SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Reopens After Renovation With New Tasting Menu Format Acclaimed Chinatown restaurant Mister Jiu's, which closed temporarily in January for a remodel, has reopened and chef Brandon Jew is going a new direction with the menu.
SF News It’s the Three-Year Anniversary of Our COVID-19 Lockdown, San Francisco On the three-year anniversary of the Bay Area’s stunning shelter-in-place announcement, which would be duplicated within days around much of the country, we look back on these three bad years, and the order that was originally only supposed to last for three weeks.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank Gets $30B Lifeline From Group of Larger Banks It was good news on Thursday for regional bank First Republic, which on Monday was facing serious stress in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. A coalition of larger banks agreed to funnel $30 billion in deposits to the bank to help it shore itself and meet the demand for withdrawals.
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
SF News Condo Neighbors and Bissap Baobab Wrangle In Eight-Hour Hearing at State ABC The new, big Bissap Baobab was hauled before the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for eight hours on Wednesday, as condo neighbors are trying to deny the restaurant and bar’s beer and wine license — essentially put it out of business — over NIMBY noise complaints.
SF News Approaching 7th Anniversary of Disappearance, Authorities Put Out New Call for Whereabouts of Arianna Fitts It's been almost seven years since the body of a young mother was discovered in McLaren Park, and authorities still believe that her daughter, who was two years old at the time, is still alive and perhaps still somewhere in California.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fatal Collision On Westbound Bay Bridge Causes Early Morning Backup Two people were killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge and separately there were other crises leading to much traffic; around 68K are still without power in Bay Area; and arrests have been made in a Pittsburg hit-and-run.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Middle School Locked Down Over Gun Denman Middle School in SF's Outer Mission was locked down after a student brought a gun to school; a Stanford employee who said she was raped on campus twice last year was allegedly lying; and someone tried to steal a helicopter from Sacramento Airport.
Arts & Entertainment The Cure Tickets Went On Sale Today, and It Was A Ticketmaster Disaster The Cure had hoped to make tickets affordable for their first U.S. tour in seven years. But Ticketmaster’s gonna Ticketmaster, so fees sometimes exceeded the price of tickets, and many fans were still left empty-handed.
SF News [Updated] Young Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Italian Cop Granted Retrial By High Court The two Bay Area men convicted of killing an Italian police officer in Rome in a weird drug deal gone bad four years ago faced Italy's highest court this week, and the court is now deliberating in what is their final chance to appeal their convictions.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Approve Reparations Draft Document; SF NAACP Comes Out Against $5 Million Payments The SF NAACP came out on record against the proposed $5 million per Black SF resident proposal in the current list of reparations recommendations, and the Board of Supervisors approved a draft of that document that won’t be finalized until September.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Has Launched a Burger Truck Serving Mini Double-Doubles There's now an official In-N-Out food truck, and while it's likely to mostly stick around Southern California and only caters kids' events, it's sure to be in high demand.
Business & Tech Report: Ron Conway Was Among Venture Capitalists Begging For Silicon Valley Bank Bailout The “small-government libertarians” got their big government bailout this past Sunday, and as observers slag the hypocrisy of founders and VCs who oppose safety nets for everyone else, we learn that local mayor whisperer Ron Conway was helping pull strings to get the bailout.
SF News Rains Cause Sinkhole On 101 In Humboldt County, Major Repair Underway A whole section of freeway in Northern California basically started sliding down a hill, and travelers on 101 in remote Humboldt County will be held up by a single-lane situation.
SF News Fillmore District Drive-By Leads to Bay Bridge Police Incident, Possible Arrests Shots were reportedly fired Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on the 12oo block of Buchanan Street, near the end of the Buchanan Mall near Turk Street, in SF's Fillmore District, and this led to a police pursuit on the Bay Bridge.
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SF News The Bay Area Is Littered With Toppled Trees, Downed Power Lines, Following Latest Storm Intense winds on Tuesday caused all kinds of mayhem, leading to widespread power outages, flight delays, trees damaging buildings, glass flying off high-rises, one toppled big rig, and at least one escaped suitcase at SFO.
SF News Car Catches Fire at SFO Parking Lot, Which Then Spreads to Multiple Cars One car caught fire at the SF International Airport parking lot Wednesday morning, which quickly spread to three cars, though flights and schedules were not affected and no one was injured.
SF News Humpday Headlines: We Could See More Atmospheric River Rain Next Week Another atmospheric river is headed toward California early next week; a 17-year-old Pittsburg girl was killed in a hit-and-run; and now Credit Suisse is in trouble.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Winds Knock Over Big Rig On Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Reddit has been down for several hours Tuesday, Muni riders seem to be skipping fare more than ever, and a semi that got overturned by wind gusts closed down traffic on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for about three hours.
SF News Allegations of SF Fire Department Assault and Cover-Up Roil Department There had been rumors about an SF firefighter attacking another with a wrench last year, and now there’s a lawsuit from the alleged victim saying the SF Fire Department interfered with the criminal investigation, and took away the accuser's healthcare when he refused to drop the charges.
Business & Tech Appeals Court Upholds Prop. 22 Gig Worker Law, But It’s Still Likely Headed To State Supreme Court A big win for Uber and Lyft to not treat their drivers as employees, as a state appeals court has upheld the Prop. 22 law exempting rideshare companies from minimum wage and overtime rules, but this thing’s expected to go to the state Supreme Court.
SF News Glass Being Blown Off Downtown SF Tower 555 California Street, Shelter-In-Place Order Issued A shelter-in-place order was issued Tuesday afternoon after at least one large glass panel "became separated" from the 43rd floor of famed SF office tower 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
SF News [Updated] Storm, High Winds Leave 275,000 Bay Area Residents Without Power Around 2,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco lost power on Tuesday, and around 273,000 others across the region are also in the dark as the Bay Area gets lashed with winds at the back side of this latest atmospheric river storm.
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Waiving the First Year of Parklet Permit Fees Bars, restaurants, and other businesses will have to pay permit fees for their “shared spaces” parklets starting April 1, but Supervisor Ahsha Safai wants to eliminate that few-thousand dollar fee before it goes into effect.
