Leather bar The Eagle, the Museum of Ice Cream, the Balboa Theater and Almanac Beer Co. are filling in as temporary polling places this as San Francisco is set to break turnout records in this bizarre pandemic election.
Our beloved "Officer Edith" at Animal Care & Control has posted a video that you can enjoy as a moment of Zen today — so long as worms don't make you squeamish.
A gas leak that is now said to be under control caused a brief scare in Haight-Ashbury on Tuesday, perhaps disrupting some residents' plans to get to their polling place.
As we reported last week, the iconic, 83-year-old, two-sided electronic Coca-Cola billboard next to I-80 in SoMa reached the end of its life in SF. And it's now fully gone.
Twitter once again slapped Trump over mail-in voting fear/violence mongering, CBS News spoke to militia groups in Michigan prepping for war, and the New York Times print team is prepping for an uncertain election night and a likely non-decisive front page for Wednesday.
A San Francisco firefighter was critically injured in an accident on the job, CHP is seeking help investigating a freeway shooting in the North Bay, and SF is on pace for the biggest election turnout in a century.
Enjoy this extended Indian Summer while you can, and in spite of election tension and anxiety. It's all going to change later this week.
Friendly reminder for all those who haven't gotten ballots in the mail yet or don't want to deal with their polling place: You can go to the citywide voting center in front of Bill Graham and it is super convenient and easy.
Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
The SFPD is seeking two suspects in an SUV who allegedly kidnapped a man in his 20s near Civic Center on Saturday morning, and later dropped him on the street, badly injured and partially naked.
Bay to Breakers, which had optimistically been rescheduled from May to September this year, has now been conservatively pushed well past its usual spring running time to next August. But you can register for the race now, should you want to lock that down.
A pro-Trump car and pickup truck caravan that seems to have originated in Santa Rosa traveled south to Marin County on Sunday, following a spate of similar caravans around the country that looked unsettlingly like those ISIS caravans from a few years back with their large flags flapping.
Looking to extend their momentum from their previous two wins, the San Francisco 49ers dropped their Sunday night matchup to NFC Best Seattle Seahawks in dispiriting fashion.
Dia de los Muertos takes on greater significance for the Latinx community hit hardest by the pandemic, meteorologists issue a sneaker wave warning for local beaches, and businesses are boarding up anticipating election unrest.
Citing recent surges in COVID-19 cases — locally, nationally, and globally — and given the fact that there's still no vaccine available, organizers of SF's annual Chinese New Year Parade have decided to cancel this year's cavalcade celebrating the holiday.
The owner of Reliance Market at 20th and Castro streets in San Francisco witnessed every mail-in-ballot-casting voter’s worst nightmare this past Friday: a local mailbox being broken into and purged of ballots.
Many East Bay voting centers are seeing massive turnouts — with some people casting ballots in their Halloween regalia — a man was fatally shot in San Jose earlier this morning, and October saw more than a dozen eateries in San Francisco permanently close.
Smuin Ballet — the same dance company that earlier this month held a performance outside of John’s Grill — is returning to streaming with performances for its "Virtual Fall Dance Series," showcasing newly choreographed works by company talent in sumptuous outdoor settings.
Earlier this week, it was announced the SFPD is coordinating with the Office of the Mayor to prepare for any unrest that may descend on downtown come Election Day. Now, many SF businesses are boarding up ahead of Tuesday as well.
Tadich Grill — one of the country’s oldest eateries — will not reopen on November 9 as planned, fourteen staff members at a Sonoma County hospital have now tested positive for COVID-19, and the newly renovated Margaret Hayward Playground has reopened.
Mayor Breed presented 5-year-old James Trinh with a certificate of honor from the City for helping find SF Zoo’s stolen lemur, a forest of LEDs will come to Golden Gate Park this winter, and West Oakland's Magnolia Street Wine Lounge and Kitchen opens today — featuring Asian-inspired Creole cuisine.
Remember the beggar's chicken at Betelnut? Or at Cecilia Chiang's The Mandarin? Here's how to make your own at home.
A huge, 2,515-unit residential project — one of the largest ever to be proposed or built in San Francisco — may be on its way to the Fillmore/Western Addition, and it's being driven by the same church group that built 382 units on the same site 47 years ago.
Any hopes that restaurants had of increasing indoor capacity to 50 percent next week are now dashed, but it may still happen in a few weeks if cases go down.
The dedicated bike lane is one of the elements that's been jettisoned in a revised Phase 1 design plan that was recently unveiled, reflecting the city's pandemic-year budget woes, and the Bicycle Coalition is especially livid.
