SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Katz Bagels Is Closing Its Doors Next Month On 16th Street After 27 years in the Mission District, Katz Bagels is calling it quits. Owner Michael Katz posted a note on the shop door saying that the last bagels will be shmeared and sold on March 24.
SF Politics Bernie Sanders Holds Rally at a Packed Craneway Pavilion in Richmond Senator Bernie Sanders is in the Bay Area today, and a rally for his supporters kicked off at noon at Richmond's Craneway Pavilion.
SF News Americans Evacuated From Cruise Ship In Japan Head To Travis Air Force Base A group of around 340 Americans — some of whom may have tested positive for the coronavirus — were evacuated from Japan by the U.S. State Department Sunday after being held in quarantine for over a week on board a cruise ship.
SF News Presidents' Day Headlines: Elderly Couple Missing on Vacation In Point Reyes A 17-year-old shot by police at the El Cerrito BART station is expected to survive, a young woman killed in Vallejo was the sister of Bay Area rapper Nef the Pharaoh, and a pedestrian was seriously injured at Lombard and Steiner.
Arts & Entertainment 'Gatz' Pays Homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Words... All Of Them Across the six hours of 'Gatz' at Berkeley Rep, one realizes this version of 'The Great Gatsby' isn't a staged reading so much as it is an experiment in bringing a book to the stage, and a piece of theater about reading itself.
SF News Developer Coins New Neighborhood For New Highrise: 'Van Mission' This no-man's land between SoMa and the Mission, where Van Ness becomes South Van Ness, has been dubbed Van Mission by the marketing materials of a new high-rise. But will anyone ever really call it that?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union City Police Arrest Two In November Slaying Of Two Boys Jose Garcia-Zarate has been deemed mentally unfit in a federal case, Union City police announced two arrests in the November 23 murder of two young boys, and Facebook has canceled a 5,000-person marketing summit in San Francisco in March over coronavirus fears.
SF Politics Supervisor Proposes Re-Legalizing Gay Bathhouses In San Francisco Over three decades after the scourge of the early HIV/AIDS crisis drove public health officials and then Mayor Dianne Feinstein to push for the shutdown of all gay bathhouses in San Francisco, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says that it's time to overturn this anachronistic and stigmatizing ordinance.
SF News Dear BART, If You Want More Riders on Nights and Weekends, Stop Being Filthy, Slow, and Scary BART can't just wave a magic wand and get riders back as its aging trains and tracks make for some truly unpleasant — if not dangerous — experiences during late-night and off hours.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Admits Relationship With Nuru, As Well As a $5600 'Gift' From Him One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.
SF Politics Sanders and Buttigieg To Campaign In Northern California This Weekend In another sign that California will actually play a decisive role in this year's primary season — for a change! — 2020 Democratic frontrunners Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are both heading here to do some campaigning this weekend ahead of Super Tuesday on March 3.
SF News Police Put BART Chain-Attack Suspect On Psychiatric Hold A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: No Charges For Moms 4 Housing Activists A 16-year-old driver helped rescue a man who drove off a cliff on Highway 1, Union City police are announcing an update in the investigation of the homicides of two young boys, and Trump went tweeting about his absolute powers to interfere in the DoJ.
SF Politics New Bernie Sanders Ad Specifically Comes After PG&E A new three-minute ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign is squarely aimed at Democratic voters in California, and makes the case that only Sanders will have what it takes to fight corporate interests like PG&E that value profits over human life.
Arts & Entertainment 'The SpongeBob Musical' Is Ridiculously Clever and Gloriously Dumb Fun A creative team led by director Tina Landau and a slew of talented pop-star songwriters created a critical darling out of unlikely material, garnering 12 Tony nominations in the 2018 season, and now 'The SpongeBob Musical' is on tour.
SF Politics City Attorney Is Investigating Private Companies That Allegedly 'Funneled' Money to DPW Holiday Parties Subpoenas issued Wednesday by the City Attorney's Office for records and emails from eight private companies and non-profits appear to relate in part to a kids' baseball charity run by indicted local restaurateur Nick Bovis.
SF News Two Pedestrians Critically Injured After Prius Runs Red Light In Mission District A 62-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of felony hit-and-run after his burgundy Prius allegedly plowed through the intersection of 23rd and Mission, clipping a Muni bus and hitting three pedestrians, critically injuring two.
SF News PG&E Equipment Fire Causes Blackout In Hayes Valley and Haight, Shuts Down Ballet A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFO Reopens Its Observation Deck The star witness in the Hillsborough heiress murder case is now in federal custody, Colin Kaepernick is writing a memoir for Audible, and SFO is about to reopen a public observation deck at Terminal 2 for the first time in 25 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Attorney Issues Subpoenas to PG&E and Recology Over DPW Scandal The CDC says the coronavirus testing kits sent out to states are "flawed," a San Francisco woman was found dead in a Santa Rosa creek, and the City Attorney's office is making good on its promise of a swift corruption investigation into the DPW scandal.
SF News BART Police Seek Suspect Who Attacked Rider With Chain Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Ghost Kitchen Complex In SoMa Is Making Food For Dozens of Delivery Brands Have you recently ordered food on a delivery app from "American Eclectic Burger," "Fork & Ladle," or "Red Corn Taqueria"? Because these are all ghost restaurants operating out of so-called "ghost kitchens" in SF.
SF Politics Local Republicans File Ballot Measure To Limit New Navigation Centers A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
Business & Tech Juul Targeted Kids With Web Ads On Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, Lawsuit Claims Juul's annus horribilis looks to be extending into 2020 as a lawsuit has just been filed in Massachusetts with potentially some of the strongest evidence to date that the company was targeting children and teens with its marketing.
SF News Palo Alto Mom and Daughter Return Home After Coronavirus Quarantine in SoCal A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
