SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Wins Legal Decision Against PG&E An appeals court has sided with SF in a battle with PG&E, Omicron may not have peaked yet in some parts of the Bay Area, and the SF Board of Supervisors vote to offer a formal apology for past wrongs to the Chinese community.
SF News Return of the Tuesday ‘Noon Siren’ Delayed Until At Least 2024 This is not a test… the Tuesday noon emergency siren was supposed to return last month, but because of COVID-19 setbacks, will not wail again for nearly three years or longer.
SF News Health Officials Say Don't Worry, But There's a New Omicron Subvariant In the Bay Area A new and special variant of COVID, which is being called BA.2 Omicron for now, or "stealth" Omicron, has been detected in the Bay Area and across California, but word among experts is that it's not likely to behave much differently than regular Omicron.
Business & Tech Legal Battle Over SF's Short-Lived Virgin Hotel Heads to Trial In February The legal fight between the owner of the property at 250 Fourth Street in San Francisco's SoMa district and Virgin Hotels will go to trial in early February, and it remains to be seen whether a hotel will ultimately reopen in that building ever again.
SF News Violent Crime Rose In SF In 2021, But Burglaries Declined From 2020 San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces She Will Seek Reelection For a 19th (!) Term In Congress The House Speaker announced she’s running for yet another term in Congress, but did not address whether she would run for Speaker again, and that’s a moot point anyway if Republicans win the chamber back.
SF News Nevermind About That Rain Next Week Earlier this week there was talk of rain coming next week, maybe on Sunday, probably on Monday and Tuesday, but now the forecast is looking a whole lot dryer.
SF News Open Drug Use at Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Divides Addiction Experts Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
SF News Fire Near Big Sur Now 55% Contained; Was Sparked By Ember From Burn Pile The Colorado Fire, still burning since Friday in Monterey County, was sparked by an ember from a burn pile on a nearby residential property, according to Cal Fire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supes Approve New Eviction-Notice Law A triple-stabbing suspect in San Jose got killed in oncoming traffic, the abducted French bulldog in Castro Valley has returned safely home, and SF supervisors approved a new 10-day notice law for evictions that allows for correction of the eviction cause.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barry Bonds Loses Final Bid for Baseball Hall of Fame Pfizer thinks they have an Omicron-specific vaccine up their sleeves, Pelosi says she’s running again, and the Giants’ famed steroids slugger Barry Bonds lost out on his last chance to make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Can Get New Bars for First Time in 34 Years, After Board Passes New Zoning Law There has not been a new alcohol license granted to a Castro bar since 1987, but there probably will be soon, as the SF Board of Supervisors has approved an updated zoning ordinance.
SF Politics Cop Claims Boudin Withheld Evidence in Fisherman’s Wharf Beating Case, Asks Judge to Dismiss Case The ongoing acrimony between the SFPD and Chesa Boudin is escalating still with an officer facing assault charges saying that the DA’s office lied about and allegedly buried additional evidence that would justify his use of force.
Business & Tech Stalker Obsessed With Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Apparently Roaming the South Bay A possibly armed and clearly disturbed Virginia woman has apparently been stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook for the last year — and is unaware or doesn't care that he's gay and claims he's her husband and the father of her children.
SF News Just What Downtown SF Needs: A New Private Club For the Ultra-rich A New York-based private club for the mega-wealthy — which also has a location in Milan — catering to those who prefer only to mingle, dine, and work out with each other and avoid the hoi polloi, has just leased a huge amount of space in the Transamerica Pyramid.
Arts & Entertainment Neil Young Demands His Music Be Pulled From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s Anti-Vaccine Antics In an angry online letter that has since been deleted, Neil Young declared that Spotify “can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” but the streaming service continues to pay Joe Rogan $100 million to spew anti-vaxx misinformation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces 2022 Ticket Sales, Price Increase to $575 Per Ticket Burning Man says it’s happening again in 2022, but with Main Sale tickets $100 more expensive than last time around, and a “COVID-19 health check process” purportedly in place.
SF News Man Fatally Shot By SFPD at SFO Last Week Has Been Identified, Was Possibly Homeless The man shot and killed by SFPD officers at SFO's International Terminal last Thursday morning has been identified.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Carquinez Bridge Shut Down For 7 Hours By CHP The westbound Carquinez Bridge was shut down by police activity for seven hours Monday night, Bay Area dog owners are on edge after a string of armed dognappings, and 49ers fans are eager to turn SoFi Stadium "red" again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Peninsula Car Burglars Nabbed Through 'Find My' Device Tracker Two Stockton men were arrested on suspicion of car break-ins on the Peninsula thanks to a victim's device tracker, Meta is building a new supercomputer, and Sarah Palin has COVID.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reportedly Has Plans to Expand Into Next-Door César Space, Forcing César to Close News is arriving out of Berkeley that in addition to its own eventual reopening, Chez Panisse is planning another opening later this year in the next-door bar space that for over two decades has been a beloved tapas restaurant and cocktail spot.
SF News ‘California’s Richest City’ In Marin Could Get Its First-Ever Mixed-Income Housing, Though It Doesn't Look Too Affordable The Marin County city of Belvedere has not built a unit of affordable housing in 33 years, but a new complex with a couple of affordable units is making waves along its lagoons.
SF News Mission District Homicide, Stemming From Bar Fight, Is San Francisco's Third of the New Year A 40-year-old man was killed in the Mission District Friday morning, and the SFPD is investigating it as a homicide.
SF News PG&E About to Finish Criminal Probation for San Bruno Explosion, Judge Says They're Still a ‘Menace to California’ During its five years of criminal probation, PG&E has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires, destroying 23,000 homes, and killing 113 Californians, raising questions about the effectiveness of corporate probation.
