SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Pliny the Younger Won't Have Its Usual Splashy Release in 2021, But Bottles Will Be Sold Online For First Time Russian River Brewing just announced that its now annual tradition of releasing its obsessed-over triple IPA Pliny the Younger won't be happening in February like it usually does — with all the incumbent release parties and lines of beer geeks.
Arts & Entertainment Like Everything Else, Macy's Holiday Windows Are Going Virtual With Videos of Adoptable Kittens and Puppies The annual tradition of seeing adoptable puppies and kittens in the windows of Macy's in Union Square, courtesy of the SPCA, will be more of a virtual affair this year.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three of Newsom's Kids Exposed to COVID That major fire in Berkeley is still active, two people were killed in a stabbing during a religious service at a San Jose church Sunday night, and three of Gov. Gavin Newsom's four kids were recently exposed to a COVID-positive CHP officer.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Mountain Lion 'Captain Cal' and Adopted Sisters Head to Columbus Zoo Three orphaned mountain lion kittens rescued during the Zogg Fire in Shasta County last month are heading to a new home in Ohio.
SF News SFMTA Reveals Blunder In Twin Peaks Tunnel That Will Cost 'Tens of Millions of Dollars' The SFMTA brass got a talking-to from the Board of Supervisors this week about their inability to complete big projects on time and on budget — and the scolding came after the revelation of another blunder by staff.
SF News San Francisco Likely Slipping Into 'Purple' Tier Next Week, Curfew to Follow SF is likely to join the 41 counties in the "Purple" tier by next week, and with that comes the shutdown of all gyms, movie theaters, and places of worship once again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deaf-Owned Pizzeria Mozzeria Closes After Nine Years It's a particularly sad closure for the Bay Area Deaf community, given that this was one of the only Deaf-owned and operated restaurants in the country.
SF News Highrise Fire At Gateway Apartments Injures Four, Displaces Dozens A fire that began on the 11th Floor of 440 Davis Court in San Francisco led to a late-night evacuation of several floors of the Financial District highrise, and injured at least four residents.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Covidiots Give Nazi Salute at Solano County Meeting Demonstrators marched on Thursday to protest the Tuesday police shooting outside the Westfield mall, 100 employees at Golden Gate Fields racetrack have COVID, and some anti-maskers gave a Nazi salute to the Solano County Board of Supervisors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Slows Down Process of Moving Homeless Out of Hotels The Census Bureau told Trump their counting would not be finished by the end of his term, Mayor Breed is putting Prop H into effect sooner than next year, and Klay Thompson has a season-ending Achilles tear.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Announces 10 PM Curfew For 41 Counties In 'Purple' Tier Through Christmas week and possibly longer, residents in California counties in the state's "Purple" tier for reopening must now stop gathering with anyone outside their household or doing anything after 10 p.m., says the governor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Announces Closure of North Beach, San Jose Locations Growing local taco restaurant empire Tacolicious has permanently closed two of its locations, the owners say, due to the pandemic and the economic climate. The seven-year-old North Beach location and the Tacolicious at Santana Row in San Jose are no more.
SF News H&M Has Permanently Closed On Powell Street After 15 Years Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M has become the latest casualty in the slow collapse of SF's Union Square, as the company announces that it has permanently shuttered its West Coast flagship store on Powell Street.
SF News Suspect In Seemingly Random June Killing of UC Berkeley Student Confessed, Says Friend Murder charges were filed in August against a neighborhood resident with a criminal past, and now a key witness has testified that the suspect confessed to the killing in the weeks after it happened.
Bay Area Sports San Francisco Unsurprisingly Rejects Warriors' Proposal to Allow Thousands of Fans Back Into Chase Center We're now probably months away from allowing 50-percent capacity inside a sports arena, but the Warriors say they'll be ready "when the time is right."
SF News Video Emerges of Police Shooting Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect Remains In Critical Condition An eyewitness video appeared on Instagram Wednesday showing, at least from one angle, how an incident unfolded on the Market Street sidewalk outside the Westfield shopping center Tuesday evening in which a man was shot by SFPD officers.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Free Testing Sites Swamped With Holiday Travelers Taking Precautions A car crash at Fillmore and Waller following a police chase leaves the driver in critical condition, North Bay commuters wake up to intense fog, and SF residents are being discouraged from swamping the city's free COVID testing sites for holiday travel peace of mind.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Do Curfews Work to Stop the Spread? Injured SF firefighter Matt Vann left the hospital today, nine protesters were arrested Tuesday night for disrupting a city council meeting in Fairfield over a particular cop, and pandemic PPE is now washing into Bay Area waterways as pollution.
SF Politics Recology Exec Ensnared In Nuru Scandal, Accused By Feds Of Long-Term Bribery Scheme It looks like federal investigators have snagged a slightly bigger fish in the unfolding SF City Hall corruption scandal that began with the January arrest of former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and it's an executive at longtime San Francisco waste management vendor Recology.
SF Politics If London Breed Joins the Biden Administration, the SF Political Machine Will Kick Into High Gear to Choose New Mayor A whole lot of California politicians might be moving to Washington under a Biden-Harris Administration in the coming months, and SF Mayor London Breed could well be among them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Trash Pizza' Spot Headed for North Beach Focuses On Using Food Waste A new restaurant focused on the sustainable practice of cooking with foods that would otherwise be discarded is planning an opening in San Francisco's North Beach.
SF News In Yuba City, Where Businesses Defied Lockdown Orders In May, People Are Still Dining Indoors Much like the patchwork landscape of COVID restrictions and varying compliance seen across the U.S., California cities and counties aren't all uniformly cooperating with Governor Gavin Newsom's latest orders even as virus cases rise.
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Man Wielding Large Knife Outside Westfield Mall A man who was reportedly acting erratically and refusing to comply with police commands while waving around a large knife on Tuesday evening was shot and wounded by police.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Toilet Paper Hoarding Begins Again A wildfire is threatening 500 homes in Reno, the owners of two of the bars that were temporarily shut down for COVID rule violations speak out, and USPS change-of-address forms suggest 90,000 households have fled San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Will Joe Biden Cancel Student Loan Debt? Sen. Chuck Grassley has COVID, the SF Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a Union Square hotel for homeless housing, and BottleRock has been moved again to next Labor Day Weekend.
