SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Winemaker and Judgement of Paris Figure Mike Grgich Dies at 100 A renowned and beloved figure in the Napa Valley, Mijenko “Mike” Grgich, died Wednesday at age 100, reportedly passing in his sleep with family members at his side at home in Calistoga.
SF News Uh Oh: Forecasters Now Say This Winter's El Niño Could Be 'Historically Strong' We've been operating under the belief that this year's El Niño winter, given the past few El Niño cycles, was unlikely to be as bad as last winter's historically wet, months-long string of atmospheric river storms. But we may need to batten down the hatches once again.
SF News Protesters Outside Public Utilities Commission Call for Ouster of Commissioner Who Worked for Cruise A rally outside the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) offices in San Francisco Thursday morning was calling for the prosecution of executives at self-driving taxi company Cruise, and for the ouster of the commissioner who helped approve Cruise's permits.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Gets New Renderings, Revisions The planned redevelopment of the Stonestown Galleria property, which will turn what are currently parking lots into new residential, retail, and office space, has received some revisions, which include dropping a planned 200-room hotel.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yosemite Bringing Back Reservation System Three people were arrested in San Pablo with 600 lbs. of copper wire; Yosemite National Park is requiring reservations for entry next year; and Buster Posey says SF's reputation may be partly to blame for Shohei Ohtani passing up the Giants' offer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF District Attorney Says Homeless Should Be Made 'Uncomfortable' DA Brooke Jenkins said homeless people need to be "uncomfortable" in order to get them into shelter; the ex-cop in last weekend's standoff in the East Bay has been charged; and Hi Felicia owner Imana is closing Sluts wine bar and says she is unhoused.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harry Denton's Starlight Room to Be Reborn In February as Starlite The beloved, 21-story-high view bar at the Beacon Grand, formerly the Sir Francis Drake, is undergoing a facelift, and we finally have a reopening date.
Arts & Entertainment 'SF Is a Drag' Organizers Issue Apology After Performers Say They Were Harassed The two-day, guerrilla drag extravaganza two weekends ago in San Francisco went off mostly without a hitch, though we're now hearing about a situation in which two performers were harangued by a man on the street who didn't appreciate their form of protest.
SF News Cruise Passengers Stuck at SF Terminal For Hours Without Food Due to Departure Delay The Crown Princess couldn't dock on time Tuesday night in order to get passengers onboard for a voyage to Mexico, due to extra-low tides and silt buildup in the Bay, leaving hundreds of passengers waiting around the drafty cruise terminal at Pier 27.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley City Council Retracts Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Six people were hospitalized in a campus bus crash at UC Santa Cruz Tuesday night; the Berkeley City Council retracted a resolution it was set to vote on calling for a ceasefire in Gaza; and Tesla is conducting another major recall.
Business & Tech Google Loses Antitrust Suit Brought By Fortnite Maker Epic Games Epic Games, the maker of popular mobile game Fortnite, has prevailed in a federal lawsuit brought in San Francisco against Google over anticompetitive practices relating to the company's app store for Android phones.
SF News FBI Investigating After Russian Man Flies Into California From Europe With No Ticket or Passport A mysterious man carrying both Russian and Israeli IDs, believed to be a Russian citizen, landed at LAX last month and seemed to be pretty evasive after he was detained by Customs & Border Patrol agents and subsequently questioned by the FBI.
Arts & Entertainment Stockton Street 'Winter Walk' Returns For First Holiday Season Since 2018 The pop-up event that turned part of Stockton Street near Union Square into a traffic-free, pedestrian-only zone in December during five years of Central Subway construction is coming back, and ten days of holiday fun and events kick off on Friday.
SF Politics City Outreach Teams Say Around 60% of SF Homeless Refused Offers of Shelter the Past Three Months Mayor London Breed is again putting out the message that the city needs to enforce laws about camping in public spaces, ahead of a potential Supreme Court decision on the issue next year.
SF News Potential DUI Charges Delayed Against Sister of Nima Momeni Due to Toxicology Report The bizarre sidebar story to the Bob Lee murder trial, in which the sister of the prime suspect was arrested for a DUI last month in the Tenderloin that allegedly involved plowing into several parked cars and might have involved whip-its at 11 a.m. on a Monday, is in a holding pattern.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Rosa Man Arrested With Guns Booby-Trapped His Home The pedestrian death on Monday in SoMa appears to have happened in the Rainbow Grocery parking lot; a 64-year-old Santa Rosa man was found with an illegal cache of weapons; and thieves are getting more brazen in stealing whole ATMs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In SoMa Parking Lot A pedestrian was killed in a private parking lot in SoMa on Monday; a Clipper Card app meltdown stymied commuters; and X/Twitter now seems to be encouraging people to follow Alex Jones and other conspiracists.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Close For 16-Month Renovation Starting This Winter We now have some details on the timeline of the Castro Theatre's upcoming closure and renovation at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment — renovations that will include the controversial removal of seats.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Possibly at Risk Due to Ongoing Legal Battle Between Former Partners In Park Tavern The demise of Park Tavern, which was one of the bigger restaurant-closure stories of recent months, looks like it could potentially take other dominoes with it, as owner Anna Weinberg faces a major financial judgment against her from a former business partner.
SF News Ahead of Arraignment, Prosecutors Say Young Tech Worker Was Fatally Stabbed By Boyfriend Following his arrest last week, 29-year-old Scott Fisher has now been formally charged with the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong, and Fisher's arraignment was set for Monday afternoon.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In NoPa Leads to Multiple Injuries, Several Buildings Impacted Around one hundred San Francisco firefighters were on the scene of a residential fire in the Western Addition/NoPa neighborhood Monday morning, and one person was hospitalized with injuries after jumping from the burning building.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Reward Offered to Help Solve August Shooting In Visitacion Valley SFPD is offering a $25K reward for information on the August 3 killing of Relando Bell; BART ridership hit another high on Saturday; and the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that upholds a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: The Rabbit Hole Set to Open In the Mission/La Lengua The opening activity is slowing down as we near the depths of the holiday season, but there are still a few notable news items this week in the world of Bay Area food, including a new Asian spot coming to La Lengua.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Intimate SF Restaurant Is Taking Diners on a Nightly Journey Back In Time... and Forward In Time, and Sideways You've likely never had a dining experience that, over a couple of hours, attempts to take you time-traveling backward and forward through important moments in global food culture, and into a future of dining we can only begin to imagine.
SF News Mission Street Vendors to Protest Temporary Ban With Friday March A band of legitimate Mission District street vendors say they're being unfairly penalized for the illegal activity of others, and they were planning a protest march Friday at City Hall.
