SF News Day Around The Bay: Feds Announce Major Tenderloin Crime Crackdown SF's newly installed top federal prosecutor just announced a year-long operation to target drug and sex traffickers in the Tenderloin, and a brush fire in Oakley has already burned one structure.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens Hosting Game Night at Union Square's Hotel Zeppelin Local drag star Juanita MORE! and friends Dulce de Leche and Mutha Chucka are kicking off a new series of "Gayme Nights" in the downstairs Peace Lounge at the Hotel Zeppelin Wednesday evening.
SF News Oakland Landlords Lose Case Over Paying Tenants $6,500 To Leave The first legal challenge to Oakland’s new tenant relocation payment law has been denied, but an appeal could undo San Francisco’s version of the measure.
SF News Man In Tracks At Montgomery Station Causes Huge Mid-Morning BART Delay A man who was injured underneath a westbound BART train at Montgomery Station Wednesday morning led to significant systemwide delays — including a significant backup in West Oakland for SF-bound riders.
Arts & Entertainment FKJ Enchants All Those in Attendance at His Sold-out Stop at The Warfield Bathed in meticulously pointed, multi-chromatic stage lighting, fingers dancing atop various string instruments, FKJ put his usual spell on the sold-out crowd at The Warfield last night, his second-to-last US tour stop.
SF News Possible Shooter Threat at Twitch HQ In Downtown SF; Suspicious Package Near Oracle Park Gamer streaming company Twitch told employees on Wednesday that they were welcome to work from home, and the SFPD is investigating a possibly credible threat at the company's downtown SF headquarters.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Bids Farewell To Leonard, Its Beloved 19-Year-Old African Lion Zookeepers at the Oakland Zoo and fans among zoo-goers are mourning the loss of the zoo's senior lion, Leonard, who had to be euthanized on Sunday. He was 19, and had been suffering from kidney trouble and arthritis.
SF News Notorious 'Ski Mask Rapist' George Anthony Sanchez Gets Parole Hearing A man convicted of raping 25 women in the Bay Area in 1980s recently became eligible for the state’s new Elderly Parole Program, and is getting a parole hearing Wednesday, much to the horror of his many victims.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Ghost Ship Jury Still Out More details reveal the SFPD's knowledge of Bryan Carmody's profession, a homicide investigation in Livermore, and KPIX retraces the steps of the Gilroy gunman.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California's Largest Recycling Center Operator Shuts Down California's largest recycler shuts down, a state law will make it much harder to an appeal a Navigation Center, and Joe Panik is leaving the Giants.
SF News Fire Season Anxieties Rise With Latest National Forecast Showing NorCal Fire Danger Rising While the relatively low number of wildfires across Northern California in July may seem like a good thing, a forecast from the National Interagency Fire Center suggests the opposite.
SF News Two Stabbed On BART Escalator In Downtown Berkeley Early Tuesday A man and a woman exiting the Downtown Berkeley BART station Monday night/early Tuesday were stabbed by an assailant who has not been located. Both victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds.
SF News Family of Gilroy Shooter 'Deeply Shocked and Horrified' By His Actions; FBI Finds He Had 'A Fractured Ideology' In their first public statement since the shooting, the family of Santino William Legan says they are finding it "impossible to reconcile this with the son we thought we knew."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Red-Sauce Italian Spot Great Gold Replaces Foxsister This Week Well-liked 24th Street brunch spot Foxsister quietly closed down on August 2, and on Friday the space will come alive again as a new concept from the same team: Great Gold.
SF News Uber and Lyft Account For Twice As Much SF Traffic As We Thought Lyft and Uber's real internal numbers show these two rideshare companies generate twice as much congestion as had been previously estimated.
SF News UCSF Launches Website And Alert System To Warn About Chase Center Traffic USCF Medical Center at Mission Bay wants to make sure that its staff and patients know when to expect the inevitable traffic nightmares around the Chase Center that are set to begin next month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Grass Lands' at Outside Lands Still Might Have On-Site Weed Sales, Maybe It's down to the wire for the final permit approval to make Outside Lands possibly the biggest music festival in the U.S. ever to allow both on-site sales and consumption of legal marijuana.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Suspicious Device Paralyzes Mission District A suspicious device in the Mission was a false alarm, SF's homeless department falls short of goals, and Cupertino could be in trouble with the state over its decision to reject a big redevelopment project that involved housing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alcatraz Ferry Terminal To Go Under Major Construction A man died and two other people were injured in falls in Yosemite National Park, a tech millionaire in Mendocino County has been fined for destroying wetlands to build a winery, and two people were rescued in a Laurel Heights blaze.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved West Portal Dive Portals Tavern is Closing After 82 Years Another cherished relic of Old San Francisco is biting the dust as news arrives that Portals Tavern in West Portal is closing its doors at the end of August.
Arts & Entertainment French Bulldog, Cherie, Wins This Year's World Dog Surfing Championships Along the Pacifica coastline this past weekend, beachgoers were treated to the usual array of breathtaking views, bouts of cetacean gymnastics—and, also, canines hanging 10 (or 20).
Arts & Entertainment Sigh. Treasure Island Music Fest Likely Never To Happen Again As SFist first suggested may be the case last week, the Treasure Island Music Festival is no more, as the organizers confirmed in a statement Monday.
SF News Person With Gun Reported In Salesforce Park, SFPD Does Not Locate Suspect A person with a gun was reported Monday morning at Salesforce Park atop the Transbay/Salesforce Transit Center, though the report remains unconfirmed despite police responding to the scene.
SF News Florida Pipe-Bomb Sender Who Targeted Tom Steyer and Kamala Harris Sentenced To 20 Years Cesar Sayoc, the Trump-supporting van dweller from Florida who funneled his Fox News-fueled rage at the liberal establishment into a mail bomb campaign last fall, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison.
SF News Muni Will Shut Down Nighttime Subway Tunnel Service For Much Of August From August 12-26, shuttle buses will replace underground tunnel service starting at 9:30 p.m. on the J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and Third Street lines.
