SF News Appeal Begins Thursday In Case of Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Roman Police Officer The sordid and sad tale of Bay Area teens Gabriel Natale-Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder — now in their early 20s and in prison in Rome — will enter a new chapter Thursday as their 2021 murder conviction comes up for appeal.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Makes Commonwealth Club Appearance This Week, Says She's Quit Her Day Job Seemingly unbeatable 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has quit her job as an engineering manager to work on a book and become a full-time public figure. And in one of her first public appearances since her shows aired, she'll be appearing at the Commonwealth Club on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Has Hired Another White Guy as Director, But One With a Proven Commitment to Diversity in Art A year after Neal Benezra's announcement that he would step down as director of SFMOMA, the museum's search committee has selected his replacement: Christopher Bedford, the current director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
SF News San Francisco and Seven Other Bay Area Counties Will Drop Indoor Mask Rules Next Week The masks come off on February 16 in Bay Area grocery stores, bars, restaurants, museums, and everywhere else whether you like it or not — but Santa Clara County will still be playing it safer.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland School Board Votes to Close or Shrink 11 Schools Oakland's school board voted Tuesday to close seven schools and merge or shrink four more, a suspect has been arrested for the Oakland freeway shooting of Gene Ransom, and the FAA has shot down Sunnyvale's plan to use lasers to deter crows.
SF News BART Is Preparing For a Future of Low Ridership and Deficits The impacts of the pandemic on public transit can not be overstated, and BART in particular is lowering its projections for ridership recovery below even where they had them a couple of months ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Blind Cat Bar on 24th Street Gets New Life as Ruth's at Treat Street Two years into the pandemic, there are signs that SF's always thriving bar scene is bouncing back to life, even in some of the dustier corners where things went quiet in Spring 2020.
SF News Omicron Has Killed 12% More Bay Area Residents Per Week Than Delta Here in the highly vaccinated Bay Area, the infectiousness of the variant still managed to take a bigger toll than the more severe Delta variant did last summer and fall.
SF News Arrest Made In Last Week's Fatal Stabbing on Potrero Avenue A suspect has been arrested in connection with last Monday's fatal stabbing on Potrero Avenue that took the life of a 27-year-old man.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bay Area's Own Eileen Gu Takes Olympic Gold The 63-year-old woman killed by a San Jose garbage truck has been identified, California's COVID test-positivity rate just dipped below pre-Xmas levels, and SF teen Eileen Gu took home Olympic gold in the women's big air ski-jump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Is Again Lifting Its Mask Mandate Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the statewide mask mandate for indoor settings is lifting again on Feb. 15, a right-wing pundit scaled a fence to get into SF's Tenderloin Linkage Center, and a rescue happened Monday at Muir Beach with one person still missing.
SF Politics SF's First Excessive-Force Trial Against a Police Officer Kicks Off Under Cloud of Controversy The trial of San Francisco Police Officer Terrance Stangel, the first involving an on-duty SF cop in which District Attorney Chesa Boudin has brought charges of excessive force and the first known trial of its kind in the city, began on Monday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two New Bagel Shops That Began as Pop-Ups Arrive Shortly In SF Two new bagel purveyors — Schlok's Bagels and Midnite Bagel — are opening brick-and-mortar shops at long last in San Francisco, adding to the growing and increasingly well respected West Coast bagel pantheon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer & Wine Co. to Reopen In New Digs On Treasure Island, In Historic Naval Administration Building The popular Woods Island Club will be getting a new, slightly different incarnation this spring — and possibly as early as late February — in the iconic Administration Building on Treasure Island.
SF News One Dead, Five Skaters Rescued When Ice Gives Way on Semi-Frozen Reservoir Near Truckee A group of eight ice skaters ventured onto a not-so-frozen reservoir in the Sierra on Saturday, and the day ended in tragedy.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFPD Seeks Triple Bank Robbery Suspect The same suspect is believed to have committed three bank robberies in SF on Saturday, Woodside has been shamed into reversing its mountain lion habitat declaration, and 300 people took part in a Benicia sideshow on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Firefall' Returns to Yosemite Next Week, and Some Park Areas Will Be Closed Due to Traffic Problems The very popular and very Instagram-worthy "firefall" phenomenon is expected to return to Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park this month — and its popularity has led to parts of the park needing to be closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
Business & Tech Meta Already Has a Sexual Harassment Problem In the Metaverse In a development that's surprising to absolutely no one, Facebook/Meta is already having to address groping and sexual inappropriateness in the Metaverse, even though there is no real Metaverse yet — there's just a beta version of a very early stab at it.
SF News Arrest Made and Details of Video Emerge In Assault on 49ers Fan Daniel Luna at SoFi Stadium A suspect was arrested in connection with the assault on Oakland chef Daniel Luna outside the Rams' stadium in Inglewood on Sunday during the NFC Championship game, which has put Luna in a medically induced coma.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bail Denied For Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Los Gatos "cool mom" Shannon O'Connor had her bail motion denied, Santa Clara County jails need an extra $1.5 million to cover rising food costs, and a second lawsuit has been filed in the death of Mario Gonzalez at the hands of Alameda police.
SF News Mystery COVID 'Lineages' Found In Viral Fragments In Wastewater In California and New York Not that the pandemic-anxious need anything to add to their arsenal of anxiety sources, but the New York Times has a story today about an ongoing mystery happening in wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 that researchers can't pin down.
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Says SFPD Withdrawl From Investigation Agreement Is Political, Made Under Pressure From Police Union Embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin continues to push back against his critics and those who want him recalled in an election this spring, and this week he's having to engage in a war of words with the police chief.
SF News Fire Hits Taqueria Los Coyotes Building in the Mission, Displaces 22 People A fire tore through the three-story 16th Street building that is home to Taqueria Los Coyotes just after midnight Wednesday night, injuring at least two people and displacing 22 residents.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Tesla Has Yet Another Massive Recall The Washington state trooper who publicly quit over vaccine mandates has died of COVID, Tesla is doing yet another massive recall over a seatbelt chime, and Rudy Giuliani went on 'The Masked Singer'.
SF News Right-Wing Nutjob Couple Who Painted Over BLM Mural In Martinez Arrested For Burglary, Meth Possession Well well well. A couple hailed as heroes by Tucker Carlson for their brave work expressing the fears of ignorant white people back in 2020 has just been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a dead man's home and possessing meth.
