SF News Will the Blue Angels Be Buzzing Feinstein's Funeral? [Update: Yes] The funeral service for Dianne Feinstein kicks off at 1 p.m. in front of SF's City Hall, just as the Blue Angels pilots are set to begin doing their traditional Thursday-of-Fleet-Week practice flights.
SF News City of San Francisco Files Brief With Supreme Court on Homeless Encampment Case Even though San Francisco's own injunction on homeless encampment-clearing is not on trial at the Supreme Court, the city has now filed a brief in another case that is sure to have implications here.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Feinstein Funeral No Longer Open to the Public The Feinstein memorial at City Hall won't be open to the public, officials now say; City Hall is closed for all in-person services today; and Nancy Pelosi offers her remembrances of her friend, Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Dinged With Violations After City Inspection A resident of one of the latest iterations of the pod-style sleeping arrangements we saw during the most recent SF tech boom boasted about the cheapness of his rent on social media, leading to TV media coverage and, now, a city inspection.
Arts & Entertainment 'Terror Vault: Initiation' at the Old Mint Will Have You Running Scared From Cultists It is an anxiety-inducing scenario, being led through a truly labyrinthine set of rooms and sets, up staircases and ladders and down chutes and more staircases, inside a building that feels as already haunted as San Francisco's Old Mint.
Business & Tech Google Is Opening a Visitors' Center at Its New Campus In Mountain View for Tech Tourists Fans of the Google brand and mythology, as well as the architecturally curious, will be able to check out a new visitors' center at the company's "Gradient Canopy" office complex in Mountain View starting next week.
SF Politics East Bay School Board Member Who Voted Against LGBTQ Flags Says He's Been Getting Harassed The ostensibly conservative dude who was one of two school board members in the tiny East Bay school district of Sunol to vote against having any Pride or other flags on campus last month says he's been receiving death threats.
SF Politics Feinstein's Body Arrives at SF City Hall, Will Lie In State Through Wednesday Late Senator Dianne Feinstein's remains arrived at San Francisco's City Hall rotunda Wednesday morning, flanked by members of the military, San Francisco firefighters, police, and SF sheriff's deputies all in dress uniform.
SF Politics Temporary House Speaker Evicts Pelosi From Her Capitol Office In what's clearly a petty move on the part of House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, Nancy Pelosi was informed Tuesday night that she had until Wednesday to vacate her office space in the Capitol building.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Kaiser Employees, SF School Staff Head to Picket Lines 23,000 Kaiser employees in the Bay Area went on strike this morning; custodial and other staff at SF public schools are almost definitely headed for a strike as well; and SFO is hosting an airtaxi conference.
SF Politics House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Removed as Speaker Same Day That Laphonza Butler Is Sworn In to Senate Today was a momentous day that should go down in infamy for the House of Representatives, as a predicted outcome of the Republican Party's narrow hold on the chamber has come to pass.
SF News Feinstein Memorial Moved Outdoors to Steps of City Hall; Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi to Speak A Thursday memorial service for Senator Dianne Feinstein, originally scheduled to happen inside the War Memorial Building, in Herbst Theater, now will happen outside City Hall, with the public welcome to attend.
SF News Your Cellphone Is Going to Make an Unpleasant Sound Wednesday Morning, Don't Be Alarmed There's a nationwide test scheduled for Wednesday at 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time (2:20 p.m. Eastern) of FEMA's Emergency Alert System, and it's being sent to all cellphones on all major carriers.
Arts & Entertainment Mariah Carey Announces a New Christmas Tour, But There's No Bay Area Date (Yet) Self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey is taking her Christmas spectacular on the road this year, and she'll be playing two dates in California — just none in Northern California.
SF News Grimes Files Suit Against Elon Musk Over Parental Rights After Saying She Had Not Seen Her Son One of Elon Musk's baby mamas, Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, made a legal filing in San Francisco Superior Court Friday that may indicate all is not copacetic between the two parents, who now share three children together.
Business & Tech Driver Strikes Pedestrian Near Fifth and Market; Cruise Car Subsequently Runs Her Over and Stops On Top Of Her A pedestrian collision Monday night is likely to provide more fodder for the debate over autonomous vehicles and how they react to certain uncommon situations — and it has Cruise once again in aggressive defense mode.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Senate Candidates Express Support for Newsom Nominee Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee have all put out statements of support for Laphonza Butler; Monday's grass fire in East Oakland was contained; and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy might lose his job today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom's Senate Pick Called Out for Maryland Residence Newsom's appointee to the Senate, Laphonza Butler, has apparently been living in Maryland since 2021; a brush fire was threatening homes in Oakland; and the Trader Joe's space in Hayes Valley has a new owner.
SF News They Built a New City From Farmland In the Central Valley, and It Hasn't Totally Gone as Planned Mountain House in San Joaquin County serves as an example of how even in the best of circumstances, the process of placemaking can take a very long time.
SF News East Bay Store Clerk Set On Fire After Confronting Shoplifter A clerk at a store in El Sobrante is recovering from severe burns that he got in an altercation with a shoplifter two weeks ago.
SF News Dianne Feinstein's Body to Lie In State at City Hall Wednesday The body of late Senator Dianne Feinstein was flown back to the Bay Area Saturday, and members of the public will be able to pay their respects this week at San Francisco City Hall.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Hardly Strictly Performer Had Van Broken Into A man died after an apparent fight on a hiking trail in Antioch; English singer Beth Orton told the Hardly Strictly audience that her van was broken into Saturday; and Donald Trump is making a rare, voluntary court appearance in New York.
SF Politics Newsom Appoints Laphonza Butler, President of Emily's List, to Fill Feintstein's Senate Seat Laphonza Butler was set to be sworn in Monday as only the third Black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, and the second openly lesbian senator, after Governor Gavin Newsom moved swiftly to make his choice to fill Dianne Feinstein's seat.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: La Connessa Makes a Big Splash on Potrero Hill A Ju-Ni partner has just opened an Italian restaurant in Merced Manor; the team from Spruce has just opened a huge and sleek new Italian spot on Potrero Hill; and Blue Whale, the new Cow Hollow spot from Empress by Boon chef Ho Chee Boon, opens tonight.
SF Politics An 'RGB-Level Disaster'? Or Will Republicans Make Nice and Let Democrats Fill Feinstein's Seat on the Judiciary Committee? While the rumblings shall grow louder in the coming days about Governor Gavin Newsom's potential pick to appoint to Dianne Feinstein's now vacant seat in the Senate, one thing seems certain: Republicans are going to use this vacancy to their advantage however they can.
