Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is Putting In a Bid to Become the New Home of the Sundance Film Festival Earlier this week, the Sundance Film Festival announced that it was exploring its options to move to a new locale in 2027, after throwing the revered festival in Park City, Utah for the last 43 of its 46 years. And SF will be throwing its hat in the ring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Thai Tasting Menu Experience Lands In Japantown A new high-end Thai spot arrives in Japantown, a new but familiar French bistro is taking over the Catch space in the Castro, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan admits she likes it when servers are mean.
Business & Tech Former SF District Attorney Suzy Loftus, Now TikTok's Head of Safety, Compares Fight for TikTok to Defending SF As TikTok faces its biggest challenge to date, with the US government insisting that it be divorced from its Chinese parent company or cease doing business here, the company has a trust and safety officer whose name may be familiar to San Franciscans.
SF News Cat Found In Amazon Box In California Was Accidentally Shipped From Utah A cat survived a harrowing six-day journey in a cardboard box with some boots and was reunited with her family, who thought she had somehow escaped their home in Utah.
SF News Rep. Adam Schiff's Luggage Stolen While In San Francisco, Attends Event Without Suit Congressman and senatorial candidate Adam Schiff was told not to leave anything in his car while staying in San Francisco, but he says he was in a hurry and left his luggage, which got stolen while the car was in a parking garage.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pacifica Police Seek Arson Suspect Who Likes Archery Pacifica police are seeking an arson suspect who was last seen at an archery range; an Oakland man is in a coma after being tased by park police while in the water; and there is some apparent misinformation being spread about the disappearance of Mint Butterfield.
SF News SingleThread, Auberge du Soleil, Madrona Inn Among Bay Area Hotels Honored In First Michelin Hotel Guide The Michelin organization has just released its first ever guide to and rankings of US hotels, and like the Michelin Guides to restaurants dole out stars, the new guide has given "key" rankings to 124 hotels across the country.
Arts & Entertainment 'A Strange Loop' Is an Uproarious Meta Musical on Black Queer Identity (and a Witty Takedown of Tyler Perry) I now understand why the capsule reviews and descriptions of Michael R. Jackson's first Broadway musical, A Strange Loop, were so obscure and confusing. It is an idiosyncratic creation of the first order that is nearly impossible to sum up.
SF News SFMTA Employees Are Nervous About Becoming Targets of Backlash Against Parking Crackdown Car owners without garages in SF are tensing up in preparation for an announced May sweep by the SFMTA's Parking Enforcement team, which is set to cover every district of the city in search of parking rule violators. But those parking enforcers are tense themselves.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Secret Service Agent Removed From VP Harris's Detail There was a deadly vehicle crash in Pleasanton on Wednesday night; a Secret Service agent on Kamala Harris's detail was displaying "distressing behavior"; and the LAPD arrested 93 student protesters at USC last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Planet of the Apes' Characters Spotted at Crissy Field The 14-year-old boy who drowned in the Russian River earlier this month has been identified as from SF; a Silicon Valley investor is planning a Trump fundraiser in SF; and several 'Planet of the Apes' characters were spotted on horseback at Crissy Field.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Moves Forward With Development Agreement The major redevelopment project over at the Stonestown Galleria, in which the mall's massive parking lots could be transformed in to a 3,500-unit residential "village" with parks and a new retail mini-corridor, has taken a step forward with a development agreement with the city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The California Garlic Festival Is Moving Again, This Time to Los Banos The festival formerly known as the Gilroy Garlic Festival, which became the California Garlic Festival and moved to the Central Valley two years ago, is moving once again.
SF News East Bay Family Seeks Answers In Mysterious Death of Teen Girl Found Dead In SF Driveway A 15-year-old girl who had recently been released from a psychiatric facility ran away from her Bay Point home last week. Less than three days later she was found dead in the driveway of a home in SF's Oceanview neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Reopens Friday In Old Oakland, In Matty's Old Fashioned Space Chef Matt Horn is moving his Horn Barbecue operation into the restaurant space he opened last year as Matty's Old Fashioned, and while some Matty's menu items will carry over, Matty's Old Fashioned is no more.
SF News Child of Slack, Flickr Founders Reported as Runaway, Possibly Left Marin For SF The Marin County Sheriff's Office posted a notice of a missing juvenile, whom they identified as 16-year-old Mint Butterfield — the child of former Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield and entrepreneur Caterina Fake — who is believed to be in SF's Tenderloin neighborhood.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 'Recall Pamela Price' Crowd Pushes For Fast Special Election The proponents of recalling Alameda Co. DA Pamela Price want to hold the recall election in a few months; a man was arrested after allegedly assaulting a member of the San Jose mayor's security staff; and a South Bay caregiver was arrested for stealing from an elderly couple in Los Altos Hills.
SF News 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment,' Like the One at Columbia University, Established at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley has joined in a nationwide protest action on college campuses in which students are pitching tents in prominent plaza spaces, as a sort of "sleep-in" in solidarity with displaced Gazans and in protest of investments in war-profiting corporations.
SF News Latest City Hall Remedy for Tenderloin Street Circus Is Shutting Down Corner Stores at Midnight Corner stores that cater to the crowds who hang out around UN Plaza and elsewhere into the wee hours of the morning are part of the problem, the mayor's office says.
SF News Inmate Escapes Custody at SF General By Climbing Into Ceiling There was a brief bit of chaos Tuesday morning at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital when an incarcerated person being held in the jail ward at the hospital escaped custody by climbing through ceiling tiles and trying to crawl away through the bowels of the hospital.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2024 Lineup Includes Tyler the Creator, Grace Jones, Postal Service, and Post Malone Post Malone, Kaytranada, and Tyler, the Creator are all returning to Outside Lands this August for the second time in three years, and The Killers are returning to headline a decade after their last headlining set at the fest.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Child Predator Sting Operation Ensnares San Jose Firefighter A child predator sting operation out of Sacramento arrested a San Jose fire captain; PG&E CEO Patti Poppe's compensation is being compared to others; and Tesla is being sued over California layoff notification laws, and last week's layoff announcement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Attorney to Try to Toss Out Dolores Hill Bomb Civil Case SF is trying to get a class-action civil case thrown out that was brought by teens arrested for the Dolores Hill Bomb last year; the Joe Simitian/Evan Low recount is down to one vote again; and another United Airlines jet had to divert to SF, this time over smoke in the cabin.
SF News Rev. Cecil Williams, Evangelist of Equality and Dignity for All and Founder of GLIDE, Dies at Age 94 Reverend Cecil Williams, who until today had been a living testament to the modern era of San Francisco and its reputation for accepting all varieties of the human condition, has died at age 94.
SF Politics Supreme Court Sounds Inclined to Allow Cities to Clear Homeless Encampments, Enforce Camping Laws Somewhat predictably, the conservative-majority Supreme Court signaled during oral arguments Monday that it will rule in favor of the Oregon town whose law penalizing public camping was struck down by the Ninth Circuit.