Shota Imanaga of Team Japan pitches during the 2023 World Baseball Classic Championship game between Team USA and Team Japan at loanDepot Park on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Miami, Fla. Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images The recent rumors surrounding 30-year-old Japanese pitching prospect Shota Imanaga have been enough to give any San Francisco Giants fan … Read more
FILE: The radio and podcast giant that owns Bay Area radio stations KCBS, 102.1 Jams and 95.7 The Game filed for bankruptcy. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images The radio and podcast giant that owns Bay Area radio stations KCBS, 102.1 Jams and 95.7 The Game has filed for bankruptcy. Philadelphia-based Audacy announced it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection … Read more
The Safeway at 1335 Webster St., San Francisco, plans to close in March. Google Street View The Safeway in San Francisco’s Fillmore District — the only major grocery store in the neighborhood — is slated to close in March, a Safeway spokesperson told SFGATE in a statement on Thursday. Safeway has agreed to sell 3.68 acres of … Read more
Fred Warner celebrates after the San Francisco 49ers beat the Washington Commanders on Dec. 31, 2023. Warner would then celebrate even harder in the tunnel when the 49ers clinched the NFC’s top seed. Greg Fiume/Getty Images When the 49ers got crushed by the Ravens on Christmas night, it seemed like the battle for the NFC’s No. … Read more
An order of chilaquiles, a tamale plate, and an open-face pork taco arabe al pastor sit ready for pickup by customers at the Primavera stall at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Adam Pardee/Special to SFGATE We inhale authentic shrimp po’boys in Bayview and find the most New York-style pizza slices in … Read more
Cioppino at Sotto Mare in North Beach in San Francisco on Jan. 19, 2023. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE It’s been a year of ups and downs for Eat Like a Tourist, the column where I bravely dine at San Francisco’s most touristy restaurants to see if they’re actually good. Union Square’s Cheesecake Factory may have been a disappointing … Read more
FILE: Protesters, police, and journalists thought the Mission District’s Dolores Park was meant to be the site of a pro-yuppie rally on June 7, 1999. Nobody on the yuppies’ side showed up. Anadolu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In June 1999, 200 protesters flocked to San Francisco’s Dolores Park to protest a “Stop the Hate” rally… … Read more
On a crisp December afternoon in Union Square, I rode four flights of escalators up to the restaurant at the top of Neiman Marcus. Inhaling the heavy scent of mall perfume and tinny din of holiday tunes, I tried to catch glimpses of the department store’s towering Christmas tree light fixture on the way up. … Read more
Jung-hoo Lee and his agent Scott Boras wait at Oracle Park before a press conference to introduce his contract with the San Francisco Giants on Dec. 15, 2023, in San Francisco. Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images As discourse over San Francisco’s supposed “doom loop” seeps further into sports chatter, two unlikely allies — Golden State Warriors head … Read more
A glass dome held by a robotic arm ascended from our table, releasing a whoosh of steam that seeped into my pores. But I wasn’t at a spa: Before me appeared a tantalizing plate of freshly cooked shrimp. Xian Steam Pot & Yakiniku, a new restaurant that opened in Milpitas in June, specializes in both Chinese … Read more
