SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Brunch Spot Comes to NoPa The NoPa neighborhood gets a delicious new brunch spot, a popular Oakland taco stand has gone legit, and the beloved Cafe Jacqueline in North Beach is temporarily closed, with 87-year-old chef Jacqueline Margulis sidelined with a broken arm.
SF News San Francisco Man Convicted of Brutal Beating and Stabbing Over $100 A verdict has been reached in a case from February 2023 involving a beating and stabbing in San Francisco's SoMa district.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Candidates Appear Virtually at Public Forum The four candidates for the next chief of police in Oakland that were put forward this week by the city's police commission addressed the public and introduced themselves at a candidate forum Thursday night.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Falling Out With Sam Altman Turns Into Lawsuit Against OpenAI Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Asking Rents In San Francisco Come Down Alameda County DA Pamela Price's office is being accused of violating the state's Public Records Act; Discovery Bay was rattled by another earthquake last night; and asking rents in San Francisco have come down compared to the same time last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tried and True: Frances Gets Stellar Menu Makeover From New Chef Ricky Chu Frances, which will be celebrating 15 years in the Castro later this year, remains one of the city's neighborhood restaurant gems, and the menu has recently been seeing some changes at the hands of newly promoted chef de cuisine Ricky Chu.
SF News San Francisco Architecture Students Work to Reimagine and Rebuild NorCal Town Destroyed By Dixie Fire A project that's been ongoing for two years at California College of the Arts in San Francisco seeks to imagine new ways to rebuild the town of Greenville, which was virtually leveled by the 2021 Dixie Fire.
SF News Man Rescued After Driving Car Off Big Sur Cliff and Getting Stranded For Two Days A Pacific Grove man was rescued Tuesday after being stranded on a cliffside for two days in Big Sur, following a harrowing car crash.
SF News Lake Tahoe Area Braces For 'Life-Threatening' Blizzard Tahoe area residents are being warned of some very extreme weather coming their way — and even there's already been a good amount of snow up there, what's coming is a whole hell of a lot more.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cluster of Earthquakes Rumble Off NorCal Coast There was a cluster of earthquakes overnight, beginning with a 4.1M, under the ocean off Eureka; a Napa teen experienced a life-changing snowboard accident last weekend; and Leap Day is special for one Oakland family.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Protesters Shut Down Lecture By Israeli Lawyer at UC Berkeley A protest shut down a lecture by an Israeli lawyer on the UC Berkeley campus; SF officials say the Macy's building on Union Square could become a lot of things besides retail; and two big video game makers announced layoffs.
SF News Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Thumbs Nose at Police Commission, Says She Will Not Attend Forum With Candidates The wheels turn and the drama persists in Oakland over the ongoing effort to install a new police chief, and it's coming down to a battle of wills between the police commission and the mayor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Catches Flack For Exception to Minimum Wage Law That Seems to Exempt Panera Bread Chain California's new minimum-wage law for fast-food restaurants, which takes effect April 1, seems to not apply to Panera Bread or the handful of other chains that bake and serve their own loaves of bread. Wonder why?
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Proves She's Still Here and Kicking, If Not High-Kicking, at Chase Center 'Celebration Tour' Stop "Aging is a sin,” Madonna says in a recorded video montage that plays toward the end of her Celebration Tour setlist. "I think the most controversial thing I've ever done is stick around."
SF News Oakland Police Commission Still Playing Politics, Unveils Latest Slate of Four Candidates for Chief The Oakland Police Commission has taken over two months to present Mayor Sheng Thao with a new slate of candidates for the chief-of-police role after she rejected the last one and — guess what! — one of the latest candidates was one of the rejects from the earlier slate.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Corpse Flower Blooms at Academy of Sciences The corpse flower comes into full bloom at the Academy of Sciences; the Chronicle has a history piece on the 77-year-old Macy's Union Square; and a new study finds that daily weed smoking greatly increases heart attack and stroke risk.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed Tries to Suggest Hope That Macy's Won't Actually Leave It's certainly not great news for Mayor London Breed's bid for reelection this year that another major department store is announcing its closure in the heart of SF. And now Breed seems to be hedging on the news.
SF News Retail Experts Weigh In On Macy's Union Square Closure, Saying Downtown Shopping May Be a Thing of the Past One of the main anchors of Union Square since 1947, Macy's, is going away in the next couple of years, and without it or anything of that scale to replace it, how long can Union Square remain a shopping destination?
SF News Macy's to Close Its San Francisco Union Square Flagship, In Huge Blow to City Retail Macy's announced plans today to close 150 of its "underproductive" stores nationwide, with 50 of them to close this year. And now we have confirmation that San Francisco's enormous — and often empty — store is among them.
SF News Residents of Westside Neighborhoods In SF Meet With PG&E About Frequent Power Outages SF Supervisor Myrna Melgar organized a special meeting with PG&E Monday for residents of her district frustrated with the fact that they've experienced multiple power outages so far this year.
SF News SF City Leaders Hold Rally, Reiterate Plan to Prosecute Fentanyl Dealers For Homicide A plan that was announced last fall to begin prosecuting fentanyl dealers for homicide in cases of fatal overdoses is moving forward, and a law enforcement task force dedicated to the project is set to launch soon.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Port of Oakland Cranes From China Could Pose Cybersecurity Risk, White House Says California's now at 105% of its average rainfall for this winter, but LA is at 159%; some container cranes at the Port of Oakland, made in China, could pose a cybersecurity risk; and Macy's has plans to close 150 stores in the next two years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wrong-Way Crash On 280 In SF Snarls Traffic A wrong-way injury crash involving at least three cars shut down much of southbound 280 in SF; Bob Lee stabbing suspect Nima Momeni's sister reportedly had multiple drugs in her system during a November crash; and Santa Rosa police are seeking a shooting suspect from an incident last week.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns to Bay Area Stage With a Devotional Four-Hour Song Cycle on Queer History "Don't try to understand it all," Taylor Mac said during Friday's performance of his latest, epic performance piece, Bark of Millions. "I wrote all of it and even I don't understand it all."
