SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open 'The Anchovy Bar' In Former Fat Angel Space The recently shuttered Fat Angel (1740 O'Farrell Street off Fillmore) already has a taker, and it's the team of Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski from State Bird Provisions and The Progress around the corner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Spinoff Automat Coming to Green Chile Kitchen Digs In NoPa A much-anticipated new project from Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay and former Lazy Bear sous chef Matthew Kirk has found a home, and it's the former Green Chile Kitchen space at McAllister and Baker.
SF News First SF Homicide Victim of 2020 Is Woman in the Tenderloin The first homicide of the new year happened in the Tenderloin, just blocks from two other homicides in December.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Play BottleRock 2020 The lineup for the eighth edition of BottleRock is out, and it's a notably more star-studded one than usual with headliners Stevie Nicks, Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Miley Cyrus.
SF News Murder Charges Possible After Death of 89-Year-Old Woman Beaten in Visitacion Valley An 89-year-old great-grandmother succumbed to her injuries Friday after a year in the hospital following a January 2019 beating in a park near her home in Visitacion Valley.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshows Pop Up Across San Francisco The trial begins today for the man accused of killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station, a vigil for the deceased laptop theft victim in Oakland, and Sunday sideshows were captured on video in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 70-Year-Old Bicyclist Injured in Hit-and-Run There are some more details in an incident involving a homeless man chasing someone with a needle in SoMa, Bay Area lawmakers are denouncing Trump's drone strike in Iraq, and Sonoma officials are dealing with a rat problem.
Arts & Entertainment 'Becky Nurse of Salem' Dissects the Cliché of the Witch-Hunt The latest world premiere at Berkeley Rep by playwright Sarah Ruhl is a complex and darkly funny look at the Salem Witch Trials through the lens of contemporary American malaise, the #MeToo movement, and Donald Trump.
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For the Quadrantid Meteor Shower This Weekend Near the Big Dipper A meteor shower that is expected to go on through January 10 will peak tonight around midnight on the West Coast. It will be low to the horizon, but will at least be more visible than that November "unicorn" shower, which was a bust for California.
SF News Two Convicted Felons To Face Murder and Manslaughter Charges In Death of Laptop Theft Victim Two previously convicted robbers have been arrested and are facing charges in the New Year's Eve death of a 34-year-old Oakland man whose laptop computer they were allegedly trying to steal.
SF Politics SF Redevelopment Agency Successor Seeks To Make Good On Building 5,800 Affordable Units The agency that took over for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), known as the Office of Community Infrastructure and Investment (OCII), has just proposed a state law that would allow it to use its former funding tools to develop nearly 6,000 new below-market-rate units in the city.
SF Politics East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee Got Married on New Year's Eve Eleven-term U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has represented Oakland and the East Bay in the House of Representatives since 1998, was just married on New Year's Eve to Los Angeles-based pastor Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden, Jr.
SF News SFPD Arrests Man In SoMa For Chasing Someone With a Needle A man was arrested Monday evening after reports that he was chasing another person around the area of 7th and Mission Street with a hypodermic needle.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Includes Travis Scott, Frank Ocean, No Female Headliners Sure, it's a rarity at any music festival to have a major female headliner, and Beyoncé, Ariana and Bjork have been exceptions to the rule at Coachella over the years. But this year the headlining lineup is back to being all dudes.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Search For Vehicle That Drove Over Cliff Called Off A woman was swept out to sea at Half Moon Bay trying to rescue her dog, homicides were actually up 7 percent across the Bay Area, and Tesla hit its sales goals for 2019.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CHP Made Almost 500 DUI Arrests on NYE The Oakland man who died after being dragged by a laptop thief's getaway car was celebrating his birthday, video shows a man getting knocked off a rock by a huge wave near Santa Cruz, and a woman is killed while allegedly breaking into her ex's home in Dublin.
SF News Three People Shot, Three People Stabbed On New Year's Eve in SF Three people were shot and injured on Tuesday evening around the city, and after the clock struck midnight, three more people were stabbed in separate incidents in SoMa and the Excelsior district.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elite Cafe on Fillmore To Become New Restaurant From Adriano Paganini Prolific restaurateur Adriano Paganini and his Back of the House Restaurant Group — the team behind Beretta, Delarosa, Barvale, A Mano and others — is taking over the former Elite Cafe and opening a new Italian spot.
SF News Small Fire Temporarily Shuts Down Fancy Steakhouse Ittoryu Gozu Less than two months after its November opening, fancy downtown Wagyu spot Ittoryu Gozu suffered a small kitchen fire New Year's Eve that threw a wrench into its celebratory dinner service.
SF Politics Ben Carson Blames California For Rise In Homelessness, Calls On States and Cities to Handle Crisis Just before the holidays, HUD Secretary Ben Carson issued an annual report on homelessness nationwide in which he called on state and local leaders on the West Coast to address the issue with "crisis-like urgency."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Loses Chef Laurent Gras, Promises 'New Experience in 2020' Two-Michelin-starred Saison, which dropped down from three stars last year following the departure of chef and co-owner Joshua Skenes from day-to-day operations, is undergoing another transition as the new year begins.
SF News Car Break-Ins Still Frequent In SF, But Down 3 Percent Over Last Year As we await final crime stats from the SFPD for 2019, the department is touting the fact that burglaries from vehicles in the city — while still high — were down slightly year over year through November.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Small Quake Shakes Bay Area A high-surf advisory has been extended through tonight, two arrests have been made in an Oakland laptop theft that ended in death, and a 3.9M earthquake struck the South Bay Wednesday night.
SF News San Francisco Marks 56-Year Low In Homicides There was plenty of bad news in 2019, but in the good news column the homicide count in San Francisco hit its lowest number since 1963: 41.
SF News New Year's Day Links: Newsom and Pelosi Attend Final 'Beach Blanket' Performance The man who was injured chasing after laptop thieves in Oakland has died, Supervisor Sandra Fewer may not run for reelection, and a vigil is being held to mark the 11th anniversary of Oscar Grant's death.
