bay to breakers Get Ready for Bay to Breakers Takeover: All the Street Closures to Expect this Weekend The street closures you can expect from the starting line at Howard and Main all the way to the Great Highway at Ocean Beach.
SF News Saturday Links: Horseback Riding in Golden Gate Park Shut Down After Allegations of Mistreatment of Animals The SF Parks Department revoked the permit for the company providing horseback riding services at Golden Gate Park; a 78-year-old SF man with dementia is missing; and the Transamerica Pyramid is undergoing renovations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shasta County Police Kill Brazen Bear That Tried to Break Into Local School Shasta County deputies killed a local bear known for breaking into homes and cars; Oakland will introduce the first all-electric bus fleet serving a major US school district in August; and the Contra Costa County Fair is requiring chaperones for minors due to fights among teens last year.
SF Politics GOP Senate Candidate Steve Garvey Has His Property Taxes Paid by Some Mysterious Outfit Called ‘Sisters in Christ’ There’s some funny business in Steve Garvey’s taxes, aside from the fact that he owes several hundred thousand, as his property taxes are being paid by some nebulous group with the name “Sisters in Christ.”
Arts & Entertainment Santa Cruz Boardwalk Roller Coaster Giant Dipper Turns 100 Years Old This Weekend The oldest roller coaster in California celebrates its 100th birthday Saturday, as the Giant Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk turns 100 with a rollicking party, and someone even brewed it a commemorative beer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Sushi, Tacos, Beer New high-end sushi comes to Hayes Valley, some great new tacos arrive in the Castro, and a huge new Korean marketplace that wants to compete with H Mart is headed for Daly City.
Bay Area Sports SF's New WNBA Team, the Golden State Valkyries, Just Hit 10,000 Season Ticket Deposits, Will Host Block Party Saturday It's been just three days since we learned the name of the WNBA expansion team that is coming to San Francisco next year, and interest in the women's league and this SF team seems very, very high.
Arts & Entertainment Napa’s Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa Returning for Labor Day Weekend, Thankfully Without Dave Chapelle Emceeing The Blue Note Jazz Festival is somewhat scaled-down, moved to later in the summer, and is not bringing back Dave Chapelle, but still boasts an impressive lineup featuring John Legend, Andre 3000, and Jill Scott.
SF News Pelosi Attacker David DePape Gets 30 Years In Federal Case; State Trial Begins Next Week The first of two sentences which will likely put 43-year-old wingnut David DePape behind bars for the rest of his life was handed down Friday in federal court.
SF Politics Supervisors Stymie Mayor Breed In Panda Fundraising Plan, Creating First Roadblock A San Francisco supervisors' committee on Thursday effectively shot down a resolution concerning Mayor London Breed's announced plan to bring Chinese pandas to the San Francisco Zoo.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Just Bought a Building in Dogpatch That Will Serve as His Business Headquarters Warriors all-star Steph Curry is single-handedly trying to reverse SF’s commercial real estate doom loop, paying six times the 2021 sale price for a building at 20th and Illinois streets that will be his business headquarters.
SF News Highway 1 Reopens Ahead of Schedule, Making Way for Big Sur Travel Ahead of Summer Highway 1 has reopened to regular traffic, thanks to a new signal system that will allow traffic to flow in one direction at a time past the area where a rockslide made part of the roadway disappear in late March.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Justice Alito Flew an Upside-Down Flag On His Lawn David DePape faces sentencing in federal court today for the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi; protesters who took over a building at UC Berkeley have been arrested; and Justice Samuel Alito will have to answer for a 'Stop the Steal' symbol that appeared on his lawn in January 2021.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Both of Monday’s Scheduled SF Mayoral Debates Have Now Crashed and Burned A naming contest is underway for the Berkeley falcon chicks; there’s more Gaza protest controversy at Sonoma State University; and one of Monday’s mayoral debates got canceled while the other one now only has two candidates participating.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink West Oakland Getting an Impressive New Food Hall, to Be Anchored by Almanac Beer Company The folks behind the West Oakland Farmers’ Market are leveling up with a new 12,000-square-foot brick-and-mortar food hall, and it will boast a new Almanac Beer Co. taproom.
Arts & Entertainment World Premiere Musical 'Galileo' Turns the Famed Astronomer Into a Rock Balladeer In the new musical 'Galileo,' which had its world premiere Wednesday night at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway star Raul Esparza commands the stage as the maverick Seventeenth Century astronomer, in a rock musical that is at turns both audacious and confounding.
Arts & Entertainment Your Bay to Breakers 2024 Guide to Drinking and Partying Like a Champion SFist’s Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Map is back and ready for this Sunday’s annual running of the naked and drunk yahoos, plus we’ve got tips on how to conceal your booze, and where to expect those pesky law enforcement checkpoints.
SF News Unsheltered Homeless Population In SF Nearly Unchanged Since 2022, Overall Number Rises 7% Despite spending many millions of dollars to address the issue of homelessness in San Francisco, the city got some disappointing news Thursday with the release of the latest (preliminary) point-in-time census count of the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash, Oakland's Drag and Queer Performance Festival, Returns This Weekend For Its Seventh Year The Oaklash Festival is coming stomping and sashaying back this weekend, celebrating drag and queer performance in all its forms for a diverse and adoring Bay Area audience.
SF News Walgreens Now Selling Cheaper Generic Narcan Over the Counter, and It’s Already Available The national pharmacy chain Walgreens has made its generic version of Narcan available over the counter, and it's $10 cheaper than name-brand Narcan, and apparently already available at a few SF stores.
SF News Number of Homeless In Berkeley Drops 45% In Promising Sign; Oakland's Number Still On the Rise, Though The number of unsheltered homeless people in Berkeley dropped by nearly half in the two years between the biennial point-in-time homeless censuses in 2022 and 2024, according to a preliminary report.
SF News Berkeley Protesters Have Broken Into and Occupied Empty Building In Renewed Pro-Palestine Protest Just after UC Berkeley had successfully cleared the large tent encampment that was protesting the university's military- and Israel-related investments, another renegade group has occupied the school's empty Anna Head Hall, though their anti-semitic graffiti may not be helping their cause.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.0M Earthquake Hits NorCal Coast A 4.0M earthquake rumbled in Humboldt County around midnight last night; the SF State protest encampment is scaling back; and the Supreme Court rejected a challenge over the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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 Politics Someone Who Hates Mark Farrell Bought the ‘Mark Farrell for Mayor’ Website Just to Trash Him A delicious dose of dirty politics in the SF mayor’s race, as some joker or troll bought the website MarkFarrellForMayor.com, and has dedicated the site to pointing out Farrell’s unflattering details and past ethical issues.