SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trans Woman Calls on SF Cheesecake Factory to Better Train Employees After Bizarre TERF Harassment An awkward and insulting situation that unfolded recently at the Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco's Union Square was caught on a TikTok stream, and the trans woman who filmed it hopes it can be an example for restaurants to learn how to respond better in the moment.
SF News The Kids Are Not Alright: Teens Brawling In Large Mobs at Stonestown Mall After a spate of incidents made the news recently involving Bay Area kids bringing weapons to school and stabbing their classmates, we're getting news of multiple incidents of mob violence among school-age kids at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Landslides Block Road Between Napa and Lake Counties The next round of rain will hit early Tuesday morning and into the commute hours; BART is beefing up its police presence on trains starting today; and landslides are blocking Highway 29 north of Calistoga.
SF News Stabbing at SF Middle School Comes Amid Uptick In Violence at Local Schools A child was stabbed by a fellow student at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco on Friday, and the incident comes after several weeks of similar cases of violence and threats at Bay Area schools.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Version of 'Clue' Gets Goofy at SF Playhouse Some pieces of pop-cultural output get loved to death, repeated and revisited so often they become like worn-out records — still playable, but no longer as vivid as they once were.
Business & Tech Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Says He'll Rule on Prison Delay, Restitution Next Month The federal judge who sentenced Elizabeth Holmes last fall to 11 years in prison heard arguments Friday morning on whether Holmes should have to pay restitution to Theranos investors, and on whether she will be able to delay entering prison.
SF News Shot Fired During Argument On BART Train, Bullet Grazes Victim In another story that is unlikely to improve ridership on BART, a man was grazed by a bullet on a BART train Thursday night, after he was being pistol-whipped by another man and the gun went off.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Demolition of Seacliff Pier to Begin Next Week SF's Dept. of Building Inspection has ordered that blown out windows be replaced at 555 California; Sunny Balwani got out of showing up to prison yesterday; and the storm-damaged pier at Seacliff State Beach in Santa Cruz County is getting demolished next week.
SF Politics Newsom Announces Drop-In-the-Bucket Effort to Build 1,200 Tiny Homes for the Homeless, None of Which Will Come to SF Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a new plan to address homelessness across the state, with $30 million in state funds going to construct 1,200 tiny homes to serve as transitional housing in four metro areas. San Francisco isn't one of them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Reopens After Renovation With New Tasting Menu Format Acclaimed Chinatown restaurant Mister Jiu's, which closed temporarily in January for a remodel, has reopened and chef Brandon Jew is going a new direction with the menu.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank Gets $30B Lifeline From Group of Larger Banks It was good news on Thursday for regional bank First Republic, which on Monday was facing serious stress in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. A coalition of larger banks agreed to funnel $30 billion in deposits to the bank to help it shore itself and meet the demand for withdrawals.
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
SF News Approaching 7th Anniversary of Disappearance, Authorities Put Out New Call for Whereabouts of Arianna Fitts It's been almost seven years since the body of a young mother was discovered in McLaren Park, and authorities still believe that her daughter, who was two years old at the time, is still alive and perhaps still somewhere in California.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fatal Collision On Westbound Bay Bridge Causes Early Morning Backup Two people were killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge and separately there were other crises leading to much traffic; around 68K are still without power in Bay Area; and arrests have been made in a Pittsburg hit-and-run.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Middle School Locked Down Over Gun Denman Middle School in SF's Outer Mission was locked down after a student brought a gun to school; a Stanford employee who said she was raped on campus twice last year was allegedly lying; and someone tried to steal a helicopter from Sacramento Airport.
SF News [Updated] Young Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Italian Cop Granted Retrial By High Court The two Bay Area men convicted of killing an Italian police officer in Rome in a weird drug deal gone bad four years ago faced Italy's highest court this week, and the court is now deliberating in what is their final chance to appeal their convictions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Has Launched a Burger Truck Serving Mini Double-Doubles There's now an official In-N-Out food truck, and while it's likely to mostly stick around Southern California and only caters kids' events, it's sure to be in high demand.
SF News Rains Cause Sinkhole On 101 In Humboldt County, Major Repair Underway A whole section of freeway in Northern California basically started sliding down a hill, and travelers on 101 in remote Humboldt County will be held up by a single-lane situation.
SF News Fillmore District Drive-By Leads to Bay Bridge Police Incident, Possible Arrests Shots were reportedly fired Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on the 12oo block of Buchanan Street, near the end of the Buchanan Mall near Turk Street, in SF's Fillmore District, and this led to a police pursuit on the Bay Bridge.
SF News The Bay Area Is Littered With Toppled Trees, Downed Power Lines, Following Latest Storm Intense winds on Tuesday caused all kinds of mayhem, leading to widespread power outages, flight delays, trees damaging buildings, glass flying off high-rises, one toppled big rig, and at least one escaped suitcase at SFO.
SF News Humpday Headlines: We Could See More Atmospheric River Rain Next Week Another atmospheric river is headed toward California early next week; a 17-year-old Pittsburg girl was killed in a hit-and-run; and now Credit Suisse is in trouble.
SF News Glass Being Blown Off Downtown SF Tower 555 California Street, Shelter-In-Place Order Issued A shelter-in-place order was issued Tuesday afternoon after at least one large glass panel "became separated" from the 43rd floor of famed SF office tower 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
SF News [Updated] Storm, High Winds Leave 275,000 Bay Area Residents Without Power Around 2,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco lost power on Tuesday, and around 273,000 others across the region are also in the dark as the Bay Area gets lashed with winds at the back side of this latest atmospheric river storm.
SF Politics San Francisco Supervisors Discuss Reparations Proposals and That $5M Lump Sum Idea Today's SF Board of Supervisors meeting was making national headlines before it had even begun, and that is because SF is poised to become the first major city to grapple with the idea of paying reparations for historical wrongs to Black residents.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bed at Oakland Long-Term Care Facility A man was killed early Saturday morning, possibly while sleeping, in a gang-style hit at a long-term care facility in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood, and two gunmen are being sought by police.
