Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Geographer's Stripped Down 'Verona'
San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Mike Deni, a.k.a. Geographer, scored a hit with the synth-pop song "Verona" back in 2010, and this new version is more beautiful and haunting.
San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Mike Deni, a.k.a. Geographer, scored a hit with the synth-pop song "Verona" back in 2010, and this new version is more beautiful and haunting.
The 49ers' award-winning educational program, 49ers EDU, has launched a new Virtual Lesson Series for K-8 students and teachers interested in STEAM that is entirely free of cost to each end-user.
The Mission's beloved, historic Roxie Theater has weathered a pandemic and is getting ready to reopen for in-person screenings. And they're asking Bay Area cinephiles to vote on what movie they want to see grace their main screen when that happens.
Despite previous reports that we wouldn't see Muni's K, L, or M lines running in light-rail tunnels until early next year, the SFMTA has surprised us today with better-than-expected news — as opposed to the usual worse-than-expected updates they've become known for.
At last, a couple years behind other cities, San Francisco now has added Apple Wallet and Apple Watch paying capability on mass transit, with Android capability on the way soon.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Mission to protest police shootings in Daly City and Minnesota, a bill to restrict use of the Ellis Act has been shelved, and there are lots of vaccine appointments in Contra Costa County and at Levi's Stadium.
Caltrain is halting service into San Francisco for two consecutive weekends, SF has a new chief medical examiner, and the last of California's 58 counties exited the "Purple" tier as of today.
Legendary San Francisco drag queen, activist, philanthropist, and mother hen Juanita MORE! is ready to try on a new role in the city: Empress.
April 20th is quickly approaching, and every cannabis connoisseur on the planet knows what that means: it’s our universal sign to observe 420! There are several origin stories surrounding how 420 came
A former Recology VP gets charged for bribing and laundering money to Mohammed Nuru, and the City Controller is calling to just break up the whole Recology arrangement.
It's looking more and more likely that ongoing immunization against the mutating coronavirus will be needed, and on Wednesday the CEO of Pfizer suggested that recipients of its vaccine will likely need a third booster dose next year.
The town of Placerville in El Dorado County, a spot in the Sierra foothills that was at the center of Gold Rush madness (and crime) 170 years ago, is going to remove a conspicuous noose from its official logo.
A 46-year-old woman was shot and injured Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco following an altercation with four teenage girls.
An 86-year-old man who was well known in the Lamorinda area for bicycling hundreds of miles every week and advocating for bike safety on the roads was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday less than a mile from his home.
One census tract in the Bayview had a COVID infection rate 10 times higher than the rest of SF, Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli makes an awkward Zoom appearance, and a trio of dine-and-dashers in the Richmond apologize.
A 26-year-old SF man was arrested for creating child porn at a local daycare, Antioch is re-establishing a Chinatown more than a century after burning it down, and SF's first H Mart opens next week with a new food court attached.
While San Francisco awaits a promotion to the state's "Yellow" tier, the city is moving ahead with relaxing more restrictions on restaurants and performance venues starting on Thursday morning.
Bay Area performance venues are moving hesitantly but optimistically toward scheduling live shows later this year, after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that checking vaccination cards will allow venues to open without capacity limits starting in mid-June.
A man who stabbed a female jogger on the Embarcadero last February and then assaulted a second woman with a tool all in a matter of minutes has been acquitted of assault charges for reasons of insanity.
As the city and its small neighborhood businesses attempt to crawl back toward normalcy in the waning months of this pandemic, San Francisco's Mayor London Breed is challenging residents to put themselves on a diet from chain retail, and patronize local businesses only in the month of May.
Adrian "A.J." Gonzalez, who was 15 when his 8-year-old neighbor Madyson "Maddy" Middleton disappeared in the summer of 2015 in Santa Cruz, had long ago confessed that he killed her. But he's remained in legal limbo because of his age, and now, at age 21, he has pleaded guilty.
Sonoma County public health officials revealed Tuesday that 39 people in the county have been so-called "breakthrough" COVID cases, meaning that they became infected with the coronavirus more than two weeks after getting their second vaccine shot.
Both SF and Santa Clara counties announced that everyone (16+) can now get vaccine appointments ahead of the state's Apr. 15 date, Hayward police are warning women about car smash-and-grabs, and Bernie Madoff is dead.
Supes Preston and Haney are still pushing for fare-free Muni this year, experts offer advice for those who have received the J&J vaccine (you're almost definitely fine), and London Breed has a new spot for a 30-bed meth sobering center in SoMa.
The calling off of this year’s 4/20 was a 4/gone conclusion, but Mayor Breed and Rec and Parks announced today that Hippie Hill will be thoroughly fenced and rangers will be ready to bust any crashers.