SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Pushes Back Further In PG&E Bankruptcy Case The Apple Card appears to have some sexist approval practices, California DACA recipients speak out as Supreme Court hears case, and a rolled-over fuel tanker cause a traffic mess in the South Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Caviar Company Debuts 'The Bump Bar' in Former Sausalito Tasting Room The local sustainable caviar concern, the California Caviar Company, just re-debuted its Sausalito tasting room last week, rebranding it The Bump Bar. And yes, everyone gets a free "bump" when they walk in.
SF News Frances McDormand and Joel Coen Are In the Whitest of Feuds With Their Marin Neighbors Oscar winners Joel Coen and Frances McDormand have filed suit against their Bolinas neighbors over a disputed property line and the neighbors' apparent refusal to sign an agreement forged about a historic greenbelt that passes between their two properties.
SF News Body Of Infant Found On Green at Lincoln Park Golf Course The body of an infant was discovered by police Saturday on a putting green at Lincoln Park Golf Course, just west of the Sea Cliff neighborhood.
SF News BART General Manager Issues Apology To Sandwich Eater Detained By BART Cop Amid public outcry over the black man detained at Pleasant Hill Station by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich on the platform, BART's new General Manager Bob Powers has issued a public apology.
SF News Suspects Sought In Violent Weekend Robberies In Chinatown A pair of violent incidents in Chinatown are being investigated as potentially linked after four suspects in a dark-colored SUV assaulted three elderly men in Chinatown's Portsmouth Square on Saturday, following a violent robbery involving a similar vehicle the night before.
SF Politics Democratic Socialist Dean Preston Wins District 5 Supervisor Seat On Second Try After narrowly losing to London Breed in 2016, Dean Preston eked out a win in the District 5 supervisor race on Saturday, taking the seat from Vallie Brown, the mayor's appointee.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crash Shuts Down I-580 in Oakland A car chase in Concord left multiple vehicles damaged, a Sonoma woman's pet dog was mauled by loose pit bulls on a hiking trail, and an off-duty cop shot and killed a man in Vallejo.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Booed In Vegas For Going On After Midnight, Sued By Florida Man For Late Starts Shortly after Madonna departed San Francisco on her Madame X Tour last week, her first show in Las Vegas was reportedly met with boos and 500 demands for refunds when she took the stage at 12:30 a.m. — two hours late for her already late scheduled curtain time of 10:30 p.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Northern California's 2019 Wine Vintage Is Just Fine, Post-Fire Sonoma County wineries, restaurants, and hotels are trying to get the word out that Sonoma wine country escaped mostly unscathed from the Kincade Fire, which was declared 100 percent contained as of Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeowners In Kincade Fire Zone May Have To Pay For Cleanup The progressive candidates Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston have taken slight leads as ballots keep getting counted, a female bicyclist was struck and severely injured in SF, and a pedestrian struck last weekend in Potrero Hill has died.
SF News Suspect In April Homicides Admitted To Killings, Gets Maximum Sentence for Shooting Cop in Nevada Stefon Demar Jefferson, who's implicated in a killing spree in the Bay Area on April 26 that left three men dead, was just sentenced for his shootout with police later that night in Nevada's Douglas County.
SF News BART Police Officer Detains and Cuffs Black Man For Eating Breakfast Sandwich On Platform A pair of videos has been making the rounds of a BART police officer having a heated interaction with a rider whom he wanted to cite for eating on the Pleasant Hill BART platform earlier this week.
SF News Camp Fire Anniversary Marked With Stories Of Rebuilding, and Mystery Man's Remains One year ago today, the ferocious Camp Fire broke out in the forested hills east of Concow and Paradise, California. And marking the anniversary the local media has published dozens of stories checking back in on the survivors and the rebuilding effort.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Second-Graders' Rewrite Of Lizzo Song Featured on 'Good Morning America' Video went viral this week of a Pittsburg second-grade teacher's classroom where the students learned a version of Lizzo's self-empowerment anthem "Truth Hurts" with rewritten lyrics to inspire their schoolwork. And the story got picked up Friday by ABC's Good Morning America.
Business & Tech Vaping Illnesses Linked To THC Pod Additive Vitamin E Acetate For the first time since the outbreak of lung illnesses associated with e-cigarettes earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control says it has identified a specific ingredient as a "very strong culprit": Vitamin E acetate.
Arts & Entertainment Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Gets Huge Mural In Downtown SF The face of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is going up on the side of a building near Union Square, and the artist painting is hoping a band will donate their services for an unveiling ceremony.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: First Orinda Shooting Lawsuit Is Filed The jury in the trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat is going into their ninth day of deliberations, BART service to San Jose may begin in December, and Elizabeth Holmes just won a small battle over evidence in court.
SF News Day Around The Bay: NRA Drops Its Lawsuit Against San Francisco Airbnb has agreed to pay for Orinda victim funerals, Suzy Loftus has a 879-vote lead in the DA's race, and Lyft's e-bikes are returning in force next month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Testmatch' at ACT's Strand Theater Is a Strange But Satisfying Lens on Cricket ACT's latest production is a world premiere by an American- and British-trained playwright about the game of cricket, in particular women's cricket, and it spans three centuries and two continents in a brisk 90 minutes.
SF News Michael Bloomberg Is Prepping a Possible Presidential Bid, Filing Paperwork For At Least One Primary Former New York City mayor and self-made billionaire Michael Bloomberg is reportedly inching toward declaring his candidacy for the 2020 presidential campaign, and is making moves that include filing paperwork calling himself a candidate in the Democratic race in the Alabama primary.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Project Kicks Off With Pelosi In Attendance, Completion Due in 2021 The official "groundmaking" ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the process of building and landscaping what will create 14 acres of parkland over the top of the 101 freeway tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the Presidio to Crissy Field.
Business & Tech Two Former Twitter Employees Accused of Spying For Saudi Arabia The U.S. government has accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia via their access to sensitive Twitter user data.
SF News Shooting At Sixth and Market Injures One, Shatters Window of Nearby Restaurant A shooting Thursday morning near the intersection of Market, Sixth Street, Taylor, and Golden Gate Avenue has left one person injured, and at least one bullet hit the window at Dosa Allee (1020 Market).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Gets Chain-Store Exemption To Move Into Hayes Valley It'll probably be two years before the store opens, but Hayes Valley is finally going to get a grocery store as Trader Joe's won its formula-retail exemption from the Board of Supervisors this week to move into 555 Fulton.
