Arts & Entertainment The Giants are Doing a ‘Pokémon Go Drone Show’ After Tonight’s Game Pokémon catchers report for training after Friday night’s Giants-Orioles game at Oracle Park, as the team has lined up a massive “Pokémon Go Drone Show” so you can peek at giant Pikachus flying through the sky.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Souley Vegan Reopens, Shuggie's Reopens Sans Pizza Bosco sets an opening date, Shuggie's reopens with its new more ambitious menu (and low-ABV cocktails), and Souley Vegan has made a triumphant return in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amado’s on Valencia Street Has Quietly Reopened, Though Just on Weekends for Now The bar and live music venue Amado’s closed permanently two years ago, but is now somehow open again, with a soft opening schedule of just weekend nights, and food only on Fridays and Saturdays (for now).
Business & Tech California Uber and Lyft Drivers are Unionizing, and Uber and Lyft are Actually Going to Let Them In a surprising deal that was somewhat brokered by Gavin Newsom, Uber and Lyft are going to let their 800,000 California rideshare drivers unionize and get collective bargaining rights, though drivers can still refuse to join the union.
SF News Disgraced San Jose City Councilmember Faces Emotional Sentencing Hearing For Child Molestation Former San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres, who was convicted in April of molesting a younger male relative, faced a fraught sentencing hearing Friday in which his victim yelled at him and called him a "monster."
SF News Lurie’s So-Called RV Crackdown Begins Today, But Two-Hour Parking Limit Still Months Away Mayor Lurie’s new effort to get many RVs off SF streets with a two-hour parking limit is now in effect, except the actual two-hour parking limit does not kick in until November. And the city will offer cash in an RV buyback program.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Billiards Lounge, With Cocktails, Debuts In the Mission District A new upscale billiards lounge with a cocktail bar has just opened on Mission Street, in the space that was formerly home to ECHO nightclub.
SF News Car Crashes Outside Gay Club In Downtown San Jose Ahead of Silicon Valley Pride Celebrations In what appears to have just been a random incident involving a very drunk and unruly driver, a car crashed twice along Post Street in downtown San Jose Thursday night, leaving the driver and a passenger injured and endangering pedestrians.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The Sun Finally Came Out on the Playa The weather finally improved at Burning Man on Thursday; Trump is revoking Kamala Harris's Secret Service detail; and Governor Gavin Newsom's national approval rating has come up significantly since June.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Children’s Fairyland Celebrates 75th Birthday This Weekend Ariana Grande’s national tour will kick off in the Bay Area; college football is officially back underway; and Oakland’s Children’s Fairyland has its 75th birthday party and parade on Labor Day.
Business & Tech Former Bay Meadows Racetrack Finally Getting Its Last New Buildings, 18 Years After It Closed It’s taken 18 years to fully develop San Mateo’s 83-acre former horse racing track Bay Meadows, but a developer is finally submitting permits for the final two buildings of what will be a seven-building complex.
SF News Oiled-Up Castro Creeper Who Exposed Himself to Girls Convicted, Faces Possible Five-Year Sentence A man who was called out by teenage school girls and their parents after he repeatedly showed up outside a boba shop and exposed himself to them has been convicted on multiple felony counts.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Have the Highest Average Attendance for Home Games In the Whole WNBA Despite having no star players, a mediocre record, and playing in just their first season, your Golden State Valkyries have scored the highest average home game attendance numbers in the entire WNBA.
SF News Oakland Police Say They Impounded Six Vehicles Connected to Sunday's Sideshow Near Piedmont The Oakland Police Department wants the public to know that enforcement actions take place well after sideshows occur, even if it doesn't look like police are intervening at the time.
SF News SF Desperately Offers $5,000 Airbnb Gift Cards to Get People to Leave Troubled Potrero Hill Housing Complex Are people really “squatters” if they paid rent, but the units were illegal and a rogue property manager was secretly pocketing the money? The City of SF says yes, and they're offering Potrero Hill tenants $5,000 Airbnb gift cards to move out.
SF News Dangerous High-Speed Chase Through SF Ends With Suspect Jumping Into the Bay A San Francisco man who was wanted for a violent felony in Southern California was spotted by police in the Tenderloin Tuesday, and a potentially disastrous high-speed chase ensued.
SF News Lurie Strikes Deal With Caltrans to Sweep Encampments at Highway Off-Ramps and Overpasses We’ve all seen large homeless encampments beneath freeway overpasses in SoMa and the Mission, and Mayor Lurie just got the green light from Caltrans to start clearing encampments at eight major overpasses and entrance ramps.
SF Politics SF Dems Deadlock Over Engardio Recall Endorsement, Leaving Him Swinging In the Wind It probably wouldn't have mattered much at this point, but the SF Democratic County Central Committee is not endorsing for or against the recall of Supervisor Joel Engardio, after a deadlocked vote.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 137 Arrested In SF Protest Over Arming Israel The SFPD arrested 137 protesters outside Sen. Alex Padilla's office; expect DUI checkpoints this weekend in SF; and Los Gatos city leaders don't love a new proposed RH store.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pickett Fire Cause Possibly Identified Investigators may have identified a possible cause of the Pickett Fire near Calistoga; Victor Aenlle testifies in the San Mateo Sheriff hearing; and the SF school board rejects a proposed Mandarin-immersion school.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia Amphitheater Getting $300,000 for Stage Upgrades, New Paved Walkways SF Rec and Parks has found a little money with which to give McLaren Park’s Jerry Garcia Amphitheater some new enhancements, with better seating and new paved walking paths that should be ready for the next annual Jerry Day celebration.
SF News Tourists Still Coming to San Francisco — But Not So Many From Abroad, Canada Tourism to San Francisco hasn't totally tanked in the first seven months of Donald Trump's second term, despite his success in alienating and offending Canadians and international travelers broadly.
Bay Area Sports Mill Valley Woman Breaks Record for Fastest-Ever Swim From Farallon Islands to SF It’s not just the fastest swim ever for a woman, but the fastest swim for any swimmer ever to complete the dangerous 30-mile trek from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco, though the record is not yet certified by official record keepers.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Gets Electrocuted and Airlifted Out, as Flooding Remains a Problem This Year Someone was electrocuted at Burning Man Tuesday night and had to be airlifted out, as recurring thunderstorms are creating flooded conditions that are very risky for generators and electrical gear.
SF News BART Touts Nearly 50% Drop In Property Crime, 36% Drop In Violent Crime A new report by BART and its police department finds that crime is down overall on the BART system, with the most significant decrease happening in property crimes. Also, fare evasion citations are down.
