Wesley Severson

South Bay cinema fans will have plenty to see and do during the second half of August, thanks to the innovative film festival known as Cinequest, which returns after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.

The Tully Night Market, an outdoor public market in East San Jose, is only about a month old — but it's already become a big hit.

Prolific restaurateur Adriano Paganini is opening a fast-casual version of Wildseed called Rad Radish in the former Grove space at Hayes and Franklin.

The chic menswear designer Todd Snyder New York will be taking over the space at Laguna and Hayes streets vacated last year by b8ta.

Popular Bay Area Peruvian chicken chain Limón Rotisserie is prepping to open a sixth location in Mountain View.

Matching DNA evidence has solved yet another perplexing cold-case murder, this time in Sunnyvale.

As Hoodline reported back in June 2021, the former Stacks location in Hayes Valley (501 Hayes St.), which quietly closed a year earlier, will be going from a once-beloved brunch spot to a new restaurant called Hazie's that could turn out to be a nightlife destination.

It looks like Oakland’s Jack London Square could be back on the map by the end of the year as a dining destination, with six new restaurants expected to open in the next few months.

An Oakland non-profit has plans underway to build an ambitious new food hall and event space that would also include other community amenities and affordable housing.

A new restaurant scheduled to open next month will delight the fans of Niku Steakhouse and food lovers in general in San Francisco’s Design District.

The fight is apparently on to save a beloved jazz club on Haight Street.

An appellate court has overturned the second-degree murder convictions of three former Santa Clara County correctional deputies convicted for the deadly jail beating in 2015 of mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree.

A new restaurant and bar in the works in North Beach is hoping to ramp up San Francisco’s jazz scene in a major way.

A SoMa cocktail destination hit with wage theft claims, vendor lawsuits, and management mistakes is planning to reopen this week in a new location and with a new approach to the whole enterprise.

Plans for a tiny home village for the homeless in North San Jose may get scrapped because the area where it is proposed could turn out to be land only meant for parks.

A group has just filed a suit in response to the El Paseo de Saratoga shopping center redevelopment project, which was approved by the City Council last month.

Owner Joshua Huynh is putting the finishing touches on Town Bar & Lounge inside the historic I. Magnin building at 2001 Broadway (at 20th Street).

Underdogs, which has locations in Inner and Outer Sunset, has opened a third spot in South Beach, across the street from the ballpark, in the former Pete's Tavern.

A new LGBTQ bar that doubles as an event venue is in the works for downtown Oakland from the founders of Port Bar at 2023 Broadway.

Foster City officials are facing severe backlash after approving a plan to kill geese that have overrun the city's parks and lagoon.

One of the first Northern California locations of a popular seafood restaurant chain has shut down abruptly, leaving customers shocked and saddened.

If you miss the remarkable skillet fried chicken from the famed Miss Ollie’s restaurant in Oakland, then you are in luck.

A new California-inspired Mediterranean restaurant called Acre Kitchen will open in a few months in the space long occupied by the beloved Italian restaurant Oliveto in Oakland's Rockridge Market Hall.

It may not have the magnitude of the boba tea trend, but Korean corn dogs are the latest food craze slowly taking shape in the Bay Area.

A well-known and well-liked restaurant owner chalked up a big victory this week in his fight to expand his beloved establishment in the Mission.