New restaurants are opening again! This week we have news about a new modern Mexican spot from the team behind Son's Addition opening in the Lower Haight, and the debut of some new KFC (Korean fried chicken) downtown.
The SF-set musical TV show is doing a Bay to Breakers episode Sunday night, likely without much nudity or drunkenness. But Bernadette Peters is involved!
Lake Oroville has been the setting for dramatic images of both the last drought, and the rainy El Nino aftermath of the drought that led to a near disaster at Oroville Dam in 2017. And, once again, with the reservoir at 42% of its capacity, some new photos are rolling in.
Onetime Rupaul's Drag Race contestant Honey Mahogany, who more recently has been working in San Francisco City Hall as a legislative aide to Supervisor Matt Haney, announced this week that she's running to become the first Black trans person to run for SF Democratic Party Chair.
The Oakland Museum needs your money more than ever, and while last year's White Elephant sale managed to happen before the pandemic set it in, this year's will, for the very first time, be fully online.
San Francisco is expected to enter the "Yellow" tier next week for the first time since October, and the city is planning to lift more public health restrictions on businesses — most notably on bars.
Three people were shot at Market and Mason streets Thursday, the Department of Building Inspection will be fining embattled school board member Allison Collins and her husband, and it remains unclear if Outside Lands will require vaccinations.
The San Francisco 49ers selected QB Trey Lance with the third overall selection of the 2021 NFL Draft.
The two people arrested for killing rapper Lil Yase aren't being charged, Gov. Newsom announced $6 billion in tax breaks for small businesses, and firefighters were dealing with a brush fire in the East Bay today.
Earlier this week we got the day-to-day lineups for this year's Outside Lands, which is happening over Halloween weekend instead of in August. And today at 10 a.m. the single-day tickets went on sale — and they went fast.
Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford’s tricked-out San Francisco-themed fish tank has created a splash hit on social media, after his Splash Hit on Wednesday night.
On Thursday night Berkeley Rep is premiering an original musical film piece based on Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves' shot in performers' own homes, featuring some serious Broadway talent.
The hotly anticipated Oakland Assembly food hall at Jack London Square was delayed by the pandemic but now it sounds like they will have to start the tenant hunt all over again.
Have you had a chance to see Kiri, the most adorable, cartoonish little Japanese fire truck that lives most of the time in Bernal Heights? Well, you should know that this pandemic-year addition to the city is not an official San Francisco Fire Department vehicle. But it is a functioning fire truck.
One of last August's wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder.
Daly City officials released the names of the officers involved in the April 7 shooting of Roger Allen, a CHP pursuit that started in Tracy this morning ended in a fatal crash in Hayward, and a startup is selling pseudo time-shares in Napa and residents aren't happy about it.
A decomposing body was found in the East Bay's Lake Chabot Regional Park, the Exploratorium is downsizing its staff, and a truck driver shortage may lead to gas shortages this summer.
The Independent Venue Preservation Initiative says it will pay venues’ unpaid bills going back to last February, but will depend on “community-driven micro-donations” to do so.
Authorities in the East Bay have arrested two individuals, a man and a woman, in connection with the murder of Lil Yase — a.k.a. Mark Alexander, Jr. — who was fatally shot over Thanksgiving weekend last year under circumstances that baffled his friends.
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San Francisco street artist fnnch has attracted a tsunami of online anger and criticism in recent months, and even more of that exploded when he was confronted by one of his critics in a now widely seen Instagram video.
The palace intrigue continues over Monday's announcement that SF Mayor London Breed had tapped longtime City Attorney Dennis Herrera to head up the Public Utilities Commission.
The April 19 death of Oakland resident Mario Arenales Gonzalez while in the custody of Alameda police has garnered national headlines because it occurred just one day before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd under similar circumstances.
A Tuesday night shooting in the Mission District has left a 26-year-old man with grave injuries, and the circumstances surrounding it remain unknown.
A report by Oakland's city auditor finds that they're unprepared to deal with the encampment crisis, a fire broke out in a downtown SF high-rise Tuesday night, and Sonoma has declared a drought emergency.
The city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley are at odds over the school's long-range development plans, a San Jose trans woman and popular performer was killed on Friday and her fans are in mourning, and far-right influencers are flocking to Twitch.
