Pipes, Just In Time for 4/20 Some highly artistic cannabis smoking paraphernalia is now on sale at the SFMOMA gift shop, which has gone to pot and is now selling upscale porcelain pipes and water bongs.
Arts & Entertainment A ‘Magic Mushrooms Church’ Is Providing More 4/20 Porta-Potties and Crowd Control Than the City Is The cancellation of Hippie Hill’s official 4/20 celebration seems unlikely to keep thousands of pot-smoking revelers out of Golden Gate Park, and so a psilocybin-themed church is stepping up to provide porta-potties, a medical tent, and water bottles.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Popping Up, and Fried Chicken It's the first day for Minnie Bell's fried chicken in the Fillmore, Bar Agricole is popping up at Quince, and Saison co-owner and sommelier Mark Bright is opening a new SoMa wine bar.
SF News Peskin, Breed Both Say They Are Trying to Get Macy's to Stay In Union Square Supervisor and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin was on TV Thursday night discussing the city's efforts to cajole the Macy's organization to change its mind about closing the San Francisco store.
SF News Oakland Murder Case to Test Notion of Guilt By Provocation, After Home Invasion Suspect Is Killed One of two men who allegedly committed a home-invasion robbery is being tried in Alameda County for the murder of his accomplice, even though the person who pulled the trigger was the homeowner they were allegedly robbing.
SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud Reopening Will Revisit All Seven Decades of the Club's Existence, Hour By Hour San Francisco's oldest and arguably most beloved LGBTQ party space, The Stud, is set to make a grand reentrance on Saturday, with a new outfit and in new digs, celebrating every era that the place has lived through.
SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo to Receive Panda Loan From China A giant panda, or a pair of pandas, will be coming to the San Francisco Zoo sometime in the future, as Mayor London Breed has succeeded in her mission to coax some Panda Diplomacy out of China.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Now Required to Fix Elevators Quickly After a settlement in a lawsuit from disability rights advocates, BART is now legally required to fix elevators and escalators quickly; an inmate from Alameda County escaped a prison camp; and Tesla is recalling all its Cybertrucks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFMTA to Do 'Intensive' Sweep For Parking Violations In May The SFMTA is going to be doing an "intensive" crackdown on parking next month; an East Bay rapper has been charged with robbery and false imprisonment; and Redwood City is looking to permanently ban cars from a section of Broadway.
