Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Bay Area Composer John Adams Will Premiere His Latest Opera, 'Antony and Cleopatra' to Open SF Opera's 100th Season Arguably the greatest living American composer of classical music and opera, John Adams, continues creating from his home in Berkeley, and his latest opera, 'Antony and Cleopatra,' will have its premiere in San Francisco in September.
SF News Feds: Hayward Sports Bar Seen On 'Bar Rescue' Was Linked to Bay Area-Based Drug Smuggling Ring Recently revealed court records tell a wide-ranging tale of alleged drug smuggling and trafficking that spans the country, but several key players are Bay Area-based, and they include a Hayward bar owner featured on the bar-makeover show Bar Rescue.
SF News Masks Come Off at SF Gyms Again as COVID Cases Decline; Wachter Suggests We'll Hit 'Regionally Endemic' In Feb. The Omicron surge has shown signs of peaking and/or declining in multiple parts of the country, and in the Bay Area it is definitely receding, along with hospitalizations.
SF News Major Injury Crash On Bay Bridge Involved Three Vehicles, Led to Monday Night Traffic Backup A rollover crash on the Bay Bridge Monday evening left one person seriously injured, and led to a major traffic snarl for those trying to drive into San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Some Oakland Teachers Threaten Hunger Strike Over School Closures Tensions are ramping up over proposed school closures in Oakland, the person killed in Saturday's hit-and-run in SF's Outer Sunset has been identified as a local Irish athlete, and Pete Buttigieg has a plan for the Port of Oakland's empty containers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: High-Wind Advisory Issued For This Week More fire danger and possible power outages come with more high winds this week, a sweep yielded a bunch of illegally possessed guns in the Bay Area, and CA's snowpack has again fallen below average.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Video and Dispatch Audio From SFO Shooting The SFPD on Monday held a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the details of the January 20 officer-involved shooting at SFO, in which a man who appeared armed with two handguns and a knife was killed by police.
SF News [Update] 50-Year-Old Man Found Dead From Explosive Device Near Antioch High School A bizarre incident unfolded Monday morning in Antioch, less than 48 hours after a double murder in the East Bay city.
SF News Parents Who Hate California's School Mask Mandates Jump All Over Newsom's Masklessness at 49ers Game Governor Gavin Newsom's legion of Twitter critics have come out with their virtual pitchforks again after he was photographed maskless at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.
Business & Tech Spotify Says It Will Add Content Warnings to Podcasts; Joe Rogan Offers Half-Apology Facing a growing crisis last week, Spotify rushed to make a public pledge about dealing with misinformation on podcasts — but the company stopped short of saying it would pull down any content or end its relationship with controversial anti-vaxx bro Joe Rogan.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Muni Warns Of Major Delays Due to Staffing Issues Gunfire in East Oakland damaged some Comcast lines and led to a major cable outage during Sunday's football game, Muni delays are being caused by COVID-related staffing shortages, and demand for tests in SF is way down.
Arts & Entertainment Long-Awaited, Avett Brothers-Scored Musical 'Swept Away' Is Some Dour Stuff at Berkeley Rep While striking in its staging, this world premiere may not be the ideal vehicle for the band's bluegrass- and folk-inflected songs in these already trying times.
Bay Area Sports SF Mayor London Breed Remembers Playing In Her Middle School Band For the 49ers and Meeting Joe Montana As the San Francisco 49ers head into the big NFC Championship weekend, Mayor London Breed is talking about her fandom starting back in the 80s in elementary and middle school — and about the time she met Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott.
Business & Tech Waymo Is Suing the California DMV to Keep Its Crash Data Secret Alphabet's self-driving car arm is running up against a roadblock in its path to becoming a fully-fledged autonomous taxi service in California, and that is coming in the form of a legal battle over its crash data.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Big Rig at Fault In Deadly Richmond Bridge Crash The CHP has determined that the big rig slammed into the vehicle causing that fiery crash Wednesday, the wildfire near Big Sur has reached 75% containment, and San Jose has had an especially bad year for traffic fatalities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Hopeful Sign for Downtown SF, Upscale Steakhouse STK (With In-House DJs) Signs Lease at One Market Plaza Splashy, upscale steakhouse chain STK, which for over a decade has had a pair of "high-energy" locations in New York City as well as others in LA, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and more, is headed for a big restaurant space in downtown SF.
SF News SFPD Ups Reward For Information on Notorious Serial Killer 'The Doodler' and Links Sixth Victim to Case The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of The Doodler, a San Francisco serial killer from the mid-1970s who targeted gay men, was doubled Thursday by the SFPD as they say they are "closer than ever" to solving the case.
SF News Mask Mandate Exceptions for Offices and Gyms Return Next Week In SF As Omicron Surge Dissipates There still seems to be plenty of Omicron to go around, but starting February 1, San Franciscans will again be able to take their face masks off at the gym and in vaccinated and boosted offices.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Ends 40-Game Winning Streak By Forgetting About Bangladesh Oakland's own Amy Schneider, who now stands second only to host and longstanding champion Ken Jennings after winning a streak of 40 games in a row, was taken out in Wednesday night's game, ending her historic run.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: One Person Dead In Fiery Richmond Bridge Crash A fiery crash on the Richmond Bridge Wednesday night claimed one life and caused a massive traffic situation, a 76-year-old Colorado man will be arraigned today for a 1978 cold-case murder in SF, and the Moscone Center is hosting its first big conference in a long while.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Wins Legal Decision Against PG&E An appeals court has sided with SF in a battle with PG&E, Omicron may not have peaked yet in some parts of the Bay Area, and the SF Board of Supervisors vote to offer a formal apology for past wrongs to the Chinese community.
SF News Health Officials Say Don't Worry, But There's a New Omicron Subvariant In the Bay Area A new and special variant of COVID, which is being called BA.2 Omicron for now, or "stealth" Omicron, has been detected in the Bay Area and across California, but word among experts is that it's not likely to behave much differently than regular Omicron.
Business & Tech Legal Battle Over SF's Short-Lived Virgin Hotel Heads to Trial In February The legal fight between the owner of the property at 250 Fourth Street in San Francisco's SoMa district and Virgin Hotels will go to trial in early February, and it remains to be seen whether a hotel will ultimately reopen in that building ever again.
SF News Violent Crime Rose In SF In 2021, But Burglaries Declined From 2020 San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
SF News Nevermind About That Rain Next Week Earlier this week there was talk of rain coming next week, maybe on Sunday, probably on Monday and Tuesday, but now the forecast is looking a whole lot dryer.
