Business & Tech Amazon Go a No-Go As Supes Vote To Ban Cashless Stores The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to ban all retail outlets in the city that don't accept cash as payment. The move to quell a growing trend of cashless stores and restaurants is meant to ensure access to all stores by low-income residents.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Uber / Lyft Driver Strike Kicks Off SF School Board President says he was racially profiled at a Walgreens, Monday's dead whale gets necropsy, and A's pitcher Mike Fiers pitches no-hitter.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mistrial Declared In Skateboard Attack On Security Guard The case of the Redwood City woman who tried to drown her just-born baby in a McDonald's toilet in 2017 has resolved with no jail time, and the planned Uber/Lyft strike might not impact riders.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Hosting Bagel Pop-Up Wednesday Night Get set for a longer-than-typical line outside Tartine Bakery Wednesday evening as notoriously bagel-starved SF gets a new bagel pop-up to try, called Midnite Bagel.
SF News Confessed Bay Area Killer Linked Through DNA To Tahoe Cold Case From 1982 A confessed murderer who committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial in 1983 has been definitively linked to the 1982 murder of Mary Edith Silvani near Lake Tahoe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Restaurants, Benu and Bar Agricole, Take Home Big Prizes at the James Beard Awards "Eighth time’s a charm," joked Bar Agricole owner Thad Vogler in his acceptance speech, after the place won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar Program following annual nominations going back to 2012.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Wine Country,' The Amy Poehler-Directed, Napa-Set Comedy Based On Rachel Dratch's Actual 50th Birthday "Just remember guys, whatever gets said, it's probably what the person has always felt, and the alcohol just let it out," says Tina Fey's character, Tammy.
SF News Angela Alioto Apologizes After N-Word Use At Democratic Committee Meeting Former SF supervisor and recent mayoral candidate Angela Alioto says she just got too "passionate" at an April 24th meeting of the Democratic County Central Committee when she used the N-word six times in order to illustrate a point about workplace discrimination.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Supes Consider Banning Cashless Stores Google's I/O conference kicks off today in Mountain View, the Golden Gate Bridge was a mess during last night's commute, and residents of Gilbert Street complain about Adachi name change.
SF News Day Around The Bay: First Prosecution Witnesses Take Stand In Ghost Ship Trial Uber and Lyft drivers to strike Wednesday, Falun Gong members protest naming Central Subway station after Rose Pak, and a fire victim's mother gave some emotional testimony at the Ghost Ship trial.
SF News Ninth Dead Gray Whale Washes Ashore, This Time At Ocean Beach Another dead whale washed ashore Monday morning, and while the cause of death is not yet known, it's part of an ongoing trend this migration season.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Shower Where You Sleep Today's edition of Apartment Sadness takes us out to the Portola District, where an in-law unit's design apparently didn't include a bath or shower, until now.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Mayor London Breed Riding In The LowRider Council Car Show Mayor London Breed hopped in a lowrider at the Cinco de Mayo LowRider Council Car Show on Saturday in the Mission.
Business & Tech Kamala Harris Wants To Make Twitter and Facebook Accountable For Hate Speech Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said over the weekend that she wants to hold social media companies responsible for allowing radicalization and hate speech on their platforms.
SF News Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White Feted After 15-Year Tenure Sunday marked the last day of Joanne Hayes-White's tenure as chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, a position she's held since 2004 in a department she's served in for 29 years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Chef Dominique Crenn Announces She Has Breast Cancer Michelin-starred celebrity chef Dominique Crenn took to Instagram Sunday to announce that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. "I feel both scared and humbled and yet not alone," Crenn writes.
SF News Alabama College Choir Involved In Fiery Freeway Crash Perform At SF Church A group of Alabama college students who are part of a renowned choir and who escaped Friday night's five-vehicle collision on 101 all performed as planned on Sunday in San Francisco.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Divisadero Farmers' Market Moving To DMV A 19-year-old Oakland man was arrested for a shooting on a San Luis Obispo County beach, Angela Alioto had her house egged, and Impossible Burgers are in high demand.
SF News Sunday Links: Earthquake Swarm Strikes NorCal Coast Angela Alioto is being asked to step down from the local Democratic Party for the use of a racial slur, police shot and killed a suspect in San Jose, and Steph Curry had another bad night.
SF News Saturday Links: One Killed In Multi-Vehicle Crash on 101 in South SF A crash involving a tour bus and four other vehicles has left at least one dead, the Ghost Ship defense is trying to block the prosecution's first witness, and the Flower Mart saga continues.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bicyclist Struck By F-Line Streetcar On Market Street The victims of a freeway shooting on I-880 were driving a stolen car, Teatro ZinZanni is returning to the Embarcadero, and a bicyclist escaped uninjured after colliding with a streetcar.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Returns After Three Rained-Out Months The first First Fridays event since January goes down tonight in Oakland's KONO neighborhood, and it's sure to draw a crowd.
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Purchased Two Adjacent Lake Tahoe Estates For $59M Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to shroud his purchase of two Lake Tahoe compounds in secrecy, but now the Wall Street Journal and Business Insider have splashed photos of the properties all over the internet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blind Butcher, A Steakhouse From The Lark Team, Opens Soon In Castro The new restaurant taking over the former Beso space on 18th Street appears to be readying for an opening within a matter of days, and we now know that it's going to be a miniature steakhouse called Blind Butcher.
Business & Tech Facebook In Talks With Dozens Of Financial Firms About Launching Its Own Cryptocurrency As has been rumored on the tech blogs for months, Facebook is reportedly working to create its own cryptocurrency, and now we know the name of the covert project: Project Libra.
