SF News Brace Yourselves For What Could Be a Really Nutty El Niño Winter Terms like "off the charts" and "record breaking" are being used to describe the coming "super" El Niño that is taking shape in the Pacific.
SF News Sunday Links: Lyft Passenger Killed After Running on North Bay Freeway A Lyft passenger was killed while running on the shoulder of I-80 in Vallejo; police in Santa Clara found a body inside a burned out home following a shooting; and Dave Coulier shares a health update.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ciao, Del Popolo Polenta debuts in Alamo Square, Del Popolo slings its final (non-frozen) pies, and the East Bay's takeout staple Grégoire opens in the Inner Sunset, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Ray of Light Theatre Breathes New Life Into Longtime Jackson Square Performance Space Ray of Light Theatre, the local musical-obsessed theater group that has performed mostly at the Victoria Theater in the Mission District for much of its 25 years of existence, has a new home downtown.
SF News Evidence of Human Remains, But No Body, Found In Yard During Search Related to Kristin Smart Case Investigators continue to search the San Luis Obispo County home and backyard of Susan Flores, the mother of Paul Flores, who was convicted of killing fellow Cal Poly student Kristin Smart in 1996. And some gruesome evidence has been found.
SF News 19th Avenue Is Once Again Closed For Roadwork This Weekend Both the northbound and southbound lanes of 19th Avenue (Highway 1) in San Francisco are closed this weekend as Caltrans continues repaving the roadway.
SF News Oakland Police Shoot Suspect Who Dragged Officer With His Car A man was shot early Friday by Oakland police officers in a strange incident that began with a traffic stop, and left both officers and the suspect injured.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sponsors Pull Out of Oakland First Fridays Sponsors are pulling out of Oakland First Fridays after last week's violent incidents; police in San Leandro fatally shot a man Thursday; and Scott Wiener leads by a large margin in a new congressional race poll.
Business & Tech SF-Based Cloudflare Slashes 1,100 Jobs, Citing 'Agentic AI Era' The steady march of Bay Area job losses to AI continues today with SF-based tech company Cloudflare, which says it is laying off 1,100 employees globally.
SF News Arizona Man Arrested In Check-Washing Scheme That Targeted Napa Residents Dozens of Napa County homeowners now have some answers as to why their property tax payments had not made it to the county tax collector this spring, and/or why the checks were getting deposited in other states.
SF News SFist Is Seeking a Contributing Editor SFist has an opening for a motivated newshound with weekend availability, and a deep knowledge of the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polenta, San Francisco's Newest Regional Italian Restaurant, Quietly Opens In Alamo Square It's still in soft-opening mode, but a much anticipated new trattoria devoted to the cuisine of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy has made a quiet debut at long last in Alamo Square.
Arts & Entertainment Chonkers the Stellar Sea Lion Appears to Have Left the Bay For Now After an unusually long stay among his smaller California sea lion brethren on the floating docks by Pier 39, which ended up making national news, Chonkers the enormous Stellar sea lion seems to have left the area.
SF News Tenderloin Corner Store Was Allegedly Selling Meth, City Seeks to Shut It Down The San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to shut down a problematic store called The Corner Store, which in addition to selling weed and illegal flavored tobacco products, was also apparently selling meth.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Driver Arrested In Fatal Pedestrian Crash In Guerneville A suspected DUI driver was arrested Tuesday in a fatal pedestrian collision in Guerneville; a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested in a Cinco de Mayo festival shooting in Santa Rosa; and an SF streetcar collided with a minivan on the Embarcadero.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire Breaks Out Inside Piece of Vaillancourt Fountain The suspect in last months SoMa hit-and-run has dropped his defense attorney; UCSF is building a big new hearing center in Mission Bay; and a small fire broke out during the disassembly of the Vaillancourt Fountain today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Project Closes Mission Location Following Viral Incident A long-cursed restaurant space at a prominent corner of the Mission District is vacant once more, and the curse, it seems, has not left the place.
SF News New Search Warrant Served In Kristin Smart Murder Case as Hunt For Remains Continues Nearly 30 years to the day that she disappeared, and just over three years after Paul Flores was convicted in her killing, the body of Kristin Smart has still not been found, and authorities in San Luis Obispo County continue their search for it.
SF Politics Becerra Takes Attacks From All Sides, Porter Defends Against Criticism at Latest Gubernatorial Candidate Debate Former Congresswoman Katie Porter tried to stand apart and make her case at Tuesday night's governor's race primary debate hosted by CNN, while all the candidates appeared to gang up on Xavier Becerra.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants at Transamerica Complex, Ama and Cafe Sebastian, Abruptly Close as Developer Gets Pushed Out After just seven months in business, Miami chef Brad Kilgore's showy Italian-Japanese fusion restaurant Ama has closed at the Transamerica complex, along with the more casual daytime spot Cafe Sebastian.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Shooting at Cinco de Mayo Party In Santa Rosa Injures One A shooting at a Santa Rosa Cinco de Mayo celebration left one man injured; Muni is adding more fare inspectors; and Barack Obama was on Colbert talking about aliens.
SF Politics Tom Steyer Gets Endorsement From Willie Brown as NYT Looks Into His Fossil Fuel Fortune Billionaire Tom Steyer has emerged as a frontrunner in the race for California governor, in no small part because of the millions of dollars of his own money that he's spent on ads before we've even had a primary.
SF News 20-Year-Old Texas Man Accused of Firebombing Sam Altman's House Enters Not Guilty Plea The man accused of flying to San Francisco to try to save humanity from AI by tossing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house made a court appearance Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty.
SF News Fourth and Final Defendant Sentenced to Life In 2019 Santa Cruz Murder of Tech/Weed Entrepreneur Joshua Camps, the last defendant to face trial in the 2019 kidnapping and murder of tech and cannabis entrepreneur Tushar Atre, was sentenced Monday after being convicted in March.
Arts & Entertainment Another Oakland First Friday Sparks Violence, Street Fights, and Organizers Again Defend the Event Oakland First Fridays, an event that began as a beloved, arts-driven street fair that activated a long dormant Uptown, continues to attract and/or inspire conflicts among attendees, and last Friday's was no exception.
