SF News Christmas Eve Around the Bay: Another PG&E Substation Fire and Outage in the South Bay, Power Now Restored A confused Trump Justice Department just “found” a million more Epstein documents; ICE agents shot two people in Maryland; and things go from bad to worse for PG&E as another substation fire knocks out power for 21,000.
Arts & Entertainment Who Knew? Epic Soundtrack to ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ Was Performed by SF Musician, Choir Was From San Rafael The Bay Area’s beagle-prints are all over what is arguably the greatest Christmas album of all time, the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ soundtrack, as jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi lived here when he wrote and recorded it.
SF News Hayward DUI Suspect Charged With Killing Woman and Seriously Injuring His Own Son, Though He’s Not in Custody An alleged DUI driver stands accused of a drunken 88 MPH crash in Hayward that killed his 20-year-old passenger, seriously injured his own son, and left another passenger comatose. Though oddly, he was released from jail.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soho House Confirms Long-Rumored New Resort In Sonoma's Kenwood Luxury members-only club brand Soho House will be landing in the Bay Area in 2027, but not in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Waymos Were Looking for Human Remote 'Confirmations' at Intersections During Blackout, Company Says It took a blackout across a huge swath of San Francisco for Waymo to figure out that its robot system for handling such situations has a key weakness, which caused huge traffic problems on Saturday.
SF News Staff at Fillmore Low-Income Housing Complex Accused of Stealing Tenants’ Christmas Gifts There was some next-level Grinchy behavior at a Fillmore District housing complex, with the maintenance staff apparently caught on camera pilfering the tenants’ Christmas gifts, and the low-income tenants are now out thousands of dollars.
SF News Flooding Shuts Down Hamilton Avenue In Menlo Park, Near Meta Campus A main thoroughfare through Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood, adjacent to the Meta campus, flooded overnight in one of the Bay Area's first significant flooding events in this storm.
SF News Christmas Eve Morning Links: Beware the New GrubHub Email Bitcoin Scam PG&E warns of further outages during the storm; a developer seeks to build new housing in Stinson Beach; and a scam email went out to GrubHub users asking them to send Bitcoin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Christmas Eve Powerball Jackpot Will Be $1.7 Billion There’s a massive storm rolling in if you haven’t noticed; the latest Epstein file drop is chock full of Donald Trump mentions; and the Christmas Eve Powerball drawing will be for a cool $1.7 billion.
Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s DOGE Did Not Decrease Government Spending, Actually Increased It A detailed new analysis finds that the federal government is spending more money than it did before Elon Musk’s “eliminating waste" DOGE program came to town, and that most of the supposed cost savings were simply just math errors.
Arts & Entertainment Let’s Look Back at the 1978 Christmas Eve Art Heist at the de Young Museum, Where the Thieves Never Got Caught On Christmas Eve 1978, burglars stole tens of millions worth of paintings from the de Young Museum. This is their story, though the Rembrandt painting they stole ended up being worth little, because Rembrandt didn’t paint it.
Arts & Entertainment Curran Theatre Sold for $13.7M, Far Less Than Most Giants Players Make In a Year It seems the San Francisco Giants acquired the historic Curran Theatre for a song, and the sale came at a significant loss for seller Carole Shorenstein Hays.
SF News Tonight's Storm May Qualify as Bomb Cyclone, With Winds Topping 60mph Meteorologists and their weather models have not come to any agreement about whether Tuesday's incoming storm will meet the criteria of a "bomb cyclone," but suffice it to say it will be really windy and wet.
SF News PG&E, Now In Full Crisis Mode, Offering $200 Credits to SF Residents, $2500 to Businesses for Weekend Outage Utility provider PG&E is hoping you’ll forget about this weekend’s three-day power outage with a $200 credit for residential customers and a $2,500 credit for businesses, though some businesses say they lost ten times that much.
SF Politics Federal Judge Orders Homeland Security to Stop Arresting Immigrants at Courts In Northern California A federal judge who previously ruled that conditions at San Francisco's ICE facility are inhumane, has now temporarily halted all arrests of immigrants at courthouses in Northern California and the Pacific Islands, citing lack of due process and violations of civil rights.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Run Roughshod Over Indianapolis Colts 48-27, Move On Up in Playoff Standings Brock Purdy became the first 49ers quarterback ever to throw for five touchdown passes in a single Monday Night Football game, and the 49ers romped last night in a yuletide touchdown party over the Indianapolis Colts.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Power Finally Restored to All Areas of SF The lights are back on for the remaining 3,800 PG&E customers without power as of Monday night; traffic was snarled for hours on I-880 Monday due to a big rig overturning; and Union Square has some big new sidewalk bollards.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Animal Rights Activist Freed From Jail Early The first candidate forum in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat is set for Jan. 7; 23-y-o animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg has been released from jail weeks after sentencing; and a veteran '60 Minutes' correspondent says a segment of hers was pulled for political reasons.
Business & Tech SF-Based Instacart Dumps Its ‘AI Price-Adjusting’ Tool That Charged Some Customers 23% More for the Same Items After a report that found Instacart was using an AI tool that charged some customers as much as 23% more for the exact same items, the shopping platform now says they’re abandoning that tool following some serious blowback.
SF News Pat Montandon, SF Socialite and Philanthropist Who Had an Infamous Divorce, Dies at 96 From her days as San Francisco's "Golden Girl" about town, to her high-profile marriage to and divorce from Al Wilsey, to her third act as a philanthropist and peace advocate, Pat Montandon led a unique SF life.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best New San Francisco Restaurants of 2025 It's been a banner year, and a banner fall especially, for big restaurant openings in San Francisco, and some of the smaller ones as well give us a feeling of renaissance and reinvigoration all around.
Business & Tech Supervisor Mahmood Calls For Hearings Into Waymo After Last Weekend’s Mass-Stalling Shambles In the wake of what was surely Waymo’s greatest SF screw-up yet, SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood (of all people!) is the first local elected official calling for a probe into how Waymos stalled out all over town Saturday.
SF News Richmond’s Own Betty Reid Soskin, the Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Has Died at 104 The "pride of Richmond” Betty Reid Soskin, who reigned as the nation’s oldest National Park ranger past the age of 100, died Sunday morning, leaving an incomparable legacy on the East Bay and the National Park system.
SF News Major Rain and Wind Are Incoming on Tuesday Night, Storm Continuing Through Xmas While we will be seeing rain throughout the day Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco, this is actually the lull before the real storm arrives later on Tuesday.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Clinch Playoff Spot, Even Though They Had the Day Off on Sunday Tonight’s 49ers Monday Night Football game will have a little less suspense, as the Niners already punched their ticket to the playoffs just by scoreboard-watching on Sunday, and they’re even in the running for the No. 1 seed in the NFC.
