SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mother and Child Struck By Car In Brisbane A mother and child were struck by an alleged DUI driver in Brisbane; two were hospitalized Sunday after a two-alarm structure fire in the Mission; and BART says ridership is up and crime is down thanks to more policing.
Arts & Entertainment World Premiere Play 'The Thing About Jellyfish' Dazzles at Berkeley Rep Ali Benjamin's acclaimed 2015 young-adult novel The Thing About Jellyfish has now been adapted for the stage, and Berkeley Rep hosted the play's world premiere this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Cassava Returns as Tiny Cafe The Cassava team is back with a new downtown cafe, Smoke Soul Kitchen debuts next week in the Bayview, and a new bar and restaurant has moved into the former Starline Social Club in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Lawsuit Filed Against Hercules Cops Who Tased a Man Who Suffered Epileptic Seizure A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Hercules Police Department and three officers over an April 2024 incident in which the officers forcibly restrained and tased a 21-year-old man who had just suffered his first-ever grand mal seizure.
SF News Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Makes First Appearance In Federal Court Recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first court appearance at a procedural hearing Thursday in federal court in Oakland, and the judge seemed to be throwing some shade in her direction.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kids Keep Climbing on This New Sculpture In Hayes Valley A knife-wielding homeless man injured an SFPD officer in NoPa; Nima Momeni is due in court today to schedule sentencing; and people keep climbing on this new sculpture at Patricia's Green.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Sports Bar, Splash, Opens Friday Next to Chase Center One week ahead of the big All Star Game, the massive new sports bar Splash at Thrive City has opened, with 30,000 square feet of space for eating, drinking, game watching, and game playing.
SF News Lake Berryessa's 'Glory Hole' Spillway Activated For the First Time In Six Years Locals and regional water nerds alike have been flocking to see the massive, circular drainpipe-style spillway in action at Lake Berryessa this week, the first time it's been active since 2019.
SF News Bob Lee Murder Case Gets 'Dateline' Treatment Friday The 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco, a story very familiar to readers of SFist by now but maybe not to the rest of the country, will be featured in Friday's episode of 'Dateline' on NBC.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Find Some of the Much Sought-After Triple IPA Pliny the Younger This Weekend Russian River Brewing's perennial cult favorite beer Pliny the Younger — the rabid, continued popularity and cult status of which is baffling to some but completely justified to others — is more plentiful than it used to be.
SF News Richmond Police Investigated By Attorney General Over Shooting of Unarmed Man A Tuesday shooting by Richmond police that was initially described as a standoff with a domestic violence suspect is being investigated by the California Attorney General's Office.
SF News Person Found Fatally Shot Behind Whole Foods In Redwood City A person was found dead of a gunshot wound Thursday morning in Redwood City, on a suburban street behind a Whole Foods.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Co. Leaders Urge Voters to Oust Sheriff San Mateo County leaders have launched their "Yes on A" campaign to oust Sheriff Christina Corpus; an Oakland man was convicted of pimping in Solano County; and today's storm is expected to bring high winds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian River Towns Flood In Low-Lying Areas Evacuation orders due to flooding remain in place along the Russian River; Oakland business owners are mad at Ayesha Curry; and NorCal reservoirs are quite full now.
SF News Landslide Destroys Sonoma County Home Rebuilt After 2017 Tubbs Fire A couple's home on Deer Trail Court in Santa Rosa was severely damaged, possibly beyond repair, in a landslide Tuesday evening after a day of heavy rains. And, tragically, this home had been rebuilt on the burn scar left from their previous home lost in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
Arts & Entertainment London Police Admit 'Investigative Bias' In Heklina Death Probe as They Try to Unlock Cellphone The London Metro Police have much to answer for in the now almost two-year-old investigation into the death of San Francisco drag legend Heklina — and more details are coming to light about just how slowly they've been slow-walking this thing.
SF News Beloved Longtime KTVU Anchorman Dennis Richmond Dies at Age 81 Retired KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond, who sat in the anchor chair for the station's popular nightly news broadcast for over 30 years, has died.
SF News SFPD Releases Video of Officer-Involved Shooting of Suspect In SoMa Shooting San Francisco police held a virtual town hall Tuesday to discuss the January 27 shooting by officers of a suspect who was seen shooting cannabis store owner Martin Olive. And video reveals that the suspect shot at officers before he was killed
SF News Humpday Headlines: Retired UC Berkeley Professor Killed In Hit-and-Run A 77-year-old retired Cal professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision Monday in Oakland; two SFPD officers were assaulted in an unprovoked attack; and Trump wants to "investigate" the CA high-speed rail project.
SF News Home Slides Into Russian River as Sonoma Sees Flooding Impacts An unoccupied home in Forestville collapsed in a mudslide Tuesday afternoon and fell into the Russian River amid heavy rains that were also leading to an evacuation at a Santa Rosa hospital.
SF News Alleged Castro Creep Who Was Exposing Himself Around Teens Has Been Arrested A man who had been called out publicly last week for exposing himself and allegedly acting lewdly around children in the Castro has now been arrested, and he indeed has a record as a sex offender.
Arts & Entertainment Win Two Free Tickets to the NBA's All Star Game Concert Series In San Francisco SFist is doing a contest, everyone. You can win two free tickets to the NBA All Star Concert Series, happening down the street from the Chase Center on Pier 48 February 14 to 16.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Draymond Green Is Partnering With Two East Bay Chefs to Open Caribbean-Ethiopian Restaurant In Lower Nob Hill Warriors bad boy Draymond Green is getting into the restaurant game for the first time, and he's partnered with two well-known East Bay chefs to create a restaurant that celebrates "Black culture in San Francisco."
SF News [Update] Connected Potholes, Not Sinkhole, Disrupt Traffic at Lombard and Gough Streets San Francisco drivers were being told to avoid Lombard Street in the area of Gough Street due to a sinkhole that had formed amid Tuesday morning's rain, but this turned out to be a series of connected potholes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Rain Likely to Cause Minor, and Possibly Major, Flooding San Francisco is under a Flood Advisory today as the heaviest rain is yet to come; multiple car crashes were reported around the Bay this morning; and State Farm wants to hike rates across the board by over 20%.
