SF Politics Rep. Jackie Speier, Whose Political Career Began at Jonestown, Announces Retirement at Age 71 "It's time for me to come home, time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend," said longtime Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two More People Shot On Oakland's Lakeshore Ave. A man and a woman were shot and injured near Lake Merritt early Monday, Mission porn shop Mission Secrets has seen a lot of threats over masks etc., and there's been a COVID outbreak at the Santa Cruz County Jail.
SF News SF Black Leaders Press City To Give the Fillmore Heritage Center Back to the Community As Reparations Community leaders along with actor Danny Glover held a press event Monday morning at the long defunct Fillmore Heritage Center complex, calling on the City of San Francisco to donate the center to a new non-profit representing the local community.
SF Politics CNN Reports on 'Exasperation and Dysfunction' Between Harris and Biden Teams; White House Responds Kamala Harris's first year as Vice President has apparently not gone particularly smoothly, says CNN — via what they say is intel from three dozen insider sources — and now the White House is trying to downplay the drama.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Fantastique, a New Wine-Focused Restaurant With a Vinyl Soundtrack, Debuts In Hayes Valley A new wine- and sashimi-driven restaurant from the folks behind Palo Alto's Bird Dog has just opened its doors at the foot of Franklin Street in Hayes Valley, and it's called Le Fantastique.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slanted Door's Charles Phan Signs New Lease at Ferry Building, Confirms Summer 2022 Reopening Plan The Slanted Door has been one of those landmark SF businesses whose lengthy pandemic closure led to rumors about its possible demise. But we have confirmation that there's been a lease extension to 2034.
SF News VTA Shooting Victim's Widow Thinks Mass Shooters' Assets Should Belong to Their Victims Families Terra Fritch lost her husband in the May 26 mass shooting at the VTA rail yard in San Jose, and now she's seeking new legislation to help compensate victims families after these all-too-frequent tragedies.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Mother and Daughter Shot Inside Oakland Home A mother and her 11-year-old daughter were shot inside an Oakland home Sunday night, the 22-year-old woman shot by Lake Merritt last week has died from her injuries, and Dr. Monica Gandhi has walked back some comments on the Cal football outbreak.
SF News 70-Year-Old Woman Arrested For Vehicular Manslaughter In Killing of Cow Hollow Teacher A 70-year-old woman has been taken into police custody in connection with Wednesday's pedestrian crash in Cow Hollow, which took the life of a 30-year-old paraeducator.
Business & Tech Facebook, Desperate to Control Distribution, Looks to Retail Stores — But Will Anyone Shop at The Meta Store? Facebook — because I refuse to call them Meta — is going hard on retail, and eventually we're likely to see stores around the globe selling Portals and Oculus headsets and, like, Meta-branded mugs and T-shirts?
SF News Op-Ed: We've Learned Nothing Since the 1918 Pandemic About Collective Duty The right wing has convinced itself that vaccine mandates are fascist, and because no one can agree on the same facts, America is going to stay trapped in this cycle of pandemic denial well into the next public health crisis.
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Family Mourns SF Educator Killed By Car Another stray bullet has critically injured someone in East Oakland; family and friends are mourning 30-year-old Andrew Zieman, the pedestrian struck and killed in Cow Hollow on Wednesday; and Johnson & Johnson announces it will split into two companies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Set to Approve $6.9 Million For Extra Elections The upcoming special and recall elections in SF could cost $6.9 million, students at Lowell High School staged a walkout over sexual assault cases, and SF made at least $100K off of Ivy Getty's wedding.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former 1760 on Polk Pivoting to Sorella, a New Cocktail Bar and Restaurant From Acquerello Team The Michelin two-starred Acquerello has just announced that its more casual sister space at 1760 Polk Street is going to become a new cocktail-focused bar serving Venetian-style cocktail snacks as well as bigger Italian plates.
SF News Mother Shot By Estranged Husband In Daly City While 4-Year-Old Was In Next Room A 26-year-old woman was murdered over the weekend in Daly City, and some disturbing details have emerged about the case, including the fact that her four-year-old was in the next room when it happened.
SF News Squatters Suspected Of Killing Las Vegas Woman Absolved As Police Say She Likely Died Earlier and They Just Buried Her A movie-of-the-week-worthy case of a woman whose dismembered body was found buried in the side yard of her home that initially had been ruled a homicide has now been deemed a death by natural causes — and squatters in her home found her already dead in a chair.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Florida Now Courting In-N-Out Because Ron DeSantis Loves a Vaccine Fight Apparently In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson — the evangelical Christian heir to the company founded by her grandparents — had a phone call with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis because In-N-Out has become a hero of the anti-vaxx right.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DJ Khaled-Fronted Ghost Kitchen Restaurant Another Wing Appears Ready to Open SF Location DJ Khaled has lent his name to a delivery-only wings enterprise that is "making history" today with a simultaneous launch on three continents with 150 locations, and one of them appears to be in San Francisco.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal Football Outbreak Maybe Not a Real Outbreak, Says Expert An SF educator was killed in a pedestrian collision in Cow Hollow, the UC Berkeley football outbreak might not be a real COVID outbreak, and an original Apple-1 computer just sold for $500K at auction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shooting Outside Fox Theater Leads to Canceled Concert A woman was injured in a shooting outside the Fox Theater in Oakland today, COVID deaths in California have largely shifted to rural counties with low vaccination rates, and Ellume is recalling its at-home COVID tests over false positives.
SF News Two California Men Charged In Phony PAC Robocall Scheme That Targeted Both Trump and Clinton Voters In 2016 Three men, two from California and one from Texas, were indicted by the federal government last week in an alleged $3.5 million fraud scheme in which they collected small donations via robocalls targeting American voters in 2016.
SF News Two Laptop Thieves Convicted In Oakland Killing Outside Montclair Starbucks A jury in Alameda County today returned guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter against two men accused in a New Year's Eve 2019 laptop robbery that ended in the robbery victim's death.
Business & Tech Feds Sue Uber Over 'Wait Time' Fees Which They Say Discriminate Against the Disabled The Department of Justice has filed suit against Uber over the company's practice of charging fees when drivers have to wait more than two minutes for a passenger to get in their vehicle.
SF News Winter COVID Surge Already Starting In California, But Bay Area Could Be Spared COVID cases and hospitalizations are ticking up in parts of California, and while there doesn't seem to be evidence of a winter surge starting in the Bay Area, there could be one taking shape around us.
