Politics Reporter

Han Li

San Francisco’s iconic Lunar New Year Parade brought fireworks, lion dancers and renewed hope to a community still reeling from two mass shootings.

Transit officials said the closures will affect multiple off-ramps along Highway 101 and Interstate 280 from 7 p.m. to midnight Sunday.

Four years after it departed Union Square, the Japanese retailer will return to Market Street next year. 

After a temporary closure in October, the SF-born bubble tea company closes its Mission District location for good. 


The British singer-songwriter and LGBTQ+ icon is the first act booked — for an eight-night residency, no less — at the historic venue.