SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Chocolate Shop Owner Attacked and Strangled, Saved By Son The owner of a popular truffle shop in North Beach says he was being strangled by an allegedly homeless man outside his store on Monday, and the attacker only relented when the owner's son came out with a baseball bat.
Arts & Entertainment FogCam, The World’s Oldest Webcam, To Shut Off August 30 The oldest still-operating webcam was born in San Francisco, but it will cease to exist next week after 25 years of producing grainy footage of the fog rolling through SF State.
SF News Ghost Ship Defense Attorneys Move For Mistrial As Judge Charges Two Dismissed Jurors With Contempt In open court today the judge in the case announced that two of the three dismissed jurors are going to face contempt charges related to possible contacts with the media or internet use.
Business & Tech Facebook Will Now Let You Opt Out Of Having Your Every Move Tracked Online Over a year after the Cambridge Analytica debacle showed Facebook users how insidious the practice of personal data-collection has become, Facebook is giving users a new way to control how much data it's collecting on your activities outside Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Artist Had Elephant Sculptures and Truck Stolen In West Oakland Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Stories: 6 or 7 Ghost Ship Jurors May Have To Leave Soon Wildfires are down across California by 90% this year, the city of SF is giving teachers $3K bonuses, SFO's plastic water bottle ban takes effect, and some Ghost Ship trial jurors now have scheduling conflicts looming.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Death Penalty Sought For MacArthur Station Murder Suspect Muni had a meltdown at the end of rush hour Monday morning, a 32-year-old man in the Bayview suffered life threatening injuries after being punched, and a trailer fire sent smoke over Santa Rosa today.
Arts & Entertainment SF Animal Care's 'Officer Edith': 'There's Always A Skunk At the Bottom of a Hole' One of the darlings of the local government Twitterati, the voice behind the @OfficerEdith Twitter handle that tweets cute pictures of animals rescued by Animal Care & Control, is actually named Lt. Eleanor Sadler.
SF News BART Board May Ban Panhandling, But Buskers Could Be Barred Too A full banishment of panhandling could be in the works for the BART system, but we’d lose our lovely musical busking performers in the stations as well.
SF News Three Jurors Dismissed And Replaced On 10th Day Of Ghost Ship Trial Deliberations The judge in the trial of Ghost Ship fire defendants Derick Almena and Max Harris has dismissed three jurors — a quarter of the jury — for undisclosed reasons, and replaced them with three alternates.
Business & Tech Uber Cuts $200,000 Balloon Budget for 'Uberversaries' Uber's Chief Financial Officer Nelson Chai reportedly sent out a company-wide email earlier this month to announce a bit of deflating news: The company is axing work anniversary balloons from their yearly expenditures.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RT Rotisserie Opens Second Location In Faletti/Nopalito Complex At Oak and Broderick Popular fast-casual Rich Table spinoff RT Rotisserie is getting set to debut a second location in the former DeLessio Market and Bakery space next door to Faletti Foods at 306 Broderick Street — exactly 12 blocks from the original location.
SF News Alameda Landlord Claims She Is Not Greedy As She Attempts To Evict 87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor A landlord in Alameda has been trying for a year to evict an elderly Holocaust survivor — and previously his terminally ill son, who has now died — reportedly over a $700/month rent hike.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Alamo Drafthouse Reopens After Small Electrical Fire; Refunds Offered If you had tickets for a movie tonight or were planning to see something at Alamo Drafthouse in the Mission in the next day or so, you may be out of luck as the theater is temporarily closed pending an SFFD inspection on Monday.
SF Politics Pelosi Challengers Debated Online Saturday, And The Gloves Came Off Late In an online debate Saturday, Pelosi’s primary challengers called her “a corporate Democrat” who’s “been in office for longer than I’ve been alive,” but hit each other hard as the night wore on.
Arts & Entertainment Hoorah! Curran Theater Will Continue To Be Run By Carole Shorenstein Hays Following Settlement With SHN Theater fans who worried that The Curran might stop importing interesting Broadway fare from New York due to a court fight can breathe a sigh of relief -- the theater can continue to book what it wants "without restriction."
SF News Once Again, A Foolish Driver Drove Through the Muni Tunnel At Duboce Park An SUV tore through the Sunset Tunnel on the N-Judah line on Saturday, this time making it all the way through and out the other side at Cole and Carl Streets.
SF News Homeless Man Accused In Assault To Be Jailed Today On Earlier Arrest Warrant Multiple other victims have come forward with stories of possible threats made by the same homeless man in last week's assault case, and now he's definitely landing in jail.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: PG&E Shares Plummet After Tubbs Fire Decision A woman was fatally struck by a BART train at Powell Sunday night, a registered sex offender chased several women around Santa Rosa, and Sacramento is suing seven homeless people in an unusual case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Friends Visit All 28 San Francisco Breweries In One Day A group of SF friends set out on Saturday, August 17 to hit every brewery in the city, beginning out at the ocean at 9:30 a.m. at Beach Chalet — a grand total of 28 stops. And they survived.
SF News Judge 'Alarmed' After Seeing Footage of Homeless Man Attacking Woman, Backlash Mounting Prior to releasing James Austin Vincent — the homeless man who, unprovoked, attacked SF resident Paneez Kosarian outside her building — presiding Judge Christine Van Aken had not seen the video footage of the incident. And now that she has, Van Aken is “alarmed.”
SF News BART Board President Says Milpitas and Berryessa Stations Will Open by December 31st After much hoopla and delay, the president of the BART board has promised that two new South Bay BART stations are almost definitely going to open by December 31st.
SF News Sunday Links: Anti-Gun Violence Rally Engulfs the Steps at City Hall A man was arrested following a robbery and assault at the Tanforan Mall, a Civil War reenactment happened at Fort Point on Saturday, and a South SF woman was arrested for allegedly shooting her boyfriend.
SF News A Jury Now Will Decide If PG&E Was Responsible For the Tubbs Fire In wake of PG&E’s long list of financial and judicial woes, the presiding judge of the utility company’s mounting bankruptcy case has, as of yesterday, allowed a state-appointed jury to decide if the electrical company’s equipment was the cause of the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF News 186 Electric Fans Sent to Oakland Schools During This Week's Heatwave This week’s sudden (and sweltering) heatwave not only made throngs of Bay Area locals stampede toward swimming pools, but it also highlighted the underfunded status of Oakland’s public school system.
