SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Boulevard Has Windows Smashed, Suspect Has Caused Trouble There Before Someone in San Francisco seems to have an issue with recently reopened Parisian-themed restaurant Boulevard, smashing its windows with a wine bottle, and on another occasion assaulting a manager.
SF News USF Announces Plans to Acquire and Merge With the Financially Troubled San Francisco Art Institute After several years of turmoil at the financially strapped San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the University of San Francisco (USF) announced Tuesday that it has plans to acquire and merge with SFAI, bringing the art institute's degree programs under the USF umbrella.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Approves Oscar Grant Day The Oakland City Council just made Feb. 27 Oscar Grant Day, PG&E just paid $1 billion more into its fire victim fund, and Stanford University says COVID infections are coming down on campus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Terrible Day for Muni, With Yet Another Operator Shortage Encampment fires surged during the pandemic, a sideshow showed up in the normally docile Richmond District, and more than 20 Muni lines were slowed by driver shortages today.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Bay Area Composer John Adams Will Premiere His Latest Opera, 'Antony and Cleopatra' to Open SF Opera's 100th Season Arguably the greatest living American composer of classical music and opera, John Adams, continues creating from his home in Berkeley, and his latest opera, 'Antony and Cleopatra,' will have its premiere in San Francisco in September.
SF News Report: 10% of San Francisco’s Housing Stock Is Just Sitting Vacant and Empty A bombshell report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office confirms what many have suspected for years — that tens of thousands of San Francisco apartments are just cold sitting empty in the midst of a housing crisis.
Business & Tech Free Rides In Self-Driving Cruise Taxis Now Available in SF (But You Have to Get On a Waitlist) If you’re sick of looking at those self-driving cars with droids on top of them, now you can get into one and get a free ride instead — but the program seems unlikely to start for weeks or even months.
SF News Feds: Hayward Sports Bar Seen On 'Bar Rescue' Was Linked to Bay Area-Based Drug Smuggling Ring Recently revealed court records tell a wide-ranging tale of alleged drug smuggling and trafficking that spans the country, but several key players are Bay Area-based, and they include a Hayward bar owner featured on the bar-makeover show Bar Rescue.
SF News Feral Pigs Running Amok in Lafayette, Moraga, and Really Almost the Whole State Pig problems persist in the East Bay suburbs, where the porkers are destroying property and risk contaminating the drinking water.
SF News Masks Come Off at SF Gyms Again as COVID Cases Decline; Wachter Suggests We'll Hit 'Regionally Endemic' In Feb. The Omicron surge has shown signs of peaking and/or declining in multiple parts of the country, and in the Bay Area it is definitely receding, along with hospitalizations.
SF Politics Universal Healthcare Bill Falls in State Assembly Yet Again A bill to bring publicly funded healthcare to every Californian did not even make it to the floor for a vote, to the delight of opponents who called it a “government healthcare takeover.”
SF News Major Injury Crash On Bay Bridge Involved Three Vehicles, Led to Monday Night Traffic Backup A rollover crash on the Bay Bridge Monday evening left one person seriously injured, and led to a major traffic snarl for those trying to drive into San Francisco.
Car Accidents & Crashes in & around SF 12+ Best SF Truck Accident Attorneys Who Specialize in Semi Crashes More common than many might think, lawsuits relating to truck crashes have major ramifications. These 12 best SF truck accident lawyers can help you in the process.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Some Oakland Teachers Threaten Hunger Strike Over School Closures Tensions are ramping up over proposed school closures in Oakland, the person killed in Saturday's hit-and-run in SF's Outer Sunset has been identified as a local Irish athlete, and Pete Buttigieg has a plan for the Port of Oakland's empty containers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: High-Wind Advisory Issued For This Week More fire danger and possible power outages come with more high winds this week, a sweep yielded a bunch of illegally possessed guns in the Bay Area, and CA's snowpack has again fallen below average.
SF News Proposed Mint Plaza ‘Pod Hotel’ Hits a Snag, as Rival Pod Hotel Group Claims Trademark Infringement An odd “pod hotel” concept may be forced back to the drawing board with their Mint Plaza plans, because another hotel firm reportedly claims they’ve trademarked the idea and no one else can use it.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Video and Dispatch Audio From SFO Shooting The SFPD on Monday held a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the details of the January 20 officer-involved shooting at SFO, in which a man who appeared armed with two handguns and a knife was killed by police.
SF News Newsom Angling to Close San Quentin Death Row, Make It a ‘Healing Environment’ San Quentin State Prison is home to California’s last remaining death row for men, but Governor Newsom wants to dismantle and repurpose it into some sort of vaguely described “positive, healing environment.”
SF News [Update] 50-Year-Old Man Found Dead From Explosive Device Near Antioch High School A bizarre incident unfolded Monday morning in Antioch, less than 48 hours after a double murder in the East Bay city.
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain, Left With 22 Bullet Wounds From Gas Station Shooting, Tells His Story In First Interview Former Oakland PD captain Ersie Joyner still has lead in him for the day he suffered 22 bullet wounds at a Chevron station shakedown in West Oakland in October, but is back to full health and just gave his first interview describing what happened that day.
SF News Parents Who Hate California's School Mask Mandates Jump All Over Newsom's Masklessness at 49ers Game Governor Gavin Newsom's legion of Twitter critics have come out with their virtual pitchforks again after he was photographed maskless at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Taking All the Blame, Likely Done Here After 20-17 Loss to Rams Jimmy G doesn’t look so handsome anymore after an atrocious interception ended the 49ers’ season in heartbreak Sunday, and it is a foregone conclusion that he will be shipped elsewhere in the offseason.
Business & Tech Spotify Says It Will Add Content Warnings to Podcasts; Joe Rogan Offers Half-Apology Facing a growing crisis last week, Spotify rushed to make a public pledge about dealing with misinformation on podcasts — but the company stopped short of saying it would pull down any content or end its relationship with controversial anti-vaxx bro Joe Rogan.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Muni Warns Of Major Delays Due to Staffing Issues Gunfire in East Oakland damaged some Comcast lines and led to a major cable outage during Sunday's football game, Muni delays are being caused by COVID-related staffing shortages, and demand for tests in SF is way down.
SF News Northern California Might Not See a Drop of Rain or Single Snowflake Until Mid-February According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, Northern California could see extremely dry conditions — "with zero rain or snow in most spots" — well into the middle of February, a dry spell that will probably be observed throughout California and elsewhere along the West Coast.
