SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Submits Incident Report Pertaining to Old Fire It's the umpteenth election day of 2022 and we're voting both on a DA recall and a new congressperson, Oakland police are investigating two fatal overnight shootings, and PG&E could end up being to blame for last week's Old Fire in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Acquitted In Kate Steinle Shooting Sent to Texas Jose Inez Garcia Zarate has been sentenced to time served in a federal gun case and will now face a judge in Texas over an immigration charge, another naturopathic quack pleads guilty over fake COVID vaccine pellets, and a Slanted Door pop-up comes to Berkeley.
SF News Mission Bay Residents File Class-Action Lawsuit Against San Francisco Over Sinking and Cracking Sidewalks A problem that's been visible — and trip-able — for Mission Bay residents for years, the uneven sinking of sidewalks and streets around the relatively new buildings in the neighborhood, is heading to court.
SF News Another Tourist Couple Loses Pet In Smash-and-Grab Car Burglary, Says City Should Do More to Alert Tourists There is another story of a pet being stolen in the course of a smash-and-grab car burglary in San Francisco, and this time it was a beloved Chihuahua puppy stolen near Fisherman's Wharf.
SF Politics NY Mag Does Cover Story on Dianne Feinstein Featuring Scarily Unflattering Photo It's a testament to the dearth of print media in San Francisco's current era that New York Magazine has just done a cover story and lengthy, historical profile of Dianne Feinstein this week.
Business & Tech You're Finally Going to Be Able to Unsend and Edit Sent Texts on the iPhone Apple announced some software updates Monday as part of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, which include the *gamechanging* new ability to edit and unsend texts in Messages after you've sent them.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday's Rain Broke 90-Year-Old Record In SF A Safeway employee was fatally shot during a robbery in San Jose, Elon Musk has made his threat to abandon the Twitter deal formal, and Sunday's rainfall total in downtown SF broke a record set in 1934 — though most of the rain fell in the North Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Midnite Bagel Opens to Moderately Long Lines In the Inner Sunset After months of anticipation, Midnite Bagel quietly opened its first brick-and-mortar shop this week in the Inner Sunset, and by Saturday word had gotten around.
SF News Another Plan For a Rundown SF Pier Emerges With Another Floating Pool, Plus a Food Hall Developers continue eyeing the sometimes vacant and mostly underutilized Port of SF properties along the Embarcadero, hoping to redevelop them into more active — and profitable — uses. But a host of regulations and legal obstacles make it an uphill climb.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.
SF News Air Force Sergeant Turned Boogaloo Murderer Steven Carrillo Takes Plea, Will Be Sentenced Friday The former Air Force Sergeant who terrorized both Santa Cruz and Oakland almost exactly two years ago this week, on a violent tear inspired by the internet-based Boogaloo movement to kill members of law enforcement, is set to be sentenced for one of his murders.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Travelers Unaware of New Mask Rule at Oakland Airport Mask confusion abounds at Oakland Airport, almost all of California is back in the CDC's red tier for high COVID transmission, and alums from the Stanford frat banned from campus after a 2020 overdose death are suing the school.
SF News Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.
SF News Alameda County Opts to Require Masks Again In Most Indoor Settings — Is Anyone Really Listening? As the latest COVID surge persists, with hospitalizations and cases seemingly not yet a crest in Alameda County, county Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss has reinstated a broad mask mandate that we haven't seen the likes of for several months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plans Move Ahead for Two-Story, NFT-Backed Japanese Restaurant on Transit Center Roof, From Iyasare and Maruya Chefs The chef at acclaimed Berkeley Japanese restaurant Iyasare, Shotaro "Sho" Kamio next year plans to open the first w space on the roof of Transbay Transit Center.
SF News Ex-Boyfriend of Alexis Gabe Killed By Police While They Were Attempting to Serve Arrest Warrant for Murder The ex-boyfriend at whose home Alexis Gabe was last seen alive in January was about to be arrested for her murder outside Seattle. But he allegedly charged at police with a knife and was shot dead.
SF News Eighth & Mission Still a Dangerous Place as Two More People Are Shot The corners around the intersection of 8th and Mission streets in San Francisco's SoMa district are an increasingly dangerous place to be, and two more people were shot there early Wednesday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.1M Earthquake Jolts Contra Costa County A 4.1M earthquake struck near Bay Point just after 5 a.m. today, the Oakley PD says that there will be a "significant update" in the Alexis Gabe missing persons case, and the suspected San Jose Home Depot arsonist made a court appearance.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Police Arrest Teen for Trying to Recruit Accomplices for Mass Shooting/Bombing Berkeley police thwarted a potential mass shooting/bombing at Berkeley High thanks to a tip, there's been another mass shooting and it's in Tulsa, and a Concord woman fell for a "new job" Zelle scam.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Every Handroll at Handroll Project It was maybe obvious for fans of Ju-Ni that the new, casual side project of chef Geoffrey Lee and partner Tan Truong in the Mission, Handroll Project, would be an instant winner. And they would be right.
Business & Tech Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down As Facebook/Meta COO, Ending an Era Longtime Facebook/Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg announced Wednesday afternoon that she is leaving her role as COO of the company after 14 years, which is probably an indicator that she's no longer interested in defending the company against storms of its own creation.
SF News [Update] Unicyclist Dies In Collision With Recology Truck In Hayes Valley A person on a motorized unicycle was killed Wednesday morning in a collision with a Recology truck at the notoriously dangerous intersection of Octavia and Oak streets.
SF News Former Hotel Vitale Reopens Wednesday as 1 Hotel San Francisco, Following Major Remodel and Restaurant Makeover The SF hotel business is starting to boom again, and as the summer travel season kicks off, a new luxury hotel is making its debut on the Embarcadero, in the property that had been the Hotel Vitale since 2005.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire In Tenderloin SRO Injures One, Displaces 25 A fire broke out in the Dahlia Hotel on Turk Street around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, spreading to multiple floors, and it has displaced 25 residents.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Wildfire Reaches 570 Acres, Evacuation Order Lifted The Old Fire in Napa is now 15% contained and Tuesday's evacuation orders have been lifted, Oakland is limiting rent-controlled rent increases to 3%, and the Marin sheriff has agreed to stop sharing license plate data from highway cameras with federal agencies.
