SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Jose State Trainer Groping Trial Ends In Mistrial The trial of a former San Jose State athletic trainer accused of groping female athletes has ended in a mistrial; 911 response times in San Francisco are getting worse; and Delta Airlines had a couple of scary incidents this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street Bike Lane Officially Opens, Though It’s Not Fully Built Yet The red tide algae blooms in Bay Area waters appear much less deadly than last year, Santa Clara is predictably issuing fines for Taylor Swift playing past curfew, and the Valencia Street bike lane is officially open but drawing yet more criticism.
Arts & Entertainment Two Tina Turners Tell A Tumultuous, Terrific Life Story in ‘Tina - The Tina Turner Musical’ at the Golden Gate Theatre A dazzling and kinetic Tina Turner musical biography goes for nearly three hours at the Golden Gate Theatre, but the musical stylings of a ten-year-old playing a young Tina are simply the best moments of the show.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Japanese-Peruvian Rooftop Restaurant, Chotto Matte, Set to Open Next Month In Union Square It's been two years since we first learned that high-end Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Chotto Matte, which boasts other locations in Doha, London, and Miami, was coming to a new rooftop space in Union Square.
SF News Throwback Thursday: A Sitting U.S. President Died in San Francisco, 100 Years Ago This Week Warren G. Harding, roundly considered one of the worst U.S. Presidents of all time, kicked the bucket exactly 100 years ago this week at SF’s Palace Hotel, which is still the Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery streets.
SF News Eight-Year-Old Boy Struck In Freeway Shooting Crossfire In Oakland Is Paralyzed A young boy who became the second child victim of a freeway shooting in the East Bay in three months is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down, and his family is hoping to raise funds for his homecoming and ongoing care.
SF News Antioch Church Mission Group Trapped in Niger Amidst Military Coup Nearly a dozen volunteers with Antioch’s Cornerstone Christian Center are stranded in the West African country of Niger, as a nine-day Vacation Bible School trip very unfortunately coincided with a military coup that closed off the country’s borders.
Arts & Entertainment 'Rent' Star Anthony Rapp to Bring Autobiographical Musical 'Without You' to the Curran in October Anthony Rapp, who played the character Mark in 'Rent' both on Broadway and on the big screen, has a new one-man show that tells the story of how he met 'Rent' creator Jonathan Larson and auditioned for the show, and it's coming to SF this fall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch's Harmonic Brewing to Shut Down This Fall, Stop Brewing Beer The craft beer shakeout continues as eight-year-old Dogpatch brewery Harmonic Brewing is closing its doors this fall due to a lease issue.
SF News IKEA Store to Open On Market Street With New Co-Working Space On Top Floor; Mall Opening Next Year The IKEA-affiliated mall on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets that was previously being called "Livat" will be called Meeting Place, and we're now getting an update about what's going on inside.
SF News Yet Again, CNN Reporter Gets Car Broken Into While Covering Crime in Oakland It’s the third car break-in suffered by CNN reporter Kyung Lah in the Bay Area, though the smash-and-grab her rental car endured Wednesday was just a smash, as there was nothing in the car to grab.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: CHP Officers Being Deployed to Assist Oakland Police As they're doing in SF, CHP officers will be deployed on the streets of Oakland to help fight crime; the building under construction that burned in Hayes Valley Tuesday was a 14-unit condo project; and a mountain lion has been spotted wandering around Petaluma.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Defense Team For Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Wants Access to Pelosi Home The defense in the federal trial of David DePape wants access to the Pelosis' home; shellfish that are sport-fished from the San Mateo coast might be toxic right now; and a new high school in Oakland was just robbed of a bunch of its electronics before the first day of school.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Music Club Amado’s Reeling From Basement Flood, Needs Community Support The Mission District live music venue Amado’s took a $500,000 hit with a flooding incident this summer that turned its downstairs area “into a swimming pool,” and the club is looking to its fans and regulars to help them bail out from the extensive damage.
SF News The 28R-19th Avenue Muni Line Returns From Its Pandemic Slumber On August 21 Muni riders who have business along 19th Avenue have a speedy old friend coming back, as the long-suspended 28R-19th Avenue line will be reinstated for service two weeks from Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to Host ‘After-Hours’ Music Festival Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra The Bay Area’s music festival-mania is coming to Lake Merritt’s Children’s Fairyland, which will play host to a September nighttime festival called “Through the Looking Glass,” with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Oakland-based pop star Spellling.
SF News 9 Arrested, 21 Victims Rescued In East Bay In Nationwide Human Trafficking Crackdown The district attorneys' offices of Alameda and Contra Costa c0unties held a joint press conference Wednesday with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to announce nine arrests in the last two weeks as part of a national anti-human trafficking operation.
SF News The Cable Car Turns 150 Years Old Today As you may know, the cable car was a San Francisco invention, conceived of as a solution to some tragic accidents that involved horse-drawn streetcars. And August 2, 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the first cable car being tested on Clay Street.
SF News Wild San Mateo Road Rage Incident Ends With Father Being Mowed Down by Automobile A Sunday melee on the suburban streets of San Mateo allegedly escalated from vehicular stalking, to threats with a knife, to a man being struck by a car, and one 24-year-old suspect is facing multiple charges.
SF News Police Arrest Suspect in Haight-Ashbury Sandwich Shop Attack, Suspect Has Multiple Other Warrants An arrest has been made in the July 19 punching of the owner of Sandy’s muffuletta shop, and the 30-year-old suspect has previous arrest warrants for sexual battery and gun charges.
SF News Hayes Valley Neighbors Raised Alarms About Encampment Fires Months Prior to Construction Site Blaze The cause of Tuesday morning's four-alarm fire on Octavia Boulevard remains under investigation. But a neighborhood group is suggesting the city did not heed their warnings from two months ago about fires at homeless encampments in this very area.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Arrested For Shoving Elderly Woman On Cathedral Hill A 21-year-old man has been arrested for attempted murder for shoving an 81-year-old woman on Franklin Street; Santa Clara Co. Health Officer Sara Cody recommends masking up again; and the former Manresa space may have a new tenant.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Is Getting a Street Named After Him in Vallejo The naked woman who was firing gunshots at the Bay Bridge toll plaza has been charged, Oakland’s Chop Bar has closed after 14 years, and E-40 is getting a street named after him in his hometown of Vallejo.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF News Judge Rejects Defense Theories In Bob Lee Stabbing; Date-Rape Drug Allegation Emerges; Nima Momeni to Proceed to Trial Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur who is the sole suspect accused of the April 4 murder of Bob Lee in San Francisco, is headed to trial on the murder charge following a two-day preliminary hearing.
