SF News Alameda Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In Double Murder Failed His Psych Exam; Now 47 Other Deputies On Leave Due to Failed Exams We now know that all was perhaps not so well with the Alameda County Sheriff's deputy whom the sheriff's office had previously said had a spotless record, after he turned himself in for a double murder.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Closes Out With Chemical Brothers, No More Crowd Incidents, and Some Noise Complaints This past weekend's inaugural Portola Music Festival — which was not in the Portola neighborhood but over on Pier 80 — was a well attended debut with a ton of great EDM acts, crowd-control issues notwithstanding.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter Thousands of motorcyclists gathered on Saturday in Stockton for a massive funeral for Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Elon Musk is getting deposed today by Twitter's attorneys, and temps in SF will cool off before warming back up by the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moulin Rouge' Is a Terrific Spectacle, and That May Be All It Wants to Be Baz Luhrmann's postmodern 2001 film makes for an exuberant and dazzling stage show, but the plot elements feel almost unnecessary.
SF News SF Now Averaging 10 Monkeypox Cases Per Week; Vaccines Available at Folsom Street Fair We are now in the fourth month of the local monkeypox outbreak — now officially being referred to as MPX or "em-pox" — and the case numbers have leveled off considerably.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Officially In CDC's 'Low' Tier For COVID BART had similar Transbay Tube electrical problems this morning as it had on Sunday, a noted SF stalker/creeper is back and harassing women, and the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "low" tier for COVID transmission once again and finally.
SF News Marin Kayaker Successfully Rows Himself From California to Hawaii The second time was the charm for French-born, Marin-based kayaker Cyril Derreumaux, who set off for Hawaii on a solo kayak journey earlier this summer and made it there earlier this week.
SF News The Century-Old Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill Has Closed, Owners In Default The Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which most recently had been rebranded as the Huntington again after spending four years as the Scarlet Huntington Hotel, is now closed until further notice along with its longtime restaurant, Big 4.
SF News Matthew McConaughey Was At Dreamforce Talking About Running for President Someday Actor, activist, spokesmodel for Lincoln Motor Company, nude bongo player, and generally affable stoner Matthew McConaughey says that it's "inevitable" that he should run for president one day, and he'll likely just get "pulled into it."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market's LINE Hotel and One of Its Two Restaurants Open Next Week The delayed but much anticipated new hotel on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the LINE, finally opens its doors next week, and with it comes a new rooftop restaurant/lounge, and a new fine-dining restaurant as well as a lobby bar.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Fatal Freeway Shooting In Oakland A man was fatally shot on an Oakland freeway Wednesday night, those "inflation relief" payments are on their way for Californians in October, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the surprise concert guests at Dreamforce last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Acquitted After Spending Five Years Jailed for Murder A 26-year-old SF man has been acquitted for reasons of self-defense after spending five years in jail for a New Year's Day 2017 killing, Michelle Obama is coming to SF in December, and 24th Street's Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed permanently (again).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Ho Won and Abacá Recognized on NYT Best Restaurants List Fast on the heels of Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants list, we have another national best-of that picked out two SF restaurants that Bon Appetit's editors passed over.
SF News Three Santa Rosa Men, Including Aspiring Rapper Who Rapped About Dealing, Busted For Shipping Meth and Fentanyl-Laced Pills Out of State Three men from the North Bay have been charged by the feds for operating a drug ring that involved shipping pills and methamphetamine across state lines, specifically to central Tennessee.
SF News Watch Sherri Papini Lie, Squirm, and Fumble In Newly Released Interrogation Video The world now gets to see the moment when the gig was truly up for wannabe Gone Girl Sherri Papini when she was confronted in 2020 with what federal investigators had figured out about her fabricated 2016 abduction.
SF News Home Invasion and Car Theft Suspect Killed on San Mateo Bridge After Running Out of Gas A suspect was struck and killed by an oncoming car after exiting a vehicle he allegedly stole on the San Mateo Bridge early Wednesday, after apparently running out of gas.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Sees Four Homicides In 18 Hours A fourth fatal shooting in Oakland Tuesday capped off a violent 18 hours, a child was struck by a bus and gravely injured in San Francisco, and new data shows that SF lost more than half its restaurant jobs during the pandemic.
SF News South American Tourist Burglars Might Be Back In Hillsborough; Town Hit With Rash of Home Break-Ins Hillsborough police announced on Monday that four break-ins had occurred in the town since September 8, and the modus operandi of the thieves sounds very similar to the suspected Chilean or South American crews we heard about earlier this year.
Arts & Entertainment Surprise! Morrissey Announces Show at Castro Theatre OG emo crooner Morrissey is coming back to the Bay Area this fall, and he's the first semi-major musical act to be announced at the Castro Theatre amid its transformation into a live-performance venue at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment.
Business & Tech Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.
Arts & Entertainment Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup and Schedule Released, Drive-By Truckers Added After weeks of teasing parts of the lineup in pieces, as has been the tradition of the last decade, organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now unveiled the full and complete lineup and schedule for the three-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Women Shot In the Mission District Two women were shot and one was seriously injured on 23rd Street in the Mission Monday evening, the Valero refinery in Benicia will be flaring this week, and a van crashed through a CVS store in downtown Oakland.
Day Around the Bay: SF School Board Backtracks On Muslim Holidays SF's school board may not make two Muslim holidays no-school days after all, UCSF's Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says the pandemic is not over just because Biden says so, and ACT's Geary Theater has been renamed after longtime board member Toni Rembe.
Arts & Entertainment Famed Owner of Semi-Secret Berkeley Backyard Hot Tub Dies While In Hot Tub The longtime proprietor of a free-to-the-public, extra-hot hot tub behind a home on Essex Street in Berkeley was found dead by a hot tub patron over the weekend, and it appears he died doing what he loved, soaking in the tub.
