SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Unveils Latest Menu With a Theatrical Twist, 'Dogs: The Musical' Yes, the menu looks like a Playbill for a musical called 'Dogs,' styled after Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats,' and many of the drink names are, also, spoofs of character names from 'Cats.'
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Laying Off More Workers Just as 'Inside Out 2' Becomes Its Highest-Grossing Film Ever In an unfortunate turn of events, Pixar is continuing with layoffs at its Emeryville animation studio in the same month that its latest release is smashing box office records and raking in cash at theaters worldwide.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Brunch 'Sunday's a Drag' Returns at New Location, North Beach's Club Fugazi Veteran SF drag queen and hostess Donna Sachet has revived her popular Sunday drag brunch, which for years was a staple of Harry Denton's Starlight Room in Union Square.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Accused of Killing Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Will Stand Trial There's an update in a brutal stabbing case from March 2023 in which a beloved member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and Olivet Oakland Church choir was brutally killed in his own apartment.
SF News [Update] Missing Australian Businessman Turns Up In SF Hospital, In Coma, After Fall? An Australian grain executive on a business trip in San Francisco appears to have been violently robbed and injured, and was put into an induced coma after arriving in a local hospital without identification.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Says 'It's Up to the President to Decide' Whether to Stay in the Race Nancy Pelosi once again hedged about Biden staying in the race; Oakland police appear to be under-reporting crime data; and San Jose business leaders are pushing for more federal funding for the BART extension.
SF News South Bay Water Board Seeks to Make It Illegal to Camp Along Creeks, Waterways In the latest legal gambit to address homeless encampments in the Bay Area, the board of directors of Santa Clara Valley Water wants to make it illegal to camp in or along any of the 300 miles of creeks and waterways it manages.
SF News Orange Smoke Haze Could Be On Its Way to the Bay Area; Also, Inland Areas to Get More Extreme Heat This Week Another round of heat is coming Wednesday after a brief respite, though San Francisco won't feel too much of it. And wildfire smoke from far Northern California could end up hazing our skies as well.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Just Like That, the Flintstone House Sushi Pop-Up Is Shut Down By Hillsborough's Town Council SFist called it last week when the story came out about a high-end omakase pop-up at the quirky Flintstone House down in Hillsborough: Sounds like owner Florence Fang, or the team working on the pop-up, did not seek any permits for this.
SF News Two Men Die By Drowning In Russian River In Four-Day Span Beware the deceptively strong underwater currents in the Russian River, because two young men have drowned in recent days while just trying to enjoy themselves and cool off in the river's waters.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Mother Grieves Second Child Lost to Gun Violence There is new information about a May 3 incident that may be linked to the unfolding Oakland scandal that ensnared the mayor; an Oakland mother talks about losing a second child in three years to guns; and those 13 teenage hikers near Tahoe have reunited with their families.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Rescued From Boat Fire Near Redwood City Two people had to be rescued from a boat fire in the Bay this afternoon; the Lake Fire in Santa Barbara County is threatening Neverland Ranch; and a White House press briefing turned into a shouting match today about Biden's health.
SF News Toddler Dies After Fall Out of Mission District Apartment Window A 15-month-old boy who fell from a third-story window in the Mission District last week has died from his injuries.
SF News Two Conservative East Bay School Board Members Who Banned the Pride Flag Get Recalled A recall election last week decided the fates of two school board members in the Sunol Glen Unified School District who were elected during the pandemic, and they're out.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Clears Way For San Francisco to Resume Encampment Sweeps Although the removal of homeless encampments had not completely stopped in San Francisco, a panel of federal appellate judges just ordered an injunction to be lifted that clears a legal hurdle to the city's efforts to clear illegal encampments.
SF News BART Murder Suspect Undergoes Psych Evaluation, Misses Court Date A man accused of shoving a woman into a BART train last week and causing her death was missing from a scheduled court appearance Monday morning due to hospitalization.
SF News Royal Fire Near Lake Tahoe, Possibly Caused By Escaped Campfire, Burns 170 Acres A wildfire burning in the forest near Royal Gorge, west of Sugar Bowl and southwest of Truckee, has grown to 169 acres after breaking out Sunday afternoon.
SF News Dolores Hill Bomb Happens Despite Police Blockade, Moving One Block Over to Church The skaters and their fans would not be deterred on Saturday, and instead of doing the traditional hill bomb on the Dolores Street hill between 19th and 21st, they just bombed down Church Street from 20th.
SF News Sunday Links: Schiff Says Biden Must 'Win Overwhelmingly' or Step Aside Rep. Adam Schiff became the first California Democrat to publicly cast doubt on Biden's run; the heatwave has basically broken in San Francisco; and some hikers needed rescue from a cliff in Daly City.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Woman Killed In Oakland's Uptown A 29-year-old SF woman was fatally shot in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood Friday night; the SFPD continues to say they will prevent the Dolores Hill Bomb from happening; and a Lake County man was arrested for sparking a fire with his weedwacker.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New French Bistro Arrives In Downtown SF Bruno Chemel's Le Parc Bistrobar debuts near Union Square, Joyride Pizza opens on the Embarcadero with cocktails, and West Portal has a new Italian wine bar from the former La Ciccia team.
SF News Independence Day Headlines: One Suspect Charged In Lake Merritt Shooting The heatwave has now been blamed for one death in the Bay Area; a 15-month-old child was critically injured falling out of a Mission District window; and one suspect has now been charged in the June 19 Lake Merritt shooting.
SF News Suspect In BART-Shove Killing Charged With Murder The 49-year-old homeless man suspected of pushing a 74-year-old woman into an oncoming BART train Monday night has been formally charged with murder.
SF News Eviction By Sheriff Near Castro Neighborhood Leads to Shots Fired, SWAT Situation A tense police standoff was unfolding Wednesday afternoon in Corona Heights, near Buena Vista Park, where an eviction was reportedly taking place by the SF Sheriff's Department and the tenant allegedly fired a gun.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flintstone House to Open to Public as Stoneage Omakase, a High End Sushi Pop-Up Well, I didn't see this one coming! The quirky so-called Flintstone House down on I-280 in Hillsborough is going to open to the public for the first time this month as a high-end omakase pop-up with a Michelin-credentialed chef.
