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.
SF News Sunday Links: Animal Rights Protester Storms Stage at Democrat Convention The campaign logistics problem of California, Newsom hosts fundraiser for Kamala Harris at Getty mansion, and Bernie Sanders rallies supporters in San Jose.
SF News Ridiculous Swedish Startup Wants To Rent Us Pogo Sticks Now It is in fact June 1st, not April 1st, and this is allegedly a real story: A Swedish mobility company wants to bring pogo-stick rentals to San Francisco. I guess because e-scooters are neither ridiculous nor dangerous enough as it is?
SF News Saturday Links: Elizabeth Warren Rallies Voters In Oakland One of the eight kids who won the National Spelling Bee is from San Jose, Jane Kim is working for Bernie Sanders now, and Elizbeth Warren drew a crowd of 6,500 in Kamala Harris' hometown.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Budget Soars To $12.3 Billion That Potrero Hill shack listed for $2.5 million is a flip, a Kawhi Leonard billboard just went up in Oakland, and the SFPD actually obtained their warrant for a journalist's phone records months before raiding his home.
Arts & Entertainment VH1 and Levi's Host First 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Finale Crowning In SF Thursday night, a select few fans of Rupaul's Drag Race who also happened to be employees of Levi's got to attend a very special viewing party of the Season 11 finale where all four finalists were in attendance along with several other contestants.
Business & Tech Salesforce Steps Into Gun Debate, Drops Customers Who Sell Automatic Weapons Salesforce made a change to the acceptable-use policy for its e-commerce software this week, adding a range of firearms and accessories to the list of products it forbids customers from selling.
SF News Power Outage Hits SoMa, China Basin A power outage affecting about 4,000 PG&E customers as well as area traffic signals hit part of SoMa near South Park Friday afternoon.
SF News Muni Orders More Door Inspections After New Stuck-Hand Incident, And Door That Opened While A Train Was In Motion Following the now infamous April 12 incident in which an elderly woman was dragged after a new train door clamped on her hand and wouldn't let go, a fresh incident occurred with a woman getting her hand stuck in an older train car's door, but from the inside.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rat Bar, Featuring Real Live Rats, To Pop Up At Fisherman's Wharf In June If you're one of those people that needs a next-level gimmick to get you to buy a drink, have I got a bar gimmick for you! Inspired by all those cat cafes, a local outfit will be bringing us a rat-filled version, with booze.
SF News Elizabeth Warren Campaign Puts Up 'Break Up Big Tech' Billboard In SoMa Just as she and her Democrat cohort are descending on San Francisco for the state party convention this weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren's campaign decided to throw up an anti-tech billboard at Fourth and Townsend.
SF News Democratic Candidates For 2020 Descend On SF For Convention This Weekend Thirteen of the hundred or so people running for the Democratic presidential nomination next year are heading to San Francisco this weekend for the California Democratic Party Organizing Convention, which kicks off today at the Moscone Center.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Zuckerberg Votes To Keep Himself In Power An arrest was made in a 2016 murder at the Endup, West Oakland is getting a grocery store for the first time in 40 years, and a local radio station is taking a break from Drake during the NBA Finals.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pelosi And Clinton Slam Facebook Over Altered Videos Some more details on that rampaging vehicle in the 'Loin yesterday, a San Mateo County couple is accused of human trafficking, and the Transbay Transit Center won't be opening until July.
Bay Area Sports Toronto Raptors Fans Shot Off 3 AM Fireworks To Disturb Warriors' Sleep Some fans of the Toronto Raptors apparently shot off fireworks in the wee hours of Thursday morning outside the hotel where the Warriors are spending the week, ahead of tonight's Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Gorgeous Trailer For 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco', Which Premiered At The Castro Last Night Writer-director Joe Talbot's feature-film debut, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and as it heads into wide release, it just had its official premiere at the Castro Theatre on Wednesday.
SF News Oakland-Based Pot Delivery Company Green Coast Lays Off 136 Workers Signs of the market correction in the legal marijuana sphere abound, and now a prominent Bay Area dispensary that is a delivery-only operation is significantly cutting its workforce.
SF News Racist-Texting Former Cop To Be Sentenced For Bank Robberies Back in February we learned that suspended SFPD officer Rain Daugherty, who earlier was part of that 2015 racist-texting scandal, had pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery. Today he's getting sentenced, and he may get up to three years.
SF News Burning Man's Federal Permit Still Hinges on Final Environmental Impact Statement Drama between the Burning Man organization and the Bureau of Land Management is nothing new. But as the festival has ballooned in size over the last decade, tensions are running high around the latest approval process for Burning Man's 10-year permit.
SF News Thursday Morning Updates: Muni and BART Delays Hamper Commute Multiple Muni delays and a BART switching problem were messing up Thursday's commute, the Assembly votes to cap rent increases, and a 40-year-old man mysteriously died in custody at Santa Rita Jail Wednesday right before his release.
SF News Day Around The Bay: PhD Thesis Stolen In North Bay Backpack Robbery A rampaging driver injured two pedestrians and busted up several cars in the Tenderloin and SoMa today, a fire on the BART tracks caused some delays, and Tesla is scaling back shifts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4505's Long-Delayed Oakland Expansion Opens Soon; Brenda's Due In Temescal By Late Summer Two San Francisco institutions with southern flair are opening new locations across the Bay, the first being 4505 Burgers & BBQ which is finally opening in the former Glenn's Hot Dogs space in Oakland's Laurel District.
SF News Pedestrian Struck And Gravely Injured At Geary And Laguna A female pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries early Wednesday morning after being hit by a vehicle at the intersection Geary Boulevard and Laguna Street, in Japantown.
SF News PrEP Could Become Over-the-Counter Drug In California A bill just approved by the California State Senate would make Truvada, the HIV drug that's been found to be effective at preventing new HIV infections, available for over-the-counter use for 30 days.
Arts & Entertainment Hiero After Dark Comes To The Midway Saturday, Featuring EarthGang Bay Area hip-hop fans know and love the low-key Oakland music festival called Hiero Day, which happens every Labor Day weekend. Now the group behind it, Hiero Imperium, is hosting a nighttime edition in San Francisco this weekend, at The Midway.
