SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Farewell to Shuggie's and Anomaly, Bonjour to Esme It's a week that has seen three high-profile closure announcements as well as fire-caused closure at Che Fico, but on the brighter side, Esme is now softly open on Divis, and we have more in This Week In Food.
SF News Chinese Authorities Arrest UC Berkeley Foreign Policy Scholar, Alleging He’s a Spy A month after Trump told China's leader that Americans were spying “like hell” on the country, a scholar at UC Berkeley, who fled Myanmar in the '90s, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Students Reimagine the World Cup Vuvuzela With a Quieter ‘Pleasant Horn’ A more compact and pleasant-sounding alternative to the ear-splitting vuvuzela has arrived, thanks to a group of enterprising engineering students at Diablo Valley College in the East Bay.
SF News One Dead After Fiery Crash In Which Vehicle Flew Off Overpass In SF One person died and four others were injured in a fiery crash Thursday night just after midnight, in between SF's Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Temporarily Closed Due to Damage From Thursday Fire Chef-owner David Nayfeld said in a social media video Friday morning that Divisadero hot spot Che Fico, which had a fire in a chimney flue Thursday, suffered some damage and will have to close for an indeterminate period of time.
SF News Massive Blaze In Tracy Destroys One-Million-Square-Foot Warehouse, No Injuries Reported Fortunately no one was injured when a one-million-square-foot Tracy warehouse owned by a medical supply distributor was rapidly engulfed in flames Thursday, after a fire broke out on the roof and caused it to collapse.
SF News [Update] Suspect Killed, Two SF Police Officers Injured After Being Struck By Vehicle on Nob Hill A strange incident was being reported on Nob Hill Friday morning in which three pedestrians, including two SFPD officers, were struck by a Lexus, and one person was reportedly pinned under the vehicle.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two People Shot Near Alameda Beach Two people were shot and wounded near Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda Thursday night; two women who were likely sleeping on a Santa Cruz beach were swept into the ocean by a rising tide; and more women describe sexual harassment and worse inside Cesar Chavez's farmworker movement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All BART Stations In San Francisco Now Have Free Wi-Fi A giant Musk inflatable flew over NYC’s Times Square Thursday; a local nurse and TikTok creator was identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in downtown Oakland; and free Wi-Fi is now available at all of SF’s BART stations ahead of the World Cup.
SF Politics Lurie, Mahmood Introduce Commercial Foreclosure Tax Following Pause on BUILD Act After putting the larger BUILD Act proposal on hold, which would have cut transfer taxes in half on property sales above $10 million, Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood are pursuing a commercial foreclosure tax that’s initially expected to generate $67 million a year.
SF News [Update] One-Alarm Fire In Chimney Flue Damages Che Fico San Francisco firefighters were battling a one-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon which broke out just before 4 pm, with black smoke seen billowing from the vicinity of the restaurants Che Fico and Foghorn Taproom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jollibee’s Market Street Debut Remains Stalled Amid Ongoing Hurdles With City Jollibee's much-anticipated Market Street location was nearing the end of San Francisco's years-long, draconian permitting process when a noise compliance issue surfaced, throwing yet another wrench into the company's already delayed opening plans.
SF News NorCal Hmong Cult Leader Sentenced to 225 Years For Molestation, Rapes The leader of a cultish religious group partly based in Oroville, in Butte County, was recently convicted of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape, and he's now been sentenced to 225 years to life — though he will be eligible for "elder parole."
SF News Long-Awaited Powell Street Redesign Advances After Lurie Signs Private Funding Measure Following legislation signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, the city accepted $14.5 million in private funding from SF’s Downtown Development Corporation to push forward the long overdue revitalization of the Powell Street corridor.
Bay Area Sports How to Watch the First World Cup Matches, at Home or at an SF Bar There are many ways you can watch the World Cup matches at home or with friends, with the first matches being played today in Mexico, and Team USA playing its first match against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday.
SF News Police Search For Potential Co-Conspirator In OpenAI Firebomb Attack A search is underway for an unidentified young woman who called to request a late checkout for the suspect in the OpenAI firebomb attack in April, and the SFPD thinks she may be a co-conspirator.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Year and a Half After Reopening, Park Tavern Is Closing For Good It's always sad when a bustling restaurant that felt like it had been there forever loses its mojo and withers away. But that was the case for North Beach's Park Tavern, not just once, but twice.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Foundation to Help Oakland Tackle Illegal Dumping Michael Moritz's Crankstart Foundation is giving Oakland a $9M hand with its illegal dumping problem; Olympian Eileen Gu's house in Sea Cliff has apparently been doing some dumping of its own; and SF Pride had an official kickoff variety show last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flag Warning for North, East Bay Hills A "severe" Red Flag Warning has been issued starting at 11 pm tonight for the North and East Bay hills; SFUSD's Maria Su made it through her congressional hearing without much drama; and the trial of the accused Palisades Fire arsonist began today.
SF News First Major Overhaul of Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square In Decades Has Begun Following years of disputes, construction has begun on the $73 million renovation of the historic Portsmouth Square park in SF’s Chinatown, which is expected to take two years.
Arts & Entertainment Will Another Planet Continue Doing Extra Golden Gate Concerts After Outside Lands? A new report estimates that the Bay Area saw $245.1 million in extra economic activity last summer thanks to the three consecutive weekends of major concerts in Golden Gate Park, produced by Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF Politics Supe Melgar Delays Proposed Smoking Ban at SF Bar Patios Following Backlash After facing widespread outrage over a proposed ban on smoking at bar patios in SF, Supervisor Melgar has put the plan on hold while she and Mayor Lurie continue discussions with the community.
SF News SF Faces Second Class-Action Lawsuit Over Treatment of Women at County Jail Following a class-action lawsuit last month over alleged illegal strip searches of women at SF County Jail No. 2, a second suit filed Tuesday claims conditions for women in custody are worse than those for men.
SF News SFPD Offering $250K Reward, Asks For Public's Help In Solving Doodler Murders San Francisco police are again trying to raise the profile of the so-called Doodler killings in the mid-1970s, in which six men, all likely led there for clandestine gay hookups, were murdered on and around Ocean Beach and Lands End.
SF Politics SF Filmmaker and Booster Group Drop Celebrity-Filled 'Comeback City' Video Joe Talbot, the director of 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco,' and the group Believe In SF have just unveiled a new video promoting the city's comeback, featuring Joe Montana, Steph Curry, Dominique Crenn and others.
