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Friday Morning Constitutional: Movie Director Shot By Alec Baldwin Is SF-Based

A couple describes seeing Phish fan Ryan Prosser leap to his death at the Chase Center, SF-based writer-director Joel Souza is recovering from injuries after being shot by a prop gun that killed his cinematographer Thursday, and supporters of DA Chesa Boudin held an anti-recall rally.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Retired Oakland Cop and 'Ceasefire' Head Shot During Attempted Robbery

A retired OPD captain and head of the city's Ceasefire program was shot in a gun battle at a gas station Thursday, Harlan Kelly pleaded not guilty to new charges, and the Caldor Fire has reached 100% containment.

SF News

Cause of Death Finally Revealed In Case of Former SF Couple and Infant On Sierra Hike

The cause of death has finally been determined in the case of the Mariposa County couple, their one-year-old daughter, and their dog, and it was not toxic algae.

Business & Tech

Oversight Board Unhappy That Facebook Hid How It Handles VIP Accounts, Says It Will Review 'XCheck' System

The ostensibly independent Facebook Oversight Board is pointing back to a Wall Street Journal story last month and basically saying Facebook employees concealed a vital detail from them in the Trump suspension case, and this whole policy around VIP accounts needs to be audited.

SF News

La Niña Winter Might Improve Drought In NorCal, Says NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's winter weather forecast for the U.S. is out, and somewhat surprisingly, it's predicting some drought improvement for the northern part of California.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Thursday Morning What's Up: Pleasant Hill In-N-Out Also Violating Vaccine Rule

An announcement about the family found dead on a trail in Mariposa County is coming today, SF city leaders celebrate the first phase of safety improvements on Geary Boulevard, and the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill has been fined for not checking vaccine cards.

Arts & Entertainment

Chase Center Will Face New Inspection After Injuries and Death at Phish Concert

SF's Department of Building Inspection is reportedly going to revisit the Chase Center just over two years after it opened, following the debacle at Sunday's Phish show in which two separate falls occurred from upper balconies.

SF News

There Are 40 SFPD Officers Now On Leave Because They Wouldn't Get Vaccinated

You'd think that people who work in the San Francisco Police Department or at SF General who interact with the public all day long would have run to get vaccinated the minute they were eligible last winter. But no!

Business & Tech

Facebook Is Pulling an Alphabet and Changing Its Name Next Week

It's all about the metaverse! According to an internal source at Facebook, the company is preparing a big announcement next week to change its corporate identity and name, which of course has nothing to do with all the negative associations that "Facebook" now has.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

SF's Health Department Is Trolling In-N-Out on Twitter Now

An ongoing battle over a vaccination mandate between SF's Department of Public Health and In-N-Out was made public Tuesday, and the department quickly used the opportunity to throw a little shade on social media.

SF News

Humpday Headlines: Prepare for the Season's First Atmospheric River

An Oakland man is accused of running over a woman and killing her for vandalizing his car, the Netflix employee walkout is happening, and the season's first atmospheric river is on its way.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: SF Looks to Sell City Hall Air Rights for $45M

The dead man in the Phish concert fall on Sunday has been ID'd, fans continue to talk about how unsafe those upper levels of the Chase Center seem, and SF may try to sell the air rights belonging to City Hall for $45 million.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Bay Area-Born Sustainable Meat Company Belcampo Appears Kaput As All Retail Operations Close

A darling of the food world in the last decade, Belcampo Meat Co., announced it is ending all of its retail butcher shop and restaurant operations effective this week.

SF News

Fairfield Vacation Rental Targeted With Threatening Graffiti From Angry Neighbors

A home being rented on VRBO in an unincorporated area of Solano County, near Rockville and Fairfield, was the target of some threatening graffiti earlier this month.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

SF Temporarily Shuts Down In-N-Out After Company Comes Out Against Vaccine Mandates

You know that In-N-Out is owned by evangelical Christians, right? Well, the unfortunate crossover between religion and anti-vaccine stances has come to roost at the only San Francisco location of the beloved burger chain.

SF News

30 Years Ago, A Firestorm Swept Through the Oakland and Berkeley Hills

It was originally called the Tunnel Fire, because it broke out near the Caldecott Tunnel, but over the years it's become better known as the Oakland Hills Firestorm, or the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm, since the inferno didn't respect city limits.

SF News

Three Bay Area Counties Now In CDC's 'Moderate' Tier for COVID Transmission; California Now Only State In That Tier

California has returned to the CDC's yellow or "moderate" tier for COVID transmission after a brief return to the orange zone, and now it's the only state in yellow status this week.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Chef Elizabeth Falkner Is Returning to SF For Outside Lands Event

A celebrity chef with a long association with San Francisco in the last couple decades, Elizabeth Falkner, was just announced as part of the lineup for the GastroMagic Stage at Outside Lands later this month.

SF News

Tuesday Morning Topline: Vaccine Lottery Drawings Had Little Impact, Study Finds

A new study has found that states that did lottery drawings to boost vaccinations saw little uptick in people getting shots, Marina residents hire a rent-a-cop, and the supply-chain crisis is hitting the wine industry with a wine bottle shortage.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Jane Kim Apologizes For Jon Jacobo Event Invite

Jane Kim was called out by the SF Women's Political Committee for bringing an accused sexual assault suspect to a political event, Berkeley parents are scrambling amid a bus driver COVID outbreak, and someone ripped the Twitch sign off the company's headquarters.

Business & Tech

Facebook Wants to Build a Hi-Res Version of 'Second Life' It's Calling the 'Metaverse'

Facebook's latest futuristic idea, which the company says it wants to build with a team of 10,000 new hires in Europe, sounds like a fancy new version of the mid-aughts virtual reality desktop game Second Life, only with Zuckerberg watching your online travels.

SF News

Freight Train Carrying Sulfuric Acid Derails In West Oakland

A freight train derailed Monday near the Port of Oakland in West Oakland, and while there were no injuries, there was the potential for a nasty chemical spill.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Go Eat This Thing: The Bulldog Pizza at Sunset Squares

Out of the square-pizza trend that swept through San Francisco over the last few years, there have been a number of delicious examples of the form. But one of the newest really stands out for its sheer audacity and deliciousness.

SF Politics

School Board Recall Election Confirmed for February

A special election to decide on a recall of three San Francisco school board members has been confirmed for February 15 — setting up the first of potentially several city elections happening next spring.

Business & Tech

Chappelle Controversy Continues Roiling Netflix as Black Trans Employee Gets Fired for Alleged Data Leak

Dave Chappelle's exhausting, transphobic, grievance-filled rant of a comedy special continues to be a problem for Netflix as news came out late last week that the Los Gatos-based company had fired a Black trans employee who was helping the organize a walkout protest related to the special.

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