SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Mint Plaza Sushi Spot Hashiri Debuts Dining Under Plastic Domes The $200-per-person kaiseki and omakase menu experience is possibly the most high-end dining option available in SF right now, and it's outside, but not completely.
SF News San Francisco Announces Continued Impacts From State COVID Data Reporting Tool While San Francisco's COVID patient data may be somewhat better than other counties due to a move made early in the pandemic with regard to how labs report to the city's health department, it is still seeing the impacts of statewide underreporting.
SF News SoCal Man Beaten and Robbed of $200,000 Life Savings Outside Chase Bank The story of a Los Angeles-area who was just beaten and robbed of his life savings outside a bank where he'd just withdrawn it is enough to make you hate 2020 all over again.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves To Fire Officer In 2019 Shooting As Family of Sean Monterrosa Sues For Wrongful Death In a federal court filing today, the Monterrosas and their attorneys say that the June 2 shooting was "brutal, malicious, and done without just provocation or cause."
SF News San Leandro Police Officer Fatally Shoots Car Theft Suspect In Oakland A San Leandro Police officer shot and killed a suspect in an allegedly stolen vehicle following a chase into Oakland Wednesday night, after the suspect allegedly emerged from the car with an assault weapon.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Alameda County To Pay COVID-Positive People To Stay Home NY Attorney General Letitia James is moving to dissolve the NRA, SF and San Mateo still have COVID numbers just above the danger threshold, and Alameda County is giving people a stipend to self-isolate after testing COVID-positive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Meth Lab Busted at City-Leased Motel For Homeless A pair of homeless people in a city-leased motel room in SoMa were busted for allegedly cooking meth there, state prisons are set to grant early release to over 17,000 inmates, and WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann just listed his Marin County home for $27.5M.
SF News New Data-Mapping Tool Estimates Chances Of Encountering a COVID-Positive Person in Any Group If you're heading out to meet a group of ten people in someone's backyard in San Francisco tonight, the chances that one of those people will be currently infected with the coronavirus is 15 percent. Raise the group number to 25, and the probability rises to 34 percent.
Arts & Entertainment 5-Bedroom Home Overlooking Marina Green Lists For Eye-Popping $25 Million A Marina District home with views of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge has just set a neighborhood record as the most expensive single-family home ever to hit the market.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Bluefin Tuna Are Showing Up Near Half Moon Bay, Thrilling Sport Fishermen In a remarkable turn for local anglers, the rare but not technically endangered tuna, which are prized for sushi meat in Japan especially, have been swimming in closer to shore than they ever do.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Engineer Anthony Levandowksi Gets 18-Month Sentence For Stealing Waymo Technology One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
Bay Area Sports 90 of the World's Most Elite Golfers Land In San Francisco For the PGA Championship Thursday marks the kickoff of the PGA Championship, the only major golf tournament in the 2019-20 season, and it's happening in San Francisco's Harding Park without any fans able to attend.
SF News CDC, Stanford Doctors Now Saying Workers Who Test COVID-Positive Can Return To Work After 10 Days Multiple Bay Area counties are now going to be recommending that businesses allow workers to return to work 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19, so long as they have a relatively mild case.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Standoff With Armed Suspect At San Jose Jail Ends Peacefully A body found by the road in San Bruno last month has been ID'd as a Vallejo man, Marin County is discussing a Sir Francis Drake Blvd. name change, and Clorox says its wipes won't be fully restocked until next year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four Bears Struck By Cars In Yosemite in Recent Weeks A CA GOP consultant laments getting COVID along with his wife, four bears have been struck by cars in the last three weeks in Yosemite, and a 22nd San Quentin inmate has died of the coronavirus.
SF Politics Biden Leads Trump By 39 Points In CA, As Trump Loses Support From His Base A new public opinion poll from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) found that former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over President Trump in California has eclipsed Hillary Clinton's lead over Trump around this time four years ago by 9 percentage points.
SF News Overwhelmed By Lab Data, State and County COVID Cases Currently Being Undercounted While other metrics like declining hospitalizations appear to show a positive trend in the pandemic in California, the current confirmed case numbers for many counties represent undercounts due to a technical issue.
SF News Vallejo Man Suspected Of Kidnapping a Woman Crashes Maserati After Police Chase A Vallejo man was arrested early Monday following an incident involving a suspected kidnapping and a chase that ended with him smashing up a very expensive sports car.
Business & Tech Alaska and American Airlines Announce Bay Area Layoffs Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Serpentine Shutters In Dogpatch; Straw Closes On Octavia; 4505 Burgers & BBQ Closes Its Oakland Spot There's a trio of permanent restaurant closures to report as we roll into the month of August and approach the sixth month of this pandemic. First up, marking the end of an era for a Dogpatch mainstay, Serpentine is closing its doors for good.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Teen Shot In Visitacion Valley A San Francisco judge denied a legal challenge by landlords to the city's COVID eviction-protection law, a trackside fire caused major delays on BART's Berryessa line today, and a Vallejo couple of 35 years both died of COVID within 11 days of each other.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lots of Californians Have Been Arming Themselves Four blocks of Jones Street in the Tenderloin are getting made into pedestrian-friendly space, a lot of UC Berkeley students are withdrawing for the semester, and the Apple Fire in SoCal has grown to 41 square miles.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Temporarily Closes Due to COVID Exposure; Team Cancels Plans For Lower Haight Vegetarian Spot With existing restaurants already in major existential and financial struggles, the thought of planning a new restaurant right now feels a bit decadent and scary.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations, New Cases Show Signs Of Decline Statewide In the enormous state of California — which as Governor Gavin Newsom has said before is equivalent in scale to about 20 states the size of Nebraska or Idaho — the latest surge in coronavirus cases is showing signs of abating, though that should probably only inspire some cautious optimism.
SF News DNA Evidence Leads To Woman's Arrest In 1988 East Bay Baby Murder A 52-year-old woman living in the Central Valley was arrested in recent weeks in connection with a 32-year-old cold-case homicide of an infant boy, known only as Baby John Doe.
