Arts & Entertainment Vintage Ad Shows 40 Movie Theaters That Once Dotted San Francisco San Francisco was once home to over 40 movie theaters and one drive-in, but that was way back in 1958. A vintage ad from the era shows us all that we've lost.
Business & Tech Facebook's PR Crisis Continues As More News Outlets Report on the 'Facebook Papers' Revelations about Facebook's knowledge of its enormous and fundamental problems, and the company's ineptitude in handling them or lack of true interest in trying because it would hurt the bottom line, are continuing to roll in.
SF News Los Gatos Parents Reveal How They Took Down 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor The undoing of Los Gatos mom Shannon O'Connor, and the first bits of evidence that led to her arrest earlier this month on charges including felony child abuse and sexual assault, may have begun with one drunk teenage boy and his cellphone that kept pinging after he passed out.
SF News Video: Storm Winds Topple Two Trucks on Richmond Bridge Gusty winds from Sunday's bomb cyclone blew over two semi trucks on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, causing at least one injury and damage to other cars.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday Was SF's Fourth Wettest Day on Record Flood impacts continue across Marin County, the Napa River is expected to crest just a foot below flood stage on Wednesday, and F-Market streetcars are switching back at the Ferry Building due to Embarcadero flooding.
SF News Strongest Storm In a Quarter Century, Bomb Cyclone Surpasses Bay Area Predictions, Causes Havoc All Over While meteorologists on Sunday morning were still predicting large, but not record-breaking rain totals, a storm system rolled in off the Pacific and pummeled the Bay Area with way more rain than most of us were expecting.
SF News Flash Flood Watch Issued for Wildfire Burn Scar Areas Around Bay Area A flash flood watch has gone out for Sunday for burn scar areas in the North, South, and East Bay, with heavy rainfall expected and the possibility of mudslides and floods where things burned in 2020.
Business & Tech Fired Trans Netflix Employee Says They Were Not Acting Surreptitiously With Data, But It Was About Content Equity The Black trans Netflix employee who was fired last week amid the internal uproar at the company over the transphobia in Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special has given a new interview to explain how things went down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown BBQ Specialists Hing Lung Co. Expanding to Bernal With Go Duck Yourself A new restaurant specializing in Cantonese barbecue is coming to Bernal Heights next summer, and it's called Go Duck Yourself.
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain Shot Six Times, Condition Critical A retired Oakland Police Department captain, known for working much of the last decade on the city's Ceasefire strategy to reduce gun violence, was shot six times Thursday in an attempted robbery at a West Oakland gas station.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Movie Director Shot By Alec Baldwin Is SF-Based A couple describes seeing Phish fan Ryan Prosser leap to his death at the Chase Center, SF-based writer-director Joel Souza is recovering from injuries after being shot by a prop gun that killed his cinematographer Thursday, and supporters of DA Chesa Boudin held an anti-recall rally.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired Oakland Cop and 'Ceasefire' Head Shot During Attempted Robbery A retired OPD captain and head of the city's Ceasefire program was shot in a gun battle at a gas station Thursday, Harlan Kelly pleaded not guilty to new charges, and the Caldor Fire has reached 100% containment.
SF News Cause of Death Finally Revealed In Case of Former SF Couple and Infant On Sierra Hike The cause of death has finally been determined in the case of the Mariposa County couple, their one-year-old daughter, and their dog, and it was not toxic algae.
Business & Tech Oversight Board Unhappy That Facebook Hid How It Handles VIP Accounts, Says It Will Review 'XCheck' System The ostensibly independent Facebook Oversight Board is pointing back to a Wall Street Journal story last month and basically saying Facebook employees concealed a vital detail from them in the Trump suspension case, and this whole policy around VIP accounts needs to be audited.
SF News La Niña Winter Might Improve Drought In NorCal, Says NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's winter weather forecast for the U.S. is out, and somewhat surprisingly, it's predicting some drought improvement for the northern part of California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thursday Morning What's Up: Pleasant Hill In-N-Out Also Violating Vaccine Rule An announcement about the family found dead on a trail in Mariposa County is coming today, SF city leaders celebrate the first phase of safety improvements on Geary Boulevard, and the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill has been fined for not checking vaccine cards.
Arts & Entertainment Chase Center Will Face New Inspection After Injuries and Death at Phish Concert SF's Department of Building Inspection is reportedly going to revisit the Chase Center just over two years after it opened, following the debacle at Sunday's Phish show in which two separate falls occurred from upper balconies.
SF News There Are 40 SFPD Officers Now On Leave Because They Wouldn't Get Vaccinated You'd think that people who work in the San Francisco Police Department or at SF General who interact with the public all day long would have run to get vaccinated the minute they were eligible last winter. But no!
Business & Tech Facebook Is Pulling an Alphabet and Changing Its Name Next Week It's all about the metaverse! According to an internal source at Facebook, the company is preparing a big announcement next week to change its corporate identity and name, which of course has nothing to do with all the negative associations that "Facebook" now has.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Health Department Is Trolling In-N-Out on Twitter Now An ongoing battle over a vaccination mandate between SF's Department of Public Health and In-N-Out was made public Tuesday, and the department quickly used the opportunity to throw a little shade on social media.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Prepare for the Season's First Atmospheric River An Oakland man is accused of running over a woman and killing her for vandalizing his car, the Netflix employee walkout is happening, and the season's first atmospheric river is on its way.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Looks to Sell City Hall Air Rights for $45M The dead man in the Phish concert fall on Sunday has been ID'd, fans continue to talk about how unsafe those upper levels of the Chase Center seem, and SF may try to sell the air rights belonging to City Hall for $45 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area-Born Sustainable Meat Company Belcampo Appears Kaput As All Retail Operations Close A darling of the food world in the last decade, Belcampo Meat Co., announced it is ending all of its retail butcher shop and restaurant operations effective this week.
SF News Fairfield Vacation Rental Targeted With Threatening Graffiti From Angry Neighbors A home being rented on VRBO in an unincorporated area of Solano County, near Rockville and Fairfield, was the target of some threatening graffiti earlier this month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Temporarily Shuts Down In-N-Out After Company Comes Out Against Vaccine Mandates You know that In-N-Out is owned by evangelical Christians, right? Well, the unfortunate crossover between religion and anti-vaccine stances has come to roost at the only San Francisco location of the beloved burger chain.
