SF News ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Charges To Proceed, Despite Allegations of Improperly Collected DNA A judge refuses to toss rape and kidnapping charges against Orlando Vilchez Lazo, even though the DNA sample used to bust him may have been obtained illegally.
SF News SF Pride Board Calls For Charges To Be Dropped Against Protesters Who Halted The Parade After arrests were made and charges filed against two of the protesters who linked arms and lay down across Market Street to disrupt the San Francisco Pride parade last month, the board of SF Pride gave a press conference this week asking that those charges be dropped.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFMTA Holds Pedestrian Safety Open House Two puppies were stolen in Potrero Hill, BART's board is voting on a new general manager, and an 80-acre fire is burning in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: $91 Million BART Canopy Contract Approved An arrest has been made in the June 27 vehicular manslaughter death of Alexander Norton in SoMa, Tesla's stock tumbled today on bad Q2 earnings, and the Canyon Fire is now 90 percent contained.
Arts & Entertainment Rupaul's Drag Race Queens Bring 'Werq the World' Tour To San Francisco Eleven of the better known drag queens to come through the Rupaul's Drag Race gauntlet are on a world tour, with the North American leg kicking off in September. And the whole gang, along with host Michelle Visage, will descend on SF's Warfield Theater on September 21.
Arts & Entertainment In Guerneville, The Discovery Of A Mysterious Antique Safe Sparks Intrigue At the flood-damaged, historic River Theater, we get the story of a concrete-encased, long-ago locked safe that the owner recently discovered hidden in a side room.
Arts & Entertainment History Tid-Bit: Ministers In Berkeley Tried To Blame 1906 Earthquake on 'Wickedness' In San Francisco A headline from the Oakland Tribune dated May 9, 1906 asked the incendiary question, "Was the Earthquake and Fire Result of Alleged Wickedness In San Francisco?"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Chefs Still Pissed About Impossible Burger Shortage, While The Faux Meat Flows To Burger King San Francisco chefs who feel they played a role in popularizing the Impossible Burger are steaming mad that Bay Area-based Impossible Foods cut off their supplies for weeks while apparently fulfilling a contract with Burger King.
SF News Oakland’s Homeless Population Has Skyrocketed Nearly 50% In Two Years Per capita homelessness in Oakland is now higher than San Francisco or Berkeley, in one of the biggest spikes in the unsheltered population of any city in California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley To Try Offering Loaner Metal Coffee Cups To Reduce Waste The city of Berkeley is going to be testing out a program in which reusable coffee cups are loaned out through an app-based service and then returned like library books, in order to reduce paper waste.
Arts & Entertainment Steve Earle, Iron & Wine, and Calexico All Part of Teaser Lineup For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 As is tradition, organizers of this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival have begun teasing out the lineup with a mystery medley, and so we now know who a few of the performers will be, including Bettye LaVette and The Meat Puppets.
SF Politics Supervisors Put Off Proposed Homelessness Commission Under pressure from the mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declined to approve a ballot measure that would have asked voters if they believe there should be a commission overseeing the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Flyers for 'Straight Pride Parade' Circulate In Modesto A standoff in the Oakland hills ends with two suspects arrested, the DMV is on a half day today, and the Board of Supervisors approved the creation of an Office of Racial Equity.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Road Rage On 280 Leads To Shooting In SF Tech giants in the Bay Area to be subject to a new DOJ probe, new evidence has been unsealed in the Bryan Carmody/SFPD warrant case, and nesting pigeons delayed a BART escalator repair.
SF News 7-Story Building At Church And Market Will Be Furnished Airbnb-Type Rentals With 30-Day Minimum Stays Ugh. The 52-unit development that's nearly complete at the prominent flatiron corner of Church and Market, whose design was the subject of lengthy hems and haws by the neighborhood, isn't even going to be regular housing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Andronico's Market Coming To a Long-Ago Safeway Next To Seacliff A grocery store property in the Outer Richmond that tried to go down-market as a Fresh & Easy location a few years ago is going to pivot to an upscale clientele as Safeway plans to put an Andronico's there.
SF News Video Shows Tenderloin Crash; Pedestrians Hit Were Celebrating Anniversary Newly released dash-cam video shows the moment a Tesla went speeding through an intersection in the Tenderloin on Sunday, fatally striking 39-year-old Benjamin Dean and gravely injuring his wife of three years, Kelly Dean.
SF News Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Debuts To The Public At SFO With Tribute Wall To LGBTQ History Tuesday is the big public opening day for Harvey Milk Terminal One, which opens its first gates to travelers after a two-year, $2.4 billion construction process. Nine of an eventual 25 gates are now open, along with a new boarding area and a tribute wall to Harvey Milk himself.
SF Politics Supes To Consider Banning Natural Gas From City Buildings The latest nanny-state measure from City Hall could banish natural gas from all new San Francisco municipal construction projects and renovations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-You-Can-Eat Taco Fest In San Jose Runs Out Of Tacos, Chaos Ensues An apparently poorly organized taco and beer festival in the South Bay on Saturday promised unlimited tacos and beer tastings, but for the second time (!) vendors ran out of food and beer and it was just a whole lot of line-standing.
SF News ICE Fail: Only 35 Arrests Made Out Of 2,100 Immigrants Targeted Likely due to a month of leaked warnings and an aggressive education campaign by immigrant attorneys and advocates, the planned raids this month on immigrant families by Immigration and Customs Enforcement appear to have been a grand failure.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Punch Line Comedy Club Gets New Lease A driver was injured in another freeway shooting in Oakland, an impressive water recycling project is going on beneath Powell Street BART, and Walk SF is holding a pedestrian safety rally this morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Burgers In San Francisco From the high-end, restaurant sort of burger you'll find at Nopa and Spruce to the odes to gooey, greasy-spoon burgers you'll get at Pearl's and Double Decker, SF has the whole gamut of gut bombs to treat yourself with on Cheat Day. These are our favorites.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Man Arrested For Grandmother's Murder A grass fire near Lake Berryessa has spread to 45 acres, a sleeping man was stabbed in an unprovoked attack in the Mission Monday afternoon, and the Getaround driver of the Tesla involved in Sunday's crash in the Tenderloin has been identified.
SF News Wildfire Season Already Proving Costly and Stressful As NorCal Fires Begin To Arrive Contra Costa County has been deemed one of the high-risk “hot zones” in the state for wildfires, while thrice-burnt Lake County had two new wildfires just this past weekend, leaving everyone on edge.
