SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Barcelona Bar Star Pops Up In SF Horn Barbecue is headed to Sacramento now as well, the Castro is getting a women's sports bar, and Oakland's Bombera wins an East Bay honor, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Thousands Turn Out for Toro y Moi DJ Set at Downtown First Thursdays In case you missed it, singer, songwriter, and producer Chaz Bear aka Toro y Moi was the headliner at Downtown First Thursdays last night, and a major crowd showed up for the day-after-New-Year's-Day event.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Berkeley Woman Reports Attempted Kidnapping A Berkeley woman says two people tried to kidnap her son while they were walking on the street; the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf reopens Saturday; and California's population grew for the second consecutive year.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Names Paul Yep as New Public Safety Chief The new Lurie administration will include a new "czar" of public safety who will oversee SF's police and fire departments, in addition to other public safety-related agencies, and Thursday they announced their pick.
SF News First Half of January Looking Very Dry For Bay Area, After Brief Friday Rain San Francisco and the Bay Area are in for some light rain Friday as a weak new cold front moves in from Alaska, but then we're looking at an extended dry period, which isn't great news for anyone starting ski leases up in Tahoe.
SF News One Man Dies, Woman and Child Injured In Possible Domestic Incident In Bernal Heights; Two Injured In SoMa Shooting A man died and a woman and toddler were shot and injured Thursday morning not far from the parking lot where the Alemany Farmers' Market is held, in Bernal Heights.
Business & Tech Office Tower at Sixth and Market Getting Acquired By Tech Group for 'Post-AI Singularity' Vertical Village Well, this sure sounds like a positive, if kooky, sign for mid-Market as a Burning Man-esque tech collective is close to buying the 16-story building at the corner of Sixth Street that was once home to the Burning Man organization.
SF News First Homicide of the New Year In San Francisco Happened In the Mission, Arrest Made Quickly The first homicide of the year in San Francisco happened less than a half hour after midnight on New Year's Eve, at a gas station in the Mission District.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New Orleans Death Toll Rises to 15 The death toll in the apparent terrorist attack in New Orleans Wednesday has risen to 15; a Mill Valley family says they narrowly escaped being in the area of the attack; and a 4.7M earthquake rattles Lake County.
SF News One Person Dead After Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas In a highly symbolic New Year's Day event, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded as it sat outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving one person dead, and speculation is swirling about a possible link to the tragedy in New Orleans hours earlier.
SF News Oakland Sees Violent End to the Year, Beginning of a New One, With Four Murders In 24 Hours While Oakland saw a drop in homicides in 2024, the city unfortunately made up some of that gap in the final hours of the year on Tuesday.
SF News New Year's Day Links: At Least 10 Killed In Apparent Targeted Attack In New Orleans At least 10 people were killed when a pickup truck drove into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans; a suspect has been arrested in an East Oakland shooting of an elderly man; and a fisherman was caught with an illegal haul in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Six Best New Bars In San Francisco, 2024 San Francisco always has been a drinking town, and 2024 brought a collection of cool new watering holes in which to wet one's whistle — and one where you can also get your dance on.
SF News Two Deplorable Teens Arrested In Brentwood Carjacking and Robbery Brentwood police say they have arrested two teenagers, one male and one female, following an alleged assault, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery last week, and the two teens were apparently known to police.
SF News New Year's Eve Links: Drive-By Shooting In Antioch A drive-by shooting in Antioch left behind 53 shell casings but no one was injured; a house fire near Hayward left a firefighter injured; and the Watsonville man killed by storm debris on a Santa Cruz beach has been identified.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best New Restaurants In San Francisco of 2024 A few buzz-worthy spots had locals doing their usual line-standing or jockeying for tables online this year, and we've seen a collection of terrific new restaurants despite an overall quiet year on the food scene.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Hasn't Had to Physically Eject Any Passed-Out Passengers... Yet People have passed out in the back of Waymos, but so far they've woken up; the city of Oakland hasn't collected over $1M in fines issued for illegal dumping; and it's going to be very chilly around the Bay Tuesday morning.
SF News Security Guard Appeared to Pull Gun on Officers In SFPD Bodycam Footage of Union Square Incident The security guard whom SFPD officers fatally shot in a bizarre incident two weeks ago appeared to pull a gun and move to aim it at officers as they were attempting to detain him, as seen in bodycam footage.
SF News Matthew Muller, the Man Convicted In Denise Huskins Kidnapping and Assault, Faces New Charges In Santa Clara County Matthew Muller, the man at the center of what was, at first, the very mysterious 2015 disappearance and subsequent return of a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, is now heading back to court to face charges relating to alleged assaults from six years earlier.
Business & Tech Now the Proper Hotel on Mid-Market Appears to Be In Financial Distress One of two boutique, luxury hotels that were meant to be part of a renaissance on mid-Market Street — which never really materialized — the Proper Hotel at Seventh and Market, now looks like it might fall into the hands of its lender.
SF News Norovirus Cases on the Rise Across the Country as Holiday Travels Wrap Up Many Americans have had an unpleasant surprise during these past couple celebration-filled weeks, and that surprise was a gastrointestinal virus.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Cliff Rescue at Devil's Slide A crew of thieves hit four gas stations in Oakland in quick succession; a hiker required rescue at Devil's Slide; and the mother of the OpenAI whistleblower now says his apartment was "ransacked."
SF News Santa Cruz Mayor Isn't Committing to Rebuilding Collapsed Section of Wharf Four days after a winter swell took out a 150-foot section of the historic Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the mayor of Santa Cruz is hedging when asked about whether a rebuilding plan is getting underway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: End-of-Year Goodbyes Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Suspect In San Francisco Carjacking Arrested In Sacramento County After Allegedly Firing at Police A suspect in a Thursday carjacking in San Francisco was spotted driving in Rancho Cordova, in Sacramento County, and when sheriff's deputies began pursuing him, he allegedly fired at them out of the car window.
