Arts & Entertainment Now the SF Symphony Is Doing a Dolly Parton Show (Just Without Dolly Parton Present) Dolly Parton will appear (via video) with the SF Symphony in two weeks, as her new symphonic endeavor “Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs In Symphony” comes to Davies Symphony Hall to celebrate Parton’s staggering 60 years of hitmaking.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano Announces 2025 Schedule and Lineup for This September’s Ten-Day Piano Jam The endlessly charming and delightful outdoor piano recitals of Flower Piano will return for the event’s ten-year anniversary in September, and the ten-day schedule keys in with highlight performers Jill Tracy, Lavay Smith, and the Glide Ensemble.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Festival Featuring 20 Local Breweries Comes to Presidio This Weekend A beer festival with a bevy of local brews, live music, and food trucks is descending on the Parade Ground at the Presidio Saturday, and it should be a pretty good time.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge to Undergo Final Phase of Seismic Retrofit Project, South Tower to Get Fresh Coat of Paint Over the next ten years, there will be a fair amount of construction activity happening on the main span of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, as a project to protect it from significant damage in an earthquake gets underway.
SF News San Jose Drug Dealer Charged With Murder for a Baby’s Accidental Fentanyl Death — For the Second Time The same alleged drug dealer is accused of selling the fentanyl that killed two different babies in two separate incidents three months apart in San Jose, and now he and the first baby’s father are facing murder charges.
SF News Big Rig Fire Spreads to Vegetation Near Altamont Pass, Causing Temporary Freeway Closure A big rig somehow caught fire on the shoulder of I-580 early Friday morning in Livermore, near the Altamont Pass, and the fire spread to an adjacent hillside.
Arts & Entertainment Hong Kong Pop Superstar Jackson Wang Set For Sold-Out Meet-and-Greet at Amoeba Records Amoeba Music on Haight Street will be mobbed with Asian pop fans Thursday as boy band product Jackson Wang is coming in for a meet-and-greet session. But do not buy a ticket, as any tickets out there are all fakes.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Woman Shot While Walking Dogs In East Bay A woman was fatally shot while walking her dogs in San Leandro; a man who was suffering from a gunshot wound collided with a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy; and Trump says he's pulling high-speed rail funding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Parole Officer Shot and Killed in Downtown Oakland Scalpers are gaming the Stern Grove lottery ticket system; a wild and ‘bawdy’ Trump-Epstein scandal just broke at a very awkward time; and a state parole officer was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in Oakland.
SF News Former SF Parks Alliance CEO Faces the Music Over Misused Millions at Angry City Hall Committee Hearing This very uncomfortable-looking man is SF Parks Alliance CEO Drew Becher, who had to squirm Thursday as angry SF supervisors' committee grilled him over how $4 million was misspent, and he claimed he just didn’t know it was happening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Osito Chef Seth Stowaway Announces Casual Diner Concept Centered on Chicken-Fried Steak In WesBurger Space Seth Stowaway isn't wasting any time since closing his Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant in the Mission. In addition to launching a private dining club, he'll be opening a new, more casual restaurant tentatively called Chicken-Fried Palace.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Daily Show’ Star Roy Wood, Jr. Says Willie Brown Crashed His Show Without Ticket, Stole From His Merch Table Standup comic and cable TV personality Roy Wood Jr just shared a tale of a run-in with former SF Mayor Willie Brown, and says Da Mayor waltzed into one of his shows without paying, and swiped a CD from the merchandise booth.
SF News Mother and Son Found Safe After Getting Lost and Then Stuck on a Remote Logging Road In the Sierra Nevada Foothills A mother and son who had set out to attend a Boy Scouts camp in Calaveras County got quickly lost thanks to a questionable GPS unit, and then got stuck on a remote logging road deep in the Sierra woods with no cell signal.
SF News Appeals Board Rejects Attempt to Boot Prison Operator From Historic Compton's Cafeteria Site; Activists Vow to Fight On The SF Board of Appeals heard an appeal Wednesday from a coalition of trans activists, historians, and others hoping to preserve the former Compton's Cafeteria site in the Tenderloin as a landmark of trans and queer activism.
SF Politics Justice Department Seeks Lists of Undocumented Jail Inmates From SF Sheriff and Others in CA The Trump administration is going to try to have a showy showdown over sanctuary policies in California, and likely elsewhere, and they're now setting their sights on county jails and sheriffs in large jurisdictions.
SF News San Jose Shop Owner Killed in Fire, Officials Say It Was Arson By Unhoused Woman With Prior Arson Charges The 51-year-old founder of a San Jose custom t-shirt and print business is dead after a Sunday morning fire ripped through his business’ building, and the arson suspect in custody is an unhoused woman with a previous arson conviction.
SF Politics In Distraction From Epstein Files Uproar, AG Pam Bondi Comes to SF to Tour Alcatraz The clown show continues today with the Trump administration waving its hands in the direction of Alcatraz in an attempt to distract the more distractable members of the public from all the terrible shit they're doing.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Senate Votes to Rescind NPR, PBS Funding A fire broke out Wednesday night in Oakland's Chinatown; San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan says he uses ChatGPT to write speeches; and the Senate voted overnight to claw back $1 billion in funding for NPR and PBS.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Officials Making Visit to Alcatraz Nancy Pelosi says Trump's vision of reopening Alcatraz is the administration's "stupidest" idea yet; an eerie photo has been released of three teens who were in that Cybertruck crash in Piedmont; and an Oakland group struggled with having an invite to the Kennedy Center.
Arts & Entertainment KQED Laying Off 15% of Its Staff, Amidst Declining Corporate Contributions and Trump Funding Cuts Public TV and radio icon KQED was already deep in red ink even before Trump came back to office, but is now laying off at least 45 more employees, as corporate contributions dry up and Trump is likely yanking more of their funding.
SF News Charges Upgraded to Murder for Napa Woman Whose Children Died In Alleged DUI Crash Murder charges have now been filed against the 31-year-old Napa woman whose two children died in a solo vehicle crash in March in which she was allegedly driving under the influence.
SF News Ex-Wife of Berkeley Professor Shot in Greece Arrested for Allegedly Arranging His Murder A wild turn of events in the story of a UC Berkeley professor who was shot execution-style in Greece on July 4, as his ex-wife has been arrested by Greek police on suspicion that she had his murder arranged.
SF News San Jose Activist and Tattoo Artist Wins Brief Reprieve From ICE Detention, Judge to Rule on Case Thursday The complicated story of a 31-year-old San Jose man who has been in this country, undocumented, since he was six years old, has drawn hundreds of supporters as he faces possible deportation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Family of the Late Michael Chiarello Files Lawsuit Over Restaurant Ownership There is some legal drama happening in the local restaurant world, with the widow and children of late celebrity chef Michael Chiarello filing suit against three investors in Chiarello's restaurant group who they say wrested control of his businesses "in a hostile takeover" after the chef's death.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Notorious Tenderloin Landlord Over Rat Infestation, Sewage Leaks, No Hot Water The owner of a building at Ellis and Hyde streets is in hot water with the city for not providing hot water for tenants, and a new city lawsuit says he also allowed rampant rat infestations, sewage leaks, and doors that didn’t lock.
