SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfire Threatens Structures In St. Helena A wildfire broke out in St. Helena that is threatening structures; racist and sexist slurs were spray-painted on the front of SF City Hall; and protesters showed up at a Democratic fundraiser in Oakland where Kamala Harris was appearing.
Business & Tech Sigh, Someone’s Trying to Do This NFT-Only Club and Workspace Thing Again, Calling It a ‘Crypto Sanctuary’ Despite the collapse of the so-called “NFT restaurant” that was supposed to come to Salesforce Transit Center, and the broader flame-out of the NFT and Web3 boondoggles, someone still thinks that an NFT-only members club in SoMa can appeal beyond a shrinking subset of crypto bros.
SF News SFO Runway to Reopen Ahead of Schedule This Month, Ending Months of Flight Delays Runway 28L at SFO, which has been closed since mid-January while construction crews have been making design improvements to two taxiways that should hopefully mean higher safety standards for planes moving around the airport.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ at the Victoria Theatre Is an Absolute Pride Month Gem The acclaimed LBGTQ musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ finally gets its San Francisco run at the Victoria Theatre, with Katya Smirnoff-Skyy in a hilarious and crowd-pleasing Pride Month production.
Arts & Entertainment Local Legend Gina LaDivina, Drag Show Hostess and Performer, Dies at 74 San Francisco's queer nightlife world and San Francisco at large lost an icon Tuesday night. Miss Gina LaDivina, a longtime performer at Aunt Charlie's, The Stud, and Oasis has passed. The cause reportedly was complications from cancer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Raved About the Pozole at Elena's, Chronicle Critic Was Not Impressed Associate Chronicle restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez has lodged one notable difference of opinion with former critic Michael Bauer, who continues to make restaurant recommendations on Instagram.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Bar The Page Gets Their Live Music Permit, Despite Neighbors’ Noise Objections The happy hour live shows at The Page will continue, as the SF Entertainment Commission granted the bar a Limited Live Performance permit on Tuesday — though a few neighbors showed up to complain that the music is too damned loud.
SF News Very Large Rabbit (or Hare) Rescued From Local Highway An alarmingly large wild hare (or rabbit?) was rescued by CHP officers Sunday night on Highway 17, likely from a terrible fate on that busy roadway.
SF Politics Inflatable Trump Chicken Comes Out of Storage to Protest Fundraiser In SF Yes, the three-story-tall inflatable Trump chicken has been dusted off and will be re-inflated Thursday in SF, wearing a black-and-white prison uniform, in an act of protest of Trump appearing in SF to collect some money from some Silicon Valley billionaires who have lost the thread of reality.
SF News 11-Year-Old Girl Identified as Victim of Fatal Memorial Day Drowning In Alameda Creek A child drowned in Alameda Creek on Memorial Day, and despite the efforts of the first responders, that child died at the hospital. We’re now learning she was 11-year-old Dana Nino Gonzalez.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Protesters Take Over Office of Stanford President, 13 Arrested Pro-Palestinian protesters took over the office of Stanford President Richard Saller this morning; a prominent Yosemite rock climber has been sentenced to life for sexual assault; and a free grocery store has opened in the Bayview.
SF News Very Hot Day Around the Bay: All of the Berkeley Falcon Chicks Have Now Started Flying Today’s heat wave is likely to continue into Wednesday; a free grocery store is coming to the Bayview District; and all four of this year’s rapidly growing Berkeley falcon chicks have now taken flight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar in the Former Home of The Uptown Delayed in Light of Owner’s ‘Serial Evictor’ Past There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.
SF News Ex-Partner of Pelosi Attacker David DePape, Gypsy Taub, Was Also On His Hit List, Police Say We are now learning that noted local nudist activist Gypsy Taub was among the people that accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape had on a list of targets in what was apparently some sort of suicide-mission spree.
Bay Area Sports Brand New Baseball Team the Oakland Ballers Play Their Debut Home Opener Tonight Play ball, Ballers! Oakland’s new minor-league baseball team is causing some major excitement in West Oakland, as the Oakland Ballers prepare for their Tuesday night home opener at Raimondi Field.
SF News Four-Bedroom Modern Mansion In Pacific Heights Hits Market for $38 Million It won't set a record if it sells for asking price, but a very large home at the edge of Pacific Heights, sitting right beside the Lyon Street Steps, is currently the most expensive home for sale in San Francisco.
SF News Car Fire in Caldecott Tunnel Snarls East Bay Traffic, Closes Parts of the Tunnel for Hours It was tough driving in Orinda on Tuesday after a car caught on fire in the Caldecott Tunnel, causing the closure of the tunnel’s two eastbound bores and leaving many motorists stuck inside.
SF News Hazardous Beach Conditions On Tap This Week In Bay Area, So Beware You may be tempted to get to the beach this week as the temperatures rise — today is going to be the warmest in San Francisco, while the rest of the Bay Area should be sweltering by tomorrow and Thursday as we cool off — but across the Bay Area coastline there may be hazardous conditions.
SF News Person Stabbed on Muni Monday at 18th and Mission Streets, Suspect Still at Large There was a stabbing Monday afternoon shortly before 4 pm on a Muni bus in the Mission District, and while the victim does not face life-threatening injuries, the suspect has not been apprehended.
SF News Three Take Plea Deals In 2021 Kidnap and Murder Case In Alameda County Three men are getting relatively lenient sentences in a case involving a home-invasion robbery, and a victim who was bound, gagged, taunted, and strangled before being dumped by the side of a road.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Below Average Wildfire Risk Predicted For at Least a Couple Months Forecasters say June and July should see below average wildfire risk, but then things could change; a man was fatally shot in West Oakland Tuesday morning; and Elon Musk is getting sued by Tesla shareholders over a 2022 stock dump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire Destroys Affordable Housing Development In Redwood City An eight-alarm fire burned through an under-construction affordable project in Redwood City today; the Marina Times lost a court fight with Sup. Dean Preston; and there is yet another vegetation fire in eastern Alameda County today.
SF News CFO of Shen Yun-Affiliated Media Outlet Arrested for $67 Million Money-Laundering Scheme Just days after Trump was found guilty, the CFO of the far-right newspaper Epoch Times was arrested and charged in a $67 million money-laundering crypto scam. The Epoch Times, of course, promotes and helps fund the ubiquitously advertised propaganda musical Shen Yun.
SF News Bird Flu Has Arrived In SF; Two Chickens Test Positive, Traces of Virus Found In Wastewater The seemingly distant-sounding threat of H5N1 avian flu is now a reality here in San Francisco, as two chickens at a local live market have tested positive for the virus, and traces of it were detected in SF’s wastewater.
SF News There Was a Saturday Sideshow On Van Ness Avenue, In the Middle of SF The encroachment of Oakland-style sideshows in San Francisco — particularly on warm-weather weekends — continues, and there was one on Saturday night that was surprisingly close to Pacific Heights.