SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rosamunde Sausage Grill Shutting Down Its Final Location In the Mission Next Month You've got one month left to go have some hearty Oktoberfest fun at Rosamunde Sausage Grill in the Mission. The restaurant announced today that it is closing for good in late November.
SF News Another Valencia Bike Lane Accident, as Illegal U-Turn Injures Scooter Rider Valencia Street’s new center bike lanes are likely to remain the center of controversy after yet another accident, this time a driver making a U-turn and colliding with someone riding a scooter in that center lane.
SF News Broadest Red Flag Warning In Two Years Issued For Bay Area Ahead of Diablo Wind Forecast It's been an extremely — thankfully! — quiet fire season for our local area, but some serious fire danger is headed our way this weekend with a weather system that promises dry, offshore winds that often present wildfire hazards.
Business & Tech Downtown Tech Office Shuts Down Its Free Cocktail Bar For Employees, CEO Says 'The Office Is Dead' An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with a whimper in downtown SF. Tech company Expensify is shutting down its bar, which it opened earlier this year, after six months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, Dungeness Crab Season Has Been Delayed For the Fifth Year In a Row Lest we had any hope that new-fangled crab pots or some innovation might help the industry start the season earlier this year, state wildlife officials announced Friday that our local Dungeness crab season will be delayed, yet again.
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Returns In the Castro Saturday With Screenings, Drag Performances, But No Street Closure Halloween is back in the Castro for the first time in 17 years, with storefront activations, movie screenings, drag shows, and a block party that will last all day and night Saturday — with a party for the kids happening on Sunday.
SF News United Airlines Flight Attendants Allege Racism on L.A. Dodgers Charter Flights Two veteran flight attendants, both women of color, are suing United Airlines, saying they were demoted off of working L.A. Dodgers team charter flights because the airline prefers “white, young, thin women” for that assignment.
SF News Cruise Suspends All Driverless Operations In Multiple Cities Following CA DMV Suspension GM-owned Cruise is hitting the pause button on all of its driverless taxi operations in order to "rebuild public trust," the company says, a move that comes two days after the California DMV ordered the company to cease operating its vehicles in San Francisco without a driver present.
SF News Woman Shot in Oakland Just for Honking at Driver Who Cut Her Off A 35-year-old woman is in stable condition after being shot multiple times, merely for honking at a driver who cut her off. But a 10-year-old girl who was in the car with her is thankfully unharmed.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Diablo Winds Coming This Weekend An 'inside slider' weather system is set to bring Diablo winds to the North and East bays; SFPD are on the hunt for a suspect in yesterday's Western Addition shooting; and Larry Elder is ending his longshot presidential bid.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Dead and One Injured In Western Addition Shooting A double shooting in SF's Western Addition Thursday left one person dead; an East Bay man has been acquitted after giving a false confession to murder; and the on-the-market 115 Sansome building has drawn an unexpectedly large slew of offers to buy it.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Pleads Not Guilty; Wife Says 'That Is Not the Man I Married' Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was arraigned in a Portland court on Thursday, and while he's essentially admitted to trying to interfere with a plane's engine amid an apparent mental breakdown, he has pleaded not guilty to 167 charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment.
SF News Man Stabbed and Killed Early Thursday Morning at Market and Octavia Streets A Thursday morning confrontation between two men resulted in the stabbing and death of one of them, an unnamed 39-year-old male victim.
Arts & Entertainment That SF Library-Amoeba Music Free Streaming Music Platform for Bay Area Artists Launches Saturday The SF Public Library’s new streaming music platform for Bay Area bands and musicians launches Saturday, and they’re celebrating with a Saturday afternoon live music bash on the Fulton Street steps of the library’s Main Branch.
Business & Tech Two of SF's Largest Hotels Head Toward Receivership, Will Have a Year to Find Buyer Two enormous hotels in downtown SF, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Parc 55, will likely be bought up by a new owner or owners within a year, and they are now set to go into receivership shortly.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Owner Now In Trouble With City of Oakland, Which Has Ordered $100K In Restitution to Former Employees The saga of Hi Felicia, the ambitious, short-lived Oakland restaurant borne out of a pandemic pop-up, owned by one-named 26-year-old restaurateur Imana, continues this week with a report that the defunct business is now on the hook for $105,000 in back pay to former employees.
SF News We Have a Winner! Behold SF’s New ‘I Voted’ Sticker After a two-month contest and a week-long voting blitz, SF voters have elected their new “I Voted” sticker, which features parrots, a sea lion, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and of course Karl the Fog.
SF Politics Sen. Alex Padilla Has COVID, Delaying Judiciary Committee Vote on Alameda County Judge The elevation of an Alameda County Superior Court judge to the federal bench is being delayed by the fact that California Senator Alex Padilla was absent Thursday, depriving Democrats of their one-vote majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
SF News Amateur Dungeness Crab Poachers Taking Uber to Half Moon Bay Beach Pose Threat to Crab Population Hundreds of crab bandits have been illegally swarming a Half Moon Bay beach to poach Dungeness crab out of season. They not only risk a nearly $500 fine, they’re also screwing up the hatching season and threatening the crab population.
SF News House Sadness: Condemned Home That Was a Meth Lab Listed for $1.55M A condemned house that had been home to a confirmed meth- and bomb-making lab in San Jose has just hit the market for $1.55 million.
SF News Two East Bay Men Get Three Years In Prison for String of SF Snatch-and-Grab Sunglass Thefts A brazen snatch-and-grab sunglasses theft operation that hit several stores in SF and the East Bay has brought three-year prison sentences for two Contra Costa County men in their early 20s.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Killed In Hit-and-Run On Oakland's International Blvd. A man in his 40s was killed by a hit-and-run collision involving a stolen SUV in Oakland; a woman was shot multiple times near the Coliseum BART station; and there was a mass shooting last night in Maine.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Aggressive Santa Cruz Sea Otter Gives Birth to Pup A shooting at a San Leandro barbershop left one man dead; downtown SF businesses are expressing concerns about the APEC security zone that's being set up; and that aggressive sea otter in Santa Cruz might have been acting oddly toward surfers because she was pregnant, and she now has a pup.
SF News SF City Hall Vows Crackdown on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Vendors for APEC “I would like to seize as many hot dog carts as possible,” vows one city official in emails obtained by Bloomberg, as a crackdown on hot dog vendors is curiously one of the items on SF’s APEC preparations to-do list.
SF News U-Haul Truck Full of Shadow Puppets Found Abandoned In Richmond, Puppeteer Very Grateful A puppeteer passing through San Francisco has been reunited with hundreds of Persian shadow puppets that were inside a U-Haul van stolen from Van Ness Avenue Sunday night.
