SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed, Michelin-Starred Mission Restaurant AL's Place to Close Next Week After Seven Years Chef Aaron London is pulling the plug on his much lauded, vegetable-focused restaurant AL's Place in order to focus more on his young family, despite the restaurant still being packed every night. The last night of service will be Sunday, August 28.
SF News 23-Year-Old SF Man Confesses to Shooting Father and Stepmother and Live-Streaming Crime Scene A 23-year-old man who was arrested last weekend for the double murder of his father and stepmother inside a home in San Francisco's Bayview district has given a jailhouse confession to a local TV station — but says he will plead not guilty to premeditated murder.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom's Office Threatens to Withhold Funds From Oakland Over Encampment Issues Two men were wounded in a shooting in Emeryville Friday morning, an Oakland nonprofit's building was damaged by street-racing vehicles crashing into it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a scathing letter to the city of Oakland over the handling of the Wood Street encampment.
Arts & Entertainment Decidedly Dark 'Oklahoma!' Revival Is a Tour de Force of Revisionist Direction The Tony Award-winning revival production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opened this week in its tour stop at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater, and while almost entirely loyal to the original text it exists worlds away from the 1943 musical that begat it.
SF News SF School Board Now Facing Lawsuit Threat Over Vote To Observe Two Muslim Holidays The same lawyer who previously sued the San Francisco school board and the school district over a decision to rename dozens of city schools is now threatening to sue again, this time over a vote to close schools on two Muslim holy days.
SF News 54-Year-Old Suspect In Potrero Homicide Arrested In Yolo County A man suspected in an early July homicide in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood has been located and arrested six weeks later.
SF News Mushroom- and Weed-Dispensing Church In Oakland Sues Over Police Raid, Confiscated Property A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Rescued at Fort Funston After Getting Lost A 20-year-old woman called 911 and got an SFFD geo-locating rescue at Fort Funston, an Oakland woman was shot multiple times inside her home, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho pans Little Saint in Healdsburg.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body Found Sitting In Chair After Decomposing For Three Years In NorCal Home The Secret Service apparently withheld information about a threat on Nancy Pelosi's life two days before January 6th, Airbnb is rolling out a new party-rental-detection system, and two local dog owners have been reunited with their stolen pups.
Arts & Entertainment BART Seeks Artists to Create Anime-Style Mascots BART has put out a call for illustrators and graphic artists to create "a series of original anime-style mascots" to promote the BART system.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Backs Out of Big Food Hall Project at Chase Center Over at Thrive City, the Kaiser-named collection of shops and restaurants adjacent to the Chase Center, one big-name tenant is canceling their plans to move in.
SF News Oakland Man Causes Panic at Las Vegas Airport Amid Apparent Mental Health Episode A 33-year-old Oakland man who reportedly really wanted to go home and get the eff out of Vegas was arrested twice last weekend at Harry Reid International Airport for causing disturbances that police compared to terrorism.
SF News San Jose Church That Defied Pandemic Public Health Orders Wins Appeal Based on Supreme Court's Rightward Shift The evangelical Calvary Chapel in San Jose was ordered to pay over $200K in contempt-of-court fines over its defiance of county public health orders in 2020, but a state appeals court has just overturned that and ruled in favor of the church, because of Amy Coney Barrett.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Possible Amid Hot and Moist Conditions Today Thunderstorms remain a possibility today around the Bay, Britney Spears's first husband Jason Alexander has been booked on seven-year-old charges in Napa, and Santa Clara County says its COVID surge is finally abating.
Business & Tech Netflix Is Letting Go of Its Original Headquarters Building In Los Gatos (But Not Its Main HQ) Netflix, in the wake of a couple of rough quarters, hundreds of layoffs, and intensifying competition from the likes of HBO Max, Hulu, and others, is downsizing its office holdings both in the Bay Area and in SoCal.
SF News Viral Video Leads to Onslaught of Complaints About Deluxe Dog Hotel In SF One local woman's TikTok video about her dog Miso's recent stay at a Wag Hotel in San Francisco has sparked a round of expected online outrage from the dog-owning community.
SF News SFPD Offers $50K Reward, Releases Suspect Vehicle Photo In April Basketball Court Shooting Four men were shot, two of them fatally, at a Crocker-Amazon playground basketball court in April, and the SFPD is now seeking the public's help in finding the shooter.
SF News Two Alleged Gang Members Found Guilty of Federal Murder Charges In 2019 Fillmore Heritage Center Shooting Two men who are said to be members of San Francisco's Mac Block gang have been found guilty by a federal jury of killing one man and injuring several others in a March 2019 shooting at a memorial service on Fillmore Street.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hot Weather Fuels Wildfires Around the Bay This week's heatwave is expected to test California's power grid once again, a 50-acre wildfire was threatening a subdivision in Dublin on Monday, and Apple is now saying employees need to be back in the office three days per week after Labor Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Gets Two-Month Reprieve From Feds Laguna Honda doesn't have to discharge or transfer patients now until November 13, Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody is being deposed in a COVID lawsuit from a church, and a Southwest flight had to make an emergency landing in Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Love Is Expanding to Gough Street In Hayes Valley Burma Love, the offshoot of Burma Superstar with a lively location on Valencia Street, will be adding another location soon in the former Boxing Room/Barcino space in Hayes Valley.
Arts & Entertainment It's Been Four Years Since Salesforce Park and the Transit Center Opened — and Then Closed and Opened Again The building and its rooftop park remain shining examples of innovative urban development and canaries in the coal mine of a slowly reviving downtown, waiting for you to return.
SF News SoulCycle Is Shutting Down One Of Its San Francisco Locations Amid Full-Scale Downsizing Once mega-popular spinning gym SoulCycle has taken a hit from pandemic at-home workouts, lingering anxiety around group fitness, and widespread sales of Peloton bikes, and it means that the company is shutting down 25 percent of its U.S. studios and laying off around 75 employees.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Arrested In Double-Homicide of Relatives In Bayview A 23-year-old man has been arrested following an investigation into the killings of two people said to be related to him inside a Bayview District home.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crashes Kill Two In Oakland and Napa A five-car pileup early Monday on I-880 in Oakland led to a hit-and-run fatality, mental health workers are going on strike at Kaiser, and two children were wounded in separate shootings in Oakland.
