SF News Mayor Appoints Stone Cold Fox Jeffrey Tumlin To Lead SFMTA Mayor London Breed has named her selection for the new director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and while very qualified he's also pretty hot.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Orinda Police Were In Oakland When Shooting Occurred A crash on the Bay Bridge caused some early morning traffic, firing at Google linked to possible labor activities, and Contra Costa County has banned the sale of vape products.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Peninsula Babysitter Sentenced In Molestation Case A garbage truck exploded into flames in Concord, a BART director is unhappy with the GM's apology over the sandwich citation, and a large wave is being blamed for a capsized boat that left one fisherman lost at sea.
SF News Dreamforce Street Shutdowns Begin, Avoid That Part of SoMa at All Costs Howard Street between 3rd and 4th Street was shut down Tuesday ahead of next week's kickoff of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce convention. And for everyone who doesn't know the drill, this means it is officially time to avoid driving anywhere near SoMa for the next two weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Space to Become SF Outpost of Popular Oakland Bakery-Cafe Reem's Chef Reem Assil, who has courted both food-world accolades and political controversy in the last two years, is bringing her delicious Arab cuisine to the Mission.
SF News 98-Year-Old Man Fulfills Mother's Dying Wish To Turn Her SF Property Into Affordable Housing When San Francisco artist, scientist, and activist Maria “Mitzi” Kolisch died in 1987, she was in the process of trying to turn her humble cottage property in Diamond Heights into housing for low-income adolescents who had aged out of the foster-care system.
SF News First Chance of November Rain Arrives Next Week While some meteorologists have given pessimistic outlooks about fire season lasting into December, at least one forecast model has the Bay Area seeing some rain in the middle of next week, on Wednesday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bob's Donuts Opens Second Spot at Baker and Fulton on Thursday The much anticipated NoPa location of Bob's Donuts is finally set to open in the former Chili Pies space at the corner of Baker and Fulton, and opening day is Thursday, November 14.
SF News Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors File Lawsuit Against Organizers Survivors of the July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival are filing a lawsuit this week claiming "negligent security measures" led to the shooting that killed three and injured 14 others.
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Topline: Supes and Mayor Reach Deal On Mental Healthcare The man cited for eating a sandwich on a BART platform reject's BART's apology, a pregnant mother of two was fatally shot in Oakland, and SF supervisors are introducing new mental healthcare legislation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Pushes Back Further In PG&E Bankruptcy Case The Apple Card appears to have some sexist approval practices, California DACA recipients speak out as Supreme Court hears case, and a rolled-over fuel tanker cause a traffic mess in the South Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Caviar Company Debuts 'The Bump Bar' in Former Sausalito Tasting Room The local sustainable caviar concern, the California Caviar Company, just re-debuted its Sausalito tasting room last week, rebranding it The Bump Bar. And yes, everyone gets a free "bump" when they walk in.
SF News Frances McDormand and Joel Coen Are In the Whitest of Feuds With Their Marin Neighbors Oscar winners Joel Coen and Frances McDormand have filed suit against their Bolinas neighbors over a disputed property line and the neighbors' apparent refusal to sign an agreement forged about a historic greenbelt that passes between their two properties.
SF News Body Of Infant Found On Green at Lincoln Park Golf Course The body of an infant was discovered by police Saturday on a putting green at Lincoln Park Golf Course, just west of the Sea Cliff neighborhood.
SF News BART General Manager Issues Apology To Sandwich Eater Detained By BART Cop Amid public outcry over the black man detained at Pleasant Hill Station by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich on the platform, BART's new General Manager Bob Powers has issued a public apology.
SF News Suspects Sought In Violent Weekend Robberies In Chinatown A pair of violent incidents in Chinatown are being investigated as potentially linked after four suspects in a dark-colored SUV assaulted three elderly men in Chinatown's Portsmouth Square on Saturday, following a violent robbery involving a similar vehicle the night before.
SF Politics Democratic Socialist Dean Preston Wins District 5 Supervisor Seat On Second Try After narrowly losing to London Breed in 2016, Dean Preston eked out a win in the District 5 supervisor race on Saturday, taking the seat from Vallie Brown, the mayor's appointee.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crash Shuts Down I-580 in Oakland A car chase in Concord left multiple vehicles damaged, a Sonoma woman's pet dog was mauled by loose pit bulls on a hiking trail, and an off-duty cop shot and killed a man in Vallejo.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Booed In Vegas For Going On After Midnight, Sued By Florida Man For Late Starts Shortly after Madonna departed San Francisco on her Madame X Tour last week, her first show in Las Vegas was reportedly met with boos and 500 demands for refunds when she took the stage at 12:30 a.m. — two hours late for her already late scheduled curtain time of 10:30 p.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Northern California's 2019 Wine Vintage Is Just Fine, Post-Fire Sonoma County wineries, restaurants, and hotels are trying to get the word out that Sonoma wine country escaped mostly unscathed from the Kincade Fire, which was declared 100 percent contained as of Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeowners In Kincade Fire Zone May Have To Pay For Cleanup The progressive candidates Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston have taken slight leads as ballots keep getting counted, a female bicyclist was struck and severely injured in SF, and a pedestrian struck last weekend in Potrero Hill has died.
SF News Suspect In April Homicides Admitted To Killings, Gets Maximum Sentence for Shooting Cop in Nevada Stefon Demar Jefferson, who's implicated in a killing spree in the Bay Area on April 26 that left three men dead, was just sentenced for his shootout with police later that night in Nevada's Douglas County.
SF News BART Police Officer Detains and Cuffs Black Man For Eating Breakfast Sandwich On Platform A pair of videos has been making the rounds of a BART police officer having a heated interaction with a rider whom he wanted to cite for eating on the Pleasant Hill BART platform earlier this week.
SF News Camp Fire Anniversary Marked With Stories Of Rebuilding, and Mystery Man's Remains One year ago today, the ferocious Camp Fire broke out in the forested hills east of Concow and Paradise, California. And marking the anniversary the local media has published dozens of stories checking back in on the survivors and the rebuilding effort.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Second-Graders' Rewrite Of Lizzo Song Featured on 'Good Morning America' Video went viral this week of a Pittsburg second-grade teacher's classroom where the students learned a version of Lizzo's self-empowerment anthem "Truth Hurts" with rewritten lyrics to inspire their schoolwork. And the story got picked up Friday by ABC's Good Morning America.
