Arts & Entertainment 'The Tale of Despereaux' Is a Delightful Musical Fairy Tale Fit for the Holidays Much like it did in seasons past with productions like 'The Wild Bride' and 'The Composer Is Dead, Berkeley Rep' has brought a jolly, family-friendly bit of entertainment to its main stage for this holiday season complete with a few puppets.
Arts & Entertainment Curran Holds Contest For Front-Row Seats To Opening Day of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' The producers of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' are staging a scavenger-hunt-style contest for fans on Friday that will potentially win free front-row seats on Sunday and dinner for five lucky, fast-on-their-feet fans.
SF News Murder Victim's Friends And Family Push San Mateo DA to Retry Tiffany Li's Ex It remains to be seen who — if anyone — will go on trial next for the 2016 murder of Keith Green, after a San Mateo County jury acquitted Green's ex-girlfriend Tiffany Li and deadlocked on her alleged accomplice Kaveh Bayat.
SF News Tony Pac Heights Prep School Called Out By Black Student For Being Soft On Racism The elite Drew School in Pacific Heights has, according to a student and former faculty member there, offered an inadequate response and too little discipline following some disturbing incidents of racism documented on social media.
SF News Three SF Supes Among 50 Arrested At SFO Protest For Higher Catering Wages 50 people were arrested Tuesday, including three SF supervisors, for failing to disperse from a sit-in at SFO's Terminal 2 pushing for higher wages and more affordable healthcare for airline catering workers.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: Widespread Muni Delays Because Of Course A power outage causes chaos at Oakland Airport, an off-duty SFPD officer was arrested for a DUI in Mission Bay, and Muni is still messed up from Tuesday's rain.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Called Out For Saying Homeless Are 'Zombies' This first rain storm of the season means a "first flush" of gross stuff into Bay Area waterways, BART cites people of color more often for eating, and there were three power outages in Sonoma today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Detour Pivots To Pan-Asian Street Food Menu Detour, the Castro neighborhood arcade bar in newly expanded space at Sanchez and Market formerly known as Brewcade, is launching a new menu next week that the owners say better reflects their blended Asian families.
SF News If You're Planning To Get To Tahoe For Thanksgiving You Should've Left Monday I-80 is seeing its first snow-related shutdown of the season up in the Sierra as big snows arrive with this winter storm. And this means even heavier traffic on Highway 50 and a standstill on 80 Tuesday afternoon near Alta, 30 miles northeast of Auburn.
SF Politics Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center May Open By December After an appeals court judge ruled against the neighborhood group that has been fighting the new Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, the mayor says it could open for its first homeless guests sometime next month.
SF News Veteran Climber Survives Fall From Yosemite's El Capitan With Help From 'Free Solo' Star 33-year-old climber Emily Harrington came away with mostly bruises and abrasions Sunday after an apparently dramatic fall while trying to scale El Capitan at Yosemite National Park.
SF News Weather Report: Get Ready For Downpour For the First Time Since May We had that smattering of rain two weeks ago, but now today, as forecast, the San Francisco Bay Area will be seeing the first real downpours of rain since May 19.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SFO Catering Workers To Protest Today A 55-year-old man was arrested after yelling threats at SFSU, dozens of vehicles have been hit with projectiles along the same stretch of 101 in Monterey County, and airline catering workers will be protesting on the departures level at SFO today ahead of a possible strike.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Rules Against Neighborhood Group Trying To Stop Homeless Navigation Center Surveillance video shows the moment two young boys were shot early Saturday in Union City, Oakland police arrested 22 people at a recently erected encampment outside City Hall, and the Embarcadero Navigation Center clears its last hurdle.
SF News Muni Equipment Problem Causes Monday Afternoon Rush-Hour Delays A downed overhead power line at Embarcadero and Folsom earlier this morning is leading to residual delays in the Muni Metro system — an all-too-familiar situation for commuters on Muni.
SF News BART Director Stirs the Pot With Op-Ed Accusing Management and Fellow Directors of Negligence On Safety BART director Debora Allen, has been an outspoken critic of new General Manager Bob Powers and some of her fellow directors in recent weeks. And last week's stabbing on board a train in South Hayward has pushed her to pen a scathing opinion piece in the East Bay Times.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca 3.0 Opening Delayed Until March, Space Used For Private Events For Now The legendary and beloved Tosca Cafe in North Beach won't be making it open by year's end, as the team continues to wait for the liquor license to officially transfer from the previous ownership.
SF News Stray Bullet From Shootout Following Robbery On Oakland's Grand Avenue Injures Resident A gunpoint robbery Monday morning at a coin collectors' store on Oakland's Grand Avenue led to a shootout between the thieves and the store owner, and in the exchange of gunfire a stray bullet entered a nearby residence and injured a person inside.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Drama: Noosh Chefs Fired Amid Owner Dispute; Chubby Noodle Investors Aggrieved The acclaimed husband-and-wife chefs behind Noosh were abruptly fired on Thursday in a dispute with the restaurant's ownership, and the drama that's been unfolding there has echoes in several recent stories from the SF restaurant scene.
SF News SF Teen Slain In September Was Revenge Killing For Unsolved 2014 Murder A 19-year-old who was fatally shot in Crocker-Amazon two months ago appears to have been killed in a revenge attempt by the younger brother of a boy whose brother was murdered in the Mission five years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Reopens Following Rodent Issue Ever popular Tartine Bakery has reopened as of Monday morning, following a closure by the Health Department on Friday that sent ripples across the Bay Area food and media scenes.
SF News Threats By Unhinged-Sounding Student Freak Out USF Campus, Student Arrested A screaming student who had allegedly made threats on social media against the University of San Francisco campus was arrested Sunday night after students locked themselves in campus buildings in fear of a potential mass shooting.
Business & Tech SF-Based Charles Schwab Buys TD Ameritrade, Will Move HQ to Dallas Area 48-year-old brokerage firm Charles Schwab confirmed its widely rumored acquisition of TD Ameritrade on Monday, and the news came with the added detail that the combined company's new corporate headquarters will be in Westlake, Texas.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Homeless Encampment Springs Up at Oakland City Hall The 49ers once again proved worthy of their record with a 37-8 win over the Green Bay Packers, one of the men arrested in the Orinda shooting is appearing in court today, and a Russian Hill restaurant complains about neighborhood burglaries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Shuttered By Health Department, Temporarily Popular San Francisco bakery destination Tartine has had a little bit of a bad run-in with the city's Department of Public Health, and as of Friday the place is closed.
