SF News SF Fire Department Now Says Two Cruise Cars Blocked First Responders at Scene of Crash, Contributing to Victim's Death An incident report made by the fire department on August 14 suggests that an ambulance was briefly prevented from transporting a patient who was bleeding out following a collision in SoMa.
SF News 1992 Cold Case Murder of Laurie Houts Once Again Left In Limbo as Longtime Suspect Is Cleared on Double-Jeopardy Grounds A Bay Area slaying that has gone without any justice for nearly 30 years was back in the news this week, as the case against longtime suspect John Kevin Woodward was dismissed by a judge on double-jeopardy grounds.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Police Tout 300 Drug Dealer Arrests In Three Months, 160 Kilos Seized The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar With Food From Nopalito Vets, Stoa, Debuts In Lower Haight A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.
SF News Late Summer Brings Another Violent Week to Oakland, With Six Homicides Since Sunday Oakland is seeing another tragic week of fatal shootings — and it is feeling like a repeat of last year, with the homicide count rapidly approaching the deadly toll of 2022.
SF News Imagined New City In Solano County Gets Its First Website, With Illustrations The coming-out-from-the-shadows process of Flannery Associates, the VC-backed group hoping to build a new city in Solano County continues with a new, fairly surface-level website for the project, the parent company of which we now know is called California Forever.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Signs Lease for Former Slack Building Downtown Fast-growing AI firm Anthropic is subleasing Slack's former HQ at 500 Howard; the feds are considering moving marijuana out of the list of Schedule I drugs; and westbound I-80 will be closed around the Carquinez Bridge for five days starting tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Bar and Restaurant Holbrook House Opens In Downtown SF Next Week With Martini and Champagne Call Buttons It always helps to have a gimmick when you're opening something new in this town, and the minds behind Holbrook House — the grand new restaurant opening September 6 in the old bank building at One Sansome — have come up with a clever one.
SF News Mayor London Breed Posts Video of Encampment Clearing Operation On Willow Street, Says City Is 'Working Hard' Thursday morning brought the latest encampment sweep on Willow Street, one of several alleys off of Van Ness near Polk Gulch that have been perennially popular campout spots for the city's homeless.
SF News New York Times Takes Deep Dive Into 2017 Albany High School Instagram Scandal Over a Racist Meme Account Back in 2017, the small East Bay town of Albany was roiled by the discovery of a wildly racist "finsta" account that posted memes as well as doctored photos of students of color at Albany High School. The aftermath was violent, lengthy, and litigious.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Has Gotten Richer, Queerer, Slightly Less White The annual Black Rock City Census data is out for 2022, and it paints a picture of the desert festival getting marginally more diverse than it was a decade ago, and a fair bit less traditionally heterosexual.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In 2022 San Carlos Beheading Will Stand Trial The man accused in the gruesome killing of an ex-girlfriend in San Carlos last September is heading to trial; CHP arrested a driver following a 20-mile chase into Lafayette and a rollover crash; and Mitch McConnell froze up again during a press conference.
Bay Area Sports SF Pickleball Fans Delight In Irony of Presidio Heights NIMBY Trying to Shut Down a Public Court While Owning One Herself A petition circulated last weekend by a Presidio Heights resident has been a source of much hilarity after pickleball players linked it to a real estate listing for a home with its own backyard pickleball court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Croissant Maker Arsicault Bakery Heads to Cool New Building In Mission Rock One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.
SF Politics Appeals Court Finds SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct A 2021 homicide case that was tried by then-Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, which she cited as a final straw in her disagreements with former boss Chesa Boudin, has come back to haunt Jenkins again.
SF News Politicos and Developers Agree That Project to Build a New City — or Cities — In Solano County Is Wildly Ambitious We are learning a couple more details about the plan by a group of mega-wealthy Silicon Valley investors to create a whole new city — or potentially more than one town — in Solano County, and hearing more about the political and legal misery that awaits them.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Katie Porter Does a Quick Tour of the Mission Senate candidate Katie Porter did a merchant walk in the Mission District Tuesday; 30-year-old Cafe International in the Lower Haight is temporarily closed due to neighborhood crime; and Beyonce was in fact made honorary mayor of Santa Clara.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Sends Latest Salvo In Battle With Coalition on Homelessness Regarding Encampments What could end up being a very significant legal battle over homeless encampments and cities' ability to address them is playing out at the Ninth Circuit, and in legal filings by the plaintiff in the case, the Coalition on Homelessness, and the City of San Francisco.
SF News Environmental Activists Blockade Road Leading Into Burning Man, Enraging Burners; Violent Response From Nevada Tribal Rangers Ensues A group of activists representing the groups Extinction Rebellion, Rave Revolution, and Scientist Rebellion decided to stage a protest that caused an hourlong backup of traffic on the two-lane highway leading to the Black Rock Desert, and drew the wrath of frustrated Burners and local rangers alike.
SF News BART Police Install, Then Remove Possibly Decoy Watch Tower at 24th and Mission Plaza In the ongoing, Sisyphian effort to curb illegal vending and other illegal activity outside the 24th and Mission BART Station, BART Police put up a 15-foot watch tower on Monday. Then they took it down.
SF News First Red Flag Warning of This Fire Season Announced For Parts of North Bay, Power Shutoffs Possible A swath of the North Bay and much of the Sacramento Valley are under a Red Flag Warning starting Tuesday night and lasting through Wednesday evening, as the first bout of threatening fire winds arrives this season.
SF News Knife-Wielding Man In Tenderloin Shot and Gravely Wounded By SFPD A man with what appeared to be a machete or long knife was shot by San Francisco police Monday night on Jones Street in the Tenderloin, and the incident was widely captured on cellphone video by bystanders.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Emeryville Brawl Linked to $4 Movie Ticket Day There were two homicides in Oakland on Monday evening; the Sunday teen brawl at Emeryville's Bay Street is linked to National Cinema Day, which led to brawls elsewhere in the US; and a teen boy was struck by a car fleeing a bank robbery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Hotel Investor Reopening Three Long-Closed SoMa Hotels CA Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a school district over its policy surrounding trans students; Santa Clara police have made an arrest in a stabbing at an In-N-Out following a Niners-Raiders game; and a hotel investor is reopening three SoMa hotels that have been closed for three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District Vegan Mexican Restaurant Gracias Madre Closes After 14 Years Declaring it another victim of the pandemic's aftermath and the economic conditions in the Mission, the owners of Gracias Madre have shut the restaurant down for good.
