SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Raves About Pakistani Restaurant In Basement Mall Food Court Both the former and the current lead restaurant critics at the San Francisco Chronicle agree: There is a hidden gem in the food court at the former Westfield mall, soon to rebrand again to become the San Francisco Centre.
SF Politics Fired-Up State AG Rob Bonta Declares He’ll Roadblock the Trump Administration on Deportation Plans In preparing for Trump’s return to power, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sounds like he’s ready to sue the Trump administration at every turn, vowing “We won’t be flat-footed come January,” particularly on mass deportation attempts.
SF Politics Tuesday's Election Did Not Produce Big Wins For TogetherSF, Despite Spending a Lot of Michael Moritz's Money After spending nearly $3.2 million of his own money in this election, Michael Moritz can't be extremely pleased by the results that he and his TogetherSF Action group were able to achieve.
SF News Two Boys Involved In Bodega Bay Boat Disaster Were Survivors of Rancho Tehama Mass Shooting Two of the six men and boys whose crab fishing boat sank in Bodega Bay on Saturday were survivors of a 2017 mass shooting in Tehama County. Their mother, who also survived the shooting, has also lost her husband.
SF News Testimony Underway for Pittsburg Siblings Accused of Shooting Carmel 19-Year-Old in Love Triangle Dispute The 2021 murder of 19-year-old Leilani Beauchamp now has a brother and sister on trial for the murder, and while they say the shooting was an accident, their alleged gruesome disposal of the body in rural Salinas has them answering some tough questions on the stand.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Seizes Four Pounds of Fentanyl In Bust As part of a bust Tuesday, SFPD made three arrests and seized a pile of suspected fentanyl; the fight over Oakland Airport's new name heads to court today; and Elon Musk got $26 billion richer yesterday thanks to the stock rally.
SF News Depression Day Around the Bay: Momeni Attorneys Move For Mistrial Defense attorneys for Nima Momeni made motions for a mistrial and acquittal today; Gov. Newsom says he'll continue to defend the Constitution against a Trump presidency; and Sam Liccardo has won Anna Eshoo's soon-to-be-former House seat.
SF Politics Yes, the Democrats Can Still Win the House of Representatives, and California Could Seal the Deal We interrupt your doomscrolling with a flicker of hope, which is that the Democrats can still win control of the House of Representatives, but they’ll need California to do it.
SF News SF to Start Enforcing New ‘Daylighting’ Parking Law for Parking Within 20 Feet of a Crosswalk You’ll soon be looking at a $40 citation for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, as new state law is kicking in requiring 20 feet of “daylight” between parked cars and crosswalks, though they won’t be handing out the fines until January 1, 2025.
SF News Scaffolding Fails on Tall Pac Heights Building Amid High Winds A precariously tall scaffolding came loose from the Pacific Heights building it was attached to Wednesday morning and was dangling in the direction of Broadway.
SF Politics California Voters Say Yes to Tougher Crime Sentences, No to Rent Control Most statewide California ballot measure results still cannot be projected, but the two big ones can, as tougher sentencing for crimes was approved, while an expansion of rent control was rejected.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Republicans Celebrate Trump Victory at North Beach Restaurant Known For Hosting Anti-Trans Event A small cabal of proud Republicans in San Francisco gathered Tuesday night at American Bites, a restaurant in North Beach that last year hosted a bizarre and hateful anti-trans dinner event.
SF Politics No Winners Yet in SF Supervisor Races, But Moderates Might Pick Off a Couple Progressive Seats Not one candidate can declare victory yet in the five SF Board of Supervisors races, but two YIMBY candidates have slight leads for Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin’s current seats, while the District 1 race hangs by a thread of just 35 votes.
SF Politics Recalls of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price Appear to Be Passing Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao looks likely to be recalled based on preliminary election results, and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price also looks to be getting recalled, by a wide margin.
SF News Daniel Lurie Poised to Be Next Mayor of San Francisco After Spending Record Sum In Election Daniel Lurie, the billionaire heir to a Levi's jeans fortune who, with the help of his mother's wealth, launched a campaign to become mayor of San Francisco, is well ahead of incumbent London Breed in ranked-choice votes.
SF Politics Early Results Have Car-Free Great Highway Ahead, Prop D Commission Reform Losing While there are still plenty of votes left to count, the Prop K measure to make the Great Highway car-free has a comfortable lead, while the big-money effort to slash SF City Hall commissions is way behind.
SF News Apocalyptic Election Hangover Links: Harris to Give Speech This Afternoon Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak at 1 pm PT; stocks soar on the news of a Trump win; and Kara Swisher suggests Truth Social might merge with X and become a meme stock.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Extremely Nervous Bay Area Braces for Election Results Muni was hamstrung by technical issues much of the day; a man was run over and killed by a pick-up truck at the Emeryville Target; and here’s where to get election results tonight for the the state and local races they won’t be covering on cable TV.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day’s Billie Joe Shares Trump-Bashing Casino Anecdote in Election Eve Instagram Videos The East Bay’s own Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day endorsed Kamala Harris in Instagram videos posted the night before the election, but also shared a tale that makes it clear why he probably won’t be asked back to perform at Trump hotels or casinos.
SF News Lyft Driver Accused of Punching Jewish Rider at SFO Gets Acquitted of Hate Crime Charges A Lyft driver faced federal hate crime charges for punching a Jewish rider at SFO in the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict, but a federal jury just ruled that it was not a hate crime, and the accused is off the hook.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber and Lyft Offering Half-Price Rides to Polling Places; Uber Eats, Others Offering Election Night Discounts Too Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft are both offering 50%-off rides to polling places all day today, so you should take advantage if you're feeling lazy and still haven't voted. And you can score discounts and freebies on GrubHub, Uber Eats, and at Krispy Kreme.
Arts & Entertainment ICYMI: Salesforce Tower Had 'Vote For Tomorrow' Message Monday Night The crown of Salesforce Tower had a special message for everyone on Election Eve — what will it say tonight?
SF News Tenderloin Shooting Victim Seen In Viral Video Identified as Possibly Homeless Man The victim has been identified in a brutal, "point blank" shooting outside a Tenderloin corner store last week, as described by bystanders, of which there appeared to be many.
SFPD Says Their Drone Nabbed Man Suspected of Stealing $2,500 Worth of Walgreens Merchandise A combination of surveillance cameras and a drone resulted in a Walgreens burglary suspect being arrested shortly after allegedly robbing the store, and while he was trying to sell those stolen goods at 24th and Mission, according to SFPD.
SF News SF Couple Moved to France a Year Ago, They're Already Kind of Sick of It As a counterpoint to liberals' frequent refrains about leaving the country if Donald Trump gets reelected, we have a story about one older couple who decamped to France last year and haven't really been loving it.
