SF News Hunker Down For More Rain This Week, The Biggest Downpour Late Wednesday Winter rain will return this week after a relatively quiet and dry spell, and a chilly storm hitting the Bay on Wednesday into Thursday will bring fairly heavy rain at times, and snow in Humboldt County and the Sierra.
SF News Monday Morning Here We Come: The Niners Will Host the Packers Next Sunday The Moms 4 Housing group and their supporters continue to rally in West Oakland today, SF's city-owned health clinics are getting renovated, and the Oscar noms are out.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Vikings 27-10 To Bring First NFC Championship Game To Levi's Stadium Celebrity 49ers fans like E40, Dave Franco and Matt Bomer all came out for Saturday's decisive game. Now we wait to see if it'll be Green Bay or Seattle heading here for the NFC Championship Game.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Bullitt' Mustang Fetches $3.7 Million Tesla is now the most valuable U.S. automaker ever, BART appoints a new police chief, and one of the two Ford Mustangs featured in the 1968 classic SF film 'Bullitt' just fetched a record price.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Bay Area Food & Booze: RIP, Gold Dust Lounge Brown Sugar Kitchen departs the Ferry Building, Trick Dog debuts its latest menu, Cafe X stops slinging robot coffee downtown, and Soleil Ho brings us her top 25 dishes to try.
Arts & Entertainment Keanu Reeves, Already In Town For the 'Matrix 4' Shoot, Had Baskin-Robbins In Alameda OMG. As SFist reported in December, the fourth installment of The Matrix franchise is supposed to be shooting in San Francisco next month. But the production team may already be here and doing stuff in Alameda.
Business & Tech Small Oregon Coast Town Pushes Back On Facebook Plan To Land Trans-Pacific Cable There Residents of the tiny Oregon beach town of Tierra del Mar were attempting to go to battle with Facebook as the company moves to begin drilling a landing spot there for a fiber-optic cable from Asia, but Facebook won out with the county because there was no legislation against such projects.
Arts & Entertainment Christians Are Increasingly Wandering the Desert of Burning Man, in Search of Truth While known as one of the most pagan, hallucinogen-friendly, and hedonistic events in the country, Burning Man has come to serve a pseudo-spiritual purpose for many Burners, and an actual place for ministry for some people of faith.
SF News Judge Orders West Oakland Moms Squatting In Vacant Home To Be Evicted The saga of Moms 4 Housing appears to be coming to a close as a judge on Friday ordered that the women who have been occupying a vacant property in West Oakland must leave or be removed by the Sheriff. The decision is very likely to draw more protest.
SF News 61-Story Tower Designed By Salesforce Tower Architects Will Be SF's 5th Tallest A 61-story mixed-used tower planned for the Transbay District's Parcel F — the largest of the remaining projects in the district not yet underway — just won a key approval at the Planning Commission on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Run for Hot Chocolate at a 15k/5k in Golden Gate Park This Weekend There's a fun run type thing for charity going on Sunday in Golden Gate Park, and in addition to marshmallow sweet stations along the route, participants get a mug of hot chocolate and chocolate fondue once they cross the finish line.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Contra Costa County to Dismiss Marijuana Convictions A 54-year-old Orinda teacher has been arrested for inappropriate relations with students in the 1990s, Oakland's Montclair neighborhood has community meeting about laptop theft death, and BART approves new wi-fi.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Board Unanimously Approves Ambassador Program An SF supervisor is crying for more trash cans on the street, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is walking back some comments critical of Pelosi, and some burglars snagged $83K in jewelry from the Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto.
SF News 24th Street's Ficus Trees Get Two-Month Reprieve As Neighbors Continue a Battle to Save Them Neighbors along the 24th Street corridor in the Mission have been arguing against the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) for years now over the fate of the lovely but sometimes precarious mature ficus trees that line the street.
SF News Two Alleged Western Addition Gang Members Face Federal Charges In March 2019 Fillmore Shooting A pair of suspects in a shooting that left one man dead and five others wounded last March in the Fillmore District were indicted in federal court Wednesday on charges of being felons in possession of a firearm, and using a firearm in a violent crime that ended in death.
Arts & Entertainment Watch the Pilot of 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist,' the Latest TV Show Set in SF The mid-season premiere of NBC's "musical dramedy" about a woman whose brain malfunctions and she starts hallucinating that everyone breaks into musical numbers was on Tuesday night. It's the latest prime-time show to be set and partly shot in San Francisco.
SF News It's January So That Means King Tides, Possible Floods Along Embarcadero It's time yet again for the king tides that visit the Bay Area and other coasts every winter, and they're coming around again this weekend, on both Friday and Saturday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Dies In Treasure Island Crash BART is apologizing for stranding thousands of people while removing a mentally ill person from the trackway in the East Bay last night, and some brazen burglaries have Walnut Creek residents on edge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Get Your California Campsite Reservations This Week A 49-year-old Sonoma County man is suspected of assaulting a 14-year-old girl on Tuesday, crime was down last year in the Tenderloin, and a massive development in Concord is in jeopardy.
Business & Tech Prepare for Ubers to Start Rejecting More Trips As AB5-Related Changes Roll Out After a new state law just took effect with the intention of protecting gig-economy workers, Uber is taking the position, temporarily, that it just has to make some changes to its driver-side app to comply with the law. And those changes are likely to impact riders across the board.
SF News Group Of Neighbors In Less Dense SF Neighborhood Sues to Block High-Density Housing Project Another week, another NIMBY effort in San Francisco — despite all the groundswell of support for the idea that the city needs more housing, not more hemming and hawing over it.
SF Politics San Francisco Swears In California's First Asian American Sheriff San Francisco's 37th sheriff, Paul Miyamoto, was sworn in Wednesday afternoon at City Hall, marking the first time any California county has had an Asian American in this law enforcement role.
SF News L.A. Man Arrested In Kidnapping of Fort Bragg Teen Released From Jail as DA's Office Delays Charges A 22-year-old Los Angeles man arrested earlier this week in connection with the weekend disappearance of a 13-year-old Mendocino County girl visiting San Francisco with her family has been released from jail pending charges.
Business & Tech City Aims to Shut Down 'Rogue' Scooter Company Go X for Operating With Allegedly Forged Permit Calling the business's actions "next-level craziness," the SFMTA and the City Attorney's Office are seeking to shut down the e-scooter company Go X, which has been operating in San Francisco without a city permit now for a year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Flore Quietly Shutters After 47 Years In the Casto, Future Uncertain The iconic indoor-outdoor Cafe Flore (more recently just "Flore") at Noe and Market has weathered storms and ownership changes before. But over the holidays the place quietly shut its doors and posted a notice saying that it's becoming an event space.
