SF News And Just Like That, UN Plaza Becomes a Skate Park In a matter of weeks, crews from the SF Rec & Parks Department transformed UN Plaza from the nexus of black-market chaos that it has been for at least a decade into a clean and lively skateboarding and table-tennis destination.
SF News Five Years Ago Today, the NorCal Town of Paradise Exploded In Flames, Killing 85 Today, November 8, marks the five-year anniversary of the devastating Camp Fire, which claimed 85 lives, destroyed some 11,000 homes, and nearly wiped an entire community off the map.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Local Icon 'Dollarita Steve' Gets Promo Gig With Applebee's, Visits Fans In the Castro A viral video that came out of that minor earthquake we had ten days ago made a new celebrity out of local dudebro Steve Mazzari, who loves a few Dollaritas at Applebee's. And now Applebee's is paying him for his promotional services.
SF News Wintry Storm Could Make For a Wet APEC Week In SF A cold storm system taking shape this weekend over eastern Russia is likely to impact the entire West Coast of the U.S. by next week, but the full extent of the impacts remains uncertain.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SUV Struck By Amtrak Train In Oakland After Ignoring Signal An SUV that tried to evade a train-crossing arm was struck by a passing Amtrak train in Jack London Square; a person was struck and killed by a BART train last night in North Berkeley; and Democrats scored wins in multiple states on Election Night.
SF News Mayor Breed Pledges Major Police, Ambassador Presence to Keep Union Square Safe for Holiday Shopping City leaders held a press conference Tuesday to jointly discuss safety measures being taken for the upcoming APEC summit in San Francisco, and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season in Union Square.
SF News Oakland Police Internal Affairs Officer Kills Man He Says Shot at Him Tuesday Morning What sounds like it was a targeted attack on an Oakland police officer ended with a man fatally shot outside the headquarters of the Oakland Police Department's Internal Affairs division.
SF News Arrest Made, Severed Head Found In Gruesome Santa Rosa Murder; Victim Was Suspect's Grandmother The suspect in last week's gruesome murder and beheading in Santa Rosa has been found and arrested, and we now know the identity of the victim.
SF News JetBlue Plane Collides With Pushback Vehicle at SFO, No One Injured There were a few delays Monday at SFO due to a minor crash between a JetBlue jet and a towing vehicle that was helping the jet push back from a gate, and all the passengers had to deplane.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Person Killed Near Oakland City Hall One person was shot and killed by Oakland police around 4 a.m. Tuesday near Oakland's City Hall; BART continues hemorrhaging money; and the dive-boat captain whose vessel went up in flames in 2019 killing nearly everyone onboard, has been convicted by a jury.
Arts & Entertainment 'Bulrusher' at Berkeley Rep Takes Us Back to 1950s Boonville There is a good deal of trauma, passion, and magical mystery in Eisa Davis's play Bulrusher, which opened Wednesday night at Berkeley Repertory Theater. And it's play that manages to touch on many themes at once, while telling a fairly quaint period tale set in 1955 in Mendocino County.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Park Tavern In North Beach Gets Eviction Notice, Owner Says It's Staying Open There's been some financial drama at one of North Beach's biggest restaurants in recent weeks, and only five months into a long-awaited reopening, the restaurant was served an eviction notice this week.
SF News Tenderloin Drug Dealer Busted In Berkeley Takes Plea Deal In Federal Case, Could Face 20 Years to Life One of three individuals arrested in a drug bust in Berkeley last November has pleaded guilty to six federal counts of drug possession and intent to distribute, and could face a lengthy prison term.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sean Monterrosa Mural Goes Up In Mission The man accused in Sunday's bizarre bomb-throwing spree and assault has been formally charged; a new mural honoring Bernal Heights native Sean Monterrosa, shot by police in 2020, is being completed for Dia de los Muertos; and a Sonoma sheriff's deputy was reportedly exposed to fentanyl.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Halloween Went Quite Well Halloween festivities in the Castro were lively and without incident both Saturday and Tuesday; the City of SF is suing companies that sell illegal license-plate concealers; and DoorDash is going to start making you wait longer for your food if you don't tip.
SF Politics We May, Yet Again, Be Voting on Sports Betting In California Next Year Some mystery proponents have filed two proposed ballot measures for the November 2024 election that would again attempt to legalize on-site and online sports betting in California, restricting it to tribe-owned casinos.
SF Politics SF Supe Floats Sweeping Charter Amendment to Enhance Some Mayoral Powers, and Curb Ballot-Box Governance San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has proposed an amendment to the city charter that would bolster the power of the mayor while also discouraging some of the ballot-measure battles that have gone on in recent years between the Board of Supervisors and the mayor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Husband and Wife Chef Team Behind Michelin-Starred Marlena Return With 7 Adams, Opening Tonight The much anticipated return of chefs David Fisher and Serena Chow Fisher, taking over a cozy Japantown space, arrives this week, but the new restaurant is not exactly Marlena part 2.
SF News Various Groups Expected to Protest Outside APEC Summit In SF A bevy of protest groups with a range of agendas are likely to stage demonstrations within view of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit later this month, though San Francisco city leaders would probably prefer they did not.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Boats on Fire at South San Francisco Marina Several boats were on fire Wednesday morning at the Oyster Point Marina in South San Francisco; a seven-year-old boy was struck and injured in a hit-and-run in Berkeley; and some rain might be headed our way by Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Fried Turkey Specialists Offering Whole Deep-Fried Turkeys For Thanksgiving You may have tasted, or heard about, the glories of a proper deep-fried turkey at Thanksgiving. But trying this yourself at home, without an experienced fry cook on hand and without some serious distance between the fry pot and your house, is not advised.
SF News 'California Forever' Group Planning New Utopian City In Solano County Faces First Legal Drama There is likely to be plenty of litigation ahead for the outfit funded by a group of tech billionaires known as Flannery Associates, as they navigate the nearly uncharted waters of trying to build a city out of whole cloth in hyper-political, 21st Century California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer & Wine Co. Opening New Brewpub — With Burgers! — In Cole Valley Woods Beer & Wine Co. is expanding yet again, and the brewery is readying a seventh location in the middle of SF, in Cole Valley, at the site of the former Reverie Cafe (848 Cole Street).
SF News Has the Law Enforcement Crackdown Impacted the Drug Scene In the Tenderloin? One Dealer Says Yes It's too soon to say whether the law enforcement crackdown on open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and SoMa, ongoing since this summer, has been a success or failure. But some impacts have been apparent, and anecdotally, there may be fewer dealers on the streets.
SF News Suspect In North Beach Assault, Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Had Federal Bomb Conviction, Domestic Violence History The suspect has now been named in Sunday's bizarre incident that began in North Beach and led to a police chase across the Bay that included improvised explosives.
