SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Richmond's Historic International Hotel Burns Down Nima Momeni's arraignment was scheduled today in the stabbing of Bob Lee but it's been delayed again; Great America is now requiring everyone under age 15 to have a chaperone; and Richmond's historic International Hotel, once a hub of Black labor organizing, went up in flames early Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possible Former Girlfriend Said Nima Momeni Had 'Mood Swings' We now know that the man who died in Sunday's North Beach shooting was 23 and from Solano County; the SF Board of Supes' Land Use Committee once again delayed a Castro Theatre vote; and an unclaimed Powerball jackpot in the South Bay has been claimed.
SF News Possibly Sickly Gray Whale Has Been In San Francisco Bay For Two Months Whale-watching season has begun, and much as in previous years, a few whales have already been sneaking into San Francisco Bay, likely to feast on anchovies. But one whale who's been hanging out in the Bay since February looks possibly unhealthy.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Elected Officials Can Block People On Twitter Our current, staunchly conservative and largely older Supreme Court is going to show the world how much they understand about social media next term, taking up a case about who can block whom on social media.
Arts & Entertainment Ten Years After It Was Commissioned, 102-Foot Twisting Sculpture Installed at 4th Street Central Subway Station A dramatic, stainless steel tendril, seemingly growing out of the ground and reaching toward the sky, was just installed Sunday morning in the plaza outside Moscone Station, at Fourth and Clementina streets.
SF News [Update] Sunday Night Shooting In North Beach Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded There was a shooting or shootout of some kind Sunday night at the busy intersection of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco's North Beach, and a preliminary investigation has found five victims, one of them deceased.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: G'Bye For Now, Tucker Carlson Supporters for Alameda Co. DA Pamela Price rallied on Sunday; there may be a clue about the mystery tenant negotiating for The Cliff House; and Tucker Carlson has "parted ways" with Fox News.
SF News Mother and Daughter Killed In Domestic Dispute In Oakland, Another Child Injured A mother of four and her teen daughter were both fatally shot in an Oakland apartment Saturday night, and the daughter's friend, who was at the home for a sleepover, was also wounded.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Certain Mission Brewpub Is Now Serving Up Rice-a-Roni Arancini, Cioppino, and $2 Oysters In the last nine months, Fort Point Beer Co.'s Valencia Street brewpub — which opened pre-pandemic, then closed for most of it — has ramped up its food offerings and become more of a full-fledged restaurant.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Wants an 8-Year Plea Deal, as Victims Speak Out In Court Pushing for More and More Charges Get Filed The apparently troubled woman at the heart of a sensational case in the South Bay, Shannon O'Connor, was back in court Friday, and she was made to hear directly from some teenage victims.
Business & Tech Musk Plays Favorites With Blue-Check Purge, Says He's Paying for Stephen King, LeBron James, and William Shatner to Keep Theirs Elon Musk's plan to remove "Verified" blue checkmarks from all the celebrities who've had them for a decade unless they coughed up $8 likely wasn't that well thought-out.
SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Injured In Bayview RV Fire One person was injured in the Bayview when an oven caught fire inside an RV; BART may have had one of its best ridership weeks in years; and Larry Elder is running for president.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Shots Fired In Haight During 4/20 Event Police were investigating near Haight and Cole whether shots were fired Thursday afternoon; the suspect in the Pleasanton Home Depot shooting was allegedly trying to steal a toolbox; and the president of the Oakland A's is trying to explain the team's move to Vegas.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Was Cited For Domestic Battery Last Year Reporters around the Bay are trying to dig up whatever they can to continue reporting on the murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and the latest tidbits came from Emeryville police.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Historic SF Oceanfront Restaurants, The Cliff House and Louis' Diner, Set to Come Alive Again... Sometime We still can't say what they will become or what they will serve, but the wheels of the federal government and National Park Service are turning ever so slowly to get new restaurant tenants into The Cliff House and Louis' Diner spaces, both closed since 2020.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes's Ex-Partner In Business and the Bedroom, Begins 13-Year Prison Sentence Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the 57-year-old former COO of Theranos who was convicted last year — like his former business partner Elizabeth Holmes — of defrauding investors in their blood-testing startup, is set to enter prison today.
Arts & Entertainment How 4:20 Came to Mean 'Smoke Weed' and Inspire SF's 4/20 Celebration It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
SF News Oakland Police Are Warning Drivers About a Wave of Carjackings and Robberies That Start With Intentional Collisions The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says that they are getting an increased number of reports about armed robberies and carjackings that follow a similar pattern, and they were urging drivers to be "vigilant" and take steps to reduce their risk of being a crime victim.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 20,000 Stoners Expected to Crowd Hippie Hill For 4/20 20,000 people are expected to descend on Hippie Hill for 4/20; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe says he fears for his safety amid a police scandal; and this morning's SpaceX Starship launch was a failure, but not an abject failure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Needs a New $5M Elevator at 16th & Mission Newsom made a surprise visit to the Tenderloin today; an on-duty BART employee has been arrested in a fatal hit-and-run; and BART's new elevator at 16th & Mission somehow is costing $5 million.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Announced SF Theater Seasons Include 'Company,' Pre-Broadway Preview of 'The Wiz' and World Premiere of 'Galileo' The announcements are in for the 2023-24 theater seasons in San Francisco and Berkeley, and after some sputtering through the last couple years of a pandemic, the show schedule finally looks very full once more.
SF News One Person In Critical Condition After Two-Alarm Fire In Russian Hill A two-alarm fire broke out in a four-story residential building on Leavenworth Street in Russian Hill Wednesday afternoon, and one person has been seriously injured.
Arts & Entertainment The End of an Era: Netflix Announces End of DVDs by Mail The business that got Netflix off the ground — and put Blockbuster in the ground — sending DVDs through the mail in red envelopes, is going to be no more as of this September.
