Arts & Entertainment 'A Chorus Line' Delivers Some Classic Broadway Dance Delights at SF Playhouse 'A Chorus Line,' while dated in its treatment of a few of its characters, remains an easily enjoyable slice of classic Broadway song-and-dance, and it's currently getting a solid revival at SF Playhouse.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Three-Legged Dogs Again Take Over Duboce Park For Annual Three-Legged Dog Picnic Nearly 50 “tri-pawed dogs” took to Duboce Park Sunday for the 12th annual three-legged dog picnic, and we’ve got pup-arazzi pictures and video of these canines who’ve bounced back from some ruff encounters.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dead & Company Draws Thousands to SF For Final Shows, Dazzles With Drone Display The final concerts by Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company took place over the weekend at Oracle Park, and they came with some spectacular drone light shows hovering over the stadium, in a fitting farewell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Interest Already Bubbling Up To Save Anchor Brewing Co. The announced death of Anchor Brewing Co. last week was met with some immediate optimism that the brand, and the historic brewery, could maybe see some new life under a new owner at some point. And some potential takers are lining up.
SF News Chronicle Columnist Heather Knight to Become SF Bureau Chief for New York Times Longtime Chronicle staffer Heather Knight, who has been the paper's most-noted weekly columnist on San Francisco's foibles, politics, and more for the last five years, has landed a job as San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times.
SF News 80-Year-Old Racetrack Golden Gate Fields to Close Permanently This Fall Golden Gate Fields, which is the only thoroughbred horse-racing track in Northern California, is set to close at the end of this racing season, with the owner saying that it will shift its priorities to its other racetracks.
SF News Novato Man Arrested For Allegedly Shooting Both Roommate and His Dog A roommate dispute turned fatal for both a man and his dog, and a 65-year-old man is being held without bail for allegedly shooting and killing both in a Friday incident.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Supervisor Tries Standup Comedy A Marin County man just received a $1.3M judgement for being a COVID-restriction whistleblower and getting fired; Alameda County DA Pamela Price has doubled down on some controversial comments; and SF Supervisor Shamann Walton tried his hand at standup.
SF News San Francisco Sees Drop in Accidental Overdose Deaths in June, But Fentanyl Remains a Looming Threat June saw the second-lowest number of fatal overdoses by month this year, but as fentanyl infiltrates street drugs, San Francisco could still hit a record number of drug-related ODs by the end of the year.
SF News South Bay Woman Rescued and Set to Return to California Eight Months After Abduction in Mexico San Mateo resident, 29-year-old Monica De Leon Barba, was kidnapped while walking her dog last year in Tepatitlán, Mexico, but has been found safe, though no arrests have been made yet.
SF News Pika Fire Continues to Ravage Yosemite, Reaches 650 Acres with Zero Containment The Pika Fire broke out on June 29 after a lightning strike and has accelerated amid the past week's heat wave, complicating firefighting efforts.
SF News Sunday Links: Bay Area Heat Wave to Ease Up After Sunday, But There's a Small Chance of Dry Lightning Inland regions of the North, East, and South Bay will likely reach the upper 90s to low 100s Sunday but SF will stay in the 70s; It's Dead & Co.'s final SF tour date of the band's final tour; and a man was shot Saturday night in an attempted robbery in Potrero Hill.
SF News Viral TikTok Shows Dire State of Bay Area Housing with Listing of Office Turned Into a Half-Million-Dollar Condo The video shows a 1,000-square-foot San Rafael office converted into a condo — but owners seemingly made minimal changes, only adding a kitchen against one wall and a shower in the bathroom but leaving the industrial carpet and stained ceiling tiles intact.
SF News Saturday Links: Person Killed After Being Struck by Caltrain Friday Evening, for Third Caltrain Fatality of the Week Caltrain struck and killed a pedestrian near the Palo Alto station Friday evening; more Dublin Prison guards have been charged and pled guilty to sex abuse of inmates; and a new plan could turn UN Plaza into a skateboarding hub.
SF News Day Around the Bay: French-Themed 'Bastille on Belden' Celebration Lights Up FiDi Friday Evening The Financial District will host the "Bastille on Belden" block party with French food Friday evening; Highway 1 was closed Friday evening after a car went off the side; and wastewater shows COVID might be on the rise again in California.
SF News Fisherman’s Wharf Masked Vigilante ‘Boots’ Arrested For Allegedly Brandishing Imitation Gun Someone took the San Francisco “Batman” analogy to its full fruition, with a mask and everything in an attempt to deter car break-in culprits, but was arrested for allegedly brandishing a non-lethal firearm.
SF News Woman Shot and Injured In Third Freeway Shooting In a Month In San Francisco A woman was shot in the leg Friday afternoon while driving on Highway 101 southbound in San Francisco, just before the I-280 split.
SF News New Nuru News: Ex-PUC Chief Found Guilty of Fraud, Disgraced Ex-DBI Inspector Sentenced to Prison The Mohammed Nuru scandal saw two more hammers come down Friday, as former Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was found guilty of fraud, and former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernie Curran was sentenced to a year in prison.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Spots For Frozen Cocktails In San Francisco With some summer weather finally hitting San Francisco, nearly a full month into official summertime, you may have a hankering for a frozen adult beverage to beat the (modest) heat.
Business & Tech SF Says Driverless Car Problems ‘Skyrocketing,’ Techies Fume at Our Lack of Enthusiasm for the Glitches The SFMTA says that dangerous incidents with self-driving robotaxis have increased exponentially in recent months, while Cruise, Waymo, and their associated venture capitalist types excoriate SF for not adequately loving the buggy self-driving cars.
SF News Teen Suspect From Oakland Arrested For July 4th Homicide In the Bayview A 16-year-old suspect is in custody in connection with the shooting death of an adult male in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood on the night of July 4th, after the juvenile suspect turned himself in.
SF News Super-Aggressive Santa Cruz Sea Otter Is Pirating People’s Surfboards, Menacing Kayakers “Otter 841” has quickly become a social media phenomenon for her brazen attacks on Santa Cruz surfers and kayakers, and moreover, both federal and state authorities are coming up empty in their attempts to capture her.
SF News Accused Shooter In Three Oakland Murders Sentenced to 12 Years In High-Profile Test of DA's Policies A highly controversial case that has been the source of considerable courtroom drama in Alameda County in recent months has ended with a sentence that is unlikely to feel like justice for the families of three murder victims.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 10-Car Pileup Follows Fatal Crash On I-880 There was a 10-car pileup near the Coliseum on I-880 early Friday following a fatal crash two hours earlier; Oakland's eviction moratorium ends Saturday; and the lasers on Coit Tower are going to come on tonight.
SF news Day Around the Bay: Lil’ Harbor Seal Pup Rescued From Trash Entanglement at Fort Mason Friday will be 2023's second Spare the Air Day; a harbor seal pup needed rescue from a fishing line entanglement at Fort Mason’s Gashouse Cove Marina; a new documentary posits that there was no Zodiac Killer.
