SF News 19-Year-Old Stanford Student Dies at Frat House A man who was found dead in an on-campus residence at Stanford University on Friday has been identified as 19-year-old undergraduate Eitan Weiner.
SF News Oakland Homeless Group 'The Village' Constructs Tiny House Community On Median Over the MLK Day weekend, a group that has previously constructed unsanctioned "villages" of makeshift tiny houses as homeless encampments built another one on a strip of land in Oakland, calling it the Right to Exist Curbside Community.
Bay Area Sports Packers Fans Blame Mike Pence For Jinxing Them In a foolish move the likes of which we've come to expect from the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence predicted that the Green Bay Packers would beat "Nancy Pelosi's 49ers" during a rally in Milwaukee last week.
SF News Moms 4 Housing May Get to Own West Oakland Home After All The real estate investment firm that owns the home on Magnolia Street in West Oakland where a group of homeless mothers and their children were squatting in recent months has caved and agreed to negotiate a sale of the property to an Oakland nonprofit.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Head for 7th Super Bowl In Franchise History; Niners Faithful Elated It's been a rough few years to be a 49ers fan, but for the faithful — and for all the bandwagon-ers who like to join in the fun when the local team is winning — the last two January weekends have been full of beer, cheering crowds, and happy times.
SF News MLK Day Headlines: A Shooting on Sixth Street Sonoma County is building a temporary "outdoor" homeless shelter, three people were shot in O Moraga Sunday night, and SF is looking for poll workers for March 3.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF DA Terence Hallinan Dies at 83 A San Mateo pastor was arrested for threatening to shoot people, SB 50 is back in play, and two Bay Area health giants have pledged $45 million to the state's homelessness fund.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Bay Area Food & Drink: Zazie Sold To Three Staffers Cole Valley's beloved Zazie is changing hands, the Millennium team is plotting a vegan brewpub, and Soleil Ho is less than thrilled with Tokyo ramen export Tsuta.
SF News Potrero Power Station Nears Approval For Major Redevelopment Project Another mega-project in San Francisco is inching its way toward final approvals, and this one would transform the 29-acre, waterfront Potrero Power Station site into a mixed use complex of 2,600 residential units and 1.8 million square feet of new commercial space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Deli Halts Dinner Service With Some Menu Changes Afoot Some things are shifting and/or pivoting at six-month-old AL's Place spinoff AL's Deli, and pending these changes the restaurant announced this week that it's going to be open for lunch only for the time being.
Arts & Entertainment New SFMTA Chief Asks Comedian Ali Wong To Record Muni Bus Announcements Inspired by the New York City MTA using Queens native Awkwafina's voice on some train announcements, newly installed SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin is reaching out to SF native Ali Wong to do the same for Muni buses.
SF News No Murder Charges For Pair Implicated In January 5 Tenderloin Slaying The DA's office declined this week to file murder charges in the January 5 killing of 32-year-old Emma Hunt in the Tenderloin.
Arts & Entertainment Historic Clay Theatre in Pacific Heights To Close on January 26 After 110 Years One of San Francisco's last standing neighborhood movie houses, the Clay Theatre on upper Fillmore, is reportedly screening its final film on Sunday, January 26 after 110 years in Pacific Heights.
SF News Avalanche at Tahoe's Alpine Meadows Kills One, Seriously Injures Another An avalanche Friday morning has taken the life of one skier at the Alpine Meadows Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, and a second skier has reportedly suffered serious "lower body" injuries, with several other people possibly injured as well.
SF News Macy's/I. Magnin Building On Union Square May Get Condos On Top Floors A new plan has been submitted for a mixed-use conversion of the former I. Magnin building on Union Square — most recently the white-stone-clad extension of Macy's at the corner of Stockton and Geary — that would include 21 condo units on the top three floors.
SF News Newsom Pledges 'Wonderful Things' For Moms 4 Housing Group As he wrapped up a statewide tour of programs to address homelessness on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom called the protesting moms in West Oakland "courageous," and said that his staff would be meeting with them.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 14-y-o Girl Uses Snapchat to Escape Kidnapper in San Jose Four were arrested in San Jose for operating two alleged brothels, 300 flights were delayed or canceled Thursday at SFO, and Pelosi made it back from D.C. in time for the SF Ballet opening gala last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Single Tunnel Likely to Be Built Under the Delta Travel to Tahoe is pretty much impossible tonight due to snow, a stomach illness has now hit 170 visitors and employees at Yosemite, and the Giants just hired the MLB's first full-time female coach.
SF News Pigeon Found Wearing Tiny Sombrero In Reno Prompts Calls of Animal Abuse An amusing internet meme in December featuring pigeons wearing cowboy hats in Las Vegas has ended in death for one of those birds, and there's a copycat in Reno who has apparently glued a sombrero to a pigeon there.
Business & Tech Google/Alphabet Joins Apple and Microsoft in the $1 Trillion Club Alphabet officially reached a valuation of $1 trillion on Thursday, becoming only the fourth American company — and the fourth tech company in history — to reach this once unthinkable milestone.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Create 12 New Commercial Districts Ahead of Ballot Vote on Retail Vacancy Tax In an effort to curb the trend of landlords leaving retail spaces vacant, the SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish a dozen new Neighborhood Commercial Districts (NCDs) that will fall under a new vacancy tax law that's on March primary ballot going before voters.
SF News Winter Storm Brings Hail and... Thunder? Today's moderate to heavy rains in SF came with a surprise bout of thunder and lightning. What's up with that? Also, there was hail falling all over, and snow on Mount Diablo.
SF News 68-Year-Old NorCal Woman Survived In Snow-Covered Car For Six Days Under Floor Mats An elderly woman with dementia who disappeared last week was found alive Wednesday by Butte County Sheriff's deputies in a helicopter, after her SUV drove off the road in snowy conditions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurant Openings: Magpie, Viridian, and Kitchen Story Make Debuts With the holidays behind us, new restaurants and bars are starting to emerge out from under their construction dust on both sides of the Bay. And in Oakland, there are three debuts to talk about this week.
SF News Newsom Wraps Up Homeless Tour Today In Oakland With Showcase Of Trailers Governor Gavin Newsom is concluding a four-day tour of homelessness outreach operations across the state with a stop near the Oakland Coliseum where he'll be showing off a key component of his new state program.
