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.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes Novel Method to Crack Down on Sideshows: Drones SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman proposed a new idea Tuesday to potentially crack down on and deter sideshows in the city, without putting police or participants in unnecessary danger while they're occurring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF Politics After Ethics Censure, Longtime City Commissioner Gwyneth Borden Resigns A longtime commissioner on both the Planning Commission and the SFMTA board of directors, Gwyneth Borden, has decided to step down from the SFMTA board following her censure by the Ethics Commission over an undisclosed lobbying job.
SF News Amtrak Train Crash In Fairfield Leaves One Dead, Multiple Others Injured A crash Wednesday morning in Solano County involving an Amtrak train and several vehicles has left one person dead, and multiple other people injured.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Another Last-Ditch Appeal, Earning Her a Possible Few Extra Weeks Before Entering Prison With few options left but one last legal reprieve available, Elizabeth Holmes has avoided having to report to prison tomorrow, but she likely won't avoid it for long.
SF News Charges May Be Dropped Against Homeless Man Who Struck Former Fire Commissioner With Metal Pipe The family of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani claims that charges are going to be dropped against the man who hit him with a metal pipe earlier this month, and they say that Carmignani himself may face charges.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bay Area Men Arrested After High-Speed Chase In Capitola A high-speed chase in Capitola ended in the arrest of four Bay Area men; another high-speed chase in Oakland ended in an arrest Tuesday; and Chief Justice John Roberts defends SCOTUS's ethics code in a letter to the Senate.
SF News SFPD Makes Multiple Narcotics Busts, Seizing a Total of 15.5 Pounds of Drugs The SFPD Narcotics Unit has been busy the past week, and between four busts officers have netted 15.5 pounds worth of meth, fentanyl, and other drugs, as well as some guns.
SF News Anthropologie on Market Street Set to Close In May; Also, Downtown Office Depot Two more major retail closures are hitting downtown, one of them sort of predictable and the other not.
SF News North Beach Shooting Happened During Attempted Mugging, One Suspect Now In Custody San Francisco police now seem to know the outlines of what occurred Sunday night near the Condor Club in North Beach, when five people ended up with gunshot wounds, one of them fatal. And one suspect has been arrested.
SF News Victim In Wrong-Way Crash On 280 Involving Naked Suspect Identified as San Francisco Mother The victim in one of three wrong-way freeway crashes in the Bay Area last weekend, the one that occurred on I-280 in Woodside, has been identified as a 54-year-old San Francisco woman, and her 14-year-old son was also injured in the crash.
