SF News Notorious 'Evil Elmo' Guy Appears to Be Back at It Harassing People On the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Now As Cookie Monster Hide your kids if you see Cookie Monster coming at you near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk — he is not the cute and kindly Sesame Street character he appears to be.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF City Attorney to Use Red Flag Law on Synagogue Terrorizer A death in an Oakland homeless camp has been deemed a homicide; the suspect in the synagogue blanks-shooting incident earlier this month may have his guns taken from him permanently; and the high temperature in SF broke a record for coldness on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk and Newsom Have Odd Exchange at Tesla Facility Opening Elon Musk and Gov. Gavin Newsom shared some awkward words at an event celebrating a new Tesla facility in Palo Alto; a man was shot and injured in McLaren Park; and Rep. Barbara Lee has made her Senate candidacy official.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Seafood Spot Ancora, In Former Locanda Space, Closes After Just Eight Months In a sign that the market for new restaurants in San Francisco may not be as ravenous as it was a few years back, a high-end seafood restaurant that opened last summer on Valencia Street is already calling it quits.
SF News Man Arrested In Weekend Incident In Dolores Park Will Face Hate-Crime Charges A 60-year-old San Francisco man is being charged with a hate crime after allegedly chasing and yelling threats at a woman of color in Dolores Park on Sunday.
SF News 100-Year-Old Man Killed In Oakland Hit-and-Run Identified, Mini Cooper Driver Still at Large The elderly man killed in a Sunday morning hit-and-run while out for his daily walk near Oakland's Lake Merritt has been identified, and his daughter says he was very health conscious and loved his walks.
SF News Three Dead After High-Speed Chase In Solano County In Allegedly Stolen Car Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
SF News Humpday Headlines: After the Wind, Bay Area to See Rain and Snow A one-year-old boy is in critical condition after a tree fell on his family's house in the Santa Cruz Mountains; one person died after a collision at the MacArthur Maze; and snow is likely to fall in multiple spots over the next two days including Santa Rosa.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire Damages Historic Black Church In Oakland A three-alarm fire Monday caused heavy damage to the oldest Black church in Oakland; two street vendors have been assaulted in San Jose in the last week; and snow could fall in parts of the Bay Area later this week.
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Has Cut Staff Level of Unit That Investigates Police By More Than Half In further evidence that DA Jenkins may not be as aggressive in her pursuit of police accountability as her predecessors, the Chronicle has found that Jenkins has less than half the number of attorneys and fewer investigators working in the unit responsible for investigating police abuses.
SF News Hunters Point Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Killing Husband (or Ex-Husband) A 33-year-old woman was arrested Thursday evening on suspicion of homicide in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood, and the victim was apparently her husband or ex-husband.
Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk's Twitter Debacle Mocked on Mardi Gras Parade Float Complete with a sink by his side — let that sink in! — an effigy of Elon Musk appeared on a float in a Thursday night Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, showing us again that the mockery over his Twitter takeover and subsequent behavior is coming from all corners, online and off.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sunset Explosion Suspect Had a Prior Conviction Darron Price, the suspect in last weeks SF home explosion, is being arraigned and we're learning of a prior conviction; Bird, the scooter company, is leaving SF for good; and a retired Cal professor talks about being on that December flight from Maui that took a dive.
SF News Two People Injured, One Cat Rescued, 13 Displaced In Richmond District Fire A fire Thursday morning in the Richmond District displaced 13 residents, two of whom were rescued with injuries, and one cat was rescued without injury.
Business & Tech Tesla Is Now Recalling 360K Cars With 'Full Self Driving' Software Over Reported Flaws Elon Musk's other company now has another software-based recall to deal with, and it relates to some reported dangerous behaviors by the robot cars when in "Full Self-Driving" mode.
SF News Woman Convicted In Notorious SF Dog-Mauling Murder Case Gets Denied Parole Marjorie Knoller, the woman convicted of second-degree murder for the tragic 2001 dog-mauling of Diane Whipple, has been denied parole for a second time.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Half Moon Bay Shooter to Enter Plea The 66-year-old Half Moon Bay shooting suspect, Zhao Chunli, is due to enter a plea in court; SF city officials meet with residents who lived near last week's home explosion; and an Oakland councilmember is mad about the decision to fire the police chief.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Sunset Explosion Appears In Court Explosion suspect Darron Price was arraigned and his attorney "vehemently" denies the charges against him; Republicans are subpoena-ing tech CEOs again; two big NorCal craft breweries are merging.
SF News Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Fires Police Chief Over the Handling of Officer Investigations Citing evidence that Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong's actions and statements reflected "systemic issues" within the police department, Mayor Sheng Thao made the decision to fire him Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fine-Dining Destination Ditas Takes Over Upstairs Trident Space on Sausalito's Waterfront A space above the storied Trident restaurant and bar, which played host to Janis Joplin, Bill Graham, and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s, has transformed into a new fine-dining spot that opens this spring, from a pair of Delhi-based restaurateurs.
Arts & Entertainment Annie, Berkeley's Celebrity Falcon, Has Yet Another New Mate, as Bird Soap Opera Continues 'Tis the season when we start paying attention to birds' nests on SFist again — specifically the peregrine falcon nest atop UC Berkeley's Campanile, and maybe, someday again, the nest up on PG&E's old headquarters in downtown SF that no longer has a falcon cam.
SF News 51-Year-Old Woman Killed In Sunset Explosion ID'd; GoFundMe Launched For Injured Caregiver The woman killed in last week's home explosion in the Sunset District has been identified, and it was the wife of the suspect whose alleged home drug lab is believed to have caused the explosion.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Elon Musk Says New Twitter CEO Will Be Chosen By Year-End The wife of the man who allegedly drove his family off a Pacifica cliff doesn't want him prosecuted; norovirus is newly surging across the country; and Elon Musk now says he'll pick a new CEO for Twitter "toward the end of the year."
Arts & Entertainment 'The Headlands' at A.C.T. Is a Homecoming for Playwright Christopher Chen The American Conservatory Theater has technically been back open and audiences have been seeing shows there since last September. But this week's opening of a new play by San Francisco-born playwright Christopher Chen marks a more complete return for the theater in presenting a new work on stage.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sons & Daughters Chef to Open Kiln In Former Cala Space In Hayes Valley One more prominent restaurant space that has lain dormant since the pandemic is getting a new tenant, and it's the sleek space that Mexico City chef Gabriela Camara renovated in 2015 to house her restaurant Cala.
