A stage-musical version of The Wizard of Oz adapted from the iconic 1939 film starring Judy Garland has just hit A.C.T.'s Toni Rembe Theater, and it's a fun, lightly reimagined romp through familiar material that succeeds in many laughs.
Get your dirndl and lederhosen on as the oldest German restaurant on the west coast, Schroeder’s in the Financial District, is throwing a massive party for its 130th birthday Friday, with beer hall games, drink specials, and live music from Jazz Mafia instead of polka.
The opprobrium and dirt-slingings continue in the story of Oakland "vulgar fine dining restaurant" Hi Felicia, which garnered widespread, entirely positive media attention in 2022 before abruptly closing last month.
Just in time for tourists to descend on downtown for Pride at the end of June, San Francisco sheriff's deputies will be out in force making arrests for drug dealing and open-air drug use, as part of Mayor London Breed's previously announced plan.
At a Thursday morning sentencing hearing frequently interrupted by Bill Gene Hobbs mercilessly heckling his own victims, the convicted sexual assault suspect received a jail sentence totaling five and a half years.
In an out-of-the-blue move that indicates he’s still keen to build that national profile, Governor Gavin Newsom started a media blitz Thursday morning promoting a 28th Amendment campaign to promote popular but stalled gun control measures.
Happy Pride Month, everybody! A 20-year-old suspect who was arraigned Wednesday for an alleged hate-crime attack on two men in the Castro neighborhood Monday may be a repeat offender, according to prosecutors.
That ferry flight from Air India taking stranded SFO-bound passengers out of eastern Russia has made it back safely; the Temecula school board is doubling down on calling Harvey Milk a "pedophile"; and the El Nino season is arriving early.
A 20-year-old suspect has been arrested for an alleged hate crime in the Castro; the Oakland Police Commission is being blamed for taking too long in the hiring process for a new chief; and Stockton's county building won't be getting a Pride flag this year, say the supervisors.
The two men standing trial for the freeway shooting of two-year-old Jasper Wu are still getting gun and gang enhancements on their murder charges, but Alameda County DA Pamela Price has removed some of their special enhancement charges, which may leave them with lighter sentences.
Some remarks at Monday’s 2023 Nightlife and Entertainment Summit have Mayor Breed getting some blowback from nightclub owners, when said she couldn’t think of a good nightclub in San Francisco.
A beloved "front porch festival" that first happened in San Francisco in 2015 is returning this weekend for a day of local music on sidewalks and porches in the Mission District.
A new wrinkle in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between SFPD and illegal Mission Street vendors, as “event fencing” now surrounds the perimeter of the McDonald’s next to the 24th Street BART station.
In a trial that followed over a dozen other convictions of his MS-13 associates, Elmer Rodriguez, a.k.a Gordo, was convicted in federal court this week on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, and racketeering conspiracy.
It should come as no surprise that CNN's gratuitous San Francisco hit piece several weeks ago — a Sunday evening, hour-long special about how the city has gone to hell, in the vein of Fox News — didn't embrace any nuanced angles about the lives of homeless people.
The southern route into Big Sur on Highway 1 is going to be closed for the next several months, Caltrans says, in an update on the progress of work to clear debris from a major landslide that occurred this past winter.
The trial is underway in a bizarre 2021 case of pig’s blood (and a severed pig’s head!) being smeared on the home of a former Santa Rosa police officer who testified in favor of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd trial.
An overturned garbage truck was causing a major traffic headache Wednesday morning on I-680. And separately, an Amazon truck dumped packages on Highway 92, and there was a landscaping truck on fire on 101 North in Marin County.
The Board of Supervisors put the kibosh on accepting any more new cannabis dispensary applications Tuesday, though existing retail applications will still be processed. The moratorium expires in 2028.
It was one of the biggest local stories of the week, but is the owner of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels just negotiating with its bank by publicly saying they're defaulting on their loan?
There was a simultaneous water main rupture and a gas leak Wednesday morning just above Duboce Park, near the intersection of Duboce Avenue and Castro Street.
An Air India ferry flight has left Mumbai en route to Magadan, Russia to rescue those stranded SFO-bound passengers; New York is getting a taste of wildfire smoke; and the HRC has declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ rights.
Gavin Newsom lashed out at a school board president who slandered Harvey Milk, we’re getting new accounts of what went on in Breed’s Tenderloin Center, and major crypto exchange Coinbase is facing a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit.
The once-popular, pricey “orgasm workshop” OneTaste is now defunct, but its founder and a top executive were indicted Tuesday for forced labor conspiracy and forcing people to perform non-consensual sex acts.
Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their biggest City Hall victory yet on Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors shot down an attempt to landmark the theater’s seats that the promoter hopes to remove.
