SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cluster of Earthquakes Rumble Off NorCal Coast There was a cluster of earthquakes overnight, beginning with a 4.1M, under the ocean off Eureka; a Napa teen experienced a life-changing snowboard accident last weekend; and Leap Day is special for one Oakland family.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Protesters Shut Down Lecture By Israeli Lawyer at UC Berkeley A protest shut down a lecture by an Israeli lawyer on the UC Berkeley campus; SF officials say the Macy's building on Union Square could become a lot of things besides retail; and two big video game makers announced layoffs.
SF News Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Thumbs Nose at Police Commission, Says She Will Not Attend Forum With Candidates The wheels turn and the drama persists in Oakland over the ongoing effort to install a new police chief, and it's coming down to a battle of wills between the police commission and the mayor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Catches Flack For Exception to Minimum Wage Law That Seems to Exempt Panera Bread Chain California's new minimum-wage law for fast-food restaurants, which takes effect April 1, seems to not apply to Panera Bread or the handful of other chains that bake and serve their own loaves of bread. Wonder why?
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Proves She's Still Here and Kicking, If Not High-Kicking, at Chase Center 'Celebration Tour' Stop "Aging is a sin,” Madonna says in a recorded video montage that plays toward the end of her Celebration Tour setlist. "I think the most controversial thing I've ever done is stick around."
SF News Oakland Police Commission Still Playing Politics, Unveils Latest Slate of Four Candidates for Chief The Oakland Police Commission has taken over two months to present Mayor Sheng Thao with a new slate of candidates for the chief-of-police role after she rejected the last one and — guess what! — one of the latest candidates was one of the rejects from the earlier slate.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Corpse Flower Blooms at Academy of Sciences The corpse flower comes into full bloom at the Academy of Sciences; the Chronicle has a history piece on the 77-year-old Macy's Union Square; and a new study finds that daily weed smoking greatly increases heart attack and stroke risk.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed Tries to Suggest Hope That Macy's Won't Actually Leave It's certainly not great news for Mayor London Breed's bid for reelection this year that another major department store is announcing its closure in the heart of SF. And now Breed seems to be hedging on the news.
SF News Retail Experts Weigh In On Macy's Union Square Closure, Saying Downtown Shopping May Be a Thing of the Past One of the main anchors of Union Square since 1947, Macy's, is going away in the next couple of years, and without it or anything of that scale to replace it, how long can Union Square remain a shopping destination?
SF News Macy's to Close Its San Francisco Union Square Flagship, In Huge Blow to City Retail Macy's announced plans today to close 150 of its "underproductive" stores nationwide, with 50 of them to close this year. And now we have confirmation that San Francisco's enormous — and often empty — store is among them.
SF News Residents of Westside Neighborhoods In SF Meet With PG&E About Frequent Power Outages SF Supervisor Myrna Melgar organized a special meeting with PG&E Monday for residents of her district frustrated with the fact that they've experienced multiple power outages so far this year.
SF News SF City Leaders Hold Rally, Reiterate Plan to Prosecute Fentanyl Dealers For Homicide A plan that was announced last fall to begin prosecuting fentanyl dealers for homicide in cases of fatal overdoses is moving forward, and a law enforcement task force dedicated to the project is set to launch soon.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Port of Oakland Cranes From China Could Pose Cybersecurity Risk, White House Says California's now at 105% of its average rainfall for this winter, but LA is at 159%; some container cranes at the Port of Oakland, made in China, could pose a cybersecurity risk; and Macy's has plans to close 150 stores in the next two years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wrong-Way Crash On 280 In SF Snarls Traffic A wrong-way injury crash involving at least three cars shut down much of southbound 280 in SF; Bob Lee stabbing suspect Nima Momeni's sister reportedly had multiple drugs in her system during a November crash; and Santa Rosa police are seeking a shooting suspect from an incident last week.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns to Bay Area Stage With a Devotional Four-Hour Song Cycle on Queer History "Don't try to understand it all," Taylor Mac said during Friday's performance of his latest, epic performance piece, Bark of Millions. "I wrote all of it and even I don't understand it all."
SF News Major Landslide Takes Out Cliffside Trail and Parking Lot In Humboldt County A landslide that has been ongoing since mid-January took a dramatic turn over the weekend, reaching all the way to a trailhead parking lot where some sightseers got dangerously close to the collapsing cliff edge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Launches Not-Particularly-Helpful AI 'Chowbot' For Food Recs Artificial intelligence and restaurant recommendations would seem like a pretty natural fit — at least in terms of crowdsourcing things with good reviews. But a new AI bot launched by the SF Chronicle seems to be pretty limited in its food intelligence so far.
SF News Calm Weather Week Will Switch Back to Possibly Intense Storm on Thursday You'll have a few more chances to get outdoors and enjoy some sunshine this week before Second Winter returns with more rain — and some major snow in the Sierra.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Pablo Neighborhood Locked Down After Shots Fired A neighborhood in San Pablo was under a lockdown this morning; a Target store in Vallejo has been closed down after an arson incident; and BART set a new post-pandemic ridership record on Saturday.
SF News Developer Shares Expanded Plan For 560-Unit Residential Project on Former CPMC Campus in Laurel Heights Plans have shifted for the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at the edge of Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights after a new developer bought the property over a year ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chef Anthony Strong Returns to the Mission We have news this week that Anthony Strong's Pasta Supply Co. is expanding to the Mission District, a dairy-free soft-serve chain from Honolulu is coming to Noe Valley, and West Portal is getting a new wine bar from the couple who owned La Ciccia for decades.
Business & Tech Google Suspends Gemini Image Module After Backlash Over Diverse Depictions of Founding Fathers, Nazis In case you missed the hubbub on Xitter, many people including Elon Musk have been flipping out this week over historic inaccuracies being produced by Google's Gemini chatbot image generator, which have included racially diverse images of "the Founding Fathers."
Arts & Entertainment Free Muni Rides and Multiple Streets Closed For Chinese New Year Parade Lunar New Year celebrations culminate on Saturday in San Francisco with the annual Chinese New Year Parade, and multiple streets will be closed to traffic for the event.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E Profits Soar After Rate Hikes PG&E profits soared in 2023 after hiking rates for customers; Biden attended another high-ticket fundraiser on the Peninsula before leaving the Bay Area; and a new poll finds Katie Porter and Steve Garvey in a dead heat for second place in the Senate race.
SF News BART Survey Finds Rider Satisfaction Over 80% For First Time In a Decade BART is touting a recent survey of passengers that found over 80% of them fairly happy with their train service — a major improvement since passenger satisfaction began taking about six years ago.
