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.
SF Politics Pro-Impeachment Rallies Tonight In SF and Oakland Ahead of House Vote Supporters of House Democrats who will be voting to impeach President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday will be gathering at 5 p.m. Tuesday outside the Federal Building in San Francisco and in 20 other locations throughout the Bay Area.
SF News Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center Opens Despite Neighbors' $250K War Chest to Fight It The residents of lower Embarcadero and eastern SoMa along with much of City Hall are all hoping that everything goes smoothly with the high-profile opening of the new homeless Navigation Center, which Mayor Breed will lead a tour of Tuesday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: I-80 Reopens After Wrong-Way Crash In Pinole Protesters block entrances to PG&E's SF headquarters, noted East Bay restaurateur Richard Mazzera dies, and new SFMTA chief Jeff Tumlin gets sworn in.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Farmgirl Flowers Moving Out of SF The woman who was fatally stabbed in SF over the weekend was a mother of 7, one of the infamous "Toolbox Killers" just died at San Quentin, and a Napa man remains at large after a bar shooting.
Arts & Entertainment That Guy In Tracy Shows Off His Usually Elaborate Holiday Light Show Lighting designer Tom BetGeorge, whose Halloween light show set to Skrillex we just featured in October, is at it again with his Christmas-themed spectacular out at his suburban home in Tracy.
Arts & Entertainment Authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman Back Away From Ghost Ship Fire TV Project Amid Backlash The Berkeley authors heard from survivors of the fire and victims' families and changed their minds about whether to pursue a TV dramatization of the 2016 fire.
Arts & Entertainment Smaller, Humbler Gump's Pop-Up Brings Pricey Ornaments To Union Square Legendary bougie Union Square retail emporium Gump's, which went bankrupt and closed up its doors last fall, has popped back up as a pop-up in a much smaller space that was, coincidentally, one of the store's original homes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Brewery Releases PG&E-Themed 'Mandatory Blackout' Porter Sonoma County craft brewers have been reacting to this fire season's pre-emptive power shutoffs with themed beers. The latest example is Barrel Brothers Brewing's Mandatory Blackout imperial porter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Opens In the Bay Area Following Whale-Related Delay Look for the local Dungeness crab to start popping up on more menus across town as the commercial crab-fishing season was just, finally, given the green light to begin.
SF News [Updated] Potrero Hill Stabbing Leaves 35-Year-Old Mother of 7 Dead A woman was fatally stabbed Saturday night in Potrero Hill, and a 25-year-old woman is now in custody in connection with the stabbing.
SF News Supreme Court Lets Stand Ninth Circuit Ruling Permitting Homeless To Sleep Outside The Supreme Court has refused to hear a case that originated in Boise, Idaho several years ago concerning the constitutionality of laws that prohibit sleeping or camping in parks or on public streets when no shelter space is available.
