Arts & Entertainment Latinx Film Festival CINELOA Moves Online, Ticket Sales Go Toward Supporting Local Nonprofits Pedestaling Latinx short films, CINEOLA's cinematic lineup aims to connect audiences with diverse representations of Latinoamérica on screens (big and small), with funds made through ticket sales benefiting SF institutions like the Roxie Theatre and Artists’ Television Access.
SF News Saturday Links: The Golden Gate Bridge Starts Singing Dozens of political demonstrations are scheduled across the Bay Area this weekend, two free COVID-19 testing sites in Oakland still remain closed due to protesting, and because of newly installed railing slats — the Golden Gate Bridge is crooning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Black Lives Matter Protest to Cross Golden Gate Bridge A brush fire prompts evacuations in Potrero Hill, a woman was killed Thursday night near McLaren Park, a protest is scheduled Saturday on the Golden Gate Bridge, and Twitter bans a Trump campaign video about George Floyd.
SF News Friday Protests In Mission and Castro, and Critical Mass Ride Kicks Off on Embarcadero Not that most of you are likely to be trying to traverse the city by car this afternoon or evening, but maybe you've got work to get to or a socially distant birthday
SF News SF Street Sweeping Tickets Set to Resume on June 15 You’ve still got 10 days to move your car, but street sweeping tickets will resume their weekly nuisance to your routine on June 15.
Arts & Entertainment Black Woman on Horse At Oakland Protest Says She Knew The Image Would Be Powerful 25-year-old horse enthusiast and budding entrepreneur with a social justice bent Brianna Noble knew exactly what she was doing when she drove her horse trailer to downtown Oakland last week.
SF News SF Opens Pop-Up COVID Testing Site Specifically for Protesters San Francisco has opened a new free testing site as St. Mary's Cathedral (1111 Gough Street) specifically for people who have attended protests, no symptoms required.
SF News Passengers From Grand Princess Mexico Cruise Sue Company for Negligence In the second lawsuit to be filed by passengers aboard a Princess Cruise Lines cruise from San Francisco who were exposed to the coronavirus, passengers who sailed from SF to Mexico and back in mid-February are suing the company for negligence.
SF News Family of Man Killed By Vallejo Officer: 'They Executed Him' 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa, the San Francisco man who was fatally shot Monday night by a Vallejo police officer who believed he was carrying a handgun — which turned out to be a hammer — was the son of a longtime employee at Anchor Oyster Bar in the Castro. And his family is speaking out.
SF News 31-Year-Old Swimmer Dies After Being Rescued in Rough Surf at Ocean Beach A 31-year-old man died Thursday evening after getting caught in rough surf at Ocean Beach, just north of the San Francisco Zoo.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Widow of COVID-Infected Safeway Worker Sues Fire crews are battling a wildfire that appeared intentionally set in the San Jose hills, protests remained peaceful around the Bay last night, and a man was stabbed on a Richmond-bound BART train.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zero New COVID Deaths in the Bay Area The Bay Area saw no new COVID-19 deaths today for the first time in three weeks, a local bartender and spirits maker was arrested on child porn charges, and the Richmond man found eating his dead grandmother has been charged with her murder.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Celebrates Michael Tilson Thomas' Retirement Online, and on the Radio It was supposed to be a big June blowout celebration in honor of the acclaimed 25-year tenure of Michael Tilson Thomas as musical director of the San Francisco Symphony. But as with everything else this season, plans have been curtailed and moved online.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Flore To Rise From the Dead Again, Offer Outdoor Dining in the Castro Seeing that outdoor dining will be the name of the game in the local restaurant world for months to come, the owner of Cafe Flore has decided to reopen six months after shutting the place down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's How to Find Black-Owned Businesses to Support in the Bay Area, Including Restaurants The Chronicle’s exhaustive list of black-owned Bay Area restaurants is just one of many resources available to support African-American-owned shops, eateries, and service providers.
SF News Photo: Is This What SF Office Life In a Pandemic Is Going to Look Like? Two people per elevator, each facing a corner, and one at a time in all restrooms — these are just two of the things downtown office workers are likely looking forward to as San Francisco companies begin to reopen office spaces.
SF News UCSF Doctor 'Persistently Positive' For COVID-19 After Three Months 66-year-old UCSF medical director Dr. Coleen Kivlahan is one of 60 UCSF medical professionals who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but she's the only one who has not recovered and who continues to test positive for the virus nearly 90 days after she believes she caught it.
SF News Photos From Wednesday's Peaceful Youth March in SF's Mission District A youth march in support of Black Lives Matter, organized by a small group of Mission District teens on Instagram, drew an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people on Wednesday.
SF News 22-Year-Old Latinx Man Was Kneeling With No Weapon In His Hand When He Was Fatally Shot By Vallejo PD The case of the police shooting of 22-year-old San Francisco man Sean Monterrosa is certain to reverberate around the Bay Area in the coming days and months, as demonstrations continue and tensions remain high over police killings nationwide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Current and Former Burma Superstar Employees Win $1.3M In Class Action A four-year-old case of alleged wage theft and worker mistreatment at the Burma Superstar restaurant chain has come to an end, with the owners of the chain settling with current and former kitchen workers for $1.3 million.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wildfire Grows in Suisun City A wildfire in Suisun City has grown to 300 acres and destroyed seven homes, Vallejo residents say they are outraged that police are only now listening about use of force, and a small group of protesters were detained in San Francisco following an otherwise peaceful march in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Holding Hammer Was Killed By Vallejo PD Over Alleged Looting A man firing a rifle from an East Oakland home was allegedly holding two children hostage, Pelosi joins protesters in DC, and the Vallejo PD will now have to answer for the shooting death of an alleged looter holding a hammer.
SF News Mission District Protest Draws Thousands, Muni Rerouted A police brutality protest that began outside Mission High School on 18th Street drew possibly 10,000 people or more on Wednesday, most everyone masked but clearly not socially distant in any way.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Organizers Stay Mum As Coachella Is Rumored to Be Skipping 2020 Altogether There's been no official update from Another Planet Entertainment, the promoters behind the annual Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park. But at this point it seems clear that August is off the table, and a postponement to fall might not be in the cards either.
SF News Pot Dispensaries Broken Into and Looted Across SF and California Cannabis shop owners suspect organized crime has a hand in the ransacking of dispensaries sweeping the state under the George Floyd demonstrations.
