SF News SFPD Fatally Shoots Man In Richmond District Home Suspected of Killing His Elderly Mother and a Dog San Francisco police officers were called to a home in the Richmond District early Thursday on a report of an aggravated assault in progress, and things soon turned deadly.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Coast Guard Finds 'Debris Field' Near Titanic Wreck Site CHP is investigating another freeway shooting in Oakland; a bystander injured in the June 9 Mission District shooting describes the experience; and the Coast Guard reports finding a 'debris field' near the Titanic wreckage site.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFFD Performs Cliff Rescue at Fort Funston House Republicans voted to formally censure Adam Schiff today over Trump's impeachments; SF firefighters rescued a man and two dogs from a cliff at Fort Funston; and SF's City Hall has some extra slots for weddings on Pride Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment 78-Member, All LGBTQ+ International Pride Orchestra Performing First Ever Concert Thursday Night You may not have ever seen the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera, but you can see some of their musicians perform live, as the brand new International Pride Orchestra debuts Thursday with an all-star cast of all LGBTQ+ musicians in an event hosted by Peaches Christ.
SF News Both the 49-Van Ness and 22-Fillmore Have Seen Their Ridership Surge Beyond Pre-Pandemic Levels No “fiscal cliff” for these two Muni bus lines, as both the 22-Fillmore and 49-Van Ness are rocking ridership levels even higher than before the pandemic. The trouble is that it may be because like many San Franciscans, these lines don’t go downtown.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Laments That 'All Eyes Are On San Francisco' Right Now When It Comes to Crime SF Mayor London Breed gave an interview to KTVU on Wednesday, pushing back on Governor Ron DeSantis and his hackneyed campaign video shot in the Tenderloin.
SF News Video: A Fighter Jet Had to 'Headbutt' a Single-Engine Plane Violating Protected SF Airspace During Biden Visit Hobbyist pilots around the Bay Area may not all have gotten the memo about President Biden's visit this week and the VIP Temporary Flight Restricted area around San Francisco. And one such pilot was paid a visit in the air on Tuesday by a fighter jet.
SF News Leaning Millennium Tower Finally Fixed? Structural Retrofit Finished, Tower Tilting Slightly Less The $100 million fix to the notoriously leaning Millennium Tower is completed, and early results show the encouraging development that it’s already reversed its tilt by, well, an inch.
SF News ABC News Is Doing a 'Pride Across America' Live Broadcast Sunday Including NY's and SF's Parades In a first, ABC News is doing a live national (streaming) broadcast on Sunday that will span the LGBTQ Pride celebrations and parades in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, with special correspondents covering each.
SF News Founder of Submersible Ocean Exploration Company Missing Near Titanic Wreckage Has SF Roots The captain of the submersible craft that is currently missing on the North Atlantic ocean floor near the wreckage of the Titanic, who is also the CEO and founder of the ocean exploration company that owns it, has some deep ties to San Francisco and maybe grew up here.
SF News Thieves Use a Forklift to Break Into and Rob Oakland Cannabis Business There were three attempted robberies of cannabis dispensaries and businesses in West Oakland early Tuesday morning, and in one particularly brazen pot burglary, the thieves rammed their way into the storefront with a forklift.
SF Politics Ron DeSantis Shoots Campaign Video In the Tenderloin, Complains About 'So Much Riff-Raff Running Around' Ron DeSantis was in San Francisco this week trying to scare up some Republican dollars for his presidential run, and he took a few minutes to stand amongst some pigeons at Geary and Hyde to shoot a campaign video about what an irreparable shithole SF is.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Mayor Speaks Out About Shootout Near Pier 39 Mayor London Breed spoke for the first time Tuesday about Sunday's shootout, calling it "very isolated"; we now have a suspect name from the black SUV involved; today is the first ever Muni Safe Day Out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFMOMA Will Offer Free Admission This Saturday For Pride A new study disproves a ton of prominent myths about California homelessness, the bizarre “That’s Fentalyfe” ad campaign is expanding, and SFMOMA will have a free admission day for Pride Weekend.
SF Politics Gay Shame Pillories London Breed, Gay SF Supervisors in Pride Month Installation at ATA The queer activist collective Gay Shame is at it again, this time with a Pride Month installation at Valencia Street’s ATA that delivers satirical mockeries of Mayor Breed, and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey.
Arts & Entertainment Immersive Theatrical Party 'Pride In Gotham' to Deliver Campy Batman Experience Inside Historic Hibernia Bank A pretty unique Pride Week offering kicks off Tuesday night at the historic, long shuttered and barely-seen-for-decades Hibernia Bank space at Jones and Market, and it's sure to be a campy queer romp in a very gay Gotham City.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Gets Mural Treatment Outside Castro's Cafe Flore Muralist Josh Katz has done a big new mural of the late, great Heklina, just in time for Pride Week, on the Market Street-facing side of the former Cafe Flore, at Noe Street, which remains under renovations.
Bay Area Sports Giants to Play a Game on Willie Mays’s Hometown Field In Alabama Next Season It’s not the Field of Dreams game, but Major League Baseball is planning some “Specialty Games” to honor the legacy of the Negro leagues, and one of them will be the Giants playing on the very field where Willie Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons.
SF News SFPD Says 95% of Their Drug Arrests Under Current Crackdown Are People From Out of Town The new SF drug dealing and use crackdown has now yielded 45 arrests according to data presented by SFPD, and of those, police say only three of them live in San Francisco.
SF Politics Biden's In Town to Debate AI's Future With Tech Leaders; Meanwhile, AI Biden and AI Trump Are Debating on Twitch It's strange days, indeed! President Joe Biden is in San Francisco today, attending fundraisers for his re-election campaign and convening a forum with tech people to talk about the future of artificial intelligence. And meanwhile, someone has set up a video AI on Twitch with a chatbot Biden.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Data Shows San Franciscans Still Aren't Going Out as Much as They Did Pre-Pandemic Y'all are still sitting home, watching Hulu, and feeding your sourdough starters like it's May 2020 — or at least some of you are. And some new data shows that while spending on restaurants and entertainment has fully rebounded from the pandemic in other parts of the country, it still hasn't in SF.
SF News 73-Year-Old Oakland Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run, Driver Suspected of Street Racing A Friday night hit-and-run near Fruitvale in Oakland took the life of 73-year-old Santu Maya, and police believe the suspect vehicle was engaged in illegal street racing.
SF News Newly Surfaced Surveillance Video Shows Gunman In Wharf Area Shootout Some new video has surfaced showing one of the shooters involved in Sunday evening's rolling gun battle that began near Fisherman's Wharf and ended a mile down the Embarcadero.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hunter Biden Takes a Plea A crash involving two big-rigs snarled traffic this a.m. on I-80 in Richmond; five teens were arrested Sunday in San Mateo County for armed robbery; and Hunter Biden just pleaded guilty to tax and gun charges.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Pink Triangle Once Again Installed on Twin Peaks The big pink triangle is up looking over the Castro once again this week; a suspect with a warrant in SF for armed robbery was arrested after three armed robberies in Marin County; and a Pacific Heights Church just hosted a "Drag Queen Bible Story Hour."
