SF News Red Light Cameras Returning To 12 SF Intersections The aged and defunct red-light camera network in San Francisco is in the process of being replaced, and we have the list of where are all the updated cameras will be.
SF News Mixed-Race Vacaville Family Gets Nasty Letter From Anonymous Neighbor A Vacaville family recently received an anonymous letter telling them to find another place to live, and saying that the condition of their front yard was “dragging down the higher standards of the older neighborhood with established residents.”
SF News Marc and Lynne Benioff Fund $30M Study On Homelessness Marc and Lynne Benioff are giving $30 million to fund a five-year study on homelessness — its root causes and potential solutions.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Crazy Double Carjacking Story In Castro Valley Car shot up on I-880, Santa Cruz clears a large homeless camp, and two elderly women are shaken by uninjured after a juvenile carjacking suspect crashed into their home.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Extended Through January 5th, New Block Of Tickets Releases Friday Due to popular demand, and as was rumored, Hamilton will be sticking around in SF an extra 17 weeks, and into the new year. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook Finally Bans Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones The man killed in the Mission yesterday has been ID'd as 28-year-old Jonathan Bello, Coit Tower and the Japanese Tea Garden might get surge pricing, and Muni workers are protesting.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'West Of Zanzibar' Screening at the SF Silent Film Festival The 24th San Francisco Silent Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, and lovers of the non-talkie picture form — along with those who like to cosplay like it's 1925 — have four more days and nights to go to the Castro Theatre and see some classic films.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landlord Sues Restaurant Owners Who Reneged On Lease Due To Van Ness Construction Woes A landlord is suing a restaurant owner and her mother after they decided to close their Van Ness Avenue restaurant in December due to the negative impacts that the woefully delayed Van Ness Improvement Project had on the business.
SF News Homeless Couple Lives the Dream, Moves Into $4 Million Piedmont Home A good samaritan welcomes an unhoused couple into his posh suburban Oakland home, neighbors predictably call police on the regular.
SF News Newly Released BART Police Documents Shine Newly Damning Light On Officers In Oscar Grant Case The BART Police officers involved in the beating and ultimate fatal shooting of Oscar Grant just over 10 years ago engaged in escalation and excessive force, according to BART's own internal investigation.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Error' Message You'll Be Seeing Atop Salesforce Tower Is Actually An Art Piece A video art piece, one of four by students at California College for the Arts (CCA), shows the cheeky message "The Video Can Not Play ... Not" scrolling across the top of Salesforce Tower, and some San Franciscans thought this was a an actual A/V snafu.
Bay Area Sports Sharks Look To Take Commanding 3-1 Series Lead In Colorado The San Jose Sharks enter Thursday's Game 4 matchup against the Colorado Avalanche, on the road, leading the series 2-1.
SF News Defense Presents Arson Theory Involving Seven Mystery Men In Ghost Ship Case In the absence of a definitive conclusion about the cause of the Dec. 2, 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, defense attorneys for Derick Almena and Max Harris are presenting a theory backed up by three witnesses that the real cause was arson.
Bay Area Sports Bumgarner's Strong Start, Posey's Walk-Off Power Giants Past Dodgers 2-1 After a demoralizing home-sweep, last weekend, at the hands of the shorthanded New York Yankees, the San Francisco Giants bounced back with a series win against the rival-Dodgers (2-1), capped off in style by a Buster Posey walk-off RBI single.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Disabled BART Train Made For Bad Wednesday Commute A shooting at 22nd and Bartlett left a man seriously injured, a 3.4 earthquake in Calistoga, and a high-speed rail project report.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chinese Couple Paid $6.5 Million For Daughter's Stanford Admission A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash at Divisadero and Sutter on Wednesday, an un-indicted Chinese couple may be connected to the college admissions scandal, and a water main break caused flooded streets in St. Francis Wood.
SF News A Brief History Of Poop On The Streets Of San Francisco Local media, along with the general public, have made a fair amount of repeated fuss in recent years over the presence of human waste on our city's streets, which despite some not insignificant cleanup efforts by the city continues to be a mess not easily wiped away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Counter-Service/Delivery Spinoff Mamahuhu Heads For Inner Richmond A fast-casual spinoff of Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's is in the works and headed possibly by year-end to a former Asian market location at 517 Clement Street.
SF News Motorcyclist Killed In Bay Bridge Crash ID'd As SF Resident A motorcyclist who led a CHP officer on a chase across the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning that ended with him crashing into a box truck has been identified as 36-year-old SF resident Jose Vargas.
SF News Supervisors Make Second Push To Name Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Beloved/feared Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 68, was one of the singular, unstoppable forces in getting the Central Subway project built. And the Board of Supervisors believes her name needs to be attached to some piece of it.
SF News SFPD Trumpets Drop in Use-of-Force, Shooting Incidents It’s been nearly a full year since the San Francisco Police Department shot anyone, which they say shows a successful implementation of new use-of-force policies.
Arts & Entertainment Google Doodle Honors Bay Area Artist Ruth Asawa As Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month kicks off today, Google is honoring the late Bay Area-based Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Defeat Rockets in Wire-to-Wire 115-109 Effort, Head to Houston up 2-0 The Golden State Warriors defeated the Houston Rockets 115-109 on Tuesday night, holding serve at home, and sending the series to Texas up 2-0 for Game 3 on Saturday.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Concrete Chunks Fall Off I-80 Overpass In SF May Day protests are happening, Harriett Street in SoMa was closed late Tuesday after concrete chunks apparently fell from the overpass above it, and a rare seal pup was killed by an off-leash dog at Point Reyes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baby Sea Lion Rescued From Highway 101 A 36-year-old man was left with life-threatening injuries after a late-night assault in West Portal, and an 81-year-old motorcyclist was injured after going off a cliff in Bodega Bay.
