Arts & Entertainment Internet Aflutter Over Robert Downey Jr. Remaking 'Vertigo,' the Best Film Ever Shot In San Francisco News arrived Thursday that Robert Downey Jr. and Paramount have acquired the rights to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. And the Twitterverse et al have had plenty to say about Hollywood lacking imagination and taste.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Park Tavern Set to Reopen In North Beach, Following Lengthy Renovation While open briefly during the pandemic, North Beach's once bustling brasserie Park Tavern has been closed for more than a year and a half. But that is about to change — and there's a new executive chef in the kitchen.
SF News A 'Caravan' of Thieves Hit Multiple Oakland Businesses Thursday, In Chinatown and Elsewhere Oakland's plague of business robberies continued this week with a brazen caravan traveling in multiple vehicles — or possibly multiple crews — that hit at least 20 businesses in multiple commercial districts early Thursday.
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News Mother Killed, Twin Boys Injured In Crash Caused By High-Speed Police Chase In East Bay An East Bay mother was killed and her six-year-old twin sons were injured when the car was smashed into by a suspect fleeing police at high speed in the town of Rodeo.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Cruise Vehicle Hits Back of Muni Bus Some Oakland teachers are staging a sickout today, SF Supervisor Ahsha Safai is likely going to run for mayor next year, and an autonomous Cruise vehicle "made contact" with the back of a Muni bus yesterday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Fiddler on the Roof' Feels Newly Relevant In Vibrant Touring Production Musicals from the 1960s tend not to feel fresh or charged with geopolitical relevance unless they've been substantially reinterpreted. But a highly faithful revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof' opened with a powerful gut-punch Wednesday night at the Golden Gate Theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off the Grid Returns to Fort Mason Center With New Parklet-Based 'Pop-Up' Vendors The 2023 season of Off the Grid Fort Mason Center kicks off Friday, March 24, and it looks like the weather will hold at least for this opening week, and stay dry for the big food truck gathering.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Pistol-Whipping and Shooting On BART Train A suspect is in custody for the March 16 pistol-whipping incident onboard a BART train that resulted in a shot being fired in the train car.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Sees More Storm Damage, This Time Resulting In Escaped Exotic Birds The 100-acre Oakland Zoo has taken a battering this winter. And Tuesday's storm brought down multiple trees, including one big eucalyptus that crashed into the zoo's newest aviary — and that meant some escaped birds.
SF News Deplorable Human Flees Crash Scene On Oakland Freeway Leaving Behind Injured Dog In Car A trash pile of a person got into a multi-car crash early Thursday on I-580 in Oakland, and when police arrived, they found the person had abandoned their car with an injured, bleeding dog inside.
Arts & Entertainment Body Found Near Pier 39 Identified as Missing Wild 94.9 Host JV The remains of Wild 94.9FM radio host Jeffrey “JV” Vandergrift, who was first reported missing on February 23, were found floating in the Bay on Wednesday near Pier 39, as the SF Medical Examiner has confirmed.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pelosi Reignites Feud With Archbishop The man killed by a fallen tree in Walnut Creek on Tuesday has been ID'd; a search was launched for a possible missing boy near Moss Landing; and Nancy Pelosi fanned the flames of her longtime feud with SF's Catholic archbishop.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Power Outage Still Creating Havoc at SF General An ongoing power outage at SF General is threatening freezers full of lab specimens; a White supremacist was arrested in San Jose for threatening a journalist; and Stevie Nicks has postponed her Thursday Chase Center show.
SF News Tuesday's Storm Being Called 'Once In a Lifetime' and 'Extremely Unusual' By Meteorologists Yes, Tuesday's bizarre, hurricane-like windstorm took everyone, include those whose job it is to predict the weather, by surprise.
Arts & Entertainment Restoration of 4 Star Theater In the Richmond Drained Finances of Cinema Nonprofit, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched The organization that has kept the Balboa and Vogue cinemas alive over the last decade is in some bad financial straits after taking a gamble on a third historic neighborhood theater. It's now reaching out for the public's help.
Bay Area Sports New Raiders QB Jimmy Garoppolo Offered Free Sex for Life at Chicken Ranch Outside Vegas The Bay Area's loss is Las Vegas' gain with sexy former 49er Jimmy Garoppolo headed to become the Raiders' newest quarterback. And two workers at the Chicken Ranch brothel in Pahrump, Nevada have a special lifetime offer for Jimmy G.
SF News There Were Two Storm-Related Deaths In San Francisco, At Least Three Others Elsewhere In Bay Area Two San Franciscans died Tuesday, both reportedly suffering injuries from falling trees in the storm, and both were taken to Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
SF News Dozens of Windows Cracked at Salesforce Tower In High Winds; One Window Falls Off Millennium Tower The unusual, gale-force winds on Tuesday did plenty of damage across the Bay Area, including damage to windows on at least three downtown SF highrises.
SF News Lefty O'Doul Bridge In China Basin Damaged By Loose Barges Among the damage being assessed from Tuesday's intense, hurricane-like windstorm, San Francisco's Third Street Bridge, a.k.a. Lefty O'Doul Bridge, sustained some damage from some industrial barges that got loose.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Couch Flies Off Highrise Balcony In Windstorm The 'wind event' is over but we may see more rain and thunder today; the lane closures on I-580 near Livermore will continue after a retaining wall collapsed; and a couch went flying through the air in downtown SF during Tuesday's winds.
SF News While Not Technically a 'Bomb Cyclone,' a Cyclone of a Storm Hits SF With Force The promise of very gusty winds came true Tuesday afternoon, complete with more glass flying off a downtown SF building, and satellite imagery of the cyclonic storm that slammed the California coast is pretty dramatic.
Arts & Entertainment 'Fiddler on the Roof' Revival Arrives In SF for One-Week Run Director Bartlett Sher's Drama Desk Award-winning 2015 revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' currently on a restarted national tour that was interrupted by the pandemic, is arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Business & Tech Google Unveils Its AI Chatbot, Called Bard The Bay Area is now home to two big companies with AI chatbots that may or may not be writing your niece's term papers right now. Google has just opened up access to its chatbot, called Bard, at least in the U.S. and U.K.
Arts & Entertainment Rupert Murdoch, 92, Looks Forward to the 'Second Half' of His Life With New Fiancée, a Former Bay Area Socialite and Prison Chaplain Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch has wasted no time in his hunt for wife number five, and he's found her in onetime Bay Area resident Ann-Lesley Smith, who has twice been married herself to multi-millionaire husbands.
