SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open Lower Haight Vegetarian Spot The consistently successful husband-and-wife team behind State Bird Provisions and The Progress next door is expanding for the first time outside of their Fillmore environs.
Arts & Entertainment Macaulay Culkin Joins Sunnyvale Engineer to Test Improved Glitter Bomb for Porch Pirates Former NASA engineer Mark Rober made the stuff of viral fame in 2018 with a video showing his elaborate, camera-equipped, DIY glitter bomb that he left out as bait for a package thief in his neighborhood. Now he's back improving on the concept.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Shots Fired At Fifth and Market The much delayed revival of Telegraph Hill's Julius' Castle has been pushed into 2020, two crashes caused traffic in the South Bay this morning, and the SFPD is investigating shots fired near Powell Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wine Cave Fundraiser Warren Dinged Buttigieg About Was In Napa One of the key takeaway tension moments getting talked about from Thursday night's Democratic candidate debate was one in which Senator Elizabeth Warren called out Mayor Pete Buttigieg for attending a recent fundraiser hosted by billionaires, with "$900 bottles of wine" in a wine cave.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF State Shut Down By Bomb Threat The 22-year-old nursing student who leapt into action after last month's BART stabbing was commended, a tearful juror from the Keith Green murder trial says "two murderers are free," and a big oak tree in saturated ground falls down.
SF Politics Pro-Trump Trans Woman Emerges As Challenger for Scott Wiener A gun-loving Republican trans woman originally from Mississippi has declared herself a candidate for Scott Wiener's state senate seat, which comes up for election next year.
Arts & Entertainment Awkwafina Attached to Film About California's Punk Scene and Its Roots In Asian Restaurants An upcoming movie based on an essay about the California punk scene and its connection to Asian restaurants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento will star Awkwafina, and will probably be pretty fun.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Massive High-End Steakhouse From Landry's Opens In Union Square Friday It has 150 seats, it's upstairs from a CVS, and it will serve $240 cuts of Kobe beef imported from Japan. It's called Mastro's, and it's one of 17 locations of the highest end of steakhouses from the Texas-based Landry's empire.
SF News MyShake Early-Warning Earthquake Alert Gets First Use In San Luis Obispo Quake For reasons of geography, apparently, and the low number of people who have downloaded the app, and earthquake warning only went about to about 40 people on Tuesday in San Luis Obispo County ahead of a 4.3M earthquake.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Kaveh Bayat In 2016 Murder of Keith Green No one else will be prosecuted for the April 2016 murder of Keith Green, bringing a stunning end to a nearly four-year-old case that was one of the most high-profile and sensational homicides in recent memory in the Bay Area.
SF News Have You Seen This Dog? Woman Spends Lavish Amounts to Find Lost Australian Shepherd A San Francisco woman has hired a pilot to fly a banner, launched a website, posted on Tinder, and handed out over 3,000 flyers in an attempt to find her dog, Jackson.
Business & Tech Uber Riders Tell Harrowing Story Of Feeling Kidnapped By Driver In Oakland A mistake by an Alaska Airlines gate agent and a very angry Uber driver led to a 911 call and a kidnapping story fit for local news — not to mention a fresh bit of bad PR for Uber.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Nancy's Impeachment Power Play A storm may disrupt weekend travel plans, a new Navigation Center is being proposed for the Tenderloin, and the developer of Salesforce Tower just got a new SoMa project approved.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uber Settles Sexual Harassment Suits For $4.4M One of the cops who shot Jamaica Hampton in the Mission was fresh out of the police academy, the Raiders are leaving behind a big debt to Oakland, and Uber is settling sexual harassment cases brought against it by multiple former employees for $4.4 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Bistro Aquitaine Moving to Former Crepevine Space on Church Street Aquitaine, the six-year-old wine bar and bistro from chef Laurent Manrique in the Financial District, is closing Friday and will be quickly reborn in a new neighborhood uptown, the Castro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth Returns to SF, Snags Just-Shuttered Ayala Space at Union Square At long last, former French Laundry chef de cuisine Timothy Hollingsworth is opening his long-ago-promised solo restaurant in San Francisco, following a stint in L.A. and a spin on a Netflix cooking competition show.
Arts & Entertainment Peaches Christ Brings Stars Of 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' To Castro For Sketchfest Drag icon Peaches Christ, who cut her teeth hosting midnight movie screenings in San Francisco — with parodic staged pre-shows — is hosting an event for SF Sketchfest in January celebrating the 45th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
SF News Man Photographed Pooping In an Aisle at the Marina Safeway The photo has gone viral on Twitter and sparked a whole lot of smug retorts from Republicans about San Francisco going to hell because of its progressive politics.
SF News Body Cam Footage Shows Chaotic Scuffle Before SF Officers Shot Jamaica Hampton The SFPD held a town hall meeting Tuesday night in the Mission to review what happened prior to an officer-involved shooting on December 7 that left a 26-year-old man in critical condition. Both
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Struck And Killed After Exiting Car On I-580 Six people have been indicted for falsely claiming losses in the Camp Fire, two have died from the flu in Marin County, and thousands turned out for pro-impeachment rallies last night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eataly to Open First Bay Area Location in San Jose Eataly, the sprawling New York City food emporium launched in part by Mario Batali though he's no longer involved, is opening its first Bay Area location at Westfield Valley Fair.
Bay Area Sports Bumgarner Explains Move to Arizona: 'It's About Winning' The San Francisco Giants are offering kind tributes to 11-year veteran pitcher Madison Bumgarner, calling him a "forever Giant." But Bumgarner didn't exactly mince words in explaining why he signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks for 2020.
SF News Trump Writes Rambling Six-Page Letter To Pelosi Ahead of Impeachment With Twitter-Esque Random Capitalization Not satisfied to let his 11,000+ tweets stand as a public record of his anger about partisan "Witch Hunts" and the impending impeachment, President Trump composed a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today reiterating his many thoughts.
SF News Oakland Homeless Encampments Compared To Mexico City and Delhi Slums A new interactive piece from the New York Times' San Francisco bureau chief explores the High Street homeless encampment in East Oakland, and includes interviews with residents there who are simply trying to survive after falling on hard times.
Arts & Entertainment Novato's Rombeiro Christmas House Wins 2019's 'Great Christmas Light Fight' On Monday night, a new winner was crowned on ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight, and this year's house to make Clark Griswold proud is in the Bay Area, and you can go visit it yourself this week.
