SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Possibly at Risk Due to Ongoing Legal Battle Between Former Partners In Park Tavern The demise of Park Tavern, which was one of the bigger restaurant-closure stories of recent months, looks like it could potentially take other dominoes with it, as owner Anna Weinberg faces a major financial judgment against her from a former business partner.
SF News Senior Dog Rescue Muttville Facing ‘Crisis’ of Abandoned Dogs, Aims to Get 100 of Them Adopted Over Holidays The folks at Muttville are seeing unprecedented rates of senior dogs being euthanized at other shelters, and they’re responding with a huge push to take in and find homes for 100 of those adorable mutts.
SF News Ahead of Arraignment, Prosecutors Say Young Tech Worker Was Fatally Stabbed By Boyfriend Following his arrest last week, 29-year-old Scott Fisher has now been formally charged with the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong, and Fisher's arraignment was set for Monday afternoon.
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In NoPa Leads to Multiple Injuries, Several Buildings Impacted Around one hundred San Francisco firefighters were on the scene of a residential fire in the Western Addition/NoPa neighborhood Monday morning, and one person was hospitalized with injuries after jumping from the burning building.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Reward Offered to Help Solve August Shooting In Visitacion Valley SFPD is offering a $25K reward for information on the August 3 killing of Relando Bell; BART ridership hit another high on Saturday; and the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that upholds a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors.
SF News Wild Bay Bridge High-Speed Chase Ends With Driver's Arrest After Three-County Pursuit A driver led California Highway Patrol on a 45-minute-long late-night chase Saturday, apparently speeding up to 120 mph while crossing the Bay Bridge.
SF News Sunday Links: Structure Fire on Judah Street in Inner Sunset Damages Two Homes, Delays Some Muni Lines No injuries were reported from a 1-alarm fire on the 600 block of Judah St. in San Francisco early Sunday morning; SantaCon brought love, light, and day drinking to the city Saturday; and a pro-Palestine protest shut down a Disney Land entrance for a few hours Saturday.
SF News Armed Ex-Cop Taken Into Custody After Days-Long Standoff in Pleasant Hill A long standoff with a retired Pittsburgh Police detective who allegedly shot his wife Thursday and at a police car early Saturday morning ended when he was taken into custody.
SF News Sex Worker Suspected of Homicide at Crissy Field Claims Self-Defense in Fatal Encounter More details have emerged in the case of the 20-year-old sex worker charged with the murder of a client whose body was found in a Crissy Field parking lot — she alleges that she shot him in self-defense after he discovered she was transgender and wanted a refund.
SF News Saturday Links: Suspect on the Loose After Double Stabbing in Berkeley Police are searching for a 23-year-old man suspected of a double stabbing Friday night in the Berkeley Hills; California is seeing spikes of COVID, the flu, and RSV; and 3 students brought guns to 2 SF schools.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Retailers Closing Self-Checkouts to Prevent Shoplifting Safeways and Targets around the city have disabled their self-checkouts; Swifties are mad at Elon Musk; and the ex-SF Fire commissioner allegedly attacked by a homeless man didn't show up in court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: The Rabbit Hole Set to Open In the Mission/La Lengua The opening activity is slowing down as we near the depths of the holiday season, but there are still a few notable news items this week in the world of Bay Area food, including a new Asian spot coming to La Lengua.
SF News Take That, Florida! SF Swipes Major Conference From Sunshine State Over Florida’s Anti-Diversity Agenda The National Black Nurses Association has just yanked their annual conference out of Florida and moved it to San Francisco, calling Florida a “a hostile dangerous environment” for Black medical professionals.
Bay Area Sports Alameda County Puts the Screws to the A’s, Demands $45 Million In Unpaid Coliseum Bills Some hardball tactics from Alameda County as the A’s try to bolt for Las Vegas, with the county pointing out a fine-print clause in their contract that says the team is on the hook for $45 million if they ever decide to leave town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Intimate SF Restaurant Is Taking Diners on a Nightly Journey Back In Time... and Forward In Time, and Sideways You've likely never had a dining experience that, over a couple of hours, attempts to take you time-traveling backward and forward through important moments in global food culture, and into a future of dining we can only begin to imagine.
Arts & Entertainment 16 Shows You Should Try to See In San Francisco Over the Holidays From holiday favorites like the Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol to stand-up comedy from Trevor Noah and Ali Wong to drag shows and more, here are the best ways to spend your December in the city.
SF News SFPD Arrests Parolee For Shoving Elderly Woman on Muni Bus, Knocking Her Unconscious A 46-year-old SF man who was already on parole has been arrested for a September attack on an elderly woman boarding a Muni bus, wherein he knocked the 76-year-old woman unconscious.
SF News Mission Street Vendors to Protest Temporary Ban With Friday March A band of legitimate Mission District street vendors say they're being unfairly penalized for the illegal activity of others, and they were planning a protest march Friday at City Hall.
SF News Fisticuffs Break Out Outside SF Federal Courtroom as Gang Member Sentenced to 33 Years for Killings In a case where the sentenced killer had been well-connected with City Hall officials, a brawl broke out between the victim’s family and the defendant’s friends after Norteño gang member Fernando Madrigal was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Domestic Shooting Leads to Standoff In Pleasant Hill A seven-hour standoff ended this morning with a man inside a home who had allegedly shot his wife; Hunter Biden faces new tax charges; and Dungeness crab season is being delayed another two weeks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bayview Homicide Suspect Arrested After Four Months at Large A suspect in an August homicide in the Bayview was spotted and arrested in the Fillmore; one man was taken into US Marshals' custody in the Mission today; and Palisades Tahoe just got 15 inches of new snow overnight.
SF News Former Alaska Airlines Pilot Accused of Trying to Bring Down Plane Freed From Jail Pending Trial As was expected following a reduction in the charges against him earlier this week, former Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson has been released from custody pending both state and federal trials in Oregon.
SF News State of California Now Running a Record $68 Billion Deficit Those extended tax deadlines are having a big unintended consequence for the state of California’s budget, as miscalculations over how much tax revenue was coming have led to a much larger deficit than than the state thought it was running, now an all-time high of $68 billion.
SF News 29-Year-Old Boyfriend Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Kimberly Wong The 29-year-old boyfriend of 27-year-old tech product designer Kimberly Wong, who investigators believe was killed last week in a domestic violence incident, is now in custody for the murder.
