SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Mediterranean In the Mission Anatolian Table arrives in the Mission, Berliner Berliner bids adieu, and The Farmacy takes shape on South Park, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Possible Cult Leader 'Ziz,' Who Faked Her Own Death and Was Questioned In Pennsylvania Double Murder, Still at Large It feels like there are still shoes to drop in the strange case of the Zizians, whose troubling beliefs and alleged pattern of extreme violence came to light in just the last several days.
SF News AJ Gonzalez Describes Killing His 8-Year-Old Neighbor, Going Out For Chipotle After The 25-year-old man who, at age 15, brutally strangled, stabbed, and sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl who was his neighbor, just took the stand for the first time in a trial to determine if he will stay behind bars.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The Rain Returns A storm that was supposed to stay more in the North Bay will now bring significant rainfall to SF; UC Berkeley students protest Trump's immigration policy; and Oakland's Waterfront Hotel is closing after 35 years.
SF News SFPD Honors Officer Who Identified Luigi Mangione During Nationwide Manhunt San Francisco police Sergeant Michael Horan was honored at City Hall Wednesday as part of an Officer of the Month ceremony, but he bears the distinction of helping crack a case that made international headlines last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar and Seafood Spot, Bar Maritime, Coming to Former Burritt Room Near Union Square This week we get some new restaurant news about a space in a historic hotel next to the Stockton Tunnel that has sat empty for a few years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink TikTok-Popular Cookie Shop Crumbl Is Opening Its First San Francisco Location Next Week The wait is almost over for the rabid fans of Crumbl, the shop famed for its "Cookie of the Week" that became all the rage on TikTok in the last couple of years, despite the cookies being, according to some critics, not all that.
SF Politics Supervisors Push to Lift Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness — What About Other Neighborhoods With Vacant Storefronts? Two SF supervisors are floating a rule-change that would lift limits on formula retail on the struggling Van Ness corridor. But the proposal prompts the question of why the Board of Supervisors isn't looking at more widespread changes to these rules.
Business & Tech PG&E Rolls Out Ads In Which Execs Talk to Real-Life Customers — Is Anyone Buying It? PG&E has an awkward new PR campaign with ads airing in NorCal markets in which company executives sit and have frank-seeming conversations with customers about the company's horrible reputation when it comes to wildfire safety.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Zoo Rescues Three Mountain Lion Cubs Congresswoman Lateefah Simon was back in the Bay Area on a working trip; plaques honoring musicians on Oakland's Blues Walk of Fame were stolen; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in three orphaned mountain lion cubs.
SF News Man Seen In Viral Video Throwing Eggs at Homeless Man In Haight Identified A man dressed in business attire pulled up to a corner in Haight Street on Monday evening and was seen hurling eggs in the direction of a sleeping homeless man on the sidewalk.
SF News Day Around the Bay: OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Used Their Tech to Build Their AI Model OpenAI says DeepSeek may have improperly harvested data from their tech; a San Mateo man has filed suit against Amazon for secretly tracking customers; and the brother of Oakland rapper Too Short was killed in a shooting this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Neighborhood Group Pushes Forward With Improvement Plans for Alta Plaza Park After Receiving Bequests The neighborhood group Friends of Alta Plaza is angling to push ahead with aspects of a master plan document that dates back to 2016, following news that two recently deceased neighbors left significant sums of money to the park in their wills.
SF News Suspect and Possible Cult Member Makes Court Appearance In Vallejo Killing as Further Links Revealed to Other Murders We've only just begun to see the unraveling of the strange case of the Zizians, as we'll call them for now, a purported "death cult" with links to the rationalist movement, whose alleged activities the last two years have led to a total of six deaths to date.
SF News California Forever Sees New Way to Get Around Voter Approval For Their Solano County City-From-Scratch Sensing that public opinion was not going their way last year, and facing legal fights on several fronts, a billionaire-backed effort to build a new utopian city from farmland in eastern Solano County may head down a new path.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Musk-Esque Email Goes Out to Federal Employees RFK Jr. faces confirmation in the Senate; BART had some major delays this morning; and two men have been arrested in connection with a dead woman found on a sidewalk in Santa Rosa.
Arts & Entertainment UN Plaza Skatepark Getting Expanded Next Month, Converse-Sponsored Event Planned The popular skatepark at UN Plaza is getting upgraded and expanded in early February, with several new beginner-friendly, skate-able features being added, and Converse is hosting a skateboarding event in the park on February 15.
SF News At His First Ever Trial, Teen Killer of Santa Cruz Girl Hopes to Convince Jury He's Not a Danger to the Public 25-year-old Adrian Jerry "AJ" Gonzalez is hoping to be set free despite admitting to the 2015 murder of his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddy Middleton.
SF Politics California Joins Coalition of States Suing Trump Over Federal Funding Freeze They Call Illegal The latest piece of governing-by-fiat from Trump, which is perfectly in line with that Project 2025 he claimed not to know much about, is an immediate freeze of federal funding and grants of many kinds, set to take effect later today — but a federal judge has already blocked it.
SF News Two Linked to Alleged Vallejo Vegan Cult With Violent History Arrested For Murders In Vermont and Vallejo A creepy group that had been nicknamed "The Cult" by neighbors in Vallejo were implicated with a sword attack on their landlord two years ago. Now, two alleged associates of the group are in custody for murdering that landlord as well as a border patrol agent in Vermont.
SF News One Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In SoMa That Followed Different Shooting A shooting Monday outside a cannabis business in SoMa led SFPD officers to surround a building where, later, a shootout took place with the apparent suspect in the first in the shooting, who ended up dead.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Homicide Investigation In Santa Rosa A woman was found dead on a Santa Rosa sidewalk Monday evening; a Vallejo school remains without power after a copper wire theft; and NVIDIA lost a record-breaking $600B in market value in one day on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Is Sixth Street Crackdown Accomplishing Anything? A crackdown on illegal activity on Sixth Street has yielded 218 arrests; the Nike store is going to be wrapped in a huge NBA-themed ad for All Stars Game Week; and Katy Perry is playing the Chase Center in July.
SF News Parents Want Man Arrested Who Has Allegedly Been Exposing Himself to Schoolchildren In the Castro Some parents of children who attend school in the Castro neighborhood say that a man who may be a registered sex offender has been oiling himself up and repeatedly exposing himself to teen girls in the neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Is Up For Sale, Blowout Celebration Planned Next Month After 38 years of slinging "extreme" beers for a crowd of beer geeks and average beer lovers alike, the Lower Haight's Toronado is facing the end of an era and an uncertain future.
