Arts & Entertainment Stanford Assault Survivor Chanel Miller Has Gallery Display at Asian Art Museum It’s unusual for an art museum show to be fully visible from the street so passersby can see it for free, but that’s part of the point of Chanel Miller’s “I was, I am, I will be” at the Asian Art Museum.
SF News Freight Train Carrying Sulfuric Acid Derails In West Oakland A freight train derailed Monday near the Port of Oakland in West Oakland, and while there were no injuries, there was the potential for a nasty chemical spill.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: The Bulldog Pizza at Sunset Squares Out of the square-pizza trend that swept through San Francisco over the last few years, there have been a number of delicious examples of the form. But one of the newest really stands out for its sheer audacity and deliciousness.
SF News Two Separate Falls at Chase Center Phish Concert Leave One Dead, Two Others Injured Social media has been speculating about two falls at the Chase Center Sunday night, one of which was fatal, but the venue had probably better make some safety improvements to the 200 level of seats.
SF Politics School Board Recall Election Confirmed for February A special election to decide on a recall of three San Francisco school board members has been confirmed for February 15 — setting up the first of potentially several city elections happening next spring.
Arts & Entertainment 17 Best Florists to Perfect Your Wedding Floral Designs in 2022 The truth is that any venue can be made incredible and memorable when the details are applied correctly. These details can change the feel and can elevate something already special into something spectacular.
Business & Tech Chappelle Controversy Continues Roiling Netflix as Black Trans Employee Gets Fired for Alleged Data Leak Dave Chappelle's exhausting, transphobic, grievance-filled rant of a comedy special continues to be a problem for Netflix as news came out late last week that the Los Gatos-based company had fired a Black trans employee who was helping the organize a walkout protest related to the special.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Colin Powell Dies of COVID-19 at Age 84 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died from COVID despite being vaccinated because he also had cancer, over 11,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area were without power due to last night's rain, and parents and teachers who oppose vaccine mandates are staging school walkouts today.
Arts & Entertainment 14 Best Custom Wedding Cake Makers To Bake A Memorable Dessert For Your Day San Francisco and the surrounding areas are among the select 'food capitals of the world.' The Michelin Guide assigns its highly coveted Stars at a rate unlike other regions and San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Judy Chicago's de Young Museum Performance Blankets Golden Gate Park With Non-Toxic Smoke The main entrance space outside the de Young Museum erupted with billows of colorful non-toxic smoke clouds Saturday evening as part of Judy Chicago's 'Forever de Young' open-air performance — leaving Golden Gate Park hazy and smelling of sulfur.
SF News SF's Museum of the African Diaspora Will Reopen Next Week With Updated Gallery Space, New Exhibits After being closed for over eighteen months, San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) — one of the country's largest contemporary art museums that celebrate Black cultures — is set to reopen Thursday, October 21, debuting a "refreshed" gallery space and a new lineup of exhibits.
SF News Sunday Links: Estrada Fire Grows to 148 Acres The Estrada Fire has now burned at least 148 acres, cold (and potentially rainy) weather is coming our way this week, and you’re not the only one who's furious about yesterday's smoke show at the de Young Museum.
SF News After Jumping Control Burn Lines, Estrada Fire Burns 83 Acres in Santa Cruz On Friday, a prescribed burn on private property managed to escape control lines and began spreading at an alarming rate in southeastern Santa Cruz County, prompting 270 residents to be evacuated; it's now burned at least 83 acres and is 25% contained.
SF News Saturday Links: Some Berkeley School Bus Services Put on Pause Amid Staff COVID-19 Exposure The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) is canceling bus service for its elementary schools next week after staff members were exposed to COVID-19, Daddy's Barbershop in the Castro is closing after 14 years, and another 3.4-magnitude earthquake struck NorCal yesterday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body of Missing SF Kayaker Found by CAL FIRE Crew The body belonging to a 28-year-old SF man who went missing kayaking on Clear Lake has been found, there could be light rain coming our way Sunday, and Questlove is coming to the Castro in November for a screening of ‘Summer of Soul.'
SF News If It's Safe Taking Masks Off at the Gym, Why Are We Still Staying Masked at Restaurants? We've come to another one of those rule-change days in the pandemic, at least in San Francisco and Marin, and it's a change that again raises the question of how these specific public-health decisions are being made.
SF News Yet Another Party Decides to Call Itself ‘Ghost Ship,’ Faces Entirely Predictable Backlash An Alameda Halloween techno dance cruise promoter claims they were unaware of the 2016 tragedy that took 36 lives, and initially refused to change the event’s name, but eventually budged after a torrent of outrage.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jesus Christ Superstar' In Its 50th Anniversary Tour Is a Brash and Unrelenting Take on the Rock Opera The latest touring production of the musical, celebrating the show's 50th anniversary, is a stripped-down version of the show with the band on stage that is akin to a concert production, but with a lot of costumes and kinetic dancing by the disciples.
SF News Formerly Los Gatos-Based 'Cool Mom' May Have Continued Throwing Teen Parties In Idaho The story of Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. Shannon Bruga, that broke earlier this week, about the alleged streak of extremely boozy parties she threw over the last year for her teenage son and his friends, appears to have another chapter out of state.
SF News Santa Barbara Fire Smoke Expected to Move Over Bay Area Friday Smoke from the four-day-old Alisal Fire in Santa Barbara County is expected to drift over the Bay Area Friday and bring us some hazy skies on what is otherwise a beautiful sunny day.
Bay Area Sports Umpire Refuses to Say Whether He Made the Right Call to End the Giants' Historic Season A checked swing? An actual swing? Giants fans across the Bay Area were beyond angry/sad/bummed/rageful after first-base umpire Gabe Morales made a controversial call to end Thursday night's winner-take-all Game 5 in the National League Division Series against the Dodgers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Masks Come Off In SF Offices and Gyms Today's the day masks come off in some indoor settings in SF and Marin, early tests look promising for the Millennium Tower fix resuming, and the SoCal oil spill seems to have been considerably smaller in oil volume than originally reported.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parking Near Oracle Is Going For Over $100 Parking near the ballpark is going for $120 tonight, the family member in the Richmond Police chief story is her daughter, and activists in Oakland were protesting the media's bias toward reporting missing white women stories.
SF News SF Just Quietly Overhauled Its Cannabis Laws, Hoping to Help Small Local Operators The city tweaked the rules for cannabis business permits, in hopes of helping smaller businesses get licensed more easily, but also added a loophole that could hasten Big Marijuana buying up smaller shops.
SF News Marin County Becomes First In California to Have 'Moderate' COVID Transmission In CDC Framework Marin County just became the first in the Bay Area and in the state to enter the yellow or "moderate" tier of COVID transmission, setting it up to potentially be the first county in the Bay Area to reach the new regional criteria for dropping the indoor mask mandate.
