SF News Department of Corrections Reminds Parents to Check Sex Offender Database Before Trick-or-Treating The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is launching its annual campaign to raise awareness/scare parents about the potential presence of sex offenders in their neighborhoods, so that they avoid those homes when trick-or-treating.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mourad Owner's Dispute With City Reportedly Had to Do With Unpaid Tax Bill Chef Mourad Lahlou mentioned a "bitter dispute" with San Francisco city officials when he announced the closure of his acclaimed restaurant Mourad on Saturday. Now we have some insight into that.
Arts & Entertainment New Contemporary Art Museum Now Open In Downtown SF, and It's Free The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) opened as planned over the weekend in its new digs in The Cube building at 345 Montgomery Street.
SF News Pedestrian Killed Near Geary and Divisadero Identified as Zeitgeist Bartender Stalwart Mission District bar Zeitgeist was closed this weekend as staff were mourning the loss of one of their own. The pedestrian killed on Geary Boulevard Friday morning has been identified as a barender there.
SF News Pedestrian Struck and Injured In SF's Nob Hill; Two Cars Collide In Hayes Valley There were a pair of car crashes within minutes of each other Monday morning in San Francisco, one in Nob Hill and one in Hayes Valley.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Protesters Disrupt Pumpkin-Carving Event Pro-Palestinian protesters targeted a kids' pumpkin-carving event in Noe Valley hosted by Scott Wiener; an Ebony Alert was issued this morning for a missing San Leandro girl; and fans packed the Chase Center Sunday for the Warriors' home opener.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mourad Abruptly Announces Closure, Cites 'Bitter Dispute' With City Officials as One Cause Mourad, the acclaimed, modern Moroccan-inspired restaurant from chef Mourad Lahlou, has closed after ten years in downtown San Francisco. Its last night of service was Saturday, October 26.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Jonathan Waxman Returns to SF Park Tavern is a few weeks away from a grand reopening with the great Jonathan Waxman in the kitchen, Teta Nahla debuts in Oakland, and San Jose's only Michelin-starred spot is making a comeback, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics What Happens When Billionaires Own the Media: Two Major US Newspapers Decline to Endorse Harris Over a Fascist Endorsements in this year's presidential race by the editorial boards of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have been killed by the papers' billionaire owners. What does this say about the state of our media?
Business & Tech Airbnb Is Staying Put at 888 Brannan, Ending Year of Speculation Airbnb will not be exiting the Showplace Square headquarters that was built out for it a decade ago, and has now signed a lease to stay in the building until 2037.
SF News Man Suspected Of Causing $500K In Damage to New BART Station Entries Arrested In San Francisco BART police say they have arrested a man they believe is responsible for smashing glass panels on the canopy entries of three downtown San Francisco BART stations earlier this month.
SF News Pedestrian Struck and Killed By Car Near Divisadero and Geary A pedestrian was struck and died from their injuries Friday morning after a collision on Geary Boulevard near Divisadero in San Francisco.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Seizes 16 Cars From Bay Bridge Sideshow Using surveillance footage, the CHP ID'd and seized 16 cars connected to a September Bay Bridge sideshow; the mummified body found on a toilet in Union City has been ID'd; and Rep. Eric Swalwell's war of words with Pamela Price is escalating.
SF News CHP Touts 1,100 Arrests, 2,000 Stolen Cars Recovered In Oakland This Year The governor's office and California Highway Patrol have provided another quarterly update on the CHP's efforts to aid Oakland police on the car-theft and sideshow front.
SF News Onions From One NorCal Farm Linked to McDonald's E. Coli Outbreak A farm in Salinas has been pegged as the culprit in the nationwide E. coli outbreak that was initially linked to Quarter Pounders at McDonald's, and that has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states.
SF News Runt of Berkeley Falcon Brood Dies Three Months After Injuring Wing There's some sad news out of Berkeley, where the fourth of four young falcons hatched this spring atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower has died following a July injury.
Arts & Entertainment Japanese Arcade With Bowling Opening Next Month at Stonestown An arcade complex that's kind of like a Japanese version of Dave & Busters, with a lot of claw machines, is getting set to open in November at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested After Allegedly Dragging Assistant Principal By the Hair During East Bay High School Dance A teenager is accused of assaulting and dragging an assistant principal by the hair at California High School in San Ramon after she approached the teen and another student outside of a homecoming dance.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rent Control Remains Divisive Issue In SF Expanding rent control remains a divisive issue in SF; those new anti-sex-work barriers have gone up on Shotwell Street; and a Castro dessert shop was closed by the health department.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Animal Care Rescues Barn Owl Caught In Kite Line SF Animal Care & Control officers rescued an injured barn owl caught in a kite line near Baker Beach; Berkeley teens under 18 get to vote for school board this year; and Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma County gets a TikTok boost.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern French Bistro — With DJ Booth — Opens In Former Hard Water Space on Embarcadero A new French bistro, with a focus on Champagne and small plates, has just debuted at Pier 3 on SF's Embarcadero, from the owner of Sens at Embarcadero Center, and Barcha in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment New 2,000-Pound Star Sculpture From Occasional Burning Man Artists Arrives In Mint Plaza A new star-shaped, gold-painted sculpture, which will cast entrancing shadows from a light within it at night, has just been installed at Mint Plaza.
SF News Tensions Escalate During Fourth Day of Sister's Testimony In Nima Momeni Trial; Victim's Ex Lashes Out The tone of things became more combative Wednesday in the courtroom where Nima Momeni is being tried for the April 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
SF News Partially Mummified Corpse Found Sitting on Toilet In Union City This one sounds like the opening scene from a horror film and probably could be, and it just so happens to coincide with pre-Halloween Week.
SF News Buddhist Nuns' Residence Next to Mission District Temple Burns In Two-Alarm Fire, Four Displaced The nuns' residence next door to Hua Zang Si temple on 22nd Street was heavily damaged in a fire Tuesday, but luckily firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the temple building next door.
