SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Tyler Florence Is Taking Over Town Hall; Existing Town Hall to Close Next Week Longtime downtown lunch and dinner hotspot Town Hall is closing after Halloween, and celebrity chef Tyler Florence will be taking it over and keeping the name.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Kicks Off Weeklong Trip In China, Where He's Discussing Climate Change Continuing to act presidential without actually running for the job, Governor Gavin Newsom is in China this week, discussing the state's partnership with the country on climate initiatives.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Car Crashes Into Sunset District Home A car crashed into a home in the Sunset after a collision with another car on Sunday; San Jose police made arrests at two sideshows; and Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA] has some choice words for his Republican colleagues in the House.
SF News Rollover Crash In Broadway Tunnel Involved SF Parking Enforcement Vehicle The vehicle that rolled over Wednesday morning in San Francisco's Broadway tunnel was a parking enforcement vehicle, and the SFMTA officer involved reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News Three More Arrests Made In June's Rolling Gun Battle Down Embarcadero The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.
SF News Mid-Market Luxury Apartment Tower NEMA, a Symbol of Last Tech Boom, Faces Foreclosure A decade ago we were cringing in horror over the douchey marketing video for a luxury apartment tower that went up next door to the building we used to call the Twitter Building. Now, it's facing foreclosure.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pedestrian Struck and Killed By Muni Bus, Van Ness Closed A pedestrian was struck and killed around 1 a.m. Thursday by a Muni bus on Van Ness Avenue; there was more drama at the SF Police Commission Wednesday; and Jim Jordan is not seeking a third floor vote for Speaker of the House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oregon Couple Killed While Biking In Napa Identified A Muslim woman says she was spat on and harassed in Burlingame; an audit has found more irregularities at SF's Community Challenge Grant Program; and a pair of bicyclists killed in Napa Tuesday have been identified as a couple visiting from Oregon.
SF News APEC Summit Will Close Freeway Ramps, All Streets Around Moscone Center, and Central Subway for Six Days Well, it looks like this major trade conference that is bringing a bunch of world leaders from the Asia-Pacific sphere to San Francisco in a few weeks is going to snarl traffic and cause transit headaches way bigger than Dreamforce ever does.
SF News Rollover Crash In SF's Broadway Tunnel Injures One, Tunnel Partially Closed There was a rollover crash Wednesday morning apparently only involving one car inside the Broadway Tunnel connecting North Beach and Russian Hill.
SF News Two Suspects Charged In Smash-and-Grab Involving Car at Union Square Dior Store The pair of suspects arrested in connection with last week's brazen smash-and-grab robbery at the Christian Dior store in Union Square — a robbery that involved ramming through the front gates and door of the store with a car — have now been charged.
SF News Hundreds of SF High School Students Stage Walkout In Protest of Israel's Bombing of Gaza An unknown number of high school students in the San Francisco Unified School District are staging a walkout today in protest of the violence in the Middle East, and saying they demand a ceasefire.
SF News 4.1M Earthquake Centered In Sacramento River Delta Prompts ShakeAlert on SF Phones A 4.1M earthquake centered in Isleton, in Sacramento County, prompted an Emergency Alert on phones in the Bay Area from the ShakeAlert system — though you might not have felt any shaking in SF.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Heatwave Arrives It's going to be a hot few days in the Bay Area; SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen says she now backs a tiny-home village at 16th and Mission; and X/Twitter is going to start charging new users $1 to use the platform in two countries.
Arts & Entertainment 'Barbie' Movie Night, Cosplay Encouraged, Coming to Oracle Park Next Week There's going to be a big, jumbotron screening of the Barbie movie next week at Oracle Park, now that the Giants are not going to be involved in any post-season action and the stadium's all freed up.
SF News Viral Video of Bros Allegedly Harassing Guy In Pro-Palestinian Sweatshirt Highlights Local Tensions Over Israel-Hamas Conflict A video shot over the weekend in San Francisco, possibly after the large pro-Palestinian march up Market Street on Saturday, purports to show a guy leaning into the window of another guy's car and harassing him, he says because of his pro-Palestine sweatshirt.
Business & Tech United Airlines to Start Boarding People With Window Seats First, Aisle Seats Last Hallelujah! United Airlines is soon going to implement a new boarding procedure that it previously tested at a handful of airports, boarding economy passengers with window seats first in order to cut down on boarding time.
SF News 34 Years Ago Today, the Bay Was Shaken By the Loma Prieta Quake, and One Local News Anchor Stayed as Cool as Can Be The Bay Area's last major earthquake over 6.5 in magnitude occurred 34 years ago today, on a day when the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's were coming onto the field for their first-ever Bay Bridge Series.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Mayor to Give State of the City Address Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is set to give her first State of the City address; a home in Daly City was badly damaged in a fire Monday evening; and Julia Roberts's Presidio Heights house just sold for an unknown price — asking price $12 million.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA Jenkins Acknowledges 'Pro-Hamas March' Tweet, Doesn't Exactly Apologize A website falsely reported that Sup. Dean Preston had retired; there was an apparent murder-suicide this morning in Sunnyvale; and DA Brooke Jenkins acknowledged deleting a controversial tweet about Saturday's march supporting Palestinians.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fiorella Expanding Once Again, Plans Fourth Location In Old Paxti's Space In Noe Valley SF Italian restaurant mini-chain Fiorella has its sights on a new location, and the pasta and pizza will be coming to a former pizza spot in Noe Valley that's been closed for over a year.
Business & Tech LinkedIn Lets Go of Hundreds More Employees In New Round of Layoffs Following two earlier layoff rounds that occurred this year, Bay Area-based LinkedIn announced Monday that it is slashing 668 more jobs, or 3% of its workforce.
SF News Anti-Jewish Graffiti Appears on Market Street Following Pro-Palestinian March Following a rally and march Saturday in support of the Palestinian people, which brought thousands of activists marching up San Francisco's Market Street, some anti-Jewish and anti-Israel graffiti was found on windows along the street.
SF News Shopping Center Fire Sends Smoke Soaring Over Livermore Sunday An abandoned shopping center in Livermore went up in flames Sunday evening in a significant blaze.
