SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Fond Farewell to Sam Wo Bar Brucato takes shape in the Mission District, Sam Wo says goodbye for probably the last time in Chinatown, and Papa Noodle brings some new quick-service noodle bowls to downtown.
SF News Fire Raged Thursday Night at Monterey County's Moss Landing Battery Plant, At Least 1,200 Evacuated The fire is still going as of Friday at the Moss Landing Power Plant in northern Monterey County, though it is largely contained — but parts of Highway 1 remain closed and at least 1,200 residents had to be evacuated.
Business & Tech Apple Pulls Its AI News-Summary Tool After Major Errors Apple is yanking one of its first Apple Intelligence features to roll out, the one that summarizes news headlines from various sources to turn them into push notifications, which have turned out to be sometimes wildly false.
SF News Sheng Thao (and Her Boyfriend) Indicted on Eight Federal Counts of Bribery and Corruption The hammer finally came down on former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao seven months after the FBI raided her home, and she now faces charges that she received kickbacks from major political donors, including a $95,000 no-show job for her romantic partner.
SF News Matthew Muller, Convicted of Denise Huskins Kidnapping, Pleads Guilty to 2009 Home Invasions The man convicted in the infamous Vallejo kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins has pleaded guilty to two counts of home invasion from six years prior, in Santa Clara County.
SF News Richmond Man Arrested for Putting CHP Decals on His Camaro, Impersonating Officer On Wednesday, two San Rafael police officers spotted an older model white Chevrolet Camaro with a California Highway Patrol insignia on the door, resembling patrol cars the agency used over a decade ago.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban The Supreme Court sided with the government on the TikTok ban; Barbara Lee gives her first interview as candidate for Oakland mayor; and the Potrero Walgreens is among those slated to close.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Who Allegedly Fired Gun at Muni Bus Arraigned and Charged A police dog was shot in Vacaville and had his leg amputated; Facebook's new looser moderation policies apparently don't apply to marijuana content; and the guy who allegedly fired gunshots at a Muni bus has been charged with a large number of felonies.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Street Pollo Campero to Double in Size, and Get a Huge Makeover The “KFC of Guatemala” Pollo Campero has been drawing long lines at their Mission Street location for a decade. But the lines shouldn’t be so long anymore, as the SF Planning Commission just approved the restaurant’s request to expand and take over the neighboring address.
Arts & Entertainment Benefit 'FireAid' Concert In LA to Feature Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish Big stars are lining up to join the lineup for a concert fundraiser later this month to benefit victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, which are still smoldering and not fully contained.
SF Politics Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is, Indeed, Getting Indicted Less than 24 hours after the FBI raided the home of another East Bay politician in connection with an apparently broad-ranging corruption scandal, we learn that former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is getting federally indicted.
SF News Dr. Grant Colfax Out the Door as SF DPH Director, as Daniel Lurie Takes Office Yet another key figure from the London Breed administration will not be sticking around for the Daniel Lurie administration, as SF Department of Public Health director Dr. Grant Colfax announced his resignation Thursday morning.
SF News 'Equipment Issue' Leaves 36,000 San Mateo Households and Businesses Without Power A power outage was impacting a whole lot of people in San Mateo Thursday morning, and its cause is still a mystery.
Business & Tech SEC Gets In Parting Shot at Elon Musk, Sues Him For Swindling Investors by Hiding His Twitter Shares Purchase The US Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing Elon Musk of cheating shareholders out of $150 million by not disclosing his secret 2022 purchase of 10% of Twitter shares, as was legally required.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fillmore Safeway, Nearly Depleted of Goods, Set to Become Desolate Eyesore for Likely Years to Come With no definitive development plan on the table and zero city approvals, the Fillmore Safeway property is set to shutter on February 7 — if not sooner, because deep discounts have led to the store being almost emptied out of anything to sell.
SF News The Winter COVID Surge Did Not Materialize This Year, or At Least, It Hasn't Yet Both the Bay Area and the whole nation are enjoying the lowest mid-January positive COVID testing rate in four years, and no discernible winter surge, though experts caution the surge could just come late.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: East Bay FBI Probe Lands at San Leandro Councilmember's Home The FBI served a search warrant Wednesday at the home of a San Leandro city councilmember; Santa Cruz will decide about rebuilding that collapsed section of wharf by April; and Nancy Pelosi says she will not be attending Trump's inauguration.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect Arrested In Marin After Dramatic Chase Video shows a dramatic chase that ended with some wrong-way driving on 101 in Marin; an annual report on the economic health of cities shows bad news for SF; and three Hollister High students were killed in a crash Tuesday night.
Business & Tech Walgreens CEO Admits Locking Up Items Was a Mistake: ‘When You Lock Things Up… You Don’t Sell as Many of Them’ On a quarterly earnings call, the CEO of Walgreens conceded that putting items behind lock and key has hurt the company’s sales, because no one wants to shop in a store where even the toothpaste is behind glass.
SF News Car Crashed Into Front of Dovre Club Wednesday Morning, But Bar Insists They Will Reopen ‘Soon' A two-car accident resulted in a car ramming into the front of the Valencia Street bar Dovre Club. But the repair job is already well underway, and staff insist the bar will reopen “soon,” possibly even this week.
SF News Dozens of Shelter Pets Coming to SF SPCA From Los Angeles; Puppy Adoptions Currently Free The San Francisco SPCA is getting ready to receive 30 dogs and cats from Southern California shelters that have been impacted by the wildfires there, and they are hoping to get more dogs adopted this week to make space.
SF News Mother of East Bay Girl Killed In Freeway Shooting Wants Stiffer Charges for Three Suspects The three suspects linked to an April 2023 freeway shooting in the East Bay that took the life of a five-year-old girl were scheduled to appear in court in Alameda County Wednesday.
SF Politics Elon Musk Repeats Tall Tale That SF Twitter Employees Were Threatened By Axe Murderer, SFPD Says It’s All Bunk Dark MAGA’s premier San Francisco antagonist Elon Musk repeated his constantly changing story that his SF employees were threatened by an axe murderer, and that SFPD did “nothing.” SFPD points out that no such thing was ever reported to them.
SF Politics Lurie Rolls Out Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance, But Supervisors’ Dissent Already Brewing New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced his "Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance" on Tuesday, but there’s already some pushback, as it hands out no-oversight money to department heads to create potential for Mohammed Nuru-type self-dealing.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Pleads Guilty to Firebombing UC Berkeley Police Car An activist who appeared to be going on a spree of arson and fire-bomb attacks on the UC Berkeley campus last summer in protest of the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian activists now faces prison time for terrorism.
