SF News Body of 35-Year-Old Missing Swimmer Found Near SF's Aquatic Park The body of an avid swimmer who was last seen swimming in San Francisco Bay on Saturday morning was found Tuesday morning near Aquatic Park Cove.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Confirms Return of Bourbon Steak to Westin St. Francis, Plus New Cocktail Bar by Steph Curry We now have confirmation from chef Michael Mina and his restaurant group that Bourbon Steak will indeed be returning to the space at the Westin St. Francis, which has been undergoing renovations for the last year. And where a wine bar used to be will be a fancy new cocktail spot from Steph Curry.
SF News Pickett Fire Continues Burning Mostly In Glass Fire Burn Scar, Now 17% Contained The growth of the wildfire burning northeast of Calistoga was slowed overnight on Monday, thanks to the marine layer moving inland, and Cal Fire said they had reached 17% containment as of Tuesday morning.
SF News Update: Apparent Illegal Fireworks Mishap Torches Mount Diablo High School Football Field What appears to be an illegal fireworks stunt gone wrong destroyed the football field at Mount Diablo High, just days before the team was slated to play its first home game of the season.
SF News 30-Year-Old SFPD Recruit Dies From Medical Emergency During Training Exercise The SFPD is mourning the loss of 30-year-old cadet Jon-Marques Psalms, who suffered a medical emergency during a training exercise last week, and died on Friday. He was honored with a Monday procession.
SF News City Conducts Sweep of Tents, Homeless on and Around SF's Sixth Street Mission and 16th is likely to get a bit busier today, as are other hangout spots around the Mission and Tenderloin, as the city conducts a fresh "sweep" on Sixth Street.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: There's a Matcha Shortage The hearing over the potential removal of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus enters its 7th day; Waymos can start picking up and dropping off on Market Street; and apparently there's a matcha shortage affecting local tea shops.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pickett Fire Smoke Likely to Spoil Some of the Grape Harvest Sheryl Davis, the disgraced former head of SF's Dream Keepers initiative, is still hanging around City Hall; Recology had a small fire this morning; and smoke from the Pickett Fire is likely going to cause smoke taint for some vineyards' entire harvests.
Arts & Entertainment Macaulay Culkin Coming to Bay Area for ‘Home Alone’ 35th Anniversary Screenings A now 44-year-old Macaulay Culkin is milking his 90s hit film ‘Home Alone’ for another round of fortune, and his 35th anniversary screening tour of the movie comes to San Jose and Oakland in November.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary North Beach Punk Venue Mabuhay Gardens Could Possibly Reopen A building that has been home to a generic nightclub and venue for years, but which was once home to the local epicenter of the Bay Area punk scene, is back in play with a group of investors looking to revive it as a music venue.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Battens Down the Hatches as Another Storm Approaches, and Oh, Channing Tatum Is There If you’re going to Burning Man, understand the going is about to get a lot tougher again, as another thunderstorm with 50 MPH winds is approaching Black Rock City. But hey, you might see “Magic Mike” Channing Tatum there!
SF News 425-Unit Potrero Hill Housing Project Breaks Ground After Five Years In Limbo, Now 100% Affordable A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.
SF News Retired SF Firefighter Wins $1.2M Settlement In Whistleblower Retaliation Case A longtime SF firefighter who’s now 60 years old just got a $1.2 million settlement, saying he was repeatedly passed over for promotions after his 2013 whistleblower case reporting racial discrimination.
SF News Local Arson Case In San Jose Dropped Against Richard Tillman as Federal Case Moves Forward The local criminal case against 44-year-old Richard Tillman, the brother of the late former NFL player and Afghan War vet Pat Tillman, was officially dropped on Monday following a a bizarre crash into a San Jose post office in July.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Skysurfer 'Grinds' on Bay Bridge Cables — to Promote Red Bull A stunt skysurfer jumped out of a helicopter over the weekend, and parachuted with his skysurfing board onto the cables of the western span of the Bay Bridge, briefly sliding down them.
SF News Video: Late-Night Oakland Sideshow Draws Crowd of 500 People, Likely Stolen Car Set on Fire There were at least four major sideshows early Sunday morning, three in Oakland and another in Richmond, but the one near Piedmont in Oakland drew 500 people, went on for three hours, and left a probably stolen Infiniti completely torched.
Business & Tech Elon Musk and xAI Sue Apple and OpenAI Claiming Anticompetitive Scheme In the ongoing feud between Elon Musk and seemingly every other player in the AI realm, but specifically OpenAI, his company xAI has now filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Second Body Found After San Rafael Apartment Fire A second body has been found in Thursday's suspicious fire at a San Rafael apartment complex; police in Nevada busted a guy allegedly carrying a large haul of drugs to Burning Man; and Apple is suing Chinese phone maker Oppo over trade secret theft.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Wall of Dust,’ 50 MPH Winds Hit Burning Man, Potential Flash Floods Expected This Week Early arrivals to the Burning Man festival were met with 50 mph winds and a “wall of blowing dust” Saturday as the storm tore through campsites, destroying art and causing four minor injuries. A potential monsoon and flash floods are on this week’s forecast.
SF News Photos: Pickett Fire in Napa County Spreads to 6,800 Acres, 11% Contained as of Sunday Afternoon Napa County declared a local emergency for the Calistoga area Sunday, calling for additional funding to fight the Pickett Fire, which broke out Thursday and reached nearly 7,000 acres Sunday afternoon.
sports Bay FC Soccer Game Draws Record-Breaking Crowd to Oracle Park Saturday Local women’s soccer team Bay Football Club played its first game at Oracle Park Saturday against Washington Spirit. Despite the team’s loss of 2-3, the game drew the most attendees in the history of US professional women’s sports, prompting discussions of moving to SF.
SF News Sunday Links: Supporters to Rally for Yosemite Ranger Fired for Hanging Trans Pride Flag The FDA might classify 7-OH, the potent compound in kratom, as a controlled substance; foolhardy swimmers have been entering East Bay lakes that are closed due to toxic algae; and supporters of the park ranger fired for flying the trans pride flag at Yosemite in May are rallying Sunday.
SF News Zuni Cafe Worker Saves Patron Using CPR, SFFD to Issue Plaque in His Honor Rodrigo Lopez, a 35-year-old busser at Zuni Cafe, used CPR to save a guest experiencing cardiac arrest earlier this month. The man recently returned to Zuni to thank Lopez, and SFFD plans to honor Lopez with a plaque.
Arts & Entertainment Local Radio DJ Chuy Gomez to Co-Host SF Lowrider Parade’s First Live TV Broadcast SF-born Bay Area radio and TV personality Chuey Gomez announced he’ll be co-hosting the first-ever live broadcast of SF’s Lowrider Parade and “King of the Streets” Hopping Competition with local reporter Sara Donchey on September 20 from 1–3 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Muttville's New HQ, Tactile Maps, Pavement Plants, ‘Fairyland’ Flick, and a Hidden Mansion In this week's Field Notes: from a chic Mission dog shelter and a mansion under the Bay Bridge to pavement plants and dahlias in Oakland. Also, tactile SF maps, Obon in the park, queer family stories, cat zines, and a Sacramento ghost town.
