SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Team Opening New Espresso and Gelato Café In North Beach Fast on the heels of the news that Michelin three-starred Quince is undergoing a six-month renovation, we learn that owners Lindsay and Michael Tusk are planning a new casual off-shoot.
SF News Bed Bath & Beyond Is Closing Its SoMa Store You knew it was coming, with all the bankruptcy rumblings in the news, but yes, Bed Bath and What's More is closing its only San Francisco store.
SF News Deplorable Teens Rob UC Berkeley Student Via Tinder App Hookup A group of deplorable teens allegedly conducted a home-invasion robbery on Monday at the home of a UC Berkeley student using Tinder, and the ruse of a hookup with a 19-year-old girl.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor of SoCal Town Near Wildflower Superbloom Says 'Nothing to See Here This Year,' Closes Roads Instagram has created many monsters. But this winter there's a California town that is broadcasting an emphatic 'Go away!' to all selfie-taking tourists who want to make pilgrimages there all for the 'gram.
SF News San Francisco DA Files Hate-Crime Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Shot Blanks Inside Synagogue The man who shot off blank rounds inside a San Francisco synagogue last week has now been charged with hate crimes, in addition to other charges.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Former Twitter Execs Hauled Before Congress A House committee is grilling three former Twitter execs over the Hunter Biden laptop business, the SFMTA says Muni's "financial cliff" is coming in 2025, and Pelosi attacker David DePape is appearing in federal court today.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Begins Laying Out Plan to Build 82,000 New Homes, and the City's West Side Better Brace Itself "With our Housing Element approved by the state, we have the plan," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday. "Now we need to put it into action."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chezchez, Valencia Street's Aperitivo Spot, Is Closed After 16 Months What had been a pretty popular pandemic-era spot for Negronis, spritzes, and tinned fish, Chezchez, is now closed, and it remains to be seen if the Bon Vivants/Trick Dog team will be having another go with another concept in the space.
Business & Tech Google, Facebook, and Twitter to Be In the Crosshairs In Biden's State of the Union Address In his likely-to-be fruitless quest to boost bipartisanship in Congress, President Joe Biden is expected to launch some rhetoric in the direction of Big Tech during this evening's State of the Union address.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Paul Pelosi to Be Guest at State of the Union SF's Roosevelt Middle School is addressing a threat made on Facebook, five teens were arrested for a string of armed robberies in Castro Valley, and Paul Pelosi has been invited as a guest of Jill Biden to the State of the Union this evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Announces $50K Rewards In Four Cold Cases Gov. Gavin Newsom announced four $50K rewards for four cold cases murders including one in San Pablo in 2020; a DoorDash driver in San Jose says he was attacked by a machete in a road rage incident; and a man has been charged with murder in Oakland's first homicide case of the near year.
SF Politics Retired Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier Joins Local TV Station KGO As Political Analyst Longtime Bay Area House Rep. Jackie Speier, who just ended a 15-year stint in Congress, has revealed her next chapter, and it is going to keep her on local TV screens talking politics for the foreseeable future.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Spinoff Wine Bar, Called Sluts, Opens In SoMa The promised wine bar offshoot of Oakland's "vulgar fine-dining" outfit Hi Felicia has just opened in the former Terroir wine shop/bar space on Folsom Street — and they're serving Lean Cuisines and Chips Ahoy to accompany your natural wine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scammer Used Eventbrite to Peddle Fake Dinner In SF Beware that not all things on Eventbrite can be trusted! A San Francisco chef was recently alerted to a phony wine dinner being advertised at his Noe Valley restaurant, and it took a few days for him to get Eventbrite to pull it down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is Now Some Sort of Taylor Swift 'Bad Blood' Pop-Up Bar In the Marina For all those of you who need a themed "experience" for an excuse to drink, there's a "Taylor-themed heartbreak bar" pop-up now in the Marina which has absolutely no affiliation with Taylor Swift, her record label, or her music.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Is Stepping Down as Chronicle Restaurant Critic After Four Years Four years, a James Beard Award, and a pandemic later, Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho is relinquishing the post — and without a whole lot of explanation.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Police Chief Fights for Reinstatement Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, still on leave, pushed back again on a federal monitor's report; two arrests have been made in a Marin City stabbing; and we are in for a few days of sunny weather.
Arts & Entertainment Rainy Weekend Reads: Three New(-ish) Books Set In San Francisco Winter, especially the cold and wet variety of winter we've been having, is a perfect time to catch up on reading. And here are some locally focused reads to put on your list this year.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Prevails, Cleared of Wrongdoing By Jury Over His 2018 Tesla Tweets The last thing anyone should be doing is encouraging him, but Elon Musk has just won in the case of a class-action suit over his 2018 tweets about trying to take Tesla private, which turned out to be a false alarm that briefly impacted the stock price.
SF News Two Arrests Made In Central Valley Massacre That Killed Six On Friday morning, the sheriff of Tulare County announced that two suspects had been arrested, one amid a gunfight, in connection with the January 16 massacre in Goshen in which a family of six were murdered.
SF News Lake Oroville Is On Its Way to Filling Up Again This Spring, After Several Dry Years As a visual representation of where we stand in terms of drought and water resources, you can't do much better than Lake Oroville, the man-made reservoir in Butte County that is the second largest in the state.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Hills Fire Damages Multiple Homes A house fire in the Oakland hills on Thursday turned into a three-alarm blaze that damaged at least two other homes; PG&E will be giving bill credits soon; and the forecast for the weekend includes a fair bit of rain.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mean Girls' the Musical Is Witty and Predictably Fun, But the Music Feels Beside the Point That Tina Fey should be able to write for the stage, and should keep writing for the stage and screen and wherever she pleases, goes without saying.
SF News Family Sets Up GoFundMe For Children of Woman Killed In East Bay Freeway Accident A 28-year-old Turlock woman who was killed on I-580 earlier this week while traveling home from a spontaneous trip to San Francisco leaves behind three children, and her family is seeking help with funeral expenses and money for the kids.
SF News Mid-Market IKEA Store Likely to Open By Spring, With Rest of Mall to Follow There was some breaking news Thursday via a source with insider IKEA knowledge that the mall complex on SF's Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets is going to come alive sooner than we'd last heard.
