SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rains Could Finally Be Coming Next Week PG&E has downgraded the scope of its next round of power shutoffs, there was another backyard mountain lion sighting in San Mateo, and meteorologists are watching a big storm over the Pacific that could bring up to two inches of rain here starting next week.
SF News Sacramento Legislators Are Holding Up the High-Speed Rail Project... Again California's beleaguered high-speed rail project hasn't been abandoned yet, but its ballooning costs and ever-extending timeline are enough to make anyone wonder if any of us will be alive to see this thing up and running.
SF News East Bay Pedophile Says He Paid $55K For Encounter With 10-Year-Old; Authorities Have Not Charged Trafficker A two-year-old story involving an Oakland oral surgeon who pleaded guilty to child pornography and attempted child sex trafficking charges has an update, and it involves a group of Bay Area suspects with whom he allegedly negotiated the use of children for his sexual pleasure.
Business & Tech Why Are Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Constantly Hitting the Same Dead End On 15th Avenue? Neighbors on one street in San Francisco's Richmond District seem to be witnessing the training of robot cars in the art of the three-point turn — over, and over, and over again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Owners to Open New Location In the Marina, Plus a Mexican Restaurant In West Portal A new location of Little Original Joe's is headed for Chestnut Street in the Marina, and the family behind the local restaurant empire is expanding into Mexican cuisine with Elena's, a new restaurant in West Portal.
Bay Area Sports Dodgers Force Game 5 at Oracle Park — Thursday's Gonna Be Nuts In SF It's being called the biggest game in the history of the 120-year-old rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers, and it will be happening in San Francisco, under the lights at Oracle Park, in the hopefully waning days of a pandemic on Thursday night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wildfire Destroys Delta RV Park A wildfire tore through an RV park in Isleton Tuesday and destroyed 21 homes, three people were shot in the Tenderloin Tuesday night, and William Shatner just became the oldest person ever shot into space.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five SF Walgreens Closing, Company Blames Shoplifting A vegetation fire in Hillsborough was quickly contained today, Walgreens announced it's closing five more SF stores due to ongoing "retail crime," and the water level at Lake Tahoe has gotten disturbingly low.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Japanese-Inspired Cocktail Spot Iris Debuts Thursday on Upper Polk In the former La Folie Lounge space at 2310 Polk Street, the neighborhood is getting a new high-end cocktail spot this week — the sister bar to Nisei, the Japanese tasting-menu restaurant from chef David Yoshimura that debuted in the La Folie space in August.
Arts & Entertainment Lead Singer of Bay Area Band Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, Says He's Retiring Following Chaotic Show That Went Viral Smash Mouth, which last made headlines here and elsewhere for performing in the middle of a pandemic at the August 2020 Sturgis motorcycle rally/super-spreader event, no longer has a lead singer.
Bay Area Sports Raiders Coach Resigns After Emails Surface Showing He's a Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Prick There are still Raiders fans in the Bay Area even if they are just the long-distance supporters of a Las Vegas team now. And so it remains local news that the Raiders head coach has been shown to be a gross human being.
SF News South Bay 'Cool Mom' Accused of Throwing Very Boozy Parties For Teen Son and His Friends Faces 39 Criminal Charges A Los Gatos woman of means is accused of hosting secret parties with dozens of teenagers present throughout the last year, and pushing them to drink excessively and have sex with each other.
SF News Newell Fire In Napa County, Possibly Caused By Arson, Reaches 132 Acres The Newell Fire, which began as a quickly moving grass fire Monday evening in American Canyon and was soon threatening homes and American Canyon High School, is 60% contained and only reached 132 acres as of Tuesday morning.
Bay Area Sports Giants Take Game 3 With 1 Run From Longoria, Could Clinch Pennant Spot Tonight The San Francisco Giants faced off against the Dodgers Monday in a near flawless night for both teams' defense, and one home run by Evan Longoria was all it took to hold off the Dodgers and head for a potentially decisive Game 4 on Tuesday in L.A.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Millennium Tower Undergoes Important Soil Test PG&E is warning of more wind and more power shutoffs later this week, Millennium Tower is undergoing a key test to the effects of the ongoing sinking fix, and the smoldering Caldor Fire is still putting off a fair bit of smoke despite being almost entirely contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2,191-lb Pumpkin Takes Top Prize at Half Moon Bay Weigh-Off A person was struck in the head by an arriving BART train in West Oakland and is apparently still alive, a winner was declared this morning at the annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and Elon Musk trolled Jeff Bezos on Twitter about being richer than him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water's New Pasta Restaurant Penny Roma Opens for Business The previously announced new incarnation of the Central Kitchen space from the Flour + Water Restaurant Group, a casual pasta restaurant called Penny Roma, makes its debut Monday after a brief remodel.
SF News The Majestic Princess, the First Cruise Ship to Dock In SF In 19 Months, Arrives at Pier 27 For better or worse, the world is back to cruising, and Princess Cruises' Majestic Princess came into port in San Francisco around 7 a.m. on Monday, letting a couple thousand passengers disembark to wander the city.
SF News More Weather Terminology: What's An 'Inside Slider' and Why Does It Cause Diablo Winds In the Bay Area? Every year meteorologists introduce us to new terminology that was once just the purview of professionals and weather geeks. And this week it's all about the "inside slider" — not the baseball pitch, but the slang term used for a northerly weather system that has a steep southward trajectory.
SF News Large Tree Toppled By Wind in San Mateo County Damages Home, Cars, Knocks Out Power A large tree came down amid gusting winds Sunday night in San Mateo County, hitting power lines and causing some damage, but no fire was sparked.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Who's Losing Power Today? Most of today's PG&E power shutoffs are in Solano County and eastern Napa County, Southwest Airlines canceled over 1,000 flights over the weekend, and that German cargo ship that was being investigated in the oil spill has been let off the hook.
Arts & Entertainment Two Blocks of Minna and Natoma Streets to Become 'Art Corridor' Leading to SFMOMA and Yerba Buena The San Francisco Arts Commission has selected five artists to help create a visually interesting and interactive "art corridor" on four alley blocks downtown, connecting the Transbay Transit Center to the art hubs of SFMOMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Boeing 777 Fly Really Low Over SF Spectators and Do Tricks Over the Bay Today's Day 1 of the Fleet Week Air Show over the Bay — as if you need to be told with the deafening noise. In case you haven't gone out to the waterfront or stood on a Russian Hill roof to see the festivity and show of military might, we have some footage of the one non-military part of the show.
SF News Is the Pandemic Making Wildfire Arson More Common? Some experts have already been saying that the COVID-19 pandemic may be causing arsons to spike, much as it has caused other types of serious crime to spike as well. And a couple of recent examples in Northern California feature suspects with tenuous mental health.
Business & Tech Instagram and Facebook Experience Second Outage In a Week; Twitter Is Gleeful It may not be the worldwide meltdown of Monday, but Instagram and Facebook were not loading properly for some users on both coasts of the U.S. today, and the company has confirmed there's a problem.
