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.
Business & Tech Twitter Board Adopts 'Poison Pill' Strategy to Fend Off Elon Musk; Another Big Shareholder Also Just Upped Their Stake Twitter's board of directors voted unanimously Friday to adopt a limited duration shareholder rights plan, or "poison pill," that would immediately dilute the shares of any shareholder who bought 15% or more of existing shares — likely thwarting, for now, a takeover bid by Elon Musk.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Defends Herself as Chronicle Editorial Board Calls on Other Democrats to Get Her to Retire The Chronicle Editorial Board says the time is drawing nigh for tough talk with Feinstein, and "denial is a hallmark of those suffering from memory loss and attendant illnesses."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Won't Mandate Vaccine for Schoolkids California is backing away from requiring COVID vaccines for kids to attend school this fall, BART is expanding its use of license-plate readers at parking areas, and a bar fight in Petaluma turned into a shooting Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Baby Mountain Lion Improving After Blood Transfusion at Oakland Zoo An orphaned mountain lion cub who was found in San Mateo County last week and was brought to the Oakland Zoo for care and treatment is showing marked improvement as of Thursday, following a blood transfusion.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
SF Politics Newsom May Get Another Appointee: Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Mental Fitness Now the Subject of Investigative Report Rumors about Senator Dianne Feinstein getting pretty dotty at the age of 88 go back well over a year now, but things apparently are getting more serious with colleagues suggesting she has some very bad days.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Livermore Shooting Stems From Car Doing Donuts San Mateo County is getting its own homeless Navigation Center, John Legend has spoken out in support of Chesa Boudin via Twitter, and a shooting in Livermore happened after a resident tried to take down the license plate of a kid doing donuts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zuckerberg Vows to Curb Elections Donations Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are stopping their donations to help underfunded state elections departments, civil rights attorney Kevin Benedicto is joining the SF Police Commission, and Oakland police have identified the teen girl who was killed last weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Snags Former Belcampo Space at Marin County Mart for New Noodle Shop Charles Phan and the Slanted Door team are opening a new Vietnamese noodle soup spot in Larkspur, in the former Belcampo Meat Co. digs at the Marin County Mart complex.
Arts & Entertainment Japantown's AMC Kabuki Theater Closed In the Middle of Screenings Tuesday Due to Electrical Problem If you were planning to go see 'The Lost City' at the Kabuki Theater this week, you may want to seek out showtimes elsewhere. The theater is closed "until further notice."
SF News Sherri Papini to Plead Guilty In Hoax Kidnapping, Says She's 'Deeply Ashamed' The Northern California woman whom federal investigators found had faked her own 2016 kidnapping has now admitted she did it, will plead guilty, and has issued a public apology.
SF News Masks to Only Be Required on Planes and Public Transit Until May 3 The CDC just extended its federal mask mandate for airplanes and public transit another two weeks, until May 3, amid rising cases of the BA.2 Omicron subvariant, particularly on the East Coast.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Shooting Suspect Identified In Sacramento Police in Sacramento are on the hunt for a 27-year-old suspect in the April 3 shooting, around 50 eighth graders from Marin County just got COVID on a trip to D.C., and Nancy Pelosi is recovering from her bout with COVID.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands Eager Beaver Tickets Sell Out In Half Hour OMG it's happening again already.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Institution Perry's Coming to Novato Perry's, the 52-year-old Union Street institution that went on to expand its Bay Area footprint, is expanding once more with a new location in Novato.
SF News Four Arrested In Oakland for Robberies Including That of Canadian Film Crew at Twin Peaks Four suspects have been arrested and charged for crimes relating to a late March robbery of a Canadian film crew working at SF's Twin Peaks, and a second robbery three days later in Oakland.
SF News BART Sees Major Disruption After Somone Walked Onto Tracks In Downtown SF Commuters who are newly (again) reliant on BART to get to a physical office had a bear of a morning Tuesday after an unauthorized person wandering the tracks between Embarcadero and Montgomery stations caused a major delay.
SF News ACLU Joins Fight Against Oakland School Closures, Claiming Racial Discrimination The ACLU has now filed a complaint with the California Department of Justice urging the attorney general to look in to the Oakland Unified School District's plan to close seven schools and merge two others next year, saying the plan disproportionately impacts Black families.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Missing Mill Valley Woman Found Dead The search for a missing 62-year-old Mill Valley woman ended with her being found dead in her car, a man fatally shot in Oakland has been identified as a security guard at a transitional housing camp, and an orphaned mountain lion cub is recuperating at the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cleve Jones Says He Will Vacate His Castro Apartment Quietly After All Cleve Jones says he no longer wants to fight his new landlord to have to live in a unit below her, a member of the Gilroy City Council has been cited in connection with a fatal shooting at a Halloween party that occurred at her home, and Sonoma County authorities are seeking an abducted toddler.
SF News Jailhouse Phone Calls By Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Find Her Trying to Hide Assets, Telling Son Not to Cooperate With Cops The latest update in the case of accused sexual-predator/corrupter of teens Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. the Los Gatos Party Mom who we've referred to as the Los Gatos "Cool Mom," comes via her latest appearance in court.
Business & Tech Video: SF Cops Try to Pull Over Driverless Cruise Taxi, Hilarity Ensues All haters of the ersatz training course for robot cars that San Francisco's streets have become are having a field day with a new video, posted earlier this month, showing an autonomous Cruise taxi in the Richmond District getting pulled over by the SFPD with no driver inside.
SF News 15-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot During Violent Weekend In Oakland A 15-year-old girl from Antioch who was visiting a friend in East Oakland was fatally shot Saturday night, and in separate incidents eight other people were shot and injured in the city over the course of the weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Large Cargo Ship Adrift Off Point Reyes A 564-foot cargo ship was adrift off Point Reyes since Friday and unable to anchor, a 25-year-old man was shot multiple times in Emeryville, and Tahoe is getting some last-minute snow from this weather system.
