SF News Update: San Francisco To Offer Funds For Businesses Affected By Saturday's Fire In The Castro After an early morning blaze severely damaged four businesses Saturday in The Castro, social media was quick responding to the crisis, offering bouts of support and calls for help. Now, the city appears adamant about offering a solvent helping hand, as well.
SF News Ready The Candles: PG&E May Shut Off Power Mid-Week To Parts Of The Bay Area In another fit of déjà vu, the legally embattled power company might perform more planned power outages this week in the wake of predicted strong winds and dry ground conditions.
SF News Sunday Links: The Calm Before Dreamforce Dreamforce 2019 – which will feature Barack Obama as a keynote speaker – is almost here, an SF public bank could make Bay Area housing actually affordable, San Francisco is knighted the most vegan-friendly city in the nation by PETA, and more Sunday headlines.
Arts & Entertainment BiP Unveils Provocative Kid-With-Gun Mural on Franklin Street Three months after he began with a mysterious pair of child's eyes, muralist BiP (Believe in People) has finished his fourth mural in San Francisco. And it's a conversation piece to be sure.
SF News Boudin Will Not Prosecute Prostitution, Public Camping, And Other 'Quality-Of-Life Crimes' Once Sworn In Freshly elected San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, after taking office in January, plans to stop the criminal prosecution of consenting sex workers, public campers ... and people peeing on the street.
SF News Saturday Links: Winter Is (Almost) Coming San Franciscans can expect a few more days of sunshine before cooler and wetter weather begins, the Mayor's Office will offer dozens of extra beds to the homeless this winter (that'll only be available to men), hate crimes skyrocket in SF, and more Saturday headlines.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Breaks Out In The Castro Above Q Bar And Osaka Sushi Early this morning around 4:30 a.m., a fire was reported off the 456 block of Castro Street, displacing some thirteen people and injuring two others.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run Identified The mother of murder victim Keith Green called acquitted suspect Tiffany Li "evil" outside a San Mateo courtroom today, the Santa Clarita shooter has died, and a suspected Marin County con artist was nabbed in New York.
SF News Two Orinda Shooting Victims Were Armed Rival Gang Members; Party Promoter Charged as Accessory At a Friday press conference, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston described the crime scene at the Orinda Airbnb on Halloween night as "a bloodbath" and like nothing he'd ever seen in his 32 years in law enforcement.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Irishman' Is Amazing, and Amazingly Slow Scorsese's latest epic, now playing at The Castro and at Alamo Drafthouse, is somber and slow, but also vital, intriguing, and real in its portrayal of an aging mafia hitman who was Jimmy Hoffa's right-hand man.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan-Friendly Gay4U Opens In Oakland With Instagram-Worthy Meatless Menu Gay4U, a sister project to the forever closed Hella Vegan Eats that once lived at Oakland's Classic Cars West, recently opened for business inside Oakland’s Garden House.
SF News Spencer Brasure, Killer In Infamous 90s Torture-Murder, Found Dead In San Quentin Cell Condemned man Spencer Brasure, who had lived on San Quentin's death row since 1998, was found dead in his cell of unpublicized causes early Thursday morning, according to prison officials.
SF Politics Former Supervisor John Avalos Is Running Again for District 11 Supervisor The 2020 Board of Supervisors races are now underway, as one-time supervisor John Avalos is challenging Ahsha Safai for the seat Avalos held for eight years.
SF News [Update] Hillsborough Heiress Tiffany Li Acquitted In Murder of Ex-Boyfriend The jury found Tiffany Li not guilty of the 2016 murder of her ex and baby daddy Keith Green, but they were deadlocked on the murder charge against her boyfriend Kaveh Bayat.
Arts & Entertainment Goop Store Brings 'Kid Calming Mist' and Vagina Eggs To Pacific Heights Gwyneth Paltrow's kind of creepy, "aspirational" retail and content brand Goop is opening its fifth brick-and-mortar retail shop today on Fillmore Street — and no doubt some fans will be flocking there for curated displays of kitchenware and $200 tank tops.
SF Politics Haney Says Feds Should Take Responsibility For Rampant Drug Sales In Federal Building Plaza The "open air drug market" that the courtyard outside the Federal Building has become at 7th and Mission shouldn't just be the responsibility of local authorities, says District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney.
SF News Trump Calls San Francisco a 'Dangerous and Disgusting Slum' President Trump has been tweeting up a storm Friday morning as the House holds its second televised day of impeachment hearings, and in one tweet attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi he refers to her "District of San Francisco" as a "dangerous & disgusting Slum."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Dreamforce Won't Be Serving Meat BART track work between Walnut Creek and Orinda wraps up this weekend, a man killed in Castro Valley has been identified as an East Bay parks worker, and more details are emerging about the Santa Clarita school shooter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five Suspects Identified In Orinda Shooting The Oakland Zoo has gained an adorable fennec fox from a private owner, SF's Board of Supervisors is likely to put a retail vacancy tax on the March ballot, and a defense motion for a mistrial in the Tiffany Li murder case has been denied.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Best Seafood Restaurants In San Francisco Ask a sampling of tourists what they're looking to eat while they're in San Francisco, and eight of ten are probably going to say "seafood." With that in mind, and for the seafood lovers who live here in the Bay Area, we offer you this curated list of destinations.
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Three Suspects In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder New footage has been released by Santa Cruz authorities in connection with the October 1 kidnapping and murder of 50-year-old tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre which shows three individuals casually strolling onto Pleasure Point Drive where Atre lived, with one carrying a rifle.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Dominique Crenn Makes All Her Restaurants Pescatarian In a move she says she hopes will "effect real environmental change," chef-restaurateur Dominique Crenn announced Thursday that she's pivoting all of her restaurants away from serving any type of land-based meats.
SF News It's Raining In San Francisco, Everybody! This wasn't in the forecast, but as of 1 p.m., the clouds covering San Francisco just dumped a smidgen of rain on the city for the first time in months.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Backs Off A’s Stadium Lawsuit, Jack London Ballpark Plan Back On Track The umpteenth attempt to build a new Oakland A’s ballpark has revolved its latest setback, and the team will not threaten to move to Las Vegas again for at least another six months.
SF News [Updated] Five Suspects Arrested In Marin City and Elsewhere In Connection With Orinda Shooting An early report is coming in that multiple suspects were arrested Thursday morning at an apartment complex in Marin City on suspicion of their involvement in the October 31 shooting that killed five people at a party in Orinda.
