SF Politics Special Hearing on Mental Health Emergency Care In SF Brings Proposal for New Long-Term Care Hospital San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman held a special hearing Thursday on the mental health crisis in the city, discussing ways it might be addressed with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the police, and others.
SF News Huge New Housing Development With 45% Affordable Units Approved for Former Transit Hub Site In SoMa The block-sized property in SoMa that became home to the temporary Transbay Transit Center in the last decade will become a three-tower complex with the tallest tower around 40 stories.
SF News Brazen Theft of SFPD Vehicle Ends In Crash at Mission and Duboce An East Bay man is in custody following the brazen theft of an unmarked police vehicle at Union Square on Thursday, which ultimately led to a chase through SoMa and a crash at Mission and Duboce.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pittsburg Man Arrested For Market Street Crash, Road Rage Shooting A 28-year-old Pittsburg man and a 30-year-old Vallejo woman were arrested following Wednesday's crash in downtown SF, the White House is promising BA.5 boosters by fall, and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has COVID again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 90% of Zuni Servers Have Left the Restaurant Due to No-Tipping Policy; Policy May Still Be Revised The switch to a no-tip, 25%-surcharge model at world-famous Zuni Cafe has done wonders for the wages of kitchen staff. But very few of the veteran servers remain who worked at the restaurant when the tips were taken away, and those who work there now are still complaining.
Arts & Entertainment 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to Close at the Curran In September We thought maybe it would be there forever, but 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is winding down its lengthy — albeit interrupted — run at the Curran Theater in September after 393 performances.
SF News Dead Body on BART Train Leads to Brief Closure of Berryessa Station A deceased male was found on a BART train early Thursday morning when an end-of-day cleaning was occurring on the train parked at Berryessa/North San Jose Station.
SF News Multi-Vehicle Crash On Market Street Stemmed From Road-Rage Incident, Police Chase A collision involving two vehicles that happened late Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Market and Front streets appeared to have been catastrophic, and stemmed from a road-rage incident several miles away.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four People Killed In Major North Bay Crash Four people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Rio Vista Wednesday night, Marin County authorities have made an arrest in last weekend's Marin City homicide, and a South San Francisco truck driver has been ID'd as responsible for crashing into the Gilman Street overpass in Berkeley last week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Getting 4200 More Monkeypox Vaccine Doses SF is getting more monkeypox vaccine later this week, a study by UCSF researchers finds that 80% of COVID cases are going unreported, and the Biden Administration has offered a prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
SF News UC Hastings to Be Renamed the Rather Awkward 'College of the Law San Francisco' In case you missed the news of this reckoning last year, the namesake of the University of California's SF law school, Serranus Hastings, had a lot of Native American blood on his hands, and many have called on the school's board of directors to rename UC Hastings. And now they have.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Does List of Best Splurge Restaurants, Snubs French Laundry, Manresa, and Quince A big-city newspaper critic has to deal with the big-name, Michelin-starred places eventually, and it seems that Soleil Ho's tour of the Bay Area's more acclaimed, pricey spots is finally complete.
SF News Oak Fire Smoke Floats to Tahoe, Not Bay Area, So Far An air quality advisory issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been extended to Thursday, and we may still see some haze from the drifting smoke of the Oak Fire here around the Bay. But so far, it hasn't happened as predicted.
Business & Tech Twitter Is Slashing Its Office Footprint, Canceling Plans for Oakland Office Twitter announced plans Wednesday to downsize its office holdings in multiple cities, including at its San Francisco headquarters, and the company is canceling plans for a downtown Oakland office announced last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Board Considers Renewing Mask Mandate BART's board of directors will vote Thursday on whether to renew the mask mandate on trains, a reward has gone up to $20K for information about the fatal shooting of an Oakland rideshare driver, and the Oak Fire is now 32% contained.
SF News Hundreds of Richmond Residents Complained About an Incessant, Late-Night Bass Beat, Mayor Uses Reward to Find Culprits A lot of people living in Richmond and nearby towns posted to Nextdoor and Facebook late Saturday/early Sunday to complain about a never-ending, droning bass beat coming from somewhere, and keeping them up well past 2 a.m. Mayor Tom Butt got on the case, and apparently has figured it out.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Series of North Bay Gigs This Week, LGBTQ Activists May Protest Controversy-courting comedian Dave Chappelle is doing more shows in the Bay Area this week, and hosting three consecutive nights of events at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa, despite being persona non grata with much of the LGBTQ community at this point.
SF News Afternoon Shooting Kills One Person In SF's McLaren Park One person was found suffering from a gunshot wound in San Francisco's McLaren Park on Monday afternoon, and the victim later died from their injuries.
SF News Shootout In Potrero Hill Leaves Two Injured, Multiple Homes Riddled With Bullets An apparent shootout early Monday morning left four residential buildings on San Bruno Avenue riddled with bullet holes, and left two individuals with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Halts Encampment Clearing In Santa Rosa A planned sweep of a longstanding encampment on Santa Rosa's Joe Rodota Trail was halted by a judge, Stanford researchers are looking for monkeypox in wastewater, and Richmond residents were upset by an incessant "bass beat" Saturday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Monkeypox Cases Hit 215 In San Francisco The number of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox in SF hit 215 on Sunday up from just 16 four weeks ago, little kids aren't getting COVID vaccinations in large numbers, and an air quality advisory for the Bay Area has been extended through Wednesday due to Oak Fire smoke.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick to Get $1.5M Settlement After Court Win Oakland's former police chief won a wrongful termination case two months ago, and now the Oakland City Council has approved a $1.5 million settlement for her, which includes a year's pay.
Arts & Entertainment New Musical Inspired and Performed By Real Bay Area Teens to Premiere August 4 at ACT 'The Code' is an unusual piece of work that benefited from a long incubation due to the pandemic, and American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory is getting set to premiere the musical in two weeks.
SF News Convicted Boogaloo Shooter Steven Carrillo Receiving Medication for Mental Illness, and Other Details Emerge He's already been convicted and sentenced in the federal case and is awaiting sentencing in the killing of a Santa Cruz County deputy, but we're getting a bit more of the timeline filled in of Carrillo's violent 2020 spree, inspired by the Boogaloo movement.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF NAACP Now Calling for Ann Hsu's Resignation The SF branch of the NAACP voted 105-0 to call for the resignation of new school board member Ann Hsu, a triple shooting in Marin City on Sunday claimed one life, and a man is in serious condition after a 15-foot fall in SF's Japantown.
