SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Michelin-Starred Lord Stanley Set to Close This Spring Lord Stanley, the Upper Polk restaurant that returned to form two years ago after a pandemic spent doing takeout and hosting pop-ups, has announced its closure — in part because its latest chef is leaving town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mega-Popular Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers to Open at Stonestown Stonestown Galleria has scored another win that is all but guaranteed to draw crowds, and that's a Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers location, the first to arrive in San Francisco.
SF News Tower Project at Sansome and Washington Moves Forward, Including First SF Five-Star Hotel In 30 Years A new office tower, which would be the first to be built in the Financial District since 2018 and would include the first five-star hotel to be constructed in the city in three decades, is moving along at 530 Sansome Street, with a developer who's bullish about downtown's future.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sonoma State Students Sue Over Athletics Cuts A group of student athletes is suing Sonoma State over the decision to cut athletics programs; arson is suspected at Phil Lesh's former San Rafael venue Terrapin Crossroads; and Santa Clara County health officer Dr. Sara Cody is retiring.
SF Politics Katie Porter Announces Run For California Governor Much like she did getting out ahead of the race for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat in early 2023, former Congresswoman Katie Porter is jumping ahead of presumed candidate Kamala Harris in announcing her bid for the governor's office in 2026.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beauty Bar Is Making a Comeback Two Sonoma County schools were locked down after a reportedly "credible threat' from a parent Monday morning; Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor have raised similar sums in the Oakland mayor's race; and Beauty Bar in the Mission is finally reopening.
SF News UC Berkeley and UCLA Both Face Trump Wrath Over Student Protests, Accused of Antisemitism The Trump Justice Department is attempting to use an accusation of tolerating an "antisemitic hostile work environment" for Jewish faculty and students to claw back hundreds of millions in federal funding promised to UC Berkeley and other schools.
Business & Tech Musk Blames 'Massive Cyberattack' For X/Twitter Outages Monday Morning Tesla owners have been under attack as billionaire Elon Musk continues to wield destructive, job-slashing power in Washington, so why wouldn't Twitter come under attack as well?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's b. Patisserie Confirmed to Be Taking Over Cafe Space In Union Square Park Following the departure of Tyler Florence's Miller & Lux Provisions last month, pastry chef Belinda Leong's acclaimed b. patisserie briefly popped up in one of the two cafe spaces in Union Square Park, and now it is becoming an official tenant.
SF News Stormy Weather to Return Wednesday, Because It's Not Spring Yet Have you been enjoying the Spring of Deception? Because that is the season we've been enjoying, and wintry weather returns this week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: VTA Worker Strike Means No Transit In South Bay VTA workers are on strike as of today, halting transit in San Jose; three lost hikers, including two small children, were rescued in the Santa Cruz Mountains; and DC is removing a prominent Black Lives Matter mural.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Orphan Andy's Goes Up for Sale A new modern French bistro arrives in the Inner Sunset, the opening of Jules is getting closer in the Lower Haight, and iconic Castro diner Orphan Andy's is up for sale, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Man Killed In Shooting Near SF's Holly Park A Friday morning shooting on Ellsworth Street, at the edge of SF's Bernal Heights and Holly Park neighborhoods, has left one man dead.
SF Politics San Jose Mayor Suggests Arresting Homeless Who Refuse Shelter; Legal Case In Vallejo Highlights Growing Backlash After nearly a year in which city and state leaders in California began swinging to the right on the issue of homeless encampments and the civil rights of homeless people, advocates say the tide may be turning again.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie's Office Makes Its First Staffing Change, Letting Go of Communications Director Less than two months in to the Lurie administration, the San Francisco Mayor's Office has let go of a key team member, Communications Director Nina Negusse.
Arts & Entertainment New Falcon Appears on Berkeley Campanile as Longtime Resident Falcons Remain Missing A new falcon made a brief appearance atop the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus on Wednesday, and falcon watchers are hopeful this bird will make a return and perhaps adopt the now abandoned nest.
SF Politics Newsom Now Trying to Court Right-Wing Dudebros So He Can Run For President In his first episode of his transparently dudebro-courting podcast, Gavin Newsom has decided to jump over and join the conservative argument against trans athletes in sports.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tesla Owners Increasingly Face Harassment Tesla owners in the Bay Area are loading up on anti-Elon bumper stickers to avoid harassment; VTA workers may be striking next week; and another new Costco opening draws whiskey lovers to line up for deals.
SF News Judge Blasts Federal Prison For Providing Poor Medical Care, Lets SF Scandal Figure Nick Bovis Out on Home Release Nick Bovis, one of the first people involved in the San Francisco City Hall bribery scandal to be arrested alongside Mohammed Nuru as the scandal unfolded five years ago, is getting out of prison a couple months early.
SF News Woman Grabbed Off Street In Apparent Kidnapping In East Oakland Oakland police put out an alert Thursday seeking the public's help with information about a brazen kidnapping seen on video that occurred on 98th Avenue in East Oakland.
SF News Castro Theatre Reopening Delayed Until Fall or Beyond; Longtime Coffeeshop Tenant Hints at Possible Eviction Due to a reported "holding pattern" with a PG&E power issue, the much anticipated reopening of the renovated Castro Theatre will not be happening in time for Pride Month as originally hoped.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Sheriff Refuses to Step Down San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus is (still) refusing to resign; a Trump order to try to dissolve the Department of Education appears on its way; and there's a Todd Haynes retrospective launching in Berkeley.
SF News Supreme Court Rules In Favor of San Francisco In EPA Lawsuit Over Sewer Discharge San Francisco won out and had some strange bedfellows supporting it in a lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court last year about the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate ocean water standards.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SF Chronicle Is Reviving the Top 100 Restaurants List at Last After more than five years in which the San Francisco Chronicle has published a bevy of shorter food lists, the big grandaddy of them all, the Top 100, is making a comeback.
SF News Voters Overwhelmingly Endorse the Removal of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus She was holding on to her job against strong odds, but it looks like San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus will be removed following a special election Tuesday that had a relatively low turnout.
