SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Pizza Burger, Burger Pizza A longtime Italian stalwart in North Beach is calling it quits, a legendary Japanese yakitori shop is coming to Japantown, and more news from this week in the Bay Area food scene.
SF News Sunset District Police Officer Injured While Trying To Stop Car Break-In An SFPD officer responding to a report of a car break-in was injured Wednesday night when the suspects' getaway car dragged him down the street.
SF Politics Preston Becomes Latest SF Supervisor to Quit Twitter/X SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he's deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company's owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should "go to prison," becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Police On Alert Over Call For 'Day of Jihad' From Hamas Police across the country and in the Bay Area are stepping up patrols around Jewish community centers and more due to a jihad call from a Hamas leader; weather may hamper views of Saturday's eclipse; and a car went off a cliff in Pescadero, killing one.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Suing City College Over Diego Rivera Mural Moving Expenses The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is suing City College of San Francisco over unpaid expenses relating to the conservation and 2021 relocation-by-truck of the massive Diego Rivera fresco titled 'Pan-American Unity.'
SF News Double Shooting In Tenderloin Closes Leavenworth Street There was a shooting Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue, and reportedly two people were shot.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
Business & Tech Cruise Announces Software Updates to Its AVs In Response to Emergency Situations After a number of concerning incidents involving its autonomous vehicles getting in the way of fire engines and ambulances, Cruise announced a set of software improvements Thursday aimed at "minimizing operational impact" for emergency responders.
Business & Tech As Misinformation About Israel-Hamas War Proliferates, EU Threatens X/Twitter With Fines The European Union's digital enforcer has sent an urgent letter to Elon Musk about the proliferation of misinformation on X regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, "reminding" Musk of the company's obligations under the EU's Digital Services Act, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has replied.
SF News Man Shot By SFPD Who Crashed Into Chinese Consulate ID'd By Coroner The man who was fatally shot by police Monday after he crashed his car into the lobby of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco has been identified.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Uber Assault Suits Rolled Into One SF Mayor London Breed is ordering mid-year budget cuts to address a growing deficit; 79 different class-action lawsuits against Uber are getting rolled into one; and the winning $1.76B Powerball ticket was sold in California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Focaccia Di Recco at Union Square's Corzetti Among a flurry of late-summer and early fall openings in SF we have Corzetti, the newest Italian restaurant from Back of the House restaurant group. And one of the stars on the opening menu is a delicious, indulgent, cheese-stuffed flatbread known as focaccia di recco.
SF News South Bay Man Admits to Killing, Dismembering Ex-Girlfriend to Avoid Rape Charge A Gilroy man has reportedly admitted to police that he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and burned her dismembered remains in order to cover up or retaliate for a rape accusation she had filed against him.
SF Politics Sup. Dean Preston Walks Back Statement That Failed to Condemn Hamas Attack; Democratic Socialists Take It Further While most Democratic leaders in San Francisco have been quick to rally behind Israel and condemn Saturday's deadly terrorist attacks by Hamas militants, one city supervisor stood out among the rest for putting out a statement that seemed to solely express support for Palestinians.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
SF News Just In Time For Spooky Season, Live Rabid Bat Found In Hayes Valley A live and rabies-positive bat was found and captured in Hayes Valley several weeks ago, and the health department wants anyone who may have had any contact with the animal to give them a call.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Woman Who Fell From Building During Blue Angels Show ID'd The woman who fell from a rooftop Blue Angels party Saturday has been identified; the Chinese consulate on Geary remains closed after Monday's crash; and House Republicans are trying to elect a new speaker.
SF News Expert In Distressed Assets Assigned to Take Over Management of Westfield Mall An expert in receivership of large properties who's based in Southern California has been given the go-ahead by a judge to take over the operations of the San Francisco Centre mall, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two For String of Recent Armed Robberies In the Mission District San Francisco police announced the arrest of two individuals, both men in their 30s, for a series of armed robberies in recent weeks that targeted businesses in the Mission District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Still Trying to Sell Us on This 'Top 25 Restaurants' List That Ignores Like 100 Great Restaurants It was time again for the Chronicle to update their bizarrely unhelpful Top 25 Restaurants list for Fall 2023, and it remains like a less informative version of the Eater 38, but with 13 fewer restaurants, representing a region which deserves far better coverage.
SF News Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
SF News Vehicle Fire Causes Backup on Westbound Bay Bridge A vehicle fire and its aftermath caused a significant traffic backup east of Treasure Island on the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Big Rig Driver Dies In Richmond Bridge Tollbooth Crash A big rig crashed into the tollbooth plaza of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Monday night; a woman was carjacked near the UC Berkeley campus; and the Oakland Police Commission remains divided amid search for new chief.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Chinese Consulate, Driver Shot A car crashed into the Chinese consulate at Geary and Laguna and shots were fired; Newsom vetoed a bill that would have outlawed caste-based discrimination; and a beloved pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill was vandalized.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.