SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa's La Tortilla Factory Relocating to Kansas A pair of SF tow-tuck operators accused of fraud; another video goes viral of a brazen retail theft, this time in Emeryville; and Santa Rosa's 47-year-old La Tortilla Factory is shutting down.
SF News Sinkhole Opens Up, Damages Car on 14th Street In San Francisco A fairly large sinkhole opened up Wednesday afternoon in the Mission District, and it opened up right underneath an SUV that was driving over it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs From Dalida, Mourad, and Shuggie's All Part of 'Top Chef' Season 21 Cast Three out of the cast of 15 of the upcoming Top Chef season hail from San Francisco kitchens, which puts the odds of the show crowning a new local celebrity chef at one in five.
SF News Anti-Abortion Nitwit Who Climbed Salesforce Tower Just Scaled The Sphere In Las Vegas A guy who likes to climb big buildings for internet glory — and, he says, anti-abortion advocacy — was just arrested in Las Vegas for scaling The Sphere.
SF News Lawsuit From Former Oakland Police Chief Claims Mayor Didn't Want to Fire Him Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who was fired one year ago by Mayor Sheng Thao amid an internal affairs scandal, has now filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sheriff Seizes 90 Cars From Sideshow, Wants to Destroy Them The sheriff in San Joaquin County wants to destroy all 88 cars that his deputies seized in a sideshow last weekend; a boy was killed in a freak accident at a Marin County school; and the power remains out for 35,000 PG&E customers.
Arts & Entertainment Will Reclusive Artist and San Francisco Resident Tracy Chapman Get Back Out on Stages After Grammys Comeback? One of the highlights of Sunday's highlight-filled Grammy Awards was a duet between the great Tracy Chapman and young country music star Luke Combs, whose 2023 cover of her 1988 hit "Fast Car" hit No. 2 on the Billboard chart.
SF News Underground Vault Fire Sends Smoke Into SoMa, Closes Mission & Third Intersection An underground electrical fire was creating some traffic in and around SoMa Tuesday afternoon, so be warned.
SF News Muni Ridership Reached 71% of Pre-Pandemic Levels In 2023, With Some Bus Routes More Crowded Than In 2019 Ridership on Muni buses and trains was up to 86% of pre-pandemic levels on weekends last year, and up to 68% on weekdays, but revenue across the SFMTA remains down — and are these ridership numbers even real if people don't pay?
Arts & Entertainment Gap Inc. Hires Star Designer Zac Posen to Chief Creative Role to Revamp Old Navy, Other Brands High-profile fashion designer Zac Posen, known for designing red carpet looks and showing at New York Fashion Week, is taking on a new corporate role as executive vice president and creative director at Gap Inc., and CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Old Navy.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 65,000 Still Without Power Around the Bay Just under 65,000 PG&E customers were still without power as of this morning; the man killed by a fallen tree in Santa Cruz County has been identified; and an appeals court has ruled that Trump is not immune from prosecution for January 6th.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF to Acquire St. Mary's and St. Francis Hospitals UCSF is reportedly weeks away from closing a deal to acquire two struggling hospitals; a sex offender was arrested for jumping a fence at a Livermore school and acting lewdly; and the top wind gust recorded in the Bay on Sunday was 102 mph.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Seen Playing With Kids In Prison Yard For Her 40th Birthday Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, who is nine months into an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos, celebrated her 40th birthday over the weekend at the Texas women's prison where she resides.
Bay Area Sports 2026 World Cup Matches Scheduled at Levi's Stadium, None Are In Final Rounds Six matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be played at Levi's Stadium in June and early July 2026, but these won't include any of the more decisive games in any of the later rounds of the tournament.
Arts & Entertainment New Comedy Club and Cocktail Lounge The Function Set to Open on Mid-Market A local comedian is opening a new comedy club this spring in a former dive bar space near Market and Van Ness in San Francisco, and it will be called The Function.
SF News Six People and a Dozen Dogs and Puppies Required Water Rescue From Inundated River Island In San Jose A group of people and their dogs who were apparently camped on an island in the Guadalupe River in San Jose required an emergency rescue on Sunday as the river waters rose.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Thousands Still Without Power In Bay Area There are many downed trees still being cleaned up in SF and around the Bay; as of Monday a.m. 4,800 PG&E customers in SF were without power, and many thousands more in the North and South Bay; and one person was killed in Santa Cruz County when a tree fell on their home.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Starlite Debuts Atop the Beacon Grand The Starlight Room becomes Starlite starting this weekend, the family behind Original Joe's and Little Original Joe's is opening a new Mexican place in West Portal next week, and more in this edition of This Week In Food.
SF News Mayor London Breed Hopes to Lure Historically Black Colleges to Downtown SF With New Program On Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a plan to begin offering summer classes through historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the city, and the intention of luring at least one of those HBCUs to establish a satellite campus downtown.
SF News Next Storm Moves In Sooner Than Forecast, Heavy Rain to Begin Saturday Afternoon The Bay Area won't get much of a break between atmospheric river storms this week, even though meteorologists had earlier assured us that we'd have a fairly dry weekend until Sunday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Monarch Butterfly Population Down Again In CA An earthquake with a preliminary 4.9M struck off the Eureka coast this a.m.; a house fire in the East Bay left two people seriously injured; and California's monarch butterfly population appears to be down 30% over last year.
Arts & Entertainment 'Cult of Love' Is a Wry and Wrenching New Family Drama at Berkeley Rep The holidays are a fraught time for any family, and for the Dahls, the fictional family in Leslye Headland's new play 'Cult of Love' that just opened at Berkeley Rep, Christmas requires a lot of negotiations, and singing.
Arts & Entertainment How to See the Famous 'Firefall' at Yosemite This Month 'Tis the season once again for seeing the Instagram-famous "firefall" at Yosemite National Park, otherwise known as Horsetail Fall when the setting sun strikes it just right for a couple of weeks in February.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Rolled Beef Pancake at Taste of Old Street A new Chinese street-food spot has opened in the Richmond, and they specialize in Chengdu-style barbecue skewers, noodle soups, and a particularly delicious rolled and beef-stuffed pancake.
Arts & Entertainment The B-52s Are Headlining Oakland's Mosswood Meltdown In July Big news on the local music festival circuit: The legendary B-52s are delaying retirement to headline Mosswood Meltdown — the punk music festival in Oakland's Mosswood Park that used to be called Burger Boogaloo.
