SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Car Destroys Parklet Outside Anina and Brass Tacks In Hayes Valley A Honda crashed Tuesday night into the parklet that sits outside the bars Anina and Brass Tacks on Hayes Street in Hayes Valley, destroying it, but thankfully no one was sitting in it at the time.
SF News SF Man Arrested In Israel, Extradited In 2017 Fatal Hit-and-Run In South San Francisco A suspect who fled the country in 2017 was brought back from Israel last week and booked into San Mateo County Jail in connection with the hit-and-run death of a South San Francisco woman.
SF News Wildfire Near Pleasanton Reaches 1,000 Acres, 40% Containment A vegetation fire dubbed the Little Fire, which broke out Tuesday afternoon in eastern Alameda County, has now burned over 1,000 acres and was 40% contained as of Wednesday morning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Injured By Car While Picketing at C&H Plant In Crockett A man was struck by a car that drove through a picket line outside the C&H Sugar plant in Crockett; the downtown community benefit district in SF just added the Ferry Building; and Napa is considering banning drive-thrus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF Port Director to Receive Four Misdemeanor Charges The Gilroy Garlic Festival returns this weekend; Trump has frozen $1 billion in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota; and prosecutors plan to charge Elaine Forbes, Sausalito city manager and former Port of SF director, with four misdemeanor charges.
Business & Tech Pixar Announces Large Round of Layoffs as Disney Moves to Cut Hundreds of Jobs Disney announced its third round of layoffs this year, eliminating several hundred jobs across the company, with Pixar expected to cut around 116 employees despite the box office success of 'Toy Story 5,' though Disney has not confirmed that figure.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two Richmond Men Suspected of Armed Robbery of Elderly Couple In SF San Francisco police released video of an arrest of two suspects who are believed to have stolen an SUV and then used it, days later, to commit an armed robbery in Visitacion Valley.
SF News Salesforce, Chris Larsen Donate $3M Each to Boost SFPD’s Real-Time Investigations Center The latest tech contributions to SFPD’s Real Time Investigations Center come from Salesforce and Chris Larsen with combined $6 million in donations, which will go toward boosting infrastructure and operations and developing “counter-drone” technology.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outside Lands Brings Back 'Secret' Snack Menu, Reveals Limited-Edition Dishes The always robust food program at Outside Lands will again feature some off-menu snack portions of dishes at some vendors, as they did two years ago, and some limited-edition indulgences including an uni smashburger.
SF News Suspect In San Francisco Kitten Killing Fails to Show Up For Court Date, Warrant Issued The Reno man who was arrested in very dramatic fashion last week in a coordinated operation between the SFPD and SF Animal Care & Control, for allegedly torturing and killing a kitten in an ATM vestibule, is now apparently on the run.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The New York Times Returns, With Respect, to Chez Panisse, and Praises the New Bar Panisse After seven years of general disrespect and snubbing by the local paper of record, the SF Chronicle, Chez Panisse and its new next-door offshoot Bar Panisse get some sincere praise and quiet reverence from the New York Times.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jollibee Filipino Fast-Food Set to Open on SF’s Market Street July 31 After Years of Delays The nearly six-year wait for Jollibee to return to San Francisco is almost over, as the new Market Street location is scheduled to open its doors July 31.
SF News Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Gives $75 Million For Vanderbilt's New SF Arts College A new arts college named for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife is set to be the "cornerstone" of Vanderbilt's new San Francisco satellite campus, with the focus being a blend of arts education, design, engineering, and AI.
SF News Vallejo Police Fatally Shoot Carjacking Suspect Who Allegedly Opened Fire An armed carjacking suspect in Vallejo was fatally shot by police during a felony traffic stop Monday afternoon after he allegedly opened fire on an officer.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Giant Crow Sculptures Defaced By Vandal The CA DMV is expanding its digital ID program to 60% of drivers; bars in SF and San Jose saw a significant bump in business from the World Cup; and the giant crow sculptures in the Panhandle got defaced over the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Clint Reilly, Longtime SF Politico and Owner of the Examiner, Dies at 79 Clint Reilly, the longtime SF political consultant and downtown real estate owner, has died; a group linked to Lowell High School is suing over an ethnic studies curriculum; and there was a serious late-afternoon backup on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Haight Street Restaurant Becomes Target of Ridicule, Graffiti Over AI Images on Storefront Menu A new restaurant and cafe that opened on Haight Street in the former Citrus Club spot, which closed in April after three decades, received backlash over the “slop” food images featured on its AI-generated storefront menu.
SF Politics SF Supe Introduces Bills Letting Small Businesses Negotiate Rent, Sell to Employees Two proposals by Supervisor Connie Chan would let small businesses with the same landlord negotiate rents collectively while giving employees the first opportunity to buy the business if an owner decides to sell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Closes After 11 Years In the FiDi The retro-chic Champagne and oyster bar Leo's has quietly shut its doors in the Financial District, a decade after garnering national acclaim for its design.
SF News Homeless Man Allegedly Struck and Critically Injured By Off-Duty SFPD Officer Driving In North Beach A homeless man was reportedly struck and badly injured by a vehicle Monday morning in an alleyway behind the SFPD's Central Station in North Beach, and the driver was allegedly an off-duty SFPD officer.
Arts & Entertainment Oasis Makes Its Grand Return In SoMa, With Refreshed Look, Full Slate of Events "This is what queer joy looks like!" declared D'Arcy Drollinger, celebrating the reopening Friday of Oasis, the SoMa nightclub and cabaret venue she cofounded a decade ago.
SF News Sausalito City Manager, Former SF Port Director Arrested Following Yacht Harbor Incident Former longtime Port of SF Director Elaine Forbes, who became Sausalito's city manager three weeks ago, was arrested following an apparent mental health crisis onboard a yacht days after taking a leave of absence then being reported missing.
SF News Survivor of Last Week's Tragic Boat Capsize on the Bay Describes the Moment the Boat Rolled Over While a few secondhand accounts have emerged about what happened aboard the Volare last Tuesday, bringing a quick and tragic end to a memorial cruise for 20 family members and friends, today we get a firsthand account from one of the survivors.
SF News Driver Fleeing SFPD Collides With Car In Mission Then Smashes Dealership Windows, Injuring Eight Police say a suspect who was driving erratically with four passengers in the Mission Sunday refused to pull over and continued until they crashed into a truck and then smashed into the windows of car dealership, sending three to the hospital.
SF News Three People Injured, Possibly Dozens Displaced In Tenderloin Apartment Fire A Sunday fire in the Tenderloin has left an unknown number of residents displaced, and three people were treated for smoke inhalation.
