SF News Yet Another High-Rise Proposed For Downtown Oakland An Oakland developer has just submitted plans for a new 22-story highrise at Harrison and 14th Street that would combine 127 residential units and office space on the lower floors.
SF News Devin Nunes Is Suing Twitter and Two Parody Accounts And It's Hilarious Republican congressman and devoted Trump defender Rep. Devin Nunes of California has filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter and a couple of parody accounts that enjoy making fun of him, and SNL couldn't have written a funnier script than this lawsuit and the ensuing Twitter pile-on.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Band To Play Chase Center On September 10 As "Reveal Week" continues, the Chase Center announced the second act to open at the brand new, 18,000-seat venue in September, and it's good old 90s college rock crooner, Dave Matthews.
SF News Three Different Shootings on East Bay Freeways Unrelated, CHP Says Road rage and gang activity have disrupted the highways of Concord, Livermore, and Richmond over the last three days.
SF News Tuesday Morning Links: Curry Sinks 61-Foot Three-Pointer Local news stations are freaking out about home invasion footage in a nursery, Van Ness is a mess, and the Richmond Bridge fixes will go on at least six months.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Drops Full-Length Trailer For 'Toy Story 4,' Featuring Forky the Spork After months of anticipation and a teaser that introduced a new character — a spork with arms and googly eyes — Disney-Pixar has finally let us see the full-length trailer for 'Toy Story 4.'
SF News Day Around The Bay: Driver Knocks Over Pole, Disrupts Divisadero Traffic The intersection remains closed — the Divisadero lanes anyway — and the 24 bus is being rerouted around the situation. Also, Trump might get to add judges to the Ninth Circuit?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chow Space On Church To Become Cook Shoppe, From Owner Behind Upcoming Gramercy Park Brasserie Across The Street The recently shuttered Chow already has a taker who has plans to reopen the restaurant with as much of the same staff as he can, a similarly neighborhood-centric spot called Cook Shoppe.
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'The Great Leap' Tells A Very San Francisco Tale With Global Reach Lauren Yee's The Great Leap tells a story with so much connection to San Francisco, it seems odd that the play actually premiered last year in Denver before moving on to a six-week run in New York.
SF News Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Copies Of The New Zealand Shooting Video The horrifying 17-minute Facebook Live video made by the accused New Zealand shooter proliferated on social media in the first 24 hours, and Facebook says it removed 1.5 million copies in that first day alone — 1.2 million of which were caught on upload.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica and SF Symphony Team Up For Inaugural Concert at Warriors Arena The first concert at the Chase Center on September 6 was just announced, and it's going to be a 20th anniversary reunion concert for SF's own Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony, who last played together in 1999.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle Might Reopen This Year Following Multi-Year Battle With Neighbors Telegraph Hill landmark Julius' Castle may finally be seeing the light at the end of a years-long tunnel that included a lengthy Planning review, and a lawsuit by NIMBY neighbors paranoid about traffic.
SF News A City Tax On Uber/Lyft Rides Could Be Headed for the November Ballot The tax would need a two-thirds majority to pass, and aspires to raise $30 million for street infrastructure improvements.
Bay Area Sports Andrew Bogut Returns and DeMarcus Cousins Could Be Key To Warriors' Post-Season Success DeMarcus Cousins suffered a tweaked ankle in Saturday night's winning game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and that means former Warrior Andrew Bogut's scheduled return to the team was moved up to Monday night.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lyft Releases Revenue Numbers, Launches Roadshow Lyft is seeking a pre-market valuation somewhat lower than the $25 billion that was expected. Also, two people were shot in two days on East Bay freeways.
Bay Area Sports Who Will Be The Giants’ Opening Day Closer? As Spring Training winds down and Opening Day draws nearer, Giants manager Bruce Bochy is going to have a decision to make regarding his closer situation. At this point, it isn’t clear whether there is a clear frontrunner.
SF News Sunday Links: Missing Snowboarder Found Dead A 40-year-old Vallejo man was found dead at North Star, an elderly man survived a leap out of his car on 280, and Pelosi is calling for an override vote.
SF News Man Arrested After Puppy Was Thrown Down Garbage Chute A San Francisco man has been charged with felony animal cruelty after a four-month-old Chihuahua puppy was found alive but badly injured in a dumpster.
SF News Infamous SF Power Broker Florence Fang Sued Over Flintstones House Lawn Ornaments Florence Fang, the former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, is being sued by the town of Hillsborough over what they say are some unsightly lawn fixtures.
SF News Saturday Links: Teen Girl Struck By Car Near Lake Merced A 14-year-old girl was hit by a car while walking her dog Friday, authorities bust up a credit card skimming ring, and WhatsApp's founder tells Stanford students to delete Facebook.
SF News Day Around The Bay: It's Effing Gorgeous Out In case you haven't looked or been outside, it is beautiful, and it's going to be beautiful and warm through Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Gives Thumbs Up To Creator's Robot Burgers, Makes Playlist About Them The latest review from the Chronicle's new food critic brings her to new robotic burger outfit Creator in SoMa, where she finds some tasty, moist (if well done) burgers at a very attractive price point.
SF News You'll Soon Be Able To Use Credit Cards At BART 'Add Fare' Machines The cash-only Add Fare machines inside the BART fare gates are soon going to be a thing of the past, as BART has decided, at long last, to catch up with the last century.
Arts & Entertainment Amy Poehler Added To Standup Lineup At SF's Clusterfest In June The great and marvelous Amy Poehler was just added to the lineup of the third annual Clusterfest, which comes to Civic Center June 21-23. And SFist has been told she "and friends" will be doing a mix of improv, variety, and standup.
SF News Hundreds Of Bay Area Students March Through Downtown SF As Part of the Youth Climate Strike Hundreds, if not over a thousand, of Bay Area middle school and high school students walked out of class Friday and showed up for a "Youth vs. Apocalypse" climate protest on Market Street in San Francisco.
