SF News Saturday Links: N-Judah Service Gets Replaced By Buses Next Week A Vallejo woman and her child were mauled by three dogs, sword suspect appears in court, and an eerie discovery at a Mt. Tam crash site.
Bay Area Sports Giants Spoil Bochy's Final Home Opener in Loss to Rays On Friday, the Giants played their first home game of the 2019 season at newly named Oracle Park, marking a momentous occasion, as it was manager Bruce Bochy's final home opener.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Richmond Bridge Reopens After More Falling Concrete A 72-year-old San Jose tried to fight off an armed teen carjacker, big-rig fire shuts down part of 101 in Marin, and the Apple Store in Berkeley can't stop getting robbed.
SF News Richmond District Catholic School Suspends Classes Amid Drama Between Parents And Priest Star of the Sea School in the Richmond will not be enrolling any students in the 2019-2020 school year, for the first time in 110 years, and parents say it's all the fault of parish pastor Father Joseph Illo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elite Cafe Is Calling It Quits On Fillmore After 38 Years Another spring closure to rack up, this time in Pac Heights: Elite Cafe is shutting its doors in two weeks after 38 years of boozy brunches and New Orleans-style fare.
Bay Area Sports San Jose Sharks Head Toward Yet Another Playoff Appearance The Bay Area has a rich history of successful teams across all leagues. And the San Jose Sharks are no exception as they head toward this year's NHL playoffs — even though their status as a Bay Area afterthought means that tickets are still available.
Arts & Entertainment 'Drunk History' Pub and Dunder Mifflin Office To Be Featured at Clusterfest 2019 The third iteration of Comedy Central's Clusterfest, headed for San Francisco in late June, will feature the return of an interactive, Instagram-friendly activation from the 2017 fest: the Seinfeld apartment.
SF News Lesbian Couple Agreed To Murder-Suicide Pact That Killed 6 Kids, Says NorCal Coroner's Inquest The tragic and confusing tale of the Hart family, who all died last March when their car drove off a cliff in the California coastal town of Fort Bragg, has come to a final if harrowing conclusion following a coroner's inquest.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Just Got Contact Lenses, So Look For Even More Three-Pointers Stephen Curry has long been lauded as the greatest shooter in NBA history. Yet, what if there is still room for improvement? Some new contact lenses just might be the key to a better three-point conversion rate.
Arts & Entertainment New Graphic Novel Details Sonoma Fire Victims’ Harrowing Experience A cartoonist who barely escaped the 2017 wildlife details the Tubbs Fire’s fury and heartbreaking aftermath in a riveting new graphic novel.
SF News Sword-Slashing Suspect Had Felony Record In Oregon, Was Living In Tenderloin SRO The man arrested Wednesday night in connection with last Friday's kooky-scary sword attack outside the Church of 8 Wheels was a resident of a Tenderloin SRO, and it's still unclear what led police to him.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another News Crew Robbed In Oakland Trump is California today, another driver died going of a cliff near Mt. Tam, and CalFire had a fire of its own at its Napa County HQ.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ghost Ship Building Owners Plead Fifth Rep. Eric Swalwell looks to be announcing a 2020 bid, an arrest has been made in a February shooting in North Beach, and SFO is doing runway maintenance in September.
SF News Sword-Attack Suspect Arrested; Victim Released From Hospital The MAGA-hat wearing suspect in last Friday's sword slashing outside the Church of 8 Wheels roller disco has been found and arrested.
Arts & Entertainment Pink Martini, Digable Planets, Psychedelic Furs Announced For Stern Grove 2019 The lineup for this year's Stern Grove Festival includes the 90s throwback hip-hop stylings of Digable Planets, the international eclecticism of Pink Martini, and, as always, the San Francisco Ballet and SF Symphony.
SF News Berkeley Engineer Enters Not Guilty Plea In Bizarre Poisoning Case 34-year-old David Xu, a senior materials engineer and an alum of UC Berkeley, appeared in an Alameda County courtroom Thursday to enter a plea in a case in which he's accused of systematically poisoning a co-worker.
Arts & Entertainment 'In Old Age' At The Magic Is A Haunting Tale Of Found Connection That Falls Slightly Short The world premiere of In Old Age, the fifth play in Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play cycle about a Nigerian-American family, played to an eager audience Wednesday night at The Magic Theatre.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink El Porteno Restaurant Owners Snap Up Baobab and Alba Ray's Spaces The owners of El Porteño Chifa Peruana, the Excelsior-based restaurant that's not to be confused with El Porteño Empanadas, have just made two big investments in Mission restaurant real estate.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'The Jungle,' Now Playing At The Curran Opening night is tonight for The Jungle, the immersive theater piece that has transformed The Curran from a 1,600-seat proscenium theater into a 600-seat Afghan cafe inside a French refugee camp.
SF News PG&E Taps Coal Executive as New CEO, Not Exactly Turning Over a New Leaf Meet the new PG&E CEO and board, which Gov. Newsom lambasts as the same as the old CEO and board.
SF News Mayor London Breed Shouted Down At Community Meeting On Embarcadero Navigation Center Mayor Breed made an apparently unexpected appearance at a planned community meeting Wednesday night and not everyone was glad to see her.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Mission Condo Project Faces Pushback A seven-story condo project on 14th Street goes to Planning, Bay Area bridges deemed deficient, and another gray whale has turned up dead in the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Gushes With Water Once More The spillway was put to use for the first time since 2017, more Bay Area parents appeared in court in the college fraud case, and Walnut Creek Police arrested an allegedly scary creep.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Che Fico Offshoot Is Prepping For Late April Opening On Divis Ultra-hot Divisadero spot Che Fico is trying again with its downstairs, street-level, former cafe space, and it's going to be a combo salumeria and wine-focused Italian trattoria.
Arts & Entertainment Avett Brothers' Musical, 'The African Mean Girls Play' Announced For Berkeley Rep's New Season The first season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre under incoming artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer includes a world premiere with music by the Avett Brothers.
