SF News Humpday Headlines: Family of Sean Monterrosa Protests Cop's Reinstatement The family of Sean Monterrosa is protesting the reinstatement of the Vallejo cop who shot him; Dianne Feinstein's Stinson Beach home has been listed as "coming soon"; and a burglar was arrested after squatting in a Piedmont home for two days.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Latest Tenant in Castro’s Former Bagdad Café Has Also Called It Quits The sinkhole trouble continues in Pacific Heights, Caltrain walked back their fare increase scheduled for next summer, and the former Bagdad Cafe’s latest tenant Los Amigos on Castro has also given up the ghost.
SF News American Eagle Sues Westfield Mall, Saying Ownership Let the Place ‘Deteriorate Into Disarray’ A new wrinkle in the Westfield Centre drama, as large tenant American Eagle Outfitters just filed a lawsuit saying Westfield management abandoned any attempt at security and allowed the place to go to hell in a handbasket.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Husband and Wife Team Behind Sleeper Sonoma Hit Animo to Open Casual Roadside Spot Golden Bear Station The couple behind one of Sonoma's most lauded and talked-about restaurants of the last couple of years, Animo, is expanding with a second spot that promises to be bigger, busier, and cheaper.
Arts & Entertainment Weekend After Outside Lands Concerts Approved by City Hall, Coming to Polo Fields in August 2024 Another Planet Entertainment will have another weekend of concerts the weekend after Outside Lands, as the SF Board of Supervisors approved granting a permit for the extra weekend of concerts starting August 2024.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musical 'Hadestown' Is Back In SF For Brief, One-Week Run After doing its first West Coast performances last year, 'Hadestown' has swung back through San Francisco by popular demand, and performances begin Tuesday night.
SF News SF Residential and Commercial Fires Troublingly on the Rise, Fire Department Says Fires in San Francisco buildings hit a ten-year high in 2022, with several big ones striking this year too, as fire officials point out that residential, commercial, and encampment fires are all happening more frequently.
SF News Infamous Bay Area Serial Killer Anthony Sully Dies at San Quentin at Age 79 Anthony J. Sully, a one-time Millbrae police officer who became, with the help of some accomplices, a notorious local serial killer of the early 1980s, has died of natural causes.
SF News San Francisco Metro Area Gains 300,000 People After Census Bureau Correction The SF Bay Area just gained over a quarter million people in an error correction issued by the U.S. Census Bureau — but the error had to do with the North Bay.
SF News In Escalation of AV Backlash, Black-Clad Person Seen Vandalizing Cruise Vehicle With Hammer As has become clear, autonomous vehicles are not going to be allowed to proliferate on San Francisco's streets without some kind of protest. And the latest act of protest took things to a newly aggressive level.
Business & Tech Lyft Rolling Out Feature Allowing Women to Request Women Drivers The rideshare company that once put pink mustaches on cars is launching a new change intended to lure women and nonbinary riders and drivers, as those riders can now specifically request a woman driver in San Francisco and San Jose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dorian Is Closing In the Marina After Eight Years, Following Halloween Bash Marina brunch and martini spot The Dorian will be flipping into a new concept next year under a new owner, but it will still be a cocktail-heavy Marina restaurant-bar where people get day-drunk on weekends.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SoCal Hit-and-Runs May Have Targeted Cyclists Alameda County authorities arrested four suspects in a Castro Valley carjacking Sunday; former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has a new job in NoLa; and Huntington Beach police think a driver may have been targeting cyclists in hit-and-runs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pac Heights Sinkhole May Take a Week to Fix That sinkhole on Fillmore Street may take a week to fix; another group of writers including Michael Chabon has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT; and there was another youth mall brawl, this time in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Fast-Food Workers Will Be Paid $20/Hour Next Year, Under New Deal A super-size pay raise is coming to fast food workers in California next year, as labor groups just pressured fast food franchises into a deal that would establish a $20 hourly minimum wage for crew at fast food restaurants.
SF News Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
SF News Temporary Tattoo Outfit On Valencia Closes All Locations Amid Bad Press, Complaints Its Tattoos Aren't So Temporary It's been almost a year since we started hearing rumblings that Ephemeral, the tattoo parlor on Valencia Street whose tattoos were allegedly "made to fade," had some unhappy customers who were waiting much longer than the 9 to 15 months the shop promised for their tattoos to disappear.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Luck Gato, a Mexican-Japanese 'Izakaya Cantina,' Set to Take Over Former Hopscotch Space In Oakland This Week A new culinary mashup concept is getting set to open in Oakland's Uptown, taking over the space from beloved Japanese-influenced diner Hopscotch, which shuttered in June after 10 years.
SF News Large Sideshows Break Out Overnight In Vallejo, Shots Fired Shots were fired into the air and a couple of spectators were reportedly injured overnight in Vallejo during a mobile sideshow there that took place at two different locations.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Arrives Tuesday, Bringing Celebrities, Street Closures, Traffic, and Breathless AI Hype Some 43,000 corporate types will converge on South of Market for SF’s biggest conference Dreamforce, which starts Tuesday, making a mess of traffic, but hopefully also a mess of money for the local hospitality biz.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is Now Suing California Over Its New Content Moderation Law In what seems like another ill-advised move from a PR and advertiser-comfort perspective, Elon Musk's X Corp. is now suing the state of California over a new law that requires social media platforms to make their content moderation policies and methods public.
SF News Massive Sinkhole Forms After Water Main Break On Fillmore In Pacific Heights A huge sinkhole has formed at the intersection of Fillmore and Green streets in Pacific Heights, as a result of a water main break Monday morning.
SF News Seven Oakland Shootings Between Friday Night and Monday Leave Four People Dead A rash of shootings in Oakland between Friday night and about 3 a.m. Monday morning has left four victims dead, and as of yet, there are no arrests reported, suspects named, nor suspect descriptions released.
SF Politics Newsom Tried to Sidestep His Pledge to Appoint a Black Woman to Feinstein's Seat, and Barbara Lee Is Pissed The awkwardness continues for Governor Gavin Newsom around the hypothetical second appointment he could conceivably have to make to the U.S. Senate, as questions about Dianne Feinstein's health remain.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Woman Carjacked In Piedmont While Putting Child In Carseat A woman was carjacked in Piedmont Sunday morning while putting a child in a carseat; a new poll finds 60% of Californians opposing cash reparations; and the number of homes for sale in SF just jumped.
