SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Institution Perry's Coming to Novato Perry's, the 52-year-old Union Street institution that went on to expand its Bay Area footprint, is expanding once more with a new location in Novato.
SF News Four Arrested In Oakland for Robberies Including That of Canadian Film Crew at Twin Peaks Four suspects have been arrested and charged for crimes relating to a late March robbery of a Canadian film crew working at SF's Twin Peaks, and a second robbery three days later in Oakland.
SF News BART Sees Major Disruption After Somone Walked Onto Tracks In Downtown SF Commuters who are newly (again) reliant on BART to get to a physical office had a bear of a morning Tuesday after an unauthorized person wandering the tracks between Embarcadero and Montgomery stations caused a major delay.
SF News ACLU Joins Fight Against Oakland School Closures, Claiming Racial Discrimination The ACLU has now filed a complaint with the California Department of Justice urging the attorney general to look in to the Oakland Unified School District's plan to close seven schools and merge two others next year, saying the plan disproportionately impacts Black families.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Missing Mill Valley Woman Found Dead The search for a missing 62-year-old Mill Valley woman ended with her being found dead in her car, a man fatally shot in Oakland has been identified as a security guard at a transitional housing camp, and an orphaned mountain lion cub is recuperating at the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cleve Jones Says He Will Vacate His Castro Apartment Quietly After All Cleve Jones says he no longer wants to fight his new landlord to have to live in a unit below her, a member of the Gilroy City Council has been cited in connection with a fatal shooting at a Halloween party that occurred at her home, and Sonoma County authorities are seeking an abducted toddler.
SF News Jailhouse Phone Calls By Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Find Her Trying to Hide Assets, Telling Son Not to Cooperate With Cops The latest update in the case of accused sexual-predator/corrupter of teens Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. the Los Gatos Party Mom who we've referred to as the Los Gatos "Cool Mom," comes via her latest appearance in court.
Business & Tech Video: SF Cops Try to Pull Over Driverless Cruise Taxi, Hilarity Ensues All haters of the ersatz training course for robot cars that San Francisco's streets have become are having a field day with a new video, posted earlier this month, showing an autonomous Cruise taxi in the Richmond District getting pulled over by the SFPD with no driver inside.
SF News 15-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot During Violent Weekend In Oakland A 15-year-old girl from Antioch who was visiting a friend in East Oakland was fatally shot Saturday night, and in separate incidents eight other people were shot and injured in the city over the course of the weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Large Cargo Ship Adrift Off Point Reyes A 564-foot cargo ship was adrift off Point Reyes since Friday and unable to anchor, a 25-year-old man was shot multiple times in Emeryville, and Tahoe is getting some last-minute snow from this weather system.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurants, Alioto's, Is Closing After a Century at Fisherman's Wharf Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Animo Brings Basque-Style Meat and Fish to Sonoma (With Korean Touches) Tucked away next to a McDonald's on Route 12 at the edge of the town of Sonoma, a short drive from the town square, is a new restaurant focused on Basque-style, wood-fired meat and fish, from a former New York City ramen chef.
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend, SFMOMA Revives Its Artists' Soapbox Derby For the First Time Since 1978 SFMOMA is putting on a fun-for-the-people event in McLaren Park that was first and last held in the 1970s, and it's all about artists creating kooky contraptions in which to roll down a hill.
SF News Alameda County DA Declines to Charge Alameda Cops In Death of Mario Gonzalez The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Three-Alarm Fire In Duboce Triangle A three-alarm fire on Noe Street in Duboce Triangle early this morning displaced five people, a grass fire broke out Thursday by Baker Beach, and an elderly woman was held at gunpoint in an Ingleside home invasion.
SF News Anyone Who Tests Positive For COVID In San Francisco and Has Risk Factors Should Seek Out Antivirals, City Says San Francisco has a supply of the two antiviral drugs approved for treating cases of COVID-19, but they may have to return thousands of doses if they don't get used — and thousands have already been returned to the federal government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Indian Restaurant to Take Over Former Dosa Space on Fillmore A different high-end Indian restaurant will take up where Dosa left off in the former bank space it called home for over a decade on Lower Fillmore, at the edge of Japantown.
SF News Man Dies In Stabbing Near SF General A homicide occurred early this morning a block away from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
SF News Early April Heatwave Like This One Happened In 1989, When Most Bay Area Records Were Set It's going to be quite hot all over the Bay today, with thermometers hitting 90 degrees and above in multiple spots. But the National Weather Service notes that this may not be a record-breaker of a day for most locales, because the records around here for April 7 are pretty high.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Nancy Pelosi Has COVID House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest top government official to test positive for COVID, another fatal shooting took place on a cul de sac by Lake Merritt that has been the frequent scene of violence, and Napa's school board has voted down a ban on "all future mask mandates."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Arrested After Barricading Himself In Parkmerced Building A former Uber employee is suing the company and claiming they violated federal law, an armed 63-year-old man was arrested for making criminal threats after barricading himself in an SF building, and the Mavericks surf contest is getting revived.
SF News Sonoma County Supes Vote to Oppose New Koi Nation Casino, But It's Not Really Up to Them The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took a largely performative stand against a proposed Native American-owned casino project in Windsor, voting a resolution to oppose the project.
SF News Sacramento Police: 'Gang Violence Is at the Center of This Tragedy' Sacramento police revealed more about their ongoing investigation into the shooting Sunday morning that claimed six lives and injured a dozen others, and they say they now believe at least five gunmen were involved in a gang-related gunfight.
SF News COVID Cases In SF Still Slightly Higher Than Elsewhere In California, Hospitalizations Plateau There is no cause for alarm, local experts say, but San Francisco's COVID picture isn't yet back to the very low case counts of mid-Fall 2021, with the Omicron and BA.2 variants still driving transmission as people's immunity wanes.