Business & Tech Some Apple Employees Once Again Whining About Being Called Back to the Office Three Days Per Week A group of Apple employees are yet again making noise about their displeasure with being called back to an in-person office three days per week — the horror!
SF News Winning Personality Who Coughed on Uber Driver Last Year Arrested For Identity Theft In Miami The 25-year-old woman whose friends and family probably should have sat her down years ago and confronted her about her penchant for poor choices is once again in legal trouble, this time in Miami.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Schools Closed Due to Strike Oakland teachers are striking today to protest the planned closure of multiple schools, a woman was shot at while confronting burglars breaking into her car, and two suspects have now been charged in the San Jose infant abduction.
Arts & Entertainment 'Octet' at Berkeley Rep Is a Beautiful and Evocative Trek Into the Depths of Internet Hell Something shifted in me about four songs in to the new, extraordinary chamber choir musical 'Octet' at Berkeley Rep, and I went from passive, half-engaged audience member to willing participant in the room.
SF News Car Theft and Burglary Suspect Injures Multiple People While Trying to Flee Police In San Francisco A suspect believed to be connected to multiple recent auto burglaries in the North Beach area and whom police say they found driving a stolen vehicle in the vicinity on Tuesday, now faces multiple possible charges stemming from a reckless chase through the city.
SF News Frank Somerville's Official Replacement As Anchor Named at KTVU: Mike Mibach Following a strange year that included an on-camera slurring incident, an unexplained absence from the air, and then a very public DUI incident, local anchorman Frank Somerville has been officially replaced at KTVU.
SF News BART Just Reinstated Its Mask Mandate Through Mid-July BART is now the lone transit agency in the Bay Area with a mask mandate, after going a week with some flip-flopping on the policy.
SF News Victim In Oceanview Murder-Suicide Identified as SF Firefighter and Father Friends and family of slain San Francisco firefighter Eric Deng have set up a crowdfunding campaign to help support his widow and young child.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vegetation Fire Contained Near Altamont Pass A wind-whipped vegetation fire grew to 50 acres last night in eastern Alameda County, Twitter released decent earnings for the first quarter of 2022, and Alice Waters' new LA cafe has opened and isn't that exciting according to one Berkeley resident.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sphere Sculptures Outside Chase Center Vandalized Those sculptures outside the Chase Center have been vandalized and permanently damaged, there could be some bad traffic tonight with Warriors and Giants games, and the Guerneville Safeway was targeted with a "swatting" incident.
Arts & Entertainment SF Theaters Announce Next Season Lineups Including 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Six,' and 'The Wizard of Oz' 'Dear Evan Hanson' is returning to the Bay Area next winter, the West End and Broadway hit 'Six' is coming to town next year, and ACT is bringing in a new show by the acrobat troupe that created 'Dear San Francisco.'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 70s-Themed Cocktail Lounge, For the Record, Opens In Cow Hollow A couple of Future Bars alums, Barry John Walsh and Janice Bailon, are bringing some 1970s disco and funk flair to the Cow Hollow space that was formerly home to Michael Mina's Test Kitchen (and more recently U:Dessert Story).
Business & Tech PayPal to Close Its Downtown SF Offices In June Another company has announced that it's vacating its San Francisco offices, citing a shift to a more remote workforce.
SF News 39-Year-Old Student Identified as Suspect Who Made Shooting Threat on UC Berkeley Campus The man who allegedly made criminal threats against individuals at UC Berkeley last Thursday, leading to widespread anxiety and an hours-long, campus-wide shelter-in-place order, has been identified and charged.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Suspects in San Jose Abduction ID'd The three suspects in Monday's kidnapping in San Jose have been identified, a 25-year-old man died while skiing at Palisades Tahoe, and Jeff Bezos made some kind of jab at fellow billionaire Elon Musk about his purchase of Twitter — on Twitter.
SF News San Francisco and Bay Area In For a Lot More 'Bomb Cyclones' This Century, According to New Study It was called the biggest and strongest rainstorm to hit the Bay Area in a quarter century, but last October's "bomb cyclone" event may be just a preview of what climate change will bring to the Bay Area in the coming decades.
SF News Abducted Infant Found, Three Suspects In Custody In San Jose After 20-Hour Manhunt A three-month-old boy has been reunited with his family after a frantic search by law enforcement and surveillance video showing his abduction in a carseat on Monday.
SF Politics Kamala Has COVID, For Real This Time Vice President Kamala Harris has, like a slew of D.C. denizens, tested positive for COVID and is isolating. The positive test comes about a month after Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff contracted the virus.
SF News A Huge Number of SF's Supportive Housing Units Are In Run-Down, Vermin-Infested SROs, and It's Barely Better Than Being Homeless The Chronicle has crunched some numbers and gone inside a handful of the SROs dotting the Tenderloin and SOMA to show just how terrible the situation really is for SF's supportive housing stock.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 92 Pounds of Fentanyl Seized in East Bay Bust The FBI and police in San Jose are frantically searching for an abducted infant, the Chronicle's Editorial Board took an unexpected against the recall of Chesa Boudin, and 92 pounds of fentanyl likely bound for SF was seized in a big bust in the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Facebook Is Opening a VR Headset Store In Burlingame Twitter employees are a wee bit concerned what their stock options are worth, COVID cases have jumped 50% in California since March, and Facebook/Meta is opening its first VR headset store in Burlingame.
Business & Tech Will Elon Musk Move Twitter to Texas? Will He Give Trump His Account Back? Questions Abound. Elon Musk fanboys on Twitter are all elated that their King of Twitter may soon be the full Owner of Twitter. But employees are probably worried.
SF News Four Shootings and Two Stabbings Over the Weekend In Tenderloin and SoMa There were four separate shooting incidents over the weekend in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods, though none of them were fatal.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Lady Camden Comes In Second on 'Rupaul's Drag Race,' Releases New Video With Dozens of SF Queens The official first runner up for America's Next Drag Superstar, as of Friday's Season 14 finale, is San Francisco's own Lady Camden.
Business & Tech [Update] Elon Musk-Twitter Deal Is Done; Twitter to Be Taken Private Twitter's board has accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to take the company private, after two weeks of intrigue and the creation of a "poison pill" meant to kill the deal.