SF News Day Around the Bay: A Chill Sets In Moms 4 Housing got a four-day reprieve in their Oakland squat, a Bernal Heights family got their stolen dog back, and it's going to get cold tonight around the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New Restaurants In San Francisco, 2019 It's been a relatively quiet year for restaurant openings in San Francisco — and is it any wonder? Still, there are 11 brand new spots that are delightful and delicious additions to our local culinary scene.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Announces Plan For 30 New Childcare Centers Across SF Saying that "access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable," Breed announced a plan Thursday to open 30 new childcare centers across the city.
Business & Tech Hyatt Regency Converts Hallways Overlooking Embarcadero Into Tiny Rooms The grandly Brutalist and angular Hyatt Regency at the foot of Market Street has 15 new guest rooms thanks to some underutilized, oversized hallways that had some excellent Bay views.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Killed By Falling Tree In Muir Woods Three teens were killed in a Christmas night car crash in Pleasanton, four were injured in a shooting at a house party in East Oakland, and two porch pirates were nabbed in Butte County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two-Alarm Fire Injures One in the Inner Richmond Sonoma officials have approved an emergency plan to deal with a sprawling homeless encampment, Alameda County has voted to sell the Coliseum to the A's, and the SF City Attorney just shut down an underground nightclub in the Bayview.
SF News Suspect In 2018 BART Stabbing Is 'Malingering' About Mental Illness, Judge Says An Alameda County judge who is set to preside over the trial of a transient man suspected of fatally stabbing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station last year is still unconvinced about the man's attorney's push to have his mental competence re-examined.
SF News Another DoorDash Driver Is Caught Stealing a Package A second DoorDash driver, this time in Santa Clara, was caught on surveillance video being a porch pirate just moments after handing off a bag of food to a customer.
SF News East Bay Convenience Store Robbery, Pistol-Whipping Caught On Video An armed robbery Sunday night at a convenience store in Bay Point ended with one of the alleged thieves fatally shot, and the initial unfolding of the robbery — which left a cashier injured — was caught on surveillance video.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Blind Woman Robbed In BART Station Two men dragged a woman across a Walmart parking lot in Fremont trying to steal her purse, flaring at a Benecia refinery released tons of sulfur dioxide, and a blind woman was robbed of her cellphone at BART's 12th Street Station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Tenderloin Homicide Homelessness nationwide has gone up nearly 3 percent, fog and weather caused some big travel-day delays, and Steph Curry denies that a leaked semi-nude locker room photo is him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Goes Union For the First Time in 123 Years Employees at San Francisco's oldest brewery, and what many consider to be the oldest craft beer brand in the country, just voted to approve a three-year contract with parent company Sapporo Holdings.
Business & Tech Twitter and Facebook Remove Falun Gong, Saudi Disinformation Campaigns Both Twitter and Facebook announced Friday that they were removing hundreds of inauthentic accounts with links to the Falun Gong spiritual movement — of Shen Yun fame. And Twitter also admitted it just had to remove 88,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi Arabia.
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.
