SF News Lots of Big Retail Stores Are Closing In Big Cities, and It Has Everything to Do With Economics While we're living in the days of the very loud, hard-to-counter narrative of San Francisco's "doom loop" and general perceived death, at least some experts are trying to make it known that San Francisco's downtown problems are hardly unique.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Promoters Hope to Bring Second Weekend of 'Headliner-Driven Events' to Polo Field After Next Year's Fest While Another Planet Entertainment (APE) continues to run up against preservationist headwinds in their effort to take over and transform the Castro Theatre primarily into a music venue, they may separately score a coup with the city for more, likely very lucrative big shows in Golden Gate Park.
Business & Tech New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Comes From Media/Broadcast Ad World It's not clear how long Elon Musk has known Linda Yaccarino, or how long he's been courting her to be the new CEO of Twitter. But it's pretty clear from the hiring decision that Musk knows advertising is going to be key to Twitter's future viability.
SF News Man Accused of Fatally Stabbing 64-Year-Old Neighbor In Duboce Triangle Is Charged With Murder A fatal stabbing in San Francisco last Friday morning left a 64-year-old woman dead in a common area of her apartment building, and we now know the identities of the suspect and victim.
SF News Gas Thief Accidentally Torches Six Cars In Antioch eBART Parking Lot A suspect apparently trying to steal gas by way of an electric drill caused a fire Thursday afternoon that spread to six cars in the eBART parking lot in Antioch.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two Earthquakes Rattle Northern Plumas County A pair of earthquakes within 12 hours of each other have rattled Plumas County; the SF Chamber of Commerce brought on Amazon as a sponsor for Small Business Week; and Newsom has come out against cash payments for reparations.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF News El Niño All But Guaranteed For Next Winter, So... More Rain? Climate scientists say the indicators are all there for the forming of an El Niño pattern in the Pacific this year, and now it's just a matter of how soon it will fully take shape.
Business & Tech [Updated] Elon Musk Hires New CEO For Twitter, and She's an Ad Sales Exec In typical fashion, Elon Musk made a major announcement about Twitter via tweet on Thursday without providing complete details — which, again, might have been handled differently if he had a PR department.
SF News Friend of Accused Killer Nima Momeni Claims He Had 'Massive Drug Problem' It was pretty clear from moment one in the Bob Lee murder case that drugs were going to be pretty central to the narrative of how Lee ended up stabbed at 2:30 a.m. on April 4. But thus far we've mostly only heard about Lee's drug use.
SF News Heat Wave Will Bring Some of the First Hot Days of Spring to Inland Spots (But Not SF) Thanks to a ridge of high pressure, we're going to be seeing a warming trend around the Bay over the next few days, ushering in the first truly warm weekend of the year — though temperatures are going to remain pretty mild closer to the ocean and the Bay.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crab Fishermen Test New Whale-Friendly Pots The Oakland teachers' strike stretches into its sixth day; SF crab fishermen are testing a new pot design that could reduce whale entanglements; and a new study suggests Australia's brush fires four years ago may have contributed to our triple La Nina seasons.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mercury Spill In Martinez Affects Multiple Sites Hazmat workers continue to cleanup a mercury spill in Martinez that seems somewhat widespread; Berkeley has a new police chief, Jennifer Louis; and Google says we'll be seeing more AI working its way into its search engine results.
SF News Scary Situation On BART As Lunatic Slashes Passenger With Meat Cleaver Just a day after we heard survey results showing that Bay Area residents largely don't feel safe on BART anymore, a crazed suspect pacing a train in the Transbay Tube apparently slashed a man with a meat cleaver.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Arrives Back at Senate In Wheelchair, Says Shingles Effects Have Lingered Senator Dianne Feinstein was wheeled into the Senate chamber Wednesday around 3 p.m. Washington time, and she has revealed some more details about her current health status.
SF News SF Health Officials Put Out Call For Mpox Vaccinations Again Ahead of Pride If you're among the group of people most likely to be exposed to the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — in the event of a new summer surge in cases, the SF Department of Public Health would like you to please consider seeking out your second dose if you never got that.
SF News Police and FBI Dig For Possible Remains In Redwood City In Cold Case From 1996 The disappearance of Ylva Hagner has not made headlines in decades, but it was a big Bay Area story in October 1996, and the case has never been solved. Some sudden activity by FBI and police investigators Wednesday in Redwood City makes it look like there's been a break in the case.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SoCal Pooch Wins Best In Show at Westminster Dog Show The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to urge the DA's office to release the Banko Brown shooting video; Sonoma County officers engaged in a high-speed chase that ended with a crash; and a Palm Springs-based petit basset griffon Vendéen won Best in Show at Westminster last night.
Business & Tech Guess What Tucker Carlson's New Broadcast Platform Is! Lest you think that Elon Musk might have been reconsidering his recent decision to go on Tucker Carlson's now canceled Fox News show to talk about his concerns for the future of artificial intelligence... he's now doubling down on his apparent love for Carlson.
SF Politics Sen. Dianne Feinstein Reportedly on Plane Back to D.C. After three months away from the Senate, California Senator Dianne Feinstein is reportedly en route back to Washington, and is set to resume her duties as soon as Tuesday evening in the Senate.
SF Politics Possible Standoff Takes Shape Between DA and SF Supervisors Over Banko Brown Case Tensions are escalating between the SF District Attorney's Office and the Board of Supervisors as the supervisors prepare to vote to formally push for the release of surveillance video in the Banko Brown shooting case.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Chicks, Almost Fully Grown, Get Tail Feathers, Naming Contest This year's brood of three falcon chicks atop the UC Berkeley Campanile have been officially banded, and we know there are two females and one male — the latest in falcon Annie's growing lineage.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New Images Show Tulare Lake Growing Near Corcoran A San Francisco man is facing peeping-tom charges stemming from a hidden camera; there was a strange mercury spill at the Martinez Amtrak station; and new satellite images show Tulare Lake growing in the Central Valley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Downtown SF Has 18.4 Million Square Feet of Empty Offices Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wants to merge two city departments to save money; downtown SF now has 18.4M square feet of empty office space; and a vote by the SF Board of Supes on the Castro Theatre seats may be as soon as next week.
SF News DA Jenkins Issues Statement On Banko Brown Case, Says It Is Not Closed In an effort to quell the public outcry following her office's decision not to file charges the security guard responsible for the death of Banko Brown, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins issued a statement Monday making clear that charges still may be forthcoming.
