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.
SF News Fire Near Big Sur Now 55% Contained; Was Sparked By Ember From Burn Pile The Colorado Fire, still burning since Friday in Monterey County, was sparked by an ember from a burn pile on a nearby residential property, according to Cal Fire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supes Approve New Eviction-Notice Law A triple-stabbing suspect in San Jose got killed in oncoming traffic, the abducted French bulldog in Castro Valley has returned safely home, and SF supervisors approved a new 10-day notice law for evictions that allows for correction of the eviction cause.
Business & Tech Stalker Obsessed With Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Apparently Roaming the South Bay A possibly armed and clearly disturbed Virginia woman has apparently been stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook for the last year — and is unaware or doesn't care that he's gay and claims he's her husband and the father of her children.
SF News Just What Downtown SF Needs: A New Private Club For the Ultra-rich A New York-based private club for the mega-wealthy — which also has a location in Milan — catering to those who prefer only to mingle, dine, and work out with each other and avoid the hoi polloi, has just leased a huge amount of space in the Transamerica Pyramid.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.
SF News Man Fatally Shot By SFPD at SFO Last Week Has Been Identified, Was Possibly Homeless The man shot and killed by SFPD officers at SFO's International Terminal last Thursday morning has been identified.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Carquinez Bridge Shut Down For 7 Hours By CHP The westbound Carquinez Bridge was shut down by police activity for seven hours Monday night, Bay Area dog owners are on edge after a string of armed dognappings, and 49ers fans are eager to turn SoFi Stadium "red" again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Peninsula Car Burglars Nabbed Through 'Find My' Device Tracker Two Stockton men were arrested on suspicion of car break-ins on the Peninsula thanks to a victim's device tracker, Meta is building a new supercomputer, and Sarah Palin has COVID.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reportedly Has Plans to Expand Into Next-Door César Space, Forcing César to Close News is arriving out of Berkeley that in addition to its own eventual reopening, Chez Panisse is planning another opening later this year in the next-door bar space that for over two decades has been a beloved tapas restaurant and cocktail spot.
SF News Mission District Homicide, Stemming From Bar Fight, Is San Francisco's Third of the New Year A 40-year-old man was killed in the Mission District Friday morning, and the SFPD is investigating it as a homicide.
SF News Rain Possible This Weekend, With More Likely to Come In Early February Meteorologists are being cautiously optimistic that February will bring a return of a wet-weather pattern for the Bay Area, helping to pull us further out of the drought and hopefully finish the winter with an average level of rainfall.
Arts & Entertainment Negative Reactions Continue to News About Castro Theatre Changes, While Actual Details Remain Scarce Lamentations on social media and editorials in other media continued over the weekend after last week's bombshell news about the Castro Theatre coming under the management of Another Planet Entertainment. And a rally on Sunday served as a gathering for the most anxious fans.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Antisemitic COVID Conspiracy Flyers Appear In Pac Heights Some weird and antisemitic COVID conspiracy flyers have appeared in Pacific Heights, Monterey County residents are being told to boil their water due to possible wildfire-related contamination, and a Stockton woman escaped abduction.
SF News California AG Rob Bonta Steps In to Investigate SFO Police Shooting After Suspect Found to Be Holding Fake Gun Thursday morning's officer-involved shooting at the International Terminal of SFO has taken a new twist as we learn that the suspect was not brandishing two guns, as was originally described, but was in fact holding only a replica or airsoft-type pistol.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Banh Mi Shop From Slanted Door Chef Charles Phan, Chuck's Takeaway, Opens Next Month In the Mission Charles Phan has been up to something in the last year of The Slanted Door's closure that none of us knew about it — and now he drops the news that he's about to open his first banh mi shop in the heart of the Mission District.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations In California Show First One-Day Drop Since Christmas; SF Hospitalizations May Be Peaking Hospitalizations of COVID patients in the state of California just declined slightly on Thursday in the first one-day decline since the Omicron surge began, and signs point to hospitalizations peaking this week in San Francisco.
SF News Missing Stanford Nurse's Body Found on Bay Shore Near Dumbarton Bridge A 27-year-old traveling nurse who went missing earlier this week in the middle of his shift at Stanford Hospital has been found dead in Fremont, and the circumstances remain unclear.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 49ers Watch Parties Could Spread Omicron There are COVID concerns as bars gear up for big football crowds tomorrow, a Tenderloin addict followed by a Chronicle columnist has died, and CA might let kids as young as 12 get vaccines with parental consent.
Business & Tech Tesla Driver Who Was Behind Wheel On Autopilot When Car Killed Two People Charged With Manslaughter In what's believed to be a first-of-its-kind prosecution, a Tesla owner in Los Angeles has been charged with two counts of manslaughter after his 2016 Tesla Model S blew a red light while on autopilot and plowed into another car, killing the two people inside.
SF News Tense Standoff With Armed Man at SFO Causes Chaos For Some Travelers, Ends With Officer-Involved Shooting A standoff Thursday morning at SFO between multiple San Francisco police officers and an agitated man allegedly armed with two guns disrupted BART service and created a disruption at the airport's International Terminal, and ended with the man fatally shot.
Arts & Entertainment Karl the Fog Twitter Account Comes Back Alive, Says He's Been Living With His Parents During the Pandemic The famed Twitter account for San Francisco's famed fog, Karl the Fog, dormant lo these several years, came back to life Thursday morning just as some seriously dense fog came to envelop the city and wreak havoc.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Shoot and Kill Armed Man at SFO There was an officer-involved shooting at SFO following a confrontation with an armed man that closed the BART station there, and police in Santa Rosa arrested a suspect following a standoff and hostage situation last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford Professors Sue University Over Fentanyl Death of Son Two Stanford professors whose son died in early 2020 of an accidental fentanyl overdose on campus are now suing the school, a pipe bomb scare led to evacuations in Oakland, and ambulances in CA are again being made to wait outside ERs due to pandemic crowding.
SF News Omicron Might Be 'Like the Flu' For the Vaccinated Bay Area, But It Is Killing 3 Times As Many as the Flu Elsewhere The Omicron variant has been variously touted by pundits and experts alike as a possible key out of the pandemic and into an endemic stage of COVID, and talk of being able to "live with COVID like the flu" is everywhere right now.
