SF News Sunday Links: It's Finally Soapbox Derby Day! A four-alarm fire engulfed the Port of Benicia Saturday, the National Weather Service issued a high surf advisory until 3 p.m. Sunday, and SF's soapbox derby returns to McLaren Park today.
SF News A Living Seawall Is Coming to San Francisco's Embarcadero This Summer Designed to mimic natural-occurring structures that hold marine wildlife, installing living seawalls is becoming a popular practice that improves traditional exposed concrete barriers. And San Francisco is getting one along the Embarcadero over the next few years.
SF News Cooler Temperatures (and Maybe Some Rain) Will Come to SF Bay Area Next Week Coming off of Thursday's record-breaking hot weather, it looks like we can expect some much cooler temperatures — and perhaps even a bit of light rain — next week.
SF News Saturday Links: Art Bash Returns to SFMOMA for First Time Since Pandemic Began Noodle Fest is coming back, SFMOMA's annual Art Bash fundraiser again graced the museum last night, and (of course) Amazon is now looking into overturning the historic unionization of workers at an Amazon distribution center in Staten Island.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Richmond School Teacher Arrested on Multiple Counts of Child Molestation The Texas man who carjacked an Oakland man Tuesday also had his young daughter with him, a Bay Area teacher was charged by Contra Costa County prosecutors Friday with 29 counts of child molestation, and Arinell Pizza is in danger of closing.
SF News Illegal Marijuana Farmer Found Guilty for Starting the 2020 Dolan Fire The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurants, Alioto's, Is Closing After a Century at Fisherman's Wharf Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Animo Brings Basque-Style Meat and Fish to Sonoma (With Korean Touches) Tucked away next to a McDonald's on Route 12 at the edge of the town of Sonoma, a short drive from the town square, is a new restaurant focused on Basque-style, wood-fired meat and fish, from a former New York City ramen chef.
SF News Bathhouses and ‘Adult Sex Venues’ May Get It On Again, As New Zoning Rules Allow Them Move Forward Bathhouses were ordered closed at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, but they’re on the way back, as the SF Planning Commission just approved “adult sex venue” zoning legislation.
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend, SFMOMA Revives Its Artists' Soapbox Derby For the First Time Since 1978 SFMOMA is putting on a fun-for-the-people event in McLaren Park that was first and last held in the 1970s, and it's all about artists creating kooky contraptions in which to roll down a hill.
SF News Alameda County DA Declines to Charge Alameda Cops In Death of Mario Gonzalez The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: Once Again, No One Gives Us a Chance Except Us Your San Francisco Giants have their Home Opener Friday afternoon, and while the defending NL West champions are given little chance to repeat last year’s stunning success, Kapler and the Captain have other ideas.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Three-Alarm Fire In Duboce Triangle A three-alarm fire on Noe Street in Duboce Triangle early this morning displaced five people, a grass fire broke out Thursday by Baker Beach, and an elderly woman was held at gunpoint in an Ingleside home invasion.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Recology Scandals Claim Another City Hall Figure San Francisco had its hottest day in more than six months, there's a naming contest on for the new male Berkeley Campanile falcon, and the city’s Department of the Environment director is out after soliciting a $25,000 Recology donation.
SF News City Hall Is Haggling Over an Ambitious Housing Plan, Hoping the State Doesn’t Yank Billions of Dollars The SF Planning Commission spent Thursday afternoon debating a “housing element” plan on which billions in state aid is contingent, but so far, state authorities have rejected 97% of other cities’ housing plans.
SF News Venezuelan Punk Band Robbed Of Passports in Oakland, Fans Raise Nearly $14,000 on GoFundMe The day after playing at Bottom of the Hill, Venezuelan band Zeta was robbed of their passports and gear in Oakland, but their tour is still trucking thanks to a GoFundMe outpouring.
SF News Anyone Who Tests Positive For COVID In San Francisco and Has Risk Factors Should Seek Out Antivirals, City Says San Francisco has a supply of the two antiviral drugs approved for treating cases of COVID-19, but they may have to return thousands of doses if they don't get used — and thousands have already been returned to the federal government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Indian Restaurant to Take Over Former Dosa Space on Fillmore A different high-end Indian restaurant will take up where Dosa left off in the former bank space it called home for over a decade on Lower Fillmore, at the edge of Japantown.
SF News Harrowing Search For Missing Couple in Nevada Ends With Husband Found Dead, Wife Surviving After a week-long search for a missing couple merely found an empty RV in Nevada, the couple was located, but 72-year-old Ronnie Barker was already dead.
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SF News Man Dies In Stabbing Near SF General A homicide occurred early this morning a block away from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
SF Politics SF Redistricting Devolves Into Chaos, Now Three Members of Task Force May Be Removed The SF Redistricting Task Force kept redrawing supervisor districts in another raucous meeting that went ‘til nearly 3:30 Thursday morning, but now three members of the commission might be kicked off, and mind you this three days before their deadline.
SF Politics Supervisor Chan (Again) Bucks Consensus Plan for Car-Free JFK Drive, Goes Her Own Way With Dueling Proposal In what is becoming a pattern in the debate over a car-free JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, District 1 supervisor Connie Chan introduces a rival plan to the plan around which consensus is otherwise forming.
SF News Early April Heatwave Like This One Happened In 1989, When Most Bay Area Records Were Set It's going to be quite hot all over the Bay today, with thermometers hitting 90 degrees and above in multiple spots. But the National Weather Service notes that this may not be a record-breaker of a day for most locales, because the records around here for April 7 are pretty high.
