SF News 100 Arrested In Oakland Following Peaceful March; Empty Hilltop Mall Looted In Richmond Tear gas was deployed Monday against protesters in both Walnut Creek and Oakland, where around 100 people were arrested, 80 of them for violating the city's 8 p.m. curfew.
SF News Richmond Man Arrested For Murdering Grandmother Was Found Eating Her Body A suspect was arrested Monday in the city of Richmond for allegedly killing and cannibalizing a female relative, later identified as his grandmother.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Biden Mocks Trump's Bible Photo Op AC Transit is halting bus service at 7:30 p.m. amid curfews, the Union Square Business Improvement District has surveillance footage of looters, and Peninsula apartment rents are plunging.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Sends Military Troops Into D.C. to Aid Law Enforcement Trump is invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, Gov. Newsom is calling for an end to protest chaos, L.A. is under a 4 p.m. curfew today, and another Tesla worker is speaking out about a lack of safety at the Fremont plant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aunt Charlie's Lounge in the Tenderloin Launches Campaign to Save Itself From August 1 Closure The Tenderloin's last remaining LGBTQ bar, Aunt Charlie's Lounge, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $100,000 to save itself from going under in the next two months.
SF News Conspiracy Theorists Now Promoting Rumor That George Floyd Didn't Die On YouTube and Twitter George Soros, a "riot manual" given to antifa by Democrats, and a conspiracy theory that George Floyd's death was faked are all part of the current YouTube/Twitter/Facebook cesspool.
Arts & Entertainment At Virtual Drag Funeral, The Stud Gets a Send-Off By Many 'Widows' On Sunday, after the keys were handed back to the property owners who will likely demolish the building before long, a couple thousand fans and lovers of The Stud gathered online to mourn the loss of a beloved bar and nightclub, and watch some drag.
Business & Tech Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walk-Out To Protest Zuckerberg's Handling of Trump Mark Zuckerberg may have a mutiny on his hands this week as a significant number of Facebook employees are reportedly protesting the company's stance on President Trump and the inflammatory messages he has cross-posted on both Facebook and Twitter.
SF News Protests and Looting Have Everything to Do With Trump, Unemployment, and COVID, Activists Say Veteran activists say it's impossible to separate the pandemic and its impacts, as well as the unpopularity of President Trump, from what we are seeing on city streets. Meanwhile, Trump is telling governors that they need to "dominate" protesters with force.
SF News Jamie Foxx Joins Faith Leaders and Mayor London Breed For 'Kneel-In' at City Hall Actor Jamie Foxx is in San Francisco today to join inter-faith leaders, Mayor London Breed, and Supervisor Shamann Walton for a kneel-in outside City Hall at 11 a.m. to protest police violence and systemic racism.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Police Officer Shot California has ordered all state buildings in downtown areas closed today, looters laid waste to a San Leandro Walmart and set it on fire, and a fourth night of protests in Oakland left a police officer shot.
SF News 80 Arrested In San Francisco Sunday; Molotov Cocktails, Handgun Seized As San Francisco began imposing its first night of an 8 p.m. citywide curfew, SFPD officers made around 80 arrests, many of them for violating that curfew, but some for more destructive acts.
SF News Protest In Oakland Turns Violent, 22 Arrested, Looters Detained, Officers Injured, Federal Officer Killed The scenes of protest followed by some scenes of destruction and confrontations with law enforcement were echoed across the country Friday night. But scenes like this are fairly familiar in Oakland, and not all the vandalism and looting was necessarily done by "protesters," per se.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 30-Year-Old Cyclist Killed Near Golden Gate Park 23 Sonoma County wineries are reopening for visitors this weekend, Marin County is opening beach parking lots and outdoor dining on Monday, and a demonstration against police brutality is happening in San Francisco on Saturday.
SF News Activists Block Highway 101 In San Jose To Protest George Floyd Killing Protesters broke off from a peaceful demonstration near San Jose City Hall Friday afternoon, and a large group marched onto the 101 freeway and halted traffic, holding signs that said "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe."
SF News Second Protest Planned Friday Evening In Oakland Over George Floyd Death Following a small, peaceful protest in downtown Oakland Thursday night, a second night of protest is taking shape that could be larger, following the chaotic scenes in Minneapolis last night — and following President Trump's outrageous call for the National Guard to shoot looters.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff Decides to Take Trumpian Stand Against Public Health Orders Because 'Freedom' The sheriff up in Sonoma County would like everyone to know that he stands for freedom, and he's frankly tired of all this science mumbo jumbo that's keeping him from getting a haircut, or whatever.
SF News East Oakland Quickly Becoming Hardest Hit COVID-19 Hot Spot In the Bay Area The Fruitvale zip code, 94601, has one of the highest per capita rates of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area, and today we learn that 12 workers at the Fruitvale location of Cardenas Markets have tested positive for the virus.
Business & Tech Twitter Doubles Down On Labeling Trump's Tweets After He Suggests Shooting Looters In Minnesota For the second time this week, Twitter has applied its content moderation policies to the president's tweets, this time putting a Trump tweet one click deep behind a warning about glorifying violence.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pacifica Reopens Beach Parking Lots City College is pulling out of Fort Mason, the Vallejo nursing home outbreak has now killed 16 people, and Gap Inc. is reopening 800 stores this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rainbow Flags Return to Market Street An Oakland city audit blasts the police commission, PG&E just had its bankruptcy plan unanimously approved by state regulators, and SF is opening three new COVID testing sites.
SF News Starting This Weekend, San Franciscans Must Wear Masks Everywhere Under the latest health order from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, city residents are being required to wear masks everywhere outside their homes, with few exceptions.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Repertory Theater Announces 2021 Season, Banking on Late-Winter Reopening In a video address to theater subscribers, Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer announces that the theater has put together its 2021 show season, optimistically hoping that theaters like Berkeley Rep will be allowed to reopen by late winter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says SF Restaurants Can Resume Outdoor Dining June 15; Bars, Nail Salons and Gyms Can Reopen Mid-August Mayor London Breed laid out specific timeframes for the next phases of San Francisco's reopening of businesses on Thursday, and for the first time restaurants, bars, hair salons, and gyms have some target dates to resume semi-regular business.
SF News Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Trying to Kidnap Two Young Children in the Castro A 44-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening after he allegedly tried to pull two young boys out of a car in the Castro neighborhood.
