SF News Humpday Headlines: 90,000 Lose Power In North Bay A house fire in the Outer Sunset, Orinda's city council votes to abolish un-hosted Airbnbs, and Fodor's tells tourists to stop coming to Big Sur.
Business & Tech Twitter Gets Pushback On Its 'Minefield' Of a Political Ad Policy Twitter fleshed out its rather convoluted new policy for political ads on Friday, and it was met with immediate criticism, skepticism, and outright bafflement from both sides of the political spectrum.
SF News Despite No Weather Changes, PG&E Changes Its Mind Again About Alameda County, Lamorinda Shutoffs The messaging game remains fraught with flip-flopping over at PG&E as the company announced Tuesday afternoon that conditions are "changing" and some 12,000 power customers in Alameda County who were told Monday they'd be losing power Wednesday are now not expected to do so.
SF News Four People In Guy Fawkes Masks Arrested After Scaring Families At West Sonoma Self-Help Retreat Four freaky souls with an apparent vendetta against the Berkeley-based Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) donned Guy Fawkes masks and hooded robes as they blockaded the entrance to a Sonoma retreat venue the group was using for an alumni weekend on Friday.
SF News San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties Added to PG&E Shutoff List Three more counties were added early Tuesday to the list of those with residents and businesses who will be potentially impacted by a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) set to begin early Wednesday.
SF News Number Of Homeless In SF Could Be More Than Double the Point-In-Time Count According to city data on individuals who seek healthcare and other services, the number of homeless in San Francisco jumped 30 percent between 2018 and 2019 — and the total number was more than twice the number counted in the January homeless census.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New South Bay BART Stations Won't Open In December A standoff ends peacefully in San Jose, steam from a power plant caused some panic in Crockett, and BART is once again disappointing everyone with a new delay on the Milpitas and Berryessa station openings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Charges Filed For Orinda Shooting Suspects The Alameda County DA's office has announced charges in a 22-year-old sexual assault case, PG&E is testing technology that would reduce the need for shutoffs, and there are no charges being filed against the five men arrested last week in the Halloween shooting case.
SF News Shortened Sutro Tower Antenna Getting Replaced To Support 5G, KGO-TV You may have noticed recently — as I did walking toward the Castro — that one of the antenna towers on Sutro Tower looks like it broke off. But it's actually just getting replaced with a new one with higher-tech antennas inside.
Arts & Entertainment Moviegoers Revolt As Local Century and Cinemark Theaters Crack Down On No-Backpack Policy A backpack and large bag ban that's been officially in place for almost two years at the Cinemark/Century cinema chain has apparently been getting enforced more vigorously in the Bay Area in recent months according to various reports from disgruntled theater-goers.
Arts & Entertainment Don't Be Fooled By These Real-Looking AirPod Stickers Being 'Dropped' On SF Streets An artist and prankster is having some fun with Apple-product-adoring San Franciscans, leaving life-size, realistic-looking AirPod stickers on sidewalks and streets in an effort to hoodwink unsuspecting passers-by into reaching for them.
SF News Accused Chinese Spy In Bay Area Linked To Possible Hotel Scheme Involving Chinese Investors In newly released, partially redacted search warrants in the federal prosecution of a Hayward man for Chinese-backed espionage, there's a new wrinkle being revealed involving the purchases of $20 million worth of hotel properties in and around the Bay Area.
SF News Oakland/Berkeley Hills and Part of Contra Costa County Added to PG&E Shutoff Map For Wednesday As should be expected, the impacts of a still-in-planning Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) by PG&E on November 20 are a moving target, and now we're learning that Alameda and Contra Costa County are in the mix.
SF Politics Multiple Transit Directors Nationwide Reportedly Turned Down SFMTA Job A few days after learning that Mayor Breed had named her pick for SFMTA chief, we're hearing that a few people with more direct experience leading urban transit agencies may have scoffed at the job after seeing how Breed treated Ed Reiskin.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Airbnb Becomes Olympics Sponsor A Palo Alto city worker died in an electrical accident Saturday, a Valencia ice cream shop is offering a reward to catch a vandal, and there was severe traffic on eastbound I-80 this morning due to a fatal crash.
Arts & Entertainment BiP Unveils Provocative Kid-With-Gun Mural on Franklin Street Three months after he began with a mysterious pair of child's eyes, muralist BiP (Believe in People) has finished his fourth mural in San Francisco. And it's a conversation piece to be sure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run Identified The mother of murder victim Keith Green called acquitted suspect Tiffany Li "evil" outside a San Mateo courtroom today, the Santa Clarita shooter has died, and a suspected Marin County con artist was nabbed in New York.
SF News Two Orinda Shooting Victims Were Armed Rival Gang Members; Party Promoter Held as Accessory At a Friday press conference, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston described the crime scene at the Orinda Airbnb on Halloween night as "a bloodbath" and like nothing he'd ever seen in his 32 years in law enforcement.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Irishman' Is Amazing, and Amazingly Slow Scorsese's latest epic, now playing at The Castro and at Alamo Drafthouse, is somber and slow, but also vital, intriguing, and real in its portrayal of an aging mafia hitman who was Jimmy Hoffa's right-hand man.
SF News Spencer Brasure, Killer In Infamous 90s Torture-Murder, Found Dead In San Quentin Cell Condemned man Spencer Brasure, who had lived on San Quentin's death row since 1998, was found dead in his cell of unpublicized causes early Thursday morning, according to prison officials.
SF News [Update] Hillsborough Heiress Tiffany Li Acquitted In Murder of Ex-Boyfriend The jury found Tiffany Li not guilty of the 2016 murder of her ex and baby daddy Keith Green, but they were deadlocked on the murder charge against her boyfriend Kaveh Bayat.
Arts & Entertainment Goop Store Brings 'Kid Calming Mist' and Vagina Eggs To Pacific Heights Gwyneth Paltrow's kind of creepy, "aspirational" retail and content brand Goop is opening its fifth brick-and-mortar retail shop today on Fillmore Street — and no doubt some fans will be flocking there for curated displays of kitchenware and $200 tank tops.
SF Politics Haney Says Feds Should Take Responsibility For Rampant Drug Sales In Federal Building Plaza The "open air drug market" that the courtyard outside the Federal Building has become at 7th and Mission shouldn't just be the responsibility of local authorities, says District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney.
SF News Trump Calls San Francisco a 'Dangerous and Disgusting Slum' President Trump has been tweeting up a storm Friday morning as the House holds its second televised day of impeachment hearings, and in one tweet attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi he refers to her "District of San Francisco" as a "dangerous & disgusting Slum."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Dreamforce Won't Be Serving Meat BART track work between Walnut Creek and Orinda wraps up this weekend, a man killed in Castro Valley has been identified as an East Bay parks worker, and more details are emerging about the Santa Clarita school shooter.
