SF News Dozens of Windows Cracked at Salesforce Tower In High Winds; One Window Falls Off Millennium Tower The unusual, gale-force winds on Tuesday did plenty of damage across the Bay Area, including damage to windows on at least three downtown SF highrises.
SF News Lefty O'Doul Bridge In China Basin Damaged By Loose Barges Among the damage being assessed from Tuesday's intense, hurricane-like windstorm, San Francisco's Third Street Bridge, a.k.a. Lefty O'Doul Bridge, sustained some damage from some industrial barges that got loose.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Couch Flies Off Highrise Balcony In Windstorm The 'wind event' is over but we may see more rain and thunder today; the lane closures on I-580 near Livermore will continue after a retaining wall collapsed; and a couch went flying through the air in downtown SF during Tuesday's winds.
SF News While Not Technically a 'Bomb Cyclone,' a Cyclone of a Storm Hits SF With Force The promise of very gusty winds came true Tuesday afternoon, complete with more glass flying off a downtown SF building, and satellite imagery of the cyclonic storm that slammed the California coast is pretty dramatic.
Arts & Entertainment 'Fiddler on the Roof' Revival Arrives In SF for One-Week Run Director Bartlett Sher's Drama Desk Award-winning 2015 revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' currently on a restarted national tour that was interrupted by the pandemic, is arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Business & Tech Google Unveils Its AI Chatbot, Called Bard The Bay Area is now home to two big companies with AI chatbots that may or may not be writing your niece's term papers right now. Google has just opened up access to its chatbot, called Bard, at least in the U.S. and U.K.
Arts & Entertainment Rupert Murdoch, 92, Looks Forward to the 'Second Half' of His Life With New Fiancée, a Former Bay Area Socialite and Prison Chaplain Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch has wasted no time in his hunt for wife number five, and he's found her in onetime Bay Area resident Ann-Lesley Smith, who has twice been married herself to multi-millionaire husbands.
SF News Car Fire on Bay Bridge Causes Traffic In Both Directions A car on fire in the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, east of Treasure Island, caused a traffic headache for drivers on the bridge Tuesday morning.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sikh Group Protests at Indian Consulate A crack in the road on I-580 has become a landslide; a violent protest came to the Consulate General of India in SF; and Sup. Myrna Melgar wants to hold a hearing about the rash of youth violence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Moderna Set to Open New Bay Area Office Cruise is looking to expand its robot-car testing across the state; Oakland is dealing with a surge in robberies of mail carriers; and Moderna has taken out a lease in South San Francisco to open its first Bay Area biotech office.
SF News San Jose Woman Sentenced to 13 Years For 'Baby Brandon' Kidnapping; Accomplice Gets Five Years The San Jose woman responsible for last year's dramatic kidnapping of an infant, with the help of a man she was dating and in order to dupe another man she was involved with, has just been sentenced to 13 years and four months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upcoming Openings of The Dawn Club and Madarae Show Faith In Downtown Nightlife Returning This Summer/Fall In case you hadn't heard, two new nightclubs are headed for downtown San Francisco, with the owners banking on the fact that the wholesale-abandonment-of-SF story has been overblown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trans Woman Calls on SF Cheesecake Factory to Better Train Employees After Bizarre TERF Harassment An awkward and insulting situation that unfolded recently at the Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco's Union Square was caught on a TikTok stream, and the trans woman who filmed it hopes it can be an example for restaurants to learn how to respond better in the moment.
SF News The Kids Are Not Alright: Teens Brawling In Large Mobs at Stonestown Mall After a spate of incidents made the news recently involving Bay Area kids bringing weapons to school and stabbing their classmates, we're getting news of multiple incidents of mob violence among school-age kids at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Landslides Block Road Between Napa and Lake Counties The next round of rain will hit early Tuesday morning and into the commute hours; BART is beefing up its police presence on trains starting today; and landslides are blocking Highway 29 north of Calistoga.
SF News Stabbing at SF Middle School Comes Amid Uptick In Violence at Local Schools A child was stabbed by a fellow student at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco on Friday, and the incident comes after several weeks of similar cases of violence and threats at Bay Area schools.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Version of 'Clue' Gets Goofy at SF Playhouse Some pieces of pop-cultural output get loved to death, repeated and revisited so often they become like worn-out records — still playable, but no longer as vivid as they once were.
Business & Tech Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Says He'll Rule on Prison Delay, Restitution Next Month The federal judge who sentenced Elizabeth Holmes last fall to 11 years in prison heard arguments Friday morning on whether Holmes should have to pay restitution to Theranos investors, and on whether she will be able to delay entering prison.
SF News Shot Fired During Argument On BART Train, Bullet Grazes Victim In another story that is unlikely to improve ridership on BART, a man was grazed by a bullet on a BART train Thursday night, after he was being pistol-whipped by another man and the gun went off.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Demolition of Seacliff Pier to Begin Next Week SF's Dept. of Building Inspection has ordered that blown out windows be replaced at 555 California; Sunny Balwani got out of showing up to prison yesterday; and the storm-damaged pier at Seacliff State Beach in Santa Cruz County is getting demolished next week.
SF Politics Newsom Announces Drop-In-the-Bucket Effort to Build 1,200 Tiny Homes for the Homeless, None of Which Will Come to SF Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a new plan to address homelessness across the state, with $30 million in state funds going to construct 1,200 tiny homes to serve as transitional housing in four metro areas. San Francisco isn't one of them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Reopens After Renovation With New Tasting Menu Format Acclaimed Chinatown restaurant Mister Jiu's, which closed temporarily in January for a remodel, has reopened and chef Brandon Jew is going a new direction with the menu.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank Gets $30B Lifeline From Group of Larger Banks It was good news on Thursday for regional bank First Republic, which on Monday was facing serious stress in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. A coalition of larger banks agreed to funnel $30 billion in deposits to the bank to help it shore itself and meet the demand for withdrawals.
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
SF News Approaching 7th Anniversary of Disappearance, Authorities Put Out New Call for Whereabouts of Arianna Fitts It's been almost seven years since the body of a young mother was discovered in McLaren Park, and authorities still believe that her daughter, who was two years old at the time, is still alive and perhaps still somewhere in California.
