SF News Day Around the Bay: Vintage Cable Car Dedicated to Tony Bennett A refurbished 1907 cable car was dedicated to the late Tony Bennett today, for Valentine's Day; Lyft saw its stock price leap up due to a typo in an earnings report; and the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade was marred by a deadly shooting.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nyum Bai Chef Bringing Noodle Bar to SF's Ferry Building Good news for fans of Nyum Bai, the very popular Oakland Cambodian restaurant that closed at the height of its popularity two years ago: Chef Nite Yun is coming to SF and opening something new.
SF News Contract With Woke Kindergarten Terminated at East Bay School Following Controversy Long after the Hayward Unified School District entered into a $250,000 contract with a teacher training program called Woke Kindergarten, a school board member and a teacher at the school raised objections to it, and the story launched into the national conservative media morass.
SF News San Mateo Deaths Look to Be Triple Murder-Suicide, Father Was Gunman While San Mateo police have been slow to release information in the case of a family found dead inside a home on a quiet street Monday morning, some pieces are starting to come together via multiple sources.
SF News It's Going to Be Pretty Wet Again From Now Into Next Week You may have been getting comfortable with this balmy, Fool's Spring weather we've been having. But little did you know, Second Winter is upon us.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pro-Palestinian Protest Briefly Blocks Golden Gate Bridge A dozen or so protesters briefly shut down the Golden Gate Bridge this morning; the influx of CHP officers in Oakland last week netted 71 arrests; and a person was struck and killed by a BART train at MacArthur Station.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As He Prepares to Open Another Pizza Restaurant, Oakland Chef Charlie Hallowell Is Dogged By 2017 Scandal News broke Tuesday that chef Charlie Hallowell, who has kept himself out of the news for the past five years, is planning to open a new restaurant in Oakland's Laurel neighborhood — an offshoot of the 19-year-old Pizzaiolo.
Arts & Entertainment 'Some Like It Hot,' 'Back to the Future,' 'Kimberly Akimbo' and More Announced for Next BroadwaySF Season Per usual, last year's Broadway hits will be making it to San Francisco a couple years late, with the touring shows just now announced for BroadwaySF's 2024-2025 season.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three-Michelin-Starred SF Restaurant Quince In Legal Fight With Retailer Quince.com An upstart, SF-based e-tailer that came into being in 2020 selling everything from sweaters and bed linens to baby clothes and luggage appears ready to do battle over the name Quince, which the acclaimed restaurant of the same name, in the same city, says has already caused confusion.
SF News FEMA Tries to Renege on $114M In Reimbursements to San Francisco For Homeless Hotel Rooms The federal government appears to be trying to get out of a large chunk of its promised reimbursements to California cities for shelter-in-place hotels that were rented out to house the unhoused in the first two years of the pandemic.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Highway 1 In Big Sur Closed Once Again By Rockslide An SF Public Works truck struck a fire hydrant and caused some flooding in UN Plaza; a couple of rockslides have shut down a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur; and beware of online dating app scams around Valentine's Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Did Musk Just Buy Twitter to Shut Down That Jet-Tracker Account? A new book suggests Elon Musk's primary motivation to buy Twitter was to shut down that ElonJet account; an Oakland police officer was arrested for DUI; and four people were found dead of possible overdoses in a South Lake Tahoe house.
SF News [Update] Husband, Wife, Four-Year-Old Twin Boys Found Dead In San Mateo Home Details remain thin, but police in San Mateo are investigating the deaths of two adults and two children who were found dead inside a home Monday morning in San Mateo's Sugarloaf neighborhood.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Annie Has, Yet Again, Taken a New Mate, Naming Contest to Come The falcon soap opera continues atop the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus, and as we approach nesting season, longtime tower resident Annie has taken on a new male suitor after yet another mate disappeared.
SF News Today Marks 20 Years Since Gavin Newsom Opened San Francisco City Hall For Same-Sex Marriages It was two days before Valentine's Day in 2004 that then-Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to press on the culture-war scales a bit and allow gay and lesbian couples to marry at San Francisco City Hall, marriage certificates and all.
SF News SF Firefighters Conduct Rescue After Disabled Boat Begins Taking on Water Near Golden Gate Two people had to be rescued Sunday night amid hazardous surf near the Golden Gate, after their boat became disabled and was taking on water.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 49ers Fans Express Their Sadness, Hope After Loss Jubilation in SF and elsewhere died quickly Sunday night and the Mission went quiet after the 49ers' last-second loss; Sunday's earlier delays on BART were due to a dead body found on the tracks in Daly City; and high-speed chase follows a LEGO theft in Vallejo.
SF News School Board Member Being Investigated and Teacher Put on Leave Amid Ongoing 'Woke Kindergarten' Dustup In East Bay In case you hadn't heard, a Bay Area school district has been the subject of some national conservative outrage over federal money that it spent on a program that is misleadingly named Woke Kindergarten.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Galore A new pop-up comes to The Midway in Dogpatch, and new bars are in the works or opening on Polk Street, in the Castro, and in the Osito-adjacent space that was briefly just The Bar at Osito.
SF News Man Who Rampaged Naked Shooting Gun In Richmond District Had Psychotic Break on Mushrooms, Attorney Says The man who was seen by neighbors having a violent mental health crisis on New Year's Even is a Marine Corps veteran with PTSD, his attorney said, and the breakdown he had was caused by a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Girlfriend The East Bay man arrested last month for the murder of Capitola resident Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, who was his girlfriend, was arraigned Thursday in Santa Cruz County.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Body Found In Oakland Identified A body found in late January in a canal in Oakland has been identified; a new progressive action group has launched in SF; and king tides return today around the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Kicks Off Friday, Opening Gala Returns to Pier 35 It's that time of year again, when brewers from around the city, the Bay, and across Northern California come together to celebrate and sip all manner of hazy IPAs, sour beers, pastry stouts and everything in between.
SF News Repeat Offender Allegedly Steals Pastries, Causes Chaos, Assaults Employee at Castro Bakery An apparently very angry homeless man who was familiar to police from previous arrests caused some mayhem Thursday morning at Le Marais, a bakery cafe in the Castro that has been the site of multiple incidents of crime.
SF News 22-Year-Old Suspect Seen In Viral Video Stealing Dozens of iPhones In Emeryville Is In Jail Now Another viral retail-theft video was making the rounds earlier this week, following a brazen Monday morning robbery caught on camera at the Apple Store on Bay Street in Emeryville.
