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Video of an Armed Robbery On a Woman's Doorstep Has an Oakland Neighborhood on Edge

A Ring doorbell video of a woman being accosted and robbed by an armed thief on her doorstep in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood of Oakland has been cause for fresh alarm for neighbors — and it's part of an apparent uptick in armed robberies around the Oakland hills.

Arts & Entertainment

First San Francisco Queen In Eight Years Lands On 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Season 12

Meet Rock M. Sakura, a San Francisco drag queen with a love for Japanese anime and K-pop who is now, officially, only the second Bay Area queen ever to be cast on Rupaul's Drag Race. In 12 years. Out of 150-something queens who have been on the show. The second one.

SF Politics

Mayor London Breed Endorses Bloomberg Because She Thinks He Can Beat Trump

In a move that is sure to thrill almost no one in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has thrown her endorsement weight — such as it is — behind former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg in the upcoming Democratic presidential primary.

SF News

Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Urges Judge To Reject PG&E Bankruptcy Plan

A vehicle fleeing the scene of an alleged home invasion crashed on 101 this morning, a decommissioned firehouse in Fremont is for sale for $1, and a new test found no significant radiation at the Hunters Point Shipyard.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Oceanwide Center Sells For $1 Billion To Chinese Investor

The still-under-construction Oceanwide Center will be completed by a new Chinese investor, SF's conservatorship program for the mentally ill is delayed, and Uber is testing letting drivers set their own ride rates.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Shake Shack Opening In Cow Hollow Seen As An Insult and a Threat to Local Restaurants

The new Shake Shack location at Fillmore and Filbert, one block below Union Street in the former Real Food Co. grocery store space, is beginning to train employees and readying for an opening in the next few weeks. And not all the neighbors are happy about it.

Arts & Entertainment

BTS Is Coming to Levi's Stadium In April

K-Pop phenom BTS is making a return trip to the Bay Area in April, and the BTS Army is presumably already losing its collective mind.

SF News

Where Did All the Camp Fire Survivors Disperse To?

After the town of Paradise, California largely burnt to the ground in November 2018, its residents moved, in some cases, halfway or all the way across the country.

SF News

Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn May Be Transforming Into 516-Room Boutique Hotel

An aging Holiday Inn hotel property at Fisherman's Wharf, which has already half changed over to a new boutique brand called Hotel Caza, is looking to add 174 new rooms over what's now a surface parking lot.

Bay Area Sports

Steph and Ayesha Curry Just Bought A New $8M Condo in Downtown SF

Because every mega-millionaire power couple needs a pied-a-terre to supplement their suburban manse, Steph and Ayesha Curry have reportedly just signed on the dotted line for a swanky new 30th-floor condo in a building on Mission Street across from the Yerba Buena Center.

Arts & Entertainment

Rupaul Is Hosting SNL on February 8

It may not be a local story, but the fact the Saturday Night Live is going to have its first ever drag queen host next month seems like something half to three quarters of the Bay Area should care about.

SF News

Vallejo Police Release Video In Effort to Exonerate Richmond Officer Who Shot Rapper

The case of a fatal gas station shooting in Vallejo in November, under investigation by Vallejo police, continues to be one in which the police maintain that the off-duty Richmond police sergeant was acting in self-defense — and new video seeks to bolster that conclusion.

SF News

Of All SF BART Stations, You're Most Likely To Have Your Phone Stolen at Balboa Park

Get off your phones! Cellphone and laptop thefts in the BART system were up 32 percent in 2019 over the previous year, and in San Francisco the stations where the most thefts occurred were Balboa Park and 24th Street/Mission.

SF News

Humpday Headlines: Berkeley May Allow Large Under-Bridge Encampment

Livermore police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in which a male driver was shot in the thigh, City College remains in financial trouble, and a standoff has been unfolding at a home in San Pablo.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Body Found on Treasure Island Is Possible Homicide

Former Mrs. Gavin Newsom turned Donald Trump Jr. girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle published an op-ed about SF's "dangerous new DA," a $20K reward is being offered in a Palo Alto shooting, and the woman struck by a hit-and-run driver in Berkeley was homeless.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Trick Dog Is Garnishing a Cocktail With a 3 Musketeers Bar

January always marks one of two annual menu changeovers at Mission cocktail mecca Trick Dog, and this time around the theme is Trick Dog University, based around a college course catalogue.

SF News

Treasure Island Residents File Class Action Suit Seeking $2 Billion in Damages

47 named residents of Treasure Island are suing the developers, contractors, and city and state entities involved in the redevelopment of the island, claiming among other things that they were misled about radioactive contamination levels on the island.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Valencia Pizza & Pasta Closes After 25 Years

Another 90s vestige on Valencia Street has said goodbye without much fanfare, and this time it's Valencia Pizza & Pasta (801 Valencia Street). The restaurant sits in the same building as the equally old Burger Joint, which closed two weeks ago, and both restaurant spaces are for rent.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Tickets On Sale For Always Sold-Out SF Beer Week Opening Gala

The ever-popular SF Beer Week festivities begin in just two and a half weeks, and if you want in on the opening weekend tasting event featuring almost every craft brewery in Northern California, you'd better get on it.

SF News

First U.S. Case of Wuhan Coronavirus Identified in Washington State

The latest winter virus scare from Asia, Wuhan coronavirus, was just confirmed in its first human-to-human transmission over the weekend, and on Tuesday authorities in Washington State say they have identified the first case in the United States.

SF News

Furries at FurCon Intervene To Stop Assault On Woman In San Jose

A tiger, a dinosaur, and a woman in a pink cowboy hat all joined in restraining a man on Friday who was allegedly punching a female driver inside a vehicle, just outside the venue where FurCon 2020 was taking place in San Jose.

SF News

Car Found In Oakland Hit-and-Run; Berkeley Hit-and Run Driver Still At Large

A vehicle has been recovered but the driver of it remains at large in connection with a Friday hit-and-run collision that took the life of an Oakland mother outside her child's school.

SF News

Tuesday Morning Topline: Tahoe Ski Patrol Member Dies On Remote Trail

A vigil for the mother killed in an Oakland hit-and-run, a man was shot in SF's Sunnydale neighborhood Tuesday morning, and authorities are investigating the theft of nearly 100 beehives from an orchard in Yuba City.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Three Hit-and-Runs Kill Three Women In the East Bay

A female pedestrian was killed by a car fleeing police in Berkeley this morning, the female hit-and-run victim from a Sunday crash in Oakland has been ID'd, and today is the last day for Haight Ashbury Music.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Slate Bar On 16th Street To Become New Spot Called Spirit Animal

Mission bar/nightclub Slate appears to be in the process of changing hands and changing names, though the bar remains open as Slate for the time being, and likely for several months.

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