SF News Day Around the Bay: Board of Supes Passes Mental Health SF The Supervisors voted to approve a new Office of Emerging Technologies, Sup. Shamann Walton introduced a bill to fund 300 classes that have been cut at City College, and two suspects in a string of East Bay home invasions appeared in court.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hacked' Is the Dry Bay Area Hacker Movie Spoof We Didn't Know We Needed A couple of local filmmakers have just delivered a short film that takes the late-90s/early aughts genre and parodies with Amazon and contemporary SF tech culture as the objects of its dry humor.
SF News Man With Bad Dreadlocks Arrested For 'Prolific' String of Burglaries in SF The SFPD announced Tuesday that it had arrested a 43-year-old man last week who is suspected in a series of commercial burglaries in and around Chinatown and Nob Hill.
Business & Tech San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas Following several years in which the convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness on downtown streets as a deterrent for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.
Business & Tech Apple Rolls Out Its Most Expensive Computer Ever, Topping Out at $53K The newest Mac Pro desktop models go on sale today, and while the base model costs just a dollar under six grand, add-ons bring the top-of-the-line version to $52,599.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Will Fight Disinformation About the 2020 Census It's not only an election year next year, it's also a census year, and Facebook is saying that it plans to treat the census like a high-profile election — only in this case it will actually take down ads that spread lies.
Arts & Entertainment It Looks Like 'Matrix 4' Will Be Shooting In SF In February The much-anticipated fourth installment of the Matrix franchise appears to be scheduled do some shooting in San Francisco early next year — though it's not clear where.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Standoff Ends Peacefully In Inner Sunset A suspended Cal football player is in trouble for a bizarre incident involving a Berkeley police officer, unlicensed contractors got nabbed in Santa Rosa... oh, and the House just dropped two articles of impeachment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zeitgeist to Close Next Month For Earthquake Retrofit A hazmat situation in Emeryville, a 79-year-old woman was struck and killed over the weekend by a car in the Bayview, and tensions are mounting in Oakland over the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Two San Franciscans, Linda Ronstadt and Michael Tilson Thomas, Honored at Kennedy Center Also, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got to take Trump's place at the event — he hasn't shown up in two years — and her introduction from the stage was met with a standing ovation.
SF News Undocumented, Critically Ill Bay Area Woman Allowed to Remain In US A Concord woman with a rare genetic disorder who faced deportation following a Trump edict in August has been granted "deferred action" by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and can remain in the Bay Area to receive medical treatment for another two years.
SF News SF Seniors Sad as City College Announces the End of Its Older Adult Classes City College of San Francisco has long been a unique institution in many ways. But now its chancellor has announced the cancellation of its beloved Older Adults program, which provided 64 free, non-credit courses to around 2,000 SF residents in their 70s and 80s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle To Test Eliminating Single-Use Coffee Cups Next Year Blue Bottle Coffee just announced that it will be doing away with all disposable coffee cups and coffee-bean bags at two pilot locations in the Bay Area in 2020.
SF News Stolen Van Full of 30 Dogs Recovered In Oakland, 3 Dogs Missing A cargo van full of dogs who were being transported cross-country was stolen out of a hotel parking lot in Fremont Sunday, and while the van has been found with most of the dogs still inside, owners of the dogs are naturally freaking out.
SF News 50-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bayview A shooting on Saturday evening took the life of a 50-year-old man in the Bayview district.
SF News PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Settlement for Victims of Wildfires, Ghost Ship Fire PG&E announced Monday that it had reached a settlement valued around $13.5 billion to compensate victims of wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 that have been linked to the utility's equipment, as well as to families of the victims of the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: West Portal Cleans Up After Saturday Flood A tourist from SF captured the eruption of the White Island volcano on camera, BART police are conducting sweeps for fare evaders at Embarcadero, and the 49ers eked out a dramatic win against the Saints.
SF News Rainstorm Floods Muni and Multiple Corners of San Francisco As has happened many times before, heavy rain flooded parts of the Muni Metro system on Saturday, shutting down train service into Saturday evening between Embarcadero and West Portal.
Arts & Entertainment On This Day 50 Years Ago, The Rolling Stones Did A Disastrous Bay Area Show That History Calls 'The End of the 60s' It was supposed to be "The West Coast Woodstock," but Altamont instead became synonymous with the death knell of The Sixties, a symbol of the darkness that lay just below the surface of the music-loving, free-loving hippie movement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Struck By Muni Train Near Oracle Park A 61-year-old woman was nearly killed by a Muni train Thursday night, there is a very real fear of mudslides this weekend in the North Bay, and the Castro's Squat & Gobble is closing after 22 years.
Arts & Entertainment Nordstrom to Lose Two Floors at Westfield Centre, Making Way For Office Space The SF Planning Commission on Thursday approved a plan to convert the top two floors of Nordstrom at the Westfield mall into 50,000 square feet of new office space.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Second-Graders Who Covered Lizzo Song Get to Meet Singer In Person A second-grade classroom that produced a viral hit rewrite of Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" last month was treated to a meet-and-greet with Lizzo before her set at San Jose's SAP Center Thursday night.
SF News Man Struck and Killed By Amtrak Train In Port Costa A man who was apparently walking in the train tracks by the East Bay town of Port Costa was killed by an eastbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor train Thursday night.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Director Calls For Audit Of Citations Wayne Merry, one of the first people to conquer Yosemite's El Capitan, has died at the age of 88; two homeless moms who have been squatting in a West Oakland house are getting evicted; and more rain is rolling into the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrests Made In Lafayette Home Invasions Uber just reported it saw 3,000 sexual assaults last year, the person who died in the fall from Land's End has been identified as a 42-year-old SF man, and two Fairfield residents in their 20s are suspected in a pair of home invasions in the East Bay.
