SF News Saturday Links: Mosquito Fire Now at Least 60% Contained All CA counties have left the CDC's “high” category for COVID-19, Bay Area rents could swell by an extra 10% this year, and fire crews are making progress controlling the largest wildfire this year in California — with 60% of the Mosquito Fire now contained.
SF News Say It Ain't So: San Francisco's Double Play Bar and Grill Burns in Early Morning Fire Sometime early Saturday morning, Double Play Bar and Grill — a San Francisco institution that first opened in 1909 — caught fire and suffered massive damages.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Keeps Putting Bowls on Rooftops in San Francisco A shooting in Oakland Friday afternoon left one dead and two injured during an attempted robbery, it'll be a sunny Bay Area weekend, and "mystery bowls" continue popping up on rooftops in San Francisco.
SF News Futuristic Technology Hopes to Save Whales With Real-Time Tracking, Underwater Microphones, and More About 80 whales are killed every year along the California coast because of collisions with ships, but a new “mapping and analysis tool” called Whale Safe thinks it can eliminate these collisions entirely.
Arts & Entertainment Gigantic Weekend of Events Is Upon Us, With Street Closures Galore It’s the first ‘Everything’s happening this weekend’ weekend, with Folsom Street Fair, the Portola festival, a Cat Extravaganza, and that's just scratching the surface.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moulin Rouge' Is a Terrific Spectacle, and That May Be All It Wants to Be Baz Luhrmann's postmodern 2001 film makes for an exuberant and dazzling stage show, but the plot elements feel almost unnecessary.
SF News Mission District Father Brutally Attacked at 18th and Valencia Streets In Seemingly Random Violence We have a description of the suspect who is still at large, in a Tuesday night random attack that has reportedly left a man with a “half detached ear” and facial scars “for life.”
SF News SF Now Averaging 10 Monkeypox Cases Per Week; Vaccines Available at Folsom Street Fair We are now in the fourth month of the local monkeypox outbreak — now officially being referred to as MPX or "em-pox" — and the case numbers have leveled off considerably.
SF News Backlog of Bodies Piling Up at Short-Staffed Alameda County Coroner’s Office A rash of killings and a staffing shortage are creating a grisly reality for the Alameda County Coroner’s Office, as autopsies are backlogged, and families are delaying funerals because of it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Officially In CDC's 'Low' Tier For COVID BART had similar Transbay Tube electrical problems this morning as it had on Sunday, a noted SF stalker/creeper is back and harassing women, and the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "low" tier for COVID transmission once again and finally.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Oldest Living Californian, an Oakland Resident, Has Died Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has COVID-19, BART looks likely to yank the mask mandate next week, and Oakland resident Giles "Bud" Cropsey has passed away at age 111.
SF News Marin Kayaker Successfully Rows Himself From California to Hawaii The second time was the charm for French-born, Marin-based kayaker Cyril Derreumaux, who set off for Hawaii on a solo kayak journey earlier this summer and made it there earlier this week.
SF News Smattering of Illegal Vending Slowly Returning to 24th and Mission — Including $5 Steaks? The initial success of the vendor permitting system felt a little fragile, and while illegal vendors are only returning in small numbers, a few are testing the boundaries and encountering little blowback.
SF News The Century-Old Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill Has Closed, Owners In Default The Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which most recently had been rebranded as the Huntington again after spending four years as the Scarlet Huntington Hotel, is now closed until further notice along with its longtime restaurant, Big 4.
SF News Matthew McConaughey Was At Dreamforce Talking About Running for President Someday Actor, activist, spokesmodel for Lincoln Motor Company, nude bongo player, and generally affable stoner Matthew McConaughey says that it's "inevitable" that he should run for president one day, and he'll likely just get "pulled into it."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wagyu Beef Aficionados Will Love Afici, Opening Saturday In the Former ALX Gastropub Space In SoMa The Alexander's Steakhouse group’s newest concept Afici swears it’s “not an offshoot of Alexander’s Steakhouse,” but instead a fine dining destination for pasta, housemade charcuterie, and “whole-animal utilization.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market's LINE Hotel and One of Its Two Restaurants Open Next Week The delayed but much anticipated new hotel on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the LINE, finally opens its doors next week, and with it comes a new rooftop restaurant/lounge, and a new fine-dining restaurant as well as a lobby bar.
SF News Check ‘Em Out! We Have Our First Renderings of the Second Transbay Tube A longtime BART fan fantasy is coming to life, as a second Transbay Tube gets its first proposed public renderings, though there are a couple proposals, and it probably won’t be operating until 2040 at the earliest.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Fatal Freeway Shooting In Oakland A man was fatally shot on an Oakland freeway Wednesday night, those "inflation relief" payments are on their way for Californians in October, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the surprise concert guests at Dreamforce last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Acquitted After Spending Five Years Jailed for Murder A 26-year-old SF man has been acquitted for reasons of self-defense after spending five years in jail for a New Year's Day 2017 killing, Michelle Obama is coming to SF in December, and 24th Street's Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed permanently (again).
Arts & Entertainment Hop on Board This 97-Year-Old Ferry Boat, Now Parked Permanently at Pier 9 The Klamath, built in 1925, is the new floating office space for the Bay Area Council, but it’s free to visit and enjoy the ferry boat’s rooftop garden during weekday business hours and the first Saturday of each month.
SF News Rare Good News for SFUSD: Enrollment Is 1,000 Students Higher Than Predicted The San Francisco Unified School District has 1,099 more students enrolled than projected this year, which is cause for celebration (and about $10 million more in state funding), though it’s still about 500 fewer students than they had last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Ho Won and Abacá Recognized on NYT Best Restaurants List Fast on the heels of Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants list, we have another national best-of that picked out two SF restaurants that Bon Appetit's editors passed over.
SF News Three Santa Rosa Men, Including Aspiring Rapper Who Rapped About Dealing, Busted For Shipping Meth and Fentanyl-Laced Pills Out of State Three men from the North Bay have been charged by the feds for operating a drug ring that involved shipping pills and methamphetamine across state lines, specifically to central Tennessee.
