Arts & Entertainment

Field Notes: Rare SF Tree Map, Dad Punk, and the Fight for Reproductive Rights in 1960s SF

This week: The SF Columbarium, tulip season, Silicon Valley repair cafes, Marin dad punk band, and an Iranian-American fashion line. Plus: finding unique SF trees, connecting with deceased loved ones, and author Kate Schatz’s new novel focusing on the fight for women’s rights in 1960s SF.

SF News

Saturday Links: Video Shows Lurie's Security Guard Shoved Suspect First During Incident Thursday

Video footage shows Mayor Lurie's security guard becoming aggressive first; Olympic skier and gold medalist Eileen Gu will be the grand marshal of SF’s Chinese New Year parade; and only one in 10 US residents like daylight saving time.

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Day Around the Bay: Forty-Foot Tree Lands on Two Teslas on Highway 101 in Sunnyvale

Anthropic released a list of top 10 jobs with the most tasks that could be completed using AI; the statue of the 45-foot woman on Market Street will be here through October; and fortunately no one was seriously injured when a large tree landed on highway 101 in Sunnyvale Thursday.

SF Politics

Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mandelman Introduce Ballot Measures to (Of Course) Give Lurie More Power

Mr. 14-months-on-the-job Daniel Lurie thinks it's high time he be given some more sweeping powers currently held by the SF Board of Supervisors and various City Hall commissions.

Arts & Entertainment

'Spamalot' Returns on Tour In SF, With a Few Extra Timely References

For a certain segment of the population, the absurdist humor of Monty Python has never ceased to elicit titters and full-bellied laughs. And Eric Idle's musical adaptation of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' still delivers those.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In Food: Two-Level Castro Space Finally Has a Taker

A new spot called NOVA from Bar 49's owner is coming to the Castro, Clementina makes its debut in the Richmond, and Hamburguesa Bar gets a review, all in This Week in Food.

Arts & Entertainment

Chinese New Year Parade Will Also Have 'Year of the Horse'-Themed Drone Show Over Embarcadero

There will be a big drone light show over the waterfront Saturday night, in conjunction with the Chinese New Year Parade — and this seems to be a redo from last year, when a technical snafu canceled the drone show.

Business & Tech

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market Shutting Down 36 Stores Nationwide, Unclear If Any Are In the Bay Area

After a brutal fourth quarter in which they somehow managed to lose a staggering $218 million, the Emeryville-based Grocery Outlet is shuttering 36 stores, though these may not be Bay Area stores that are closing.

SF Politics

Kristi Noem, on the Way Out the Door, Claims to Have Been In Frequent Contact With Mayor Daniel Lurie

We have another clue about how and to what extent Mayor Daniel Lurie has been playing ball with the Trump administration — which we know led to Trump calling off his dogs back in October with that planned federal "surge."

SF News

Stabbing In Broad Daylight In SF's Chinatown Leaves One Man Critically Injured

A seemingly unprovoked stabbing Thursday afternoon in San Francisco's Chinatown left one male victim with life-threatening injuries. Police have arrested a suspect.

SF News

Hayward Family of Three Deported at Routine SF Immigration Check-in, Including Deaf Seven-Year-Old Boy

More pointless cruelty in the SF immigration courts under Trump, as a mother and her two kids, one of them deaf, checked in for their SF immigration appointment and were heartlessly shipped to Colombia.

SF News

Pedestrian Killed, Scooter Rider Injured In Collision With Vehicle In North Beach

One person is dead and another was injured in a collision between a vehicle and both a pedestrian and an electric scooter Thursday night in North Beach.

SF News

Mayor Daniel Lurie's Security Detail Attacked In Tenderloin Scuffle, Two Injured

A strange and violent incident unfolded Thursday evening on a Tenderloin alley where SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's black SUV was reportedly blocked in by multiple people, and two of his security guards, both SFPD officers, became involved in a physical fight.

SF News

Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Residents Get First Flights Out of Dubai

Bay Area residents who had been trapped in Dubai since last Saturday began returning to SFO Thursday; SF is expected to see 80-degree days this weekend; and teachers in Dublin are threatening to strike on Monday.

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Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Settles $120 Million Lawsuit Against SF For Exactly $0

Sheng Thao’s lawyers had a bad day in court; our military actions against Iran are raising gas prices and pummeling the stock market; and Airbnb is giving up on getting $120 million back from the City of San Francisco.

Arts & Entertainment

'Paranormal Activity' Brings Jump-Scares and Spooky Vibes to the Stage at ACT

A stage play inspired by the Paranormal Activity film franchise arrived at San Francisco's ACT in recent weeks, and it could presage a new paradigm for the horror genre coming to the live theater.

Arts & Entertainment

Oakland’s Big Alysa Liu Victory Celebration Now Scheduled for Thursday, March 12

Oakland’s Alysa Liu victory celebration will not quite be a parade down Grand Avenue, but instead a rally on the steps of City Hall, and it's scheduled for 12 noon on Thursday, March 12

SF News

Vigilante 'Squatter Removal' Guy Faces Assault and False Imprisonment Charges In San Mateo County

A self-described, extra-legal "squatter removal service" was allegedly being run by a sword-wielding, San Francisco-based guy who, along with two associates, now faces assault, burglary, and false imprisonment charges in San Mateo County.

SF News

BART Police Rocked by Racist AI Deepfake Video Being Texted Around Among Ranks

What is it with Bay Area law enforcement and their racist text messages? Yet another such scandal just hit the BART Police force, in a video where BART Police officers singled out a Sikh colleague for mockery.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

The Big Four Makes Big Return This Month on Nob Hill at the Revamped Huntington Hotel

As we were getting periodic news in recent months about the reopening of the 104-year-old Huntington Hotel, the big question for those of us who won't be booking thousand-dollar rooms there has been when the moody restaurant and lounge known as The Big Four would be back open.

SF News

It Will Likely Be a Year Before the Port of SF's Sinking Dry Dock #2 Can Be Demolished and Removed

The Port of San Francisco is reportedly crossing its collective fingers that the massive, listing Dry Dock #2, which currently requires constant pumping to keep it from sinking, doesn't sink to the bottom of the Bay before they can remove it, a process that isn't likely to happen before next winter.

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Two Stabbed In Dolores Park Altercation Wednesday, Multiple Teens In Custody

SFPD confronted a “group of unknown subjects in a physical altercation” at Mission Dolores Park Wednesday afternoon, and more disturbingly, six of the eight suspects arrested were teens.

SF Politics

Trump Fires Kristi Noem and Installs New Clown to Lead Homeland Security

Given Trump's well established penchant for firing people, going a full year in office without a high-profile firing says something. But now Kristi Noem, aka ICE Barbie, the underqualified and always out-of-her-depth Secretary of Homeland Security, is out.

SF News

Battery Fire at Sixth Street SRO Sends One Resident to the Hospital

There was a large fire department and police response near Sixth and Market streets Wednesday night, which stemmed from a fire inside an SRO unit.

SF News

Thursday Morning What's Up: Prepping for Daylight Saving Spring Forward

Two apartment complexes in Oakland's Uptown are facing foreclosure; food insecurity has been on the rise across the Bay Area; and a local sleep expert offers tips to prepare for the Daylight Saving Time loss of an hour this weekend.