Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 15th Anniversary Lineup Includes Kendrick Lamar, Odesza, Lana Del Rey, and Janelle Monae Outside Lands is celebrating 15 years in Golden Gate Park this summer, and after selling out those Eager Beaver tickets in an hour last week, the regular on-sale begins tomorrow, March 8.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Atmospheric River Rain Looks Likely By Thursday Night A dog was rescued from a house on fire near Ocean Beach this a.m.; Oakland business owners complain that the cops "don't do anything" about burglaries; and the likelihood has increased that an atmospheric river will hit with 2+ inches of rain in places on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire In Polk Street Building Caused By Scooter Battery SF's Dept. of Public Works says it's repairing triple the number of potholes due to all the rain; a woman killed by a fallen tree in a San Jose park has been identified, and a fire Saturday in the Polk Gulch neighborhood was caused by a scooter battery.
SF Politics Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is 'Done' With Walgreens Over Abortion Pill Decision Gavin Newsom took to Twitter early Monday to declare that pharmacy chain Walgreens is now on the list of entities the state won't being doing future business with, due to its decision not to ship medical-abortion drugs to women in 20 states.
SF News Alleged Bay Area Serial Killer David Misch May Face One or Two Trials For Killings of Two Women and a Nine-Year-Old Girl A court is set to decide if 61-year-old David Misch, accused in two separate Alameda County murder cases from the mid-1980s, will stand trial for both cases simultaneously, or if they will be severed.
SF News Brace for Another Rainy Week, and Possible Atmospheric River By the Weekend It's the winter that keeps on giving, wetness-wise. And if you've grown weary with all the rain, we've got some bad news for you with regards to the next week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Boy Scout Den Mother Killed By Falling Tree A den mother was killed while hiking with a Boy Scout troop on Sunday; one person was injured in a shooting on Treasure Island; and Steph Curry returned to play with the Warriors following an injury.
Arts & Entertainment Comic Political Thriller 'Tea Party' Opens at the Strand Theater, a Swan Song Directing Project From a Director With ALS A Bay Area theater director who was diagnosed with ALS last year, and who has already lost the ability to speak, is at the helm of what she calls her "dream project," which came together quickly through the help of theater friends and opened last night at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF News The SFPD Brags About Busting Johns Seeking Sex Workers on Capp Street Undercover SFPD officers have recently been posing as sex workers and they say they've busted 30 "johns" in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley.
SF News Hackers In Ransomware Attack Plan to Release City of Oakland Employee Info, and More The City of Oakland, it looks like, opted not to pay any ransom to a hacker group that succeeded in hobbling multiple city systems, and that group is now planning to make good on its threat to release an unknown amount of sensitive data.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Takes First Official Steps Toward a Run For Congress State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener is making moves in preparation to run for Nancy Pelosi's House seat next year, assuming she plans to retire, which she has not said she will.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Body Found on Daly City Beach The body of an unidentified elderly man was found on a beach in Daly City; Berkeley police say a TikTok challenge is driving car thefts; and a fourth inmate in six weeks has died in custody at Santa Rita Jail.
Arts & Entertainment 'Cambodian Rock Band' at Berkeley Rep Tells of Khmer Rouge Abuses Through the Lens of Musicians It's no small thing to get an audience standing and dancing, lost in the psychedelic/surf groove of a Cambodian-style rock band from the 1970s, in the wake of a story largely about torture and genocide.
SF News Today, SFist Is Retiring Its COVID Data Update Page This has been a long time coming. And yes, COVID is still with us, but the daily and weekly case counts we've been tracking for nearly three years are no longer that useful, so it's time to move on.
SF News More Than Half of California Is Now Officially Drought-Free You'd think after the rains of this winter that the drought might be completely behind us, but it is not — and, counterintuitively, much of the Bay Area is still officially "abnormally dry" by federal Drought Monitor standards.
SF News Snow Is Literally Crushing Buildings In Tahoe Area The weight of massive snow accumulation on rooftops has led to at least two destroyed buildings in the Tahoe area and Sierra foothills, with more perhaps to come.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Teen Killed In Fight at Santa Rosa High School A 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by another boy in a classroom fight at a Santa Rosa high school; a man set himself on fire in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley; and the wife of Wild 94.9's JV says he "will not be coming back."
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Berkeley Falcon Named For Real-Life Partner Of Falcon Annie's Namesake A Mission housing nonprofit is being sued for allegedly "abandoning" veterans, the Chronicle has responded to billionaire Michael Moritz's NYT op-ed dragging them, and the hunky new Berkeley falcon-cam male got a new name with a heartwarming backstory.
SF News Two 17-Year-Old Girls Arrested In Attack Near Dolores Park A pair of juveniles, both female, have been arrested in connection with an unprovoked attack on Super Bowl Sunday in SF's Mission District that left one woman with eye injuries.
Business & Tech Well, Well, Well, Twitter Has Reinstated Its Longstanding Policy Against Violent Speech Twitter announced Wednesday that it has "made a few changes to our policies around violent content and similar language," though it is basically just a rephrasing of what Twitter's longstanding police was, pre-Elon.
SF News All Eyes Are on AG Rob Bonta as Decision to Prosecute Rookie SF Cop In 2017 Keita O'Neil Shooting Rests With Him A San Francisco judge on Wednesday opted to delay a motion from the District Attorney's Office to dismiss manslaughter charges against former SFPD Officer Christopher Samayoa, in order to give the state Attorney General's Office more time to consider the case.
SF News 21-Year-Old San Leandro Man On Probation For Gun Charge Arrested For Gun Battle at Music Video Shoot One suspect is now in custody facing a murder charge for a January 23 shootout that injured four people and killed one, 18-year-old Mario Navarro, during a music video shoot at an East Oakland gas station.
SF News City's Bill For Shelter-In-Place Hotel Damages Rises With $2.9M Settlement For Hotel Tilden While the City of San Francisco continues to negotiate with hotel owners over what the costs of turning their hotels into ersatz homeless shelters during the pandemic turned out to be, one more hotel has just walked away with a considerable damage settlement.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Hundreds Stranded In Snow On I-80 Trucks are backed up for miles and hundreds of vehicles remain stranded on snowbound I-80 in the Sierra; an East Bay landlord has ended a three-day hunger strike over the eviction moratorium; and there was a rare shooting in Piedmont on Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Outside Lands Adds 'GA+' Tier With Better Bathrooms; Eager Beaver Tickets Sell Out In One Hour It's that time again — and a little earlier than usual — for Outside Lands to put its pre-sale, pre-lineup tickets on sale at a slight discount.
