SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slanted Door's Charles Phan Signs New Lease at Ferry Building, Confirms Summer 2022 Reopening Plan The Slanted Door has been one of those landmark SF businesses whose lengthy pandemic closure led to rumors about its possible demise. But we have confirmation that there's been a lease extension to 2034.
SF News Tourists Thwart Smash-and-Grab Near Baker Beach By Throwing Rocks Minutes after a group visiting from Tennessee and Kentucky had their car broken into and robbed, they managed to disrupt the burglary of another vehicle and even get their items returned.
SF News VTA Shooting Victim's Widow Thinks Mass Shooters' Assets Should Belong to Their Victims Families Terra Fritch lost her husband in the May 26 mass shooting at the VTA rail yard in San Jose, and now she's seeking new legislation to help compensate victims families after these all-too-frequent tragedies.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Mother and Daughter Shot Inside Oakland Home A mother and her 11-year-old daughter were shot inside an Oakland home Sunday night, the 22-year-old woman shot by Lake Merritt last week has died from her injuries, and Dr. Monica Gandhi has walked back some comments on the Cal football outbreak.
SF News Two SF Walgreens Locations Will Permanently Close Tomorrow; Another to Cease Operating Wednesday And these three closures will come after the Walgreens stores on Ocean Avenue and Mission Street in San Francisco were shuttered for good earlier this month.
SF News Another Black Bear Finds Itself Lost and Confused in Bay Area Neighborhood A (presumably off-course) black bear was spotted early Sunday strolling around Petaluma. The sighting triggered a shelter-in-place advisory for the Raymond Heights neighborhood — leaving residents concerned, perplexed, and curious about the bear's whereabouts.
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SF News Sunday Links: Islamic Center of San Francisco Mosque Vandalized in Apparent Hate Crime A beer bottle was chucked through a window at a San Francisco Mosque sometime Friday, Hilda & Jesse is open in North Beach for brunch and Monday night breakfast, and SF rents are still down 20% from March of 2020.
SF News Kaiser Reaches Tentative Agreement With Unions; NorCal Outpatient Pharmacies Could Still Be Affected Just two days before at least 24,000 Kaiser Permanente employees were set to go on strike to advocate for better wages and working conditions, a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with labor unions was made — staving off the majority of the planned walkouts.
SF News $10K Reward Offered to Anyone With Information in Highway Shooting That Killed Fremont Toddler Oakland's Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, along with help from SF Police Officers Association and Burma Superstar restaurant, is offering a $10K reward for anyone with information that could lead to the arrest (or arrests) in the fatal shooting of 23-month-old Jasper Wu on I-880 last weekend.
SF News Saturday Links: East Bay Amber Alert Lifted After Sacramento Boy Found Three-year-old Leo Norvell has been found by Hayward police, the National Weather Service issued a Dense Fog Advisory for parts of the Bay Area until 11 a.m., and it’s El Rio’s 43rd birthday today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Is Opening Up Booster Shots for All Adults California will now allow anyone 18 years or older to get their COVID-19 booster shots, the 17th Assembly District of CA special election will take place in SF on April 19, and — at long lost — Britney Spears is free from her conservatorship.
SF News Haight Street Shooting Now a Homicide, as Victim Dies Three Weeks Later In one of the three shootings in three weeks on Haight Street, the victim in the October 23 nighttime shooting has now died, so the investigation will continue as a homicide.
SF News 70-Year-Old Woman Arrested For Vehicular Manslaughter In Killing of Cow Hollow Teacher A 70-year-old woman has been taken into police custody in connection with Wednesday's pedestrian crash in Cow Hollow, which took the life of a 30-year-old paraeducator.
SF Politics Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt, Scheduled to Surrender to Authorities Monday Hold on to your liver spots, because the January 6 commission has won two indictments against Trump insurrection adviser Steve Bannon for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas.
Business & Tech Facebook, Desperate to Control Distribution, Looks to Retail Stores — But Will Anyone Shop at The Meta Store? Facebook — because I refuse to call them Meta — is going hard on retail, and eventually we're likely to see stores around the globe selling Portals and Oculus headsets and, like, Meta-branded mugs and T-shirts?
SF Politics Butte County Town of Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Constitutional Republic’ in the Latest Anti-Vaccine Tantrum The city council of a small town north of Sacramento is making a big stink that they don’t have to follow vaccine mandates, though the mayor backing the measure admits the resolution “doesn’t change anything.”
SF News Op-Ed: We've Learned Nothing Since the 1918 Pandemic About Collective Duty The right wing has convinced itself that vaccine mandates are fascist, and because no one can agree on the same facts, America is going to stay trapped in this cycle of pandemic denial well into the next public health crisis.
SF News Two Separate Car Theft and Baby Kidnapping Cases Bring Amber Alerts to Concord and Pittsburg The East Bay saw two separate cases Thursday night where cars were stolen that had babies inside — and both babies are safe, but the suspect in a Concord case is still at large.
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Family Mourns SF Educator Killed By Car Another stray bullet has critically injured someone in East Oakland; family and friends are mourning 30-year-old Andrew Zieman, the pedestrian struck and killed in Cow Hollow on Wednesday; and Johnson & Johnson announces it will split into two companies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Set to Approve $6.9 Million For Extra Elections The upcoming special and recall elections in SF could cost $6.9 million, students at Lowell High School staged a walkout over sexual assault cases, and SF made at least $100K off of Ivy Getty's wedding.
SF News San Jose Man Posing as ‘Spiritual Healer’ Allegedly Raped 15-Year-Old Girl Police say there could be more victims of this 42-year-old suspect accused of 10 felony counts of sex crimes against a juvenile, after telling the girl he was a “spiritual healer.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former 1760 on Polk Pivoting to Sorella, a New Cocktail Bar and Restaurant From Acquerello Team The Michelin two-starred Acquerello has just announced that its more casual sister space at 1760 Polk Street is going to become a new cocktail-focused bar serving Venetian-style cocktail snacks as well as bigger Italian plates.
Business & Tech Filings Show Elon Musk’s Stock Sell-Off Was Pre-Scheduled, Likely Unrelated to Twitter Poll The latest Elon Musk Twitter nonsense involved a poll where his fanboys would determine whether he should sell his Tesla stock and finally pay taxes, but regulatory filings show the sale was planned in mid-September.
