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.
Arts & Entertainment Too Short Headlines ‘50 Years of Hip Hop’ Party Sunday In SF From Local Record Label Empire The Grammy-winning SF record label Empire has a local celebration for the 50th anniversary of hip hop Sunday, with Too Short, and DJs Sway Calloway and Chuy Gomez.
SF News Kaiser and Healthcare Workers Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Largest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History The biggest healthcare worker strike in the nation’s history technically only lasted three days, but resulted in a 21% wage increase for pandemic-frazzled employees of the Oakland-based healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente.
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 Heads Up: A Stretch of Market Street Will Be Closed for Two Weeks, Starting Saturday For the next two weeks, several blocks of Market Street will be closed to traffic, and all vehicles will have to reroute off Market between Third and 11th streets, as a construction project begins Saturday.
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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Overwhelmingly Vote in Favor of Going on Strike Oakland’s oldest kosher bakery is for sale for $1, Haight Street’s counterculture costume shop Distractions is closing permanently, and SF schoolteachers voted to approve a strike by a 97% margin.
SF News SFPD Recovers Nearly $18,000 Worth of Stolen Apparel In Mission Street Illegal Vending Bust Some surprisingly high-end items were being sold by street vendors on Mission Street, as SFPD says they busted two vendors suspected to be part of a fencing operation, selling an estimated $17,880 worth of stuff allegedly stolen from Lululemon and Victoria's Secret.
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.
SF News Union Square Dior Store Rammed With Car In Burglary Heist, at Least Two Arrested A brazen Thursday morning smash-and-grab at the Union Square Dior store was heavy on the smash, as burglars rammed a car into the store and stole a reported $270,000 in merchandise — but one of the getaway cars then crashed and the suspects in it were arrested.
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.
SF News First Suspect Arrested In SFPD’s ‘Bait Car’ Campaign Has Prolific History of Car Break-Ins The SFPD’s ballyhooed bait-car campaign yielded its first arrest a week into the effort, and a KGO I-Team report found the suspect has a doozie of history of car break-ins — and of walking free after previous arrests.
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 There Were Car Chases Galore on Bay Area Roads Early Thursday Morning, One Involving Nine Teens There were three high-speed car chases on Bay Area highways Thursday morning, one of which involved nine teens in a stolen car. Plus another East Bay chase Wednesday afternoon led to an on-foot manhunt for suspects wanted in a shooting.
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.
Arts & Entertainment 111 Minna Turns 30, Celebrates With Huge Thursday Night Gallery Dance Party The art gallery, bar, and dancehall 111 Minna has survived COVID, a fire, and an ownership change, and honors its three decades of SF nightlife with a Thursday night party and gallery show that’s “30 years in the making.”
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 SFMTA Ticketing Stolen Cars, Not Checking Whether They’re Stolen Nearly 100 obviously stolen cars are just sitting in plain sight collecting tickets in San Francisco right now, and could be recovered today, but the SFMTA and police department are simply not sharing information with each other.
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 Richmond Couple Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter In Death of Five-Month-Old Son A 2021 incident at a Richmond hotel saw the death of a five-month-old boy, but the parents were just found guilty of manslaughter after the infant turned out to have broken bones, burns, and methamphetamine in his system.