Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Drops, Includes Björk, Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean BottleRock beat them to the punch by a day, but now Coachella's organizers have unveiled the lineup for 2023's dual-weekend fest in the desert — the first lineup in three years that is a wholly new bill and not a cobbled-together lineup of rescheduled acts from a COVID-canceled festival.
SF News Fallen Tree Crushes Car Near Japantown; Tree Falls on Muni Bus Near Union Square A big tree fell over Tuesday next to the Hamilton Playground and tennis courts on Post Street between Pierce and Steiner, totaling a parked car and temporarily blocking part of the street.
SF News Update: Lightning Strikes Transamerica Pyramid, Sutro Tower Lightning strikes in San Francisco were caught on video people on Twitter on Tuesday, and bolts appears to strike the tip top of the Transamerica Pyramid — which is not unheard of — as well as Sutro Tower.
SF News Longtime Bay Area Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Still Lives For the Drama at KTVU We at SFist have long been fans of weatherwoman Roberta Gonzales, who blithely delivered the weather for two decades over at KPIX for decades, and now she's in the middle of all this weather news in her post at KTVU.
SF Politics Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF News Here's a Satellite Image of the Storm Currently Battering Northern California The storm bringing with it heavy rain, high winds, and thunderstorm cells can be seen as a distinct cyclone off the coast of Oregon and Northern California — and it's not through with us yet.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Wind, Blinding Rain, and Hail Cause Damage Around the Bay Hail fell hard around San Francisco at 6:15 a.m. and continues to fall around the Bay, downed trees are being reported all over, and an apartment complex in South San Francisco had part of its roof blown off.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Second Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Another mountain lion cub was found abandoned near Santa Cruz and brought to the Oakland Zoo, some spots to our south saw 10 inches of rain between last night and this morning, and Mary's Pizza Shack is closing several more locations.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.
SF News Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF News Huge Landslides Shut Down Roads In Santa Cruz County, Including Southbound Highway 17 Impacts from the ongoing parade of storms continue to be most severe just south of the Bay Area in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and on Monday, the main route into Santa Cruz from the north, Highway 17, was completely blocked by a landslide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince, One of SF's Three Michelin Three-Star Restaurants, to Close For Six-Month Renovation Nine years after its last large-scale renovation, downtown dining destination Quince is closing later this month for six months to undergo another significant overhaul.
SF News Rainy Morning Gives Way to Dry Monday as Next Deluge Sets Up for Tuesday Most of the Bay Area will get a brief respite from the rain today after a wet and windy Monday morning.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Federal Disaster Aid Approved For California Biden approved federal disaster aid for California's storms; BART delays, flooding, downed trees, and more were impacting this morning's commute around the Bay; and NOAA's hurricane hunters are now out studying atmospheric rivers over the Pacific.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News Rainy Saturday Will Be a Mild Preview of More Storms to Come Next Week While there isn't another bomb cyclone on the horizon for now, two more atmospheric river storms are headed our way next week, with a bit more Pineapple Express downpour starting Saturday.
SF News SFPD: Woman Admitted to Killing Her Two Daughters In Hunters Point Home More tragic details have now come out in court documents about the case against Paulesha Green-Pulliam, who pleaded not guilty last week to the double-murder of her young daughters two days before Christmas.
SF News Evacuation Warnings Issued For Russian River Valley Ahead of Likely Weekend Flooding The entire Bay Area is once again under a Flood Watch starting on Saturday, as two more storm systems head into the region, and low-lying areas along the Russian River are now under evacuation warnings.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Just Saw Its Wettest 10 Days In 150 Years The SFPD just announced the arrest of a serial commercial burglary suspect, the residents of Capitola are still without power, and the last 10 days are officially the second-wettest ever recorded in downtown San Francisco.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News Two Deaths Attributed to Storm Including Sonoma Toddler; 70,000 Still Without Power Wednesday's bomb cyclone turned out to be less impactful in terms of rainfall totals than the one we saw on Saturday, but forecasters were right about the wind-related dangers, and a downed tree has been blamed for at least one death in Sonoma County.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wind Gusts Recorded Last Night of 85mph and Higher A wind gust of 101 mph was recorded in Marin last night, the Russian River is likely to see worse flooding on Sunday than it will today, and Amazon is laying of 18,000 workers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Point Richmond and Niles Canyon Residents Evacuated Over Landslide Risks Alameda County officials strongly advised residents of Niles Canyon to evacuate Wednesday; 15 homes have been evacuated in Point Richmond due to a potential landslide occurring above them; and PG&E already had 25,000 customers without power at 4 p.m.
