SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pat Sajak and Vanna White Are In SF, And Dined At International Smoke Wheel of Fortune's longtime host Pat Sajak and letter-turner turned letter-tapper Vanna White are in San Francisco this week filming some promos for the show's "Great American Cities" showcase.
SF News Truffle Store Assault Suspect Released From Jail Due To Lack Of Evidence A charging decision has been put on hold in a North Beach assault case that made the news this week, which means that the suspect in the case is a free man.
Business & Tech Apple Is Getting Trolled For Its Cleaning Instructions For Its New Credit Card Apple's new, gleaming white, titanium credit card needs some tender loving care apparently. And it must only be cleaned with a microfiber cloth.
Arts & Entertainment Guy Who's Lived In San Francisco For One Year Would Like To Explain San Francisco To You A budding YouTuber by the name of Tom Dehnel has just produced a video about the pleasures and pains, wonders and woes of living in our fair city.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Gun Trafficker Who Was Using Snapchat To Sell Illegal Weapons A 22-year-old Nevada resident who grew up in Oakland was recently busted in an undercover sting after selling 35 illegal handguns to a federal officer — and he was marketing the weapons entirely on Snapchat.
SF News Man Who Struck SFPD Bicycle Officer In 2017 Receives Maximum Sentence The man convicted in the October 2017 hit-and-run collision that gravely injured SFPD officer Elia Lewin-Tankel was sentenced Thursday to the maximum possible term of 12 years and 8 months in prison.
SF News 13 Democratic Presidential Candidates Arrive In San Francisco For DNC Convention Somehow there are still over a dozen Democrats in the race for 2020, and 13 of them will be in town in SF this weekend for the Democratic National Committee’s Summer Meeting.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Wants To Borrow Money Now An arrest has been made in a fatal assault in SoMa, Alice Walker has stepped into the fray regarding those murals at George Washington High, and the ACLU calls BART's proposed panhandling ban unconstitutional.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Suspect Arrested In Stabbing Death on Van Ness The pilot in yesterday's Half Moon Bay crash blames bad gasoline, the Ghost Ship jury reached no verdict today and went on a two-week break, and environmental groups are suing Trump in SF over endangered species rules.
Business & Tech Uber Not Moving Its Headquarters To Dallas... Yet Uber made big headlines Tuesday after announcing it was opening a "second" headquarters in Dallas, which will be home to 3,000 employees. Dallas media seized on the story, with some suggesting Uber was moving its headquarters there. But the company says it has no plans to do that.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Artist Leo Villareal Is Lighting Up 15 Bridges In London The latest project from the Burning Man artist turned public-art guru Leo Villareal is called "Illuminated River," and it features different lighting schemes on each of the 15 bridges that cross the Thames in London.
Business & Tech Unionmade Shuts Retail Stores In Castro After 10 Years Yet another significant retail closure to tick off for the Castro neighborhood: Unionmade has closed both its men's and women's stores on 18th Street after a decade in business.
SF Politics Feds Investigate SF's Four-Year-Old Neighborhood-Preference Program For Affordable Housing The Trump Administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has put San Francisco on notice over an affordable housing policy that the Obama Administration had tacitly supported.
SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News Who Left Their Cat On The Bay Bridge? Animal Care & Control Now Has Him A cat on a leash was found perched on a ledge, hundreds of feet in the air, along the First Street onramp to the Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon during rush hour.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Small Plane Makes Emergency Ocean Landing In Half Moon Bay Someone was shot at Sixth and Market, Santa Rosa's Coffey Park is almost all rebuilt after the Tubbs Fire, and Juul is also fighting an e-cigarette ban in Livermore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo High Forces Students To Lock Up Phones Accused SoMa assaulter Austin Vincent pleaded not guilty to an earlier assault today and will remain in jail, a free-speech group has sued the SFPD over the raid on a journalist's home, and a San Mateo school is forcing all students to lock up their phones all day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town To Close In the Castro This Weekend, Transition To Event Space A little over a week after telling the Bay Area Reporter that the end might be close if customers didn't come in full force, the owner of Finn Town in the Castro, Rick Hamer, has announced plans to close at the end of this weekend.
Bay Area Sports Colin Kaepernick Says Mario Woods Shooting Inspired His Kneeling Protest The officer-involved shooting death of Mario Woods at the hands of the SFPD in December 2015 was a direct inspiration for the NFL "take a knee" protest that divided the country and negatively impacted the career of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Chocolate Shop Owner Attacked and Strangled, Saved By Son The owner of a popular truffle shop in North Beach says he was being strangled by an allegedly homeless man outside his store on Monday, and the attacker only relented when the owner's son came out with a baseball bat.
SF News Ghost Ship Defense Attorneys Move For Mistrial As Judge Charges Two Dismissed Jurors With Contempt In open court today the judge in the case announced that two of the three dismissed jurors are going to face contempt charges related to possible contacts with the media or internet use.
Business & Tech Facebook Will Now Let You Opt Out Of Having Your Every Move Tracked Online Over a year after the Cambridge Analytica debacle showed Facebook users how insidious the practice of personal data-collection has become, Facebook is giving users a new way to control how much data it's collecting on your activities outside Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Artist Had Elephant Sculptures and Truck Stolen In West Oakland Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Stories: 6 or 7 Ghost Ship Jurors May Have To Leave Soon Wildfires are down across California by 90% this year, the city of SF is giving teachers $3K bonuses, SFO's plastic water bottle ban takes effect, and some Ghost Ship trial jurors now have scheduling conflicts looming.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Death Penalty Sought For MacArthur Station Murder Suspect Muni had a meltdown at the end of rush hour Monday morning, a 32-year-old man in the Bayview suffered life threatening injuries after being punched, and a trailer fire sent smoke over Santa Rosa today.
