SF Politics It's Election Day #2 of 4 For the SF Assembly Seat Sought By David Campos and Matt Haney Today's the day that San Francisco voters decide who will take David Chiu's vacant Assembly seat for District 17 in the state legislature — at least who will occupy it for the next eight months.
SF News Are We Seeing a Fifth COVID Surge In SF Right Now? Probably. The official daily case count probably isn't reliable, but other metrics suggest that San Francisco is probably in the midst of its BA.2 surge, which experts predicted would likely not be as significant as this past winter's first Omicron surge.
SF News Masks Come Off on BART, Airplanes, and In Uber and Lyft Cars — But Not Muni — Following Ruling By Trump-Appointed Judge A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida issued a ruling Monday that denied the authority of the CDC to continue its federal mask mandate on planes and public transit — a mandate that was set to expire in two weeks anyway.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Roofing Crew Might Be to Blame For West Portal Fire The SFFD says a roofing crew might have sparked the roof fire in West Portal on Monday, a dumped bucked of floor adhesive caused a "sticky situation" (and car damage) on the San Mateo Bridge, and a Gilroy victim of the Happy Face Killer has been ID'd.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arson Suspect Arrested In San Jose Home Depot Fire Sherri Papini has officially entered her guilty plea and will now face sentencing, authorities in San Jose have arrested and charged a suspect in the Home Depot fire, and the White House apparently still has Senator Dianne Feinstein's back.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Identified as Missing Homeless Man A 42-year-old man who was known to frequent homeless encampments in Oakland and who was reported missing in August 2020 was the person who met with misadventure inside the abandoned Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center by Lake Merritt.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In West Portal Leads to Partial Building Collapse A fire broke out on a roof Monday on the commercial corridor of San Francisco's West Portal Avenue, and so far no injuries have been reported but the fire has caused a partial collapse of a building.
SF Politics Is It Sexist to Call Out Feinstein's Memory Decline When Male Senators Have Stayed In Office Much Longer? The weekend brought even more press attention to Senator Dianne Feinstein and her reported cognitive decline. And some are suggesting that laying open this open secret to the public is sexist at its core.
SF News Thieves Use Stolen Tractor to Try to Rip ATM Out of Wall In East Bay, Fail Some unsuccessful thieves in Brentwood used heavy machinery to try to steal an ATM from a bank on Sunday, and they failed to do so but caused a lot of damage.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tent Fire Spreads to Building at Church and 15th A tent fire spread to an apartment building at Church and 15th streets Monday morning, four people were stabbed in the Tenderloin, and two gay dads say their kids were verbally assaulted by a raging and bigoted man on an Amtrak train bound for the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizza Pop-Up Hit Outta Sight to Go Brick and Mortar In Civic Center A former sous chef at Mister Jiu's who famously came back from the dead after a sudden and random heart attack in the kitchen while prepping for New Year's Eve in 2017 is turning his successful pandemic pizza pop-up into a full-fledged business.
Business & Tech Twitter Board Adopts 'Poison Pill' Strategy to Fend Off Elon Musk; Another Big Shareholder Also Just Upped Their Stake Twitter's board of directors voted unanimously Friday to adopt a limited duration shareholder rights plan, or "poison pill," that would immediately dilute the shares of any shareholder who bought 15% or more of existing shares — likely thwarting, for now, a takeover bid by Elon Musk.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Defends Herself as Chronicle Editorial Board Calls on Other Democrats to Get Her to Retire The Chronicle Editorial Board says the time is drawing nigh for tough talk with Feinstein, and "denial is a hallmark of those suffering from memory loss and attendant illnesses."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Won't Mandate Vaccine for Schoolkids California is backing away from requiring COVID vaccines for kids to attend school this fall, BART is expanding its use of license-plate readers at parking areas, and a bar fight in Petaluma turned into a shooting Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Baby Mountain Lion Improving After Blood Transfusion at Oakland Zoo An orphaned mountain lion cub who was found in San Mateo County last week and was brought to the Oakland Zoo for care and treatment is showing marked improvement as of Thursday, following a blood transfusion.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
SF Politics Newsom May Get Another Appointee: Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Mental Fitness Now the Subject of Investigative Report Rumors about Senator Dianne Feinstein getting pretty dotty at the age of 88 go back well over a year now, but things apparently are getting more serious with colleagues suggesting she has some very bad days.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Livermore Shooting Stems From Car Doing Donuts San Mateo County is getting its own homeless Navigation Center, John Legend has spoken out in support of Chesa Boudin via Twitter, and a shooting in Livermore happened after a resident tried to take down the license plate of a kid doing donuts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zuckerberg Vows to Curb Elections Donations Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are stopping their donations to help underfunded state elections departments, civil rights attorney Kevin Benedicto is joining the SF Police Commission, and Oakland police have identified the teen girl who was killed last weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Snags Former Belcampo Space at Marin County Mart for New Noodle Shop Charles Phan and the Slanted Door team are opening a new Vietnamese noodle soup spot in Larkspur, in the former Belcampo Meat Co. digs at the Marin County Mart complex.
Arts & Entertainment Japantown's AMC Kabuki Theater Closed In the Middle of Screenings Tuesday Due to Electrical Problem If you were planning to go see 'The Lost City' at the Kabuki Theater this week, you may want to seek out showtimes elsewhere. The theater is closed "until further notice."
SF News Sherri Papini to Plead Guilty In Hoax Kidnapping, Says She's 'Deeply Ashamed' The Northern California woman whom federal investigators found had faked her own 2016 kidnapping has now admitted she did it, will plead guilty, and has issued a public apology.
SF News Masks to Only Be Required on Planes and Public Transit Until May 3 The CDC just extended its federal mask mandate for airplanes and public transit another two weeks, until May 3, amid rising cases of the BA.2 Omicron subvariant, particularly on the East Coast.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Shooting Suspect Identified In Sacramento Police in Sacramento are on the hunt for a 27-year-old suspect in the April 3 shooting, around 50 eighth graders from Marin County just got COVID on a trip to D.C., and Nancy Pelosi is recovering from her bout with COVID.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands Eager Beaver Tickets Sell Out In Half Hour OMG it's happening again already.
