SF News San Francisco Woman Arrested Friday In Connection With Death Of Two Young Children, SFPD Says Two children were found dead inside a home in the Hunters Point neighborhood Friday, and a woman was arrested in connection with the deaths.
SF News Saturday Links: Christmas Eve Travel Eases Up After Days Of Turbulent Weather Cancels Hundreds Of SFO Flights A hectic holiday travel season marked by days of severe weather nationwide is calming down in the Bay Area; an Oakland motorcyclist dies in a crash on the way to his father's funeral; and a person was allegedly stabbed by a nude attacker in Berkeley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New San Francisco Restaurants of 2021-2022 Because there wasn't the usual, annual round of year-end best-of lists last December, with the world still barely emerging from a pandemic — and with Omicron rearing its ugly head — it feels appropriate now to just do a list rounding up both 2021 and 2022, as far the local food scene goes.
Bay Area Sports Giants Nab Two Former All-Stars While Picking Through The Seeds And Stems Of Free Agency It’s probably not the jolt in morale the Giants clubhouse could use after the Carlos Correa debacle, but they added an outfielder who was an All-Star four years ago, and the twin brother of reliever Tyler Rogers, an All-Star in 2021.
Business & Tech Twitter Deletes Donald Trump Jr.’s Fake Image of Naked Hunter Biden With Zelensky Eldest unemployable Trump kid Donald Trump Jr. ran afoul of Twitter’s content policy, with a tweet that Twitter took down photoshopping a nude Hunter Biden next to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
SF News While Most of the Country Freezes, the Bay Area Is Set for a Balmy Christmas It's going to be unseasonably warm this Christmas weekend all over the Bay. And while no records are likely to be broken, temperature-wise, those of us who didn't leave town will all be sitting pretty in some lovely weather.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nick’s Crispy Tacos Is Closing Tuesday After 20 Years, But Vows To Reopen Elsewhere Russian Hill mainstay Nick’s Crispy Tacos just abruptly announced its closure with less than a week’s notice, but they say “We are in the process of finding a new home.”
SF News Father and Young Son Killed In Remote Sonoma County Crash Near Cazadero A father of three and one of his young sons died in a crash Monday evening when the Jeep they were traveling in went off a dirt road on private property in Sonoma County, and three others, including two children, were injured in an effort to rescue them.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Macy's Workers On Strike Before Xmas Around 400 workers at Macy's Union Square are on strike today and tomorrow, another tech conference has decamped from SF to Vegas, and an ice storm in the Pacific Northwest has shut down Seattle's runways and further complicated holiday travel.
SF News Day Around The Bay: No Wood Fires For Christmas, As It’s Spare The Air Through Sunday A carjacking at Ocean View Park left a man shot, run over, and in critical condition, the Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga is soon to close permanently, and Spare The Air days are in effect through the weekend, so no wood fires for your Christmas.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
Arts & Entertainment Let’s Party With The Tree Twins, Who Are Here In SF Through Christmas Eve SFist held court with the royal tannenbaums known as the Tree Twins, and these two “firries” will be out enlightening San Francisco every night through December 24.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Bar Managers Get Active-Shooter Workshop Ahead of New Year's Eve Sadly, San Francisco's gayborhood is preparing for the worst this New Year's Eve following a deadly mass-shooting in Colorado Springs — the second mass shooting in the U.S. in six years to target the LGBTQ community specifically.
Business & Tech Tesla In Self-Driving Mode Blamed For Eight-Car Pileup On Bay Bridge We are now learning that a Thanksgiving Day multi-car crash that injured nine people is being blamed on a Tesla in “full self-driving” mode, as the Tesla reportedly came to an abrupt stop after a lane change, causing a chain-reaction pileup in the Yerba Buena tunnel.
SF News Hate Crime Charge Filed In Alleged Antisemitic Assault With Skateboard on Haight Street An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
Arts & Entertainment SF Fire Station Trucks In Real Snow From Tahoe In Hopes of Winning Holiday Decoration Contest Hoping to “bank” another victory in the annual SF Fire station holiday decorations contests, a Potrero Hill fire station hauled in 15 cubic yards of snow from the Sierra mountains to embellish their display and give local kids a real white Christmas.
SF News This Winter's First King Tides Arrive For Christmas Weekend It's that time of year again, when the high tides are extra high and the low tides are extra low around the Bay Area, and this weekend is when you'll see the water splashing higher than it usually does in many spots.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Earthquakes Rattle the East Bay There have only been a few handfuls of flight cancellations so far at Bay Area airports due to the Midwest storm, a 3.3M earthquake in the East Bay caused BART delays Wednesday night, and a Fremont carjacking leads to a serious injury crash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Mandates Masks Again In All Government Buildings Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a powerful speech before Congress; Oakland has reinstated its mask mandate for government buildings; and Tesla is reportedly planning layoffs.
SF Politics Drama In Alameda County DA's Office, As Outgoing DA Tries To Direct $20 Million To Her Own Projects Retiring Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley tried to direct $20 million out incoming DA Pamela Price’s budget and into a set of her own pet nonprofits and projects, but she’s withdrawn that request after blowback.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Nanking Is Getting a Food Network Docuseries Premiering Next Week The six-episode docuseries about the father-and-daughter team behind House of Nanking and Fang is coming to the Food Network next week, as ‘Chef Dynasty: House of Fang’ goes behind the scenes with one of SF’s premier Chinese food families.
Bay Area Sports Meet the Local Food Entrepreneurs Behind the Delicious Food at Warriors' Games In the Bay Area, there's growing support, both among developers and consumers, for a new generation of mom-and-pop eateries as opposed to ubiquitous corporate chains. Chase Center might exemplify this trend.
Bay Area Sports Giant Screw-Up: Giants Lose Free Agent Mega-Acquisition Carlos Correa to Mets SF Giants fans are getting a lump of free agency coal this holiday season, as the team backed out of its blockbuster $350 million deal with All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa, and then Correa promptly bolted to the Mets.
SF News Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Hobbled By Hypothermia, Taken In By Oakland Zoo There’s another mountain lion rescue and hopeful recovery underway at the Oakland Zoo, as a young mountain lion cub found abandoned in freezing temperatures is recovering at the zoo from hypothermia.
SF News New Owner of Transamerica Pyramid Says It Is Around 80% Leased, Promises New City Park at Its Base At some point in 2023, the iconic Transamerica Pyramid is set to emerge from a $250 million renovation, with new public amenities at its base, including restaurants and a revamped redwood park.
