Arts & Entertainment SF Movie Theater Owners Fear Writers' and Actors' Strikes Could Wreck the Rest of Their 2023 Movie theater operators are projecting a debilitating post-Barbenheimer hangover, as the twin strikes by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA threaten to erase upcoming blockbusters and Oscar-season prestige films from the 2023 film release calendar.
SF News Anchor Brewing Employees Launch GoFundMe to Buy Brewery, Campaign Makes Half of Its Goal in Two Days Community money is pouring in to the Anchor Brewing Company employees’ bid to buy the brewery after its August closure, as a GoFundMe campaign has hit more than half its goal in just two days.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Tyler Florence Will Be Reviving Those Two Cafes On Either Side of Union Square The cafe spaces on either side of Union Square will almost surely be seeing some new life soon, and celebrity chef Tyler Florence is behind the project.
SF News Lake Merritt Shootout Leaves One Innocent Bystander Critically Injured by Gunfire An unidentified woman in her early 20s was shot at Lake Merritt Monday afternoon, and police describe her as an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of gunshots between two white Lexus vehicles.
SF News People Finally Leave Burning Man, But Reportedly Also Leave Behind Trash and Even Their Vehicles The gray seas finally parted for the 70,000 revelers to leave Burning Man Monday afternoon, though the traffic jam to get out lasted up to eight hours, and law enforcement officials complain that people abandoned their possessions and even vehicles in the desert.
SF News United Airlines Experienced Systemwide Outage That Briefly Grounded All Planes Tuesday For what sounds like less than an hour on Tuesday, all United Airlines flights were grounded and prevented from taking off due to an as-yet-unexplained "technology issue."
SF News East Bay Man Arrested For Apparent Fencing Operation With $190K Worth of Retail Goods A 52-year-old man was arrested at his home in El Sobrante last week and was found in possession of nearly $200,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods from retailers including Lululemon, Victoria's Secret, CVS, Walgreens, and Target.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Owners Confirm Reopening at New Location on Folsom Street Legendary SoMa nightclub The Stud is indeed reopening a few blocks from where it lived until 2020, and the drag shows are set to begin again maybe by early next year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Sees Its 19th Pedestrian Death This Year A 7-Eleven store in Oakland was the scene of a robbery and then the discovery of a dead body; San Jose saw its 19th pedestrian death so far this year; and I-80 westbound reopened Monday in the late afternoon.
SF News Burning Man Exodus Set to Begin Monday Amid Still Muddy Conditions; Man Burn Set for Monday Night The traditional burning of the man at Burning Man was delayed by two days due to an unusual rainstorm and extremely mucky conditions on the playa Saturday. And organizers said they would open the exit gates Monday and begin letting people leave.
SF News Labor Day Headlines: Smash Mouth Frontman Steve Harwell Dies at 56 The former lead singer of Bay Area band Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, has died at age 56; BART is hoping to boost ridership during Transit Month; and tourism in SF seems be up this Labor Day Weekend.
SF News Death at Burning Man Under Investigation As Thousands of Festival Attendees Still Trapped in Muddy Desert Amid the chaos at Burning Man, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office confirmed that a person has died and their family has been notified, but details about the victim and the circumstances haven't been released.
SF News Cruise Rejects Blame From SFFD's Claim It Blocked First Responders in Pedestrian Fatality Incident The autonomous vehicle company says that its driverless cars didn't block an ambulance's response to an emergency incident, which contributed to a person's death, and that it's cooperating with authorities.
SF News Sunday Links: Diplo and Chris Rock Hitchhike to Escape Burning Man Floods The celebrities made a harrowing escape from the rain-soaked chaos at Burning Man, but 70,000 other festival-goers are still trapped; 3 Santa Rosa men were arrested with armor-piercing ammo; and a home strip club in San Jose is angering neighbors.
SF News Group of Marina Residents Including Joe Montana Sue SF for Property Damage Caused by New Year's Flood Residents of the affluent bayside Marina Boulevard say that a lack of proper wastewater infrastructure made their homes flood with sewage in a new lawsuit against the city of SF.
SF News Burning Man Doused by Rare Desert Rains, Turning Festival Into Muddy Nightmare for 70,000+ Festival-Goers Trapped in Playa Organizers shut down the festival's entrance gate and airport on Friday night amid stormy weather, effectively isolating everyone within the playa, who they urged to "shelter in place" and ration resources.
SF News Saturday Links: SF Giant Race from Waterfront to Oracle Park Set For Sunday San Francisco’s 14th Annual Giant Race will take place Sunday, closing streets in the area; Google is moving its 2024 tech conference from SF to Vegas; and the Muni operator affectionately known as Mr. Boston has died.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2 San Jose Women Face Charges for Alleged Illegal Tropical Fruit Smuggling The women are facing felony charges after their tropical fruit was seized, some of which was home to invasive flies; A teenager was allegedly sexually assaulted in an Excelsior park Thursday night; and remains discovered in Folsom Lake last month were ID'ed as an SF woman.
SF Politics Some Supervisors Vow to Jump In on This U.N. Plaza Farmers’ Market Controversy, Possibly Undoing the Move As the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market is set to be displaced to the next block over this weekend, two supervisors are proposing legislation to relitigate that decision, and maybe move the proposed skate park instead.
SF News SF Fire Department Now Says Two Cruise Cars Blocked First Responders at Scene of Crash, Contributing to Victim's Death An incident report made by the fire department on August 14 suggests that an ambulance was briefly prevented from transporting a patient who was bleeding out following a collision in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment The Burning Man Webcast is Now Live, Will Broadcast Saturday Night’s Burn This year’s scaled-back, three-day Burning Man webcast is now live and running, and you can tune in to watch the spectacular Burn happen live on Saturday night, should you so desire.
SF News 1992 Cold Case Murder of Laurie Houts Once Again Left In Limbo as Longtime Suspect Is Cleared on Double-Jeopardy Grounds A Bay Area slaying that has gone without any justice for nearly 30 years was back in the news this week, as the case against longtime suspect John Kevin Woodward was dismissed by a judge on double-jeopardy grounds.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Police Tout 300 Drug Dealer Arrests In Three Months, 160 Kilos Seized The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar With Food From Nopalito Vets, Stoa, Debuts In Lower Haight A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.
