SF News Strongest Storm In a Quarter Century, Bomb Cyclone Surpasses Bay Area Predictions, Causes Havoc All Over While meteorologists on Sunday morning were still predicting large, but not record-breaking rain totals, a storm system rolled in off the Pacific and pummeled the Bay Area with way more rain than most of us were expecting.
SF News Flash Flood Watch Issued for Wildfire Burn Scar Areas Around Bay Area A flash flood watch has gone out for Sunday for burn scar areas in the North, South, and East Bay, with heavy rainfall expected and the possibility of mudslides and floods where things burned in 2020.
Business & Tech Fired Trans Netflix Employee Says They Were Not Acting Surreptitiously With Data, But It Was About Content Equity The Black trans Netflix employee who was fired last week amid the internal uproar at the company over the transphobia in Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special has given a new interview to explain how things went down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown BBQ Specialists Hing Lung Co. Expanding to Bernal With Go Duck Yourself A new restaurant specializing in Cantonese barbecue is coming to Bernal Heights next summer, and it's called Go Duck Yourself.
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain Shot Six Times, Condition Critical A retired Oakland Police Department captain, known for working much of the last decade on the city's Ceasefire strategy to reduce gun violence, was shot six times Thursday in an attempted robbery at a West Oakland gas station.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Movie Director Shot By Alec Baldwin Is SF-Based A couple describes seeing Phish fan Ryan Prosser leap to his death at the Chase Center, SF-based writer-director Joel Souza is recovering from injuries after being shot by a prop gun that killed his cinematographer Thursday, and supporters of DA Chesa Boudin held an anti-recall rally.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired Oakland Cop and 'Ceasefire' Head Shot During Attempted Robbery A retired OPD captain and head of the city's Ceasefire program was shot in a gun battle at a gas station Thursday, Harlan Kelly pleaded not guilty to new charges, and the Caldor Fire has reached 100% containment.
SF News Cause of Death Finally Revealed In Case of Former SF Couple and Infant On Sierra Hike The cause of death has finally been determined in the case of the Mariposa County couple, their one-year-old daughter, and their dog, and it was not toxic algae.
Business & Tech Oversight Board Unhappy That Facebook Hid How It Handles VIP Accounts, Says It Will Review 'XCheck' System The ostensibly independent Facebook Oversight Board is pointing back to a Wall Street Journal story last month and basically saying Facebook employees concealed a vital detail from them in the Trump suspension case, and this whole policy around VIP accounts needs to be audited.
SF News La Niña Winter Might Improve Drought In NorCal, Says NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's winter weather forecast for the U.S. is out, and somewhat surprisingly, it's predicting some drought improvement for the northern part of California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thursday Morning What's Up: Pleasant Hill In-N-Out Also Violating Vaccine Rule An announcement about the family found dead on a trail in Mariposa County is coming today, SF city leaders celebrate the first phase of safety improvements on Geary Boulevard, and the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill has been fined for not checking vaccine cards.
Arts & Entertainment Chase Center Will Face New Inspection After Injuries and Death at Phish Concert SF's Department of Building Inspection is reportedly going to revisit the Chase Center just over two years after it opened, following the debacle at Sunday's Phish show in which two separate falls occurred from upper balconies.
SF News There Are 40 SFPD Officers Now On Leave Because They Wouldn't Get Vaccinated You'd think that people who work in the San Francisco Police Department or at SF General who interact with the public all day long would have run to get vaccinated the minute they were eligible last winter. But no!
Business & Tech Facebook Is Pulling an Alphabet and Changing Its Name Next Week It's all about the metaverse! According to an internal source at Facebook, the company is preparing a big announcement next week to change its corporate identity and name, which of course has nothing to do with all the negative associations that "Facebook" now has.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Health Department Is Trolling In-N-Out on Twitter Now An ongoing battle over a vaccination mandate between SF's Department of Public Health and In-N-Out was made public Tuesday, and the department quickly used the opportunity to throw a little shade on social media.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Prepare for the Season's First Atmospheric River An Oakland man is accused of running over a woman and killing her for vandalizing his car, the Netflix employee walkout is happening, and the season's first atmospheric river is on its way.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Looks to Sell City Hall Air Rights for $45M The dead man in the Phish concert fall on Sunday has been ID'd, fans continue to talk about how unsafe those upper levels of the Chase Center seem, and SF may try to sell the air rights belonging to City Hall for $45 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area-Born Sustainable Meat Company Belcampo Appears Kaput As All Retail Operations Close A darling of the food world in the last decade, Belcampo Meat Co., announced it is ending all of its retail butcher shop and restaurant operations effective this week.
SF News Fairfield Vacation Rental Targeted With Threatening Graffiti From Angry Neighbors A home being rented on VRBO in an unincorporated area of Solano County, near Rockville and Fairfield, was the target of some threatening graffiti earlier this month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Temporarily Shuts Down In-N-Out After Company Comes Out Against Vaccine Mandates You know that In-N-Out is owned by evangelical Christians, right? Well, the unfortunate crossover between religion and anti-vaccine stances has come to roost at the only San Francisco location of the beloved burger chain.
SF News 30 Years Ago, A Firestorm Swept Through the Oakland and Berkeley Hills It was originally called the Tunnel Fire, because it broke out near the Caldecott Tunnel, but over the years it's become better known as the Oakland Hills Firestorm, or the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm, since the inferno didn't respect city limits.
SF News Three Bay Area Counties Now In CDC's 'Moderate' Tier for COVID Transmission; California Now Only State In That Tier California has returned to the CDC's yellow or "moderate" tier for COVID transmission after a brief return to the orange zone, and now it's the only state in yellow status this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Elizabeth Falkner Is Returning to SF For Outside Lands Event A celebrity chef with a long association with San Francisco in the last couple decades, Elizabeth Falkner, was just announced as part of the lineup for the GastroMagic Stage at Outside Lands later this month.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vaccine Lottery Drawings Had Little Impact, Study Finds A new study has found that states that did lottery drawings to boost vaccinations saw little uptick in people getting shots, Marina residents hire a rent-a-cop, and the supply-chain crisis is hitting the wine industry with a wine bottle shortage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jane Kim Apologizes For Jon Jacobo Event Invite Jane Kim was called out by the SF Women's Political Committee for bringing an accused sexual assault suspect to a political event, Berkeley parents are scrambling amid a bus driver COVID outbreak, and someone ripped the Twitch sign off the company's headquarters.
