SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Return Two-Acre Plot of Land to Ohlone People A stretch of I-680 in Pleasanton will be closed for repairs this weekend; Girl Scout Cookie season is being extended for another week; and Berkeley is returning a sacred plot of land to the Ohlone people.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
SF News Two Tenderloin Hotels and Four Residents File Lawsuit Against City Over Street Conditions Two hotels in the Tenderloin, the Phoenix and Best Western, as well as a group of residents, have filed a lawsuit against the city that's similar to one filed four years ago by UC Hastings.
Arts & Entertainment ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep Is a Glorious Historical Epic About a Terrible Chapter In SF History 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Far Country’ makes its way to the Bay Area stage, with a brutal depiction of what it took for Chinese immigrants to enter San Francisco in the early 1900s.
SF Politics VP Kamala Harris Visits Abortion Clinic In Minnesota In Historic First Vice President Kamala Harris became the first vice president or president ever to visit an abortion clinic on Thursday, stopping in at a Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minnesota.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Will Not Reopen In Original West Oakland Location, Following Fire and Thefts Barbecue chef Matt Horn announced Thursday morning that, following yet another theft at his burned-out restaurant, he will not be reopening the business in that Mandela Parkway location.
SF News Outrage Grows Over Postal Carrier Robberies After Armed Robber Sentenced to Only 30 Days in Jail As robberies of postal carriers skyrocket in the Bay Area and nationwide, the Postal Service is up in arms over one suspect who committed an armed robbery of a mail carrier and only got a 30-day sentence.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink IKEA-Adjacent Food Hall Readies for Mid-April Opening Featuring Vegan Tacos, Bakery, Burgers, and Beer The much anticipated new mid-Market food hall from IKEA's mall outfit Ingka Centres is almost set to open, and we now have the fully fleshed-out details of what you'll find inside.
SF News SF Exodus Still Reversing: New Census Numbers Show Small Population Uptick Last Year San Francisco gained population in 2023, while most of the surrounding Bay Area lost population, though SF’s fraction-of-a-percentage-point increase still indicates a slow population rebound from the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen Is Parting Ways With the Orchestra, Possibly Over Finances Acclaimed Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced his departure from the San Francisco Symphony after the upcoming season, after a tenure that has lasted only four years.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Rise In Smash-and-Grabs of Occupied Vehicles The Oakland Police Department says that it's deploying more officers in response to the uptick in crime, but department-wide response times still lag.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pedestrian Killed on I-280 in Daly City A pedestrian was struck and killed early Thursday on I-280 in Daly City; another Boeing jet made an emergency landing at LAX; and it's going to be a gusty day around the Bay with some high winds predicted.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Says He'd Like to Go Into Politics Warriors star Steph Curry reveals that he has political ambitions post-basketball; BART is being lauded by the Biden Administration for Narcan deployment; and former CNN anchor Don Lemon has parted ways with Elon Musk's X after an apparently contentious interview with Musk.
SF News More China Live Drama, as Bank Is Now Threatening to Foreclose Property on the Landlord The tables may have turned in the China Live restaurant-landlord dispute, as now it's Wells Fargo suing the landlord who’d previously sued China Live over unpaid rent, and the bank is threatening to foreclose.
Arts & Entertainment Seattle Indie Station KEXP Buys Up Bay Area’s Constantly Format-Changing 92.7 FM, Starts Broadcasting Tuesday A popular Seattle radio station has bought the Bay Area’s 92.7 FM station (currently known as 92.7 The Hu$tle), and will start broadcasting their indie rock stylings next week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Micro-Club' Called Zhuzh Opening on Nob Hill The former Soda Popinski's space on Nob Hill is coming back alive this weekend, and it's going to be a new miniature club and bar called Zhuzh, hearkening back to a previous era when SF bars often hosted small-scale dance parties.
SF News California Retail Theft Rings Making Millions Allegedly Just Selling Stolen Goods on Amazon One SoCal woman allegedly netted $8 million by selling shoplifted cosmetics on Amazon, while a San Jose operation reportedly made a mint reselling stolen TJ Maxx items at flea markets, as organized retail theft operations become more ruthlessly organized.
SF News State Supreme Court Set to Hear Berkeley People's Park Development Case, Rule on 'People as Pollution' The California Supreme Court has now set a date to hear arguments in an appeal that has been holding up development of the People's Park site in Berkeley for over a year.
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Arts & Entertainment Kanye West 'Listening Party' Packs In the Fans, Antisemitism Be Damned, at Chase Center Kanye West still has plenty of fans who are up for whatever weird bullshit he's putting on, even here in the Bay Area, as was evident in the fairly full-sounding crowd that showed up at Chase Center Tuesday for a "Vultures 1" listening party.
Business & Tech Just as Waymo Launches In Los Angeles, Statewide Bill Gains Momentum to Allow More Local Control of Robocars Waymo is getting set to launch its autonomous taxi service in Los Angeles this week, and just announced it will launch in Austin this year. Meanwhile, California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give cities more leeway in limiting the company's impact.
SF News City Vows to Crack Down on Bernal Heights RV Encampment, Which Has Been Growing In Recent Months A smattering of RVs permanently camped on Bernal Heights Boulevard has grown larger, and now City Hall says they’ll enforce a long-forgotten 27-year-old ban on overnight parking on the street.
SF News Two Injured, Including Child, In Lower Nob Hill Apartment Fire Two people were injured, including one child, and ten people were displaced by an apartment fire Tuesday night in Lower Nob Hill.
SF News Gaza Ceasefire Protesters Block Security Gates at SFO International Terminal A protest arrived at the International Terminal at SFO Wednesday morning, with protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
SF News Humpday Headlines: House Passes Bill to Potentially Ban TikTok The Presidio is about to undergo a whole lot of road construction; the high-speed rail project is once again short on cash; and the House of Representatives has just passed a bill that would ban TikTok if it doesn't divorce itself from its Chinese parent company.
