SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Scallion Fry Bread and Hot Honey Chicken at Arquet The bustling new restaurant Arquet has opened its doors in the former Slanted Door space at the Ferry Building. And Chef Alex Hong has gone from cooking subtle and delicate prix-fixe plates to bold and inspired, craveable modern dishes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Castro Bar Rikki's to Host Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest It won't be the first lesbian pie-eating contest in all the land, but it will be the first that we know of in San Francisco, when Rikki's hosts the event this weekend.
SF Politics Connie Chan Officially In, London Breed Out In Race For Pelosi's House Seat The race to fill Nancy Pelosi's big shoes in Congress just gained an official candidate and lost another who hinted at a run two weeks ago.
SF News Infant Hospitalized In SF After Apparent Fentanyl Overdose An infant was taken to the hospital in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon following an accidental fentanyl overdose, and two adults linked to the overdose were arrested.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Small Earthquake Rattles San Ramon A 3.2M quake rumbled under San Ramon Thursday morning, part of a 10-day swarm; I-80 in Solano County is getting an express toll lane; and the rain that passed through this morning should be the last for a bit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Bay Area Residents Slip Into Poverty The SFUSD has made interim Superintendent Maria Su permanent; a possible kidnapping at UC Berkeley was deemed a hoax; and a new report finds the percentage of Bay Area residents living in poverty on the rise.
SF News Two Men Killed By Trains In Separate Oakland Incidents In Less Than 24 Hours In a tragic coincidence, two men were killed in train collisions in unrelated incidents Tuesday and Wednesday, and one was a homeless man in East Oakland.
SF News Yet Another Safeway Site, In Mission/Bernal, Slated For Possible Redevelopment With Housing SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores.
SF News 19-Year-Old UC Berkeley Student Dies After Frat Party Drowning Incident A 19-year-old Cal student who was found unresponsive after a near-drowning Friday night at a fraternity house has died from his injuries, but police are saying they do not suspect foul play.
SF Politics Marc Benioff, Elon Musk Attend White House Dinner With Murderous Saudi Crown Prince The billionaires were all back in their billionaire bubble alongside Trump Tuesday night, and even Elon Musk has been welcomed back into the fold after his teenage-style tiff with Trump.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Alleged Shooter Took a Class With John Beam Suspect Cedric Irving Jr. was enrolled in a class taught by John Beam in 2022; an SF-based judge could restore temporary protected status to immigrants from three countries; and Sutter is planning a huge new hospital campus in Santa Clara.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Program for New Affordable Artist Housing on Mid-Market, Courtesy of Anonymous Donor The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city.
Business & Tech Meta Wins Antitrust Battle, Does Not Have to Spin Off Instagram or WhatsApp A yearslong fight between the FTC and Meta has ended with Meta prevailing, and a federal judge declaring that the company likely does not hold a monopoly in the social media sphere anymore.
Business & Tech Amazon-Owned Autonomous Taxi Company Zoox Begins Offering Public Rides Zoox, whose funny-looking, steering-wheel-free, four-seater robocars have been roving about San Francisco for a while now, is now launching its first program to give rides to the general public.
SF News Two Injured In High-Speed Crash on Lombard Street In the Marina A three-car crash at Broderick and Lombard streets Tuesday morning left a pickup truck partially lodged in the side of the La Luna motel and two people hospitalized.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Navy Apologizes For Delay In Shipyard Radiation Disclosure The House is voting to release the Epstein files; the Navy apologized at a community meeting about "mishandling" the situation in Hunters Point; and Waymo does appear to be assisting with the Saturday night shooting investigation in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Historic Earthquake Refugee Cottage Destroyed In Noe Valley The SF coroner succeeded in ID-ing an unidentified man found dead in SoMa; a developer has illegally destroyed a historic earthquake shack in Noe Valley, neighbors say; and the Trump administration is suing CA over the no-mask rule for ICE.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New British Gastropub, Dingles Public House, Opens Next Week In Hayes Valley At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.
SF News East Bay Pilot Who Nearly Brought Down Alaska Flight Sentenced to Time Served In Federal Case Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who had a bad and extra-long trip thanks to some magic mushrooms and consequently did something very dangerous while on the jumpseat inside a cockpit, has successfully avoided further jail time.
SF News What We Know About the Fatal Mission District Shooting Early Sunday A shooting on 16th Street in SF's Mission District Saturday night/early Sunday left one person dead and another critically wounded, and the crime may have been caught on camera by a passing Waymo.
SF News [Updated] Traffic Backs Up Into SF Following Two Crashes, One on Bay Bridge Approach A pair of freeway crashes Monday morning in SF, both on roadways headed in the direction of the Bay Bridge, led to injuries, a significant fuel spill, and a traffic nightmare for those trying to drive to the East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: FAA Lifts Flight Restrictions The FAA lifted its emergency restrictions on flight traffic; SF condo owners in older buildings are freaking out about a change to the fire code; and Morgan Freeman sues over AI replicas of his voice.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Quik Dog Jack's is making a comeback as a semi-private event space, Quik Dog debuts at Mission Rock, and Goose & Gander calls it quits, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment K-Pop Dancers, Giant Lububus Promised at Excelsior K-Pop Night Market There is a night market happening tonight, November 14, in SF's Excelsior District, and the theme is K-pop. Brace yourselves for a crowd!
Business & Tech Anthropic Says Its AI Chatbot Was Used By Chinese Hackers for Large-Scale Cyber Attack In what sounds like both a word of warning and weirdly a little bit of bragging, SF-based Anthropic says that its AI chatbot Claude was used by state-sponsored hackers in China to commit a large-scale cyberattack on American companies.
