SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ceviche and Po'Boys and Oysters, Oh My Oakland's Temescal has a new oyster bar, Cow Hollow sports bar Final Final has new owners and will be getting a slight makeover, and a new ceviche and michelada shop is opening next week in the Bayview.
SF News As Rainbow Family Camp Departs, Hippies Say It's Not Cool How California Treated Them This Year A confluence of factors, including heightened fears and risks of wildfires in a national forest that has seen several devastating ones in recent years, led to an outsized response from local and federal authorities to the arrival of the Rainbow Family campout this year.
SF News Marin County Kid Who Stole Guy Fieri's Lamborghini During Crazy Crime Spree Granted Parole After 12 Years The kid, now a 29-year-old man, who rappelled into a luxury car showroom in San Francisco in 2011 and drove off with celebrity chef Guy Fieri's yellow Lamborghini, and then later fired a gun at romantic rival, was granted parole on Thursday.
SF News Charges Filed Against Suspected BART Station Kidnapper On Friday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that charges had been filed in the case of an alleged kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl that took place at a BART station last week.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: AT&T Customers' Cell Records Exposed In Breach All AT&T cell customers likely had their call and text records breached; that Australian businessman found in an SF hospital may not have met with any violence after all; and California's mountain ranges could see dry lightning strikes this weekend.
SF News 79-Year-Old Woman Arrested for Killing Her 98-Year-Old Nursing Home Roommate An elderly woman with a history of homicidal tendencies toward roommates who made too much noise at night has been charged with the fatal beating of a woman who was her roommate at a nursing facility in San Jose.
SF News Prankster Adds Sex Workers to Slow Streets Signs on Shotwell A prankster has added some stickers to signs to better represent the range of activities that go on on Shotwell Street, which is a designated Slow Street with city-installed signage.
SF News Shootout at 16th and Mission Leaves One Dead A shootout late Monday night/early Tuesday near 16th and Mission streets led to a four-car crash and left one individual dead.
SF News Repeat Offender In Castro Gets Punched By Nudist After Attack on Tourist A well known, criminally violent individual who has roamed the streets of the Castro for years was seen on camera last week assaulting a tourist and then getting taken down by a nudist bystander.
SF News Husband Kills Wife, Child, and In-Laws In Alameda, Injures Second Child An Alameda man allegedly went on some kind of domestic rampage Wednesday night, killing his wife, son, and his wife's parents, and also shot and injured another young son.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Arrested at SFO For Alleged Smuggling of 6 Kilos of Meth to Australia A Los Angeles man was arrested two weeks ago after he was caught by the TSA at SFO trying transport six kilograms of methamphetamine to Australia.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Bay Area Council Promotes California Forever Plan The influential Bay Area Council has surprisingly come out in favor of California Forever's Solano County plans; Scott Peterson is back in court today; and a luxury penthouse in Pac Heights has dropped its asking price significantly.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Found Safe After SF BART Station Kidnapping A 17-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped from the Powell Street BART station Tuesday night; the Bohemian Club is facing another lawsuit from employees; and the Pelosis have been buying up Nvidia stock.
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.
