SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: La Connessa Makes a Big Splash on Potrero Hill A Ju-Ni partner has just opened an Italian restaurant in Merced Manor; the team from Spruce has just opened a huge and sleek new Italian spot on Potrero Hill; and Blue Whale, the new Cow Hollow spot from Empress by Boon chef Ho Chee Boon, opens tonight.
SF Politics An 'RGB-Level Disaster'? Or Will Republicans Make Nice and Let Democrats Fill Feinstein's Seat on the Judiciary Committee? While the rumblings shall grow louder in the coming days about Governor Gavin Newsom's potential pick to appoint to Dianne Feinstein's now vacant seat in the Senate, one thing seems certain: Republicans are going to use this vacancy to their advantage however they can.
SF Politics Will Newsom Appoint Barbara Lee to the Senate? Or Send In Shirley Weber as 'Interim'? Governor Gavin Newsom is now faced with the awkward moment he has not wanted to face, with a second senate seat to fill by appointment, and a two-year-old pledge he may have come to regret.
SF News Utility Worker Who Died In Trench Collapse Identified The man who died Thursday morning when an underground trench he was working in collapsed, burying him alive, has been identified.
SF News California Congresswoman Was Among Last to See Feinstein Alive, Says She 'Worked to Her Dying Day' "I was the lucky one," says former House Rep. Jane Harman of Los Angeles after she revealed that she had a 5 p.m. meeting with Senator Dianne Feinstein at her home in Washington D.C. Thursday.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Lioness of the Senate and Onetime SF Mayor, Dies at Age 90 Senator Dianne Feinstein, the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a onetime mayor of San Francisco who led the city through a tragic and tumultuous time, died Thursday night at age 90.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Driver Killed In Bay Bridge Crash A 70-year-old driver was killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge approach in Oakland Thursday evening; light rain is heading for the coast tonight; and New York is going through a major rain event right now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Alums to Open New 'Izakaya-Like' Chinese Restaurant, Four Kings A space at the edge of both Chinatown and the Financial District is going to become a permanent home for Four Kings, the nostalgic Cantonese and Hong Kongese pop-up from former Mister Jiu's chefs Franky Ho and Mike Long.
SF News San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
SF News Lululemon Store on Fillmore Targeted Twice For Organized Theft Last Week, Four Suspects Charged The SFPD made multiple arrests last week in connection with organized retail thefts in the city, but two incidents happened at the same store, the Lululemon at 2040 Fillmore Street.
SF News Historic Warfield Building Moves Forward Toward Residential Conversion; Eight Other Downtown Buildings Could Follow While we still may be years out before we see lots of residential units hit the market in former downtown office buildings, at least eight landlords of downtown buildings are putting out feelers about converting — and the developer behind 100 Van Ness is eyeing a big building on Spear Street.
SF News [Updated] Utility Worker Dies After Collapse of Trench at Oak and Divisadero Some sort of sidewalk collapse occurred Thursday morning over a utility trench near the Lower Haight neighborhood, trapping one person underground.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Police Commission Hosting Town Hall The Oakland Police Commission is holding a town hall tonight on the search for a new chief; two collisions led to a major backup on the Dumbarton Bridge; and the Powerball jackpot has swelled to $925M.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Murder Suspect Misses Court Appearance A man was shot by Fairfield police for allegedly having a gun near a school; Berkeley murder suspect Jonah Roper failed to appear in court today; and two women have been charged with a brazen retail theft in Pacific Heights.
Arts & Entertainment Local Architect Proposes a Much Saner Solution For Troubled SF Mall: Legoland San Francisco architect Mark Hogan, founder of OpenScope Studio, has thrown out an idea for filling the vacant former Nordstrom space in the mall formerly called the Westfield Centre on SF's Market Street, and it makes a lot more sense than a soccer stadium.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider's First Book, 'In the Form of a Question,' Hits Shelves Next Week The Bay Area's own 40-game 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has been at work on a book in the 20 months since her historic run on the game show ended, and it is set to land in stores on October 3.
SF News Predictably, Story About Sleeping Pods Prompts Investigation By SF Building Inspectors Today in unsurprising news: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection has launched an investigation into those $700/mo sleeping pods on Mint Plaza, which may not be permitted.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Will Have a New 'General Store' Selling Ice, Snacks, Sunblock, and More Organizers of the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just announced a new and welcome feature at this year's event: a 'General Store' selling a variety of picnic supplies and more.
SF News SF Is Among 50 City Governments and Organizations Asking the Supreme Court to Weigh In On Homeless Camping Democrats in multiple western states are making strange bedfellows with Republicans in a push to get the conservative-majority Supreme Court to settle the legal dispute over whether homeless people should be allowed to camp on public property without penalty.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Restaurants Say They're Cleaning Up Vandalism Constantly The vandalism problem for SF restaurants is huge and costly; Berkeley police chased armed robbery suspects into Oakland, where they crashed a car; and two Oakland residents were arrested in Fresno County with $600K worth of meth and fentanyl.
SF News Accomplice Driver In 2020 'Boogaloo' Murder of Federal Guard In Oakland Convicted of Murder The man who was behind the wheel of the white van out of which former Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo fatally shot a federal security guard during a night of George Floyd protests in downtown Oakland in late May 2020 has been found guilty of murder.
SF News Area Around Fairmont Hotel Closed to Cable Car and Vehicle Traffic Through Wednesday, Because Biden There will be some street closures and Muni interruptions on SF's Nob Hill through Wednesday due to a "VIP visit" which is obviously President Biden.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Proposes Linking Cash Assistance With Compelling Recipients Into Drug Treatment "SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Hills Matricide Has Long Criminal Past, History of Mental Illness The 36-year-old man who was arrested for the fatal stabbing of his mother on Saturday, as well as stabbings that injured two others, has a long and troubled past with law enforcement, and he appears to have begun having psychiatric problems around age 18.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Makes Candidacy Official For SF Mayor, Says There's 'Hunger For Change' Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
