SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Debuts Its First East Bay Location, In Walnut Creek Stalwart San Francisco Italian-American restaurant Original Joe's has just opened a huge new location in Walnut Creek, and the ribbon-cutting was Thursday morning.
SF News Santa Rosa Police Officers Shoot and Kill Domestic Violence Suspect After Hours-Long Standoff A seven-hour standoff in Santa Rosa ended when police shot and killed an allegedly armed suspect around 5 am Thursday morning, in what is believed to have been a domestic violence incident started by an angry ex-lover.
SF News Judge Denies San Mateo County Sheriff's Attempt to Toss Voter-Approved Effort to Remove Her A federal court has denied an attempt by San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to block a voter-approved initiative allowing the county board of supervisors to remove her from office, claiming it violated her federal rights.
SF Politics Trump Administration on Spree of Firing Immigration Judges, Even While They’re Trying to Hire More More than 50 immigration judges, including a number in the Bay Area, have been fired nationwide since Trump took office in January, even while the government is simultaneously hiring more immigration judges, just probably Trumpier ones.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.0M Earthquake Rumbles Near The Geysers There was a rare 4.0M earthquake up near The Geysers; seven people were detained by ICE at an Oakland home Tuesday; and yet another La Niña winter looks to be on the way.
SF Politics Federal Court Hearing Concludes Regarding Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops in LA A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County May Ban Whip-Its Two Tesla drivers involved in a shooting in Newark on Tuesday were in some road-rage fight; San Mateo County supervisors are looking to ban nitrous oxide; and Taylor Swift just made a big announcement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque As was promised, the former KIS Cafe in Hayes Valley has been reborn a couple weeks on, with a fresh off-white paintjob out front, as Bosque.
SF News Man Dies by Drowning While Attending Reggae on the River Festival in Mendocino County A 66-year-old man was found dead on the bottom of the South Fork Eel River right next to the annual Reggae on the River festival in Mendocino County, and authorities say the man was attending the festival and died by drowning.
SF News BART Will Finally Let You Tap to Enter With a Credit Card or Debit Card, Starting Wednesday It took two years to become a reality, but you can finally ditch the superfluous Clipper Card and tap your credit or debit card directly to ride BART, starting this coming Wednesday, August 20.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Say Private School on Their Property Is a Home-School, Not Illegal Sometimes it's tough being a billionaire when the public is training a watchful eye on you, particularly when that public notices you're doing something that may not be fully above-board in your quiet suburban neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absinthe Group Opening New Italian Restaurant in Former Bellota Space The sizable restaurant space in the base of the Airbnb building in SoMa that was, pre- and post-pandemic home to Spanish restaurant Bellota, will be coming to life again.
SF News Ella Hill Hutch Community Center Facing Closure, as City Cuts Off Funding After Nonprofit Spending Scandal The more than 30-year-old Ella Hill Hutch Community Center in the Western Addition may close permanently, as City Attorney David Chiu is vowing to cut off its parent nonprofit from receiving any more city grants after an alleged bribery scandal.
SF News First Juvenile Involved In San Jose Valentine's Day Assault That Led to Murder Gets Two Years The first of five alleged teen gang members who were accused of attacking and killing a 15-year-old boy at San Jose's Santana Row shopping center in February has been sentenced.
SF News Contra Costa County Residents Give Sheriff an Earful Over Fears That He’s Cooperating With ICE Contra Costa County is not a "sanctuary county,” but plenty of residents want to make it one, and they railed against Sheriff David Livingston for honoring ICE requests on dozens of detained immigrants since Trump took office.
SF News Humpday Headlines: OpenAI Lawsuit Against Musk Moves Forward A judge has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed from OpenAI against Elon Musk; Air Canada says it will lock out striking flight attendants; and this Trump crime crackdown in DC already looks idiotic and dangerous.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 78-Year-Old Pedestrian Hit and Killed by Driver in SoMa A wrong-way and alleged DUI crash took one life near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; legendary SF sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster is suspending operations; and a two-block radius in SoMa is seeing a lot of pedestrian fatalities.
SF News SFUSD Payroll Snafus Still Abound, Despite $20 Million New Payroll System The new school year is looking at a terrible start for SF teachers and school employees who might actually hope to get paid on time, as the district’s new $20 million payroll system is botching and missing paychecks right out of the gate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef at Hayes Valley Restaurants Targeted by Social Media Mob Says Influencer Warned of 'Consequences' Luke Sung, a longtime chef and restaurateur in San Francisco, became the target of an angry mob on TikTok who led a review-bombing of one of his new ventures in Hayes Valley after he insulted one micro-influencer. He's now speaking out.
Business & Tech Video: SF Man Climbs on Top of Waymo, Beats It With His Belt, Eventually Smashes Windshield A South of Market pedestrian made his feelings known about a self-driving Waymo this week, climbing onto the vehicle’s hood, beating the automobile with his belt, and eventually smashing its windshield (because he was standing on it).
Arts & Entertainment Could Halloween In the Castro Come Back... as a Night Market? Things remain in the planning stages, but there is an effort afoot to move the monthly Castro Night Market to Halloween this October, which would allow the already sanctioned market to expand a bit and become the neighborhood's first official outdoor Halloween celebration in nearly 20 years.
SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Killed In Shooting In SF's Hunters Point A woman was fatally shot and a man was shot and injured in a double shooting Monday night in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood.
SF News BART To San Jose Project Seems to Be Settling on Single-Tunnel, or ‘Single-Bore’ Design The latest update on the BART to San Jose project of course comes with more cost overruns and time delays, but transit officials say a single-tunnel design would involve fewer cost overruns and time delays than a double-tunnel design.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping-Pod Commune May Be Getting Evicted, But Guy Behind It Is Planning Something Bigger It was one of the first signs we had of San Francisco's rental market picking up steam post-pandemic, and after running afoul of the city's planning department and building inspectors, a sleeping-pod residence on Mint Plaza is facing eviction.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries ‘Egg’ Hatches, Out Comes Their New Muppet-Like Mascot Violet Mahna Mahna! Your WNBA Golden State Valkyries busted out their new mascot Violet at Monday night’s game, and this very Muppet-resembling mascot is capable of doing the splits and back handsprings.
