SF News Day Around the Bay: Five Suspects Identified In Orinda Shooting The Oakland Zoo has gained an adorable fennec fox from a private owner, SF's Board of Supervisors is likely to put a retail vacancy tax on the March ballot, and a defense motion for a mistrial in the Tiffany Li murder case has been denied.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Best Seafood Restaurants In San Francisco Ask a sampling of tourists what they're looking to eat while they're in San Francisco, and eight of ten are probably going to say "seafood." With that in mind, and for the seafood lovers who live here in the Bay Area, we offer you this curated list of destinations.
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Three Suspects In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder New footage has been released by Santa Cruz authorities in connection with the October 1 kidnapping and murder of 50-year-old tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre which shows three individuals casually strolling onto Pleasure Point Drive where Atre lived, with one carrying a rifle.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Dominique Crenn Makes All Her Restaurants Pescatarian In a move she says she hopes will "effect real environmental change," chef-restaurateur Dominique Crenn announced Thursday that she's pivoting all of her restaurants away from serving any type of land-based meats.
SF News It's Raining In San Francisco, Everybody! This wasn't in the forecast, but as of 1 p.m., the clouds covering San Francisco just dumped a smidgen of rain on the city for the first time in months.
SF News [Updated] Five Suspects Arrested In Marin City and Elsewhere In Connection With Orinda Shooting An early report is coming in that multiple suspects were arrested Thursday morning at an apartment complex in Marin City on suspicion of their involvement in the October 31 shooting that killed five people at a party in Orinda.
SF News Dead Infant Found on Golf Course Likely Stillborn The SFPD does not suspect foul play in the death of an infant whose remains were found on Saturday at Lincoln Park Golf Course.
SF News Civil Rights Lawyer John Burris To File Lawsuit on Behalf of BART Sandwich Eater McMuffin-gate — or whatever we're calling it — continues today as we learn that Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris is filing a lawsuit against BART on behalf of Steven Foster, the man detained last week by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vallie Brown Concedes Protesters opposed to school closures shut down Oakland's school board meeting, the Orinda Airbnb where a Halloween shooting occurred had advertised itself for parties, and the first Bay Area person has died of a vaping-related illness.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Suzy Loftus To Remain District Attorney Until January Chesa Boudin is getting married this week and not starting the DA job until after the holidays, a plan is moving forward for 744 units of housing in Laurel Heights, and landlords may get taxed for vacant storefronts under proposed ballot measure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McMuffin-Eating Protest Planned Saturday at Pleasant Hill BART Station In a continuing public response to last week's story about a black guy who was handcuffed and cited by a BART cop for eating a breakfast sandwich, a protest is being organized this weekend involving many more breakfast sandwiches at the BART station where all this went down.
SF News Obama Is Coming to Town For Pricey Democratic Fundraiser, and Dreamforce President Barack Obama is coming back to the Bay Area next week both to be a keynote speaker at Salesforce's Dreamforce convention, and to be the guest of honor at a fancy Democratic fundraiser in Los Altos.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Protester Sculpture By I-80 In Berkeley To Be Removed A couple of large sculptures installed by the pedestrian bridge at University Avenue over the I-80 freeway are set for removal — not because they're ugly, but because the Berkeley arts commission has said they aren't weathering well and they will cost too much repair and maintain.
SF News Jurors In Murder Trial Involving Hillsborough Heiress Still Haven't Reached a Verdict After Nine Days In what seems to be a sign of the strength of the defense, the jury in the murder trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat have yet to reach a verdict after nine full days of deliberations.
SF News Woman Dies In Excelsior Hit-and-Run A female pedestrian was killed early Wednesday in a hit-and-run involving an SUV in the Excelsior.
SF News Mayor Appoints Stone Cold Fox Jeffrey Tumlin To Lead SFMTA Mayor London Breed has named her selection for the new director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and while very qualified he's also pretty hot.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Orinda Police Were In Oakland When Shooting Occurred A crash on the Bay Bridge caused some early morning traffic, firing at Google linked to possible labor activities, and Contra Costa County has banned the sale of vape products.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Peninsula Babysitter Sentenced In Molestation Case A garbage truck exploded into flames in Concord, a BART director is unhappy with the GM's apology over the sandwich citation, and a large wave is being blamed for a capsized boat that left one fisherman lost at sea.
SF News Dreamforce Street Shutdowns Begin, Avoid That Part of SoMa at All Costs Howard Street between 3rd and 4th Street was shut down Tuesday ahead of next week's kickoff of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce convention. And for everyone who doesn't know the drill, this means it is officially time to avoid driving anywhere near SoMa for the next two weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Space to Become SF Outpost of Popular Oakland Bakery-Cafe Reem's Chef Reem Assil, who has courted both food-world accolades and political controversy in the last two years, is bringing her delicious Arab cuisine to the Mission.
SF News 98-Year-Old Man Fulfills Mother's Dying Wish To Turn Her SF Property Into Affordable Housing When San Francisco artist, scientist, and activist Maria “Mitzi” Kolisch died in 1987, she was in the process of trying to turn her humble cottage property in Diamond Heights into housing for low-income adolescents who had aged out of the foster-care system.
SF News First Chance of November Rain Arrives Next Week While some meteorologists have given pessimistic outlooks about fire season lasting into December, at least one forecast model has the Bay Area seeing some rain in the middle of next week, on Wednesday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bob's Donuts Opens Second Spot at Baker and Fulton on Thursday The much anticipated NoPa location of Bob's Donuts is finally set to open in the former Chili Pies space at the corner of Baker and Fulton, and opening day is Thursday, November 14.
SF News Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors File Lawsuit Against Organizers Survivors of the July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival are filing a lawsuit this week claiming "negligent security measures" led to the shooting that killed three and injured 14 others.
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Topline: Supes and Mayor Reach Deal On Mental Healthcare The man cited for eating a sandwich on a BART platform reject's BART's apology, a pregnant mother of two was fatally shot in Oakland, and SF supervisors are introducing new mental healthcare legislation.
