SF News Humpday Headlines: Defense Attorney In Bob Lee Case Begins Victim-Blaming After Toxicology Report Nima Momeni's defense attorney has begun victim-blaming over drugs found in a toxicology report; a 26-year-old man died in Santa Rita Jail last week after drinking tons of water; and a state appeals court just upheld California's ban on AR-15 rifles.
SF News Oakland Sideshow In Which Frustrated Man Was Beaten and Hydrant Was Sheared Off Sparks 'Outrage' From Mayor Video emerged over the weekend of an Oakland man attempting to scold and yell at participants in a chaotic sideshow, only to get beaten bloody by the crowd — and at that same sideshow a car careened into the crowd and sheered off a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into the air.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Year In, Oakland's Hi Felicia Adds A La Carte Menu A year after opening as a brick-and-mortar restaurant, and two years after its mid-pandemic launch as a pop-up in chef-owner Imana's apartment, Oakland restaurant Hi Felicia is pivoting a bit to offer à la carte dishes for the first time.
SF News Nordstrom to Shutter Downtown SF Department Store, and Nordstrom Rack, This Summer Cue more talk of "doom loops" and retail apocalypses. Nordstrom just revealed plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August.
SF News Serial Stabber Has City of Davis On Edge After Two Deaths, and Third Victim Reported Tuesday Two stabbing deaths in Davis last week as well as a third that injured a homeless woman have been attributed to the same male suspect, and the search for him prompted a brief citywide shelter-in-place order early Tuesday.
SF News No Charges Being Filed In SF Walgreens Shooting, Guard Claiming Self-Defense The suspect in last week's fatal shooting at the Walgreens near Union Square, who is a security guard employed by the store, has been released from custody without charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Your Late-Night Shows Might Be Gone For a Bit Expect some weird and turbulent weather today around the Bay; police are seeking suspects in a fatal shooting in Antioch; and the Writers Guild is officially on strike, and this means your late-night shows are likely going to airing reruns for a while.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Person Fatally Shot on Folsom Street Sunday Morning One person was killed early Sunday near the intersection of 5th and Folsom; local Marriott workers just won a settlement over withheld banquet tips; and a man who got frustrated with an Oakland sideshow took a beating Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina to Make Final TV Appearance With Peaches Christ on New Hulu Food Show Premiering May 31 on Hulu will be 'Drag Me to Dinner,' a new, tongue-in-cheek cooking competition show in which drag queen friends compete against each other hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka, along with Bianca Del Rio.
Business & Tech A Year Later and After Launching Open-Source Twitter Alternative, Jack Dorsey Says Elon Musk's Takeover Was a Mistake Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has changed his tune quite a bit since this time last year, when he seemed to fully endorse the sale of the company to fellow billionaire Elon Musk.
Business & Tech SF's First Republic Bank Seized and Quickly Sold to JPMorgan Chase In Largest Bank Failure of the Year After infusions of cash failed to shore up San Francisco's forty-year-old First Republic Bank, the bank was seized over the weekend by federal regulators and put out for bids on Sunday, resulting in a quick sale to JPMorgan Chase.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Beloved Community Member Stabbed in Davis Eastbound Bay Bridge traffic was brought to a standstill by a crash Sunday night; autonomous vehicles continue misbehaving in SF; and two fatal stabbings in Davis may be linked, including one that killed a beloved community member.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Classic and Charming French Bistros In San Francisco The classic, unfussy, neighborhood French bistro is a bit of a dying breed, especially in San Francisco, where restaurant rents keep going up and, with them, the price of a basic weeknight meal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Scenes In SF and Chicago Hit Hardest By Pandemic, Says OpenTable A new data set released by reservation-software company OpenTable suggests that San Francisco has fared worse than other major cities in yet another metric of pandemic recovery, and that's restaurant dining.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Will Be a Block-wide Affair, With Outdoor Stage and Event Projected on a Closed Castro Street Now dubbed "Heklina: A Memorial (She Would Have Hated This)," the memorial affair for the beloved drag comedienne who died earlier this month has grown into a block-wide event that will shut down Castro Street starting at noon.
SF News Jurors In Kristin Smart Murder Case Speak Out About Convicting Paul Flores Jurors in the case against Paul Flores, for the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, were barred from speaking publicly or with each other about the case for over three months. But now they're able to talk.
SF News Gas Explosion In Richmond Injures at Least One An explosion at a Richmond District home reportedly sent glass flying into the street and left at least one person injured.
SF News Shooting at Market Street Walgreens Leaves 24-Year-Old Man Dead, Security Guard Arrested There was a fatal shooting Thursday evening near the busy section of Market Street outside the Westfield Mall, a few blocks from Union Square, and it involved a store security guard armed with a gun and an alleged theft in progress.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Officers to Be Deployed In Tenderloin Next Week Newsom's deployment of CHP officers to curb drug dealing in the Tenderloin starts Monday; Berkeley police are seeking catalytic converter thieves driving a Maserati; and COVID deaths in CA have dropped 65%.
SF Politics Board of Appeals Weighs In on Saga of Vacant, Apparently Unclaimed Mission District Lot, Tells Supes to Act The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.
Arts & Entertainment Guest Artist Creates Bird-Like Projections for Salesforce Tower, to Call Attention to Migratory Seabirds San Francisco artist Therese Lahaie has a new work that will be visible from a wide swath of the city this weekend, and starting Thursday night, on the illuminated crown of Salesforce Tower.
SF News Friend Says Accused Killer Nima Momeni and Sister Were 'Guard Dogs for Each Other' Following a brief court appearance Tuesday at which his attorney indicated that Nima Momeni intends to plead not guilty at a rescheduled arraignment next week, a few more details have come out about Momeni's relationship with his sister and his lack of real connection to victim Bob Lee.
SF News Gap Inc. Cutting 1,800 More Jobs, Mostly at SF Headquarters One of San Francisco's highest-profile, signature employers, Gap Inc., is once again shrinking its employee rolls, with many jobs getting cut at their Embarcadero headquarters.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Leaves Swath of Downtown SF In the Dark An underground vault fire appears to be to blame for a power outage impacting the FiDi, North Beach, and Nob Hill; First Republic Bank remains in serious jeopardy; and the nonprofit Castro Theatre Conservancy has released an ambitious plan for how they would run the theater if given the chance.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First Spare the Air Day of Spring Called for Thursday Thursday is the first Spare the Air day of the season; Oakland police are investigating a downtown homicide; and a person was shot and gravely injured in SF's Oceanview neighborhood this afternoon.
