SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The List of SF Restaurants That Have Closed Since the Pandemic Begin Nearly 70 restaurants have permanently closed in San Francisco, by our count, since March. And this doesn't count the small ones that may have shuttered without fanfare or blog notices. Here's the list.
SF News Climate Scientists Declare La Nina Season Ahead, Which May Or May Not Bring Extra Rain to Northern California It's officially going to be a La Niña fall and winter, which could be disastrous for Southern California in terms of extending the dry season in an already extra fire-prone year. But it's anyone's guess whether it will noticeably affect our weather in the Bay Area or not.
SF Politics Hair Salon Owner Claims She's Closing Cow Hollow Business Because She's 'Afraid to Return' to SF Erica Kious, the Fresno-based hairstylist and salon owner who quickly became persona non grata to liberals and a hero to Fox News watchers when she leaked video of Nancy Pelosi coming to her SF salon for a blowout last week, has returned to Fox News to announce she's now "afraid to return" to SF.
Arts & Entertainment Here's a Video Of What It Looked Like Taking Off From SFO Into the Orange Smoke On Wednesday We know what being on the ground looked like. But what did it actually look like as you flew up above the clouds and the smoke?
SF News Three People Are Dead and At Least A Dozen Are Missing As Bear Fire Rages In Butte County The fire that's been being referred to as the Bear Fire received a new official name from Cal Fire Thursday morning: North Complex West Zone.
SF News Smoky Skies To Last At Least Through Friday As Air Quality Worsens In Bay Area Things weren't quite as orange on Thursday morning as they were a day earlier, though the sky may look like that again before all this is through. And unlike yesterday when ground-level air quality was fairly okay, today's not a day to be walking outside or exercising.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Suspects Arrested In String Of Sonoma Robberies This year's fires are prompting rethinking in fire management policy, the state Supreme Court has allowed SF's Prop C to stand — providing more money for homeless services — and people landing at SFO on Wednesday were pretty freaked out by the orange sky.
SF Politics Pelosi Tears Into Trump Over Revelations That He Openly Admitted to Downplaying Virus Threat Revelations coming from on-the-record interviews that Trump (bafflingly) did with veteran journalist Bob Woodward for his forthcoming book 'Rage' have provided insight into the president's disgustingly flawed approach to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Oasis' Drag Queen Food Delivery Service Makes the 'New York Times,' CNN As the pandemic rages on and California chokes with wildfire smoke, San Francisco drag queens continue to innovate. And the New York Times and CNN have just taken notice.
Arts & Entertainment 14 Photos Of San Francisco Landmarks Under a 'Blade Runner 2020' Orange Sky Hey! The entire city is lit up Giants orange! JK. Too soon?
SF News PG&E Issues 'All Clear': When Is Power Coming Back On In Napa and Sonoma? On Wednesday morning, PG&E issued an "all clear" for the most recent wind event in the North Bay and the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) that impacted a broad swath of Northern California.
SF News Dark-Sky Wednesday Headlines: Two Previous Murder Suspects Arrested In North Beach Burglaries Three SF men were arrested for multiple burglaries in North Beach, BART is adding back some more rush-hour trains, and near-surface smoke is expected to remain light in SF throughout the day.
SF News Sky In SF Turns Apocalypse Orange As Smoke From Oregon, Mendocino Fires Fills Atmosphere It doesn't smell smoky in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, just as it didn't for most of Tuesday. Yet the color of the sky turned an even more disturbing, Hades-like orange as everyone woke from their slumbers today, and it's thanks to fires that are burning very far away.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Air Quality Was Actually Pretty Good Today Despite Yellow Sky The yellow sky is just smoke way above us (and the air is actually okay), SF crossed the 10,000 mark for COVID cases, and Santa Clara is entering the "red" tier.
SF News IKEA Confirmed For Mid-Market Mall Project; Breed Takes Credit For Pitching the Idea IKEA is coming to downtown to SF next fall, to the long-empty 6x6 mall on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, and the plan is for an urban version of an IKEA store that's about 20-percent of the size of their regular, sprawling suburban complexes.
SF News More Than Half of People Leaving SF Say They'll Probably Come Back, In Small Chronicle Sampling It's hard to say just how transformational the current exodus of people from SF is going to be in the long run, or even how large it is compared to a normal September. But it's happening, and some are saying they'll be back.
SF News Latest Development Proposal for Piers 30-32 and Navigation Center Lot Includes 850 Housing Units, Floating Pool Brace yourselves for a new fight over a waterfront development site as the Port of San Francisco looks to be selecting a development proposal for Piers 30-32 — a.k.a. the piers that the Warriors almost built their arena on before being shouted down to Mission Bay back in 2014.
SF News Homeless Man Arrested In Connection With Three Suspected Arson Fires In Marin County For the second time in a week a transient man was arrested in Novato on suspicion of arson — this time it was a string of three suspicious fires, one of which authorities say they saw him light.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Groups Come Forward About Saturday Beach Party, Insist Most People Were Masked One Burning Man camp responsible for DJing from their burner bus that night has taken some responsibility, but they say that SFPD officers and park rangers didn't tell them to cut the music until 1 a.m.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: At Least 25,000 Lose Power In Napa and Sonoma Most evacuation orders in Sonoma were downgraded this morning, Marin County has to wait to enter the "red" tier for reopening, and tens of thousands of Bay Area residents are without power today and likely tomorrow too.
SF News Fire Flare-Ups and High Winds Prompt New Evacuations In Sonoma County, Widespread Power Shutoff Warnings Even before a Red Flag Warning had fully taken effect in Sonoma County, wind-blown flare-ups in the area of the Walbridge Fire — which was 95-percent contained as of Monday morning — prompted new evacuation orders Monday night for fire-weary residents.
Arts & Entertainment Jelly Belly Creator Launches Willy Wonka-Inspired Scavenger Hunt For 'Gold Tickets' David Klein, the eccentric man who is credited with conceiving of the Jelly Belly jelly bean brand in 1976 and who now runs a lesser known company called Candyman Kitchens, says he wants to give something joyful to the world this miserable election season.
SF News Smoke From Mendocino, Other Fires Chokes the Bay Area As Closer Fires Near Full Containment This Labor Day is less than a pleasant one for barbecues or anything outdoors, really, with the air heating up and more wildfire smoke descending on San Francisco and much of the Bay Area.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshow Turns Deadly In Excelsior SF hit 100 degrees on Sunday for the first time in three years, the Creek Fire in Madera County has grown to 79,000 acres, and three people were shot — one fatally — during a late Sunday sideshow in SF's Excelsior District.
SF News Day Around the Bay: IKEA Might Be Coming to Downtown SF IKEA has bought the 6x6 mall on mid-Market, Elizabeth Holmes is making a bunch of noise in her court case, and Newsom just relaxed some of the independent contractor restrictions from AB5.
