SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Workers Are Looking to Unionize Citing 'Strained' Workplace 140 employees of Tartine Bakery and Tartine Manufactory in the Bay Area are moving to unionize, and they delivered letters to management at Tartine's four primary Bay Area locations Thursday morning.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Drug Sobering Center Coming to Tenderloin Drivers were responsible for most of last year's pedestrian deaths in SF, the head of the local EPA office was just dismissed, and there were two shootings on I-880 in the East Bay on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Matrix' Stars Spotted Shooting in Chinatown Search warrants were executed in several California locations in the 24-year-old cold case disappearance of Kristin Smart, Dianne Feinstein calls for helicopter regulations following Kobe Bryant crash, and the 'Matrix 4' shoots have begun!
SF Politics Report: Nuru Defaulted to Loyalty As Feds Closed In, Alerting City Hall Friends We're now learning that federally charged Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru may have been trying to watch the backs of "bigger fish" in City Hall when he placed a phone call following his initial arrest by the FBI.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi Weigh In On Trump's Historic Senate Acquittal Welp, the inevitable has come to pass. Senate Republicans are immoral partisan loyalists (except for Mitt Romney). And President Trump shall remain in office until (hopefully only until) next January.
SF News Nia Wilson Murder Trial Begins With Gruesome Surveillance Video, Outburst From Accused Killer The murder trial of 29-year-old John Lee Cowell, the mentally unstable transient man accused of killing an 18-year-old woman in an Oakland BART station two years ago, got off to an inauspicious start Wednesday morning.
Business & Tech Uber Gets Back in the California DMV's Good Graces With New Self-Driving Car Permit A little over three years after it unleashed some self-driving cars in San Francisco without any legal permit to do so, Uber has just been granted a new permit to test the autonomous vehicles on California streets.
SF Politics Op-Ed: Whatever You Think Of Nancy Pelosi's Lack of Decorum, Ripping Up That Speech Was Everything SF's own Nancy Pelosi yet again made one for the meme history books on Tuesday night when she used her on-camera moment behind President Trump to rip her copy of his State of the Union address in half. And this is what makes her a badass bitch.
SF News Alamo Square Painted Lady In Need Of Heavy Renovation Sells for $3.5M, $750K Over Asking One of the iconic Painted Ladies along the Steiner Street side of Alamo Square Park just sold after about three weeks on the market. And despite its horrific moldy bathrooms and non-existent kitchen, it went for $750K over asking.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Flights Land From Wuhan PG&E cleared another bankruptcy hurdle, five San Jose healthcare workers possibly exposed to the coronavirus were sent home, and a total of 350 Americans are now quarantined at a military base in Solano County after arriving from Wuhan.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 250 Americans Evacuated From Wuhan Headed To Bay Area Quarantine A woman died after crashing into a parked big rig in Santa Rosa, a new statewide rent-control measure is headed to the ballot, and Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is going to be taking 250 Americans into quarantine from China.
SF Politics Was Mohammed Nuru's Self-Propelled PR Machine To Blame For San Francisco's Filth? The latest City Hall scandal has a lot of people asking whether our allegedly corrupt director of Public Works wasn't at least partly to blame for either pretending the problem wasn't as bad as it was, or fundamentally mis-managing the department responsible for keeping things clean.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Throws Shade at Younger Grizzlies Players Over Iguodala Trade Talk Rumors are mounting that Iguodala may get traded again before Thursday's trade deadline — something that a couple of his younger Grizzlies teammates are publicly hoping for, and that doesn't sit well with Steph.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist Sues Pixar For Copying Her Unicorn-Painted Van In New Film 'Onward' A San Francisco-based tattoo artist who once lent her "tremendously cool" van with a unicorn mural on the side of it to Pixar is now suing the Disney-owned animation studio for copying her "superlative work of automotive art" in an upcoming film without her permission.
SF Politics Watch a Homophobic Iowa Voter Find Out That Her Candidate Is Gay A video has come in from one of the caucus precincts in Iowa last night where a woman covered in Pete Buttigieg stickers finds out for the first time — astonishingly! — that her chosen candidate is indeed a homosexual.
SF Politics City Attorney Vows Thorough, Independent Investigation Of City Contracts Linked To Nuru Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.
Business & Tech Walgreens to Pay $7.5 Million to Two Bay Area Counties Over Phony Pharmacist The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Iowa's a Mess A Brisbane resident shot an alleged home invader, a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy wearing a turban was shot at by a passing car, and the San Benito County couple with the coronavirus is in isolation at UCSF Parnassus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Greyhound Bus Shooter ID'd A thief was caught on camera stealing an SF woman's wedding dress from her front porch, a four-year-old girl's death in the Bayview is being treated as suspicious, and Michael Bloomberg is alone campaigning in California right now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Delivery App Mix-Up Involved Ghost-Kitchen Restaurant That Serves Out of a Trailer in the Mission Last week's news about a bizarre situation that felt like a scam has an update, and it's not going to inspire trust in the world of food delivery apps.
SF News [Update] San Benito County Couple Infected With Coronavirus Moved to UCSF Parnassus The coronavirus has officially arrived in San Francisco as of Monday after a husband and wife who both tested positive for the virus arrived at an unnamed San Francisco hospital.
SF News Walking Through SFO Currently 'Like Stepping Into a Contagion Movie'; Expect Six-Hour Customs Lines Unless you have Mobile Passport and other enhancements, and especially if you're arriving from Asia, the customs situation for international travelers at SFO is currently lengthy and scary and straight out of contagion-disaster films.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Slurp and Dapper Dog The Castro really can't catch a break when it comes to the retail vacancy epidemic that is sweeping multiple SF neighborhoods. And now we learn that two more restaurants have permanently closed on the once hopping strip of Castro Street between Market and 18th.
SF News Sanctioned RV Lot for Homeless In Oakland Delayed After Some Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Leave A planned RV and vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless in West Oakland, similar to one that opened last year in SF, is getting delayed as the property owner is now entering an eviction fight with a group of encampment residents who refused to leave under the city's orders last fall.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Major Backup on Bay Bridge A high school student fatally shot Friday in Antioch has been identified, an injury accident caused a major delay on the westbound Bay Bridge this morning, and reporters are intercepting sad 49ers fans arriving back at SFO from Miami.
