SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurants, Alioto's, Is Closing After a Century at Fisherman's Wharf Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Animo Brings Basque-Style Meat and Fish to Sonoma (With Korean Touches) Tucked away next to a McDonald's on Route 12 at the edge of the town of Sonoma, a short drive from the town square, is a new restaurant focused on Basque-style, wood-fired meat and fish, from a former New York City ramen chef.
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend, SFMOMA Revives Its Artists' Soapbox Derby For the First Time Since 1978 SFMOMA is putting on a fun-for-the-people event in McLaren Park that was first and last held in the 1970s, and it's all about artists creating kooky contraptions in which to roll down a hill.
SF News Alameda County DA Declines to Charge Alameda Cops In Death of Mario Gonzalez The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Three-Alarm Fire In Duboce Triangle A three-alarm fire on Noe Street in Duboce Triangle early this morning displaced five people, a grass fire broke out Thursday by Baker Beach, and an elderly woman was held at gunpoint in an Ingleside home invasion.
SF News Anyone Who Tests Positive For COVID In San Francisco and Has Risk Factors Should Seek Out Antivirals, City Says San Francisco has a supply of the two antiviral drugs approved for treating cases of COVID-19, but they may have to return thousands of doses if they don't get used — and thousands have already been returned to the federal government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Indian Restaurant to Take Over Former Dosa Space on Fillmore A different high-end Indian restaurant will take up where Dosa left off in the former bank space it called home for over a decade on Lower Fillmore, at the edge of Japantown.
SF News Man Dies In Stabbing Near SF General A homicide occurred early this morning a block away from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
SF News Early April Heatwave Like This One Happened In 1989, When Most Bay Area Records Were Set It's going to be quite hot all over the Bay today, with thermometers hitting 90 degrees and above in multiple spots. But the National Weather Service notes that this may not be a record-breaker of a day for most locales, because the records around here for April 7 are pretty high.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Nancy Pelosi Has COVID House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest top government official to test positive for COVID, another fatal shooting took place on a cul de sac by Lake Merritt that has been the frequent scene of violence, and Napa's school board has voted down a ban on "all future mask mandates."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Arrested After Barricading Himself In Parkmerced Building A former Uber employee is suing the company and claiming they violated federal law, an armed 63-year-old man was arrested for making criminal threats after barricading himself in an SF building, and the Mavericks surf contest is getting revived.
SF News Sonoma County Supes Vote to Oppose New Koi Nation Casino, But It's Not Really Up to Them The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took a largely performative stand against a proposed Native American-owned casino project in Windsor, voting a resolution to oppose the project.
SF News Sacramento Police: 'Gang Violence Is at the Center of This Tragedy' Sacramento police revealed more about their ongoing investigation into the shooting Sunday morning that claimed six lives and injured a dozen others, and they say they now believe at least five gunmen were involved in a gang-related gunfight.
SF News COVID Cases In SF Still Slightly Higher Than Elsewhere In California, Hospitalizations Plateau There is no cause for alarm, local experts say, but San Francisco's COVID picture isn't yet back to the very low case counts of mid-Fall 2021, with the Omicron and BA.2 variants still driving transmission as people's immunity wanes.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Third Sacramento Shooting Suspect Out on Bail A third suspect in the Sacramento shooting arrested on a gun charge has been released on bail, jurors in the Sunny Balwani trial saw new text messages with Elizabeth Holmes, and the owner of the Westfield mall is looking to sell.
SF News Another Person Has Died In an Encampment Fire, This Time In West Oakland One person has been reported dead in an encampment fire at a longstanding West Oakland encampment involving several RVs.
SF News Sacramento Shooting Suspects Both Recently Released From Prison, Already Sparking Debate About Sentencing The two brothers who are so far the only suspects in Sunday's mass shooting in downtown Sacramento were both multiply convicted felons who had been released from prison in the last two years.
SF News Crocker-Amazon Playground Shooting May Have Been an Ambush; Two Victims Identified A shooting that killed two young men and injured two others on Sunday reportedly occurred while the men were playing basketball at Alice Chalmers Playground in SF's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood.
SF News This Week's Heatwave to Be Followed By Extra-Chilly Days Next Week The National Weather Service is forecasting a "roller coaster" of temperature change in the next six days for Northern California, but it starts with some very warm and pleasant weather Wednesday to Friday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Second Suspect Arrested In Sacramento Shooting The brother of the suspect arrested Monday in the mass shooting in Sacramento has now been arrested, one of the victims in the shooting was a homeless woman, and a longtime Bay Area weatherman has just passed away.
SF News Two Rescued From Ashbury Heights Apartment Fire; No Injuries Reported A two-alarm apartment building fire that could be seen from many parts of San Francisco Monday night has displaced dozens of people, but luckily no one was injured in the blaze.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect Arrested In Sacramento Shooting Sacramento police arrested a 26-year-old man early Monday in connection with Sunday's mass shooting, the SFPD is seeking suspects in a Tenderloin stabbing, and Pinterest has unveiled a highly flexible office plan for employees.
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Paleontologist Posits New Theory For Why T. Rexes Had Those Tiny Arms Many, many children and adults have wondered aloud, upon first learning about the king of dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus Rex, why these powerful, extinct beasts had such short, stubby little arms. Well, a longtime UC Berkeley professor has a new answer.
Business & Tech Trump's Truth Social Platform Takes Another Step Toward Implosion With Two Key Resignations Donald Trump's much touted social media platform that he hoped would be a new conservative alternative to Twitter, Truth Social, has just reportedly lost two key executives six weeks after its launch.
