SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Next Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Could Be Coming to Cole Valley Three blocks of Cole Valley are poised to be the next “entertainment zone” where bars can sell to-go cocktails during certain outdoor events and gatherings, adding to the two existing entertainment zones on Front Street and outside the Chase Center.
SF News ‘Magic Mushroom Church’ Is Closing Down Its SoMa Location, Claiming Harassment From SF City Hall The Church of Ambrosia’s Zide Door in SF has been providing magic mushrooms and other legally questionable delights for over a year now at Howard and Seventh streets, but says they’re shutting down the SF location because of “harassment” from the SF Planning Department.
SF News United Airlines Flight Snafu Diverts SFO-Bound Flight From New Zealand to Hawaii United Airlines just resumed the only non-stop route between the US and Christchurch, New Zealand, and it runs to SFO, but a Tuesday flight from Christchurch to SFO was diverted to Hawaii because it needed a crew change.
SF Politics SF City Hall Cancels Contracts With Nonprofit That Had Improper Spending Scandal After the director of a city commission was found to be directing taxpayer-funded contracts to a man she lived with, City Hall officials have found what appears to be more self-dealing, and canceled their contracts with a controversial nonprofit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cruise Robotaxis Are No More, as GM Abandons Robotaxi Business Another day has passed with no Nima Momeni verdict; some hateful graffiti hit a Jewish student center; and GM is giving up the ghost on Cruise robotaxis and abandoning that line of business.
SF Politics Is This Why the FBI Raided Sheng Thao’s Home? Filings Allege High-Rollers Traded Campaign Donations for City Contracts A new set of filings allege that a recycling company and a security firm funneled nearly $300,000 to a Sheng Thao political operative in exchange for lucrative city contracts, and now that political operative may have flipped and could be cooperating with the feds.
SF News SF on Track to See the Lowest Number of Homicides In 64 Years as 2024 Comes to a Close It looks like 2024 will be the year with the fewest murders in San Francisco since all the way back in 1960, as the city is three weeks away from likely recording its lowest homicide rate in 64 years.
SF Politics Oakland City Council Weighing Drastic Cuts as $130 Million Deficit Looms Layoffs, pay cuts, and reductions to the police and fire departments are all on the table in Oakland, as the City Council looks for ways to slash the city's budget as they confront a deficit of nearly $130 million.
SF Politics Santa Clara Vice Mayor Resigns After Being Found Guilty of Perjury In 49ers Scandal A sitting Santa Clara City Council member and Vice Mayor of the city, Anthony Becker, was just found guilty of lying under oath about an illicit favor to the San Francisco 49ers ownership. He’s now stepped down, and he’s got prison time to worry about.
SF News 17-Year-Old Arrested After Crashing Truck Into Discovery Bay Security Booth, Killing Guard A 62-year-old security guard is dead, and his colleague seriously injured, after a teen crashed his truck into the security booth of a gated community late Friday night, and the teen driver is facing vehicular manslaughter charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Mediterranee Staying Put on Fillmore After All, With Lease Extension After Bout of Uncertainty The fate of 45-year-old Middle Eastern restaurant La Mediterranee was up in the air after a new controversial landlord on a buying spree bought its Upper Fillmore building, but the restaurant and owner jointly announced a four-year lease extension for the legacy business.
SF News Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After Fall From LUMA Hotel in Mission Bay A woman fell or leapt from the 17-story LUMA Hotel in Mission Rock Saturday afternoon in what police currently believe was a suicide attempt, though she instead appears to have crashed into an awning and suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News German Shepherd Gives Birth to Seven Puppies on SF Whale Watching Boat An SF whale watching boat tour took an unexpected direction Sunday morning, as the boat’s resident German shepherd suddenly went into labor and produced seven little puppies as the boat was setting sail.
SF News Shootout at Antioch Bowling Alley Leaves Two People Dead A Saturday night shootout at the Delta Bowl in Antioch has left two people dead, and they apparently both shot each other in some sort of dispute in the bowling alley’s parking lot.
SF News It’Sugar Abruptly Closes Union Square Store, But New Tenant Supposedly Lined Up Candy emporium It’Sugar has just closed down its Stockton and Market street store, which had previously been a Virgin Megastore and a Forever 21, but the realtor insists there’s already a new tenant moving in.
Business & Tech SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
SF News The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center Will Close Up for Good In March The Bayview RV triage site that’s been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” in SF history has been deemed a failure and will wind down operations in a few months, after blowing through $15 million and only accommodating about one-fifth of the people it was supposed to.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was DA Pamela Price’s Last Day on the Job Santa Clara’s vice mayor has been found guilty of perjury in a 49ers scandal; SF’s broken emergency sirens were useless when for once they were actually needed during the tsunami warning; and Pamela Price is officially no longer the Alameda County District Attorney.
SF News Police Find Dead Body Wrapped in Plastic Bag in West Oakland A gruesome discovery in West Oakland Thursday morning, as police discovered a dead body that was reportedly wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag, in a case that seems like it’s being investigated as a homicide.
Arts & Entertainment The Snow Will Go On: ‘Nutcracker’ Saved as SF Ballet Dancers’ Union Reaches Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike The San Francisco Ballet’s 'The Nutcracker' will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.
Arts & Entertainment Livermore House to Do Battle on ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ Thursday Night Livermore will get lit in the national TV spotlight tonight, as ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” has a home from the Alameda County locale whose display features more than 900,000 lights.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisors Eliminate $10 Million Per Year In Licensing Fees for Bars and Restaurants SF food and drink establishments will no longer have to pay licensing fees for outdoor seating and a host of other add-ons under newly passed legislation, though the breaks don’t kick in until 2026.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Leaving an $876 Million Deficit on Her Way Out the Door, and It Could Top $1 Billion Mayor London Breed’s final fiscal update of her tenure in office shows a budget deficit that’s nearly $100 million higher than it was projected to be just four months ago, and the Trump administration seems likely to yank some already-promised federal funding.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces This Year’s ‘Week After Outside Lands’ Concert, With Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
SF News British Indie Band Arrives for US Tour, Promptly Gets Van Robbed at Gunpoint In Vallejo UK alt-rock stars Sports Team arrived in NorCal Monday night to begin their US tour. Their van was robbed at gunpoint first thing Tuesday morning in Vallejo, but they’re still performing Saturday night at The Chapel.
