Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Restoration Work Begins With the Grand Ceiling A month after its final public events before renovations began, the Castro Theatre is undergoing the first phase of its glow-up, and restorers are already working on the elaborate, gilded ceiling.
SF News Suspect In Pleasanton Murder Leads Police On Pursuit, Takes Own Life On 580 Freeway A total shutdown of I-580 in both directions Thursday morning in San Leandro was the result of a reported murder-suicide case that began with a homicide in Pleasanton.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Shooting In SF's Outer Mission A shooting at a home in the Outer Mission left one person critically wounded; the former Fremont city manager has been convicted of misusing city funds; and UC Berkeley parents are hiring private security guards.
SF News Another Day, Another Two Union Square Retailers Say They're Closing — Zara and The North Face In addition to news that The North Face is closing its only San Francisco store in Union Square this month, we now have word that Zara plans to close its longtime boutique on the square too.
SF Politics Changing to 'A City of Yes': SF Mayor London Breed Touts Accomplishments In State of the City Address Coinciding with Biden's State of the Union address this evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed gave her annual State of the City address to supporters and business leaders today, touting all the positive change she's seeing in SF.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Retains New Attorney Who Questions Why She's Still Being Held Without Bail We are coming up on three years that Shannon O'Connor, the mother of two boys at Los Gatos High School who was arrested in 2021 for throwing illegal, booze-drenched parties for teens at her home, has been behind bars.
SF News Japan-Bound United Airlines Flight Out of SFO Loses Tire During Takeoff, Gets Diverted to LAX A United Airlines flight leaving SFO had a problem during takeoff on Thursday and ended up being quickly diverted to Los Angeles.
SF News Thousands of Gallons of Wastewater Spills From Treatment Plant Into Russian River A significant spill of partially treated wastewater, likely storm-related, happened in Sonoma County last weekend, but officials seem to be downplaying the matter.
SF News Homicide In the Tenderloin Is SF's Fourth Killing of the Year There was a fatal stabbing Tuesday night in the Tenderloin that is being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Hits Central San Francisco A power outage was impacting over 4,000 PG&E customers around Japantown and Lower Nob Hill this a.m.; the Union Square North Beach store is closing; and Grocery Outlet just opened in Marin City.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Closing Downtown Tunnel Weeknights Next Week There's no Muni underground service on nights from 9:30 p.m. Friday until the following Friday; some intense thunderstorms caused localized flooding around the Bay today; and there was a tragic discovery inside a Santa Rosa apartment.
SF News California Forever Releases Aerial Rendering of Its Proposed, Utopian 'City of Yesterday' There was nothing on the ballot Tuesday in Solano County about the proposed new town/development that's being proposed by a cabal of Silicon Valley billionaires. But the group, called California Forever, did just release a new rendering.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Has Closed, Team to Relocate to New Valencia Street Space Bar Agricole, which won accolades for its drinks and design after opening more than a decade ago in SoMa, has closed its second location, which opened post-pandemic in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street.
SF News Video: Man Arrested After Shrieking Freakout at SFO Ticket Counter A man who appeared to be in the throes of a mental health crisis, perhaps brought on by the stresses of travel, was seen shrieking in the faces of ticket agents at the Frontier Airlines counter at SFO recently.
Business & Tech OpenAI Publishes Old Emails From Musk Showing He Approved For-Profit Venture In its first public response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI has published some emails with Musk showing that he signed off on the company's for-profit structure, and that he tried to claim "absolute control" of the company.
SF Politics It's Going to Be Schiff v. Garvey In November's Senate Race This means that California will not have a woman in the Senate next year for the first time in over 30 years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: The Election Proved a Very Good Night for SF Moderates Moderates won a bunch of seats on SF's Democratic Party governing board last night; at least one of two SF judges survived the election, while the other is too close to call; and Jackie Speier is back as a San Mateo County supervisor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Reportedly Avoids Eviction After Receiving Notice Things look dicey for another of restaurateur Anna Weinberg's businesses, after it received an eviction notice last week and appears to have narrowly staved off that eviction, at least for now.
SF News Mentally Ill Homeless Man With at Least 60 Arrests Back In Jail on Federal Charges for Presidio Graffiti A very troubled and pretty clearly unmedicated man with a long history of mental illness, addiction, and criminal activity across San Francisco, has been in jail the past three months following an especially creepy incident in the Presidio.
SF Politics Newsom Team Does Quick Cleanup After Story, Says Panera Bread Not Exempt From Minimum Wage Law After a Bloomberg story suggested Governor Gavin Newsom was guilty of cronyism in carving out an exception for a friend to California's minimum-wage law, his team has come out swinging and he's issued a vehement denial.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Murdering Wife and Mother-in-Law, Six Months After Reporting Them Missing The bodies have not yet been found, but a San Pablo man has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife and her mother last summer, after he had reported them missing.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Time to Vote, If You Haven't Already Aaron Peskin and London Breed are already trading barbs as if they're running against each other; Newsom was in town campaigning for 'Yes on 1'; and have you cast your ballot yet today?
Business & Tech Meta Hit With Possible Super Tuesday Cyber Attack? Instagram, Threads, Facebook All Go Down People who roll over in bed and start their Instagram scrolling may have found their feeds not loading today, after a major widespread outage appeared to have begun around 7 a.m. Pacific Time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Accused San Mateo Killer Says Confession Was AI-Generated A federal judge is questioning a plea deal in the vehicular homicide case involving cyclist Ethan Boyes; the suspect in a San Mateo stabbing streamed on Facebook made a bizarre declaration in court; and a spike in fatal ODs hits Marin County.
SF News Snowfall Totals Are In For Tahoe Area; Sugar Bowl Got 10 Feet The snowfall totals are in for this past weekend's blizzard up in Tahoe. And while it sounds like major records were not broken, it was still a whole ton of snow that no one knows what to do with — except the ski resorts.
