SF Politics Fur Industry Trade Group Sues SF Over Fur Ban A fur industry group has filed a federal lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco over its ban on real fur products which took effect January 1. The suit calls the ban "so arbitrary as to be ridiculous," and says it is a violation of the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
SF News Construction Crew Hits Gas Line In SoMa, Prompts Evacuations Another construction crew ruptured yet another gas pipe on Tuesday, this time near 11th and Harrison streets in SoMa, causing multiple buildings in the area to be temporarily evacuated. The situation was resolved in about 40 minutes.
SF News BART Police Puts 12 Officers On Regular Evening Train-Patrol Duty For First Time BART Police are going to be regularly patrolling trains on nights and weekends as part of a new program that launched Monday, and the news has some regular riders going "Really?... Now?"
SF News Elderly Woman Injured In E-Scooter Crash On Embarcadero A 69-year-old woman was severely injured Monday afternoon when she collided with a cement mixer while riding an e-scooter near the intersection of Bay Street and the Embarcadero.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Group Evicted and 3 Arrested In Dramatic Pre-Dawn Raid Perhaps this was the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's idea of ending things peacefully and without incident, but two of the homeless mothers who have been squatting at a West Oakland residence since November were met with a militaristic raid early Tuesday morning.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose May Expand Its Airport The local Filipino community is on edge about a volcano near Manila, Sutter Health has formed a partnership with Lyft to give patients rides, and a Napa Valley security guard is charged with an inside-job burglary at a winery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Boudin Hires Three Defense Attorneys to DA's Office Four female suspects were arrested in a Stanford Shopping Center smash-and-grab, Bernie Sanders just opened a new Oakland campaign office, and Rep. Barbara Lee says the upcoming all-white debate is troubling.
Bay Area Sports Seattle Fox Station Made Bizarre Gaffe Reporting 49ers Loss to Vikings A local TV station up in Seattle was so optimistic about the Seahawks potentially getting to host the NFC Championship Game next week that the anchors erroneously reported Saturday that the Minnesota Vikings had beaten the 49ers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Tanya Holland Wonders Aloud Why People Gladly Pay $20 For Ad Hoc's Fried Chicken But Balk at Paying $18 for Hers Ahead of the closure of Brown Sugar Kitchen's Ferry Building outpost, Mother Jones has just released a podcast interview with chef Tanya Holland in which she talks about the challenges of working in the white male-dominated world of high-end cuisine, and doing business in the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment 'Clue' Director Jonathan Lynn Discusses Almost Casting Carrie Fisher at SF Sketchfest At the Castro Theatre on Sunday evening, SF Sketchfest celebrated the 35th anniversary of the cult-classic comedy whodunit 'Clue,' with star Colleen Camp, bit player Jane Wiedlin (of Go-Gos fame) and writer-director Jonathan Lynn.
SF News Laptop Theft Victim Shot In Hip At Bus Stop In North Oakland Another person was violently robbed of their laptop in Oakland on Friday, and this time the victim was shot in the course of the robbery.
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.
