Joe Kukura

The popular Sunset-Parkside free outdoor movie series Movies in McCoppin returns Friday for the first time since 2019, with a free family movie every Friday night of October.

The new boss is the same as the old boss at the Outer Sunset’s popular organic brunch spot Outerlands, as general manager Riley Bartlett now owns the place, and he’s already reopened the restaurant.

Dolores Park has its first big Indigenous People’s event Saturday, with an all-day program of DJs and dancing, and some wild projections after the sun goes down.

The Alexandria Theater at Geary and 18th Avenue has been an empty eyesore since 2004, but a reported new plan could make it as many as 76 units of housing.

Tuesday was the last day in business for the Mission District mainstay Roosevelt Tamale Parlor, which celebrated its 100-year anniversary in November, but a new Mexican restaurant tenant has reportedly already signed a lease on the space.

The daily fresh-made bread of Outerlands has stopped coming out of the oven, but its owners say that a new ownership team is coming and will “continue the same” traditions at the restaurant.

The pastor who transformed Glide Memorial Church into a feed-the-needy powerhouse, and an early activist for LGBTQ rights since 1964, the Reverend Cecil Williams turns 93 years old today.

The Broken Record was more than a cult-hit whiskey bar, having shepherded pop-ups Gentilly and Chicano Nuevo into brick-and-mortar restaurants, but the 50-cent PBR destination is closing October 15.

Add another slice of cult-hit Bay Area food fandom to the emerging Stonestown Galleria food court, as Berkeley-based pizza slice hit Blondie’s Pizza is the latest big restaurant name the mall has pulled in.

Nearly 200 low-income families in Mountain View will get a free $500 a month cash infusion in a new guaranteed basic income pilot program, and the application portal opens Friday.

A fenced-off patch of land began its transformation Wednesday into the 10-acre, $140 million India Basin Waterfront Park, a crown jewel that will give Bayview a waterfront park, and build a bike and walking trail between the Embarcadero and Candlestick Point.

The corner of 24th and Mission Streets is less chaotic, cleaner, and free of stolen goods for the first time in about nine months, as a new vendor permitting system is off to a promising start.

The battle between a big private school and a little farmers market could end, as Supervisor Eric Mar has brokered a compromise deal, and the Outer Sunset Farmers Market has just won a ten-month extension either way.

Bouncing back from bankruptcy, the once-ubiquitous toy retailer Toys R Us will rear its giraffe head again in San Francisco, inside the Union Square Macy’s store, as early as October 15.

That wacky Olympic sport involving ice, brooms, and very large rocks is something you can now practice in Oakland, at a new curling-only ice rink called the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club.

The new, bigger and better Bissap Baobab has soft opened with their breakfast menu, with the dinner menu slated to start on Thursday, September 15.

With kitchen alums from French Laundry, Lazy Bear, and SingleThread, the new Big Alma Bar Américain makes exquisite dining affordable with half-price fare during happy hour.

A Folsom Street mainstay with a dangling cow statue since 1987, Holy Cow has closed, but is being rebranded into some sort of “VIP bottle service” club called Eve that’s opening this weekend.

Yinz can get your coleslaw-and-french-fry sandwiches again, as the former Giordano Bros. has reopened as Rudi’s Sports Bar and Restaurant, with the menu and decor intact.

San Francisco's most homegrown “outdoor movie in the park” series is back next month, and Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema has posted all three nights’ schedules and locations.

The Mission-Bernal Big Lots at Mission and 29th Streets has delivered oddball retail joy for decades, but is now boarded up and permanently closed.

The Lower Haight’s favorite sports bar is now the Upper Haight’s favorite sports bar, as Mad Dog in the Fog has quietly reopened at Haight and Clayton Streets, in the former Martin Macks space.

The geometric wonder at Folsom and Spear Street just added a wonderful addition, as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a beer and wine license for its forthcoming ground-floor Mili Wine Bar.

The Malaysian cuisine of Mahila will be reborn as Azalina’s, in the conspicuously-muraled Aviary building at Ellis and Leavenworth Street in September.

An April tent fire destroyed an Amos Goldbaum mural at Church and 15th Streets, but Goldbaum is restoring it now and expects to finish by the end of the week.