SF News Shooting on SF's Sixth Street Injures One A shooting early Saturday morning in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood left one person injured.
SF News Saturday Links: China Basin Park Opens A pedestrian was run over by a SamTrans bus in Redwood City; a ceasefire protest in South San Francisco turned violent; and China Basin Park has opened by McCovey Cove and it received a positive Chronicle review.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Night Market Returns The body of a 15-year-old boy swept away Thursday in the rushing current of the Russian River has been found; a Berkeley parent is suing the school district over an Israel-Palestine curriculum; and the Chinatown Night Market returns tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New IKEA Food Hall Has Complaint From Illustrator Who Says Their Logo ‘Blatantly Copied’ His Work A mere one day after opening, SF’s IKEA-adjacent food court Saluhall has drawn the ire of an SF illustrator who says their ‘eyes-ears-nose-mouth’ logo is a rip-off of his own illustration published in The New Yorker.
SF News SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.
Arts & Entertainment Heavy Metal Concert Set for Weekend After Outside Lands Sells Out In 90 Minutes It looks like Another Planet Entertainment knew what they were doing with the alt-metal programming for the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie Raising Eye-Popping Sums of Money From VCs and His Family Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is walloping the competition in the mayoral money race, with about four times as much cash raised as Mayor Breed, most of it coming from tech founders, venture capitalists, and his mom.
SF News You May See More Muni Fare Inspectors on Buses This Year as SFMTA Vows Crackdown on Fare Evasion Some state bailout funds that are flowing to the SFMTA came with the condition that the agency do more to crack down on fare evasion. So you will likely start seeing more scofflaws getting tickets for not having proof of payment.
SF News [Update] Body of Boy Swept Away In Russian River Has Been Found A teenager who has been missing since Thursday afternoon after being swept up by the rushing Russian River in Sonoma County has been found dead.
SF News Oakland Port Commissioners Vote to Change Airport Name, Setting Up Legal Battle With San Francisco The Port of Oakland's Board of Commissioners took their controversial vote on Thursday, and it was unanimous. They want to change the name of Oakland Airport to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport," and San Francisco is going to have some words with them.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Overturned Trailer Briefly Blocks All of I-880 South A woman in a wheelchair was struck and injured in the Tenderloin; an overturned big rig trailer caused an early morning traffic nightmare on I-880 south; and the Warriors aren't giving up just yet.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Temple SF Nightclub in SoMa Announces It’s Closing Permanently Robotaxi company Cruise is trying to get its permits to operate in SF again; a Richmond man has been charged for last week’s fatal Mission Street drive-by shooting; and SoMa’s Temple SF will close for good on May 25.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 Outdoor Free Movies In the Park Lineup Has Arrived Hey, ‘Barbie’, ‘Bullitt’, and ‘Labyrinth’ are among your summer outdoor movies in various SF parks this year, as the SF Parks Alliance brings back the popular outdoor movie series Sundown Cinema.
SF News Fatal Motorcycle Crash on 101 Freeway In SF Snarls Traffic A Thursday afternoon collision on westbound 80/southbound 101 in San Francisco shut down a section of the busy freeway, and drivers were being told to find alternate routes, especially they are trying to get to the Peninsula from the Bay Bridge.
SF News FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’ As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
SF News Noe Valley to Celebrate Arrival of Once-Controversial Public Toilet With 'Blowout' Event The infamous $1.7 million toilet that became a symbol of bloated bureaucracy, which was replaced with a much less expensive, prefab option, has now become a reality in Noe Valley Town Square.
SF News Convicted Kristin Smart Killer Paul Flores Stabbed In Prison Paul Flores, who is serving a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the 1996 murder of fellow Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was reportedly stabbed and injured while in prison this week — and this is the second time he's been attacked in less than a year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Petit Crenn Announces Final Summer Stint Petit Crenn will close in September after a final few months of dinners, Portola gets a new cocktail bar and pizza spot, and Alora gets a Chronicle review.
SF News Oakland’s ‘F*** Everyone Gang’ Accused of Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Merchandise In Just Two Months One alleged gang member of something called the “F*** Everyone Gang” is in custody on charges of stealing $970,000 worth of merchandise, and police found him after he used his getaway vehicle in a music video.
SF News Man Allegedly Assaults Woman In SF Who Refuses to Give Him Cigarette A woman was attacked and left with life-threatening injuries early Wednesday in the Tenderloin, all over a refused cigarette.
SF News OJ Simpson Has Died at Age 76, His Family Announces While known for a stellar football career and a bizarre high-profile murder trial that gripped the nation, OJ Simpson was also a San Francisco native who attended Galileo High and City College. He died Wednesday of prostate cancer.
SF Politics London Breed Would Like a Chinese University to Open a Satellite Campus In SF's Downtown Another of Mayor London Breed's goals in her upcoming trip to China, besides getting a panda for the San Francisco Zoo, is apparently to chat up a university there about opening a satellite campus in SF's struggling downtown.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major Fire Burning Near Tracy A fire at a recycling center near Tracy prompted some early morning evacuations; an overturned big rig near San Leandro was causing major traffic headaches; and the route of the Big Sur marathon has been changed due to that road slip-out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: See a Superbloom of California Poppies In the East Bay An arrest has been made in connection with a deadly crash near Concord last weekend; longtime Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer is retiring; and you can head to some parks in the East Bay to see superblooms of California poppies.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Releases First Campaign Video As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of "recovery" — both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco's return to prosperity and his own struggles with alcohol.
