SF News Day Around the Bay: Final Section of Harvey Milk Terminal to Open In June A big rig carrying 73,000 pounds of rice overturned in Oakland near the Bay Bridge this morning; the number of homeless families living in SF has doubled; and the last renovated section of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at SFO opens on June 11.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused of Hate Crimes In Castro Who Said Being LGBTQ Goes 'Against God' Is Acquitted of All Charges The San Francisco Public Defender's Office today announced the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who had been in jail since an arrest last June in connection with a series of incidents described as hate crimes in the Castro.
SF News FBI Issues Unusual Warning About Potential Terrorist Threats to LGBTQ Pride Celebrations ISIS-affiliated terrorists or their supporters could be plotting an attack on a public gathering during Pride Month, and the FBI and Homeland Security have issued a public warning in order to raise awareness of the potentially heightened threat.
SF News Woman Dragged By Cruise Robotaxi Gets Over $8 Million Settlement A woman who was struck and dragged about 20 feet by an autonomous Cruise vehicle last year has reportedly been awarded a settlement of $8 million to $12 million from parent company General Motors.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Farmworker Housing Approved In Half Moon Bay Hearing to get a new trial for Scott Peterson gets underway; a house fire in Brisbane was caused by dryer lint; and a project to build farmworker housing in Half Moon Bay was approved by the city's planning commission after lengthy debate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Restaurants Are Trying an Odd Legal Argument to Get Out of the Surcharge Ban Restaurateurs in California are very nervous about how their businesses will fare when they have to stop adding surcharges to customers' checks and either raise menu prices or lower wages, or both, starting in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Will Open At Long Last On Friday Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.
SF Politics London Breed, Aaron Peskin Beg Off From Monday Mayoral Candidate Debate By TogetherSF, Will Host Their Own Thing A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
SF News American Eagle Outfitters Is the Latest Store to Depart Ailing Downtown SF Mall The Emporium Centre San Francisco, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, continues on the vacancy train with the announcement of the July closure of American Eagle Outfitters, one of the larger remaining stores in the mall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saigon Sandwich, Dalida Among the New Additions to the Food Lineup at Outside Lands 2024 The food lineup for this year's Outside Lands just dropped, and it includes a slew of past festival favorites, along with several notable newcomers to the fest from the local food scene.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gaza Protest Targets North Bay Congressman Protesters are sitting in on the San Jose State campus as of Monday; a protest arrived at a fundraiser for North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in Sonoma; and succession drama roils a family-owned winery in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kamala Drops an F-Bomb An SF man with six prior convictions has been arrested for an April murder in Oakland; gas prices in CA could go up 50 cents next year; and VP Kamala Harris dropped a very public F-bomb Monday in a conversation with a comedian.
SF News SF's 'Doomed' Downtown Actually Back to Almost Normal at Night, Some Nights A new dataset suggests that while SF still lags way behind New York and other cities in terms of daytime, mid-week foot traffic, people are now frequenting bars and restaurants in downtown SF almost at pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Former Anchorman Frank Somerville Gets 30-Day Jail Sentence After Family Fight Turned Ugly Former KTVU anchorman Frank Somerville, who has had a rough couple of years battling alcoholism and losing his prime local media gig, has been sentenced in connection with a drunken domestic incident in Berkeley last June.
SF News Guilty Verdict Reached In Pleasanton Murder Case Stemming From Domestic Violence A jury in Alameda County on Monday reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Joseph Roberts, who was accused in the killing of his girlfriend, 27-year-old Rachel "Imani" Buckner — whose dismembered torso was discovered on the Alameda shoreline last summer.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Lineup Includes Rufus Du Soul, Disclosure, M.I.A., Jessie Ware The summer music festival lineup news continues with a weekend leak of the Portola Festival lineup, which turns out to have been real and was confirmed by festival organizers Monday morning.
SF News Paul Pelosi Attacker David DePape to Be Sentenced In Federal Court as State Trial Finally Gets Underway It's been over 18 months since David DePape, the man who violently assaulted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul in front of two police officers in October 2022, admitted to the crime. But the wheels of justice grind slowly forward.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Person Injured In Russian Hill SRO Fire One person was injured in a fire at the Broadway Hotel on Polk Street Sunday morning; a prominent East Bay political couple was killed in a SoCal car crash; and hundreds gathered at Glide Sunday for a memorial for Rev. Cecil Williams.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Are On the Verge of Another Sriracha Shortage! Maker Huy Fung Foods Halts Production Until Fall Sriracha lovers, brace yourselves for finding some alternative hot sauces this summer as popular sriracha maker Huy Fung Foods is halting production due to a bad chili pepper supply.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Merchant Roots Spreads Its Wings Merchant Roots is making a big move this summer, upscale Indian spot TIYA has opened in the Marina, and we get a Chronicle review of the hot new Chinatown spot Four Kings.
Business & Tech Apple Apologizes For Disastrously Tone-Deaf Ad Showing Machine Crushing Human Creativity Apple was uncharacteristically way off the mark with its latest splashy ad for the new, ultra-thin iPad Pro, which drew a ton of criticism on social media. And now they're apologizing.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Festival 2024 Lineup Features Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock, Tegan and Sara The lineup is out for this year's quintessentially San Franciscan free concert series, the Stern Grove Festival. And it includes a few big names, including the great Chaka Khan performing for the Big Picnic Weekend.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Experiences Major Service Outage In East Bay BART's Orange and Red lines were halted due to an equipment problem Friday morning; the Port of Oakland is countersuing SF over the airport name-change drama; and UCLA may have to pay "Calimony" to UC Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Vacant to Vibrant Program Hosts Community Market Today; Eight New Pop-Ups Announced Downtown SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, which puts pop-up businesses into vacant spaces rent-free around SoMa and the Financial District, is hosting a community market on this sunny Thursday afternoon on Market Street.
SF News Census Bureau Might Finally Ask About Sexual Orientation on 2030 Census Now, maybe, finally, more than 50 years after the movement began for LGBTQ civil rights, the U.S. Census Bureau is moving ahead with adding long-overdue questions about gender identity and sexual orientation.