SF News Saturday Links: Salesforce Tower Architect Cesar Pelli Has Died BART had some major delays Friday evening, the Bay Area Council wants to put an infrastructure tax on the 2020 ballot, and architect Cesar Pelli has died at the age of 92.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Metallica Cut Secret Deal To Profit Off Their Own Scalped Tickets The judge in the "Rideshare Rapist" case may not throw out the DNA evidence, a judge told Oakland to come back with better arguments in its antitrust suit against the NFL and the Raiders, and BART is still fighting the PUC.
Arts & Entertainment Multi-Building Carmel Estate Featured In 'Big Little Lies' and 'Basic Instinct' Hits Market For $52M A massive Carmel compound with dramatic ocean views has just hit the market, in case you or someone you know has $52 million lying around.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quinoa-Centric Automat Eatsa Won't Be Reopening, Owes Thousands In Back Rent Downtown fans of Eatsa, the quinoa-in-an-automated-drawer spot that opened its first location here in 2015, will be sad to learn that it sounds like it's gone for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Owner Cashes Out, Puts Building On Market For $4M After owners Karen Heisler and wife Krystin Rubin discussed various reasons for shutting the business down, a big motivator that was only passingly mentioned by Heisler may have been front and center: selling the building and cashing out.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower LED Crown To Feature Videos Shot By Cameras Around The City The video projection array featured in the LED crown of Salesforce Tower every night will be getting switched up in the coming months, and will feature abstract version of video being covertly shot by cameras around the city.
SF News Police Arrest Central Valley Truck Driver For Hit-and-Run That Killed Disabled Homeless Man An arrest has been made in the hit-and-run collision early Thursday morning that left a homeless man dead.
SF Politics Judge Slams Police, Rules In Favor Of Journalist Bryan Carmody A Superior Court judge has ruled that a search warrant issued to police in May for the phone records of journalist Bryan Carmody was improper, and that police must destroy any evidence they obtained through it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Man Sentenced For Bombing At Protest A Milpitas man was arrested after a four-hour standoff, D5 candidate Dean Preston wants to make Muni free, and a Sonoma County jail inmate died choking on a sandwich.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tanforan Mall Shooting Suspect Arrested In Martinez Muni's Embarcadero Station reopened at 3:30 p.m. following that water incident, Tom Steyer had a campaign event in the Mission, and a Sacramento judge has sent the Embarcadero Navigation Center case back to SF.
Business & Tech Netflix Sees First Subscriber Decline In Almost A Decade Bay Area-based Netflix had a not-great second quarter this year, with an overall loss of 126,000 subscribers in the US — the first quarterly decline in US subscribers in eight years, basically since it began streaming content.
SF News The Richmond Bridge Is Supposedly Mostly Fixed Now After several months this winter in which chunks of concrete were regularly falling onto cars and the lower-deck roadway of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Caltrans has announced that its fixes to the troubled concrete joints on the bridge's upper deck are just about complete.
Arts & Entertainment #TBT: 'Shit San Franciscans Say' AH, memories. Back in the early days of 2012, before Facebook had gone public, and before Obama had even been elected a second time, the "Shit ___ people say" meme took over YouTube and many of our social media lives for months.
SF News Berkeley Updates Its City Code To Remove The Words 'She', 'He', 'Manhole,' and 'Fireman' At its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council voted to revise its municipal code to remove all gender-specific pronouns, and to use more inclusive, non-patriarchal language for terms like "manhole" and "manpower."
SF News Pedestrian Struck And Killed By Semi-Truck In Mid-Market Hit-and-Run A pedestrian was killed in a collision with a semi truck at Fifth and Market early Thursday morning. And the truck reportedly fled the scene.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Tanker Truck Overturns In Richmond Temperatures are going to stay cool in the city as inland heats up this weekend, police are seeking a guy who stole $25K worth of bicycles in Sausalito, and transit-oriented development is booming next to BART stations.
SF News Muni Dumps Water On BART, Shuts Down Embarcadero Station While testing a fire-suppression system Thursday morning, Muni sprung a leak, flooding its own Embarcadero Station and sending water cascading into the BART station below it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richmond and Sunset Vulnerable to Earthquake-Caused Fires The man accused of slashing an 18-year-old woman's throat at an Oakland BART station last summer has been deemed fit to stand trial, two window washers had to be rescued in downtown SF, and we're probably getting a rideshare tax.
Arts & Entertainment J.K. Rowling Reveals That Alcatraz Was A Direct Inspiration For Azkaban Ahead of the October opening of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at The Curran in San Francisco, director John Tiffany, playwright Jack Thorne, and author J.K. Rowling sat down for an interview about adapting the show for the SF theater.
SF News The Award For the Highest Rents In the Bay Area Goes To... Menlo Park One of the thousand or so rental data sources out there has called our attention to how "average rents" around the Bay Area currently compare.
SF News Paper Bag Fee at SF Grocery Stores To Go Up to 25 Cents, Plastic Produce Bags Banned Frugal shoppers are going to think twice now about going back to their house when they forget their reusable shopping bags as the Board of Supervisors has initially voted to approve a new ordinance raising the price of a double paper bag to 50 cents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Commonwealth To Close After Nine Years on August 26 Commonwealth, the sophisticated tasting-menu spot will be calling it quits at the end of next month after a failed lease negotiation with the building's landlord — who wants double what Commonwealth has been paying.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Deli Debuts Today With Crave-Worthy, Casual Israeli-ish Food The first fast-casual project from AL's Place chef Aaron London, AL's Deli, officially opens to the public today at the prime corner of 18th and Guerrero — across from Tartine in former Yuzuki space.
SF News City To Ban Vehicle Traffic On Octavia Next To Patricia's Green One half-block of Octavia Boulevard is going to become a pedestrian- and bike-only zone, once and for all cutting off the busy freeway-connected "boulevard" portion of Octavia from the quieter Octavia Street that continues north.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Major BART Delays Lead To Crowded East Bay Platforms A Tenderloin carjacking leads to a chase and a crash in Oakland, BART was having major issues in the East Bay this morning on the Dublin line, and Berkeley is banning natural gas in all new buildings.
