SF Politics Aaron Peskin Makes Mayoral Campaign Unofficial-Official; Breed Camp Already On the Attack SF Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who we've known is running for mayor for over a month now, is finally ready to make his official announcement, but first he leaked it to several news outlets again.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wounded In Shootings Overnight In Oakland Three people were wounded in two separate shootings in East Oakland; automated speed cameras are coming sooner than we thought to SF; and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan asks "what happened" to Tosca Cafe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Valencia Street Taqueria A car crashed into El Buen Sabor taqueria at 18th and Valencia today, but no one was hurt; residents of The Paramount have been waiting for compensation for a 10-day power and water outage in February; and there's already at taker for The North Face store in Union Square.
SF Politics The Race for Second for South Bay Congressional Seat Has Ended In a Tie? Crazily, only one vote separated congressional candidates Evan Low and Joe Simitian as the final votes were counted earlier this week, and one vote was added to Simitian's tally, resulting in a dead-even tie.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Japanese Spot Headed for Former Trou Normand Space In Downtown SF A new, likely high-end Japanese restaurant is in the planning stages at 140 New Montgomery, in the ground-floor space formerly home to Trou Normande in the building that was formerly home to Yelp's headquarters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisch & Flore to Softly Open Tonight In the Castro, In the 51-Year-Old Cafe Flore Space After four years of being closed and variously boarded over, the former Cafe Flore space at Market and Noe streets comes alive again tonight as Fisch & Flore.
SF News No Ins and Outs at Big Sur as More Rain Threatens to Cause More Road Damage Residents of Big Sur are being told that their last chance to evacuate the area for the next several days is at 4 pm Wednesday, after which there will be no more convoys of vehicles allowed to pass across a partially collapsed section of Highway 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's The Morris and Pacific Cocktail Haven, Oakland's Burdell Honored With James Beard Nominations The shortlist of nominees for this year's James Beard Awards is out, and while San Francisco has been largely snubbed once again, there are a handful of Bay Area honorees.
SF News North Bay School Gymnasium Evacuated After Naked, Bloodied Woman Walks In A woman experiencing a mental health crisis who wandered into a high school gymnasium in Petaluma on Tuesday had apparently suffered self-inflicted wounds after exiting her house through a window.
SF News Humpday Headlines: People's Park Case Arrives at State Supreme Court A 16-year-old Oakland girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found; the CA Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the People's Park case today; and it's going to be an unseasonably cold day around the Bay.
SF News SF Mayor Heads to China Next Week to Promote Tourism — and Lobby For a Panda San Francisco Mayor London Breed is heading to China next week to conduct some "panda diplomacy," or, at least, to ask again for some, and to promote tourism to SF.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands 'Eager Beaver' Presale Tickets Sell Out In Under Two Hours Those who know they will be going to Outside Lands this summer regardless of what the lineup is get their chance at an early-bird discount Wednesday morning.
SF News Assault on Shotwell Street Caught on Video; Neighbors Complain of Violence Involving Sex Workers A broad daylight assault involving two female suspects and one female victim who may be unhoused has neighbors on Shotwell Street newly complaining about the rampant sex trade happening there.
SF News Chesa Boudin, Other Bay Area Lawyers Implore Supreme Court to Protect Civil Rights of Homeless Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, now a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, joined with a group of Bay Area lawyers in an amicus brief filed Tuesday in the Oregon case about penalizing homeless camping that the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on later this month.
Arts & Entertainment Jon Stewart Says He Parted Ways With Apple Because They Wouldn't Let Him Talk About AI, or China, or Talk to the FTC Comedian Jon Stewart tore into his former employer on 'The Daily Show' Monday evening, suggesting that he severed his professional relationship with Apple over instances in which they instructed him to avoid certain subjects.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mpox Cases on the Rise Again Mpox cases appear to be ticking up again nationally; three people were shot in American Canyon on Monday; and the personal information of 73 million AT&T customers has been posted on the dark web.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gray Whale Population Appears to Be Rebounding AsiaSF is staying open one more month after "overwhelming" community support; Safeway stores in the Bay Area continue to overcharge for goods; and the West Coast's gray whale population appears to be rebounding after that mass die-off five years ago.
SF News Two 16-Year-Olds Arrested for Fatal Shooting at Powell Street BART Station Two juveniles have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of another juvenile in Hallidie Plaza last Thursday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Indian Restaurant From Michelin-Starred Chicago Chef Opening In the Marina San Francisco will soon get a new restaurant from the James Beard-recognized, Michelin-starred chef of Chicago's Indienne.
SF News Man Rescued From Cliffside By Helicopter Near Marin Headlands The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office lent some helicopter support to a dramatic rescue operation in Marin County Sunday evening, in which a man was stuck on a cliff.
SF News Kitchen Flue Catches Fire at Indian Oven Restaurant In Lower Haight A one-alarm fire that appeared to start in the kitchen of Indian Oven in the Lower Haight injured one person and has temporarily closed the restaurant.
SF News SFO Officials Push Back On Proposed Name Change For Oakland Airport Oakland Airport has been seeking ways to boost its profile among travelers, and on Friday the Port of Oakland announced that it was considering a name change to incorporate "San Francisco" into the name. And officials at SFO are not having it.
SF News Road Collapse On Highway 1 Strands Around 1,600 People In Big Sur Over Holiday Weekend Anyone who took a daytrip to Big Sur on Saturday, or those who were perhaps spending a weekend there, were surprised to learn they were stranded Saturday evening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Mayor Wants to Choose Next Police Chief Without Commission Input Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wants to make a change to the city charter regarding the police commission; that $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers takes effect today; and two people died in a wrong-way crash on I-580 Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Trendy L.A. Seafood Spot Comes to Ghirardelli Square Broad Street Oyster Co. just opened its first Bay Area location at Ghirardelli Square, a hot taqueria from Richmond arrives in the Castro, and the Chronicle reviews Z&Y Peking Duck.
