SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Steps Up Patrols After Attacks on Asians The family of a man killed by a sheriff's deputy in Danville last week is demanding answers, the SFPD says it will step up patrols in the wake of a spike in attacks on Asian residents, and FEMA will be reimbursing COVID funeral expenses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Arrested Yet Again SF supervisors and the mayor have struck a deal on using the city's $125M surplus, a sink hole appears in the Mission, and the IRS says you can file your taxes through May 17 this year without penalty.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands Dates Moved to October The organizers of Outside Lands teased some sort of big announcement on Monday, and now they've released the news as of Thursday. The festival is being postponed once more, but this time just for two extra months (and change).
Arts & Entertainment The Chronicle Launches Podcast on a Mostly Forgotten SF Serial Killer of Gay Men, 'The Doodler' The Chronicle is getting in on the zeitgeist of true crime podcasts and stories, and revisiting a horrific case that, in the Chronicle's trashier days in the 1970s, was mostly just tabloid headline fodder — and the SFPD never bothered to solve it.
SF News Oakland's Mills College Calls It Quits After Several Rough Years, Will Accept No Incoming First-Years After 2021 Historic East Bay women's college Mills, which was founded in 1852, is ending its run as a degree-granting institution and won't be taking on any new students after this fall.
SF News Elderly Asian Woman Attacked On Market Street Pummels Her Attacker With Stick A 70-year-old Asian woman, injured by a much younger man she said was "bullying" her, successfully beat up her attacker on San Francisco's Market Street Wednesday morning.
SF News Once Again, Lake Oroville and Other Reservoirs Are at Drought Emergency Levels We're likely headed for another summer of dried-up lawns, fires, and water restrictions if Mother Nature continues to withhold the rain and snow that we need to make up for a super-dry November, December, and February.
Arts & Entertainment Peregrine Falcon Update: Berkeley Pair Lays Third Egg, Fourth On the Way The SF falcons at the PG&E building are incubating a clutch of four eggs, and across the Bay, the falcon pair that nests in the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus just produced their third egg of the season, with a fourth due today.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bridge Traffic Is Back Commuter traffic around the Bay is back to near pre-pandemic levels, three suspects in a fatal shooting apparently disappeared into Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood last night, and Solano Co. is allowing the 50+ set to get vaccines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein's Husband Said To Be Eyeing Ambassadorship SF likely will keep to stricter rules than the state allows when it advances to the "Orange" tier, a 59-year-old Asian man was assaulted on Market Street on Monday, and Feinstein's husband may be give her an out when it comes to leaving the Senate gracefully.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested In Attempted Carjacking and Assault on Senior Citizen at SF Safeway A 16-year-old San Leandro girl has been arrested and two other teen suspects are being sought in an attempted robbery and carjacking in San Francisco's Inner Richmond last week in which an elderly woman was injured and a good Samaritan intervened.
SF Politics SF Board of Supervisors Approves Four-Year Extension of Ferris Wheel, Rejecting Challenge Several supes expressed exasperation about the fact that they were spending so much time and energy on this. And in the end, they voted 6-5 to let the contract stand as-is, at four years, in what will be cast as a victory for fun.
SF News Mayor London Breed Gets Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shot, Wants to Demonstrate That It's Safe SF Mayor London Breed went to a clinic in her home neighborhood, the Western Addition, to receive her COVID-19 vaccination today.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She's Not Retiring, But Newsom Says He'll Appoint a Black Woman to the Senate If She Does Senator Feinstein told the press Tuesday they were "making a mountain out of a molehill" after Newsom made some comments about replacing her with a Black woman if he had the chance.
SF News Bay Area Tenants and Landlords Can Now Apply for Grants to Cover Back Rent From 2020 A state application portal went live Monday for tenants and landlords seeking rental relief grants relating to pandemic hardship — part of a $2.6 billion federally funded aid program in California.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Oakland Robbery/Homicide of Elderly Asian Man A second man was arrested in connection with last week's robbery and death of 75-year-old Pak Ho in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo Moving to 'Orange' Tier San Mateo County is likely to advance to the 'Orange' tier today, San Francisco has lowered the BMI threshold for vaccine eligibility, and fire crews put out a two-alarm blaze at a flooring store in San Leandro Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Brazilian' COVID Variant Confirmed in California The Board of Supervisors will be voting on whether to extend the Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel one year or four years, a suspect was arrested for fatally stabbing a dog in the Upper Haight, and Newsom is launching a campaign against the recall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF News Someone Drove Their Car Into the Bay Near Marina Green San Francisco firefighters came to the rescue of an unfortunate driver Sunday night who drove their car off the seawall near Marina Green. It's unclear whether drugs or alcohol may have been involved in the incident, but luckily the water was pretty shallow right there.
SF News Uber Assault Suspect Malaysia King Was Arrested In Vegas for Bank Fraud; Uber Driver Thankful for GoFundMe Donations One of the two women now in police custody in connection with the highly publicized March 7 assault on an Uber driver in San Francisco was actually arrested for an alleged bank fraud scheme in Nevada in the days following the Uber incident.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Reopens For Tours After Three-Month Closure Alcatraz Island reopened Monday morning for limited tours by reservation, after being closed since the statewide lockdown began in December, and after only being open for about three months in total since the pandemic began.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Native Ryan Coogler Makes History With Oscar Nomination for 'Judas and the Black Messiah' This year's Oscar nominations were announced early Monday morning, and after years of criticism over the awards' lack of diversity — and the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag campaign that began with the 2015 awards — the 2021 slate of nominees is more diverse than ever.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Rain and Hail On the Way The second suspect in the assault on an Uber driver last week has turned herself in, today is the day of expanded vaccine eligibility across CA, and more wintry weather is on the way.
SF News A Year Ago This Weekend, SF Bars Were Ordered Closed and Pandemic Panic-Shopping Began The first two weeks of March 2020 were very weird for just about everyone. And this weekend marks one year since SF shut down large bars and clubs, a few days before the whole city would shut down.
