SF News Saturday Links: New Bookstore Now Open in Union Square, Thanks to SF’s Vacant to Vibrant Program A 90-year-old man plowed through a Los Gatos coffee shop, DUI suspected; pop star Kesha gave an impromptu performance at a Palo Alto bar but was kicked out by unsuspecting security staff; and SF’s Powell Street now has a new independent bookstore, 'The Best Bookstore.'
Arts & Entertainment Spike Lee Receives Mill Valley Film Fest Award, Suddenly Recalls He Made ‘Sucker Free City’ Esteemed filmmaker Spike Lee received a Tribute Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival this weekend. While on stage with Oakland-based actor Delroy Lindo, who starred in four of Lee’s films, Lee suddenly remembered he directed the 2004 film 'Sucker Free City.'
SF News The Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Complex on Top of New Asia Restaurant Finally Happening, With New State Grant The old-style banquet hall is coming back to Chinatown’s New Asia restaurant that is now a grocery store, along with 175 units of affordable housing on top, thanks to a $33.5 million state grant that Mayor Lurie says just came through.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown’s Sam Wo Restaurant Is Indeed Reopening, Hopes to Return to Late-Night Glory Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown is set to reopen yet again this Friday, under the new ownership of two veteran Bay Area restaurateurs, after the 116-year-old favorite seemingly closed for good in January.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink China Live Loses Lawsuit Over Millions In Unpaid Back Rent, Likely to Declare Bankruptcy The messy and complicated drama between Chinatown restaurant China Live and its landlord seems to be resolved in favor of the landlord, but the restaurant might stay put with a bankruptcy restructure, and could even still win in the end.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Chinatown Night Market Named Best In US A driver who struck a teen pedestrian in Redwood City was having a medical emergency; a Zoox robotaxi and an e-bike had a minor collision in SF; and SF's Chinatown Night Market lands atop a national list.
Arts & Entertainment First-Ever Miss Chinatown Pageant Winner Is About to Celebrate Her 100th Birthday Penny Wong has been Chinatown royalty ever since 1948 when she won the first-ever Miss Chinatown Pageant, and now she’s gearing up to celebrate her 100th birthday.
Arts & Entertainment Effort Underway to Bring a Bruce Lee Statue to SF’s Chinatown A two-year effort to put up a statue to martial arts film star Bruce Lee in Chinatown is really kicking into high gear, and supporters held a press conference today with Willie Brown involved.
SF News News Crew Films Public Urination Offenders in SF Chinatown's Portsmouth Square A recent, rather vulgar news clip on public urination in SF Chinatown's Portsmouth Square doesn't leave much to the imagination, featuring multiple offenders — their faces blurred out — shooting streams of pee in plain view throughout the park. Then, the reporter asks one of them why he did it.
SF News Central Subway Will Be Shut Down Next Month For Water Leak Repairs People who ride the T-Third line through the Central Subway will be relegated to bus service between late February and mid-March, as SFMTA fixes the subway's water leak issues that they once had to address with plastic red beer pong cups.
SF News Woman Injured By Firecracker During Lurie Inauguration Celebration It seems the festivities Wednesday didn't go off entirely smoothly in Chinatown, with news that a woman was injured and possibly multiple people were struck by a string of firecrackers that were lit outside a celebratory banquet.
SF News Lurie Inaugural Bash In Chinatown Draws Thousands Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed Wednesday night, as a night market, street performers, mainstage acts, and a VIP banquet celebrated the inauguration of Daniel Lurie as the city's 46th mayor.
SF Politics Inauguration of Daniel Lurie as SF Mayor on Wednesday to Include Civic Center Ceremony, Chinatown Celebrations A changing of the guard takes place this week at San Francisco City Hall, and the festivities around the mayoral inauguration will be going on all day Wednesday.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidates Scramble for Asian Vote, and Polls Say Mayor Breed Is Winning That Vote for Now London Breed’s sudden new strong standing in mayoral-race polling seems powered by the Asian and Chinese-American vote, as her approval rating has doubled in that demographic over the last six months.
SF Politics SFMTA Wants to Put a Bike Lane in Chinatown, Chinatown Leaders Not at All Happy With the Idea Right after the SFMTA’s embarrassing need for a do-over on the Valencia Street bike lane, the agency is now pushing for a bike lane in Chinatown. But Chinatown community groups don’t want it, and say the idea “just doesn’t make sense.”
SF News More China Live Drama, as Bank Is Now Threatening to Foreclose Property on the Landlord The tables may have turned in the China Live restaurant-landlord dispute, as now it's Wells Fargo suing the landlord who’d previously sued China Live over unpaid rent, and the bank is threatening to foreclose.
SF News Are the Waymo and Tesla Arsonists the Same Person? The SFPD has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the arson of an autonomous Waymo taxi in Chinatown last month, and they say the suspect is linked to other vehicle arson cases.
SF News Long-Stalled Plan to Build Affordable Housing on Top of Chinatown’s New Asia Restaurant Back in the Works A 2017 idea to build a large affordable housing complex on top of New Asia restaurant in Chinatown has just been rebooted, and the plan would convert New Asia back into the banquet hall it used to be.
SF News After Pushback From Chinatown Residents, Breed Cancels Plan For Sober Living Facility at Hotel North Beach Less than two weeks after announcing plans to convert the Hotel North Beach into the city's first sober living facility for formerly homeless people, SF Mayor London Breed has canceled those plans due to community objections.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chinatown Sees Some Fresh Energy It's Lunar New Year, people have been banqueting, spring has been in the air (sort of), and we have some exciting news to share from the world of Bay Area food, including two new spots in SF Chinatown.
SF News Peskin Says SFPD Has ‘Promising Leads’ In Hunt for Who Torched That Waymo In Chinatown Saturday Whoever set that self-driving Waymo car on fire in Chinatown Saturday night may have reason for worry, as the district’s supervisor Aaron Peskin claims that SFPD has “promising leads” on suspects.
SF News Waymo Self-Driving Vehicle Vandalized, Set on Fire in San Francisco Chinatown Saturday Night A group of vandals surrounded and tagged an empty autonomous vehicle in Chinatown, then set of a firework inside the car that set the entire car ablaze.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Gets New Set of ‘Avant Garde’ Lanterns in Time for Lunar New Year The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Giant Dragon Statues Ring In the ‘Year of the Dragon’ In SF Meet all the dragon statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Dragon, as these intricately designed, wooden dragon monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
Arts & Entertainment SF Lunar New Year Parade Nabs Awkwafina as This Year’s Grand Marshal The 2024 Chinese New Year Parade just announced the very good get of Awkwafina as the parade’s Grand Marshal for its Year of the Dragon parade coming up Saturday, February 24, 2024.
