SF News Day Around the Bay: Cliff House Getting A New Restaurant, But No One Knows What It Is Oakland had its housing element rejected by the state, SF’s city-owned vehicles are also getting nailed by catalytic converter thefts, and there’s a new restaurant coming to the Cliff House space but they haven’t announced what the restaurant is.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District Bars Get Their Zoning Restraints Loosened Leather bars on Folsom and 11th streets have been tied up by zoning rules that deny their entertainment permits because of an old “200-foot buffer” rule, but the SF Board of Supervisors removed those handcuffs Tuesday.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Begins Laying Out Plan to Build 82,000 New Homes, and the City's West Side Better Brace Itself "With our Housing Element approved by the state, we have the plan," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday. "Now we need to put it into action."
SF News Oakland Unveils 100-Person Tiny-Home Village at Troubled Wood Street Encampment What was once northern California’s largest homeless encampment at Wood Street in Oakland now has a collection of tiny homes to house 100 people. But on the flip side, the clearing of the encampment continues.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chezchez, Valencia Street's Aperitivo Spot, Is Closed After 16 Months What had been a pretty popular pandemic-era spot for Negronis, spritzes, and tinned fish, Chezchez, is now closed, and it remains to be seen if the Bon Vivants/Trick Dog team will be having another go with another concept in the space.
SF News Newsom Calls For Federal Investigation Into Out-Of-Control PG&E Prices You’re not the only one whose PG&E bill has gone through the roof, and Governor Newsom is calling for a federal investigation into possible market manipulation with these crazy price hikes.
Business & Tech Google, Facebook, and Twitter to Be In the Crosshairs In Biden's State of the Union Address In his likely-to-be fruitless quest to boost bipartisanship in Congress, President Joe Biden is expected to launch some rhetoric in the direction of Big Tech during this evening's State of the Union address.
SF News Rabbis Call For Hate Crime Charges In Last Week’s SF Synagogue Shooting 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin is accused of firing shots in an Outer Richmond synagogue last week — and while the shots were blanks, his disturbing social media posts have synagogue leaders calling for hate crime charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Paul Pelosi to Be Guest at State of the Union SF's Roosevelt Middle School is addressing a threat made on Facebook, five teens were arrested for a string of armed robberies in Castro Valley, and Paul Pelosi has been invited as a guest of Jill Biden to the State of the Union this evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Announces $50K Rewards In Four Cold Cases Gov. Gavin Newsom announced four $50K rewards for four cold cases murders including one in San Pablo in 2020; a DoorDash driver in San Jose says he was attacked by a machete in a road rage incident; and a man has been charged with murder in Oakland's first homicide case of the near year.
Business & Tech Report: Child Exploitation Content Proliferating on Twitter, Despite Musk’s Claims He’s Stamping It Out Elon Musk purports to have run a crusade against child sexual abuse material on Twitter, but researchers say it’s still spreading like wildfire on the platform, likely because so many content moderators have been laid off.
SF Politics Retired Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier Joins Local TV Station KGO As Political Analyst Longtime Bay Area House Rep. Jackie Speier, who just ended a 15-year stint in Congress, has revealed her next chapter, and it is going to keep her on local TV screens talking politics for the foreseeable future.
SF News SFPD Toots Own Horn For Finally Making Three Arrests For Stolen-Item Vending on Mission Street We now have three arrests of people allegedly selling clearly shoplifted goods on Mission Street, but the methods used make one wonder why we didn’t start doing this months or years ago.
SF News Supervisors May End Remote Public Comment For People Who Want To Complain at Board Meetings The often-comical or rambling public comments at City Hall meetings have been submittable via Zoom or by phone since the start of the pandemic, but the Board of Supervisors may vote to end that practice by the end of the month, forcing commenters to show up again to complain in person.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Spinoff Wine Bar, Called Sluts, Opens In SoMa The promised wine bar offshoot of Oakland's "vulgar fine-dining" outfit Hi Felicia has just opened in the former Terroir wine shop/bar space on Folsom Street — and they're serving Lean Cuisines and Chips Ahoy to accompany your natural wine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scammer Used Eventbrite to Peddle Fake Dinner In SF Beware that not all things on Eventbrite can be trusted! A San Francisco chef was recently alerted to a phony wine dinner being advertised at his Noe Valley restaurant, and it took a few days for him to get Eventbrite to pull it down.
SF News Haney's New Bill Would Allow Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafes that Serve Food, Drinks With Weed The Amsterdam-style cannabis cafe could be coming to California under a new Assembly bill from Matt Haney, and you’d be able to have regular food and beverages while toking up, but alcoholic drinks would not be in the mix.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is Now Some Sort of Taylor Swift 'Bad Blood' Pop-Up Bar In the Marina For all those of you who need a themed "experience" for an excuse to drink, there's a "Taylor-themed heartbreak bar" pop-up now in the Marina which has absolutely no affiliation with Taylor Swift, her record label, or her music.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Is Stepping Down as Chronicle Restaurant Critic After Four Years Four years, a James Beard Award, and a pandemic later, Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho is relinquishing the post — and without a whole lot of explanation.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Police Chief Fights for Reinstatement Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, still on leave, pushed back again on a federal monitor's report; two arrests have been made in a Marin City stabbing; and we are in for a few days of sunny weather.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Suffers Leg Injury, Is Expected to Miss a Few Weeks According to Golden State Warriors' tweet, Steph had an MRI last night which showed that he partially tore his superior tibiofibular ligaments and interosseous membrane, in addition to incurring a lower leg contusion.
Contra Costa Massive Anti-Human Trafficking Bust in East Bay Leads to Arrest of 13 People, Identification of 30 Survivors California has one of the largest concentrations of human trafficking survivors in the United States, and Contra Costa county is no exception.
California PG&E Wants to Raise Your Monthly Bill by 16% Starting This Fall, Separate From This Winter's Sticker Shock Customers have likely seen and will continue to see significant increases in their bills this winter, to the tune of about a 32% spike.
SF News Sunday Links: Annual San Francisco Lunar New Year Parade Saturday Weathered the Rain to Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit The 1.3-mile parade route stretched from Second and Market Streets through Union Square all the way to Chinatown, drawing thousands; San Jose police arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting; and Oakland firefighters put out a 2-alarm blaze in Jack London Square Saturday night.
SF News Three Men, One Teenager Arrested After Drug Bust Recovers Over 20 Pounds of Fentanyl in Oakland and SF The bust was the result of SFPD's joint investigation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on drugs into the Tenderloin, DA Brooke Jenkins said.
