SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Cooke Shoppe Team Allegedly Has History Of Quickly Shut Businesses In Los Angeles You may have thought that the story that came out of the closure of Cook Shoppe — in the former Chow space on Church Street in the Castro — was already nutty, but there's more!
SF News [Update] PG&E Blackouts Hit 500,000 Customers So Far, With More To Come Marin and Napa customers got their power cut last night, while Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties will lose power today, as the PG&E power outage disaster is mushrooming by the minute.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lombard Street Toll Turning Into A Reality A Lombard Street toll measure moves forward, 13 people were hospitalized for fentanyl exposure at County Jail, and a Giants prospect shows that minor league players are paid peanuts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E To KIll Power for 800,000 Customers, And Their Website Has Crashed PG&E has announced that it's shutting off power for 800,000 customers at midnight, and the utility's website has gone kablooey for the last six hours so people cannot even check whether the outage will be hitting them.
SF News District 5 Race Capturing Little Attention, But Has Huge Implications Challenger Dean Preston came within 1,800 votes of beating then-Supervisor London Breed in 2016. His performance in November against Breed’s hand-picked successor will show whether she still has sway in the district.
SF Politics SF Judge Threatens Betsy DeVos With Jail For Violating Court Order Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ignored a court order to stop collecting certain student loan payments, and a San Francisco federal judge threatened to throw her in the slammer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Mob Opens Permanent Resturant In Grand Lake, Sells Out Of Food After First Day Vegan Mob, the Oakland-based vegan food pop-up — which garnered a cult-like following this past spring — now has less-temporary roots in the Bay Area, taking over the Grand Lake staple Kwik Way Drive-In, with long lines in tow.
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced To Five Years For Setting Construction Site Fire An arson case at an under-construction apartment complex on the Oakland-Emeryville border — one of 10 that was set in similar circumstances around Oakland in the last seven years — has ended in a five-year sentence.
SF News BART Says Service Won't Be Interrupted Despite Wide Possible Power Outage BART pledges that train service will not be interrupted Wednesday and Thursday despite large swaths of the Bay Area being expected to lose power in a PG&E safety shutoff.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Still Undefeated After Monday Night Annihilation of Cleveland Browns The San Francisco 49ers blew out the Browns 31-3 in probably the most joyous game ever played at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Large PG&E Outage Hits SF Nearly 2,000 people lost electricity Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court is hearing a major LGBTQ employment case today, and Sandra Lee Fewer says she's "90 percent" sure she's running for reelection.
SF News Major BART Delays Follow Non-Injury Shooting at Pittsburg-Bay Point Five people were detained for questioning Monday evening following a shooting at BART's Pittsburg-Bay Point Station.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Says Capitalism ‘Is Dead,’ Calls Facebook ‘The New Cigarettes’ The Salesforce CEO unloaded on his tech brethren at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last week, and said Facebook is “the new cigarettes.”
SF News Habitat For Humanity Spends Just $10 To Buy Pleasant Hill Parcel, Will Build Affordable Housing The good folks at Habitat for Humanity just bought this property for a mere ten bucks, and will build seven townhouses for the low-income population.
SF News Warm Weather Brings Out Tarantula Mating Season Around the Bay The sad mating ritual of the Bay Area's tarantula population is going into full swing in time for Halloween spook season, as experts say this week's warm weather will be bringing out more and more wandering males.
Three Hospitalized From Excelsior Blaze, Firefighter Injured, Dog Rescued Two homes on the Excelsior District’s Vienna Street went up in flames that are now contained, and the S.F. Fire Department saved three people and a dog.
SF News PG&E Issues Power Shutoff Warning For Most Of Northern California Except SF This is basically an earthquake kit situation without the earthquake, and will potentially affect millions of Californians between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Roundup of the 2019 Festival Joan Osborne had a heat stroke collapse onstage, Robert Plant busted out plenty of old Zep, and new security restrictions did not damper the delight of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Shutdown Complicates Post-Bluegrass Exodus BART stopped traffic through Powell Street station at a pretty awkward time Sunday night, we're in a risky wildfire period, and Fleet Week technically begins today.
SF News 500-Acre Fire In American Canyon Wraps Around Neighborhood A brush fire broke out Sunday afternoon in the hills above American Canyon in Napa County which sent embers down into an area along a residential neighborhood where neighbors fought flames with garden hoses.
Bay Area Sports MLB Vaguely Threatens To Move A’s To Las Vegas If Oakland Doesn’t Drop Lawsuit It’s kind of a troll move with the Raiders already heading for Las Vegas, but the commissioner of Major League Baseball says the same could happen to the A’s.
SF News Lighter, Better Designed 'Jaws Of Life' Extraction Tools Are Coming To Marin County First Responders Responsible for prying people away from death's ledge, Marin County will soon receive the funds necessary to secure the purchase of five new emergency extraction devices.
SF News Sunday Links: A Million (Or More) People Expected To Attend Fleet Week An SF father was given the longest sentence in the University of Southern California college admissions scandal, Bay Area tarantulas are coming out in droves, a million-plus people to attend Fleet Week, and more Sunday links.
SF News 50-Year-Old Oakland Man Pleads Guilty to Months-Long Robbery Spree After a string of nearly 20 “armed, unarmed and attempted” bank robberies, an Oakland man has pleaded guilty to a U.S District Court Judge in relation to the various heists.
SF News 3.5M Quake Shakes Sleepy Saturday Morning Twitter was feeling it when an earthquake struck this morning, with an epicenter about four miles off the coast of Daly City’s Mussel Rock Park.
