SF News Large Pro-Palestinian Rally Outside Israeli Consulate In San Francisco Met With Counter-Protest Following a major outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza over the weekend, pro-Palestinian rallies occurred Sunday in multiple U.S. cities which were met by groups supporting Israel, leading in some cases to skirmishes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Killed at 18th and Mission A man was fatally shot just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the Mission District; Mission cafe owner and SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel details his experience from Israel over the weekend; and Sonoma County was rocked by two small earthquakes Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa-Based Celebrity Chef Michael Chiarello Dies at Age 61 Michael Chiarello, a celebrity of food TV and a long-established Bay Area chef and restaurateur, died Friday at the age of 61.
SF News Woman Falls to Her Death From Building Roof In SF's Russian Hill During Blue Angels Show A woman died Saturday afternoon after a fall from a roof in Russian Hill, and details about the circumstances leading up to the fall have not been released.
SF News Sunday Links: Plane From SFO to Tel Aviv Turns Around Mid-Flight A United flight from SFO to Tel Aviv turned around mid-flight following the outbreak of attacks by Hamas; the SFPD arrested nine shoplifters in a 'blitz' operation at the SF Centre; and a winning $1.3M Powerball ticket was sold in San Francisco.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Bask In This Last Beach Day This is your last beach day, SF, with cooler temperatures on the way Sunday; a Tenderloin hotel is removing some anti-homeless sprinklers it installed; and a judge has denied a bid by Tesla to reduce a jury award in a case of workplace racism.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Man Gets 33-Year Sentence for Running Disturbing Website With AI Images of Child Abuse The Santa Rosa resident operated an "obscene" website that ran stories about the rape, torture, and murder of children; the Martinez Refining Company apparently released (more) coke dust Friday morning; and social media platforms X and Meta haven't banned fake AI political ads.
SF News Capp Street Barriers to Be Made Permanent, Because Apparently They’re Working to Deter Street-Level Sex Trade The seemingly flimsy street barriers on Capp Street have done well enough at preventing late-night chaos on the street that they’ll be made permanent, though a different design will be utilized.
Bay Area Sports 54 Years Before Getting a WNBA Team, the Warriors Drafted a Woman Player Late 1960s women’s basketball star Denise Long had three 100-point games in high school, and became the first woman ever drafted by an NBA team, who just happened to be your Golden State Warriors.
SF News President Joe Biden Suggests He Might Meet With Xi Jinping In San Francisco During APEC President Joe Biden left open the possibility Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have a sideline meeting of some sort in November while both are in San Francisco for APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders's Summit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chow Space In Castro Comes Alive Again as The Rustic A couple of significant reopenings happened across town this week, and a replacement restaurant for shuttered, Michelin-starred Marlena has made its debut in Bernal Heights.
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready to Rock: Golden Gate Park Legal Busking Program Starts Saturday, Signups Now Open You can hear (or perform!) live music legally at seven designated locations in Golden Gate Park starting Saturday, as the Rec and Parks’ new permitted busking system goes into effect.
Arts & Entertainment City of Alameda Now Wants Portola Music Festival Shut Down Forever After Second Year of Noise Complaints The inaugural Portola Music Festival last year drew some loud complaints from residents across the Bay in Alameda, when the oontz-oontz music went on later than they liked — which was until 11 p.m. Now, the City of Alameda is taking some action after a second year of complaints.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House Plans Sound Ferry Building-Esque With Multiple Food Vendors and Cafes, and a Plaza With Cart Vendors Plans for the re-imagining of the Cliff House, which had been shrouded in secrecy until just recently, reveal some exciting details about the new vision for the iconic building.
SF News Rodeo Couple Charged With Murder, Torture After Bathtub Death of Two-Year-Old A Contra Costa County couple claimed their toddler had accidentally drowned in a bathtub, but authorities found signs of "prolonged abuse," and arrested them on charges of murder, child abuse, and torture.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Hot Day May Break Temperature Records A heat advisory goes through Saturday now and local high-temp records may get broken today; expect the Blue Angels to roar overhead again around 3:15; and Mark Zuckerberg corrects a journalist about his sweater.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein’s Funeral Service Attracted Exactly One Protester Fleet Week will start rattling your windows just before 1 p.m. Friday, an Oakland LGBTQ bar was vandalized in what may have been a hate crime, and Dianne Feinstein’s funeral service brought out all of one protester with a cardboard sign.
SF News Webs Full of Baby Spiders Falling From Bay Area Skies, Becoming Social Media Stars Just in time for Halloween, webs full of baby spiders are falling from the sky across the Bay Area. Biologists insist they are harmless, but this sounds like an awesome set-up for a horror movie.
SF Politics Feinstein Eulogies By Harris, Schumer, and Pelosi Celebrate Her as Champion For Women Though interrupted a number of times — as predicted — by loud flyovers by the Blue Angels, the funeral service for Dianne Feinstein outside San Francisco City Hall went off without any other hitches Thursday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Winchester Mystery House Celebrates 100th Anniversary With Whimsically Spooky ‘Unhinged: Housewarming’ As the Winchester Mystery House turns 100 years old, it brings a proper Halloween haunted house experience to the Bay Area’s favorite supposedly haunted house with Unhinged: Housewarming, a two-hour parade of installations and sight gags that are an absolute scream.
Arts & Entertainment New Yayoi Kusama Exhibition at SFMOMA Captures Imaginations and Instagrams The new Yayoi Kusama show at SFMOMA, featuring the celebrated Japanese artist’s famous immersive mirror rooms, is the first solo exhibition of her work in Northern California.
SF News Arrest Made In Late August Fatal Beating of Richmond Market Convenience Store Clerk Six weeks after Outer Richmond convenience store clerk Yowhannes “John” Tewelde was fatally beaten trying to stop a shoplifter, the SFPD has arrested 21-year-old Hollister resident Santos De La Rosa for the crime.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Night Market and Friday Parties Help to Launch 'Vacant to Vibrant' Program A night market on Thursday night hosted by Sucka Flea, and a bunch of individual parties at the pop-up businesses in the program, are celebrating the launch of SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, with the hope of breathing some new life into downtown.
SF News Latest Busload of Migrants Shipped Out of Texas Lands in San Jose, Migrants Graciously Accepted A dozen undocumented immigrants arrived in San Jose on a bus from Texas this past weekend, and San Jose is making no apologies for rolling out the welcome mat with food, clothing, and medical care.
SF News SF Police Arrest Man For Spree of Violent Assaults Downtown on Sunday San Francisco police announced the arrest of a man in connection with four separate, unprovoked attacks on other people in downtown early Sunday morning.
