SF News 32-Year-Old Man Convicted In SoMa Mugging In Which Victim Was Shot In Leg A jury in San Francisco this week convicted a 32-year-old man in a brazen attempted armed robbery on a SoMa street last summer in which the victim was shot in the leg.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Residents Near 24th Street on Edge After Shooting Neighbors around 24th Street still uneasy after last week's shooting; a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Chesa Boudin; we're in for some more weather whiplash this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AT&T Closing Its Flagship Union Square Store MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pissed off the city of Oakland with inaccurate remarks, the SF Gay Softball League is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and yet another Union Square flagship store is closing.
SF News KRON4 Is Becoming a CW Network Affiliate, Will Broadcast TV Shows In Prime Time Shows Instead of Local News The four hours of local news every weeknight on KRON4 will be replaced by the likes of ‘Riverdale’ and ‘FBoy Island,’ as KRON4 will become an affiliate of the CW Network on September 1.
SF News Retail Experts Predict Downtown and Westfield Mall Recovery Maybe In 2024 It's not all doom-loop and gloom if you talk to retail real estate people in San Francisco right now. And while it's perhaps just their job to be cheerleaders even in sorry-looking times, at least a few say that empty storefronts are just opportunities.
Arts & Entertainment Free Drag Shows Make Up a Whole New Scene In SF During Pride Month Drag performers are kicking their heels out to Financial District bars, Salesforce Park, and even Ocean Beach in a series of free drag shows for Pride Month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Udon Noodle Spot, Katsuo & Kombu, Opens On Divisadero A Japanese noodle spot serving housemade udon has just opened on the Divisadero corridor, and it's sort of a spinoff of Noe Valley's Hamano Sushi.
SF News SF Man Convicted of Assaulting Girlfriend's Mother With Machete A man arrested in May 2022 at a Visitacion Valley home for an attack on the mother and sister of a woman he was dating has been convicted of assault and several other charges.
Sponsored Charlie Wilson & Chaka Khan to Shine In Napa Next Month On Friday, July 14, 2023, the Oxbow RiverStage in Napa, California will host a night of unforgettable musical chemistry between two legendary artists: Charlie Wilson and Chaka Khan.
SF News Big Ol’ Black Bear Makes Self Right At Home In Marin County Front Yard The rare sight of a black bear was captured on security camera footage from a San Rafael home, and it's reportedly the second bear sighting in Marin County in the past month.
SF News Alleged Gang Member Arrested For Mission Shooting Was Wanted for Oakland Music Video Shooting That Killed One 22-year-old Javier Campos was arrested Wednesday night in Santa Cruz County and he's been linked to both Friday's Mission District shooting and the shootout at a gas station in Oakland that killed an 18-year-old man in January.
SF Politics House Votes Against Censuring Adam Schiff; Schiff Trolls George Santos Over Video A House Republican effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff over his involvement in the first impeachment of Donald Trump failed on Wednesday, with a few Republicans even voting against it.
SF News CHP Drug Crackdown May Involve Low-Level Stops That SF Police Commission Voted To Ban The Chronicle did a ride-along with California Highway Patrol officers on their fentanyl crackdown efforts, and found they may be pulling people over for low-level traffic stops that have been likened to racial profiling.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Person of Interest Detained In Mission Shooting Javier Campos, the person of interest wanted in connection with Friday's shooting in the Mission, has been detained; accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was back in court Wednesday; and two Americans were found dead in a Baja California motel.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Becomes First U.S. City With 50% Electric Vehicle Sales San Francisco just became the first U.S. city to see over 50% of new car sales be electric; a guy tried to donate a live grenade to the naval museum in Vallejo; and there's some explanation now for a power outage at SFO Tuesday night.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment Wants To Bring Free Outdoor Concerts To Downtown SF, Starting Next Year No acts have been named, but Another Planet Entertainment is proposing a batch of at least three free outdoor concerts in San Francisco next year, at Civic Center Plaza, Embarcadero Plaza, and Union Square, for the next three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Notoriously Nasty Burger King at Civic Center Has New Tenant: Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Outfit The beleaguered Burger King at Market and Grove Streets vacated that space in 2019, and now has a new tenant in ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens ghost kitchen operation.
SF News Sole Surviving Victim of Half Moon Bay Shooting Says He's 'Scarred for Life' Pedro Felix Romero Perez was the only one of eight people shot at two Half Moon Bay farms on January 23, and he's just now speaking out about the experience.
SF Politics Adding to Biden's Diverse Slate of Judicial Nominees, Senate Confirms SF's First Openly Gay Federal Judge The San Francisco federal bench just got its first openly gay judge, as odd as that is to say in 2023. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Biden's nomination of SF labor lawyer P. Casey Pitts to be a judge in U.S District Court.
SF News Driver Killed In Fatal San Jose Crash As SUV Veers Off Road, Catches Fire An early morning SUV crash closed off two lanes of traffic on I-680 near Warmsprings in San Jose Wednesday, and the driver did not survive after their SUV went off the highway and caught fire upon hitting trees.
SF News UC Berkeley Was Apparently Hiding the Discovery of Human Remains for Two Years This is such a weird story. But apparently, the skeletal human remains we first heard about in January that were discovered inside a building on UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus were actually found almost two years ago, and no one told the police.
SF News BART Ridership Hits Post-Pandemic High, Mostly Thanks to A's Fans The Giants were on the road Tuesday night, but Oakland A's fans came out in force, packing both the Coliseum and BART trains in order to tell owner John Fisher to sell the team and let it stay in Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Gets North Beach Opening Date The much anticipated new Flour + Water Pizzeria in North Beach is opening in two weeks, and it will be the first new blood on a busy stretch of Columbus Avenue in many years.
SF Politics Supervisors Relax Zoning Laws In Union Square and Downtown In Hopes of Filling Vacancies City Hall’s answer to the Union Square retail exodus is to bring in new things that aren’t retail, and the Board of Supervisors just voted unanimously Tuesday to loosen zoning laws on Union Square and downtown commercial conversions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Automat Ends Dinner Service, Will Switch to Daytime Only One-and-a-half-year-old Nopa neighborhood restaurant Automat is changing things up, and will no longer be serving dinner after June 24.
