Business & Tech The Crisis Around Chinese Developer Evergrande May Impact Oceanwide Development In SF The troubled Chinese-owned Oceanwide Center development at Mission and First, construction of which was fully halted a year ago, may face more troubles ahead as the Chinese economy faces a crisis that's pegged to real estate conglomerate Evergrande.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chronicle Critic Michael Bauer Still Insists He Went Mostly Unrecognized at Restaurants, Says Dining Is More Fun Now Three years out from the end of his 32-year tenure as the San Francisco Chronicle's resident restaurant critic and de facto chief of the food department, Michael Bauer has given his first interview from semi-retirement.
Arts & Entertainment Former Transbay Temporary Terminal Transformed Into Temporary Community Space With Beer Garden, Soccer The full city block in SoMa that for much of the last decade served as a bus depot while the new Transbay Transit Center was being built has been "reactivated" with a community space dubbed The Crossing at East Cut.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Organizers Contend With Extra Logistics Challenges of Schoolkids, Halloween With the move to late October come the extra considerations of festival-goers potentially creating havoc in the Avenues as kids get out of school on a Friday, and the culture clash of rowdy music fans and trick-or-treaters out with their parents.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vast Illegal Pot Grow Shut Down In East Bay Congress is expected to pass a series of short-term spending bills to avert a shutdown today, Alameda County deputies seized over 100,000 marijuana plants from an illegal indoor growing operation, and the Windy Fire has already killed at least 29 giant sequoias in the Sierra.
SF Politics Protest In Support of Citizenship For Immigrants Shuts Down Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge traffic was halted Thursday morning as a group of about 25 vehicles stopped in the middle of the bridge, blocking traffic as demonstrators held signs and gave speeches from the bed of a pickup truck.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fleas Infest Two Oakland Schools Much of the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "moderate" tier for COVID transmission, Santa Cruz County has dropped its mask mandate, and an infestation of fleas has shut down two Oakland elementary schools.
SF News Central Subway Construction Is '98%' Done, But You Won't Be Allowed In Until Next Spring or Summer SF's longest-running current mess of a public project, the $1.6 billion Central Subway, is very close to completion, and test trains have been running through the tunnels for several months already now.
SF Politics Judge Blasts District Attorney's Office Over Discovery Issues In Court, Says Office Is Being Mismanaged The San Francisco DA's Office is calling it "disappointing" that a judge would choose to air grievances with prosecutors in open court, but this judge in particular says he's done with what he calls the poor management of the DA's Office as a whole.
SF Politics Feinstein Introduces Likely Doomed Bill Requiring Vaccinations or Negative COVID Tests for Domestic Air Travel Senator Dianne Feinstein today introduced a bill in the Senate that aims to prevent a new winter surge of COVID infections spurred by holiday travel. But between the airline industry and Senate Republicans, this seems doomed to fail out of the gate.
SF Politics It's Official: David Chiu Is SF's New City Attorney As has been widely expected for months, SF Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday that Assemblymember and former SF Supervisor David Chiu is her pick to be the next city attorney.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Could the El Farolito Debate Finally Move the Needle on SF's Formula Retail Rules? It might take San Francisco's boundless passion for burritos to finally force some changes to the city's rules around chain restaurants and retail — and when the retail landscape continues to look dismal in once thriving neighborhoods, maybe we should be rethinking this altogether.
SF News Kamala Harris's Team Reportedly Pissed About 'The View' Debacle Vice President Kamala Harris's Friday interview on The View was disrupted and cut short by a COVID scare that turned out to be based on false-positive test results for two of the show's co-hosts. And now her team is asking a lot of questions.
Bay Area Sports Oracle Park Concession Workers Reach Deal Over Hazard Pay and Benefits, Call Off Strike Threat Just before the San Francisco Giants enter another postseason, workers at Oracle Park have reached a deal with their employer, concessionaire Bon Appetit Management, after weeks of threatening to strike over COVID hazard pay and other issues.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Haney Says He's Running for Assembly SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially been installed at the Public Utilities Commission, Sup. Matt Haney confirms he's running for State Assembly, and one of every eight acres in California has burned in the last 10 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mask Mandate Might Loosen Soon The SFPD made two arrests in a shooting and attempted robbery of a woman who wouldn't give up her camera, an SF sheriff's deputy is facing multiple charges from a drunken ramage last week, and SF's mask mandate might get a little less strict soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Nightclub The Cafe Reopens This Weekend After Nearly 19-Month Closure, Sunday Tea and All Most — but not all — of San Francisco's nightlife scene has come back open in the last several months, now that people can be indoors without capacity limits so long as they're vaccinated. But among the Castro institutions that's stayed dark is The Cafe. That all changes this weekend.
SF News Mission Bay Sidewalks Are (Still) Sinking, Creating Tripping Hazards; Drought Might Be Making Things Worse Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood, in Mission Bay and around China Basin, say that building and sidewalk settlement has caused a lot of wonky walkways for years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tyler Florence Opens High-End Steakhouse at Chase Center, Designed By Ken Fulk Celebrity chef Tyler Florence's ultra-swanky steakhouse at the Chase Center arena — with design inspiration from Chasen's in L.A. — has been in the works for over two years, and is now making its grand debut.
SF News Serial Hate-Crime Robber Who Allegedly Targeted Asian Women Charged With Seven Felony Robberies A hate-crime and robbery suspect was arrested last week after he stole a woman's backpack containing her laptop — and laptop locator software helped authorities track him down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 2021 Michelin Guide Drops With New Two-Star Elevation for Birdsong, Snubs for Rich Table and Octavia We said the other day that it would be pretty mean-spirited of the Michelin inspectors to strip any restaurant of stars it earned in 2019, especially if it had been closed during the pandemic until recently, but they went there in the case of a couple of San Francisco favorites.
SF News Fawn Fire Arsonist Set to Be Charged In Separate Fire From Previous Night; Claims She Was Stoned, Trying to Boil Water Shasta County officials say they have reason to believe that another small vegetation fire set the night before the Fawn Fire was also the work of Souverneva.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mountain Lion Chills In Daly City Backyard, Won't Leave Authorities were attempting to remove a mountain lion who appeared to just be snoozing in a Daly City backyard this morning, a former Theranos lab director gave more damning testimony, and SF State's campus was on lockdown due to a "non-specific threat."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Brawl Breaks Out At Vallejo Theme Park Around 100 juveniles were involved in a huge brawl at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Saturday, the DEA is warning about a spike in fentanyl-laced pills, and health officials say they did not see many COVID cases linked to the BottleRock festival.
SF News Anchorman Frank Somerville's Future at KTVU In Doubt As Rumors Swirl About High Drama In the Newsroom One of the Bay Area's most recognizable TV news personalities, Frank Somerville, could be contemplating an exit from the station he has called home for three decades. But how this drama will play out is still anyone's guess.
