Bay Area Sports USF Dons Basketball Team Has Huge National TV Game Against Gonzaga Tonight, Being Played at Chase Center The red-hot USF Dons men’s basketball team is playing at the Chase Center tonight in a monster game that will be on national TV (well, ESPN2), but they’re up against Gonzaga, who have beaten them 28 times in a row.
SF News SF Art Institute Will Live On After Finding a Buyer, and It’s That Group Led By Laurene Powell Jobs The San Francisco Art Institute looked done-for last year when it declared bankruptcy and was $10 million in debt, but it will now survive as an art institution, and its Diego Rivera mural is staying right where it is.
SF News City Report Finds Some People Arrested For Drugs In SF Live In Other Cities, But Still Receive SF Welfare A new city report that is conveniently timed before Tuesday’s 'drug screening for welfare recipients' vote finds that some drug users get SF welfare even though they don’t live here, though the report only details 41 people doing this.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Waterfront Chevys In Emeryville Is Closing Permanently on April 16 The rather unique waterfront Chevys Fresh Mex along the Emeryville Marina has announced its permanent closure, so if you’re a Chevys fan, you’ve got just six more weeks to go enjoy its fajitas and Bay views.
SF News Fourth Suspect Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of OPD Officer in December Dispensary Burglary While three suspects had been charged with murder in the December 29 shooting and killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le, a fourth figured he could just plead guilty to robbing the cannabis shop and have that be that. But now that suspect is facing murder charges too.
SF News The Former Yoshi’s in the Fillmore Could Be Reborn as a New Food Hall Sometime This Year The building that housed Yoshi’s SF and the Fillmore Heritage Center has been a vacant reminder of a boondoggle for going on five years, but someone’s finally in negotiations to take on the lease and make it some sort of food hall and event space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Dive Bar Ruby Room Set To Reopen Under New Ownership Friday Night The red-hued Lake Merritt-area Oakland bar Ruby Room closed New Year's Eve, but has reopened in sputters since, and reopens permanently on Friday night under a new local ownership team.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Stunning $9 Million Settlement for Bicyclist Injured on Presidio Heights Slow Street Several people were injured by a dangerously installed speed bump on Clay Street back in August 2022. A few are suing for about $1 million, but one of them just scored a $9 million settlement for his injuries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lee’s Deli Has Closed Its Last Two SF Locations in the Financial District Some will see this as worse than the closure of Macy’s, as the wildly affordable Financial District lunch and breakfast go-to Lee’s Deli has closed its last two remaining locations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Seafood Restaurant Catch To Close Permanently Next Month A new report on police car chases emerges right before SF will vote on police car chases; the luxury pet-care facility Wag Hotels is facing a lawsuit over animal mistreatment; and 22-year-old Castro District seafood restaurant Catch will close next month.
SF Politics A’s Biggest Roadblock to Las Vegas Could Be Set By… Former SF Supervisor Chris Daly? A blast from San Francisco’s political past could help shoot down the Oakland A’s proposed move to Las Vegas, as former SF supervisor Chris Daly is now the political director for a Nevada ballot measure and lawsuit that could be Oakland fans’ ace in the hole to keep the team.
SF News SF’s Former Biggest Landlord Veritas, Now Defaulting to the Tune of $1 Billion, Selling 762 More SF Apartments The local downfall of SF’s one-time biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments continues unabated, as they’re selling off more San Francisco properties, this time 23 buildings with 762 rent-controlled apartments.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Mainstay Sam’s Burgers Gets Front Window Smashed By Rando Who Was Harassing Employees An irate and probably unstable person caused a ruckus at the popular North Beach burger spot Sam’s Burgers, smashing the shop’s front window by throwing a chair through it. Undaunted, Sam’s says it will reopen Tuesday.
SF News Someone’s Selling a Slot at the SF Columbarium on Facebook Marketplace You too can have your remains lie in rest at the famed SF Columbarium, as someone is now selling one of the niches there on Facebook Marketplace for a cool $38,000.
SF Politics Sigh, Republican Group Trying to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom Yet Again The same group that blew $276 million in taxpayer money on the 2021 attempt to recall Gavin Newsom, only to get clobbered by 25 percentage points, has served papers for their attempt to recall Newsom yet again.
SF News Vallejo Sideshow Ends With Man Shot, Pickup Truck Torched, 7-Eleven Looted Sunday night saw a particularly lawless sideshow, even for Vallejo, as a man was shot, a pickup truck was set on fire, and a 7-Eleven was ransacked of its beer and lottery scratchers.
SF News Sonoma Sheriff's Deputies Save Woman Drowning in Russian River, She Assaults Them Anyway A Russian River rescue mission went bizarrely Sunday, as a woman trapped in the river got violent with the very sheriff’s deputies and medical personnel who saved her life.
SF News Neo-Nazis Turn to Crowdfunding Just So They Can Show Up to Make Racist Comments at City Council Meetings A character who showed up to make Nazi salutes at a Walnut Creek City Council meeting last week is actually part of a larger network of racist grifters who are starting to rely on crowdfunding to finance their antics.
SF News SFPD Touts Drug Bust That Seized Eight Pounds of Fentanyl, 32 Pounds of Meth A very heavy drug bust, as SFPD says they arrested four people for having 44 pounds of illegal drugs, and all were East Bay residents who allegedly supplied “street-level dealers who frequent the Tenderloin.”
SF News Scandal-Plagued SFPD Partner Nonprofit SF SAFE Now Accused of Stiffing Local Florist Out of $17k The SFPD-affiliated nonprofit SF SAFE was already awash in allegations of forged checks and millions in funds missing. Add to their troubles that they allegedly ran up a $17,000 bill at a Mission District floral shop that the nonprofit never paid.
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
SF Politics A Guide to Your March 5th SF Ballot Measures, Which London Breed’s Fingerprints Are All Over There are seven San Francisco measures on your March 5 primary ballot. But many seem trojan-horse proxy measures to help Mayor London Breed get reelected this November, in a very difficult reelection environment.
SF News Oakland Taco Truck La Parilla Loca Robbed at Gunpoint A well-established taco stand called La Parilla Loca does business six days a week in the East Oakland area, and was the latest food establishment to suffer an armed robbery this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Has Filed for Its IPO Protesters calling for a ceasefire managed to get into the SF hotel that Biden is staying at; your Golden Gate Bridge toll may be going up again; and the 19-year-old SF-based social media site Reddit has filed for its IPO.
SF News Long-Vacant Mid-Market Condo Building Gets City Hall OK To Switch to Apartments Instead Mohammed Nuru bribery complications left a 12-story, 109-unit residential building empty for nearly three years, but that building known as The Oak just got the OK to convert from condos to apartments under a new owner who does not have any bribery charges.
