SF News Luxury Condo In Converted Christian Science Church on Dolores Park Sells For $2.1M Under Its 2017 Sale Price The Light House condominiums — the four units that were carved out inside of the domed former Second Church of Christ, Scientist on Dolores Park — have been a thing of fascination for everyone who's looked at the building from the park and heard about its conversion almost a decade ago.
SF News Outside Judge to Rule on Whether Alameda County DA Can Disqualify Judge Who Tossed Plea Deal A judge from outside Alameda County will now step in to decide whether a judge should continue to try a murder case in which he rejected a plea deal that the defense and prosecution had agreed to, because it was too lenient.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Bars, Restaurants, and Market Street Dance Parties Envisioned In New Downtown Revival Program It's the third summer in a row that a new initiative or program is seeking to breathe some life into SF's struggling, sparsely populated downtown. But this time it sounds like money is actually being thrown at filling vacant storefronts.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Restaurants In Sunset Robbed In One Night A man killed in a freeway shooting in Oakland last week has been identified; two Sunset District businesses were burglarized the same night last week; and a fresh cold front has arrived and will be bringing us a little more rain.
SF News [Updated] Details Emerge About Murder Suspect Nima Momeni's Motive, and Footage of Stabbing We now have information from prosecutors about a possible motive in the stabbing death of Bob Lee in downtown San Francisco, and suspect Nima Momeni made a brief court appearance Friday, but his arraignment was postponed.
Arts & Entertainment 'Poor Yella Rednecks' at ACT Extends an Immigrant Saga With Humor, Rap, and Heart The second of playwright Qui Nguyen's family-saga trilogy of plays, 'Poor Yella Rednecks,' premiered Wednesday at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Muffuletta Specialists Sandy's to Open Haight Street Shop Next Week If you don't know the glories of a proper, New Orleans-style muffuletta, you will be able to experience this distinct pleasure soon, as Sandy's gets set to open at 1457 Haight Street on April 20.
Business & Tech Twitter Bug Is Allowing People to Post Tweets That Are 84,000 Characters Long Bug-finding enthusiast Jane Manchun Wong found on Thursday night that she could post a series of a's in a tweet, 84,000 of them, without triggering a new extended character limit for Twitter Blue subscribers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Contra Costa Co. DA Releases Report on Antioch Police Scandal A new report details the content of the Antioch police officers' racist texts; SF is adding a new transitional housing complex on Treasure Island; and RH is having layoffs up in Marin County.
SF News Arrest Made After Manhunt For Hayward Man Who Allegedly Threatened State Capitol The suspect who allegedly made a "credible threat" against the California State Capitol building and also allegedly shut up a couple buildings outside Sacramento has been identified as a Hayward man with a rap sheet.
SF News SF District Attorney Slams 'Reckless and Irresponsible' Tweets By Musk and Others Following Murder Arrest SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said some pointed things Thursday aimed squarely at Elon Musk and others who took to bashing San Francisco immediately in the wake of a tech executive's stabbing death last week.
SF News Reactions Pour In to the Arrest In Tech Exec Bob Lee's Murder We can expect many of the San Francisco doomsayers and friends of Elon Musk to either stay silent or turn defensive following the revelation that a fellow tech entrepreneur is the prime suspect in Bob Lee's stabbing.
SF News Pandemic Rule-Flouting Church In San Jose Loses Latest Court Battle, Ordered to Pay $1.2M In Fines Calvary Chapel in San Jose continues to spend a lot of time and energy fighting Santa Clara County in court over pandemic-era public health rules that it openly defied. And a Superior Court judge has just ordered the evangelical church to pay $1.2 million in fines to the county.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Asks to Be Temporarily Replaced on Judiciary Committee After attention fell this week on the impacts of her extended absence on votes on judicial nominees before the Senate, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she had asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily fill her seat on the Judiciary Committee.
SF News Fellow Tech Exec Arrested In Stabbing of Bob Lee San Francisco police on Wednesday made an arrest in Emeryville of a suspect they say may have murdered Bob Lee on April 4, ending a week and a half of widespread speculation and lamentations about the level of crime in SF.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Some Muni Metro Service to Be Impacted By Twin Peaks Tunnel Work The California state Senate evacuated the Capitol this morning due to a "credible threat"; Caltrans has been hard at work filling potholes; and service on the K and M train lines in SF will be impacted this weekend by tunnel work.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Morale Reportedly Meh at Meta Salesforce is fully abandoning the 30-story Salesforce East; Rep. Ro Khanna and others are openly calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign; and morale is reportedly sinking lower at Meta in Menlo Park.
SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He Wants to Confront Mayor Breed In U.N. Plaza About the City's 'Humanitarian Crisis' Tensions are heating up again at City Hall, as Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that he wants to drag Mayor London Breed out to U.N. Plaza for some political theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sigh. SoMa Bar Uses ChatGPT to Create Cocktail A bar/nightclub in SoMa has used an AI chatbot to design a new cocktail, and they are using this to market themselves on local television. Maybe San Francisco *is* doomed.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Scheduled at the Castro Theatre; Heklina to Be Inducted on LGBTQ Wall of Honor In New York Nine days after the death of SF drag legend Heklina in London, we have word of a big memorial tribute set to happen at the Castro Theatre next month — but wouldn't you know it, the free tickets disappeared fast and it is sold out.
SF News Suspect In UC Berkeley Sexual Battery Cases Arrested After Being Linked to Similar Crime In Palo Alto A suspect who had allegedly been groping and assaulting women on two sides of the Bay was arrested Tuesday in Berkeley, ending a week in which women at the UC Berkeley campus were on high alert after three separate incidents.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Gives Interview to BBC, Says Running Twitter Is 'Painful,' Hints That He'd Sell to the Right Buyer Since Twitter currently lacks a communications or PR department, it's not surprising that a BBC reporter just showed up at Twitter HQ after a casual and likely insincere invitation and corralled Elon Musk into a new interview.
SF News Woman Shouting Threats and Profanities at Flight Attendant Causes Alaska Flight Out of SFO to Be Diverted A woman acting erratically onboard an Alaska Airlines flight from SFO to Chicago on Friday ended up causing the flight to divert to Kansas City out of concern for the safety of the plane's passengers.
SF News Humpday Headlines: NPR Has Quit Twitter Accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was supposed to get a trial date but did not; NPR has quit Twitter over being labeled "state-affiliated media" by Musk; and PG&E is being blamed for cost overruns at affordable housing developments in SF.
SF News [Update] Man Killed By Runaway U-Haul Truck on Geary Street In the Tenderloin A U-Haul truck appears to have been the culprit in a crash Tuesday that killed a pedestrian in the Tenderloin, and led to some streets being temporarily blocked.
