SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalida, a New Eastern Mediterranean Restaurant From Noosh Chefs, Debuts Friday In the Presidio Coming this weekend to the Presidio is a brand new Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from the talented opening chefs behind Noosh and the Mission District pop-up Istanbul Modern, and it's called Dalida.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Downtown Business Goes Down: Farewell, HRD Coffee Shop A longtime SFist favorite and a stalwart on Third Street that's been there since the 1950s, HRD Coffee Shop, is closing up shop, and the owner says it's because he didn't get enough help from his landlord or the city.
SF News Good Samaritan Saves Two From Burning Car That Smashed Into a Walgreens in Sunnyvale An early Sunday morning car accident in the Santa Clara County town of Sunnyvale saw a car hit a Walgreens and burst into flames, but an anonymous good Samaritan was able to pull two people from the wreckage, both of whom survived.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 48-Year-Old Russian Hill Vietnamese Restaurant Aux Delices Is Closing Permanently June 30 Friday will be the last day for pho, imperial rolls, and lemongrass steak at the long standing family-owned Vietnamese restaurant Aux Delices, as the husband-and-wife team who’ve run the place for decades has decided to retire.
SF News Potrero Hill Shooting Victim Drives Self to Hospital, Crashes Into Cops On the Way A male victim was shot Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Potrero Terrace housing project, and as he drove himself to the hospital, he had an unfortunate encounter with police.
SF News Two Arrested In SF Crime Spree That Included Armed Robberies, Shooting Two male suspects are in SFPD custody on suspicion of a raft of charges including armed robbery, assault, attempted murder, and car theft, following a crime spree that spanned 10 days in May.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFMTA Gets $30M Grant From Feds for EV Stuff Those "safe and sane" fireworks are out there for purchase again; the former CELLspace site will become the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Arts Healing Center next year; and the SFMTA just got a $30M federal grant for electric buses and charging stations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Police Release Photo of Possible Delivery-Man Shooter Oakland police have released photos of two people of interest in a June 21 shooting that killed a flower delivery man; Cal/OSHA has cited the two farms where a mass shooting took place in January; and hate crimes were up 20% in California last year.
SF News Alameda County Supervisors Vote to Make It Illegal to Even Watch A Sideshow It is now illegal to so much as even watch a sideshow in Alameda County, and you could get a $1,000 fine or six months in jail for being within 200 feet. But what if you just happened to be there, and weren’t watching the sideshow?
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Virginia, There Will Be a ‘Golden Girls Live!’ For Christmas 2023, Despite Heklina’s Passing The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.
Arts & Entertainment 97-Year-Old San Francisco Art Institute Campus Hits the Market for Undisclosed Asking Price Could a different school step in and revive the historic San Francisco Art Institute campus on Chestnut Street? We shall now see, as the nearly century-old property has officially hit the market in a bankruptcy sale, for an unlisted sum.
SF News CHP Investigating Alleged Road Rage Shooting on I-280 In San Francisco A road-rage freeway shooting appears to have occurred Monday afternoon in San Francisco, though no one was injured, and the CHP is still investigating.
SF News SFPD Officer Involved In 'Large-Scale' Busts of Drug Dealers Faces Discipline, Multiple Cases Likely to Be Dropped An SFPD officer is facing internal disciplinary proceedings and has been put on desk duty after it was discovered that she may have had an inappropriate relationship with a confidential informant.
SF News After Two High-Profile Crashes, SF Police Commission Wants Review of Vehicle Pursuit Policy An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
SF News Op-Ed Suggests St. Louis, Moreso Than SF, Is In a Serious 'Doom Loop' and No One Is Talking About It It is actually dangerous and deserted in parts of St. Louis, and a Republican legislature in Missouri has tried its best to counter any progressive policy the city tries to enact, leading to unproductive political fights, as a Times opinion piece suggests.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Revised California Budget Bails Out Public Transit to the Tune of $5 Billion A major heat wave is expected for the coming July 4 weekend, a bizarre and unidentified creature has been spotted in Lake Merritt, and Gavin Newsom has backtracked somewhat on slashing public transit funding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Scooter’ Crowned World’s Ugliest Dog 2023 at Sonoma-Marin Fair SF office vacancy has hit an all-time record of 32%, more glass just fell from a downtown high-rise even in nice weather, and a bald Chinese Crested named Scooter just won the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.
SF News Another Waymo Decided to Park In the Middle of an Intersection, Blocking Muni Bus You've heard a lot of these stories by now, but we have yet another situation in which a robocar disrupted civil society in San Francisco and caused actual humans to have trouble getting where they need to go.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Mayor London Breed Wore a Tutu and More Images From SF Pride 2023 SF Pride was certainly back in full force this year, with BART noting that ridership on Sunday was even up about 20% higher than in 2022. And here are some photos from the parade itself.
SF News Wiener Proposes $1.50 Bridge Toll Hike To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ With Muni at risk of slashing 20 lines and BART threatening to eliminate weekend service, state Senator Scott Wiener hopes to eliminate their deficits with a $1.50 toll increase on seven Bay Area bridges.
SF News Four Arrested In San Francisco For San Mateo LEGO Store Robbery Four East Bay residents — three adults and a juvenile — were taken into custody Friday following a heist of LEGOs worth $3,500. And the crew was easily caught because they were in a car they rented through a third-party app.
SF Politics YIMBYs Cry Foul Over Lack of Housing Approved Since Passage of SF Housing Element SF has approved barely eight new housing units per month since the city passed its ambitious Housing Element plan, but the reality is that developers haven’t been applying for many permits.
SF News Colorado Springs LGBTQ Nightclub Shooter Pleads Guilty, Still Denies It Was a Hate Crime Anderson Lee Aldrich, the accused suspect in the November 2022 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead, entered a guilty plea Monday and will serve a life sentence in prison.
SF News SF Chronicle Now Seems to Regret Amplifying the 'Doom Loop' Narrative It Heavily Amplified The San Francisco Chronicle is standing like a kid who cried "Fire!" amid a rush of sirens and chaos asking what all the fuss is about, as it has a front-page story today about the ramifications of the "doom loop" narrative the paper itself amplified.
SF News Oakland’s 24-Hour Colonial Donuts On Lakeshore Avenue Rocked by Armed Robbery No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
