SF News SF District Attorney to Begin Filing Charges Against Bay Bridge Gaza Protesters SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that a slew of charges are going to be filed against 80 people who were arrested while participating in a protest that blocked the westbound Bay Bridge last month.
SF Politics San Francisco to Begin Compelling More People Into Mental Health Treatment January 1; Newsom Slams Counties That Are Delaying California's new conservatorship law, which expands the pool of potential candidates who can be involuntarily compelled into mental-health or substance-abuse treatment, takes effect January 1, and San Francisco is one of the counties opting to implement it right away.
SF News SF Man Accused In Stabbing Death of Girlfriend Pleads Not Guilty to Murder 29-year-old Scott Fisher was arraigned Friday for the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong in the Presidio Heights apartment they shared.
Arts & Entertainment Rising Star Dylan Mulvaney Talks About Why She Loves SF Ahead of Her SF Symphony 'Holiday Gaiety' Performance TikTok- and Instagram-famous trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who became the center of an unwanted culture-war firestorm earlier this year, is performing in San Francisco tonight, and she says it's her first time ever performing with a symphony orchestra.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Getting Arraigned Today For June Mass Shooting on 24th Street Nearly six months to the day of his arrest, 23-year-old Javier Campos is being arraigned in San Francisco for the June 9 shooting at 24th and Treat streets that injured nine people.
SF News Alameda Agrees to Pay $11M In Wrongful Death Suit Brought By Family of Mario Gonzalez In a controversial case of a man who died while in custody of Alameda police in 2021, the City of Alameda has agreed to pay $11 million to the man's son in a wrongful death suit.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Man Charged With October Killing In Oakland A San Francisco man was just charged with a fatal shooting in October outside an Oakland nightclub; a woman is suing St. Mary's College over a suppressed rape allegation in 2000; and the NYT has the inside scoop on how the Dobbs decision came to be.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Winemaker and Judgement of Paris Figure Mike Grgich Dies at 100 A renowned and beloved figure in the Napa Valley, Mijenko “Mike” Grgich, died Wednesday at age 100, reportedly passing in his sleep with family members at his side at home in Calistoga.
SF News Uh Oh: Forecasters Now Say This Winter's El Niño Could Be 'Historically Strong' We've been operating under the belief that this year's El Niño winter, given the past few El Niño cycles, was unlikely to be as bad as last winter's historically wet, months-long string of atmospheric river storms. But we may need to batten down the hatches once again.
SF News Protesters Outside Public Utilities Commission Call for Ouster of Commissioner Who Worked for Cruise A rally outside the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) offices in San Francisco Thursday morning was calling for the prosecution of executives at self-driving taxi company Cruise, and for the ouster of the commissioner who helped approve Cruise's permits.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Gets New Renderings, Revisions The planned redevelopment of the Stonestown Galleria property, which will turn what are currently parking lots into new residential, retail, and office space, has received some revisions, which include dropping a planned 200-room hotel.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yosemite Bringing Back Reservation System Three people were arrested in San Pablo with 600 lbs. of copper wire; Yosemite National Park is requiring reservations for entry next year; and Buster Posey says SF's reputation may be partly to blame for Shohei Ohtani passing up the Giants' offer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF District Attorney Says Homeless Should Be Made 'Uncomfortable' DA Brooke Jenkins said homeless people need to be "uncomfortable" in order to get them into shelter; the ex-cop in last weekend's standoff in the East Bay has been charged; and Hi Felicia owner Imana is closing Sluts wine bar and says she is unhoused.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harry Denton's Starlight Room to Be Reborn In February as Starlite The beloved, 21-story-high view bar at the Beacon Grand, formerly the Sir Francis Drake, is undergoing a facelift, and we finally have a reopening date.
Arts & Entertainment 'SF Is a Drag' Organizers Issue Apology After Performers Say They Were Harassed The two-day, guerrilla drag extravaganza two weekends ago in San Francisco went off mostly without a hitch, though we're now hearing about a situation in which two performers were harangued by a man on the street who didn't appreciate their form of protest.
SF News Cruise Passengers Stuck at SF Terminal For Hours Without Food Due to Departure Delay The Crown Princess couldn't dock on time Tuesday night in order to get passengers onboard for a voyage to Mexico, due to extra-low tides and silt buildup in the Bay, leaving hundreds of passengers waiting around the drafty cruise terminal at Pier 27.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley City Council Retracts Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Six people were hospitalized in a campus bus crash at UC Santa Cruz Tuesday night; the Berkeley City Council retracted a resolution it was set to vote on calling for a ceasefire in Gaza; and Tesla is conducting another major recall.
Business & Tech Google Loses Antitrust Suit Brought By Fortnite Maker Epic Games Epic Games, the maker of popular mobile game Fortnite, has prevailed in a federal lawsuit brought in San Francisco against Google over anticompetitive practices relating to the company's app store for Android phones.
SF News FBI Investigating After Russian Man Flies Into California From Europe With No Ticket or Passport A mysterious man carrying both Russian and Israeli IDs, believed to be a Russian citizen, landed at LAX last month and seemed to be pretty evasive after he was detained by Customs & Border Patrol agents and subsequently questioned by the FBI.
Arts & Entertainment Stockton Street 'Winter Walk' Returns For First Holiday Season Since 2018 The pop-up event that turned part of Stockton Street near Union Square into a traffic-free, pedestrian-only zone in December during five years of Central Subway construction is coming back, and ten days of holiday fun and events kick off on Friday.
SF Politics City Outreach Teams Say Around 60% of SF Homeless Refused Offers of Shelter the Past Three Months Mayor London Breed is again putting out the message that the city needs to enforce laws about camping in public spaces, ahead of a potential Supreme Court decision on the issue next year.
SF News Potential DUI Charges Delayed Against Sister of Nima Momeni Due to Toxicology Report The bizarre sidebar story to the Bob Lee murder trial, in which the sister of the prime suspect was arrested for a DUI last month in the Tenderloin that allegedly involved plowing into several parked cars and might have involved whip-its at 11 a.m. on a Monday, is in a holding pattern.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Rosa Man Arrested With Guns Booby-Trapped His Home The pedestrian death on Monday in SoMa appears to have happened in the Rainbow Grocery parking lot; a 64-year-old Santa Rosa man was found with an illegal cache of weapons; and thieves are getting more brazen in stealing whole ATMs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In SoMa Parking Lot A pedestrian was killed in a private parking lot in SoMa on Monday; a Clipper Card app meltdown stymied commuters; and X/Twitter now seems to be encouraging people to follow Alex Jones and other conspiracists.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Close For 16-Month Renovation Starting This Winter We now have some details on the timeline of the Castro Theatre's upcoming closure and renovation at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment — renovations that will include the controversial removal of seats.
