SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Park Central Hotel Has Become a Second Hyatt Regency, and It's Getting a French Brasserie From Mina Group Spinoff Confusingly, downtown San Francisco now has two Hyatt Regency hotels, and this summer, the new one at 50 Third Street will be home to a French-inspired brasserie from Mina's spinoff group called La Société Bar and Café.
SF News Four East Bay Arson Suspects Arrested For an Astonishing 33 Fires in a 48-Hour Period It’s unclear whether the four suspects and more than 30 fires set over two days are in any way related, and while no one was hurt, one report says that a suspect managed to escape custody.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Office Makes Huge Fentanyl Bust In Oakland High School Parking Lot The sheriff's office announced Tuesday that deputies had arrested four individuals and seized a whopping 15 pounds of fentanyl.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Woman on Scooter Killed In Tenderloin A 25-year-old woman on a scooter was killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday, the SF school board approved far fewer layoffs than had been expected, and Elon Musk is hinting that he'll move Twitter out of the Bay Area because of "strong left bias."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Stefani, Very Unsurprisingly, Endorses Boudin Recall SF General is asking for help to identify a badly injured woman they can’t ID, SFUSD managed to save the jobs of nearly 200 staff previously given pink slips, and Supervisor Catherine Stefani is the first SF elected official endorsing the recall of DA Chesa Boudin.
SF Politics Matt Dorsey’s Appointment to D6 Supervisor Throws More Gas On Blazing Debate Over Crime and Cops Mayor Breed’s appointment of SFPD PR guy Matt Dorsey is being seen as a favor to the police department and Recall Chesa Boudin movement, but while Dorsey is well-respected at City Hall, the oppo research on him is already starting to emerge.
SF News Quickly Boba Shop on Larkin Busted In DA's Office Sting, Was Allegedly Helping Front a Car Burglary Ring As Chesa Boudin's office scrambles to score some public wins ahead of the June recall election, news arrives of a big bust involving a boba tea shop that was being used to traffic good stolen in SF car burglaries, some of which ended up shipped to Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Bay Area Sports Otherwise Despicable LA Dodgers Will Join Giants in Wearing Pride Logos for ‘Pride Night’ Game In SF It’s believed that it will be the first major American sports game with both teams wearing LGBTQ+ Pride logos, when both the Dodgers and the Giants will sport Pride-ified logos on their hats and uniforms for their June 11 Pride Night game.
For the First Time In Over a Century, California Condors Return to NorCal Redwoods California condors remain a conservation success story after being saved from extinction in 1985 when just nine birds remained. This past Tuesday, two examples of the largest bird species in North America were released back into the Northern California redwoods — a first in 130 years.
SF News Second Santa Rosa Toddler In Three Years Dies From Fentanyl, Parents Arrested The parents of a 15-month-old toddler in Santa Rosa who was found unresponsive on Monday next to some suspected fentanyl and drug paraphernalia have been arrested.
Bay Area Sports It Was Ugly, But the Warriors Pulled Out a Game 4 Win Over Memphis to Take a 3-1 Series Lead At times, it was hard to watch. The Golden State Warriors couldn't buy a bucket for most of Game 4 against the Memphis Grizzlies last night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Wine Brand Caymus Branches Out to Suisun Valley With New ‘Mega Tasting Room’ A little-recognized region just got a big new wine attraction, as the family behind prestigious Napa brand Caymus has opened a luxe outpost in Suisun Valley, with an Apple Store-esque design and a retro cassette-tape room.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Let Trump Back on Twitter, Saying Permanent Bans 'Fundamentally Undermine Trust' In the Platform So even though Musk claims to want what's good for democratic society, he's happy to hand the megaphone back to the man who's bent on destroying it.
SF News Mike Tyson Won't Be Charged For On-Plane Assault at SFO San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says that no criminal charges are going to be filed against heavyweight champ Mike Tyson for that videotaped beating gave to a fellow passenger on a JetBlue flight out of SFO last month.
SF News An Overturned Tractor Trailer Shut Down I-80 Monday Night, Caused Hours of Traffic Westbound I-80 is back open Tuesday morning after an overturned tractor trailer shut down all lanes near San Pablo Monday night for over an hour.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Marin Schoolkids Being Told They Should Mask Up Again Around 20 Marin County schools are having COVID outbreaks, Chesa Boudin did a prime-time interview with KRON4, and there was a Roe v. Wade town hall at Manny's on Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steve Kerr Out With COVID, Ja Morant Out With Knee Injury for Warriors-Grizzlies Game 4 Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr is entering NBA COVID protocols after testing positive Monday, the Grizzlies' star play Ja Morant is out with a knee injury for Game 4, and Uber is having a moment of financial comeuppance.
SF Politics ‘Ice Cream With A Cop’ Event In SF Melts Down Amidst Raucous Anti-Police Protest A late April “Ice Cream With a Cop” event in the Inner Richmond turned into a hostile confrontation, with video now surfacing of protesters with a megaphone swarming officers and making the event a rocky road.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco Giants Just Can't Quit Buster Posey There has been some talk about Buster Posey one day managing the Giants. For now, however, that seems to be more of a fan fantasy rather than something the Giants' former catcher has seriously considered.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mission's Former Revolution Cafe Reborn as New Piano Bar, Ivory & Vine The Mission District's Revolution Cafe closed a year ago, but the 22nd and Bartlett Street fixture has a new incarnation that tries to hit similar musical notes.
SF News UCSF's Dr. Wachter on COVID Watch After Wife Tests Positive While Traveling One of our local pandemic-era soothsayers, UCSF Medical School's Dr. Bob Wachter, may soon be dealing with his own bout of COVID-19 for the first time, in a story now increasingly familiar among those who have been extra-cautious and COVID-free up until now.
Arts & Entertainment The SF Conservatory of Music Has Bought Itself a Record Label Big news in the local classical music scene, as the SF Conservatory of Music has acquired Netherlands-based Pentatone Music, a label that’s won numerous Grammy Awards.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Handroll Project, the Hotly Anticipated New Casual Sushi Spot From a Ju-Ni Chef, Opens In the Mission A new sushi restaurant devoted entirely to handrolls — sort of like the open-faced-sandwich version of a maki roll — has opened in the prominent former AL's Deli/Yuzuki space at 18th and Guerrero, and it's bound to be a big hit.
SF News Beleaguered Oakland Encampment Getting $4.7 Million Grant From State to Try ‘New Model’ West Oakland’s Wood Street encampment, which has suffered dozens of fires in the last year, will try a new community cabins model with a $4.7 million grant from the state.
SF Politics Breed's Pick for D6 Supervisor Is Matt Dorsey, Longtime Politico, Advisor to City Attorney, PR Guy for the Cops Mayor London Breed is set today to swear in her appointment to the Board of Supervisors to fill the District 6 seat vacated by Matt Haney, and it's another Matt who has been roaming the halls of City Hall for a couple of decades.
