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.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Clogged Storm Drains and Heavy Downpours Lead to Minor Flooding In SF There was some minor flooding in multiple parts of the city Wednesday night, as well as downed trees; isolated showers remain possible through Thursday; and a gaping hole in a Chinatown sidewalk took the city a year to fix.
SF News [Updated] Officer-Involved Shooting on I-280 Snarls Traffic In SF There was a CHP-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon on I-280 in San Francisco, near the Mariposa Street on-ramp, and all southbound lanes of the freeway were subsequently closed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 30-Year-Old SF Bar Faces Possible Eviction Blackthorn, a 30-year-old bar in the Sunset, is facing a possible eviction; a judge has ruled that Californians don't need background checks to buy bullets; and Clorox is offering security escorts to employees exiting their Oakland headquarters.
SF News Group of Suspects Ransacks and Robs Walgreens Store In Castro The Walgreens at Castro and 18th streets was robbed Tuesday night by an organized group of smash-and-grabbers who came with garbage bags to fill.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Plans Super Bowl Party Where Niners Faithful Won't Be Allowed — Only Chiefs Fans A SoMa sports bar is planning a Super Bowl party that won't be like any other in town, at least any other occurring in a public place or sports bar. The entire event, the owners say, is "reserved exclusively for Chiefs fans only."
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Documentary 'American Nightmare' Shines New Light on Vallejo Detective Who Botched Huskins Case A central figure in the disastrously bad investigation into the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo, Detective Mat Mustard, remains on the force, and a popular new Netflix documentary casts him as a villain.
Business & Tech Lindsey Graham Tells Social Media Companies 'You Have Blood on Your Hands' and More Drama From Today's Senate Hearing A much anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing took place Wednesday that gave Senator Lindsey Graham and others a chance to grandstand on an issue that has rare bipartisan support, the problem of social media and kids.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wind Advisory and Flood Watch In Effect There is a wind advisory in effect for today's storm through early Thursday; no charges are being filed against a homeless assault suspect arrested Sunday; and Dead & Company are doing a Las Vegas residency.
SF News SF Homeless Man Acquitted of Assaulting Ex-Commissioner Back In Jail For a Different Assault Garret Doty, the 25-year-old homeless man who was acquitted in December in a high-profile assault case involving a former SF fire commissioner, has landed in jail again for allegedly assaulting someone with a guitar.
SF News Another Home-Built Plane Crashes In the Bay Area, Killing Its Pilot A second home-built aircraft has crashed inside of two weeks in the Bay Area, killing the pilot aboard, and pointing to a disturbing apparent trend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Brunch Spot Called Early to Rise Set to Open Next Month In Former Automat Space Another pop-up-turned-brick-and-mortar business is taking over the space that formerly housed Automat in the NoPa neighborhood, and it comes from a former chef at Spruce and Quince.
SF News Man Shot By Sheriff's Deputy at Palisades Tahoe Identified as Jamaican National A man who was fatally shot by a Placer County Sheriff's deputy last week at the Palisades Tahoe ski resort has been identified, and we're now learning more about the circumstances that led to the shooting.
SF News Bay Area Braces For Another Serious Rainstorm One local meteorologist is saying we are going to get "slammed" by the incoming storm on Wednesday morning, so don't let this balmy weather fool you. It is still very much winter.
SF News Man Who Beheaded Ex-Girlfriend In San Carlos Receives Maximum Sentence, Which Is 25 to Life A Hayward man who was convicted in November in the 2022 slaying of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro was sentenced Tuesday morning to 25 years to life in prison, the maximum allowable under California law.
