SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: More Rain Coming Saturday, and Next Week November is getting off to a nicely rainy start with more rain next week, bull kelp has been recovering on the Mendocino and Sonoma coast, and Buster Posey's official retirement announcement is happening at 3 p.m. at Oracle Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Longtime Alameda County Supervisor Killed By Car While Walking Dog Wilma Chan, who has served on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors since 1994, was struck and killed by a motorist in Alameda; PG&E agrees to a Kincade fire settlement; and Dave Chappelle arrives in San Francisco tomorrow, likely to face a protest.
SF News San Francisco Wastes No Time In Saying Five-Year-Olds Will Soon Need to Show Vaccination Cards to Get Into Restaurants The CDC just approved COVID vaccinations for younger children aged 5 and up like yesterday, but San Francisco's health officer is already saying that the vaccine mandate for dining indoors and attending indoor events will extend to those kids pretty soon.
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Opens for First Time In Two Years Holiday season skating returns to Union Square today, after a long, two-year hiatus.
SF News SFPD Arrests Five Men Across NorCal In Connection With Home-Invasion Robbery Spree In San Francisco The San Francisco Police Department today announced the arrests of five suspects who are believed to be responsible for a string of at least three home-invasion robberies in the city's Ingleside neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's First-Ever Marin Restaurant Debuts Tonight In Tiburon A Tiburon restaurant that's been four years in the making, The Bungalow Kitchen, debuts Wednesday night, with a swanky house-party vibe and several of chef Michael Mina's greatest hits on the menu.
SF News East Bay Woman Describes Bear-Mauling In Her Tahoe Kitchen That Nearly Killed Her An East Bay woman was attacked by a bear in the kitchen of her North Lake Tahoe home last weekend, and she's speaking out to warn other people about the dangers of bears who are becoming more accustomed to having humans in their midst.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Fairfield Murder Likely a Love Triangle Situation Investigators say that the Fairfield murder of Leilani Beauchamp was likely a love triangle situation, a Southwest pilot might get charged in a San Jose hotel bar assault on a flight attendant over masks, and the Supreme Court is hearing a big Second Amendment case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco In Orange Tier, CA Back to Red, Per CDC San Francisco and other Bay Area counties slipped backwards again in the CDC's tier system for COVID spread, Tesla is recalling 12,000 cars that got a bad software update, and Zillow is exiting the home-buying market.
Arts & Entertainment Carole Baskin Is Suing Netflix, Because Of Course Carole Baskin and her probably very exhausted husband Harold Baskin are now suing Netflix to stop the release of the second season of Tiger King, which is set to premiere on November 17. The Baskins say that they were misled by the filmmakers, and they are alleging breach of contract.
SF Politics Marjorie Taylor Greene Event Canceled By SF Republican Party, Excuses Given It could be that unvaccinated Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't allowed to be present at an event in San Francisco, or that not enough tickets got sold, but anyway she's not coming.
SF News Latest Count: 836 SF City Employees Unvaccinated, 60 Police Officers on Leave Monday was the deadline for full vaccination for all San Francisco city employees, and the city has already begun the arduous process of holding due-process hearings for all those individuals claiming religious and medical exemptions.
SF News Three Bay Area Residents Charged In Murder of 19-Year-Old Carmel Woman In Fairfield Following Halloween Party Three Bay Area residents, including an airman assigned to Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, have been charged in connection with the murder of a 19-year-old woman from Carmel following a Halloween party in Sacramento, whose remains were found in Monterey County on Sunday.
SF News SoCal Man Charged In Assault on Flight Attendant Claims Brain Injury, Self-Defense A 20-year-old Irvine man says he was seeking medical treatment for a brain injury in Rhode Island before he boarded a flight home to California in which he allegedly punched a flight attendant, leading to an emergency landing last week in Denver.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Pittsburg High Students Protest KKK Costume Kid The victim in the Gilroy Halloween party shooting has been ID'd, students at Pittsburg High protested the lax punishment for the KKK costume kid, and Marin County hopes to vaccinate all its 5- to 11-year-olds before the holidays.
SF News BART's 'Fleet of the Future' Cars Now Scheduled for Complete Delivery by Spring 2023 With all the pandemic-related supply-chain delays, etc., the timeline for when all the old BART cars will be replaced has been pushed out a bit.
Arts & Entertainment Patriarch Peregrine Falcon in UC Berkeley Campanile Nest Injured In a Fight Grinnell, the male peregrine falcon in the pair who have resided atop the UC Berkeley Campanile (clock tower) for the last five years, was wounded in a skirmish with two rival falcons, and was found southeast of campus on Friday suffering from these injuries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much Awaited Korean BBQ Spot San Ho Won, From Benu Chef Corey Lee, Opens Tonight The long-delayed and eagerly awaited casual Korean project from Michelin three-star chef Corey Lee (Benu, In Situ, Monsieur Benjamin) is making its debut Monday night in the Mission, and it's booking up very fast.
SF News Marin, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties Drop More Indoor Mask Rules Marin County on Monday becomes the first in the Bay Area to drop the broad indoor mask mandate that went back into effect across the region in early August, as case rates drop and the county's vaccination rate outpaces other counties.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Cow Hollow Shooting Leaves Man Gravely Injured A man suffered life-threatening injuries in a Cow Hollow shooting early Sunday, all city workers in SF have to be back in the office this week, and there was a protest at In-N-Out on Sunday that wasn't about vaccines.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2021 Kicks Off With Massive Crowds, Lines for Dance Tent, Great Sets by DRAMA, Tyler, the Creator It was truly strange and, at times, exhilarating Friday for those of us who haven't partaken in many concerts or festivals since they began happening again a few months back to be thrown back into a sea of humanity at Outside Lands.
Arts & Entertainment 'Golden Girls Live' Christmas Drag Show Returns to SF For 15th Year, Actually Live This Time It was way back in 2007 that the idea to reenact old Golden Girls episodes with SF drag queens took shape, with Heklina and some friends doing the first performances in someone's Victorian in the Western Addition.
SF News More Rain Is On Its Way Late Sunday and Maybe Mid-Week Next Week It looks like Outside Lands and Halloween shenanigans should be able to wrap up rain free, but but a few drops may fall before all is said and done Sunday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Coin-Op Game Bar/Orson Space Reopens As Thriller Social Club The former Orson space in SoMa, more recently Coin-Op Game Bar, reopens Friday as a new but similar arcade-bar concept called Thriller Social Club, with a new food and cocktail menu and some throwback games inspired by Playland at the Beach.
Arts & Entertainment Stream Outside Lands for Free on Twitch Starting at Noon Outside Lands kicks off in Golden Gate Park today at noon, and also at noon, many of the festival's performances are going to be streamed live on Twitch — kind of a second helping of last year's Inside Lands stream, only this time with actual live audiences there.
