SF News Perseid Meteor Shower To Light Up Bay Area Skies Saturday Night: How to Watch Stargazers are in for an optimal viewing experience with this year's Perseid meteor shower, as there's only a crescent moon lighting up the sky. Here are the best spots to watch.
SF News Saturday Links: 2023 Outside Lands Music Festival Attracts Crowd of 75,000 on First Day Friday's OSL featured Kendrick Lamar, Interpol, Janelle Monae, and the DJ stylings of Shaquille O’Neal; Crypto founder SBF is heading to a New York jail after his Palo Alto house arrest and bail was revoked on Friday; and the death toll from the Maui wildfires has risen to 80.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sunnyvale Dentist Arrested Over Alleged Hidden Camera Discovery in Office Bathroom Sunnyvale dentist Dr. Sharma was arrested on charges of child pornography and peeping; Outside Lands' SOMA tent floor broke down and the tent has been shut; and Raider's quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo will face his former team the SF Giants on Sunday.
SF News Twenty Lake Tahoe-Area Bears Have Been Hit by Cars in the Last Month Alone A troublesome trend in Lake Tahoe, where “40 to 50” bears have been hit by cars this summer, with 20 of these collisions happening in just the last month.
Arts & Entertainment People Selling Off Their Burning Man Tickets Like Mad This Year, Market Flooded With Extra Tickets It’s blazingly easy to find extra Burning Man tickets this year, as countless tickets are being offered up for sale, a “radical” change from years past when Burning Man was the hottest ticket of the summer.
SF News SFPD Arrests Tenderloin Dealer, Seizes Five Pounds of Narcotics and a Ghost Gun As part of the ongoing crackdown on drug sales and use in San Francisco's Tenderloin, an Oakland man was arrested this week and his home was searched, leading to a significant seizure of illegal drugs.
SF News Investigation Finds Pilot Error Was to Blame In Harrowing United Flight's Plunge Toward Ocean After an SFO-bound United flight from Maui last December took a steep, terrifying dive toward the ocean about a minute after takeoff, the feds said they would be investigating, and the results of that investigation are now in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud May Find New Life a Few Blocks Away From Its Former Home In SoMa It looks as though the Stud Collective has landed on a potential new space for the legendary bar and nightclub that tragically closed at the start of the pandemic. And it's just a few blocks away, on Folsom Street.
SF News Danville Man, Two Daughters Found Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide An 11-year-old and a 13-year-old girl were found dead from gunshot wounds, along with their 44-year-old father, in what authorities suspect was a murder-suicide in Danville Wednesday afternoon.
Business & Tech State Commission Votes to Approve Autonomous Taxi Expansion In San Francisco In Historic Vote The California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 on Thursday night, after over seven hours of public comment, to approve the expansion of robotaxi service in San Francisco to 24 hours — and approved both Cruise and Waymo to take paid fares at all hours.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 225,000 Outside Lands Tickets Have Been Sold The gates to Outside Lands open shortly and 225.000 tickets have been sold; the death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to at least 55; and a flash-mob-style robbery hit a YSL store in Glendale.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Hosts Complain of ‘Airbnbust’ as Bookings Plunge in Many Cities Twitter is auctioning off a bunch more stuff after their “X” rebrand, a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit Monterey County Thursday afternoon, and Airbnb hosts in some regions are seeing their bookings dry up completely.
Business & Tech Over 200 Members of the Public Set to Give Comment at PUC Hearing on Robotaxis The hearing on expanding autonomous-vehicle taxi service in San Francisco has gotten underway at the California Public Utilities Commission — and a long line of attendees and possible speakers during the public-comment portion was visible at Van Ness and McAllister on Thursday morning.
SF News Update: SF Rejects ACLU's Surprise Settlement Offer in Lawsuit Against Homeless Sweeps The ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness offered SF City Hall a settlement to end their nearly year-long lawsuit against encampment sweeps, but City Attorney David Chiu says no deal.
Arts & Entertainment As One Local Theater Faces Possible Closure, Bay Area's Regional Theaters Seek Stability — and New Subscribers Regional theaters around the country are continuing to struggle in their recovery from pandemic shutdowns. And while several of the Bay Area's regional theaters appear to be coming back strong, all of them may not make it.
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SF News Hawaiian Couple Visiting Bay Area Lost Everything In Wildfires, Including Dogs Trapped In House A couple featured on KTVU Wednesday frantically trying to get back to their home in Lahaina did make it home, only to find the place in charred ruins, and that their two dogs and a cat perished inside the house.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Duc Loi Supermarket, the Go-To Banh Mi Spot In the Mission, Is Closing Next Week It's your last weekend to grab a banh mi from Duc Loi at 18th and Mission, as the 36-year-old Vietnamese grocer and sandwich counter is closing up shop — though the store will continue on under new ownership.
SF News San Jose Firefighter Strip Club Report Made Public, Firefighters Claim They Can’t Remember Visiting Club The full investigative report into last year’s scandalous San Jose Fire Department strip club incident is now public, and while there are some possibly plausible excuses for the first strip club visit, firefighters claim they cannot remember visiting the second club.
SF News Pelosis Grant Access to Their Home to Defense and Prosecution In David DePape Federal Trial The federal trial for David DePape, the accused attacker of Paul Pelosi, is scheduled to get underway in November. And this week, Paul and Nancy Pelosi granted access to their home to attorneys defending DePape, as well as to federal prosecutors.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Mayor London Breed Evacuated From Maui The death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to 36; SF Mayor London Breed was on a personal vacation on Maui when the fire struck and she evacuated to Oahu; and the current COVID test-positivity rate in California could be quite high if Walgreens data is any indication.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found on Alameda Shoreline A woman's remains were found near Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda; the clerks at a Stockton 7-11 won't be charged for beating a would-be thief; and Bob the Drag Queen is a late replacement for Trixie Mattel at Outside Lands.
Business & Tech One Autonomous Vehicle Appeared to Chase a Fire Truck; Another Blocked a Fire Truck From Getting Out of Its Station On the eve of a key vote by a state commission on whether to allow Cruise and Waymo to further expand their autonomous vehicle testing and begin taking paid passengers all over SF, we're getting to see some of the 55 incident reports filed by the SF Fire Department involving AVs.
SF News City Buys Former Zendesk HQ On Market Street, Will Make It ‘Mental Health Service Center’ A full reversal from an Ed Lee-era “Twitter tax break” deal, as after Zendesk bailed from 2019 Market Street during the pandemic, the City of San Francisco is buying the property with plans to transform it into a “mental health service center.”
SF Politics Some Joker Is Advertising an SF ‘Doom Loop Walking Tour’ For $30 a Ticket In what seems an elaborate troll job, but managed to get published and promoted on Eventbrite, someone’s offering a chance to “view the open-air drug markets” at Civic Center for $30, which I’m pretty sure you can do for free.
