SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Chef Dominique Crenn Engaged to Actress Maria Bello Michelin three-star chef Dominique Crenn is in love, and she has proposed to girlfriend Maria Bello — the actress best known for films like Coyote Ugly, The World Trade Center, and The Cooler.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFPD Seeks Man In Super Bowl Sunday Burrito Attack at Gordo Taqueria An irate customer at an Outer Richmond taqueria is being sought by police in an aggravated assault that took place on Sunday, February 2 — during the Super Bowl.
Business & Tech Oracle Employees Circulate Petition Over Larry Ellison's Planned Golf Fundraiser for Trump Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is hosting a golf fundraiser for President Trump's reelection campaign on Wednesday, and some Oracle employees have started a petition denouncing the event.
SF News Mid-February Wildfire Spreads to 120 Acres In Tahoe National Forest, Concerning Fire Experts The Antelope Fire broke out Monday along Highway 49 in Sierra County, north of Sierraville in Tahoe National Forest, and it quickly spread to 120 acres before firefighters could contain it.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Big Rig Rollover Crash Snarls I-80 In Emeryville A bomb threat shut down Diridon Station in San Jose for several hours this morning, a Santa Rosa mother and daughter face stigma from self-quarantine after trip to China, and President Trump just pardoned former 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo, Jr.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Local Alien Guy Thinks Aliens May Already Be Here The Oakland City Council will be honoring Moms 4 Housing for Black History Month, a Cupertino Park has been temporarily shut down after a mountain lion apparently attacked a child, and a local "astrobiologist" thinks we may already have aliens among us (no joke).
Arts & Entertainment 'Venom 2' Film Shoot Spotted in the Tenderloin At the same time that the fourth installment of 'The Matrix' franchise is filming in SF, it appears the sequel to 2018's 'Venom' is shooting in the city as well.
SF News SF Bank Robber In Mask Identified By Hand Tattoos The suspect in a pair of bank robberies in the Marina last fall decided not to wear gloves, and he was easily identified by authorities because he had the words "HATE" and "CRIME" tattooed across the tops of his hands, with some other script letters across his knuckles.
Business & Tech Protesters Swarm Zuckerberg’s SF Home to Condemn Facebook Political Ad Policy Mark Zuckerberg was not home to see this morning’s demonstration, but maybe he’ll see the phrases ‘Facebook is a Russian asset’ chalked on his sidewalk when he's back in town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Katz Bagels Is Closing Its Doors Next Month On 16th Street After 27 years in the Mission District, Katz Bagels is calling it quits. Owner Michael Katz posted a note on the shop door saying that the last bagels will be shmeared and sold on March 24.
SF Politics Bernie Sanders Holds Rally at a Packed Craneway Pavilion in Richmond Senator Bernie Sanders is in the Bay Area today, and a rally for his supporters kicked off at noon at Richmond's Craneway Pavilion.
SF News Americans Evacuated From Cruise Ship In Japan Head To Travis Air Force Base A group of around 340 Americans — some of whom may have tested positive for the coronavirus — were evacuated from Japan by the U.S. State Department Sunday after being held in quarantine for over a week on board a cruise ship.
SF News Presidents' Day Headlines: Elderly Couple Missing on Vacation In Point Reyes A 17-year-old shot by police at the El Cerrito BART station is expected to survive, a young woman killed in Vallejo was the sister of Bay Area rapper Nef the Pharaoh, and a pedestrian was seriously injured at Lombard and Steiner.
Arts & Entertainment Keanu Reeves Spotted In Financial District For 'Matrix 4' Filming; Production Continues Into Tomorrow Keanu Reeves has been seen around the Bay Area these past two months while filming is underway for the fourth installment of 'The Matrix' franchise. And the Neo sightings continue to mount up as production for 'The Matrix 4' carries on throughout San Francisco this weekend and into tomorrow.
SF News Driver Hits Pedestrian At Cow Hollow Intersection, Causing Life-Threatening Injuries A mere four days after a rogue Prius driver ran a red light in the Mission District, striking three pedestrians — two of them left critically injured — another wayfarer was hit by a vehicle and severely maimed last night, this time at a Cow Hollow intersection.
SF News Sunday Links: Two Women Attacked Along Embarcadero By Weapon-Wielding Man A man stabbed one woman and attacked another with an unidentified weapon at the Embarcadero, Oakland's Chinatown — like SF's — is struggling in the wake of the coronavirus, and the El Cerrito station is open again after a BART officer shot an armed man on the platform Saturday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment 'Gatz' Pays Homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Words... All Of Them Across the six hours of 'Gatz' at Berkeley Rep, one realizes this version of 'The Great Gatsby' isn't a staged reading so much as it is an experiment in bringing a book to the stage, and a piece of theater about reading itself.
SF News London Breed Says No To $2.7M In Funding That Would Help Bring Back CCSF Classes Yes, the same San Francisco mayor who once took an over $5K "gift" from ousted Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru just vetoed funding to the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), money that would've gone toward reinstating hundreds of canceled classes.
SF News Developer Coins New Neighborhood For New Highrise: 'Van Mission' This no-man's land between SoMa and the Mission, where Van Ness becomes South Van Ness, has been dubbed Van Mission by the marketing materials of a new high-rise. But will anyone ever really call it that?
SF News San Francisco Flu Patients Will Undergo Testing For Coronavirus In an ever-evolving news cycle around the novel coronavirus, San Francisco flu patients will start being tested for the disease as part of an "early warning system" enacted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
SF News Saturday Links: Business In Chinatown Slows Over Coronavirus Concerns Business in Chinatown is coming to a standstill amidst concerns over the novel coronavirus, dozens of housing rights activists marched into The Keystone in SoMa yesterday night, and nearly 400 Americans aboard the quarantined Princess Diamond cruise ship will fly back home tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union City Police Arrest Two In November Slaying Of Two Boys Jose Garcia-Zarate has been deemed mentally unfit in a federal case, Union City police announced two arrests in the November 23 murder of two young boys, and Facebook has canceled a 5,000-person marketing summit in San Francisco in March over coronavirus fears.
SF News An Elementary School In Richmond Is Getting Named For Michelle Obama Some Black Girl Magic is applied to the West Contra Costa Unified School District, as Wilson Elementary School will be renamed for former First Lady Michelle Obama.
SF Politics Supervisor Proposes Re-Legalizing Gay Bathhouses In San Francisco Over three decades after the scourge of the early HIV/AIDS crisis drove public health officials and then Mayor Dianne Feinstein to push for the shutdown of all gay bathhouses in San Francisco, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says that it's time to overturn this anachronistic and stigmatizing ordinance.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2020 ‘Hearts in San Francisco,’ Which Hit the Streets Today The new annual batch of Hearts in SF sculptures are out for Valentine’s Day, and we caught their unveiling last night to talk with the ‘heartists’ who created this year’s works.
