SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Post Thanksgiving Edition A new Palestinian restaurant is coming soon to Noe Valley, Thomas Keller is closing his Yountville Mexican spot after this weekend, and downtown Oakland has a new cocktail bar — with pickles! — all in This Week In Food.
SF News Two People Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide In Sonoma County A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy made a gruesome discovery Wednesday when performing a welfare check at a home east of Santa Rosa.
SF News Post-Thanksgiving Constitutional: Amazon Workers Set to Strike One person was killed in a crash on 280 in Daly City Thursday night; the three people killed in the Cybertruck crash in Piedmont have been identified; and an SF family received help from the fire department after their oven caught on fire during their Thanksgiving prep.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Shooting of Pregnant Woman A person required rescue after falling into the Bay from Pier 45; a 30-year-old man has been booked on attempted murder charges in connection with the Bayview shooting of a pregnant woman; and Mayor London Breed has named a new SFO director.
Arts & Entertainment Ha! AI Image-Generators Love to Stick the Golden Gate Bridge Just Any Old Place The Chronicle has a funny look today at the variously, hilariously wrong images of San Francisco that are being spit out of AI image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E and xAI's Grok.
Arts & Entertainment Expect Magic, Music, and Puppetry In ACT's World Premiere 'A Whynot Christmas Carol' In setting out to do a new spin on the Dickens classic, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon enlisted playwright and friend Craig Lucas to write a new metaplay about a small-town putting on a production of 'A Christmas Carol.'
SF Politics Trump Names Anti-Lockdown Stanford Doctor to Lead NIH The ridiculous clown car that is the second Trump administration just gained another clown.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: Pedestrians Killed On I-5, I-680 Pedestrians were killed this morning in separate collisions on I-680 and I-5; a man was just convicted in a March 2022 murder outside a San Leandro bar; and PG&E is requesting yet another rate hike.
SF News Brrr! Cold Snap to Take Hold Across the Bay Through the Weekend Following the rains, expect some frigid winter cold to set in, with the season's first frost advisory happening Wednesday night into Thanksgiving morning.
SF News Injury Crash on Southbound 101 In San Francisco Snarls Airport-Bound Traffic Anyone trying to run to SFO Tuesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving holiday could encounter a snag unless they avoid the 101 freeway until they're further south.
SF News Berkeley-Born Animal Rights Extremist Captured For Bay Area Bombings Two Decades Ago A radical animal-rights activist who was linked to three Bay Area bombings in 2003 has recently been captured after two decades on the run, in the United Kingdom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whiskey Lovers Line Up For Rare Finds at New Pleasanton Costco In case you weren't aware (I wasn't), grand openings at Costco are treasure hunts for a certain band of whiskey lovers and wine aficionados, with certain labels getting stocked just for opening events.
SF News Man Shot and Critically Wounded In SF's Bret Harte Neighborhood A male victim was found shot and critically wounded Monday night in San Francisco's Bret Harte neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Speaks Out ABC 7 gave a very friendly interview to embattled San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus; Urban Alchemy was hit with some hateful graffiti; and Kamala Harris was passing through SF last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In the Mission District A pedestrian was killed Sunday morning near 16th and Valencia streets in SF; the family of a Vallejo man killed in 2022 is upset about a lenient plea deal for his killer; and the CHP is starting a 'maximum enforcement period' on Wednesday.
SF Politics President of Oakland City Council, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Declares Victory In County Race, Complicating Mayoral Transition Who will be interim mayor of Oakland? That's a more open question now as City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas announced victory in her bid to become an Alameda County supervisor.
SF News Buyer Interest Emerges for Macy's Union Square Property; City Holds Out Hope Macy's Will Stay In Some Form The Macy's corporation hasn't shared much in the way of plans since its bombshell announcement earlier this year that it would close its flasghip San Francisco store. But there are a couple of possibilities emerging for the property.
SF News SF to Expect Off-and-On Rain Through Thanksgiving, Though Most of Thursday Could Be Dry After some record-setting rainfall around the Bay Area last week, we won't be seeing much of a dry spell until later in the week, as showers will continue arriving for the next couple of days.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Dies In Floodwaters Near Guerneville A man tragically died inside a vehicle in rising floodwaters in Sonoma County on Saturday; two men were arrested in Napa for attempted murder; and cable car service in SF is being replaced by buses for the next two days.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Say Hello, Again, to Park Tavern Park Tavern is reopening tonight with a famous new chef, a Top Chef alum opens a new Divisadero wine bar, and the Fillmore neighborhood is up in arms about the closure of their only grocery store, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics Rumor Swirls That Breed Will Appoint Former Aide, Loyal 'Guard Dog' and Potential Chaos Agent as Supervisor Mayor London Breed is rumored to be seriously considering appointing her former aide and more recently campaign advisor Conor Johnston to Catherine Stefani's soon-to-be-vacated seat on the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Marina District, I-280, Other Areas of SF Begin to Flood as Flash Flood Warning Issued Low-lying parts of San Francisco are likely to see urban flooding Friday afternoon after the National Weather Service issued a warning of "life threatening flash flooding."
SF News Fatal Drug Overdoses In SF May Be Declining Because Fentanyl-User Population May Be Dwindling Many people seriously addicted to fentanyl have already died in San Francisco, and those who are still alive increasingly have access to Narcan and have learned what their limits are, which experts say are both reasons why the number of fatal overdoses has declined.
SF News Atmospheric River Shifts South, Bringing Heavier Rain to SF, East Bay While the North Bay has received the brunt of the rain in the last two days, the San Francisco Peninsula and the East Bay will get a decent dumping Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 10-Year-Old Girl Stops Carjacking In Antioch A 10-year-old girl thwarted a carjacking in Antioch; there have been over 100 delays reported so far today at SFO; and Apple is racing to release a more conversational version of Siri to compete with ChatGPT.
