San Francisco - Community & Society

Celebrating the start of Pride Month, Jane Fonda and Manny Yekutiel join forces to make a stand against climate change at the Castro Theatre.

San Francisco's largest ever ad campaign, "Always in San Francisco," aims to counter negative media portrayal and attract tourists and conventioneers back to the city. The $6 million "full funnel" campaign targets key markets with decision-makers and event planners across the nation.

Sonoma County's recent homeless count shows that the homeless population has decreased by 22%, reflecting the hard work of many across the county to help those experiencing homelessness.

Violence erupted at a contested community garden in San Francisco's Mission District, amid a dispute between guerrilla gardeners and developers.

New Census data shows that Asians are now the largest racial group in the Bay Area, overtaking whites. The data reveals a growing Asian population, increased percentage of renter-occupied homes, and trends of larger household sizes and fewer children under five years old.

California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has agreed to reexamine the evidence in the shooting case of Banko Brown in an effort to seek justice. The incident occurred on April 27 when a security guard shot Brown following an altercation while shoplifting.

Elon Musk's devout army of "free speech absolutists" responded with mixed - often unfavorable - reactions to the planned installation of Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO. "RIP Twitter" was the #1 trending topic, but has since disappeared.

SF & San Jose among the top metros for college graduate employment rates. SJ took the #1 spot. New SF hopefuls see 7.5% hiring rate with $94,000 avr. salaries, but San Jose was even better.

The 600 block of Commercial Street is now truly renamed Emperor Norton Place, after City Hall approved the renaming in April, and SFMTA did quick work in getting the sign up last week.

In response to overwhelming demand, organizers of the upcoming May memorial for drag icon Heklina have announced that a block of Castro Street will be shut down.

The 600 block of Commercial Street in Chinatown will be renamed “Emperor Norton Place,” in honor of San Francisco’s greatest Victorian-era icon and eccentric, Emperor Joshua Norton.

A memorial has been planned for May 23 featuring "performances, stories, and more from Heklina's friends."

Six Sundays of car-free community spaces and fabulous family fun are lined up again for 2023, so mark your calendar with the brand new 2023 Sunday Streets schedule for the event series’ 15th anniversary.

These lovely sidewalk benches are now being declared "unpermitted encroachments" on Mirabel Avenue in Bernal Heights, with the Public Works department now demanding $1,400 permits for benches that have been there as long as 20 years.

After over five years in the Castro, LGBTQ+ social club The Academy (2166 Market St.) has announced a significant expansion of the club's footprint.

The SFMTA will decide the fate of nearly two dozen Slow Streets on Tuesday, and it’s pretty clear how they’re going to vote on all of them — except for one, the highly contentious Lake Street, and it’s anybody’s guess what will happen with that one.

A Sunday afternoon one-alarm fire spread to both the first and second floors of the Buchanan YMCA in Japantown, and the facility that serves mostly seniors will remain closed until further notice.

The SF Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to make the entire corner of Turk and Taylor Streets a historic landmark, as the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot that helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement.

The Bayview just got lucky, as a 10,000 square-foot Lucky supermarket has opened in the long-vacant former Walgreens location in the Bayview Plaza Shopping Center.

Plans for a six-story apartment building at Divisadero and Oak Street are now a wash, as the developer has surrendered the property back to the previous owners of Touchless Car Wash.

For the second time this year, Sunday Streets SF — an initiative of the non-profit Livable City that’s goal is to host programs that show the benefits of car-free spaces — will host another Phoenix Day event this Sunday, featuring eleven “Family Fun Hub Destinations.”

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 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 San Francisco SPCA currently has a good amount of adult dogs and cats up for adoption. In order to help them find their forever homes, the animal rescue is participating in the Clear the Shelters nationwide campaign, which aims to help older pets get adopted.

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.