SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: High-Speed Chase On 280 Ends In Rollover Three people were shot in a Santa Rosa park, Bay Area airports were impacted by a power outage at LAX Wednesday night, and the Giants got shut out by the Mets while everyone was watching basketball.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Apple Commuter Bus Goes Up In Flames On 280 A San Mateo County supervisor is mad that Chick-fil-A was approved to move into Redwood City, the prosecution rested its case today in the Ghost Ship trial, and Warriors fans all over the Bay are prepping for Game 3.
SF News Los Angeles Homeless Census Number Echoes San Francisco's, With 16 Percent Increase New numbers released Tuesday for Los Angeles County and the city proper show sharp increases in the homeless population there, with a figure for the city that tracks with San Francisco's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CUESA (The Farmers' Market People) Celebrates Summer With Big Ferry Building Party CUESA, the nonprofit that operates the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market, is throwing its annual Summer Bash this weekend, and there are still tickets available. It's a pretty lavish cocktail shindig featuring food stations from a large assortment of Bay Area restaurants.
Arts & Entertainment Mezzanine Is Closing In October, Canceling Holiday and New Year's Events A proposed lease extension through the New Year has been revoked, and the club will in fact shutter in October as was announced last fall.
SF News SFO Begins Mandatory Garage Pickups For Uber and Lyft Today In an effort to ease the daily rideshare traffic jams at SFO's domestic terminals, the airport is moving all Uber and Lyft pickups to a new designated area on the roof of the domestic hourly parking garage — and you can expect a few months of confusion about this as people figure it out .
SF News SF Supes Vote To Force Treatment On The Mentally Ill And Drug Addicted Following some compromise in the legislation, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on a potentially game-changing pilot program that could significantly alter the way authorities handle homeless people in crisis.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Ayahuasca Is Legal In Oakland Now Mayor London Breed officially filed for re-election in November and she faces no serious opposition, Home Depot is threatening to leave Oakland if it doesn't clean up a homeless encampment, and you can now do 'shrooms and peyote in Oakland without fear of arrest.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Temperature Top 90 In Livermore, Elsewhere Board of Supes votes to close Juvey, traffic jam on 101 south in San Jose after man jumps off overpass, and another Ghost Ship survivor describes a harrowing escape.
Arts & Entertainment Society Queen Dede Wilsey Is Officially Stepping Down As President of the deYoung/Legion Of Honor Board Several years after a mini-scandal and subsequent shakeup on the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), which had led to some talk of a change in leadership, museum queen bee and general SF society character Dede Wilsey has been replaced.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Is Getting A Big New Bagel Bakery And Creamery Called Daily Driver Set to open on June 15, Daily Driver brings together a cheesemaker, bagel baker, coffee roaster, industrial designer, and a Marin-based dairy farm and creamery, and they'll be introducing wood-oven-baked bagels to a bagel-starved populace.
SF News Richmond Mayor, City Council In Ongoing War Over Police Commission Appointments The background to this story is deeply local, tedious, and somewhat drawn out, but suffice it to say Mayor Tom Butt has been wielding his appointment power without compromise, and the Council isn't having it.
SF News Video: Ultra-Rare Sighting Of Baird's Beaked Whale Pod Off Monterey Coast Whale watchers and marine biologists got an especially rare treat last week when a pod of two dozen Baird's beaked whales surfaced near a whale-watching boat off the coast of Monterey, and stayed long enough to be captured on drone video.
SF News Young Democrats Attacked In Alleged Homophobic Hate Crime Incident In SoMa Two young men who were part of a delegation of Contra Costa Young Democrats attending this past weekend's state party convention at the Moscone Center were assaulted outside a SoMa bar early Sunday and called homophobic slurs.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Rampaging Driver Pleads Not Guilty 25-year-old vehicular injury suspect's lawyer says she's bipolar and was off her meds, SFO's greenhouse emissions are up, and SFPD still has many mandated reforms to complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin's CA Guide Is Out: Saison Loses A Star, LA Still Has No Three-Star Restaurants, and More LA can still be bitter at Michelin, and the big Bay Area headline is that Saison has dropped from three stars to two, largely because of the departure of executive chef and co-owner Joshua Skenes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Unveils Rainbow-Covered 'Pride Patrol' Vehicles 600 animal-rights protesters showed up at a Petaluma duck farm today, FAANG stocks got battered on news of antitrust probes, and a Bay Area tech entrepreneur just paid $4.5 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett.
SF News Three Men Charged In Succulent Poaching Ring Worth $600,000 Three men, all South Korean nationals, have been charged by federal authorities in California after poaching $600,000 worth of prized succulents from the Northern California coast.
SF News People Have Been Bitching About San Francisco Losing Its Soul Since Literally Forever Following on my own two rejoinders to the recent pieces in the New Yorker and Washington Post about San Francisco irreversibly going to shit, the Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub and Mission Local's Joe Eskanazi have each penned their own responses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elizabeth Warren Dined at Woman-Run Union Square Restaurant Ayala While bouncing between events, a rally in Oakland, and the state Democratic party convention in SF over the weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren stopped in for a Saturday dinner at Ayala, the seafood-focused restaurant in the Hotel G on Geary Street, run by Top Chef alum Melissa Perfit.
Business & Tech Apple Kills Off iTunes, Adds iOS 13 Dark Mode Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose today, and the big announcements have begun rolling in — even though no major product announcements are expected at this one, except maybe a new Mac Pro.
Business & Tech Google Cloud Outage Shuts Down Everything From Smart Locks To Snapchat A significant outage with Google Cloud Services Sunday had widespread impacts that included right here on SFist — there were some scary moments there — but the most noticeable impacts for users were probably on Snapchat, YouTube, and Nest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's the Menu For Flour + Water Pizzeria, Which Opens Today Just about ten years to the month that Flour + Water debuted in the Mission, the restaurant is opening a pizzeria spinoff at the busy corner of 18th and Valencia. And the official opening day is today.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Warriors Sell Game 4 Tickets For $50K Apiece A 35-year-old Bay Area mother of three died at a Lake Tahoe waterfall, Skip has pulled its scooters off the street, and there was a fire next to the Dumbarton Bridge on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Sued By Ex-Employee Who Says She Lost French Laundry Job Because She Was Pregnant A former employee of Thomas Keller's restaurant group is taking Keller and other company employees to court this week after she lost her job three years ago shortly after they found out she was pregnant.
