SF Politics Watered-Down Version Of SF's Tech Cafeteria Ban Returns To Supes' Agenda A controversial proposed ban on in-house cafeterias at San Francisco tech companies is returning in a revised (and much less onerous) version before the Board of Supervisors this week.
Arts & Entertainment Fifth Annual 'Flower Piano' Wraps Up In Botanical Garden After 12 Days Of Open-Air Musical Delights Today is the final day to head out to the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park to hear people playing a dozen pianos in a pastoral setting. And over the last week and a half there have been plenty of Instagram and YouTube videos of the festivities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Years After Hit-and-Run Death of Gus's Community Market Owner, A Suspect Is Arrested In Stockton It's been nearly two years since the vehicular manslaughter death of 57-year-old Konstantinos “Gus” Vardakastanis, founder of the Gus's Community Market mini-chain in San Francisco. And now authorities have detained a suspect in the unsolved hit-and-run.
SF News Second 'BBQ'ing While Black' Event Draws Even Bigger Crowd At Lake Merritt Marking a year since the infamous "BBQ Becky" incident, in which an officious white lady called the cops on two black men who were barbecuing beside Lake Merritt in April 2018, hundreds turned out for the second "BBQ'ing While Black" event on Sunday.
SF News Homeless Likely To Blame For Six Brush Fires In Two Weeks In McLaren Park Ten more acres of John McLaren Park were scorched on Sunday afternoon before a brush fire could be contained there — the third such fire in the hilly city park in eight days, and the sixth in a two-week period.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tesla Used In Sunday Crash Was Rented On Getaround A car fire shut down General Douglas MacArthur Tunnel in the Presidio, ICE has been using Oakland Airport for mass deportations for the last decade, and noted satirist Paul Krassner has died.
SF News Two-Car Collision In Tenderloin Kills Husband, Injures Wife In Crosswalk A husband and wife from Clovis, California were struck and one of them was killed in a crosswalk at Taylor and O'Farrell Sunday afternoon after a Tesla reportedly ran a red light.
SF News Sunday Links: Central Subway Project Running Out of Money A motorcyclist was killed in Concord after being ejected and hit by a car, Balboa Park neighbors are divided over the proposed vehicle "triage" center for the homeless, and the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda celebrates the Apollo 11 moon landing.
SF News Well Known Skateboarder Tomoko Oikawa Suffers Brain Injury During Dolores Hill Bomb The annual event known as Dolores Hill Bomb, in which a bunch of skaters — including professionals — commandeer the hilly part of Dolores Street next to the park, has marked another casualty.
SF News Saturday Links: Salesforce Tower Architect Cesar Pelli Has Died BART had some major delays Friday evening, the Bay Area Council wants to put an infrastructure tax on the 2020 ballot, and architect Cesar Pelli has died at the age of 92.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Metallica Cut Secret Deal To Profit Off Their Own Scalped Tickets The judge in the "Rideshare Rapist" case may not throw out the DNA evidence, a judge told Oakland to come back with better arguments in its antitrust suit against the NFL and the Raiders, and BART is still fighting the PUC.
Arts & Entertainment Multi-Building Carmel Estate Featured In 'Big Little Lies' and 'Basic Instinct' Hits Market For $52M A massive Carmel compound with dramatic ocean views has just hit the market, in case you or someone you know has $52 million lying around.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quinoa-Centric Automat Eatsa Won't Be Reopening, Owes Thousands In Back Rent Downtown fans of Eatsa, the quinoa-in-an-automated-drawer spot that opened its first location here in 2015, will be sad to learn that it sounds like it's gone for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Owner Cashes Out, Puts Building On Market For $4M After owners Karen Heisler and wife Krystin Rubin discussed various reasons for shutting the business down, a big motivator that was only passingly mentioned by Heisler may have been front and center: selling the building and cashing out.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower LED Crown To Feature Videos Shot By Cameras Around The City The video projection array featured in the LED crown of Salesforce Tower every night will be getting switched up in the coming months, and will feature abstract version of video being covertly shot by cameras around the city.
SF News Police Arrest Central Valley Truck Driver For Hit-and-Run That Killed Disabled Homeless Man An arrest has been made in the hit-and-run collision early Thursday morning that left a homeless man dead.
SF Politics Judge Slams Police, Rules In Favor Of Journalist Bryan Carmody A Superior Court judge has ruled that a search warrant issued to police in May for the phone records of journalist Bryan Carmody was improper, and that police must destroy any evidence they obtained through it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Man Sentenced For Bombing At Protest A Milpitas man was arrested after a four-hour standoff, D5 candidate Dean Preston wants to make Muni free, and a Sonoma County jail inmate died choking on a sandwich.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tanforan Mall Shooting Suspect Arrested In Martinez Muni's Embarcadero Station reopened at 3:30 p.m. following that water incident, Tom Steyer had a campaign event in the Mission, and a Sacramento judge has sent the Embarcadero Navigation Center case back to SF.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Linda Ronstadt and Michael Tilson Thomas To Get Kennedy Center Honors Soon to retire and looking great at 74, SF Symphony's outgoing music director Michael Tilson Thomas will receive one of the most prestigious awards in artistic achievement this year.
Business & Tech Netflix Sees First Subscriber Decline In Almost A Decade Bay Area-based Netflix had a not-great second quarter this year, with an overall loss of 126,000 subscribers in the US — the first quarterly decline in US subscribers in eight years, basically since it began streaming content.
SF News The Richmond Bridge Is Supposedly Mostly Fixed Now After several months this winter in which chunks of concrete were regularly falling onto cars and the lower-deck roadway of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Caltrans has announced that its fixes to the troubled concrete joints on the bridge's upper deck are just about complete.
SF News Hackers Execute Ransomware Attack on Asian Art Museum The museum insists they did not pay the money hackers demanded, but they quietly suffered a ransomware outage in May at the hands of likely foreign hackers.
Arts & Entertainment #TBT: 'Shit San Franciscans Say' AH, memories. Back in the early days of 2012, before Facebook had gone public, and before Obama had even been elected a second time, the "Shit ___ people say" meme took over YouTube and many of our social media lives for months.
SF News Berkeley Updates Its City Code To Remove The Words 'She', 'He', 'Manhole,' and 'Fireman' At its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council voted to revise its municipal code to remove all gender-specific pronouns, and to use more inclusive, non-patriarchal language for terms like "manhole" and "manpower."
