Arts & Entertainment SFPD Is Urging People to Narc on Their Neighbors' Halloween Parties The cops would like everyone in SF to know that they will be on the hunt for public-health rule-breakers on Saturday, and you will get in trouble if you get caught throwing an actual Halloween party.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crazy Night of Wind But No Major Fires There was a peak wind gust of 89 mph on Mount St. Helena last night, a brush fire in Castro Valley came within 50 feet of a home, and the Pope Fire in Napa County was 100-percent contained before the winds whipped up.
SF News Pleasanton Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Festival Eat Drink SF Morphs Into Something More Like Restaurant Week For This Year Local restaurant lobby group the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) still wanted to bring some attention to the hobbled local food scene during the time of year when they would normally be hosting their Eat Drink SF festival.
SF News Muni Rider Details Comedy of Errors As Bus Driver Attempts to Keep From Picking Up More Than 30 Passengers In normal times, it can be hard for a Muni bus driver to skip stops when they have an over-full load of passengers while also letting people off where there need to get off. But add a pandemic to that and it's even more impossible.
SF News Aggressive Turkey Named Gerald Removed From Oakland Rose Garden, Exiled to Orinda The saga of Gerald, the wild turkey who had taken to attacking humans in Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden but seemed to have a specific hatred of older women, has seemingly come to an end.
SF News Pregnant 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Berkeley Drive-By A 19-year-old mother of a 10-month-old baby, who was carrying her second child, was fatally shot in a brazen drive-by shooting Wednesday while her entire family was in the same car with her.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Debate Drive-In Viewing Party Draws Crowd An encampment fire in Oakland damaged at least two buildings, convicted murderer Scott Peterson is having a virtual hearing today from San Quentin, and Uber drivers are suing the company over Yes on 22 pop-ups.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barricaded Gunman With Hostage Surrenders After Tense Day in East Oakland A raccoon got into SF City Hall, nurses are suing the city for overtime pay, Dr. Fauci is headed to the Bay Area, and former 49er Dana Stubblefield has been sentenced in a 2015 rape case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Restaurant Tadich Grill and Noted Hofbrau Tommy's Joynt Plan Reopenings The oldest restaurant in San Francisco, Tadich Grill, which dates its establishment to 1849, is re-emerging from a pandemic closure next month, cioppino, steaks and all. And Tommy's is reopening before Halloween.
SF News Extreme Wind Event Arrives Early Next Week With Even Greater Potential Fire Danger, More PSPS Likely The relentlessness of 2020 with its anxieties and miseries lumbers on with yet another fire weather forecast that no one wants to hear. But a coming wind event that begins Sunday brings the most danger so far, according to one meteorologist.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower Crown Will Run Red With a 'Blood Red River' on Halloween LED installation artist Jim Campbell has something new up his sleeve for the top of Salesforce next weekend.
SF News Potential Mass Shooter Gunned Down at Idaho Campsite After Screaming About 'All You F***in' Californians' An angry 73-year-old man was fatally shot in an Idaho campground incident in which he allegedly fired on a group of campers after being heard yelling at them for being in what he claimed was his campsite, and accusing them of coming from California.
Arts & Entertainment Ferris Wheel Opens In Golden Gate Park and the Views Are Pretty Sweet Book your rides on the 150-foot-tall Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park while the weather's still nice and clear! The new attraction celebrating the park's 150th birthday opened to the public on Wednesday.
SF News Driver of Stolen U-Haul Dies Following Pursuit in SF, Jump Into Bay The driver of a stolen U-Haul truck died early Thursday morning after trying to evade police and jumping into San Francisco Bay.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Shutoff Primarily Impacts Napa Residents Senate Democrats boycotted a vote to advance Amy Coney Barrett's nomination, San Mateo County opens dedicated COVID testing line for families, and a new park opened on the eastern end of the Bay Bridge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian Operatives Posing as Proud Boys Are Sending Intimidating Emails to Voters in Key States Human bones were found on San Bruno Mountain, a Marin County high school is shutting down in-person classes after an illegal student party, and Quibi is dunzo.
SF News One Red Flag Warning Ends and Another Begins As North and East Bay Residents Brace for More Wind Predicted Diablo winds between Monday night and Wednesday morning failed to materialize in most parts of the Bay, however a second wind event is forecast to begin Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
SF Politics Editorial: Senate Shouldn't Confirm Any Supreme Court Justice Whose Beliefs Include Righteous Discrimination Judge Amy Coney Barrett served on the board of a school group that systematically discriminated against LGBTQ+ teachers and parents. How can the Senate let this nomination slide through knowing she supported this?
SF News SF Taxpayers On the Hook For $30 Million to Shore Up the Sinking Millennium Tower Alas, a new detail has emerged in the as-yet-not-fully-disclosed settlement of multiple lawsuits related to the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, and it's the fact that SF taxpayers will be footing a piece of the overall bill.
SF News Daughter and Son-in-Law Who Killed and Dismembered Elderly Outer Mission Man Get Light Sentences In Plea Deal Defense attorneys successfully argued that there was no evidence of malice before the killing, and prosecutors reportedly had difficulty establishing who did what to whom first, with the defense claiming self-defense.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Court Orders San Quentin to Reduce Its Population By Half A court has ordered San Quentin to release or transfer 50% of its inmates due to COVID, SF firefighters performed a surf and cliff rescue near Marshall's Beach, and Pope Francis is endorsing the idea of same-sex civil unions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Van Ness 24-Hour Fitness a Reported Haven of Anti-Maskers Two SF supervisors want more "Safe Sleeping Villages" for the homeless, supervisors approved the CAREN Act banning racially motivated 911 calls, and a 24-Hour Fitness location in SF apparently allows members to go maskless if they fill out an exemption form.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 100% Containment as North Bay Braces For More Power Shutoffs The Glass Fire is officially, fully contained as of Tuesday, right on schedule per earlier announcements by Cal Fire. As with other wildfires, it has taken many days than might seem intuitively necessary to get from 97-percent to 100-percent, and here we are.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco to Allow 50% Capacity In Restaurants, Outdoor Bars Without Food As It Becomes First Bay Area County to Enter 'Yellow' Tier On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed announced that the city and county of San Francisco had moved into the least restrictive "yellow" tier in the state's reopening framework, and if numbers stay low more businesses will get to reopen in two weeks.
