SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Nearing the End of the Year RT Bistro's opening nears, a Rich Table chef de cuisine is breaking out on her own, and sandwich pop-up from Berlin is coming to SoMa after Xmas, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Hank, the Dognapped French Bulldog, Has Been Found Safe, Returned to Owners Hank, the Frenchie who was stolen from outside a Castro neighborhood bar last week, has been located, he's safe, and he's been returned to his very distressed dads.
Arts & Entertainment Take Advantage of Union Square's Winter Walk for Last-Minute Holiday Shopping The street closure and holiday festival on Stockton Street known as Winter Walk is back on, and it will be running through Christmas Eve, if you're planning to get any last-minute shopping done in Union Square.
SF Politics Republicans Could Seize Advantage In California Governor's Race If Too Many Democrats Run We're about to enter one of the kookiest election years in California's 175-year history, with a bevy of Congressional seats up for grabs, and a wide open governor's race that already has too many Democrats in it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Ramon Sees the Most Earthquakes In 50 Years A flood watch is in effect for the Delta due to heavy rain; the suspected Brown University shooter was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; and San Ramon has seen 38 small earthquakes so far this month, the most in a cluster in 50 years.
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Giants Organization Is the New Owner of the Curran Theatre The Curran Theatre has just changed hands for the second time in fifteen years, and its new owner is the SF Giants, led by Giants President and CEO Larry Baer. But programming is likely to remain the same.
Arts & Entertainment Block Party on Ellis Street Thursday Night Expected to Draw Large Crowd A recently launched block party known as Third Thursdays on Ellis Street is happening again tonight, just in time for Union Square holiday happenings, and there will be a DJ there.
SF Politics Palo Alto City Council to Take Up Legislation to Clamp Down on Billionaire Compounds A Palo Alto city councilmember is introducing some unusual new legislation today that is aimed squarely at the billionaires in the city — ahem, Zuckerberg — who have spent years gobbling up formerly middle-class homes and assembling compounds that undergo years of endless construction.
SF News Suspect Arrested for Arson at SF State Jewish Center A suspect has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson fire at Hillel House near the San Francisco State University campus on December 5.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crocker-Amazon Hit-and-Run Leaves One Dead A hit-and-run on Mission St. near the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood left a pedestrian dead; Wednesday was the first day of measurable rain in 26 days; and Trump and Epstein's long friendship centered on discussing and trading women like trophies is very well documented.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Expands Again In Mission Bay UCSF closed a deal to buy a former pharmaceutical headquarters in Mission Bay; last week's fire on Golden Gate Ave near Market was caused by an explosion; and the surviving Reiner siblings have broken their silence.
SF News Woman In Viral Hayes Valley Bar Fight Video Was Arrested For Public Intoxication, Has Now Lost Job The very public shaming that has followed a Santacon weekend video of an extremely drunk and belligerant patron, and her date, engaging staff and fellow patrons in physical fights at Hazie's in Hayes Valley, has culminated for now in the woman being fired from her job.
SF News Castro Dog Dad Seeks Public's Help In Finding Dognapped Frenchie, Hank A man's French bulldog was stolen outside of a Castro bar last week and remains missing, and the dog's owner is seeking help from the public in locating the dognapping suspect.
Arts & Entertainment YouTube to Become Exclusive Broadcaster of the Oscars, Starting In 2029 The Academy Awards will be departing network television and heading to YouTube under a new deal struck with the Alphabet-owned, San Bruno-based company, marking a major shift for the nearly 100-year-old awards show.
SF News You May Want to Leave Early For Xmas Travel as Storm Takes Aim at Bay Area Next Week A quintessential Pineapple Express plume of moisture coming from Hawaii, aimed at the Bay Area, is likely to bring significant rainfall early next week. And anyone who was planning to travel Sunday or Monday for the Christmas holiday may want to consider contingency plans.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland School Board Approves $103M In Budget Cuts Oakland's school board approved vague cuts totaling $103M but faced criticism from one board member; a former Kohl's in Fremont could become an H Mart; and Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is set to make his first court appearance in LA.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Posts Slutty AI Photo of Himself as Fireman to Promote ChatGPT Images 1.5 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now maybe taking a page out of Elon Musk's and Trump's playbook, and posting a cheeky AI-generated photo of himself as a sexy calendar firefighter to Xitter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video of Drunken Tirade and Physical Assaults at Hayes Valley Bar on Santacon Day Goes Internationally Viral A drunken tirade and ensuing scuffle involving a San Francisco woman and her boyfriend and what appears to be the entire staff of Hayes Valley restaurant-bar Hazie's has now made it to TMZ.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Finally on Trial After Multiple Delays, Rejected Plea Deal Yes, infamous Los Gatos "party mom" Shannon O'Connor, whose case involving supplying teenagers with alcohol and coercing them into sex dates back almost five years, is finally facing trial.
SF News Faith Leaders Arrested After Dozens Chain Themselves Outside SF Immigration Court A group of protesters from interfaith groups arrived Tuesday in the predawn hours outside the federal facility at 630 Sansome Street in San Francisco where immigrants arriving for immigration court dates have been summarily swept into detention facilities since May.
SF News Three People Stabbed on SF's Sixth Street, Suspect Arrested There was a triple stabbing Monday night on Sixth Street in San Francisco's South of Market area, and all three victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SUV Crashes Through Front of Redwood City Store A BMW SUV crashed through the front of an ACE Hardware store in Redwood City Monday evening; San Ramon saw another small earthquake this morning; and there will be no more free parking meters on Sundays in Oakland in the new year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Explosion at Gas Station Rocks Mission District An explosion occurred Monday afternoon involving an underground gas tank at the Shell station at 16th and Guerrero; there was a swarm of small earthquakes centered near The Geysers this morning; and the LAPD has confirmed son Nick Reiner was "responsible" for his parents' deaths.
SF News 11 People Hospitalized With Injuries After Cable Car Accident on Nob Hill 15 passengers were injured Monday when a cable car on California Street came to an abrupt stop, and 11 people were taken to the hospital, though it does not seem that any of the injuries were serious.
Arts & Entertainment Prolific Local Gingerbread Artist Recreates SF's Iconic Painted Ladies Talented and painstaking San Francisco gingerbread artist Peter Williams creates ever more ambitious architectural wonders out of gingerbread every year, and this year's is no exception.
