SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Car Burglary Suspects Crash Into Meter Maid Oakland police conducted a mystery raid in East Oakland this morning, Coach Steve Kerr got ejected from the Warriors' game last night, and four suspects were apprehended in Cow Hollow after their car crashed into a parking control vehicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Standoff In West Oakland A major traffic backup in the East Bay, a federal judge tossed out a suit brought by the parents of Kate Steinle, and a standoff continues at an illegal marijuana grow house in West Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins Shutters Mijita at the Ferry Building As She Plots Second Mexican Concept Star chef Traci Des Jardins, who last year closed her 21-year-old flagship restaurant Jardiniere, has also just closed her fast-casual Mexican spot at the Ferry Building, Mijita, after 15 years in business.
SF News Lawn Mowers and Leaf Blowers May Go Bye-Bye If Berkeley-Style Ban Goes Statewide Gas-powered mowers, leaf blowers, and weed whackers could get whacked as pollution opponents target gasoline-fueled lawn equipment.
SF News Oakland Man Freed After Three Mistrials; Charges Dropped In 2011 Double Murder An Oakland man who has spent the last five years in jail was let free on Monday following three mistrials with deadlocked juries, the last of which ended in October.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open 'The Anchovy Bar' In Former Fat Angel Space The recently shuttered Fat Angel (1740 O'Farrell Street off Fillmore) already has a taker, and it's the team of Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski from State Bird Provisions and The Progress around the corner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Spinoff Automat Coming to Green Chile Kitchen Digs In NoPa A much-anticipated new project from Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay and former Lazy Bear sous chef Matthew Kirk has found a home, and it's the former Green Chile Kitchen space at McAllister and Baker.
SF News First SF Homicide Victim of 2020 Is Woman in the Tenderloin The first homicide of the new year happened in the Tenderloin, just blocks from two other homicides in December.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Play BottleRock 2020 The lineup for the eighth edition of BottleRock is out, and it's a notably more star-studded one than usual with headliners Stevie Nicks, Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Miley Cyrus.
SF News Murder Charges Possible After Death of 89-Year-Old Woman Beaten in Visitacion Valley An 89-year-old great-grandmother succumbed to her injuries Friday after a year in the hospital following a January 2019 beating in a park near her home in Visitacion Valley.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshows Pop Up Across San Francisco The trial begins today for the man accused of killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station, a vigil for the deceased laptop theft victim in Oakland, and Sunday sideshows were captured on video in SF.
SF News Images From Saturday's Demonstration In San Francisco Condemning US Attack On Iran Thousands descended on downtown San Francisco yesterday to criticize the American airstrike that killed a top Iranian general (Qassem Soleimani) Friday, an action by President Trump that many agree could pull us into a war.
SF News [Update] Missing Fort Bragg Teen Found at Ferry Building, 22-y-o Man Arrested A 13-year-old girl was reported missing last week after last being spotted at near UCSF's Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes, where her younger sister was being treated for type 1 diabetes.
SF News Sunday Links: Cargo Plane Returns To SFO After Bird Strike A China Air 747 cargo plane hit a bird shortly after taking off from SFO yesterday, new data shows that there are probably thousands of empty homes in the Bay Area, and a candlelight vigil will be held today for the laptop theft victim at the Montclair Starbucks off Mountain Boulevard.
SF News Kansas Based Developer Wants To Build 65 Affordable Housing Units In The Mission District, Underground Unless you've been living under a rock, it's no news that San Francisco is in the midst of a housing crunch. One proposed solution? To (ironically enough) build housing beneath the bedrock.
SF News A Car-Free Market Street Will Happen By The End Of The Month In a sweeping attempt to curb pedestrian injuries and deaths on Market Street, SFMTA announced that private vehicles won’t be allowed on the road starting January 29th.
SF News Saturday Links: Dave Chappelle Comes To San Francisco For The Weekend Dave Chapelle is in SF tonight and tomorrow to do three shows at The Chapel, nearly 500 eateries in the city closed for good in 2019, and there's an important sewer pipe near Lake Merced that San Francisco plans to spend millions to save from climate change.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 70-Year-Old Bicyclist Injured in Hit-and-Run There are some more details in an incident involving a homeless man chasing someone with a needle in SoMa, Bay Area lawmakers are denouncing Trump's drone strike in Iraq, and Sonoma officials are dealing with a rat problem.
Arts & Entertainment 'Becky Nurse of Salem' Dissects the Cliché of the Witch-Hunt The latest world premiere at Berkeley Rep by playwright Sarah Ruhl is a complex and darkly funny look at the Salem Witch Trials through the lens of contemporary American malaise, the #MeToo movement, and Donald Trump.
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For the Quadrantid Meteor Shower This Weekend Near the Big Dipper A meteor shower that is expected to go on through January 10 will peak tonight around midnight on the West Coast. It will be low to the horizon, but will at least be more visible than that November "unicorn" shower, which was a bust for California.
SF News Women’s Shelter Gets New Permanent Home in SoMa With $1M City Grant Longtime domestic violence prevention nonprofit La Casa de las Madres has bought a building, after bouncing around the city with three previous moves.
SF News Two Convicted Felons To Face Murder and Manslaughter Charges In Death of Laptop Theft Victim Two previously convicted robbers have been arrested and are facing charges in the New Year's Eve death of a 34-year-old Oakland man whose laptop computer they were allegedly trying to steal.
SF Politics SF Redevelopment Agency Successor Seeks To Make Good On Building 5,800 Affordable Units The agency that took over for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), known as the Office of Community Infrastructure and Investment (OCII), has just proposed a state law that would allow it to use its former funding tools to develop nearly 6,000 new below-market-rate units in the city.
SF Politics East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee Got Married on New Year's Eve Eleven-term U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has represented Oakland and the East Bay in the House of Representatives since 1998, was just married on New Year's Eve to Los Angeles-based pastor Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden, Jr.
SF News SFPD Arrests Man In SoMa For Chasing Someone With a Needle A man was arrested Monday evening after reports that he was chasing another person around the area of 7th and Mission Street with a hypodermic needle.
