SF News Day Around the Bay: Gov. Newsom Gets Federal Funding to Help With Big Sur Highway 1 Repairs Governor Gavin Newsom plans to reopen the collapsed portion of Highway 1 near Big Sur by Memorial Day weekend; a police standoff with a suspect in the North Bay has shut I-80; and you can adopt pets for free at SF and Berkeley shelters this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment 'Funny Girl' at the Orpheum Is Carried By the Star Power of Its Very Talented Lead Some shows are made or broken by their lead actor, and that is certainly the case with 'Funny Girl', the recent Broadway revival of which is now on tour and opened this week at SF's Orpheum Theatre.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Go Duck Yourself Opens Its Dining Room The Slanted Door is no more (at the Ferry Building at least), Go Duck Yourself is open for dining in Bernal Heights, and a new "beach bistro" is coming to the Outer Sunset.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Proposes ‘Entertainment Zone’ Where Bars Can Sell Open Containers for Outdoor Events SF Mayor London Breed’s latest gambit to get you to please go downtown and spend money again is her new proposed “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell alcohol to street patrons, and the first of these could be on the Financial District’s Front Street.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Three-Legged Dog Picnic Aims to Set World Record for Largest Gathering of Three-Legged Pups This Summer This year’s annual “Tri-Pawed Picnic” meetup for three-legged dogs hopes to unleash an all-time record, as the event is gearing up to set the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of three-legged dogs ever in one place.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Yet Another Brood of Baby Falcon Chicks Has a Nest Cam, This One on Alcatraz Island It’s a baby falcon bonanza this spring for those who love fluffy little raptors, as a second peregrine falcon livestream is now up and running from a nest on Alcatraz, and the mama falcon there was actually born to Berkeley falcon Annie in 2018.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Alongside Al Gore, Michelle Yeoh House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is receiving the highest civilian honor from President Biden at the White House Friday afternoon, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Arts & Entertainment Saturday’s How Weird Street Faire Abruptly ‘Postponed,’ Not Even 48 Hours Before the Event Saturday's 25th annual How Weird Street Fair will not be held on Saturday, as organizers suddenly blame a bad weekend weather forecast, and will “postpone” the event until maybe June.
SF News Shootout With Suspect Leaves Two San Jose Police Officers Injured, One Critically Two San Jose police officers engaged in a shootout Thursday night with a suspect which left the suspect and both officers injured.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mayor Responds to Protest, Adds Funding For City Clinic to Bond Measure SF Mayor London Breed said that funding would be added for City Clinic in her proposed bond measure; the USPS is offering a reward in connection with a mail carrier robbery in Oakland; and thousands turned out for Downtown First Thursdays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Popular LED Forest ‘Entwined: Elder Mother’ Has Closing Party Saturday The wife of the doctor who drove his family off a San Mateo cliff is asking the court for leniency; a big new UC Berkeley student housing complex will be given an Ohlone name; and Golden Gate Park’s beloved annual LED forest Entwined has its closing party Saturday.
SF News Black Man Found Hanged Near Bernal Heights Park, Case Currently Ruled a Suicide There are more questions than answers about the hanging death of 34-year-old Randy Dudley, whose body was discovered hanging from a tree at a Bernal Height park Tuesday morning, but authorities have made a preliminary ruling that it was a suicide.
SF Politics Honey Mahogany Tapped to Lead SF's Office of Transgender Initiatives Onetime District 6 supervisor candidate and longtime veteran of City Hall, Honey Mahogany, is joining the London Breed administration as the new executive director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives.
SF News Feds and State Both Sue SF, Claiming the City Lets Sewage Spill Into the Ocean and the Bay The EPA, state Attorney General, and SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board just dropped a combined lawsuit onto the City of San Francisco, claiming the city has allowed “more than 1.8 billion gallons of untreated sewage” to flow each year into the Bay and Pacific Ocean
SF News Sonoma County Man Arrested After Allegedly Stealing Ambulance, Leading Cops on Chase With EMT Stuck In Back Well this sounds pretty meth-y. A Sonoma County man who had asked police to get him an ambulance because he was having a panic attack allegedly ended up stealing that ambulance and taking it for a crazed trip through Santa Rosa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many In the Beer Community Are Big Mad That People Are Bringing Their Kids to Taprooms There's tempest in a pint glass brewing over pint-sized patrons being brought to breweries and taprooms, as a social media flare-up reignites the debate over parents who bring their kids into drinking establishments where minors are legally allowed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door, a Longtime Anchor of the Ferry Building, Is Not Reopening While some restaurateurs are still making big bets on downtown, Charles Phan has, after several years of foot-dragging, made it official that he is not reopening The Slanted Door at its longtime Ferry Building space.
SF News Rally Planned to Protest Mayor Breed's Omission of City Clinic Relocation Funds In Proposed Bond Measure LGTBQ health advocates, along with City Clinic doctors and members of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club are rallying today outside the clinic on Seventh Street to protest Mayor London Breed's omission of clinic funds in a proposed bond measure.
SF News Trial Underway for Vacaville Mormon Bishop Accused of Sexually Abusing Adopted Daughter A former attorney and Mormon bishop in Vacaville is on trial for the sexual abuse of his then-11-year-old adopted daughter, and other church associates are giving some pretty damning testimony on the witness stand.
SF News Fire Burns Three-Story Apartment Building In Nob Hill A fire broke out Thursday morning at a residential building on Jackson Street near Leavenworth in SF's Nob Hill neighborhood, and it was disrupting cable car service.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: LAPD Descends on UCLA Encampment; 2 Injured In Scuffle at UC Berkeley Camp The LAPD cleared the encampment at UCLA early this morning after facing heavy resistance; a tussle broke out at the UC Berkeley encampment Wednesday night between two opposing groups; and the Bay Lights are set to come back on on the Bay Bridge next March.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Evan Low Beats Out Joe Simitian By Five Votes In Recount of Congressional Race for Second Place Evan Low has beat out Joe Simitian in the recount of their primary congressional race for second to go against Sam Liccardo in November; crime is trending down in Oakland so far this year; and Pamela Price is calling for a state probe into the recall backers' funding.
SF News Viral ‘SF Karen’ Goes on Dr. Phil Show, Blames Her Troubles on Cancel Culture Remember that one lady in Pac Heights who gained unfortunate viral fame for confronting a man who wrote “Black Lives Matter” on his own property? She just went on ‘Dr. Phil,’ and had a very sympathetic audience of concerned-looking white people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub With Rooftop Bar, Dante's Inferno, May Be Coming to Former Destino Space on Mint Hill A new bar and nightclub serving Caribbean food, and featuring a rooftop cocktail lounge, is in the works at 1815 Market Street, near the Castro Safeway on Mint Hill.
SF News ‘California Forever’ Outfit Claims They Have Enough Signatures to Make Solano County Ballot The tech billionaire class will be popping more Champagne than usual this week, as they appear to have enough signatures to get their utopia thingy “California Forever” on the November ballot in Solano County.