Arts & Entertainment De Young Museum to Host America’s First Ever Manga Museum Exhibition, Starting This Saturday The de Young Museum is displaying the first ever manga themed exhibition in a major American museum, starting this Saturday, and you better believe that Saturday’s opening event has been declared a “Cosplay Day.”
SF News Sarah Jane Moore, the Unassuming Radical Who Took a Shot at the President In SF, Dies at 95 Sarah Jane Moore, one of two would-be assassins who took aim at President Gerald Ford in the span of three weeks in the summer of 1975, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 95.
SF News Uniqlo Reportedly In Talks to Open a Downtown SF Store Again, Maybe in the Vacant Old Navy Space After the flagship, three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021 as that shopping district dove down the abyss, we’re now getting word that Uniqlo may want back into the downtown SF game, and might even be eyeing the vacant Old Navy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Via Aurelia, the Huge New Tuscan-Focused Restaurant From the Che Fico Team, Opens In Mission Bay Next Week One of the most anticipated and buzzed-about restaurant openings of the year is coming in on schedule. Via Aurelia, from Che Fico partners David Nayfeld and Matt Brewer, will be opening September 30 in Mission Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Nanking Cookbook Arrives Next Week, Written by the Restaurant's Own Fang Family The 37-year-old Chinatown favorite House of Nanking is releasing a cookbook next week, full of decades worth of the restaurant’s most popular recipes, plus a number of long-lost dishes that haven’t been on the menu in years.
SF News SF’s Once-Biggest Landlord Veritas Defaulting on Another $652 Million in Loans, 66 Buildings May Be Up for Grabs A total of 66 apartment buildings with nearly 1,600 units belonging to the mega-landlord Veritas could be on the selling block come December, as Veritas is defaulting on yet another giant loan to the tune of $652 million.
SF News 25-Person Mob-Style Robbery of Jewelry Store In San Ramon Part of Larger Pattern A 25-person mob committed an armed robbery at a jewelry store in San Ramon on Monday, ransacking the store and reportedly making off with $1 million worth of merchandise. The crime is part of a larger pattern repeating itself across California.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Parking Cop Finder App Gets Shut Down An app created to track SF parking cops in real time has been shut down; Kamala Harris faces protesters on the first night of her book tour; and trailblazing local journalist Belva Davis has died.
SF News Passengers Describe Scary Runaway Muni Train Incident By Duboce Park Passengers on Muni's N-Judah line reportedly experienced a harrowing ride Wednesday morning when the train seemed to accelerate out of control and was unable to stop.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Second Jury Deadlocks In Trial of Ex-Dublin Guard The jury in the second trial, like the first one, has deadlocked on the guilt or innocence of former FCI Dublin prison guard Darrell Wayne Smith; 101 California is now for sale; and another restaurant closes in the SF Centre mall.
SF News Monterey’s KION-TV Shuts Down Its Newsroom, Will Apparently Just Play KPIX News Monterey County CBS affiliate KION appears to be the victim of some local TV downsizing, abruptly killing its news department Wednesday morning, and their news will now be called “KPIX News on KION,” which sounds like just KPIX News.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spot For Reubens and Bagels Arrives In the Marina, With Jewish Deli-Inspired Cocktails Super Mensch, the latest venture by Causwells chef-owner Adam Rosenblum, is a labor of love and a return to his roots for Rosenblum, and it opened Wednesday next door to the Presidio movie theater.
SF News Unusually Aggressive Squirrel Has Attacked and Sent Two People to the Hospital In Marin County There’s a woodland creature you don’t want to mess with in the Marin County community of Lucas Valley, as what is believed to be the same squirrel attacked two different women in a two-day span, and both women were sent to the hospital.
SF News Ugh — Realtors Now Trying to Make 'Lower Hayes' Happen It's apparently come time for San Francisco's Mid-Market to be rebranded, 15 years after the neighborhood was primed for a big tech comeback that never really came, and a year after its defining tenant, Twitter, flew the coop.
SF News The Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Complex on Top of New Asia Restaurant Finally Happening, With New State Grant The old-style banquet hall is coming back to Chinatown’s New Asia restaurant that is now a grocery store, along with 175 units of affordable housing on top, thanks to a $33.5 million state grant that Mayor Lurie says just came through.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Joe Betz, Longtime Owner of SF's House of Prime Rib, Dies at 86 San Francisco has lost one of its longest serving restaurateurs, as we learn Wednesday that House of Prime Rib owner Joe Betz has passed.
SF Politics Newsom Goes on Colbert, Warns 'We Will Not Have an Election In 2028 Unless We Wake Up' Governor Gavin Newsom went on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' last night, which was not the most-watched late night show Tuesday that Trump has gotten canceled, or almost canceled.
SF News Oakland Reopens Those Three Fire Stations They Had to Shut Down Because of Their Budget Deficit A $130 million City of Oakland deficit forced the closure of three fire stations, which had residents rightfully scared. But the City Council found the money, and now all three are officially reopened.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Yesterday Was the Hottest Day of the Year In SF Tuesday was the hottest day of the year so far in SF, hitting 88 degrees downtown; SF Rec & Parks identifies new sites for pickleball courts; and some guerrilla public art of Trump and Epstein comes down in DC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 in Big Sur Gets a Reopening Date A Richmond UPS worker was crushed and killed by falling packages; Trump told the United Nations that their countries were all “going to hell;” and Highway 1 in Big Sur has a reopening date — which is still six months from now.
SF News UC Wins This Round Against Trump, Judge Reinstates $500 Million in Research Grants That Trump Yanked What started as some Trump claim that University of California colleges were antisemitic turned into a billion-dollar shakedown, but UC just won this fight (for now) as a judge ordered that $500 million in research grants be reinstated.
SF News Tesla Driver In Deadly January SoMa Crash Charged on Six Counts, But Judge Releases Him From Jail A 67-year-old man has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter for a January crash that killed a man and a dog plus injured seven people, but a judge just released him from jail, and his Tesla may have been at fault.
SF News Local App-Maker Makes Viral App to Track SF Parking Cops The guy behind the app we recently told you about that tracks the relative hotness of restaurant patrons has a new app that tracks SF's meter maids/parking cops in real time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Whole Foods Location In Mill Valley Announces Permanent Closure, Prompting Outcry, Petition One of the first Whole Foods locations in the country, the one that debuted in a Quonset hut structure on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley over 30 years ago, has been closed since July for "repairs," and now may be closed for good.
SF News Fremont Man Charged With Stalking and Killing Sex Offender He Found on Megan's Law Website A Fremont man who apparently took some delight in killing a man he did not know who was listed on a sex offender website has been charged with his murder, and had a previous arrest in 2021 for hunting someone else he thought to be a pedophile.
