SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Institution Perry's Coming to Novato Perry's, the 52-year-old Union Street institution that went on to expand its Bay Area footprint, is expanding once more with a new location in Novato.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boycott of Organic Food Company Amy’s Kitchen Has Some Grocers Pulling Products From Shelves The darling of the organic-vegetarian frozen food aisle took a hit with some workplace safety allegations at their Santa Rosa plant, creating some grocer boycotts and talk of workers unionizing.
SF News Four Arrested In Oakland for Robberies Including That of Canadian Film Crew at Twin Peaks Four suspects have been arrested and charged for crimes relating to a late March robbery of a Canadian film crew working at SF's Twin Peaks, and a second robbery three days later in Oakland.
SF Politics Three-Day Weekends Could Be the New Norm in California, Thanks to Bill Pushing for 32-Hour Workweek Two California Assemblymembers are looking to make a four-day workweek the law of the land in the state, responding to the "Great Resignation" and post-pandemic malaise about work.
SF News Boudin and Gascón Take Legal Action Against Serial ADA Lawsuit-Filing Firm Going after alleged “Serial Filers” of ADA lawsuits, one of whom has filed 1,700 lawsuits himself, the SF and LA district attorneys have filed a state suit against the law firm churning out lawsuits against Chinese-owned businesses.
SF News BART Sees Major Disruption After Somone Walked Onto Tracks In Downtown SF Commuters who are newly (again) reliant on BART to get to a physical office had a bear of a morning Tuesday after an unauthorized person wandering the tracks between Embarcadero and Montgomery stations caused a major delay.
SF News ACLU Joins Fight Against Oakland School Closures, Claiming Racial Discrimination The ACLU has now filed a complaint with the California Department of Justice urging the attorney general to look in to the Oakland Unified School District's plan to close seven schools and merge two others next year, saying the plan disproportionately impacts Black families.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Missing Mill Valley Woman Found Dead The search for a missing 62-year-old Mill Valley woman ended with her being found dead in her car, a man fatally shot in Oakland has been identified as a security guard at a transitional housing camp, and an orphaned mountain lion cub is recuperating at the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cleve Jones Says He Will Vacate His Castro Apartment Quietly After All Cleve Jones says he no longer wants to fight his new landlord to have to live in a unit below her, a member of the Gilroy City Council has been cited in connection with a fatal shooting at a Halloween party that occurred at her home, and Sonoma County authorities are seeking an abducted toddler.
SF News Jailhouse Phone Calls By Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Find Her Trying to Hide Assets, Telling Son Not to Cooperate With Cops The latest update in the case of accused sexual-predator/corrupter of teens Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. the Los Gatos Party Mom who we've referred to as the Los Gatos "Cool Mom," comes via her latest appearance in court.
SF News PG&E Agrees to $55 Million Settlement to Make Criminal Charges Disappear in Dixie Fire and Kincade Fire Two settlements for two different wildfires that impacted six different counties will halt several separate criminal investigations, as PG&E will pay $55 million to settle criminal allegations in the Dixie and Kincade fires.
Business & Tech Video: SF Cops Try to Pull Over Driverless Cruise Taxi, Hilarity Ensues All haters of the ersatz training course for robot cars that San Francisco's streets have become are having a field day with a new video, posted earlier this month, showing an autonomous Cruise taxi in the Richmond District getting pulled over by the SFPD with no driver inside.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Submits ‘Draft Final Map’ After High Drama, Twitter Fights, and Half the Task Force Walking Out A bonkers weekend of redistricting fireworks saw profane Twitter fights between supervisors, and four members storming out of a late night meeting in protest, but the map’s final draft is now complete.
Bay Area Sports After a Season of Highs and Lows (But Mostly Highs), the Warriors Arrive at the Playoffs If there were any lessons to be learned in the Golden State Warriors' 2021/22 regular season, we as fans were reminded that it is a long and often perilous slog from Game One in the fall to the playoffs in the spring.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SFMOMA's Soapbox Derby Makes Glorious Return to McLaren Park for First Time Since 1978 Thousands of onlookers gathered along John F. Shelley drive Sunday afternoon to watch a parade of soapbox derby cars descend down the steep road. And while most of the rickety race cars crossed the finish line without much of a hiccup, the day's race included a few epic wipeouts.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk Won’t Join the Twitter Board, Tech World Wonders What His Deal Is Wait, something about a “background check?” Elon Musk suddenly relinquishes his proffered seat on the Twitter board of directors, which could be a nefarious Elon plot, or a sign of his very short attention span.
SF News CHP Investigating Wild Shooting on I-580 Near Mills College The California Highway Patrol’s Oakland branch spent Sunday afternoon and evening investigating a possible freeway shooting in Oakland, in the midst of a violent weekend in which nine people were shot, including a 15-year-old girl who was killed.
SF News Former Castro Sex Club Eros Seeks to Take Over Historic Bathhouse Space In the Tenderloin We now know the proposed new location for Market Street bathhouse Eros, at the Turk and Taylor Street former home of Bulldog Baths, but we don’t know if city regulations will change allowing them to open their doors.
SF News 15-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot During Violent Weekend In Oakland A 15-year-old girl from Antioch who was visiting a friend in East Oakland was fatally shot Saturday night, and in separate incidents eight other people were shot and injured in the city over the course of the weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Large Cargo Ship Adrift Off Point Reyes A 564-foot cargo ship was adrift off Point Reyes since Friday and unable to anchor, a 25-year-old man was shot multiple times in Emeryville, and Tahoe is getting some last-minute snow from this weather system.
SF News Five-Alarm Fire at Bay Area Home Depot Was so Hot That It Was Detectable From Space A few hours after a four-alarm fire razed the Port of Benicia, another large blaze erupted at the San Jose Home Depot store on the 900 block of Blossom Hill Road. In fact: The blaze got so hot that its heat signature could be observed from space.
SF News Sunday Links: It's Finally Soapbox Derby Day! A four-alarm fire engulfed the Port of Benicia Saturday, the National Weather Service issued a high surf advisory until 3 p.m. Sunday, and SF's soapbox derby returns to McLaren Park today.
SF News A Living Seawall Is Coming to San Francisco's Embarcadero This Summer Designed to mimic natural-occurring structures that hold marine wildlife, installing living seawalls is becoming a popular practice that improves traditional exposed concrete barriers. And San Francisco is getting one along the Embarcadero over the next few years.
SF News Cooler Temperatures (and Maybe Some Rain) Will Come to SF Bay Area Next Week Coming off of Thursday's record-breaking hot weather, it looks like we can expect some much cooler temperatures — and perhaps even a bit of light rain — next week.
SF News Saturday Links: Art Bash Returns to SFMOMA for First Time Since Pandemic Began Noodle Fest is coming back, SFMOMA's annual Art Bash fundraiser again graced the museum last night, and (of course) Amazon is now looking into overturning the historic unionization of workers at an Amazon distribution center in Staten Island.
