Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Launching ‘Sunset Fridays’ Happy Hour Event Every Friday This Summer, Starting This Weekend A “cocktails with animals” series kicks off Friday night at the San Francisco Zoo, as Sunset Friday lets you mingle with animals whilst enjoying a drink to the live music of SFJazz, every Friday night through the end of August.
SF News New Renderings Drop For 50-Story Tower In the Sunset That Is Absolutely Never Going to Get Built Reno-based developer CH Planning may just be trolling with this nonsense 50-story tower proposed two blocks from Ocean Beach, but they’re sticking to the bit, with a new batch of renderings of this gigantic middle-finger to the Sunset.
SF News Sacramento Man Arrested For Levi's Stadium Stabbing at Soccer Match A suspect has been arrested for attempted murder after being seen on surveillance video allegedly stabbing a fellow soccer fan at Levi's Stadium over the holiday weekend.
Business & Tech San Mateo-Based Startup Wins FAA Approval To Test Their Futuristic, $300,000 Flying Car There are still many regulatory hurdles to clear, but San Mateo’s Alef Aeronautics has won a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform limited testing on their “Model A” flying car.
SF News NXIVM Cult Figure Allison Mack Released From Federal Prison In Dublin One Year Early A year ahead of schedule, former 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack walked out of the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute — also known as FCI Dublin — on Monday, after serving two years of a three-year sentence.
SF News Fatal July 4 Shooting In Bayview Being Investigated as a Homicide A man was found on a Bayview District street Tuesday night with gunshot wounds that proved to be fatal, and the case is being treated as a homicide.
SF News Mission District Fireworks Mayhem Leads To Late-Night Riot-Gear Police Skirmish The predictable onslaught of illegal Mission District July 4 fireworks displays turned into a hour-long melee between police and various skateboarders and sideshow aficionados, though the scene did not get as violent as last year’s Independence Day hullabaloo.
Business & Tech Meta's 'Twitter Killer,' Called Threads, Launches Thursday It looks like Mark Zuckerberg and his crew at Meta wanted to fast-track their Twitter competitor just as other products like BlueSky are drawing away disgruntled Twitter users. And now the new app, called Threads, hits the App Store Thursday.
SF News Post-Fourth Headlines: Illegal Fireworks Spark 50 Fires In East Bay Six people were injured in a shooting in Hayward Tuesday night; there were at least a half dozen mass shootings around the country over the long weekend; and firefighters in Contra Costa County responded to 50 fires caused by fireworks.
Arts & Entertainment Sutro Tower Will Have Red, White and Blue Lasers Shooting Through It This Week In honor of the Fourth of July, and commemorating the 50th birthday of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, there will be lasers shooting up through the radio tower for five nights this week.
SF News July Fourth Headlines: Man Stabbed During Soccer Match at Levi's Stadium A man was stabbed during the CONCACAF Gold Cup match at Levi's Stadium Sunday; there were two mass shootings around the country on Monday; and at least three women have been robbed near Alamo Square in similar fashion to recent robberies in Noe Valley.
Business & Tech Musk's Move to Limit Tweet Views Looks to Be Another User- and Advertiser-Alienating Blunder Over the holiday weekend, Twitter users started getting messages about having "exceeded" their "rate limit" for viewing tweets, and it turns out this was non-CEO-CEO Elon Musk's latest effort to crack down on data scraping, which in turn pissed off a legion of loyal users.
SF News DA Jenkins Will Drop Charges Against SFPD Officer In 2017 Shooting of Mentally Ill Man SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has cleaned house in one regard, now having dismissed charges in all three police shooting cases brought by her predecessor Chesa Boudin.
SF News One Suspect Killed, Two Arrested After Struggle With CHP Officer Near San Leandro An incident that began with a police chase involving an allegedly stolen car on I-580 in the East Bay ended early Monday morning with one suspect fatally shot, either by a CHP officer or an Alameda County Sheriff's deputy.
SF News Weekend Heat Wave Caused More Than 11,000 Bay Area Households To Lose Power Sunday Though Sunday was cooler than Saturday’s scorcher, PG&E outages still started striking the Bay Area, and particularly the East Bay, starting at about 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Yep, It'll Be Another Foggy Fourth The forecast is for fog and marine layer to obscure lots of fireworks displays again; there's a major backup in processing passport applications at the State Department; and the former Harvey's in the Castro will become a new nightclub.
SF News Free Fall Concert Series, Due South, at McLaren Park to Return for the Third Year, with Extra Shows The free outdoor concert series Due South is back at the end of July, organized by the San Francisco Parks Alliance and Noise Pop, so reserve your ticket to see all the local talent.
SF News 2 Separate Shootings in San Francisco Overnight Kill 1 Man, Injure Another Police are investigating after one man in SF Chinatown sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and another man in the Bayview neighborhood was fatally shot.
baker beach Unconscious Individual Rescued From Cliffside near Golden Gate Bridge by Helicopter Saturday Authorities received a distress call Saturday afternoon and airlifted a critically injured, unconscious individual from Marshall's Beach, just southwest of Baker’s Beach at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, to a nearby hospital.
SF News Sunday Links: Small Airplane Crashes Into Lake Tahoe Saturday, Two Passengers Rescued by Nearby Boaters Tahoes is already busy this Fourth of July weekend with summer skiers and a small plane crash; BART is slowly reopening certain station bathrooms, including Embarcadero and Berkeley; and East Bay lakes are seeing a toxic algae bloom.
SF News Man Hospitalized with Life-Threatening Injuries From Allegedly Shooting Himself After Fleeing Hit-and-Run in SF Police responded to a hit-and-run in the Richmond District around noon on Friday, and found the car connected to it a few blocks away, abandoned, but one of its passengers nearby with a self-inflicted gunshot.
SF News Saturday Links: Draymond Green Signs 4-Year, $100M Contract to Return to the Warriors Star forward Draymond Green rejoins the Warriors from free agency; July 1, 2023, marks the 30th anniversary of the 101 California Street mass shooting, which killed eight; and gunfire erupted in downtown SF at 8:30 p.m. Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena Just Lost Its Two Chefs, Who Are Moving On to a New Project Bernal Heights fine-dining gem Marlena has lost the husband-and-wife chef team who took the three-year-old restaurant to Michelin-star status in its first year in business, despite opening at the height of a pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Heat Wave Going to Bake Bay Area This Weekend There's a heat advisory for inland parts of the Bay from Friday through Sunday; the heat might bring out rattlesnakes, so watch out; and Square Pie Guys and Señor Sisig are making a pizza together for a pop-up this summer.
Arts & Entertainment SF Mime Troupe Tackles Homelessness In Their New Production ‘Breakdown,’ Premiering This Weekend A musical about homelessness? Leave it to the San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose hard-hitting ‘Breakdown: A New Musical’ opens this weekend in Berkeley, and comes to SF’s Dolores Park for July 4.
