SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reportedly Has Plans to Expand Into Next-Door César Space, Forcing César to Close News is arriving out of Berkeley that in addition to its own eventual reopening, Chez Panisse is planning another opening later this year in the next-door bar space that for over two decades has been a beloved tapas restaurant and cocktail spot.
SF News ‘California’s Richest City’ In Marin Could Get Its First-Ever Mixed-Income Housing, Though It Doesn't Look Too Affordable The Marin County city of Belvedere has not built a unit of affordable housing in 33 years, but a new complex with a couple of affordable units is making waves along its lagoons.
SF News Mission District Homicide, Stemming From Bar Fight, Is San Francisco's Third of the New Year A 40-year-old man was killed in the Mission District Friday morning, and the SFPD is investigating it as a homicide.
SF News PG&E About to Finish Criminal Probation for San Bruno Explosion, Judge Says They're Still a ‘Menace to California’ During its five years of criminal probation, PG&E has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires, destroying 23,000 homes, and killing 113 Californians, raising questions about the effectiveness of corporate probation.
SF News Rain Possible This Weekend, With More Likely to Come In Early February Meteorologists are being cautiously optimistic that February will bring a return of a wet-weather pattern for the Bay Area, helping to pull us further out of the drought and hopefully finish the winter with an average level of rainfall.
Bay Area Sports L.A. Rams Refused to Sell Playoff Tickets to Bay Area, Fearing Visiting Fans Would Take Over Stadium Again The Rams fear another red-shirt “49er takeover” in their stands for Sunday's NFC title game, and refused to sell tickets to Bay Area fans, but then did a red-faced 180 after nationwide mockery.
Arts & Entertainment Negative Reactions Continue to News About Castro Theatre Changes, While Actual Details Remain Scarce Lamentations on social media and editorials in other media continued over the weekend after last week's bombshell news about the Castro Theatre coming under the management of Another Planet Entertainment. And a rally on Sunday served as a gathering for the most anxious fans.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Antisemitic COVID Conspiracy Flyers Appear In Pac Heights Some weird and antisemitic COVID conspiracy flyers have appeared in Pacific Heights, Monterey County residents are being told to boil their water due to possible wildfire-related contamination, and a Stockton woman escaped abduction.
Sponsored Is The 'SF Exodus' a Myth? Top SF Moving Companies Weigh In Over the past years of the pandemic, many have charged San Francisco with claims of a Great SF Exodus. We compiled a list of the 27 best SF moving companies who weigh in on its legitimacy after providing us with access to their anonymized move data.
SF News Colorado Fire Grows to 700 Acres, Containment at 35% and One Structure Damaged After starting Friday night, the Colorado Fire in Monterey County swelled Saturday from around 150 acres to 700 acres in size, damaging at least one structure; all previously placed evacuation orders are still in effect.
SF News Video: Mission Street Loses Mind After 49ers Playoff Win, But Deplorable Taggers Paint On Muni Windshields The requisite Mission Street mayhem and fireworks erupted after the 49ers’ big win Saturday night, and was rowdy but not violent, though a few Muni buses will be placed on injured reserve.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco Erupts in Cheers After Jaw-Dropping 49ers Victory in Divisional Playoff Game Another hit-and-run left a sixth person dead in San Jose, preparations for SF’s Lunar New Year parade are underway, and Saturday’s nail-biting game between the 49ers and Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers ended in a truly epic win for the NFL team (that left the city alive with revelries).
SF News SF Zoo Welcomes Four Rare Gray Wolves — One of Which Is Named 'Betty White' The SF Zoo introduced four new female Mexican gray wolves to its Wolf Canyon habitat this week as part of a continued effort to sustain the endangered subspecies; one wolf has been named “Betty White” in honor of the late actress who was a supporter of wildlife conservation and animal rights.
SF News Almost 30,000 PG&E Account Holders Lose Power; Downed Power Lines Reported Across Bay Area With wind gusts exceeding 60mph in some parts of the region, PG&E reported nearly 30,000 account holders lost electricity — primarily due to downed or damaged power lines — between Friday night and early Saturday morning.
SF News Saturday Links: Wind-Fueled Wildfire Near Big Sur Visible in Santa Cruz A winter wildfire has burned over 150 acres since Friday night in Monterey County, Safer Together will have walk-up rapid antigen testing available this Sunday at 555 Franklin Street, and about 14,000 COVID-19 tests were just left sitting in bags inside a Pleasanton-based lab.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Scientists Find Clues to Post-COVID 'Brain Fog' in Cerebrospinal Fluid UCSF scientists are getting closer to explaining the "brain fog" some people experience after recovering from COVID-19, an SF man was charged for repeatedly abusing his four-month-old puppy, and it looks like we can expect some Bay Area rain to come our way next month.
SF News Bayview RV Lot for Homeless Opens, But Many Resist Moving in For Lack of Electricity Resources The new “vehicle triage center” opened Wednesday at Candlestick Point, but those who’ve been invited to stay are balking at the idea because propane tanks and generators are prohibited.
SF News California AG Rob Bonta Steps In to Investigate SFO Police Shooting After Suspect Found to Be Holding Fake Gun Thursday morning's officer-involved shooting at the International Terminal of SFO has taken a new twist as we learn that the suspect was not brandishing two guns, as was originally described, but was in fact holding only a replica or airsoft-type pistol.
SF News SF Unemployment Rate Dips to Just 3%, But More Still Unemployed Than Before Pandemic The latest unemployment numbers are encouraging — though the figures are from before the Omicron variant hit — with the unemployment rate hitting just 3% in SF, and even lower in Marin, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Banh Mi Shop From Slanted Door Chef Charles Phan, Chuck's Takeaway, Opens Next Month In the Mission Charles Phan has been up to something in the last year of The Slanted Door's closure that none of us knew about it — and now he drops the news that he's about to open his first banh mi shop in the heart of the Mission District.
SF Politics What’s the Deal With This School Board Recall Election and Why Are We Having It? An Analysis Confused about why we’re having a February 15 school board election? Class is in session, as we look at why this recall is happening, whose money is behind it, and what happens if the recall is successful.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations In California Show First One-Day Drop Since Christmas; SF Hospitalizations May Be Peaking Hospitalizations of COVID patients in the state of California just declined slightly on Thursday in the first one-day decline since the Omicron surge began, and signs point to hospitalizations peaking this week in San Francisco.
SF News Missing Stanford Nurse's Body Found on Bay Shore Near Dumbarton Bridge A 27-year-old traveling nurse who went missing earlier this week in the middle of his shift at Stanford Hospital has been found dead in Fremont, and the circumstances remain unclear.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 49ers Watch Parties Could Spread Omicron There are COVID concerns as bars gear up for big football crowds tomorrow, a Tenderloin addict followed by a Chronicle columnist has died, and CA might let kids as young as 12 get vaccines with parental consent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seals Apparently Biting Swimmers Near Fisherman’s Wharf SF DPH kind of botched the latest COVID numbers, the high wind advisory returns for what’s expected to be a very blustery Friday, and a couple of swimmers have been bit by seals this week at Aquatic Park Cove.
