Arts & Entertainment Tommy Lee Told Mötley Crüe Fans In SF to Whip Out Dicks at Oracle, and Some People Were Upset Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee says "The world is too soft!" after someone spoke to the local media and threatened to file an indecent exposure complaint after Lee encouraged fans to expose their genitals during the band's show last week at Oracle Park.
SF News Third Consecutive La Niña Winter Now Looking Likely This may be bad news for recovering from the ongoing drought, if not necessarily disastrous. But we are most definitely in for another winter of La Niña, which hasn't brought us sufficient rain and snow the past two years.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Charged In Double Murder; Mother Says He Was 'Blinded By Love' The suspect in the second-most shocking and bizarre Bay Area homicide of last week, Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Devin Williams Jr., was arraigned Friday — even as the double homicide in an East Bay suburb that he allegedly committed was overshadowed by a beheading on the Peninsula.
SF News Suspect In San Carlos Beheading Reportedly Had Mental Illness, Had Made Serious Threats Weeks Earlier The man accused of brutally murdering his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child last Thursday made his first court appearance Monday, as new details in the case continued to emerge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noooo! Arinell Pizza Has Closed After 33 Years on Valencia Street One of SF's closest simulacra of New York-style pizza, Arinell Pizza on Valencia, closed its doors for good on Saturday.
SF News San Francisco Conducts Drill to Practice Airlifting In Supplies After a Major Earthquake Takes Down Bridges San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management (DEM) warned residents to stay clear of McLaren Park Monday morning as they were conducting a disaster response drill with a helicopter.
SF News Six-Month Manhunt Ends With Arrest of Dhante Jackson, Accused In the Abuse and Killing of 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl The man believed responsible for the brutal abuse and killing of an 8-year-old East Bay girl, who has been on the run for the last six months, has been arrested along with several women who have been helping him hide.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Small Earthquake Rattles East Bay A 2.9M quake hit last night around 10:30 that was centered near the Caldecott Tunnel in the Oakland hills, the SFPD suspended a chase in the Tenderloin Sunday evening for public safety reasons, and Oakland's popular Snail Bar is an annoyance for neighbors.
SF News Victim In Domestic Violence Beheading In San Carlos Identified, Friends and Family Say She Feared for Her Life A tragic incident that was the gruesome culmination of an abusive relationship turns more tragic and unfortunate with each new detail that comes out. And we now know the identity of the young mother who was killed by her estranged, violent boyfriend and father of one of her children.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Group Behind Spruce and Village Pub to Open Three Side-by-Side Restaurants In Potrero Hill Bacchus Management Group, which has a history of attracting loyal followings to its restaurants as well as Michelin stars, has plans for three new businesses in Potrero Hill, including an Italian trattoria and a new burger joint.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Toured the Central Subway, Said It Looks Great On Thursday, the man formerly known as Mayor Pete joined Mayor London Breed, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to tour the much delayed and still not quite operational Central Subway in SF.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to 14,000 Acres, Jumps Into El Dorado County, Begins Impacting Tahoe Air Quality A wildfire that broke out Tuesday in Placer County, west of Lake Tahoe, grew significantly on Thursday and overnight, aided by ongoing hot and dry conditions. And it has begun ruining the air quality for late-summer pleasure-seekers around the Lake Tahoe basin.
SF News 33-Year-Old Hayward Man Identified as Suspect In Insane Beheading-By-Sword In San Carlos An intensely brutal scene occurred in the middle of a San Carlos street on Thursday morning in which a man, possibly a former boyfriend with a restraining order against him, allegedly beheaded a young mother of two with a sword.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One of Two Escaped Inmates Found In Vallejo Motel One of two inmates who escaped from a Contra Costa County detention center last weekend has been found, work — and tensions — will continue today in the clearing of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland, and a possible second US monkeypox death in under investigation in L.A.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Insta-Famous Chicken Sandwich (With Foot) Gets Its Own SF Restaurant A woman was apparently beheaded by a man she had a restraining order against in San Carlos, tensions were high during another camp-clearing attempt on Wood Street in Oakland, and an Instagram-famous chicken sandwich with foot attached is getting its own ballpark-adjacent restaurant.
SF News The Queen Is Dead, and SF Media Now Fondly Recalls Her Visit to the City 40 Years Ago The event of the queen's death, even though it's far removed from the U.S. and will have no impact on global politics, feels inescapably historic. And San Francisco only has one royal visit to commemorate on this day, from 1983.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In 'Execution-Style' Double Homicide In Dublin A 24-year-old sheriff's deputy in Alameda County was the subject of a brief manhunt on Wednesday before turning himself in to his own bosses and coworkers for a double homicide.
SF News Flex Alert Continues Thursday; Temps to Finally Start Cooling This Weekend The big California Heatwave of 2022 will slowly start to dissipate this weekend, and in San Francisco this weekend you can expect a cloudy reprieve — though it still may feel a bit warm.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: A San Jose Hospital Lost Power For Hours Amid Heatwave Santa Clara Valley Medical Center lost power for about four hours on Tuesday leading to a crisis, ousted former SF school board member Alison Collins's Russian Hill house is for sale again, and squirrels are splooting all over in the heat.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Sets Reopening For October (or 'By November') Fans of Chef Ravi Kapur's homemade SPAM and short rib steam buns can rest assured that Liholiho Yacht Club is indeed making its promised return this fall, nearly a year after closing in its temporary digs on 18th Street.
SF News Salesforce Tower Dragged For Displaying 'Power Down' Message While Half the Building's Lights Were On Were that many people still at work after dark inside Salesforce Tower on Tuesday night? Or was the building being a hypocrite while half its lights were on, telling us all to save power with a blaring message across its crown.
SF News Dry Lightning Possible This Weekend From Remnants of Pacific Hurricane, Posing Major Fire Risk We've been teased a few times this summer with threats of lightning that never materialized over Northern California. But with the added fire risk of this week's hot-hot weather, the threat of unstable air and dry lightning from the remnants of a hurricane is very rare in the coming days.
SF News Heat Stuff: Santa Rosa Sees All-Time High-Temp Record Broken, More Energy Conservation Needed Wednesday It hit 115 degrees in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, breaking the city's all-time high-temperature record of 113 degrees set in 1913. And that wasn't even the only Bay Area city to see its all-time record broken.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Avoids Blackouts, But Just Barely The state avoided rolling blackouts on Tuesday but a few Bay Area cities cut power briefly on their own, BART is fixing a heat-related track problem in the East Bay, and several schools in Novato don't have AC so they're ending the schoolday early this week.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Motion For New Trial After 'Remorseful' Prosecution Witness Shows Up at Her House Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her attorneys are again trying to keep her out of prison, this time based on what they say is new evidence from a former Theranos employee and key witness for the prosecution.
