Arts & Entertainment Gray Area’s New Show TECHS-MECHS Celebrates Media Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Sprawling, Immersive Body of Work The exhibition, offered through May 31, finds the perfect home in San Francisco's Mission district as it explores how technology is used to bring people together and to drive them apart.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Preservationists Launch Rival ‘Castro In Exile’ Movie Nights, With Sing-Along ‘Grease’ The old Castro Theatre sing-along shows have gone rogue while the theater sits unused, as the “Save the Seats” crowd is rebooting the traditional movie screenings in a “Castro In Exile” series starting with Sing-Along Grease on April 7.
SF News A 'Caravan' of Thieves Hit Multiple Oakland Businesses Thursday, In Chinatown and Elsewhere Oakland's plague of business robberies continued this week with a brazen caravan traveling in multiple vehicles — or possibly multiple crews — that hit at least 20 businesses in multiple commercial districts early Thursday.
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News Listen: JV’s WILD 94.9 DJ Colleagues Speak On Air as They Learn of His Passing, Wife Breaks Silence Some riveting and heartbreaking radio happened on WILD 94.9FM Thursday, as the crew of the JV Show broke the news of Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift’s confirmed death as they were on the air — and his wife has spoken out in a gut-wrenching social media post.
SF News Mother Killed, Twin Boys Injured In Crash Caused By High-Speed Police Chase In East Bay An East Bay mother was killed and her six-year-old twin sons were injured when the car was smashed into by a suspect fleeing police at high speed in the town of Rodeo.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Cruise Vehicle Hits Back of Muni Bus Some Oakland teachers are staging a sickout today, SF Supervisor Ahsha Safai is likely going to run for mayor next year, and an autonomous Cruise vehicle "made contact" with the back of a Muni bus yesterday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Windows Fail From SF Buildings, and We May Have a Problem Here Tahoe resorts are extending their ski seasons in some cases into the summer, BART is considering new jump-proof fare gates, and two more SF buildings had window failures Wednesday and Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Bucket Man’ Will Be Honored With a Memorial Parade In Downtown SF Saturday There will be one last jam for Larry “The Bucket Man” Hunt this Saturday, as the legendary San Francisco busker will be honored with a memorial brass band parade that will conclude at the Union Square corner where his beat went on so many years.
Arts & Entertainment 'Fiddler on the Roof' Feels Newly Relevant In Vibrant Touring Production Musicals from the 1960s tend not to feel fresh or charged with geopolitical relevance unless they've been substantially reinterpreted. But a highly faithful revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof' opened with a powerful gut-punch Wednesday night at the Golden Gate Theater.
Arts & Entertainment The Cockettes Come Back Hard In ‘Cockettes: Res-Erection’ This Weekend At The Oasis SF’s legendary heart-'throbs' the Cockettes will get it up again for Cockettes: Res-Erection, a “musical mayhem revue” featuring a touch of the original troupe and a fresh generation of cast members.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off the Grid Returns to Fort Mason Center With New Parklet-Based 'Pop-Up' Vendors The 2023 season of Off the Grid Fort Mason Center kicks off Friday, March 24, and it looks like the weather will hold at least for this opening week, and stay dry for the big food truck gathering.
SF News Photos: Very Good Berkeley Falcon Dad Brings Food for Chicks, Even Though They’re Not Hatched Yet Celebrity Berkeley celebrity falcon Annie’s new mate Lou has shown another gesture of unusually attentive fatherhood, bringing the hatchlings food, even though they’re still not hatched and can’t eat it yet.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Pistol-Whipping and Shooting On BART Train A suspect is in custody for the March 16 pistol-whipping incident onboard a BART train that resulted in a shot being fired in the train car.
SF News San Jose Man With Machete Takes Multiple Hostages, Shot By Police After Three-Hour Standoff A San Jose man barricaded himself in an apartment with three hostages Wednesday night, with two children among the hostages, and police shot and killed the suspect after a three-hour standoff.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Sees More Storm Damage, This Time Resulting In Escaped Exotic Birds The 100-acre Oakland Zoo has taken a battering this winter. And Tuesday's storm brought down multiple trees, including one big eucalyptus that crashed into the zoo's newest aviary — and that meant some escaped birds.
SF News Deplorable Human Flees Crash Scene On Oakland Freeway Leaving Behind Injured Dog In Car A trash pile of a person got into a multi-car crash early Thursday on I-580 in Oakland, and when police arrived, they found the person had abandoned their car with an injured, bleeding dog inside.
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Arts & Entertainment Body Found Near Pier 39 Identified as Missing Wild 94.9 Host JV The remains of Wild 94.9FM radio host Jeffrey “JV” Vandergrift, who was first reported missing on February 23, were found floating in the Bay on Wednesday near Pier 39, as the SF Medical Examiner has confirmed.
SF News Marin County Roads Get Warped And Buckled After This Week’s Storms This Novato road will be “closed off for some time” for obvious reasons, and there’s a bigger problem that water and gas lines throughout Marin County are at risk of being disrupted.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pelosi Reignites Feud With Archbishop The man killed by a fallen tree in Walnut Creek on Tuesday has been ID'd; a search was launched for a possible missing boy near Moss Landing; and Nancy Pelosi fanned the flames of her longtime feud with SF's Catholic archbishop.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Power Outage Still Creating Havoc at SF General An ongoing power outage at SF General is threatening freezers full of lab specimens; a White supremacist was arrested in San Jose for threatening a journalist; and Stevie Nicks has postponed her Thursday Chase Center show.
Arts & Entertainment SFFILM Festival Announces 2023 Lineup, and They’re Reactivating the Shuttered 1000 Van Ness Theater The SF International Film Festival SFFILM just announced its 2023 lineup, and they’re bringing the recently closed 1000 Van Ness movie theater back to life for 10 days — though notably, they're not doing many screenings at The Castro.
SF News Tuesday's Storm Being Called 'Once In a Lifetime' and 'Extremely Unusual' By Meteorologists Yes, Tuesday's bizarre, hurricane-like windstorm took everyone, include those whose job it is to predict the weather, by surprise.
SF News Residents of San Mateo County’s Woodside Told ‘LEAVE NOW’ As Mudslides Move In Evacuation orders are in effect in parts of the incorporated small San Mateo County town of Woodside, and the sheriff’s office is not mincing words as they tell residents to “LEAVE NOW.”
