SF News Oakland Oral Surgeon Gets 16 Years For Child Sex Crimes, Blames Ecstasy For One Particularly Crazy Incident Former Oakland-based oral surgeon Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, who's been in jail for nearly two years already after being arrested on charges of attempted child sex trafficking among others, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in federal prison.
Business & Tech Yep, Facebook Now Wants to Be Called 'Meta' Facebook's big rebranding reveal came on schedule today, during CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote address at the company's annual Connect conference, and the new name for Facebook is Meta.
SF News SFMTA Announces a Few Temporary Route Cutbacks Due to Unvaccinated Drivers on Leave As forewarned earlier this month, Muni is having to curtail some bus service due to a number of drivers who have refused to be vaccinated, or who will not be fully vaccinated by the November 1 deadline — but the route cutbacks are fairly minor.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rockslide Closes Piece of Highway 1 A rockslide south of Big Sur has closed Highway 1 for about a week, Oakland schools will require kids 12 and older to be fully vaccinated or go remote, and an inexpensive antidepressant has been shown to be effective as a COVID treatment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Chicken, Quesabirria Tacos, and More Things You Should Eat and Drink at Outside Lands It's always worth getting out to the park early just to partake in the amazing food and drink array before you get schwasted and before anyone you actually care about goes on stage.
SF News Most Muni Bus Routes Will Likely Be Restored By Spring; J-Church Riders Unhappy About Having to Transfer The SFMTA announced the next step in its process to restore Muni service to near pre-pandemic levels, with a proposed plan to restore five out of seven of the currently suspended bus routes by February or thereabouts.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area Putting In Bid to Host 2026 FIFA World Cup Matches (at Levi's Stadium) Bay Area business leaders, mayors, and the 49ers are lining up to woo a group of FIFA representatives who are coming to visit this weekend to scope out Levi's Stadium as a potential host arena for the 2026 World Cup.
SF News COVID Cases Level Off, Hospitalizations Depressingly Tick Upward In California The steady decline in COVID numbers in California has stopped, and state health officials are somewhat worried that people are tired of vigilance, and we could be headed for a winter surge that no one wants.
SF News Humpday Headlines: U.S. Issues Its First 'X' Gender Passport The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to support the new A's stadium, two former domestic workers for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have filed suit against them, and the U.S. has issued its first 'X' gender passport.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Is Reopening Some Restrooms Closed Since 9/11 BART just announced a February reopening for restrooms at Powell Street and 19th Street stations, SF DA Chesa Boudin's dad is officially getting paroled, and Lake Tahoe's water level rose five inches in one day during Sunday's rain, recovering to its normal rim.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now an East Bay In-N-Out Location Has Been Shut Down Over Vaccine Rules, With More to Come The In-N-Out restaurant in Pleasant Hill has now had its food-service permit revoked by the county, and at least two more East Bay locations may be next in line if the company continues openly defying local ordinances about checking for vaccines for indoor dining.
SF Politics Total Scope of California's Unemployment Check Fraud Was Around $20 Billion California state lawmakers held a hearing Monday with officials from the Employment Development Department (EDD), covering the agency's massive fraud problem in 2020, as well as the general dysfunction and bureaucracy in the department.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Have a Full-Time House Music Tent, No Comedy This Year Checking out the daily schedules for this year's pandemic-delayed Outside Lands, we now see that the fest has gone the way of Coachella and others and added a full tent venue (besides the cramped Heineken one) that will feature house music DJs all weekend.
SF News Four Suspects In Murder of Santa Cruz Tech/Cannabis Entrepreneur Face Pre-Trial Hearing The four young men arrested and charged almost a year and a half ago in the October 2019 murder of Santa Cruz resident Tushar Atre are now in the midst of a pre-trial hearing in which a judge will decide whether all four will face trial.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sierra Sees Over Two Feet of New Snow More than 12,600 PG&E customers in the Bay Area are still without power, lawmakers in Sacramento were grilling EDD officials on Monday, and over two feet of snow fell in the Sierra Monday evening leading to a shutdown of I-80.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Might Mandate Sick Leave for Domestic Workers The Board of Supes may seek to mandate paid sick leave for housecleaners and nannies, a man was shot and critically wounded in Hayes Valley/Lower Haight Saturday, and the estimated cost of BART's San Jose extension just shot up.
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Ad Shows 40 Movie Theaters That Once Dotted San Francisco San Francisco was once home to over 40 movie theaters and one drive-in, but that was way back in 1958. A vintage ad from the era shows us all that we've lost.
Business & Tech Facebook's PR Crisis Continues As More News Outlets Report on the 'Facebook Papers' Revelations about Facebook's knowledge of its enormous and fundamental problems, and the company's ineptitude in handling them or lack of true interest in trying because it would hurt the bottom line, are continuing to roll in.
SF News Los Gatos Parents Reveal How They Took Down 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor The undoing of Los Gatos mom Shannon O'Connor, and the first bits of evidence that led to her arrest earlier this month on charges including felony child abuse and sexual assault, may have begun with one drunk teenage boy and his cellphone that kept pinging after he passed out.
SF News Video: Storm Winds Topple Two Trucks on Richmond Bridge Gusty winds from Sunday's bomb cyclone blew over two semi trucks on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, causing at least one injury and damage to other cars.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday Was SF's Fourth Wettest Day on Record Flood impacts continue across Marin County, the Napa River is expected to crest just a foot below flood stage on Wednesday, and F-Market streetcars are switching back at the Ferry Building due to Embarcadero flooding.
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.
