SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fine Dining Spot for Dogs on Valencia Has $75 Tasting Menu, Generates Gentrification Outrage People are dogpiling on a new fine dining restaurant for dogs, as San Francisco once again out-San Franciscos itself with a stunning new breed of income inequality.
SF News Inmate Work Crew Saves Woman From Stabbing In Vacaville An inmate work crew and a California Department of Corrections guard intervened in a stabbing along a Solano County bike trail on Tuesday, possibly saving a woman's life.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Now Know Why the Chronicle Doesn't Think The French Laundry Is Worth the Splurge Anymore Three years in, Soleil Ho drops a review of The French Laundry, and now the details emerge about why the Chronicle's restaurant critic left Thomas Keller's famed restaurant off a recent list of best splurge restaurants.
SF News Kidnapped Merced Family Found Dead, Including Eight-Month-Old Baby A frantic search in Merced County has ended with a worst-case scenario, as the family of four that was kidnapped Monday morning was found dead late Wednesday afternoon, and with them the eight-month old child.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: State Homeless Population Rises By 22,500 We now have an estimate for how much the state's homeless population grew during the pandemic, the clearing of the Wood Street encampment has entered a final phase, and a federal appeals court has declared DACA illegal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hastings Family Sues Over UC Law School Name Change, Seeking Payout The descendants of Serranus Hastings want his money back if the state wants to strip his name from the law school he funded, DNA identifies a cold case victim in Sacramento, and Delfina is reopening at last.
SF Politics In Yet Another Declared Drug Crackdown, DA Jenkins Says ‘This is a War on Fentanyl’ DA Brooke Jenkins tried to send a strong message to drug dealers, but got her message mixed with Supervisor Matt Dorsey, with him saying it’s “not the War on Drugs,” and her saying “it is a war on fentanyl.”
SF News Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Marc Andreessen Claims Modern California Is Like the Fall of the Roman Empire The man who bought the most expensive mansion in California history now says the state is “the ruins of a once great civilization,” comparing conditions to the fall of Rome, but perhaps ignoring the role of an incompetent wealthy ruling class in that analysis.
Arts & Entertainment Bands, Ship Tours, and Air Shows: The What, When and Where of Fleet Week 2022 The Blue Angels are going to begin buzzing the city any minute now, and SF's annual Fleet Week is already underway with band performances and more.
SF News Suspect In Custody In Merced Kidnapping, But Authorities Still Can’t Find Missing Family A horrifying kidnapping story emerged this week from the San Joaquin Valley, with an abductor allegedly kidnapping a family of four, including an eight-month-old child. While a suspect is now in custody, the family and baby are still missing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes For Good (Again) After Nine Years In the Tenderloin Popular SF brewpub Mikkeller Bar, one of two U.S. outposts of cult-famous Danish brewery Mikkeller, is shutting its doors at 34 Mason Street in the next week after nine years at the edge of the Tenderloin — two years after it appeared to close the first time.
SF News Residents of Stockton — Especially the Homeless — Are on Edge Over Possible Serial Killer on the Loose A potential serial killer who may be targeting the homeless in Stockton, and who also may have killed a homeless man in Oakland, has rattled nerves and set the unhoused population, especially, on edge.
Business & Tech Meta Is Downsizing Its Offices, Prefers to Call This ‘Vibe Planning’ Amidst a hiring freeze and a plummeting stock price, Meta says it is downsizing and rearranging its offices, a process they bizarrely refer to as "vibe planning."
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Member Lashes Out Over Encampment Clearing Tensions flared last night at the Oakland City Council over the clearing of the Wood Street encampment, classes have restarted at the Oakland campus where a shooting took place last week, and all local grocery stores are going to be transitioning to compostable plastic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Breed Demanded a Resignation Letter from Kamala Harris’s Niece Dede Wilsey has dropped $350,000 on SF election measures, a Samsung pop-up shop is coming to the former Uniqlo space in Union Square, and even Kamala Harris’s niece had to sign an undated resignation letter to Mayor Breed.
SF Politics We’ve Got Polling on State Ballot Props: Both Gambling Measures In the Toilet, Wealth Tax Looks Like a Squeaker A combined $400 million-plus in spending has bought no love for the two competing sports gambling measures on California’s November ballot, whereas a new millionaire’s tax stands just 1% shy of the majority threshold it needs.
SF News Vallejo Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Monterrosa In 2020 Is Finally Fired A Vallejo police detective who fired the gun that killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa during civil unrest at a Walgreens in June 2020 has been fired following the conclusion of a third-party investigation into the incident.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat LA as Defense Owns the Rams When would the 49ers season take on a momentum of its own? When would Jimmy G just be the QB again, and not the guy who had said his goodbyes, packed his bags and had surgery, only to be resurrected in the red and gold, like a ridiculously good-looking Frankenstein?
SF Politics Richmond Mayor Tells Homeless to Camp In Front of Political Rivals’ Houses, Gives Out Their Addresses Here's a political dirty trick we haven’t seen before, though it’s drawing comparisons to Ron DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt; the mayor of Richmond revealed the home addresses of city councilmembers, and told RV dwellers to set up camp in front of those officials’ houses.
SF News Water Main Break In Richmond District Causes Sinkhole, Fulton Street Blocked Avoid Fulton Street in the Outer Richmond and expect some possible disruption with the 5-Fulton bus as there is a sinkhole and burst water main being dealt with on 29th Avenue that's causing flooding all the way down to 31st Avenue.
SF Politics First Lady Jill Biden Coming to SF Thursday and Friday You may see a motorcade roaming about later this week, and that is because First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will in San Francisco for a couple of events.
SF News Oakland Records 101st Homicide of Year; State AG Rob Bonta Comes to East Bay to Address Gun Violence Oakland’s 100th homicide of 2022 on Monday was the fatal shooting of a city violence prevention coordinator’s uncle. But then some 12 hours later, the city saw its 101st killing of the year.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Now Says He'll Buy Twitter At His Original Price, But He May Still Be Negotiating Ugh, the stupid saga drags on, and late Monday, Elon Musk did an about-face and said 'No, no, JK! Forget about the last four months, I actually do want to buy Twitter.'
SF News Oakland Shooting From April 2021 Being Linked to Stockton Serial Killer Investigation Another murder, this one last year in the Bay Area, may be linked to a string of unsolved killings in Stockton from the last three months, as a new serial killer investigation is rattling nerves in the Central Valley.
