SF News Monday Shootout In Oakland Took Place During Music Video Shoot, Appears Gang Related Because it occurred in such close succession with two mass shootings in California, a shooting incident in Oakland Monday night has been called a third "mass shooting," but the evidence points to something different involving more than one shooter and possible gang conflict.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two More Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims Named A family member has identified two brothers as among those shot in Half Moon Bay; two siblings stand accused of attempting to murder their mother in Monterey County; and all 11 victims in Saturday's Monterey Park shooting have now been identified.
SF News SFPD Again Raises Reward Money for Info In 'Doodler' Case, This Time to $250,000 Following a 2021 podcast that shed some new light on the long cold Doodler serial-killer case from the 197os, the SFPD said they were "closer than ever" to solving the case at this time last year. But they are still coming up short on evidence.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Allegedly Made Threats, Acted Violently Toward Coworker a Decade Ago The first bit of evidence has emerged about a volatile, violent past involving former coworkers and Half Moon Bay mass-shooting suspect Zhao Chunli, and this comes via a restraining order that was filed ten years ago.
Arts & Entertainment Music and Theater Venue PianoFight Is Closing Its SF and Oakland Locations In March While scrappy Tenderloin theater PianoFight may have survived the pandemic til now, it's been clear that the casualties are continuing to mount, and it is now adding itself to the list.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Scores Big With Oscar Noms for German-Language War Epic, But Streamers Mostly Shut Out This Year Los Gatos-based Netflix is the only one of the big players in streaming video to score big with Oscar nominations this year for their German-language WWI epic 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
SF News President Biden Offers Condolences, Pledges Support For Half Moon Bay; First Victim Named President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued a statement early Tuesday expressing grief for the victims in the latest mass shooting in California — this one close to home for us on the San Francisco Peninsula. And we are beginning to learn the names of those who were killed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 69 People Killed In Mass Shootings So Far This Year In U.S. There is still no known motive for Monday's mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay; a person was fatally struck by a BART train at Lafayette Station Tuesday morning; and a shootout between individuals at a gas station in Oakland left one dead and seven injured.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dog Rescued From Under Rocks at Ocean Beach There may be more victims in the Half Moon Bay shooting from earlier today, Twitter is officially being sued by its Market Street landlord, and a dog was rescued from a curious predicament at Ocean Beach.
SF News [Update] Shootings With Eight Victims In Half Moon Bay, Suspect Arrested Details are few as of now, but at least four people are dead in Half Moon Bay in two shootings, one of which may have occurred at a cannabis farm.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Night Market-Inspired Restaurant From Former Aina Chef Debuts In the Mission Fans of chef Chris Yang and his popular former Hawaiian spot Aina (RIP), and/or pop-up projects like El Chino Grande, will be excited to hear (if they haven't already) that he's opened a new brick-and-mortar spot on Mission Street.
SF Politics Safe Drug-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs' Back on the Table In SF With New Proposed Legislation San Francisco may try to follow the "New York Model" of turning a blind eye and providing some funding for "wellness" centers that allow consumption of illegal drugs under new legislation being put forward by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Join London Breed to Celebrate $400M Federal Grant for Golden Gate Bridge Upgrades "We know that the dollars in the federal government are hard to get, which is why this funding is significant," said SF Mayor London Breed at a Monday morning event at the Roundhouse Cafe at the Golden Gate Bridge, celebrating a major new grant from the Biden Administration.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Plan Increased Security at Lunar New Year Events Following SoCal Shooting The mood was subdued on Sunday at an annual Lunar New Year kickoff event in San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, after members of the Asian American community in the Southern California city of Monterey Park were senselessly gunned down amid celebrations there the night before.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Castro Bar Closes After 27 Years A pedestrian was killed in a vehicle collision on Cathedral Hill; SF firefighters rescued two people from a cliff at Fort Funston; and Harvey's, the 27-year-old bar and restaurant at the corner of 18th and Castro, closed for good on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Teen Who Won on Food Network Show Opens Cake Shop In Hayward The youngest-ever contestant to win one of the adult baking competition shows on Food Network, Max Soto, has just opened his own Bay Area cake shop, called Max's Cakes.
Business & Tech Netflix Cofounder Reed Hastings Steps Down From CEO Role After a bumpy year for Netflix, co-CEO and cofounder Reed Hastings is stepping down but will remain in the role of chairman.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Booked One-Way Ticket to Mexico After Conviction, Prosecutors Say As federal prosecutors push to get Elizabeth Holmes more quickly into prison, they have revealed in a new court filing that she booked a one-way ticket to Mexico last year not long after her conviction on four counts of fraud.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Google Lays Off 12,000 Workers Google/Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, a 3.6M earthquake struck Thursday evening in Sonoma County, and the state wants you to please withdraw your Middle Class Tax Refund ASAP.
SF News The Haight's Page Street Becomes Permanent Slow Street The SFMTA board has signed off on Page Street becoming a permanent Slow Street, capping off nearly three years in which a pandemic experiment became popular for many residents.
Business & Tech Meta Looking to Offload All Of Its Office Space at 181 Fremont Adding to the already historic level of office vacancy in San Francisco, Meta is looking to dump 435,000 square feet of offices that it leased for Instagram employees five years ago in 181 Fremont.
SF News SF Reparations Committee Recommends $5 Million Lump-Sum Payments to Eligible Black Residents In one of the most sweeping and expensive proposals for reparations to Black Americans, a committee tasked with making recommendations for providing reparations to Black residents of San Francisco is suggesting $5 million lump-sum payments to residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.
SF News Suspected Stolen Car Plunges Off Cliff on Twin Peaks During Chase, Lands On Another Car A vehicle suspected of being stolen that was being chased by SFPD officers Wednesday night on Twin Peaks went off a cliff and landed on its side atop a parked vehicle on a roadway below.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden to Visit Capitola Pier and Santa Cruz President Biden is visiting the storm-damaged Santa Cruz area, an employee at Trick Dog is being hailed as a hero for saving two elderly people in last week's fire across the street from the bar, and two SF socialites gave money to George Santos.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Palace of Fine Arts Swan Dies at Age 28 Blanche, the 28-year-old Palace of Fine Arts swan, has died; a Nob Hill pot dispensary was robbed to the tune of $100K; and CB2 is closing near Union Square a year after Crate & Barrel also closed.
