Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Recology AIR 35th, Aquatic Park Doc, Rodin with Pipe Organ, and Teen Chase Film In this week’s Field Notes: a live pipe organ at Legion of Honor, stone legacy in Mill Valley, Recology’s Artist in Residence exhibit, and an Aquatic Park doc. Also: Amy Tan with Christian Cooper, teen film 'The Jar', and Sacramento’s music archive.
SF News Saturday Links: Draft of California Redistricting Map Released, GOP Seats Nearly Cut in Half More than 100,000 travelers are stranded worldwide as Air Canada flight attendants have gone on strike; a crow in Walnut Creek tested positive for West Nile virus Friday; and California released a draft of a new proposed redistricting map.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Contain 167-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County at 30% New plans for a 258-unit apartment building were announced for the long vacant 360 Fifth Street site in SoMa; a San Mateo County official pleaded not guilty to embezzling $800,000 over eight years; and a brush fire in Solano County has been contained at 30 percent.
SF News Man Found Guilty of Tackling, Punching, Trying to Steal the Firearm of SFPD Officer at UN Plaza A pretty brazen 1 am attack on an on-duty SFPD officer has drawn the exact response you’d expect, and a 31-year-old man is looking at likely serious jail time after being found guilty of three counts of threatening and battering an officer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Brazilian Steak Comes to Polk Mister Jiu's brings back a la carte, Sabor Gaucho debuts in Polk Gulch, and the Chronicle critic reviews Nopa Fish, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Own Albino Alligator Claude Is Turning 30 Years Old, Celebrations Are Scaling Up The California Academy of Sciences is chomping at the bit to throw multiple parties for Claude the albino alligator’s 30th birthday, lining up celebrity chefs, cocktail parties, and cakes made of fish guts.
SF News Vacaville Man Sentenced to 73 Years For Murder and Arson That Contributed to LNU Complex Fires In 2020 A Vacaville man who pleaded no contest to the murder of a 32-year-old woman he'd met online, and whose body he then burned near already raging wildfires in the summer of 2020, in an attempt to hide the crime, causing a separate wildfire, has just been sentenced.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beleaguered Former Westfield Mall Gets More Beleaguered, Loses Six More Restaurants If you even realize that the former Westfield Mall is now called the San Francisco Centre, be aware that its dwindling number of tenants no longer includes Jamba Juice, Blondie’s Pizza, or four other restaurants that just deserted.
SF News SFPD Marks 19 Years Since Killing of Aubrey Abrakasa, Case Remains Cold It was August 14, 2006 when 17-year-old Aubrey Abrakasa was gunned down in front of a preschool at the corner of Baker and Grove streets in the NoPa neighborhood.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Big Annual Dahlia Show Coming to Golden Gate Park This Weekend Our old friend Dr. Grant Colfax has landed on his feet in Contra Costa County; more SF city workers are being forced to return to the office; and the always lovely Dahlia Society of California Flower Show is this weekend in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: This Weekend is SF’s Last 8 pm Sunset of 2025 BART will stop charging you $6.40 for entering and leaving the same station; a South SF cop who shot a heavy metal guitarist will not face charges; and Saturday is the last time the sun will set at 8 pm for about the next seven months.
SF Politics Sheng Thao’s Lawyer May Try to Move Bribery Trial Out of Oakland, Which Would Further Delay the Trial Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s lawyer is considering a bid to move her bribery trial out of Oakland, and in other news, it seems Sheng Thao may have broken up with the boyfriend whose $95k no-show job is at the heart of this scandal.
Arts & Entertainment Tickets Still Available for Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon Show In Golden Gate Park Friday The third weekend in a row of concerts on the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park has almost arrived, and a Friday night show by young country artist Zach Bryan still has tickets on sale.
SF Politics Newsom Rallies for Redistricting, But Border Patrol Agents Show Up to Harass Crowd Governor Gavin Newsom gave a fiery speech Thursday to launch his campaign for a November ballot measure to redistrict the state, just like Texas is doing for Trump. But US Border Patrol agents showed up outside the rally to bully people.
Business & Tech Apple Unveils Plans for Tabletop Robot Companion and Home Security System In response to criticism that Apple has missed the boat on the AI revolution, the company is reportedly working on a new tabletop AI "companion" that could hit the market in two years, as well as home-security cameras, and a smart speaker with a display.
SF News Guy Seen Climbing Atop Waymo and Vandalizing It Charged In Four Separate Waymo Vandalism Incidents One well known unhinged gentleman in the SoMa neighborhood with a long rap sheet has really had it out for the robocars in the last six weeks, and he's now been charged in four separate incidents of vandalism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Debuts Its First East Bay Location, In Walnut Creek Stalwart San Francisco Italian-American restaurant Original Joe's has just opened a huge new location in Walnut Creek, and the ribbon-cutting was Thursday morning.
SF News Santa Rosa Police Officers Shoot and Kill Domestic Violence Suspect After Hours-Long Standoff A seven-hour standoff in Santa Rosa ended when police shot and killed an allegedly armed suspect around 5 am Thursday morning, in what is believed to have been a domestic violence incident started by an angry ex-lover.
SF News Judge Denies San Mateo County Sheriff's Attempt to Toss Voter-Approved Effort to Remove Her A federal court has denied an attempt by San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to block a voter-approved initiative allowing the county board of supervisors to remove her from office, claiming it violated her federal rights.
SF Politics Trump Administration on Spree of Firing Immigration Judges, Even While They’re Trying to Hire More More than 50 immigration judges, including a number in the Bay Area, have been fired nationwide since Trump took office in January, even while the government is simultaneously hiring more immigration judges, just probably Trumpier ones.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.0M Earthquake Rumbles Near The Geysers There was a rare 4.0M earthquake up near The Geysers; seven people were detained by ICE at an Oakland home Tuesday; and yet another La Niña winter looks to be on the way.
SF Politics Federal Court Hearing Concludes Regarding Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops in LA A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County May Ban Whip-Its Two Tesla drivers involved in a shooting in Newark on Tuesday were in some road-rage fight; San Mateo County supervisors are looking to ban nitrous oxide; and Taylor Swift just made a big announcement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque As was promised, the former KIS Cafe in Hayes Valley has been reborn a couple weeks on, with a fresh off-white paintjob out front, as Bosque.
SF News Man Dies by Drowning While Attending Reggae on the River Festival in Mendocino County A 66-year-old man was found dead on the bottom of the South Fork Eel River right next to the annual Reggae on the River festival in Mendocino County, and authorities say the man was attending the festival and died by drowning.
