SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SFO Catering Workers To Protest Today A 55-year-old man was arrested after yelling threats at SFSU, dozens of vehicles have been hit with projectiles along the same stretch of 101 in Monterey County, and airline catering workers will be protesting on the departures level at SFO today ahead of a possible strike.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Rules Against Neighborhood Group Trying To Stop Homeless Navigation Center Surveillance video shows the moment two young boys were shot early Saturday in Union City, Oakland police arrested 22 people at a recently erected encampment outside City Hall, and the Embarcadero Navigation Center clears its last hurdle.
SF News Muni Equipment Problem Causes Monday Afternoon Rush-Hour Delays A downed overhead power line at Embarcadero and Folsom earlier this morning is leading to residual delays in the Muni Metro system — an all-too-familiar situation for commuters on Muni.
SF News BART Director Stirs the Pot With Op-Ed Accusing Management and Fellow Directors of Negligence On Safety BART director Debora Allen, has been an outspoken critic of new General Manager Bob Powers and some of her fellow directors in recent weeks. And last week's stabbing on board a train in South Hayward has pushed her to pen a scathing opinion piece in the East Bay Times.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca 3.0 Opening Delayed Until March, Space Used For Private Events For Now The legendary and beloved Tosca Cafe in North Beach won't be making it open by year's end, as the team continues to wait for the liquor license to officially transfer from the previous ownership.
SF News NorCal City Asks Permission to Essentially Incarcerate Homeless Population A spike in unsheltered people camping along Shasta County’s Sacramento River has the mayor of Redding requesting a “low-security facility” in which to round them up and detain them involuntarily.
SF News Stray Bullet From Shootout Following Robbery On Oakland's Grand Avenue Injures Resident A gunpoint robbery Monday morning at a coin collectors' store on Oakland's Grand Avenue led to a shootout between the thieves and the store owner, and in the exchange of gunfire a stray bullet entered a nearby residence and injured a person inside.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Drama: Noosh Chefs Fired Amid Owner Dispute; Chubby Noodle Investors Aggrieved The acclaimed husband-and-wife chefs behind Noosh were abruptly fired on Thursday in a dispute with the restaurant's ownership, and the drama that's been unfolding there has echoes in several recent stories from the SF restaurant scene.
SF News SF Teen Slain In September Was Revenge Killing For Unsolved 2014 Murder A 19-year-old who was fatally shot in Crocker-Amazon two months ago appears to have been killed in a revenge attempt by the younger brother of a boy whose brother was murdered in the Mission five years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Reopens Following Rodent Issue Ever popular Tartine Bakery has reopened as of Monday morning, following a closure by the Health Department on Friday that sent ripples across the Bay Area food and media scenes.
SF News Threats By Unhinged-Sounding Student Freak Out USF Campus, Student Arrested A screaming student who had allegedly made threats on social media against the University of San Francisco campus was arrested Sunday night after students locked themselves in campus buildings in fear of a potential mass shooting.
Business & Tech SF-Based Charles Schwab Buys TD Ameritrade, Will Move HQ to Dallas Area 48-year-old brokerage firm Charles Schwab confirmed its widely rumored acquisition of TD Ameritrade on Monday, and the news came with the added detail that the combined company's new corporate headquarters will be in Westlake, Texas.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Homeless Encampment Springs Up at Oakland City Hall The 49ers once again proved worthy of their record with a 37-8 win over the Green Bay Packers, one of the men arrested in the Orinda shooting is appearing in court today, and a Russian Hill restaurant complains about neighborhood burglaries.
SF News Oasis, Beaux To Host Fundraisers This Week To Support Businesses Affected By Castro Fire After last week's four-alarm fire burned four local businesses, including a few residential units, on the block of 456 Castro Street, the community (and city) rallied together, raising and offering financial aid. This week, two fundraisers are slated to help garner more fiscal support.
SF News As Turkey Day Approaches, Bay Area Gas Prices Hit New Highs While we all expect – or, rather, have grown accustomed to – higher prices at the pump come the holiday season, this year's gas prices in the days leading up to Thanksgiving have reached a fresh level of absurdity.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers And The Green Bay Packers Face-Off At Levi's Stadium The 49ers will play the Green Bay Packers at 5:20 p.m. for what will surely be a hair-raising game, over 4,000 people lost power in Marin yesterday because of faulty PG&E equipment, a body was found off the I-580 exit in Oakland, and more Sunday headlines.
SF News These Moms Are Living In A Vacant West Oakland Home To Protest 'Housing-Insecurity' It's no news that Bay Area housing is grossly overinflated – and downright unaffordable, forcing many into homelessness. And, with a slew of vacant houses sprinkled throughout the region, there's no reason why those domiciles should go uninhabited. At least, that's what these East Bay moms believe.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Breaks Out At San Jose Strip Mall Early this morning, a two-alarm blaze broke out inside a San Jose laundromat, incinerating the establishment and charring two neighboring storefronts.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco's Never-Ending Excrement Issue An estimated 25,000 incidents of public pooping were reported in SF from January to November, Juul is the subject of a newly damning New York Times piece, and the second man arrested Thursday in the Orinda shooting case has been ID'd.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Shuttered By Health Department, Temporarily Popular San Francisco bakery destination Tartine has had a little bit of a bad run-in with the city's Department of Public Health, and as of Friday the place is closed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Breed and Herrera Endorse Gascon's Opponent For L.A. DA The CDC is warning about Romaine lettuce from Salinas, one of two suspects arrested in the Orinda shooting has been ID'd, and Mayor London Breed and City Attorney Dennis Herrera just raised a big middle finger at George Gascon.
SF News Transient Man Accused In 2018 BART Stabbing Pleads Insanity In court on Friday, 29-year-old John Lee Cowell pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station in July 2018.
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest 2020 to Feature Sandra Bernhard, Fred Armisen, Crispin Glover and More Tickets go on sale Sunday morning for SF Sketchfest, which runs from January 9 to January 26, 2020, and it will, as always, feature a cavalcade of funny folks from across the country in comedy showcases, scripted shows, and on-stage tributes.
SF News BART to Reopen Bathrooms, Modernize Stations at Powell Street and 19th Street In Oakland BART's board has just approved a contract to modernize Powell Street Station in San Francisco, a project that will include reopening the public restrooms there that have been closed since September 11, 2001.
SF Politics Vacancy Tax Passes Board of Supervisors, Will Appear on March Ballot Landlords will get charged by the square foot for keeping spots empty, if voters approve the Storefront Vacancy Tax in the March 2020 election.
