SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: LA Reinstates Its Mask Mandate for Transit Los Angeles County is reinstating its mask mandate for rideshares and transit starting today, a 21-year-old American Canyon man was arrested for human trafficking, and the CEO of Old Navy is stepping down after two years in the job.
SF Politics Watch: Former President Obama Speaks at Stanford About Dangers of Disinformation Former President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at a conference on disinformation in the digital age today, and he delivered some pointed words about the miasma of lies we were pummeled with in the Trump era, and are still being served in our newsfeeds.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Cultural District, Merchants Group Sound Less Than Pleased About Lack of Meetings With New Castro Theater Operators Many in the Castro LGBTQ community remain concerned about what's to come as the beloved Castro Theatre undergoes renovations and becomes a new live-entertainment venue managed by Another Planet Entertainment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Union Square Mexican Spot Colibri Reopens In New Digs In the Presidio Next Weekend Colibri Mexican Bistro, the high-end Mexican restaurant on Geary near Union Square that opened around 2004 and closed in 2020, has found new life in the former Arguello space at the Presidio Officers' Club.
SF News Two Men Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide In SF's Oceanview Neighborhood Two men were found with gunshot wounds at a home in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood on Wednesday evening after what police are describing as a murder-suicide.
SF News Video Appears to Show Mike Tyson Punching Drunk Guy on Plane Leaving SFO After 4/20 TMZ just released some video from Wednesday night that appears to show Mike Tyson — who was in SF to help promote a social media app at the 4/20 event at Hippie Hill — decking a drunk guy who was harassing him on a JetBlue flight from SFO to Florida.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kristin Smart Murder Trial Moves to Monterey Co. A judge has decided that the trial of Paul and Ruben Flores for the 1996 murder of Kristin Smart will move to Monterey County, BART reversed itself about masks, and that lawsuit by the City of San Francisco against opioid makers and distributors begins Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Says You Don't Need a Mask on the Bus or Train The California Dept. of Public Health said Wednesday that Californians don't need to wear masks on transit, the Dept. of Justice is meanwhile appealing that Florida judge's ruling on masks, and Mike Tyson is over at Hippie Hill for 4/20 promoting something.
SF News Former President Barack Obama and VP Kamala Harris Both In Bay Area Thursday Both Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are scheduled to be in the Bay Area this week for separate events, with Obama set to speak at Stanford Thursday.
SF News 30-Year-Old Man Killed In SF's Fillmore District There was a homicide Tuesday night in San Francisco's Fillmore District, which has not seen a homicide in three years.
SF News [Update] BART Says Hold Up, You Still Need to Wear Masks, Then Reverses Following that federal judge's ruling on Monday that abruptly ended mask mandates on planes and public transit, BART reportedly told its police not to enforce mask-wearing on Tuesday. But now, they've issued a statement similar to the SFMTA's saying masks are still required, for now.
SF Politics Matt Haney Claims Victory In Assembly Race, Giving Mayor Breed a Board Seat Appointment SF's District 6 will be getting a new appointed supervisor and the city is getting a new face in the Assembly after Tuesday's runoff election — it's just that we'll have to vote on this seat twice more this year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Three People Shot In Colma Three people were shot in Colma early Wednesday morning, a San Leandro teacher has been removed after being caught on video threatening students, and the Los Gatos Town Council has passed an ordinance banning teen parties hosted by adults.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Sees Big Drop In Subscribers, Swears It's Going to Crack Down On Password-Sharing With the waning of the pandemic, Netflix is seeing its big subscriber growth fall off a cliff — and now the company is saying it's really going to get tough on password-sharing.
SF Politics It's Election Day #2 of 4 For the SF Assembly Seat Sought By David Campos and Matt Haney Today's the day that San Francisco voters decide who will take David Chiu's vacant Assembly seat for District 17 in the state legislature — at least who will occupy it for the next eight months.
SF News Are We Seeing a Fifth COVID Surge In SF Right Now? Probably. The official daily case count probably isn't reliable, but other metrics suggest that San Francisco is probably in the midst of its BA.2 surge, which experts predicted would likely not be as significant as this past winter's first Omicron surge.
SF News Masks Come Off on BART, Airplanes, and In Uber and Lyft Cars — But Not Muni — Following Ruling By Trump-Appointed Judge A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida issued a ruling Monday that denied the authority of the CDC to continue its federal mask mandate on planes and public transit — a mandate that was set to expire in two weeks anyway.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Roofing Crew Might Be to Blame For West Portal Fire The SFFD says a roofing crew might have sparked the roof fire in West Portal on Monday, a dumped bucked of floor adhesive caused a "sticky situation" (and car damage) on the San Mateo Bridge, and a Gilroy victim of the Happy Face Killer has been ID'd.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arson Suspect Arrested In San Jose Home Depot Fire Sherri Papini has officially entered her guilty plea and will now face sentencing, authorities in San Jose have arrested and charged a suspect in the Home Depot fire, and the White House apparently still has Senator Dianne Feinstein's back.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Identified as Missing Homeless Man A 42-year-old man who was known to frequent homeless encampments in Oakland and who was reported missing in August 2020 was the person who met with misadventure inside the abandoned Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center by Lake Merritt.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In West Portal Leads to Partial Building Collapse A fire broke out on a roof Monday on the commercial corridor of San Francisco's West Portal Avenue, and so far no injuries have been reported but the fire has caused a partial collapse of a building.
SF Politics Is It Sexist to Call Out Feinstein's Memory Decline When Male Senators Have Stayed In Office Much Longer? The weekend brought even more press attention to Senator Dianne Feinstein and her reported cognitive decline. And some are suggesting that laying open this open secret to the public is sexist at its core.
SF News Thieves Use Stolen Tractor to Try to Rip ATM Out of Wall In East Bay, Fail Some unsuccessful thieves in Brentwood used heavy machinery to try to steal an ATM from a bank on Sunday, and they failed to do so but caused a lot of damage.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tent Fire Spreads to Building at Church and 15th A tent fire spread to an apartment building at Church and 15th streets Monday morning, four people were stabbed in the Tenderloin, and two gay dads say their kids were verbally assaulted by a raging and bigoted man on an Amtrak train bound for the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizza Pop-Up Hit Outta Sight to Go Brick and Mortar In Civic Center A former sous chef at Mister Jiu's who famously came back from the dead after a sudden and random heart attack in the kitchen while prepping for New Year's Eve in 2017 is turning his successful pandemic pizza pop-up into a full-fledged business.
