Arts & Entertainment Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Came to NorCal to Go Crabbing Last Weekend It must have been Gavin Rossdale's weekend with the kids, and Gwen Stefani and her new fiancé Blake Shelton were up in Monterey over the weekend where they went out fishing and crabbing with a local guide.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Person Killed In Mission District Shooting There was a shooting at 24th and Mission in SF last night that left one person dead, a 19-year-old has turned himself in for a Muni assault in October, and Oakland is welcoming back its littlest students today in Pre-K to second grade.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Contra Costa County Opens Up Vaccines to All on Tuesday Vaccine FOMO is real, local counties are preparing for a major influx of vaccine shipments and a huge crush of demand, and new Noe Valley restaurant/bar Mr. Digby's is about to make its debut.
SF News Santa Rosa Police Ask for Public's Help In Finding Suspect In Hit-and-Run That Killed Homeless Woman The suspect remains at large in a hit-and-run homicide at a homeless encampment last week in Santa Rosa, which police have characterized as intentional.
Business & Tech Pleasanton-Based Pharma Firm Gritstone Starts Trial For 'Second Generation' COVID Vaccine A Bay Area pharmaceutical company says it is working on a "second generation" COVID vaccine that could work as a booster against virus variants for the already vaccinated, and potentially prevent future coronavirus pandemics.
SF Politics '60 Minutes+' Asks SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin About Crime, and Releasing Repeat Offenders CBS News isn't doing any favors for San Francisco's national image with the piece that just went live on "60 Minutes+" on the Paramount+ app, which is ostensibly a profile of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
SF News Entire Bay Area May Be In 'Orange' Tier Within a Week As CDC Director Warns of 'Impending Doom' The trends continue in a positive direction for the Bay Area's COVID-19 cases, but the picture is not good at the national level and the director of the CDC says we may be looking at a major fourth wave in the coming weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Artists Lead Sand Art Workshop, Create Temporary Piece on Ocean Beach On Sunday, an environmental art group led a workshop to create a large-scale sand art piece on Ocean Beach — and they'll be doing this again in April.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: High Winds Coming to the Bay Area Hills Tonight A high wind advisory has been issued for Monday night for the Bay Area hills, at least two people were injured during a sideshow in the Mission over the weekend, and that container ship has finally been unstuck in the Suez Canal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Year In, Pandemic-Born Food Nonprofit SF New Deal Looks to the Future One startup organization set about solving two problems at once last March, mobilizing to put restaurants to work doing what they do best, and delivering meals to people who in many cases were newly food-insecure because of the pandemic.
SF News All Three Major COVID Variants Now Present In Bay Area As Santa Clara County Confirms First 'P.1' Case Santa Clara County health officials confirmed on Thursday that the first case of the "P.1" variant, first identified in Brazil, has been found in the Bay Area.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Parking Lots Could Become 2,900-Unit Residential Village The owner of the Stonestown Galleria mall property has been conducting workshops with nearby neighborhoods to discuss a future development that could create a new neighborhood out of what is now just 30 acres of surface parking lots.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Fox News Faces Second Huge Defamation Suit An 84-year-old Asian man is speaking out about being attacked in the Tenderloin last month, a San Bruno card room is paying a record-setting fine, and Mills College now says 200 UC Berkeley freshman will be moving onto the campus in the fall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed Against SF Medical Examiner Lab Tech BART's board voted to approve a three-year contract extension with BART police, a judge ruled against the SF City Attorney's request for an order to reopen schools, and the Immersive Van Gogh thing may not be for everyone, says KQED.
SF News Mid-Market Condo/Hotel Project Delayed; Hotel and Restaurant Won't Open Until 2022 The 408,000-square-foot development at 950-974 Market Street, which began construction in 2018 and was slated to be completed this year, is delayed — in part because of the pandemic and the state of tourism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Californios Softly Reopens In SoMa; New Bar Coming to Former Californios Space The much anticipated, 2.0 version of Californios, newly relocated to the former Bar Agricole space at 355 11th Street, has quietly reopened and is taking reservations for outdoor seating.
SF News Open Season For Vaccine Eligibility Begins April 15 in CA, and Those Over 50 Can Start April 1 Governor Gavin Newsom made a surprise announcement Thursday, saying that the schedule for vaccine eligibility statewide is moving up faster than expected — with all residents over the age of 50 able to get vaccines starting next week, on April 1.
Business & Tech Facebook, Twitter, and Google Face Angry Lawmakers In First Congressional Hearing Since Biden's Inauguration The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were testifying before Congress on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, and for possibly the last time before lawmakers begin debating sweeping changes to how they're allowed to do business.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Suspect Dies In Fremont Freeway Shootout The Oakland Coliseum vaccination site may live on past its mid-April expiration date, an Oakland basketball star has been identified as a victim in a Tuesday crash near Lodi, and Chrissy Teigen is quitting Twitter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspected Meth Head Arrested For Assaults On Several Asian Victims In SF Santa Rosa police say that a hit-and-run that killed a homeless woman was intentional, a 36-year-old SF man was convicted in a 2019 sexual assault of an intoxicated woman, and SF's tourism economy lost $8 billion last year.
SF News Southwest Pilot Landing at San Jose Heard on Hot Mic Swearing About the Bay Area and Its 'Liberal F**ks' An unidentified pilot with a southern accent can be heard on an air traffic control radio recording delivering some choice words about the Bay Area, our politics, and our inability to drive fast.
SF News Incoming Lowell High School Class to Better Reflect San Francisco's Diversity With More Black and Latinx Students The San Francisco Unified School District has released some numbers on the incoming ninth grade class at Lowell High School, now that the school will no longer have merit-based admissions but will operate on a lottery system.
SF Politics Newsom Taps East Bay Assemblyman Rob Bonta To Be New Attorney General Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced his nomination of Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Alameda — a former deputy city attorney in San Francisco — to be the state's next attorney general.
Arts & Entertainment Urban Putt Plans Reopening Next Week The world is coming alive again, bit by bit, and now we have word that the Mission's indoor miniature golf spot Urban Putt is reopening for the first time since last March.
SF Politics VP Kamala Harris Being Put In Charge Of Thorny Migrant Situation President Biden announced Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would be leading the administration's efforts to deal with the migration situation at the Mexican border — something which could end up being a politically awkward challenge for Harris.
