SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Ferry Set to Resume Sausalito Service The Biden administration just eased marijuana restrictions nationwide; Cal Poly Humboldt had a big pro-Palestinian protest on its hands; and the Golden Gate Ferry will resume service from SF to Sausalito on Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Provide a Wedding Chapel This Year, Performing Real, Actual Weddings Is there really some pent-up demand for people that want to get married at Outside Lands? They must think so, as the festival has added an on-site wedding venue, performing real weddings for $349 (plus fees).
SF News Pier 39’s Sea Lion Population Surges to Seven-Year High, Fueled by Delicious Anchovies There may be more than 1,000 sea lions on SF’s Pier 39 right now, sunning themselves, barking, and getting good and fat, largely thanks to a school of anchovies available for them to feast upon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Cellar & Wine Bar Opening In June In SoMa A new wine bar offshoot of Saison is opening this spring a block away from the Michelin two-star restaurant on Townsend Street, and at the helm is Saison co-founder and sommelier Mark Bright.
SF News SUV Catches Fire on Upper Deck of Bay Bridge A "fully engulfed" car fire Tuesday morning caused some delays and three lane closures on the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tech Folk Propose 'Multigenerational Urban Campus' In SF Because They Don't Get How Cities Work Something called City Campus imagines carving out a collectively owned set of properties in the center of the city to create a walkable "campus" where the like-minded and tech-employed can raise kids together, or something.
Business & Tech Williams-Sonoma Fined Nearly $3.2 Million for Labeling Products as ‘Made in USA’ When They Were Not San Francisco-based houseware and cookware purveyor Williams-Sonoma just got nailed with a $3.18 million fine for claiming that products were “Made in USA” when they were actually made in China, and it’s not the first time the company has done this.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Proposes a $360 Million Bond Measure to Fund a Potpourri of Seemingly Unrelated Causes When you vote on whether to reelect Mayor London Breed on November 5, you might also be voting on Breed’s new $360 million bond measure that would fund hospitals, homelessness services, street improvements, and even Harvey Milk Plaza.
SF News 35 Protesters Arrested In Early Morning Raid at Occupied Building on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus, 30 Others Barred From Campus Cal Poly Humboldt, which in the last week and a half has become the site of the "nation's most entrenched protest," per the New York Times, was the site of another show of force by police this morning in the nationwide campus protest movement.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mercury News Joins Suit Against OpenAI A fatal crash on I-880 in Oakland was causing delays; four children were injured by a suspected DUI driver in the South Bay; and the Mercury News is suing OpenAI over the use of its copyrighted material to train ChatGPT and other bots.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NEMA Developer Sues NEMA Operator Over Back Rent Developer Crescent Heights is suing the operator of the NEMA building over back rent; a beekeeper in North Oakland had her bees stolen; and another crash stemming from a cop pursuit has injured innocent bystanders in Santa Clara County.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie PAC Already Spending Gigantic Sums To Clog Your Mailbox With November Election Mailers There’s only one candidate who’s already sending out mailers for SF’s November mayoral elections while it’s still April, and that’s Levi Strauss heir Danial Lurie, whose campaign PAC is bolstered by a million-dollar donation from his mom.
SF News NAACP Holds Meeting With Black Families About Alleged Racist Incidents at SF Public Schools There was a meeting Sunday at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco at which several Black parents spoke about racist incidents their children had suffered at SF public schools.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Camp Mather Celebrates 100 Years (Though at a Party 180 Miles Away From Camp Mather) The spirit of rural Tuolumne County came to the Bayview District Sunday, as the SF Rec and Parks Department celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of San Francisco's furthest-flung park, the popular Mather Family Camp.
Business & Tech A Clever Original Post on Threads That Goes Viral Could Now Earn Creators a $5,000 Bonus Meta has confirmed that it has launched a limited-time, invite-only bonus program for social media creators on Threads, in an apparent effort to boost engagement on the platform as it crosses the 150 million user mark.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill 175th Anniversary Party Draws Willie Brown, Mayor Breed, and Aaron Peskin (Who Were Very Nice to Each Other) The oldest restaurant in California, Tadich Grill, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Sunday, bringing many local luminaries, with political foes Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin burying their hatchets for one brief afternoon over cioppino and crab cakes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Is Closing Its Downstairs Alimentari, Replacing It With To-Go Counter It's a third pivot for the space downstairs from Che Fico, where Che Fico Alimentari will be calling it quits on May 9 to make way for a more high-volume to-go operation and more private dining space.
SF News Another Carsonist? Four Cars Set Ablaze In San Francisco Sunday Morning We may have another carsonist on our hands, or else the same individual who set fire to two Teslas in SoMa in February is back at it.
SF News SF Federal Judge Hands Down 10-Year Sentence for Man Who Hired Assassin to Kill Zimbabwean Model Ex-Partner A San Francisco-based federal judge is sending an attorney to prison for ten years, after he hired a hitman to kill his estranged partner, a Zimbabwean fashion icon, but unfortunately for him the hitman was actually an undercover FBI agent.
SF News 26-Year-Old Man Arrested In Connection With Disappearance of Mint Butterfield After San Francisco saw a major plastering of posters about a missing teen last week, the story ended happily for parents Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield when their child was found safe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lowell High Admissions Demographics Once Again Disproportionate A gunshot victim died in Oakland Saturday afternoon; the Chronicle alerts us to dogs overdosing on fentanyl; and the incoming class at Lowell High School is once again disproportionately white and Asian.
SF News Sunday Links: Ex-Slack CEO's Missing Teen, Mint Butterfield, Found in San Francisco The teenage child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield was found in SF after being reported missing from Marin this week; a rare coin store launched a scavenger hunt with 11 classic coins hidden around the city; and a woman was fatally shot in San Jose this weekend.
SF News Expect to See More Traffic Cops At Major SF Intersections As SFPD Cracks Down on Speeding After a drop in traffic tickets in San Francisco in the last decade, SFPD is amping up traffic enforcement at intersections notorious for speeders.
SF News Saturday Links: Ex-SF Giants Player Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Crimes In Indiana Former MLB player Dustan Mohr was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes with a 13-year-old girl; a refrigerant leak at a Concord Costco forced 1,000 people there to evacuate; and pro-Palestinian protests continue at Bay Area college campuses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Asking Rent Prices Rose Again in March, But Still Far From Pre-Pandemic Rates The average asking rent in San Francisco rose by 1%, the first increase in 8 months; London Breed's plan to bring giant pandas to SF still has some roadblocks ahead; and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is selling her 65-acre ranch in Bolinas for $9 million.