Arts & Entertainment Mission District Bar Casements Wins Right to Extend Their Back Patio Hours Later Into the Evening The Mission Street Irish cocktail bar Casements recently got permission to keep their back patio open, but only until 10 pm. On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors extended their patio hours until 11 pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends, though with a lot of requirements.
SF News SF Mayor Heads to China Next Week to Promote Tourism — and Lobby For a Panda San Francisco Mayor London Breed is heading to China next week to conduct some "panda diplomacy," or, at least, to ask again for some, and to promote tourism to SF.
Business & Tech Onetime ‘Law & Order’ Star Says Instacart Driver Shot and Killed Her Dog, Instacart Suspends Driver Late 1990s ‘Law & Order’ actor Angie Harmon is fuming publicly that an Instacart driver allegedly shot and killed her dog Saturday, and Instacart has sidelined that driver while police investigate.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands 'Eager Beaver' Presale Tickets Sell Out In Under Two Hours Those who know they will be going to Outside Lands this summer regardless of what the lineup is get their chance at an early-bird discount Wednesday morning.
SF News Assault on Shotwell Street Caught on Video; Neighbors Complain of Violence Involving Sex Workers A broad daylight assault involving two female suspects and one female victim who may be unhoused has neighbors on Shotwell Street newly complaining about the rampant sex trade happening there.
SF News Chesa Boudin, Other Bay Area Lawyers Implore Supreme Court to Protect Civil Rights of Homeless Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, now a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, joined with a group of Bay Area lawyers in an amicus brief filed Tuesday in the Oregon case about penalizing homeless camping that the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on later this month.
SF News Ambitious Potrero Bus Yard Affordable Housing Project Might Get Slashed From 500 Units to 100 Units As the SFMTA proceeds with their grand plan to modernize the 109-year-old Potrero Yard bus facility and build 500 units of affordable housing on top of it, we receive word that they may reduce that affordable housing component to barely 100 units.
SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
Arts & Entertainment Jon Stewart Says He Parted Ways With Apple Because They Wouldn't Let Him Talk About AI, or China, or Talk to the FTC Comedian Jon Stewart tore into his former employer on 'The Daily Show' Monday evening, suggesting that he severed his professional relationship with Apple over instances in which they instructed him to avoid certain subjects.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mpox Cases on the Rise Again Mpox cases appear to be ticking up again nationally; three people were shot in American Canyon on Monday; and the personal information of 73 million AT&T customers has been posted on the dark web.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gray Whale Population Appears to Be Rebounding AsiaSF is staying open one more month after "overwhelming" community support; Safeway stores in the Bay Area continue to overcharge for goods; and the West Coast's gray whale population appears to be rebounding after that mass die-off five years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill Celebrating Its 175th Anniversary This Month, With $1.75 Bloody Marys And More SF’s legendary steak-and-seafood place Tadich Grill just kicked off its 175th anniversary celebration, and the third-oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US will get sweet and savory with $1.75 Bloody Marys and a “Tadich swag giveaway” every day all month.
SF News Two 16-Year-Olds Arrested for Fatal Shooting at Powell Street BART Station Two juveniles have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of another juvenile in Hallidie Plaza last Thursday night.
SF News Toilet Overflows Into Cabin In Latest United Airlines Disaster on SFO-Bound Boeing Jet United Airlines really managed to outdo themselves with their latest mechanical problem this weekend, as a flight bound for SFO had to be diverted because of sewage flowing into the flight cabin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Indian Restaurant From Michelin-Starred Chicago Chef Opening In the Marina San Francisco will soon get a new restaurant from the James Beard-recognized, Michelin-starred chef of Chicago's Indienne.
SF News Man Rescued From Cliffside By Helicopter Near Marin Headlands The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office lent some helicopter support to a dramatic rescue operation in Marin County Sunday evening, in which a man was stuck on a cliff.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
SF News Kitchen Flue Catches Fire at Indian Oven Restaurant In Lower Haight A one-alarm fire that appeared to start in the kitchen of Indian Oven in the Lower Haight injured one person and has temporarily closed the restaurant.
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.
