SF News The Century-Old Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill Has Closed, Owners In Default The Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which most recently had been rebranded as the Huntington again after spending four years as the Scarlet Huntington Hotel, is now closed until further notice along with its longtime restaurant, Big 4.
SF News Matthew McConaughey Was At Dreamforce Talking About Running for President Someday Actor, activist, spokesmodel for Lincoln Motor Company, nude bongo player, and generally affable stoner Matthew McConaughey says that it's "inevitable" that he should run for president one day, and he'll likely just get "pulled into it."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market's LINE Hotel and One of Its Two Restaurants Open Next Week The delayed but much anticipated new hotel on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the LINE, finally opens its doors next week, and with it comes a new rooftop restaurant/lounge, and a new fine-dining restaurant as well as a lobby bar.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Fatal Freeway Shooting In Oakland A man was fatally shot on an Oakland freeway Wednesday night, those "inflation relief" payments are on their way for Californians in October, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the surprise concert guests at Dreamforce last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Acquitted After Spending Five Years Jailed for Murder A 26-year-old SF man has been acquitted for reasons of self-defense after spending five years in jail for a New Year's Day 2017 killing, Michelle Obama is coming to SF in December, and 24th Street's Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed permanently (again).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Ho Won and Abacá Recognized on NYT Best Restaurants List Fast on the heels of Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants list, we have another national best-of that picked out two SF restaurants that Bon Appetit's editors passed over.
SF News Three Santa Rosa Men, Including Aspiring Rapper Who Rapped About Dealing, Busted For Shipping Meth and Fentanyl-Laced Pills Out of State Three men from the North Bay have been charged by the feds for operating a drug ring that involved shipping pills and methamphetamine across state lines, specifically to central Tennessee.
SF News Watch Sherri Papini Lie, Squirm, and Fumble In Newly Released Interrogation Video The world now gets to see the moment when the gig was truly up for wannabe Gone Girl Sherri Papini when she was confronted in 2020 with what federal investigators had figured out about her fabricated 2016 abduction.
SF News Home Invasion and Car Theft Suspect Killed on San Mateo Bridge After Running Out of Gas A suspect was struck and killed by an oncoming car after exiting a vehicle he allegedly stole on the San Mateo Bridge early Wednesday, after apparently running out of gas.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Sees Four Homicides In 18 Hours A fourth fatal shooting in Oakland Tuesday capped off a violent 18 hours, a child was struck by a bus and gravely injured in San Francisco, and new data shows that SF lost more than half its restaurant jobs during the pandemic.
SF News South American Tourist Burglars Might Be Back In Hillsborough; Town Hit With Rash of Home Break-Ins Hillsborough police announced on Monday that four break-ins had occurred in the town since September 8, and the modus operandi of the thieves sounds very similar to the suspected Chilean or South American crews we heard about earlier this year.
Arts & Entertainment Surprise! Morrissey Announces Show at Castro Theatre OG emo crooner Morrissey is coming back to the Bay Area this fall, and he's the first semi-major musical act to be announced at the Castro Theatre amid its transformation into a live-performance venue at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment.
Business & Tech Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.
Arts & Entertainment Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup and Schedule Released, Drive-By Truckers Added After weeks of teasing parts of the lineup in pieces, as has been the tradition of the last decade, organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now unveiled the full and complete lineup and schedule for the three-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Women Shot In the Mission District Two women were shot and one was seriously injured on 23rd Street in the Mission Monday evening, the Valero refinery in Benicia will be flaring this week, and a van crashed through a CVS store in downtown Oakland.
Day Around the Bay: SF School Board Backtracks On Muslim Holidays SF's school board may not make two Muslim holidays no-school days after all, UCSF's Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says the pandemic is not over just because Biden says so, and ACT's Geary Theater has been renamed after longtime board member Toni Rembe.
Arts & Entertainment Famed Owner of Semi-Secret Berkeley Backyard Hot Tub Dies While In Hot Tub The longtime proprietor of a free-to-the-public, extra-hot hot tub behind a home on Essex Street in Berkeley was found dead by a hot tub patron over the weekend, and it appears he died doing what he loved, soaking in the tub.
SF News Two Women Testify at Kristin Smart Murder Trial That Paul Flores Drugged and Raped Them There has been some dramatic testimony in the ongoing trial of Paul and Ruben Flores, who stand accused in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, including from two women who say they were assaulted by Paul Flores in the last 15 years.
SF News SF's Homicide Count Rises By Two In the Span of a Few Hours Sunday Night There were two homicides in San Francisco between Sunday night and early Monday morning in two separate incidents in the Fillmore and in the Tenderloin.
SF News Dr. Wachter Is Going Back Inside Restaurants, Which Maybe Means the Pandemic Is Finally Over? Barring further, unforeseen variants, COVID-19 may finally be relegated to still-sometimes-deadly seasonal nuisance — now that President Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over," and now that our own UCSF soothsayer Dr. Bob Wachter is ready to go back to indoor dining.
SF News BART Broke Down In the Rain Sunday, Transbay Tunnel Shutdown Ensued There were massive delays and a fair bit of chaos in the BART system on Sunday, with some "equipment failures" that happened to coincide with the first rain storm to hit the Bay Area in months.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Rain's Not Over Yet A Sunday homicide in the East Bay was likely linked to road rage, President Biden declares the "pandemic is over," and rain is going to continue sporadically around the Bay Area the next couple of days.
SF News 1983 Santa Cruz Murder Case Solved Thanks to New DNA Technology The body of 33-year-old chef and restaurant owner Joette Marie Smith was found floating, caught on a tree limb in the San Lorenzo River in Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz County, on March 29, 1983.
SF News Parts of San Francisco and the North Bay Could See Over Two Inches of Rain By Monday Local meteorologists are getting very jazzed about this rare September rain system coming our way, thanks to Typhoon Merbok, and this won't be any mere sprinkling.
