SF News Family of Pier 39 Breakdancer Who Was Killed By Girlfriend Outraged That She Is Getting Released From Jail The family of a San Francisco man who was fatally stabbed by his girlfriend in 2022 is angry that she is already getting released from prison, after just a year and a half behind bars.
SF News More Than 1,000 Sea Lions Gathered at SF's Pier 39 This Week, the Largest Herd in Over a Decade Drawn to giant schools of anchovies and herrings in the Bay, record numbers of sea lions are stopping by the SF waterfront before heading to SoCal to mate, to the delight of tourists and locals.
SF News Pier 39’s Sea Lion Population Surges to Seven-Year High, Fueled by Delicious Anchovies There may be more than 1,000 sea lions on SF’s Pier 39 right now, sunning themselves, barking, and getting good and fat, largely thanks to a school of anchovies available for them to feast upon.
SF News SF DA Brooke Jenkins Declines to Charge Suspect In Embarcadero Shootout The only suspect arrested so far in the Father's Day gun battle that began near Pier 39 and continued for a mile down the Embarcadero will not be charged with any crime, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says.
SF News Newly Surfaced Surveillance Video Shows Gunman In Wharf Area Shootout Some new video has surfaced showing one of the shooters involved in Sunday evening's rolling gun battle that began near Fisherman's Wharf and ended a mile down the Embarcadero.
SF News Two In Custody Following Pier 39 Shootout; Supervisors Say It's a 'Miracle' Bystanders Weren't Seriously Injured A white Infiniti sedan was still at large Monday morning, according to police, after it was seen exchanging gunfire with a black Chevy Blazer Sunday evening, and two individuals in the Chevy are in police custody.
SF News Six People, Including 10-Year-Old Child, Injured In Shootout Between Cars Near SF's Fisherman's Wharf Initial reports were that two people were shot, but ultimately San Francisco police found that six people were injured in the conflict including four bystanders, in a "rolling gun battle" between two vehicles Sunday night in a busy tourist section of town.
SF News Dude Seen Harassing Pier 39 Sea Lions In Viral Video Being Investigated A video showing a guy shotgunning a beer, taking a backward dive into the Bay near Pier 39, and then jumping up on the sea lion platforms to scare them off has led to a federal investigation.
Arts & Entertainment 60-Foot Christmas Tree at Pier 39 Taken Down Early Due to Dryness, Safety Concerns Christmas is canceled! The big Christmas tree at Fisherman's Wharf has been taken down a week and a half before Christmas, and the nightly light shows at Pier 39 are canceled, because the big tree dried out too fast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Louisiana Fried Chicken Chain Krispy Krunchy Opens at Fisherman's Wharf A chain that's been lauded for serving America's best chain-restaurant fried chicken, Krispy Krunchy Chicken, has just opened its fourth SF outpost at Fisherman's Wharf, one year after opening a standalone location in the Tenderloin.
Arts & Entertainment An Ode to 30 Years of Pier 39's Sea Lions In 1989, shortly after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, gaggles of sea lions began randomly showing up on the famous San Francisco pier in growing numbers. And they continue to return 30 years later.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forbes Island Is Closed, For Good The always odd floating restaurant with a lighthouse next to Pier 39, Forbes Island, has officially shuttered for good as longtime owner Forbes Thor Kiddoo has decided to retire. Eater broke the news
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Willie Brown appears twice on the list this week, once directly and once with a cameo in The Princess Diaries. Not a Brown fan? Not to worry. We've also got Carnaval, Digable Planets,
Arts & Entertainment For 39th Anniversary, Pier 39 Holds 39 Weeks Of Celebratory Events (Starting Today) Pier 39, a destination for tourists and, relatedly, sea lions, is celebrating 39 years since entrepreneurial businessman Warren Simmons took over the mostly defunct cargo pier and recreated it with a dash of
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Pier 39's Adorable Sea Lions This Weekend (Photo courtesy of the Sea Lion Center) All weekend (and through Monday) our city's sea lions will be celebrated at Pier 39, where they arrived 26 years ago. As the story goes, the
Arts & Entertainment 5000 Explosions: Behind The Scenes At San Francisco's 4th Of July Fireworks Display Technically, it is not true to say that the city of San Francisco will be lighting off fireworks at Pier 39 for the 4th of July at Pier Fireworks celebration on Saturday night.
SF News Video: Woman Falls Into Waters Off Pier 39, Is Rescued A woman walking along a seawall at Pier 39 fell into the bay, where paddling in the cold water she cried for help and tried to stay afloat. Fortunately, firefighters were able to
SF News Man Attempts To Swim With Pier 39 Sea Lions, Promptly Removed For Pestering Pinnipeds Just after 3 p.m. this afternoon, a 22-year-old man decided he would join the famous Fisherman's Wharf sea lions for a chilly swim in the bay near Pier 39. The San Francisco
SF News Sea Lion Entangled in Fishing Net Rescued From Pier 39 [Updated] A crew from the Marine Mammal Center arrived this afternoon at Pier 39 to rescue a sea lion that had become entangled in a fishing net. The sea lion was loaded onto a
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour "Google Has Over Two Million Matches For 'Carousel Accident'" by Bob Horowitz.
misc Aquarium Gets a Guitarfish The Aquarium of the Bay, that little Aquarium over by Pier 39, just got a new tenant: an almost-five-foot-long shovelnose guitarfish. It looks like an 80s hair-band bass, we suppose, like a Gibson
SF News Two Adorable Baby Sea Lions, Orphaned at Pier 39, Find Home in Chicago Two baby sea lions, whose mother gave birth to them at Pier 39 and abandoned them there for reasons unknown, have settled into their new home at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago. They don't
misc RocketBoat, Where Have You Been All Our Lives? We just noticed the bus ad for RocketBoat at Pier 39 the other day and went home and looked it up right away. How long has this thing been around, and why hadn't
Arts & Entertainment Tulipmania at Pier 39, Through Sunday We wish we had heard about the annual, week-long Tulipmania event at Pier 39 before the rain set in, although it looks like Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday might be dry. Tulipmania showcases thousands
SF News The Mystery of the Missing Sea Lions Is Solved! The ever vigilant C.W. Nevius over at the Chron alerted us last week to the disturbing disappearance of the beloved, smelly sea lions over at Pier 39. Had the stubborn little guys