SF News Día De Los Muertos Parade Brings Life to Mission District The Mission District was fully decorated and lively on Saturday evening, as hundreds gathered for a parade to celebrate Día De Los Muertos for the 43rd time. The procession, led by traditional Aztec dancers, also included many attendees adorned in attire with a skeletal theme.
SF News Sunday Links: Election Day Draws Near Election Day is just around the corner; Wealthy donors are greatly influencing East Bay elections; and San Jose is getting a large influx of traffic cameras.
SF News BART Knife Attack Leaves Woman Hospitalized, Briefly Closes 24th St. Station A 54-year-old woman's throat was slashed Saturday morning in an apparently random act of violence aboard an Antioch-bound BART train.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Homicides Currently Down 33% For The Year Oakland's crime is down significantly this year; Pamela Price is the center of another lawsuit; and a beloved sandwich shop is looking for new ownership.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ace Drug-Finding K-9 Officer Apparently A Fraud A star K-9 officer has been accused of fraudulence; Oprah really likes a Bay Area-made towel; and even more tech workers are now being laid off.
Bay Area Sports Zack Minasian Named New GM of the Giants Zack Minasian, the San Francisco Giants' VP of Scouting since 2022, has been named the new general manager of the team.
SF News Man Who Claims Pamela Price Tried To Extort $25,000 Out of Him Produces Small Shreds of Evidence An Oakland businessman with a checkered past and connections to the Sheng Thao raid claimed this month that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. His attorney just produced some documents that kind of, sort of support his claim.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Lazy Bear and Verjus Come Back Alive Verjus returns tonight after a long closure, Jo's Modern Thai has lost its chef, and a new bar and restaurant — with a brewery — is coming in January to the former Sunset Reservoir Brewing Company space, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics Four Seats Up for Grabs to Serve on School Board for the Incredibly Chaotic SFUSD The SF Unified School District is such a mess that most school board candidates declined to run for re-election. These are the people running for the four seats that are up for a vote on Election Day.
Arts & Entertainment Temple of Wings, the Getty Estate In the Berkeley Hills, Sells for $5.85 Million The grand Berkeley Hills estate owned by Ann and Gordon Getty since 1994, dubbed the Temple of Wings, was listed for $5 million in August and just sold for $5.85 million.
SF News Here Is the Affordable Housing Project Slated to Rise on the Site of Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire Nearly eight years after the Ghost Ship fire killed 36 people, we have our first look at the plans for the two-building, five-story affordable housing complex being built to replace it in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and it will have an on-site memorial.
SF News Seven Men Indicted For Organizing Bay Area Sideshows Via Instagram San Jose Police announced the arrest of seven men at a news conference Thursday, under the city's three-year-old law that makes it a crime to promote or organize sideshows.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Postal Truck Caught Pulling a Hit-and-Run in San Ramon Huge turnout is expected to be a wild card in the SF mayoral race; John's Grill will again be hosting its free Election Day luncheon; and surveillance video caught a US Postal truck hitting a car and fleeing the scene in San Ramon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Homicide In SoMa Building There may have been a third homicide in SF this week, inside a building on Seventh Street; testimony today centered on DNA evidence in the Nima Momeni trial; and SF just lost another big conference.
SF News Nearly Three Years After It Opened, Bayview RV Triage Site Finally Gets Decent Electricity The Bayview RV triage site that opened in January 2022 has been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” ever because of PG&E and Urban Alchemy costs. The problem was that PG&E never delivered that electricity, but they finally got it up and running this week.
SF News SF City Attorney Files Lawsuit to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores Raided for Being Gambling Dens Those two Tenderloin convenience stores SFPD raided last month for being underground gambling dens were allegedly also dabbling in guns, ammo, and illegal weed, and City Attorney David Chiu just filed suit to shut them both down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's QBar Reopening Next Week After Five-Year Closure Over in San Francisco's Castro District, a storefront that has sat dark and boarded over for five years, which was once one of the buzzy nightlife magnets of the neighborhood, is making a comeback after a very lengthy remodel.
Business & Tech Russia Fines Google $20 Decillion For Blocking Channels on YouTube A Russian court has ordered Google/Alphabet to pay two undecillion rubles in fines — that's a two followed by 36 zeroes — in an obviously symbolic ruling expressing the government's wrath over YouTube continuing to block pro-Russian channels.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Monday Fatal Stabbing In the Tenderloin The SFPD today announced the arrest of a suspect in a stabbing Monday that turned fatal in the Tenderloin District.
SF Politics Relative Political Newcomers Vying for Hillary Ronen’s District 9 Supervisor Seat, One of Whom Always Wears a Colorful Hat The race for the seat of termed-out District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen brings some fresh faces who haven’t held a City Hall office before, including the longtime producer of Carnaval, a one-time lobbyist for the Citizen app, and an activist who ran surprisingly strongly against Scott Wiener.
SF News FBI Investigating Unprovoked, Violent Assault on Sleeping Man Onboard United Flight Out of SFO A man is under arrest and under investigation by the FBI after an inflight incident on a Dulles-bound flight out of SFO Monday in which the man allegedly pummeled another man who was sleeping for no known reason.
SF News [Updated] Man Shot and Killed In SF's Tenderloin A man was shot Wednesday night outside of a corner store in the Tenderloin, and the aftermath was captured on video by a local social media chronicler of the neighborhood.
SF News Overnight House Fire In Noe Valley, Caused By Wall Heater, Displaces Five A fire broke out around 2:30 am Thursday at a home in Noe Valley, and grew to two alarms before being contained by the San Francisco Fire Department.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 85 Striking Hotel Workers Arrested in Union Square The Chronicle runs the numbers on SF’s best trick-or-treating neighborhoods; a man’s car was apparently hit by a falling cable on the Bay Bridge; and 85 striking hotel workers were arrested Wednesday for intentionally blocking the cable cars.
Business & Tech 21+ Best Movers / Moving Companies in San Francisco (2024) The moving process in San Francisco can make for an adventure sometimes welcomed and often challenging, reflecting the singularity of the city itself. With its famous hills, and narrow, winding streets, and its
