SF News Public Defender In Stockton Serial Killer Case Calls Law Enforcement Statements 'Inflammatory,' But Gag Order Denied It's sort of inevitable that cops who think they nabbed a serial killer after six killings occurred are going to make inflammatory statements. But serial killer suspect Wesley Brownlee is still technically a suspect, and his public defender is doing her best to get him a fair trial.
SF News Sizable 5.1M Earthquake Shakes Bay Area, Epicenter Near San Jose An earthquake that struck at 11:42 a.m. Tuesday, with an epicenter near South San Jose, gave a good shake to San Francisco and much of the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bourbon & Branch's Bar Group Is Opening Another Speakeasy Nightclub on Market Street, The Dawn Club This winter we shall see the opening of a new bar and jazz venue from the group behind Bourbon & Branch and other cocktail spots. And it's a revival of a legendary speakeasy turned legit nightclub from the 1930s and 40s, in the same spot where that venue resided.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Scott Peterson Moved to Sacramento Area Prison Redwood City has moved to temporarily ban a gun store from opening there, convicted murderer Scott Peterson has been moved off of San Quentin's death row, and a fire at a Tenderloin SRO has displaced ten people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Farewell, Marina Sub Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a young woman whose burned body was found in Antioch, Elon Musk has to close his Twitter deal this week or else face trial, and Marina Sub is closing on Union St. after 36 years.
Arts & Entertainment Lil Nas X Pays a Visit to Oasis For a Drag Show, Tips Queens Generously The biggest openly gay rap star/pop star ever to make it in America, Lil Nas X, was in San Francisco to perform the final U.S. stop on his tour on Sunday, but Saturday night he headed to SoMa for drag show.
SF News SF to Deploy 150 'Ambassadors' to Make Downtown Shopping District Feel Safer This Holiday Season After the PR disaster that San Francisco faced last year around the holidays, with smash-and-grab robberies being conducted left and right by coordinated gaggles of thieves, the mayor is hoping for a calmer season this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina Reopens Wednesday After Lengthy Closure and Remodel, With New Bar (and No More Roast Chicken) Longtime Mission staple Delfina, which has been open as an outdoor restaurant with Pizzeria Delfina pizzas and some limited menu items for some months now, is finally reopening its remodeled and expanded dining room this week.
SF News Governor's Office Wades Into Noe Valley Toilet Controversy, Says Funds Will Be Withheld Once again, Gavin Newsom's administration is admonishing San Francisco and its slow-moving, needlessly costly bureaucracy, and holding funds hostage for a planned public toilet in Noe Valley until the city can figure out how to make it less stupidly expensive.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: No Remains Found In Buried Car In Atherton Police found nothing suspicious and no human remains in that buried Mercedes in Atherton, Gavin Newsom again vowed to complete his next term as governor, and there are apparently 300 COVID variants now circling the globe.
SF News Car Found Buried Next to Atherton Mansion Was Stolen In 1992 The Mercedes-Benz that was found buried on the property of the late Johnny Lew, an ex-felon whom neighbors knew as "a crook" when he lived there in the 1990s, was apparently reported stolen in Palo Alto exactly 30 years ago.
San Francisco Is Home to Dozens of Corner Store Cats — Who's Your Favorite? It must be almost Meowvember, because it's apparently time for another round of media attention to one of San Francisco's most beloved subspecies of pet: the corner store cat.
SF News PG&E Warning of Public Safety Power Shut-Offs Due to Wind Forecast In North Bay PG&E on Friday issued a heads-up that the power may be going out in parts of northern Napa and Sonoma counties, as well as nine other counties, due to some high winds in the forecast this weekend.
SF News Santa Rosa Man Busted With 73 Pounds of Meth, Plus Firearms Some meth binges in the North Bay are going to have to be cut short because authorities just arrested a guy and seized a massive stash of crystal that was surely headed for the street.
SF News Mystery Unfolding In Atherton As Mercedes Is Found Buried In Yard, Likely From 30 Years Ago Some serious intrigue began Thursday when some landscapers working at a property in Atherton unearthed a car buried four to five feet deep in the yard — and it's not yet clear whether there may be a body in it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Stockton Serial Killer Used Ghost Gun A school bus in San Jose struck and killed a man on an electric scooter, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins walked out of a debate last night amid a protest, and Stockton serial killer Wesley Brownlee allegedly used a ghost gun in his killings.
SF News Man Fatally Shot on Market Street Near Powell A man was fatally shot Monday night near Powell Street Station and Union Square, in a rare incident for the popular area.
SF News Depressingly, There Are Enough Vacant Housing Units In SF to House the Homeless Population Eight Times Over Did you know that there are actually tens of thousands of housing units, rentals included, that are sitting empty on any given day for one of a variety of reasons, and that putting even a fraction of these into service as supportive housing could solve the homeless problem overnight?
SF News With Monkeypox All But Disappeared Locally, SF Will End the Public Health Emergency Next Week MPX (monkeypox) cases are still being recorded in the city of San Francisco, but the rate is down to less than one per day — and the Department of Public Health seems pleased.
Business & Tech Prince Harry and Kevin Hart Were Both In SF Wednesday Talking About Their Business Ventures This has been a big week for tech conferences and celebrity sightings in San Francisco, and Wednesday brought both comedian-turned-venture-capitalist Kevin Hart and royal-turned-entrepreneur Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
SF News Those Fireworks Over the Bay Wednesday Night Were For a Movie Shoot Some people in SF and the East Bay heard the booming of fireworks, and some had the pleasure of watching an impromptu show over Treasure Island Wednesday night. But what holiday was this for?
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: London Breed Apologizes to Hondurans UC Berkeley has hired private security to patrol around dorms following a shooting, California may be losing its share of IPOs and startups, and Mayor London Breed gave an apology for comments she made about Hondurans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Servers Dressed as Power Rangers Help Save Woman From Attack Servers at Noka Ramen in Jack London Square happened to be dressed as Power Rangers when they intervened in an attack last week, Noe Valley's public-restroom party was canceled, and SF is surprisingly not the city with the most dogs, or even close?
Business & Tech Serena Williams at TechCrunch Disrupt Says She Doesn't Ask Husband Alexis for Business Advice Serena Williams was at TechCrunch Disrupt at the Moscone Center on Wednesday, discussing her future as a San Francisco-based venture capitalist, and what she looks for in founders.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bi-Rite to Open Third Location On Polk Street, Taking Over Real Food Co. In Russian Hill Beloved bougie grocer Bi-Rite is in expansion mode once more, and the next neighborhood that will be getting the honor of a new store is Russian Hill.
