A-list actor Colman Domingo recently reflected on meeting his husband through a rom-com–worthy “Missed Connections” encounter in Berkeley, as well as on his younger days living in SF in the 90s.
It's a week that has seen three high-profile closure announcements as well as fire-caused closure at Che Fico, but on the brighter side, Esme is now softly open on Divis, and we have more in This Week In Food.
A month after Trump told China's leader that Americans were spying “like hell” on the country, a scholar at UC Berkeley, who fled Myanmar in the '90s, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage.
A more compact and pleasant-sounding alternative to the ear-splitting vuvuzela has arrived, thanks to a group of enterprising engineering students at Diablo Valley College in the East Bay.
One person died and four others were injured in a fiery crash Thursday night just after midnight, in between SF's Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
Chef-owner David Nayfeld said in a social media video Friday morning that Divisadero hot spot Che Fico, which had a fire in a chimney flue Thursday, suffered some damage and will have to close for an indeterminate period of time.
Fortunately no one was injured when a one-million-square-foot Tracy warehouse owned by a medical supply distributor was rapidly engulfed in flames Thursday, after a fire broke out on the roof and caused it to collapse.
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A strange incident was being reported on Nob Hill Friday morning in which three pedestrians, including two SFPD officers, were struck by a Lexus, and one person was reportedly pinned under the vehicle.
Two people were shot and wounded near Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda Thursday night; two women who were likely sleeping on a Santa Cruz beach were swept into the ocean by a rising tide; and more women describe sexual harassment and worse inside Cesar Chavez's farmworker movement.
A giant Musk inflatable flew over NYC’s Times Square Thursday; a local nurse and TikTok creator was identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in downtown Oakland; and free Wi-Fi is now available at all of SF’s BART stations ahead of the World Cup.
After putting the larger BUILD Act proposal on hold, which would have cut transfer taxes in half on property sales above $10 million, Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood are pursuing a commercial foreclosure tax that’s initially expected to generate $67 million a year.
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San Francisco firefighters were battling a one-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon which broke out just before 4 pm, with black smoke seen billowing from the vicinity of the restaurants Che Fico and Foghorn Taproom.
Jollibee's much-anticipated Market Street location was nearing the end of San Francisco's years-long, draconian permitting process when a noise compliance issue surfaced, throwing yet another wrench into the company's already delayed opening plans.
The leader of a cultish religious group partly based in Oroville, in Butte County, was recently convicted of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape, and he's now been sentenced to 225 years to life — though he will be eligible for "elder parole."
Following legislation signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, the city accepted $14.5 million in private funding from SF’s Downtown Development Corporation to push forward the long overdue revitalization of the Powell Street corridor.
There are many ways you can watch the World Cup matches at home or with friends, with the first matches being played today in Mexico, and Team USA playing its first match against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday.
A search is underway for an unidentified young woman who called to request a late checkout for the suspect in the OpenAI firebomb attack in April, and the SFPD thinks she may be a co-conspirator.
It's always sad when a bustling restaurant that felt like it had been there forever loses its mojo and withers away. But that was the case for North Beach's Park Tavern, not just once, but twice.
Michael Moritz's Crankstart Foundation is giving Oakland a $9M hand with its illegal dumping problem; Olympian Eileen Gu's house in Sea Cliff has apparently been doing some dumping of its own; and SF Pride had an official kickoff variety show last night.
A "severe" Red Flag Warning has been issued starting at 11 pm tonight for the North and East Bay hills; SFUSD's Maria Su made it through her congressional hearing without much drama; and the trial of the accused Palisades Fire arsonist began today.
Following years of disputes, construction has begun on the $73 million renovation of the historic Portsmouth Square park in SF’s Chinatown, which is expected to take two years.
A new report estimates that the Bay Area saw $245.1 million in extra economic activity last summer thanks to the three consecutive weekends of major concerts in Golden Gate Park, produced by Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
After facing widespread outrage over a proposed ban on smoking at bar patios in SF, Supervisor Melgar has put the plan on hold while she and Mayor Lurie continue discussions with the community.
Following a class-action lawsuit last month over alleged illegal strip searches of women at SF County Jail No. 2, a second suit filed Tuesday claims conditions for women in custody are worse than those for men.
San Francisco police are again trying to raise the profile of the so-called Doodler killings in the mid-1970s, in which six men, all likely led there for clandestine gay hookups, were murdered on and around Ocean Beach and Lands End.
