SF News Oakland Police Fatally Shoot Man Who They Say Pointed Gun at Officers and Children Police in Oakland fatally shot a man Monday afternoon in the Webster neighborhood of East Oakland, after he was reportedly pointing a gun at random people and children.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Piano on JFK Drive Vandalized The piano in front of the Conservatory of Flowers has been destroyed by a vandal; the Academy of Sciences is laying off 53 people; and the Supreme Court declined to hear a case about parental rights and a child's social transition at school.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sunset Dunes Celebrates One Year of No Cars The Academy of Art has just sold St. Brigid Church on Van Ness; there was quite a scene outside the Oakland courthouse where the Musk v. Altman trial is happening; and the California man who allegedly tried to shoot Trump on Saturday was formally charged.
SF News Arrest Made In 35-Year-Old Cold Case Rape and Murder In Placer County There has been an arrest in the 1991 murder of Cindy Wanner in Placer County, and the culprit according to the sheriff's office, is a known sex offender who had only been out of prison 10 months when Wanner was kidnapped and killed.
SF News UPS Plane at Oakland Airport Spills 250+ Gallons of Jet Fuel, Some of Which Ended Up In a Storm Drain A jet fuel spill at Oakland Airport Monday resulted in possibly hundreds of gallons of fuel flowing into a storm drain that leads out to San Francisco Bay, but officials say the spill was contained.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rose Pizzeria, Born In Berkeley, Opens Its San Francisco Location In the Richmond The much acclaimed Rose Pizzeria, a favorite of both the SF Chronicle and the New York Times as well as SFist, has just debuted its much anticipated second location in SF's Richmond District. Let the jockeying for reservations begin!
SF News SF House That Was Site of Triple Murder-Suicide Sells for $700K Over Asking Yes, there was a bidding war for the Westwood Highlands home that was the site of a tragic murder-suicide six months ago — ghosts be damned, this is real estate.
Business & Tech Jury Selection Begins In Trial Pitting Elon Musk Against OpenAI What had sounded two years ago like a spat between billionaires over a business they both co-founded has now reached an actual courtroom and jury trial, with jury selection beginning Monday in the civil suit that Elon Musk brought against OpenAI.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Backcountry Skier Dies Despite Large Rescue Effort 19th Avenue reopened several hours ahead of schedule Monday morning; around 6,000 households in the Marina lost power Sunday night; and a well known skier and Mammoth Mountain employee died while on a backcountry ski trip.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ghirardelli Square's Been Sold There's a taker for the Del Popolo space on Nob Hill, Saluhall has a new bar operator, Ghirardelli Square's been sold, and we have a few more details on the new Outer Richmond location of Bi-Rite, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Gets Sold to Regular Patron Concluding a year in which the beloved beer destination Toronado was purportedly being sold to a crypto bro who was talking about installing a roof deck, and then that sale fell through, we now have word that the bar is going into good hands.
SF News Memorial For Local Journalist and Longtime SFist Writer Joe Kukura Set For May 17 A celebration of life for Joe Kukura, the well known bon vivant, associate editor of SFist and a longtime contributor to multiple other San Francisco publications, has now been scheduled for May 17.
SF News Wife of SoMa Hit-and-Run Suspect Says 'My Husband Is Not a Villain' The wife of the man who now faces murder charges in connection with the vehicular death of 74-year-old Dannielle Spillman insists that the criminal charges are unfair, and says "My husband is not a villain."
SF News 19th Avenue Repaving Project to Cause Significant West Side Traffic This Weekend The ongoing project to resurface and repave 19th Avenue between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way is bringing a major closure to the thoroughfare this weekend.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Swalwell Used Campaign Money For Lawyer The Alameda County DA's office has not heard from any Swalwell accusers; Swalwell used campaign funds to pay a lawyer to defend against assault claims; and the last surviving architect of Sea Ranch has died.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Attends Connie Chan Fundraiser Nancy Pelosi has made no endorsement in the race for her seat, but she did attend a Connie Chan event; Oakland hills residents keep losing internet due to copper wire theft; and a US army soldier made a Polymarket bet based on classified information and made $400K.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamnet' at ACT Offers Another Take on Shakespeare's Mysterious Wife Who was Shakespeare's wife Agnes, or Anne as she's been known to most historians, and what was her relationship to the man, eight years her junior, who ended up becoming one of the great poets and playwrights in Western Civilization?
Business & Tech Mass Layoffs at Meta Begin With 8,000 Let Go; 6,000 Roles Frozen As artificial intelligence continues to drive both spending and job cuts in the tech industry, Meta just announced the first major wave of layoffs this year, which will likely be followed by a second wave before the end of the year.
SF News Could Marijuana Actually Become Federally Legal Under Trump? One initiative of the Biden administration that, surprisingly, President Trump didn't kill off and counter immediately was an effort by the Justice Department to finally reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas, Beloved Composer and Conductor of SF Symphony, Dies at 81 Michael Tilson Thomas, who served as music director of the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years and became a preeminent figure in the global classical music scene, has died at age 81.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Standoff With UPS Truck Thief Ends Peacefully Police in Fremont arrested a suspected UPS truck thief following a standoff; Santa Clara County has put 10 social workers on leave due to the Jaxon Juarez death investigation; and California is getting three new state parks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flight Had to Abort Landing at SFO Due to Other Plane on Runway A United flight had to abort a landing Monday night at SFO; a new state bill seeks to protect whales in SF Bay; and Kash Patel had the FBI investigate a NYT reporter because of a story about his girlfriend.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Katya Smirnoff-Skyy Launches New Career as Realtor, In Full Drag Well known local drag queen and self-styled chanteuse Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is now moonlighting — or, daylighting? — as a San Francisco realtor, and she's using her drag persona to sell property on social media.
SF Politics That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California's law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can't tell a federal agency what to do.
Arts & Entertainment Disassembly of Vaillancourt Fountain to Begin Next Week, With Full Removal In May Fans of the not-widely-loved Vaillancourt Fountain have just a few days left to pay their respects to the Brutalist landmark at Embarcadero Plaza, with the process to remove it set to start Monday.
