SF News SF Still Tops New York, Dubai, And Hong Kong For Number of Billionaires Per Capita Just in case you needed another depressing statistic about our local surroundings, San Francisco now has a greater density of billionaires than any other city in the world.
SF News As It Turns Out, The 'Twitter Tax Break' Was No Cure-All For Mid-Market's Many Troubles The crossroads of SF's busiest thoroughfare and its historically most chaotic gathering places for drug-addicted, sometimes mentally ill, and often in-crisis residents has not taken so quickly or easily to the forces of gentrification.
SF News Judge In Ghost Ship Trial Warns Jury, Holds Closed-Door Hearing On Outside Communications We're only a week into what's likely to be the months-long Ghost Ship trial, and already there appear to have been multiple issues with the jury and contacts being made outside the courtroom.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Win Game 5, Lose Durant in the Process The Golden State Warriors survived a Kevin Durant injury and a furious comeback attempt by the visiting Houston Rockets Wednesday night to take Game 5, 104-99, in Oakland.
Bay Area Sports Sharks Eke Out Game 7 Win Against Avalanche, Head to Conference Finals The San Jose Sharks defeated the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in Wednesday night's Game 7 at the SAP Center. In this back-and-forth series, which saw each team alternate wins throughout, nothing seemed to come easy.
SF News Thursday Morning Whats Up: Munchery Sells Its South SF Headquarters Florence Fang has filed her discrimination suit in the Flintstones House case, Munchery has sold its food service facility at auction, and what to expect from Uber's IPO day.
SF News Day Around The Bay: DA Investigates SF Doctor Who Issued Vaccination Exemptions A child assault suspect who faked his own Golden Gate Bridge suicide in 2016 was arrested in Florida, a Millbrae flasher is on the loose, and Oakland's former assistant fire marshal testified in the Ghost Ship trial.
SF News Problematic Sharp Turn In Oakland BART Tunnel All Thanks To A 1960s Political Compromise You know that screeching turn that BART trains have to make between Lake Merritt and 12th Street-City Center in Oakland? It didn't need to be that sharp, or that screeching, if it weren't for a decision forced by a political favor during BART's design phase.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Firm Designs 3-D Printed Village For Farm Workers In Latin America An SF-based design firm has partnered with a nonprofit that develops housing in the developing world to build a 50-unit housing village using 3-D printing construction technology in 50 days time.
Bay Area Sports Newly Promoted Mac Williamson Drills a Homer as Giants Dominate Rockies 14-4 The San Francisco Giants put on an offensive show at Coors Field in Colorado Tuesday night, trouncing the Rockies 14-4. Madison Bumgarner picked up the win, holding Colorado's high-powered offense to three runs over six innings of work, striking out eight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marina To Get A Second Country-Western Bar, This One With A Mechanical Bull Yee-haw? Westwood, a new country music bar from one of the guys behind The Brixton, Trademark & Copyright, Horsefeather, and Last Rites, is headed for the former Stock in Trade space on Lombard by late May.
SF News Scenes From The Picket Line Outside Uber HQ In SF Drivers for both Uber and Lyft are on strike today, protesting low wages and a lack of transparency around compensation, and a couple hundred gathered outside Uber's Market Street offices this afternoon ahead of the company's planned IPO.
SF News ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ Director Kevin Epps Re-Arrested In 2016 Murder Case Director Kevin Epps was already arrested once for this shooting in his Glen Park home, and the DA claims to have strong new evidence against him.
SF News Gas Leak Prompts Evacuations, N-Train Disruption In Sunset District A gas leak possibly caused by a backhoe working near the Muni tracks at 23rd Avenue and Judah has prompted evacuations and a shelter-in-place order.
Business & Tech Amazon Go a No-Go As Supes Vote To Ban Cashless Stores The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to ban all retail outlets in the city that don't accept cash as payment. The move to quell a growing trend of cashless stores and restaurants is meant to ensure access to all stores by low-income residents.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Uber / Lyft Driver Strike Kicks Off SF School Board President says he was racially profiled at a Walgreens, Monday's dead whale gets necropsy, and A's pitcher Mike Fiers pitches no-hitter.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mistrial Declared In Skateboard Attack On Security Guard The case of the Redwood City woman who tried to drown her just-born baby in a McDonald's toilet in 2017 has resolved with no jail time, and the planned Uber/Lyft strike might not impact riders.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Hosting Bagel Pop-Up Wednesday Night Get set for a longer-than-typical line outside Tartine Bakery Wednesday evening as notoriously bagel-starved SF gets a new bagel pop-up to try, called Midnite Bagel.
SF News Confessed Bay Area Killer Linked Through DNA To Tahoe Cold Case From 1982 A confessed murderer who committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial in 1983 has been definitively linked to the 1982 murder of Mary Edith Silvani near Lake Tahoe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Restaurants, Benu and Bar Agricole, Take Home Big Prizes at the James Beard Awards "Eighth time’s a charm," joked Bar Agricole owner Thad Vogler in his acceptance speech, after the place won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar Program following annual nominations going back to 2012.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Wine Country,' The Amy Poehler-Directed, Napa-Set Comedy Based On Rachel Dratch's Actual 50th Birthday "Just remember guys, whatever gets said, it's probably what the person has always felt, and the alcohol just let it out," says Tina Fey's character, Tammy.
SF News Bay Area Population Booming, The Rest Of California Not So Much The state population grew by 0.5% in 2018, small potatoes by California standards, but the Bay continues to be a magnet, if a bit less so than two years ago.
Bay Area Sports Update: DeMarcus Cousins Says He Plans To Return This Postseason After some weekend hints by coach Steve Kerr, Cousins himself said Monday that he's expecting to be healed from his Achilles injury in time to rejoin the team soon.
SF News Angela Alioto Apologizes After N-Word Use At Democratic Committee Meeting Former SF supervisor and recent mayoral candidate Angela Alioto says she just got too "passionate" at an April 24th meeting of the Democratic County Central Committee when she used the N-word six times in order to illustrate a point about workplace discrimination.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Drop Both Games In Houston, Return Home For Pivotal Game 5 The Golden State Warriors dropped their second consecutive game in Houston Monday night, losing a close one 112-108. The Rockets were able to "hold serve" at home and tie the Western Conference Semifinal series at two games apiece.
