SF News Guest at Luxury Napa Valley Resort Found Dead in Her Room With Gunshot Wound A 24-year-old guest was found dead inside her room Thursday morning at Napa Valley’s 5-star Bardessono Hotel and Spa, located in Yountville. The death has been ruled suspicious, and the investigation is ongoing.
SF News SF City Attorney David Chiu Prompts ‘US News’ to Disclose When Hospitals Pay for Rankings 'US News & World Report' will start disclosing which hospitals pay for rankings in its “Best Hospitals” list after an investigation by SF City Attorney David Chiu’s office. Chiu also published an op-ed in the publication criticizing its ranking methodology.
SF News Sunday Links: Tech Worker Who Was Stabbing Roommate Fatally Shot by Santa Clara Police The Valkyries played a strong game but lost against the Minnesota Lynx; posts on social media are saying salt trucks have been deployed across Chicago in anticipation of ICE; and an unemployed tech worker was shot and killed by police during a knife attack.
SF News Man Attacks Person Inside Novato Mosque After Crashing Car Into Building Novato police arrested 33-year-old David Slattery Friday morning after he crashed his car into the Islamic Center of North Marin and allegedly attacked someone inside the mosque.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: SF Neo-Futurists Dig a Hole, Youth Capture the Tenderloin, Rainbow Sierrans Hike This week: Kids capture Tenderloin in photos; Rainbow Sierrans hike decades-strong; “HOLE” digs theater at the beach; Fairfax still hums Summer of Love; Bimbo’s has secrets; Butterfly Fest blooms; Wonder Funday sparks STEAM; Architecture + the City unfolds; Voices of Adventure screens outdoors.
SF News At Least Six People Shot, Two Killed In Separate Shootings In Oakland Multiple people were wounded and two people were killed in at least three separate early morning shootings Saturday in Oakland that may have stemmed from the First Fridays street festival.
SF News Saturday Links: BART Was Supposed to Add a Backup System That Prevents Meltdowns Like Friday's Oakland police detective Phong Tran, who's about to go on trial on felony bribery and perjury charges, faces new allegations; the big Mexico-Japan soccer match takes place Saturday at the Oakland Coliseum; and BART never followed through on promises to install a back-up system.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hawaii Joins West Coast States in Vaccine Initiative Oakland celebrates Pride on Sunday — it's in front of City Hall this year; 50 years ago today a Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento; and Hawaii has joined California, Oregon, and Washington in creating a unified vaccine policy in the absence of CDC support.
SF News Spirit Airlines Is Pulling Out of the Bay Area Completely, After Having Filed for Bankruptcy The biggest budget airline in the US, Spirit Airlines, filed for bankruptcy last year, and as part of their restructuring, they’re pulling all service out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ama Set an Opening Date Ama sets an opening date at the Transamerica complex, sushi takeout hit Aji Kiji expands downtown, and Sunset Squares calls it quits, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Yet Another Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Party Happening Saturday at Pier 39 If you still have the appetite and remaining stash left for one more Grateful Dead 60th anniversary party in San Francisco, Pier 39 is throwing one all day Saturday, with some Dead cover bands, drink specials, and a “tie-dye making station.”
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Clinch Playoff Spot With Last Night’s Win, But Relegated to San Jose for Home Playoff Game The thrill of the Golden State Valkyries becoming the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs in their first year comes with the insulting reality that they won’t get a first-round playoff game on their own home court.
SF News Former Alaska Airlines Pilot Takes Plea Deal In Case Involving Mushrooms, Dangerous Cockpit Freakout A former pilot for Alaska Airlines who was flying on a jumpseat home to the Bay Area from a trip to Washington, who nearly brought down the plane he was flying in due to a hallucination, is taking plea deals in both state and federal court.
SF News Appeals Court Strikes Down Alameda County Law That Made It Illegal to Even Watch a Sideshow People who gather to watch sideshows garnered an unusual legal win, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just did donuts all over Alameda County’s law saying that it’s a crime to even watch a sideshow, and they struck that law down.
SF News Winery That Figures Into Pickett Fire Investigation Says Worker Doused Fireplace Ashes With Water The Pickett Fire in Napa County, which is still smoldering and stands at 93% contained after burning over 6,800 acres, may have been sparked on August 21 by discarded ashes from curing a new outdoor fireplace. But that has not been confirmed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 21st Amendment Shutting Down Permanently, Both SF Taproom and East Bay Brewery Will Close The grim times continue for the craft beer industry, as the SF-born brewery 21st Amendment has announced it is shutting down for good, and both the South Beach SF taproom and San Leandro brewery will close in November.
SF News Update: BART Resumes Service After Entire System Goes Down Due to Computer Failure There was no BART service across the entire system Friday morning due to a computer system failure that occurred before the trains were set to begin running at 5 am Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Are We Really Using the Term 'Boom Loop' Now? The Chronicle is trying to make 'boom loop' happen; Supervisor Joel Engardio is madly knocking on doors in his district; and Waymo can now go to San Jose Airport, just not to San Jose itself.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Is This Weekend, Kicks Off Tonight Supervisor Joel Engardio has a new scandal bubbling up at a very bad time; rumors are swirling that Senator Alex Padilla is running for governor; and Bernal Heights Outdoor cinema returns Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Few More Details Arrive About RT Bistro, the New Casual Spot Next Door to Rich Table We finally have some more news about RT Bistro, which will be the second expansion effort by the Rich Table team, and their fourth restaurant overall when it opens this fall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Annual Bizerkeley Food Fest Returns Sunday With Vegan Food to Please Even the Most Passionate Meat Lovers Northern California's largest vegan food festival is back on Sunday, as the Bizerkeley Food Fest busts out vegan food “for meat-eaters’ taste buds,” with vegan versions of KFC bowls, Jack in the Box tacos, and even vegan oxtails.
SF News SFPD Shoots Man With 'Edged Weapon' on 101 Near Cesar Chavez, Traffic Expected to Be Snarled for a While An unidentified pedestrian was walking on 101 Thursday morning, and was shot by an SFPD officer after allegedly threatening officers with an “edged weapon.” The man survived, but northbound traffic on 101 remained a mess for much of Thursday afternoon.
Business & Tech Tesla Opens Up Robotoaxi App to All In SF, But Can They Even Do That? Tesla is pushing ahead with its Robotaxi service in SF, despite what we thought were a lot more regulatory hurdles that, as far as we know, Tesla's autonomous taxis have not actually gone through.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ambitious and Fancy New Bakery-Cafe Parachute Debuts at Ferry Building A new bakery and cafe from the team behind Michelin-starred Sorrel, specializing in glistening viennoiserie and cheffed-up twists on classic French pastries, had its debut Thursday morning at the Ferry Building.
SF News SF Rents Rising Rents Faster Than Anywhere In the Country, So Thanks a Lot, AI Industry There should be no more talk of a “San Francisco exodus,” as rents are spiking here more than anywhere in the nation, and apartments are leasing faster in SF than in any other city in the US.