SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Liquor Licenses, Once Worth $250K, Now Trade for Around $100K In a sign of weak demand for restaurants overall, the once highly valued "full" liquor licenses in San Francisco, which could only be obtained on the secondary market due to a longstanding legal exception, are now worth about a third of what they were before the pandemic.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Three Victims In Oakland Crash ID'd The three victims in Saturday night's high-speed pedestrian collision in East Oakland have been ID'd, and one was a well known community elder; an AI-powered whale detection network has launched around the Bay; and Tom Steyer has apparently been paying off influencers.
SF Politics New Poll Finds Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton Increasing Their Leads In Governor's Race After a new poll released this week, it is looking increasingly likely that the two candidates who will be on the November ballot for governor of California are Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton.
SF News At Trial For Santana Row Teen Murder Suspect, Defense Suggests the Victim Might Have Also Been Armed Closing statements were presented Monday in court in San Jose in the murder trial of an unnamed 13-year-old suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing 15-year-old David Gutierrez on Valentine's Day 2025.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller's Seasonal Takeout Spot Addendum Reopens for Summer In Yountville Now an established seasonal destination in the Napa Valley, Addendum, which started slinging Ad Hoc's popular fried chicken out of a "shack" behind the larger restaurant in 2011, is opening back up this weekend in Yountville.
SF News Victim In Sunset Shooting Identified as Longtime Neighborhood Resident and City Employee With Checkered Past The victim in the fatal shooting Sunday morning in San Francisco's Outer Sunset has been identified as a well known local character who had reportedly turned his life around after being released from prison.
SF News Oakland Sees 20% Drop In Homelessness, Alameda County Sees 13% Drop In Latest Count A drop in the number of homeless individuals on the streets may be a regional trend as we see Alameda County is reporting a decline similar to one seen in San Francisco over the last two years.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Roof Fire North Beach SFFD firefighters quickly extinguished a fire on Green Street in North Beach Monday evening; a massage therapist in San Mateo County was arrested for sexual battery; and a longtime KTVU anchor is departing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Buena Vista Bartender Celebrates 50 Years of Pouring Irish Coffees Bystanders helped detain the teen suspect accused of plowing into a crowd of people in Oakland; the Sandy Fire is growing in Ventura County; and Joseph Shaw, a bartender at Buena Vista, just celebrated 50 years working at the bar.
SF Politics ...And Pelosi Finally Comes Out and Endorses Connie Chan to Succeed Her She waited a good long minute, but House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has clearly decided her chosen candidate needs a boost in the primary, and she has now offered an official endorsement.
SF News Exclusive: Man In SUV With Pro-Charlie Kirk Message Allegedly Tags Gay-Owned Castro Florist With Hateful Graffiti Over the weekend, a suspect tagged a building housing a Castro-area floral design shop with hateful graffiti and assaulted a neighbor, and the shop owners are hoping San Francisco police will bring the suspect to justice soon.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers 2026, Wind and All Sunday's 113th annual Bay to Breakers foot race across the city of San Francisco brought out around 30,000 participants — a significant jump from the 20,000 or so who participated last year — and the sunny but windy Sunday made for some good times along the route.
Business & Tech Federal Jury and Judge Side With OpenAI, Dismissing Elon Musk's Case About Company's Nonprofit Mission A decision came down quickly in the federal court battle between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with the jury issuing a verdict Monday siding with Altman and OpenAI.
SF News Falling Trees and Car Crashes Lead to Five Deaths, Four Injuries In Sonoma County Windy conditions in Sonoma County and elsewhere in the Bay Area led to many reports of downed trees, and one fallen tree took the life of a Santa Rosa man.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Around 13,500 Still Without Power After PSPS Around 13,500 Bay Area PG&E customers are without power due to the first public-safety shutoff of the season; two people were killed in a shooting in Suisun City Sunday; and Santa Cruz is trying to explain a significant drop in its population.
SF News Speeding Juvenile Driver Arrested After East Oakland Crash That Killed Three Pedestrians A grisly crash Saturday night in East Oakland took the lives of three pedestrians and left three others hospitalized with injuries, and a juvenile driver was arrested in connection with the crash.
SF News Person Killed In Apparent Homicide In SF's Sunset District A fatal shooting occurred early Sunday in San Francisco's Sunset District, but few details are available so far.
SF News Sunday Links: Last Night For Those Lasers Shooting Out of the Transamerica Pyramid A small vegetation fire breaks out amid a Red Flag Warning in Sonoma County; a new Swatch collection drew a massive crowd to the San Jose Swatch store; and Illuminate's latest laser cannon display downtown ends tonight.
SF Politics Feds Reportedly Make 'Inquiries' Over London Breed's Appointment of Supervisor Stephen Sherrill The FBI has reportedly been making inquiries about an alleged quid pro quo situation involving London Breed, Michael Bloomberg, and SF Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and it sounds like Breed's former aide and confidante Conor Johnston may be coming back to haunt her.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E May Cut Power to Parts of North Bay Due to Winds An elderly driver plowed into a Safeway store in Sunnyvale; the man accused in the deadly Oakland bar shooting in March now faces a federal charge; and PG&E is likely to have its first Public Safety Power Shutoff in the North Bay this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Drinks and Dinner Spot In the Castro Parasol begins dinner service in the Castro, Saltwater Bakehop opens its first brick-and-mortar in SoMa, and The DeLuxe prepares for an opening in the Upper Haight very soon, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics At Final Governor's Race Debate Before Primary, Becerra Gets Attacked, Porter Still Trying to Break Through On Thursday night at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, seven of the candidates for California governor debated one last time before the June 2 primary, each trying to change their standing in the polls and become one of the top two vote-getters.
SF News Kars4Kids, Found to Be Front for New Jersey Jewish Organization That Does Little for Needy Kids, Now Banned in CA The decades-long scourge of that all-too-earwormy "1-877-KARS4KIDS" jingle is thankfully over, or almost over, for Californians at least, as a court has ruled the ads must stop running due to false advertising.
SF News Bizarre Details Emerge In Santa Clara Murder-Suicide, Which Involved Estranged Brothers The scant details about a fatal shooting and a second body subsequently found inside a burning home in Santa Clara last week told none of the story, which actually involves a man secretly renting a home next door to his estranged brother before allegedly killing him.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Prop D Could Hamper the Local Economy, Controller Says Prop D, the "CEO tax," could cost the city in terms of jobs and GDP but would likely bring in $300M annually; Vallejo police arrest woman in pepper-spray road-rage attack; and it's apparently miserable working at Meta right now.
