SF News 2 Weekend Shootings in SF Bayview, 1 Deadly, Under Investigation SFPD is investigating two weekend shootings in the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood, one of which resulted in the death of a man.
Bay Area Sports End of an Era? Pac-12 Faces An Unprecedented Exodus As 5 Schools Leave in One Day Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah announced they were leaving in 2024, following USC and UCLA — leaving the future of the PAC-4 in question.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Health Agencies Investigating Richmond Spa as Potential Link to Legionnaires' Disease Deaths The Zen Day Spa in Richmond has been possibly linked to three cases of Legionnaires' Disease, two of them fatal; Two sinkholes in Alameda this week caused water shutoff for residents; and a chaotic sideshow in Antioch ended with a car in the Antioch Marina.
SF News Tahoe Bear Hank the Tank's Reign of Terror Ends In Capture — and a New Home South Lake Tahoe's most wanted fugitive, the massive black bear nicknamed Hank the Tank behind 21 home break-ins, was apprehended Friday and will be relocated to a wildlife refuge in Colorado.
SF News In the Wake of Hundreds of Child Sex Abuse Cases, the Archdiocese of San Francisco Is Set to File For Bankruptcy The San Francisco Archbishop said in an open letter Friday that the diocese's bankruptcy was "very likely," as it would allow for a reorganization of finances and a collective settlement for survivors of priests' abuse.
SF News Saturday Links: UFC Fighter Robbed At Gunpoint At Bay Area Gas Station MMA fighter Song Yadong said he was robbed and his friend was pistol-whipped at a Vallejo gas station Wednesday; Elon Musk's company X was fined for its roof sign; and the Chinatown subway station has a leak.
day around the bay Day Around the Bay: In-N-Out CEO To Publish Book With Inside Scoop On The Burger Business The granddaughter of the In-N-Out founder and current CEO will release the book in October; Eastboung I-80 in Contra Costa and Solano will be closed this weekend; and the alleged gunman in June's SF nightclub shooting faces attempted murder charges.
SF News Crime in Oakland Soaring Across the Board, According to New Statistics It’s not just sideshows, as every major crime category shows sharp increases in Oakland, with spikes of 20%, 40%, or even 90% in specific crime categories compared to before the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Kooky, Highly Specific, Unfinished House In the Berkeley Hills Asks $1.19 Million One man's dream house that he set out to build in the early 1970s and never completed before his death last year has hit the market for the first time, and it's a very unique Berkeley hills property to say the least.
SF News Expensive Riverboat Cruise Up the Delta to Stockton Gets Canceled A luxury riverboat cruise, the first of its kind in the Bay Area in eight decades, raised some eyebrows when it was first announced last year. And it doesn't sound like it had too many takers.
SF News DA Jenkins Drops Charges for Pretty Much Everyone Arrested at Dolores Hill Bomb Last Month It's a predictable ending to the mass arrest of everyone who happened to be standing near last month’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboard rally — the DA is dropping the charges against all but two of the 34 adults arrested in the roundup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Taqueria, Arguably the Creator of the ‘Mission Burrito,’ Celebrates 50 Years in Business 50 years after opening, La Taqueria is still getting lines down the block on Mission Street, and has both James Beard honors and “Burrito Bracket” awards to show for its five decades of greasy goodness.
SF News Fire at North Beach's Historic Liguria Bakery Quickly Contained There was an oven fire Friday morning at Liguria Bakery in North Beach, and while it sounds like it was quickly extinguished, the extent of any damage is not known.
SF News At Contentious Tenderloin Town Hall, DA Brooke Jenkins Blames Judges for Freeing Drug Dealers San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is looking to shift some blame for the city's ongoing fentanyl crisis to the county's judges, who she says are too lenient in allowing drug suspects back onto the streets.
SF News Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Davis Stabbing Suspect Will Go to Mental Health Facility After DA Drops Challenge to Competency The suspect in a series of late-April stabbings in the city of Davis was undergoing a jury-based hearing to assess his competency, but the district attorney has instead dropped a challenge to an earlier competency assessment and the hearing has ended.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Jose State Trainer Groping Trial Ends In Mistrial The trial of a former San Jose State athletic trainer accused of groping female athletes has ended in a mistrial; 911 response times in San Francisco are getting worse; and Delta Airlines had a couple of scary incidents this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street Bike Lane Officially Opens, Though It’s Not Fully Built Yet The red tide algae blooms in Bay Area waters appear much less deadly than last year, Santa Clara is predictably issuing fines for Taylor Swift playing past curfew, and the Valencia Street bike lane is officially open but drawing yet more criticism.
Arts & Entertainment Two Tina Turners Tell A Tumultuous, Terrific Life Story in ‘Tina - The Tina Turner Musical’ at the Golden Gate Theatre A dazzling and kinetic Tina Turner musical biography goes for nearly three hours at the Golden Gate Theatre, but the musical stylings of a ten-year-old playing a young Tina are simply the best moments of the show.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Japanese-Peruvian Rooftop Restaurant, Chotto Matte, Set to Open Next Month In Union Square It's been two years since we first learned that high-end Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Chotto Matte, which boasts other locations in Doha, London, and Miami, was coming to a new rooftop space in Union Square.
SF News Throwback Thursday: A Sitting U.S. President Died in San Francisco, 100 Years Ago This Week Warren G. Harding, roundly considered one of the worst U.S. Presidents of all time, kicked the bucket exactly 100 years ago this week at SF’s Palace Hotel, which is still the Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery streets.
SF News Eight-Year-Old Boy Struck In Freeway Shooting Crossfire In Oakland Is Paralyzed A young boy who became the second child victim of a freeway shooting in the East Bay in three months is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down, and his family is hoping to raise funds for his homecoming and ongoing care.
SF News Antioch Church Mission Group Trapped in Niger Amidst Military Coup Nearly a dozen volunteers with Antioch’s Cornerstone Christian Center are stranded in the West African country of Niger, as a nine-day Vacation Bible School trip very unfortunately coincided with a military coup that closed off the country’s borders.
Arts & Entertainment 'Rent' Star Anthony Rapp to Bring Autobiographical Musical 'Without You' to the Curran in October Anthony Rapp, who played the character Mark in 'Rent' both on Broadway and on the big screen, has a new one-man show that tells the story of how he met 'Rent' creator Jonathan Larson and auditioned for the show, and it's coming to SF this fall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch's Harmonic Brewing to Shut Down This Fall, Stop Brewing Beer The craft beer shakeout continues as eight-year-old Dogpatch brewery Harmonic Brewing is closing its doors this fall due to a lease issue.
