SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SF Chronicle Is Reviving the Top 100 Restaurants List at Last After more than five years in which the San Francisco Chronicle has published a bevy of shorter food lists, the big grandaddy of them all, the Top 100, is making a comeback.
SF News Oakland Mayoral Candidate Loren Taylor Reveals He Had Liver Transplant In December Six weeks before the special election to replace former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, candidate Loren Taylor has disclosed that he had a life-threatening liver condition last year, and had a transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
SF News Voters Overwhelmingly Endorse the Removal of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus She was holding on to her job against strong odds, but it looks like San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus will be removed following a special election Tuesday that had a relatively low turnout.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Major Owner of SF Hotels Says City Has 'Turned' A 27-year-old man was arrested in Rohnert Park for firing a gun at a business; a man accused in an Amtrak stabbing has been deemed competent to stand trial; and a large owner of SF hotels is bullish about the city's turnaround.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands ‘Eager Beaver’ Tickets on Sale Wednesday, First Act May Have Leaked Severe budget cuts are soon to hit SF art museums; Elon Musk’s DOGE axe came down on three Bay Area federal offices; and the early-bird Outside Lands presale tickets go on sale Wednesday morning.
SF News Thirty Probation Officers Accused of Facilitating Gladiator Fights At LA County Juvenile Detention Facility In a sickening case out of Southern California, 30 officers at a juvenile detention facility have been accused of facilitating gladiator-style fights involving over 140 youth in their care.
SF News Yet Another SF DBI Inspector Found Guilty of Corruption, This Time for Self-Dealing A now-fired SF Department of Building Inspection inspector was just found guilty of violating conflict-of-interest laws, by approving permits for properties that it turned out were actually owned by his parents.
SF News Archimedes Banya Gets Social Media Uproar After Banning Trans Women From ‘Women’s Day’ Bathhouse and naked yoga hotspot Archimedes Banya recently announced that trans women would no longer be admitted to their monthly women-only “Women’s Day,” and after a furor, they’re now declaring two separate women’s nights in hopes of appeasing both sides.
SF News Someone Was Hit and Killed on the Tracks at El Cerrito BART Station Tuesday Morning BART had to suspend service between North Berkeley and Richmond for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, and we’re now learning that this was because someone wandered onto the tracks and was struck and killed by an oncoming train.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission-Bernal Pinball Joint Outer Orbit Announces Closing Date, But Crowdfunding to Possibly Survive The Mission Street pinball bar and restaurant Outer Orbit just announced it’s closing after this weekend, but there’s a crowdfunding campaign afoot to make sure it’s not Game Over for the popular burger bar.
SF News Former Head of Oakland Nonprofit Accused Of Embezzling Funds, Including Donation Check From Steph Curry Federal prosecutors say that the former head of East Oakland Boxing Association, a nonprofit that mentors local youth, allegedly embezzled funds, including a $50,000 donation check from Steph and Ayesha Curry.
SF News Fat Tuesday Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Faces Her Fate in Special Election Vote Today Voting is underway today on the measure to remove the San Mateo County Sheriff; SF is towing RVs that refused to leave a Bayview RV dwelling site; and the Bay Area has several Mardi Gras celebrations on tap for Fat Tuesday.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Rally In Front of Compton's Cafeteria Site on Saturday Empowers Trans Community, Honors Victims During a weekend full of protests, the trans community came out in full force to the historic Compton’s Tenderloin Cultural District in a show of resistance and unity against ongoing attacks by the current administration.
SF News Smash-and-Grabbers Loot Store While Pepper-Spraying Staff and Customers, In Orinda of All Places You don’t often see smash-and-grab burglaries in the upscale Contra Costa County enclave of Orinda, but one happened there this weekend, as the perpetrators reportedly attacked staff and customers with pepper spray while stealing $100,000 worth of jewelry.
SF News It’s Curtains for the Bayview RV Triage Center, Closing Today After Blowing Through $15 Million Once dubbed "by far the most expensive homeless response intervention” in SF history, the Bayview RV Triage Center is being shut down today, after a three-year run of pricey logistical snafus and frankly very little usage.
Business & Tech Bing Crosby’s Former Home in Hillsborough on the Market for a Record-Breaking $40 Million Asking Price Purchased for a song at just $175,000 in 1965, the French chateau-style former home of pop crooner Bing Crosby is now on sale again for $40 million, a price that would break the Hillsborough real estate record that currently belongs to Elon Musk’s old house.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Expanding to a New Outpost in Mill Valley, Opening Later This Year The Tartine sourdough will soon be rising at the Strawberry Village shopping center in Mill Valley, as the famed bakery chain is expanding with a new Marin County spot that will apparently offer some exclusive items not available at other locations.
SF News Four People Shot Outside Hayward Restaurant, Shooter Still At Large All four people shot are described as being in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, after a quadruple shooting Saturday night outside a Filipino restaurant in Hayward where the suspected shooter is still on the loose.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In Alley Off Van Ness Avenue, Near Cathedral Hill A man was fatally shot Sunday morning in San Francisco's Western Addition, not far from where a major police raid occurred last week concerning drug activity.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fatal Crashes In Oakland and Millbrae There were fatal crashes Monday morning in East Oakland and Millbrae; Bay Area Ukrainians hold emergency rally in SF; and the special election is on for Tuesday to potentially recall the San Mateo County sheriff.
SF News Oakland's Root’d Aims to Open the First Cannabis Café In the Bay Area Oakland's Root'd is setting its sights on opening a cannabis café — the first of its kind in the Bay Area, where customers can enjoy food and non-alcoholic beverages while legally consuming cannabis, thanks to AB 1775, a new California law that took effect on January 1.
SF News Hit-And-Run Victim Allegedly Strikes Pedestrians While Pursuing Vehicle In a shocking turn of events in Redwood City on Saturday night, a 19-year-old man who was the victim of a hit-and-run ended up allegedly striking multiple pedestrians after attempting to chase after the vehicle.
SF News Scenes From Saturday's Protest at SF's Tesla Showroom Yesterday‘s rally at SF’s Tesla showroom had another large turnout with protesters crowded around the intersection and in the center island on Van Ness. The energy was lively as participants chanted and waved to drivers who honked encouragingly, along with the occasional dog, barking in solidarity.
SF News Sunday Links: US Cyber Command Ordered to Remove Russia From Cyber Threat List Russia has been de-prioritized at the US Cyber Command; the new park along Great Highway is opening up on April 12 — help name it; and some background info on the guy who wears the light-up dinosaur costume in Dolores Park.
