• The brand new Sunset Dunes park at Ocean Beach, which drew an impressive crowd on its opening day last weekend, continues to generate contention across social media. Gorgeous park and environmental benefits aside — from this author’s perspective, proponents of the park have been pretty dismissive, and even condescending, toward opponents’ valid concerns. [KGO]
  • The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office has fired a deputy who was filmed shoving a newly released elderly female prisoner out the facility’s front door and onto the ground. The shove resulted in a broken leg and a three month hospital stay for the 71-year-old woman, who now uses a walker and lives in pain. [KOVR]
  • Ten local arts organizations have been chosen as winners of the city’s new Culture Forward creative grant program. A few grantees include visual artist Jeffrey Cheung and queer skating organization Unity Press & Skateboarding; Market Street Arts and Mid-Market Foundation; and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. [Chronicle]
  • A behind-the-scenes look at the often overlooked 2005 ghostly rom-com Just Like Heaven, which is set in San Francisco and stars Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. The film, which SFGate describes as “the goth cousin of 13 Going on 30,” was directed by Mark Waters of Mean Girls fame who lived in SF from 1988 to 1992. [SFGate]
  • The Trump administration has been revoking university students’ F‑1, M‑1, and J‑1 visas without warning, forcing hundreds of international students into self‑deportation or detention. [CNN]
  • An Oakland bicyclist has died following a hit-and-run collision on Friday night at the intersection of 78th Avenue and International Boulevard. [Mercury News]
  • The world needs more community front stoop performances, like this set by Top Chefs Band, which recently took place near Alamo Square. [@handsomemajor]