SF News Living Seawall Pilot Shows Early Success in Boosting Bay Biodiversity Back in the summer of 2022, 288 specially designed tiles were installed along San Francisco’s Embarcadero seawall, which are now brimming with marine life, including barnacles, mussels, and algae.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Reverses Decision To End Kids' Free Summer Lunch Program After announcing the closure of its free summer lunch program, the City of Oakland said it would continue at limited sites; Mayor Lurie is holding a competition to help revitalize downtown; and nearly 70 people were arrested during a joint operation in the Tenderloin and the Mission.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Record-Breaking 79-Year-Old Orinda Woman To Run In Her 39th Boston Marathon A 79-year-old retired nurse from Orinda is running her 39th Boston Marathon in a row; Elon Musk got brutally ridiculed during a gaming livestream; and Record Store Day is this Saturday.
SF News Person Fatally Shot In Oakland's Eastmont Hills Neighborhood, Near a Preschool Police in Oakland are investigating a homicide in Oakland's Eastmont Hills neighborhood, after a shooting took place around 12:45 pm Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gold Club Brings Back Its $5 All-You-Can-Eat Fried Chicken Buffet SoMa striptease joint the Gold Club earned the title “Tech's Hottest Lunch Spot” with their $5 lunch-hour fried chicken buffet. The pandemic forced that deal onto hiatus, but last week, the $5 chicken buffet returned to strut its stuff.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Half-Price Lobster Rolls? A new pizza spot comes to Saluhall, special menus for Passover and Easter, and Woodhouse Fish Co. is practically giving away the lobster rolls, all in This Week In Food.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues More Tenderloin Stores for Being Gambling Dens, One Allegedly Selling Meth Over the Counter There’s another batch of Tenderloin corner stores in the city’s crosshairs for running illegal gambling dens, and some are also accused of selling meth and weed right over the counter.
SF News Republicans In Congress Investigating Point Reyes Deal Converting Dairy and Cattle Operations to Parks Marin County environmentalists won a big victory when cattle ranchers agreed to a multimillion-dollar deal to leave the Point Reyes National Seashore. Now the Trump administration might want to blow that deal up.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Said to Be Weighing 2028 Presidential Run Against Bid for California Governor The reason why former Vice President Kamala Harris hasn't jumped into the race for California governor yet is apparently that she is still of several minds about her future, and she sees a gubernatorial bid as a final choice against vying for the presidency again.
SF News John Varvatos Moves Back to Union Square; Could H&M Be Next? As retailers flee the dying, anchorless SF Centre mall, it looks like it could be Union Square's gain.
SF News Parts of Berkeley Might Ban All Plants Within Five Feet of Homes for Wildfire Prevention, Plant Lovers Furious Berkeley is poised to pass a law banning combustible materials being kept within five feet of homes in high wildfire-risk areas, which means people would have to rip out the plants right next to their houses, and many aren’t happy about it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Suspects Charged In Montclair Robbery and Shooting Two adults and a juvenile have been charged in connection with an April 2 armed robbery and shooting in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood; two San Jose women have been charged with pimping; and SF-born actor Eric Dane was diagnosed with ALS.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Gets Sued for Unlawfully Harvesting Data on Schoolchildren A grass fire is wreaking havoc in the Oakland Hills; this weekend’s Coachella festival will stream some of its biggest live acts for free; and Google is getting sued for using the tools they donated to schools to spy on and track the children.
SF News Someone in Sacramento Is Selling an Old Muni Bus for $8,000, Has 'Only 41,608 Miles' On It You could be rocking down the road in your very own Muni bus for the low price of $8,000, and the seats are ripped out so it can serve as some sort of vacation RV party ride, just be warned that it “might need new batteries or a jump start.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Original Food Truck Market, Off the Grid, Returns Next Week Off the Grid, which predates SF's latest night-market craze by fifteen years, is coming back to life at Fort Mason Center a week from Friday, on April 18, following a lengthy hiatus.
SF News Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.
SF News Climate Conference Returns to SF This Month With Al Gore as Keynote A record number of attendees are expected at this year's SF Climate Week conference, which kicks off in just over a week, and Al Gore is booked to speak at one of the opening events.
SF News New Synthetic Drug Shows Up On SF Streets, Is Linked to Overdose Death Another new synthetic drug that is used as a veterinary tranquilizer, medetomidine, showed up in the autopsy of a recent overdose victim in San Francisco, though it does not yet appear prevalent in the local drug supply.
SF News Oakland Unified School District Abruptly Fires Superintendent With No Explanation Oakland schools superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell was on the verge of being the longest-serving OUSD superintendent in 65 years. But Wednesday night, the school board removed her out of the blue, in a secret session, with no explanation whatsoever.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: ICYMI, the 'California Henge' Sunrise Wednesday marked the annual event that's come to be known as California Henge, in which the position of the sunrise falls perfectly between the skyline buildings along California Street in San Francisco, making for great photo ops.
SF News Lurie Announces Market Street to Open Up to Waymos The car-free stretch of Market Street east of 10th is going to be somewhat less car-free this summer when it starts getting clogged up with confused Waymos.
SF News The Park at the Former Great Highway Now Has a New Name: Sunset Dunes The former Great Highway is now a park, and that park was officially christened Sunset Dunes at Wednesday's SF Rec and Parks meeting, ahead of its grand opening ceremony Saturday afternoon.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Fatal Hit-and-Runs on the Peninsula A 50-year-old man was shot multiple times in Oakland; two women have been killed in the last three weeks in hit-and-run crashes on the Peninsula; and the death toll in the Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse has risen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 45-Foot-Tall Nude Woman Rises at Foot of Market Street Violent crime is down in SF at a much more significant rate than elsewhere in the US; stocks rebounded because Trump predictably backed down on his tariff threat; and that giant nude woman sculpture is in the process of getting installed at Embarcadero Plaza.
Business & Tech Arnold Schwarzenegger Now a Billionaire, According to Forbes’ Latest List There’s a few show biz types who just appeared for the first time on this year’s annual Forbes billionaire list, like Bruce Sprinsteen, Jerry Seinfeld, and the former ‘Governator,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger.
