A couple of significant reopenings happened across town this week, and a replacement restaurant for shuttered, Michelin-starred Marlena has made its debut in Bernal Heights.
You can hear (or perform!) live music legally at seven designated locations in Golden Gate Park starting Saturday, as the Rec and Parks’ new permitted busking system goes into effect.
The inaugural Portola Music Festival last year drew some loud complaints from residents across the Bay in Alameda, when the oontz-oontz music went on later than they liked — which was until 11 p.m. Now, the City of Alameda is taking some action after a second year of complaints.
Plans for the re-imagining of the Cliff House, which had been shrouded in secrecy until just recently, reveal some exciting details about the new vision for the iconic building.
A Contra Costa County couple claimed their toddler had accidentally drowned in a bathtub, but authorities found signs of "prolonged abuse," and arrested them on charges of murder, child abuse, and torture.
A heat advisory goes through Saturday now and local high-temp records may get broken today; expect the Blue Angels to roar overhead again around 3:15; and Mark Zuckerberg corrects a journalist about his sweater.
Fleet Week will start rattling your windows just before 1 p.m. Friday, an Oakland LGBTQ bar was vandalized in what may have been a hate crime, and Dianne Feinstein’s funeral service brought out all of one protester with a cardboard sign.
Just in time for Halloween, webs full of baby spiders are falling from the sky across the Bay Area. Biologists insist they are harmless, but this sounds like an awesome set-up for a horror movie.
Though interrupted a number of times — as predicted — by loud flyovers by the Blue Angels, the funeral service for Dianne Feinstein outside San Francisco City Hall went off without any other hitches Thursday afternoon.
As the Winchester Mystery House turns 100 years old, it brings a proper Halloween haunted house experience to the Bay Area’s favorite supposedly haunted house with Unhinged: Housewarming, a two-hour parade of installations and sight gags that are an absolute scream.
The new Yayoi Kusama show at SFMOMA, featuring the celebrated Japanese artist’s famous immersive mirror rooms, is the first solo exhibition of her work in Northern California.
Six weeks after Outer Richmond convenience store clerk Yowhannes “John” Tewelde was fatally beaten trying to stop a shoplifter, the SFPD has arrested 21-year-old Hollister resident Santos De La Rosa for the crime.
A night market on Thursday night hosted by Sucka Flea, and a bunch of individual parties at the pop-up businesses in the program, are celebrating the launch of SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, with the hope of breathing some new life into downtown.
A dozen undocumented immigrants arrived in San Jose on a bus from Texas this past weekend, and San Jose is making no apologies for rolling out the welcome mat with food, clothing, and medical care.
San Francisco police announced the arrest of a man in connection with four separate, unprovoked attacks on other people in downtown early Sunday morning.
The increasingly popular WNBA announced at a Thursday morning press conference that they’re bringing a new expansion team to play at the Chase Center, as there will be a Golden State WNBA team starting in 2025.
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The funeral service for Dianne Feinstein kicks off at 1 p.m. in front of SF's City Hall, just as the Blue Angels pilots are set to begin doing their traditional Thursday-of-Fleet-Week practice flights.
The smell of autumn is in the air, and in the picturesque coast around Half Moon Bay, this thrilling season is marked by a festival like no other: the iconic Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival.
Even though San Francisco's own injunction on homeless encampment-clearing is not on trial at the Supreme Court, the city has now filed a brief in another case that is sure to have implications here.
The Feinstein memorial at City Hall won't be open to the public, officials now say; City Hall is closed for all in-person services today; and Nancy Pelosi offers her remembrances of her friend, Dianne Feinstein.
The Blue Angels start flying Thursday as the heat wave intensifies, Dianne Feinstein’s memorial announced it will not be open to the public, and the long-shuttered Castro bar Badlands just reopened under new management.
Headlines are blaring that the SF Board of Supervisors just approved the “most expensive homeless response” ever with $140,000-a-year RV parking spots at a Bayview RV triage center, but PG&E and Urban Alchemy are a big chunk of those costs.
A resident of one of the latest iterations of the pod-style sleeping arrangements we saw during the most recent SF tech boom boasted about the cheapness of his rent on social media, leading to TV media coverage and, now, a city inspection.
Some old Chesa Boudin-era drama is rearing its head again, as DA Jenkins’s former assistant chief of investigations is hauling her to court, saying she lied when dropping the charges against a police officer who shot and killed someone.
It is an anxiety-inducing scenario, being led through a truly labyrinthine set of rooms and sets, up staircases and ladders and down chutes and more staircases, inside a building that feels as already haunted as San Francisco's Old Mint.
