A new restaurant serving bistro and comfort-food classics, done up with a Californian attention to freshness and seasonality, along with a side of live DJs takes over the former Universal Cafe space as of this week.
Despite being an SF legacy business, 60-year-old SF wine and spirits store The Jug Shop appears to have served its last drop, as its owner confirms the shop has been evicted from their Polk Gulch location.
A report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst shows that City Hall departments are billing each other to the tune of nearly $80 million a year, and then not paying, allowing for confusion or even chicanery on the following year’s budget.
As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
If the Meta brand weren't so tarnished, one could see its standalone AI app doing fairly well. But will anyone actually care or use this thing?
A series of recent press exposés showed California’s for-profit mental health hospitals have way lower staffing than their nonprofit counterparts, so now Governor Newsom is pushing an emergency order forcing the for-profits to beef up their staffs.
Far fewer tourists from other countries are visiting California since Donald Trump took office again, and visits from Canada and Mexico are down particularly sharply, amidst immigration anxiety and tariff resentment.
It looked like the end of an era for Ken Fulk's loft-like office and event space on Seventh Street in SoMa when he put it on the market three years ago. But it has not sold, and Fulk now says he's going to get back to throwing parties there.
South San Francisco police shot and killed a man Monday evening in what's been described as a shootout.
Oakland teachers are planning a one-day strike over labor conditions on May 1; a small earthquake rocked Sonoma this morning; and George Kittle is now the highest-paid tight end in the NFL.
Two suspects from Vallejo have been arrested in connection with an April 13 murder in Vacaville; details have emerged about a South Lake Tahoe party where four died; and a foolish Cybertruck owner tried to take "Wade Mode" too far.
Golden Gate Park's east-west road formerly known as JFK Drive, now known as JFK Promenade, celebrated its five-year anniversary as a car-free thoroughfare with a Sunday party.
We’re looking at a June reopening date for Mission Street’s beloved kitschy nightclub Beauty Bar, which will be under new ownership, and it’s getting its popular mural redone by the same artist who originally painted it ten years ago.
A local nonprofit that has had its hands in many prominent projects around San Francisco, and that was linked to the Mohammed Nuru corruption scandal, appears to be under a significant financial burden after some of its funding disappeared.
The Causwells team is pivoting their second space, which opened last year as the low-ABV cocktail and snack bar Lilah, and opening a new Jewish deli-inspired concept with high-ABV drinks.
A San Francisco police officer was called out by the Department of Police Accountability for a June 2024 incident in which he reportedly failed to disclose that he saw his son assault a man, and he failed to activate his body-worn camera in time to document the incident.
The final play of Sunday’s 3-2 Giants win was a blooper reel for the ages, as the Texas Rangers committed multiple comical errors allowing Heliot Ramos an in-the-park home run, making for the most hilarious baseball play of the season so far.
Our maybe possibly next governor Kamala Harris will be in town giving a speech this week, and it will mark her first significant remarks since being defeated in the November election by Donald Trump.
People were projecting “Lower the rent! It’s too damn high” onto the State Capitol building Sunday night, and renters are rallying there again today, in support of a statewide rent control bill that would cut maximum rent increases from 10% to just 5%.
San Francisco Symphony Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas took his final series of bows Saturday at Davies Symphony Hall at an event intended to celebrate his life and career.
A Petaluma man was arrested for allegedly chasing down a door-to-door salesperson with a gun; a large fire damaged a warehouse in downtown Oakland; and the DEA raided an underground nightclub in Colorado, apparently looking to find undocumented migrants.
This week, 4/28-5/4: Singer/songwriter series at Golden Gate Bandshell, McSweeney's Block Party at Lower Polk Art Walk, sunset screening of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a drag spectacle by Black, queer, trans, and disabled performers, and a May the 4th BART ride.
This week’s notable humans include Thomas Bennett, who made Miyako Ice Cream a Fillmore gem; Jilchristina Vest, curator of the iconic mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party; and Denise Ebright, a dedicated teacher and coach recognized on Good Morning America.
‘Celebrity Jeopardy’ winner W. Kamau Bell donated his $1 million winnings to DonorsChoose, funding over 200 projects at schools in Oakland and Mobile, Alabama.
A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
