SF News Humpday Headlines: Clipper Readers Start Taking Regular Cards Today Today is the day that Clipper card readers start taking regular debit and credit cards; an Oakland man was gunned down in his car; and teachers in West Contra Costa County have ended their strike after five days.
Arts & Entertainment Shaquille O'Neal to Host Shaq's Fun House at Cow Palace, Featuring T-Pain, on Super Bowl Weekend Basketball Hall of Famer turned DJ Shaquille O'Neal is throwing a big ticketed party event in the Bay Area over Super Bowl Weekend, and T-Pain and Tiësto are both scheduled to perform.
SF News Video: 'Undercover' Santa Arrests Two In Napa County Christmas Tree Theft This strange and performative video has been going around from the American Canyon Police Department, showing a police officer dressed as Santa Claus putting a suspect in handcuffs.
SF News Trial Delayed In 2024 Double-Murder of Teen Girls In Napa Two young women were gunned down near downtown Napa in April 2024 after they allegedly brought a knife to a fight with another woman, and the legal proceedings against two suspects in the case were just paused.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Panisse, the New Cocktail Spot Next to Chez Panisse, Opens This Week The much anticipated — and somewhat controversial for the neighborhood — new cocktail bar attached to Chez Panisse will open its doors Thursday, December 11, and they won't be taking reservations.
SF News Seismologist Suggests That the Bay Area's Next Big Quake Could Come With an Early Warning From the North The lead author of a recent study about how major earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest have been historically linked to seismic events in California, specifically on the San Andreas Fault, says he sees some upside to the findings, at least for those of us in California.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Asian Art Museum Returns Looted Thai Statues SF's Asian Art Museum is repatriating some looted statues to Thailand; yesterday's earthquake swarm in San Ramon totaled 10 small quakes; and SF's RV parking crackdown is off to a slow start.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murder Charges Filed Against SF General Stabbing Suspect Murder charges have been filed against he man accused of stabbing a social worker at SF General; a small earthquake rattled Piedmont; and South San Francisco police shot a man they say charged at officers with a knife.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Wine Importer and Retailer Kermit Lynch Opens Second-Ever Location In Marin Longtime Berkeley-based wine importer and retailer Kermit Lynch, one of the keystones of the Berkeley food world for five decades, has just expanded with its second-ever retail location, in Larkspur.
SF News As It Prepares to Close Mall Location, Could H&M Be on Its Way Back to Union Square? One of the last retailers to close up shop at the nearly shuttered San Francisco Centre mall is H&M, which just confirmed it will close down in January, after the holidays.
Arts & Entertainment Video Shows How San Francisco Bar Pilots Help Steer Large Ships Into the Bay A new video documents the fairly unsung work of the San Francisco Bar Pilots, an elite group of local maritime experts and ship captains who board huge container ships and cruise ships to help them safely navigate through the Golden Gate.
SF News Redwood City Man Allegedly Kills Wife, Shoots Himself In Failed Murder-Suicide Redwood City police say that a man fatally shot his wife early Sunday and then turned the gun on himself, but he remains alive in critical condition.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Sees Yet Another Messy Monday Commute BART's Red and Green lines were both out of service causing major delays Monday morning; another swarm of small earthquakes struck San Ramon; and Paramount is launching a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chicken-Fried Everything Chicken Fried Palace debuts in the Mission, Standard Fare calls it quits in Berkeley, and we get the first big review of Via Aurelia, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Newly Released Video Shows Moment Bodega Cat Was Killed on 16th Street Some newly released surveillance video from Randa's Market, from the October night when the store's beloved resident cat, KitKat, was fatally injured by a Waymo, complicates the picture of what happened.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In Livermore Roommate Killing The death of a 55-year-old man in Livermore led police there to suspect that the man's 3o-year-old roommate could be to blame. And one day after the body was discovered, the roommate was spotted in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Strikes $83B Deal to Acquire Warner Bros. (and HBO) to Create Content Juggernaut If government regulators don't torpedo the deal, Netflix is poised to become a movie, TV, and streaming giant even larger than it is today, bringing everything from 'Batman' to 'Game of Thrones' into its fold.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Marina Residents Already Making Noise About Safeway Plan A 21-year-old Santa Rosa woman crashed after leading CHP on high-speed chase; critics are pouncing on Pamela Price trying to run for Alameda County DA again; and Marina residents are already making noise about a huge proposed development on the site of the Safeway there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike Teachers went on strike today in the West Contra Costa school district; SF Unified teachers have taken a vote to authorize a strike, but this may not be imminent; and a car crashed into a doggy day care in Alameda.
Arts & Entertainment Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Director Jon Chu Make Surprise Appearance at 'Wicked' Screening In San Rafael The two stars of Wicked For Good and the film's Bay Area-born director made a surprise appearance after a screening of the film Wednesday night in San Rafael, and did a Q&A with the audience.
SF News Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
SF News Stanley Roberts Returns! 'People Behaving Badly' Gets Revived on KRON4 After 7-Year Hiatus The Bay Area's favorite finger-wagging scold of the local news, Stanley Roberts, will be back on the air on KRON4 starting next week, with his first "People Behaving Badly" segment in seven years.
Arts & Entertainment Cause of Death Revealed for Claude, the Academy of Science's Albino Alligator Claude the albino alligator, the longtime mascot of the California Academy of Sciences who died unexpectedly earlier this week at the age of 30, now has an official cause of death.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Darrell Issa May Relocate to Texas Due to Prop 50 Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is likely to be a casualty of Prop 50 and is talking about moving to Texas; an abalone poacher was arrested in Sonoma; and some atmospheric rivers are coming... to the Pacific Northwest.
SF News That 5.9M Earthquake Warning Out of Nevada Was Fake News Millions of Northern California residents received a Shake Alert warning at 8:06 am Thursday about an earthquake with an epicenter in Lyon County, Nevada, but the quake itself soon disappeared from the USGS website, and the agency said it was a false alarm.
