SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Redwood Room Closes For Remodel, Will Reopen With Clift Hotel In January The iconic Redwood Room has closed for a three-month remodel, marking the first time that the space has gotten a refresh since its high-profile makeover by designer Philippe Starck in 2001.
SF News Murder Trial Involving Hillsborough Heiress Begins With Packed Courtroom After two weeks of delays and the last-minute disqualification of a key witness, the hotly anticipated murder trial of 31-year-old Tiffany Li and her onetime boyfriend Kaveh Bayat got underway on Monday.
SF News Napa and Sonoma To Keep Power On Monday, Still May Lose Power Tuesday PG&E just announced that it will be keeping power flowing to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties today, though as the hot, dry weather is expected to continue tomorrow and Wednesday, they're not totally in the clear.
SF Politics Former Governor Jerry Brown Announces California-China Climate Think Tank at UC Berkeley Continuing in his mission to combat climate change after leaving political office, onetime presidential candidate and former California governor Jerry Brown is making good on a promise he made while he was still governor.
SF News Widow Of Man Killed In Tenderloin Tesla Crash Says 'It's Been Really Hard' Kelly Dean is home in the Central Valley and recovering from her injuries after a July crash on Taylor Street in the Tenderloin that took the life of her husband of three years.
SF News Oakland-Based Snapchat Gun Dealer Gets Eight Years In Federal Prison A man who was trafficking in weapons that he purchased in Nevada, where he lived part of the time, and sold via Snapchat in the East Bay, has received an eight-year prison term.
SF News Tesla Driver Arrested After Reportedly Driving to Oakland the Wrong Way on the Bay Bridge A Tesla driver was taken into custody Monday morning after allegedly driving the entire way east across the Bay Bridge in the westbound lanes of the upper deck.
SF News Disturbed Man Detained By SFPD After Leaping Across Roofs In Four-Hour Standoff in the Mission A shirtless, shoeless man with what appeared to be white hospital ID bands on his wrist and ankle spent about four hours Sunday morning jumping from roof to roof in the Mission District as police tried to get him to come down.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Cable Cars Are Back Up and Running Tens of thousands may be without power today and tomorrow in Napa and Sonoma, a 21-year-old has been charged with a shooting at San Jose State, and the Stanford assault survivor Chanel Miller went on '60 Minutes.'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wildseed, Adriano Paganini's New Vegan Spot In Cow Hollow, Opens Its Doors The new plant-based restaurant concept from Adriano Paganini's Back of the House restaurant group opened on Friday evening in the former Belga space, on the prominent corner of Union and Buchanan Streets.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Warns Of Monday and Tuesday Blackouts PG&E is blaming a construction company for this morning's blackout in SF, the city is delaying the closure of those long-term mental-health beds at SF General, and SF-based FitBit may be getting sold.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Apizza, a New Fast-Food Pizza Concept From La Boulagerie's Pascal Rigo, Debuts Tuesday On Fillmore Street Serial food entrepreneur Pascal Rigo and business partner Nicolas Bernadi are set to debut the first location of a low-cost pizza restaurant they've been developing over the past three years.
Arts & Entertainment Leona Helmsley Musical 'Queen of Mean' Comes To Feinstein's In Cabaret Form A pared-down version of a show that's been workshopped and performed multiple times in recent years in the hopes of going to Broadway, all about the life and times of infamous New York hotelier and entrepreneur Leona Helmsley, is coming to Feinstein's at the Nikko this weekend.
SF News Two Shootings, One Fatal, Occur Within Three Blocks Of McAllister Street Thursday Night A pair of shootings that were possibly connected occurred in the vicinity of Civic Center and the edge of the Tenderloin Thursday, and the second of the two incidents took the life of a 48-year-old man.
SF News Report: Ben Carson Mocked Trans People During SF HUD Office Visit Trump's chosen Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, made some shockingly offensive if unsurprising remarks denigrating trans women while visiting the San Francisco HUD office this week.
Business & Tech Do Not Upgrade To iOS 13: Latest iPhone Software Update Plagued By Bugs Apple has had a decent track record in recent years when it comes to its iOS updates, but the latest is being described by reviewers as "rushed out the door," "super messy," and "a clusterf**k." Be warned!
SF News Climate Strike March Shuts Down Market Street, Buses Re-Routed A planned "climate strike" protest by students drew tens of thousands downtown today and shut down bus, streetcar, and vehicle traffic on Market Street Friday morning. Buses are being re-routed onto Mission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Rips Into Le Colonial, Asks 'Why Does This Place Exist?' As new critic Soleil Ho moves into her eighth month on the job, she's continuing to reevaluate some of the longstanding curios of the local scene with fresh eyes. The latest target is Le Colonial, the 22-year-old 'Indochine'-themed, sort-of-Vietnamese restaurant in the Tenderloin.
Business & Tech This Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg Looking Trump In the Eyes Is Everything Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whom I'd be inclined to call beleaguered if it weren't for the willfully monotonous way in which he's weathered all of his company's scandals over the last two years — went to D.C. this week to mend some fences.
SF News Power Outage Shuts Down Muni Metro, Impacts 22,000 Customers In SF A PG&E power outage that extends from Dogpatch and Mission Bay to Twin Peaks has caused a rush-hour nightmare for Muni commuters as all Muni Metro service was stopped as a result.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SFO Runway Officially Reopens There was a report of shots fired on the San Jose State campus not long after a heavily armed student was arrested Thursday, nurses are on strike at three East Bay hospitals, and Bill DeBlasio has dropped out of the 2020 race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Sues Two Travel Sites The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Folsom Street Events have made up, a SoMa market owner describes being bitten twice by homeless people, and an armed San Jose State student was arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Brewery Gets Cease-and-Desist Letter From 'Great British Bake Off' Star Mary Berry Esteemed British baker and former judge on the Great British Bake Off, Mary Berry, has had her lawyers issue a cease-and-desist letter to Richmond, California-based Armistice Brewing Company.
SF News Lyft Driver Escapes Carjacking As Suspect Is Seen Shooting At Fleeing Car A carjacking attempt went awry for one suspect in Richmond last week after he allegedly instructed a Lyft driver, at gunpoint, to stop at a gas station for snacks.
SF News Person Struck By Train Closes Powell Station, Causes BART Snarl A "major medical emergency" was reported at the Powell Street BART Station Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m., with the whole station shut down and emergency personnel on the scene.
