SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Absolute Best Burgers in Oakland, Berkeley, and the East Bay The Bay Area is home to a bevy of world-class burger spots and restaurant chefs who have been perfecting the burger arts for decades. And that is very much true in the East Bay too.
SF News 24th Street's Ficus Trees Get Two-Month Reprieve As Neighbors Continue a Battle to Save Them Neighbors along the 24th Street corridor in the Mission have been arguing against the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) for years now over the fate of the lovely but sometimes precarious mature ficus trees that line the street.
SF News Two Alleged Western Addition Gang Members Face Federal Charges In March 2019 Fillmore Shooting A pair of suspects in a shooting that left one man dead and five others wounded last March in the Fillmore District were indicted in federal court Wednesday on charges of being felons in possession of a firearm, and using a firearm in a violent crime that ended in death.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Swearing-In Draws Progressive Icons, Video Address From Justice Sonia Sotomayor Danny Glover, Angela Davis, and the ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ Jimmy Fails were on hand, with Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor beamed in, as Chesa Boudin took the oath as San Francisco’s 30th district attorney.
Arts & Entertainment Watch the Pilot of 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist,' the Latest TV Show Set in SF The mid-season premiere of NBC's "musical dramedy" about a woman whose brain malfunctions and she starts hallucinating that everyone breaks into musical numbers was on Tuesday night. It's the latest prime-time show to be set and partly shot in San Francisco.
SF News It's January So That Means King Tides, Possible Floods Along Embarcadero It's time yet again for the king tides that visit the Bay Area and other coasts every winter, and they're coming around again this weekend, on both Friday and Saturday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Dies In Treasure Island Crash BART is apologizing for stranding thousands of people while removing a mentally ill person from the trackway in the East Bay last night, and some brazen burglaries have Walnut Creek residents on edge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Get Your California Campsite Reservations This Week A 49-year-old Sonoma County man is suspected of assaulting a 14-year-old girl on Tuesday, crime was down last year in the Tenderloin, and a massive development in Concord is in jeopardy.
Business & Tech Prepare for Ubers to Start Rejecting More Trips As AB5-Related Changes Roll Out After a new state law just took effect with the intention of protecting gig-economy workers, Uber is taking the position, temporarily, that it just has to make some changes to its driver-side app to comply with the law. And those changes are likely to impact riders across the board.
SF News Group Of Neighbors In Less Dense SF Neighborhood Sues to Block High-Density Housing Project Another week, another NIMBY effort in San Francisco — despite all the groundswell of support for the idea that the city needs more housing, not more hemming and hawing over it.
SF News Academy of Art Forced to Pay $38 Million for Eliminating Affordable Housing The Academy of Art has been more of a mega-landlord than an art school, and the Board of Supervisors approved the clawing back of $37.6 million for the Academy’s illegal conversion of affordable housing stock.
SF Politics San Francisco Swears In California's First Asian American Sheriff San Francisco's 37th sheriff, Paul Miyamoto, was sworn in Wednesday afternoon at City Hall, marking the first time any California county has had an Asian American in this law enforcement role.
SF News L.A. Man Arrested In Kidnapping of Fort Bragg Teen Released From Jail as DA's Office Delays Charges A 22-year-old Los Angeles man arrested earlier this week in connection with the weekend disappearance of a 13-year-old Mendocino County girl visiting San Francisco with her family has been released from jail pending charges.
Business & Tech City Aims to Shut Down 'Rogue' Scooter Company Go X for Operating With Allegedly Forged Permit Calling the business's actions "next-level craziness," the SFMTA and the City Attorney's Office are seeking to shut down the e-scooter company Go X, which has been operating in San Francisco without a city permit now for a year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Flore Quietly Shutters After 47 Years In the Casto, Future Uncertain The iconic indoor-outdoor Cafe Flore (more recently just "Flore") at Noe and Market has weathered storms and ownership changes before. But over the holidays the place quietly shut its doors and posted a notice saying that it's becoming an event space.
SF News Newsom Creates $750M Homeless Housing Fund, Directs Cities To Build Shelters On Vacant Land California Governor Gavin Newsom is signing an executive order Wednesday creating a new fund that will provide rent assistance to homeless people and fund emergency shelters throughout the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Elizabeth Holmes' Lawyers Argue for Document Release Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers in a civil case say she hasn't paid them, electric scooter injuries are way up, and cell providers are testifying in Sacramento about the impacts of PG&E's shutoffs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alleged Kidnapper Of Fort Bragg Teen Faces 18 Felonies State Sen. Scott Wiener and supporters of SB 50 were shouted down at a press conference in Oakland, police arrested four robbery suspects and seized illegal weapons in an early morning raid in East Oakland, and we may now be at war with Iran.
SF News BART Might Finally Have Seamless Wi-Fi, In a Few Years In addition to voting on that "ambassador" program on Thursday, BART's board of directors will be voting on a four-phase, multi-year plan to finally make good on a decade-old promise to provide systemwide wi-fi.
SF Politics Get Ready for the Chesa Boudin Administration — He’s Sworn in as DA Wednesday The Democratic Socialist and son of incarcerated radical activists hopes to change the face of San Francisco law enforcement, starting at his 5:30 p.m. swearing-in Wednesday.
SF News Muni Underground Service to Stop After 9:30 p.m. in Late January For About a Week The SFMTA is undertaking another week (or so) of maintenance on the Muni Metro later this month, and this will mean no underground service for commuters leaving the office late or anyone trying to get home after dinner by train.
SF News Bay Area Criminals Are Reportedly Driving to SoCal to Break Into More Cars In what is perhaps a sign that local law enforcement is doing an OK job at deterring and catching auto burglars for a change, police in Southern California have noted a trend in Bay Area gangs traveling down there to target tourist vehicles.
Business & Tech Facebook Bans Some Deepfakes, But Not Those Made for 'Satire' In a seemingly cynical and tactical move ahead of another congressional hearing, Facebook announced today that it is officially banning intentionally manipulated video aimed at misinforming the public, a.k.a. deepfakes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area-Based Impossible Foods Unveils Plant-Based 'Impossible Pork' Using the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas as its launchpad, Redwood City-based Impossible Foods announced its latest product Monday night: Impossible Pork.
SF News BART Likely to Launch Unarmed 'Ambassador' Program To Address Quality-of-Life Complaints The BART Board of Directors is inching closer to approving a program that's been in the works nearly two years in which unarmed "ambassadors" will roam trains cleaning up needles and other "biohazards" and providing outreach to the homeless.
