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.
Arts & Entertainment 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical' Takes the Jukebox Musical To a Trite New Low While it's a fact of modern musical theater that jukebox musicals of both the biographical and non-biographical sort are popular money-makers, it's almost universally true that they tend to be despised by critics.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Eat Around SF's Union Square Between Harry Potter Shows (or Shopping) With holiday shopping season in full swing and the two-part Harry Potter show playing at the Curran for the next six months to a year (at least), you could probably use some ideas for when you're stuck and hangry in tourist trap central.
Arts & Entertainment 'Drag Queens On Ice' Celebrates 10 Years At Union Square Rink The now annual Drag Queens on Ice event began way back in 2009 as a lark by Stud hostess VivvyAnne ForeverMore. The event, which will have its 11th go-round Thursday night, has now expanded and gained official sponsorship from Alaska Airlines.
SF Politics Pelosi Claps Back When Asked If She 'Hates' President Trump Addressing reporters Thursday morning after the announcement that the House is officially drafting articles of impeachment, House Speaker and longtime Congresswoman from San Francisco Nancy Pelosi responded sternly to a reporter's question about whether she "hates" President Trump.
SF Politics Aging and Disabled Activists Gather at Mayor's Office to Protest for Housing Subsidies A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.
SF News East Bay Woman Mad About Son's Haircut Wanted For Ramming Barber With Her Car A 28-year-old Brentwood woman is suspected of violently ramming a barber in Antioch with her car after arguing with him over a bad haircut that he gave her son.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rebranding Project Begins For Transit Center A 25-year-old man was stabbed and gravely wounded in the Tenderloin Wednesday night, Kincade Fire victims may get property tax relief, and people are being warned not to drive to Tahoe on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Dies After Fall From Cliff At Lands End A Livermore man and woman were arrested on human trafficking charges, the Central Subway contractor is fighting over a rooftop park, and man has died after falling off a cliff at Land's End.
Arts & Entertainment Washington Square Park Reopens After Six-Month Renovation North Beach's jewel of a green space, Washington Square Park, reopens to the public today following a six-month rehab project by Rec & Parks that included upgraded irrigation and drainage systems.
Business & Tech It's Not Even Built Yet, But Downtown's 61-Story Oceanwide Center Is Already For Sale Chinese developer Oceanwide Holdings looks to be trying to exit the U.S. market, either partially or fully, putting its considerable development portfolio in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all on the market at once.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Being Sued By 20 Victims In Second Sexual-Assault Suit A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
SF News Former Coliseum Official Charged With Felony Over RingCentral Naming Deal The former CEO of the Oakland Coliseum Authority, who resigned in August amid claims that he was illegally trying to profit from a naming-rights deal with RingCentral, has now been charged with a felony.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo's Oldest Elephant Collapses and Dies Unexpectedly at Age 50 M'Dundamella, the eldest of the elephants at the Oakland Zoo and a resident there since 1993, collapsed inside her 6.5-acre habitat and was pronounced dead Tuesday afternoon of unknown causes. She had just turned 50 years old in September.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 49ers and Seahawks Vie For Playoff Spots The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is investigating two armed robberies last night, a new high-rise could become SF's fourth tallest building, and today's rain is just a light prelude to tomorrow's storm.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Co-Founders Step Down As Alphabet Chiefs Larry Page and Sergey Brin are ending remarkable two-decade careers by stepping down from their roles at Alphabet, the Tubbs Fire cause is again questioned, and closures begin at the Caldecott Tunnel.
SF News SF's Famous Tuesday Noon Sirens To Go Quiet For Two Years In order for the city to perform necessary upgrades to the Outdoor Public Warning System the regularly blaring sirens we're accustomed to hearing every Tuesday at noon will be going silent for the next two years.
SF News Petaluma Man Mistaken For Car Thief Gets Killed In Choke-Hold By Police An apparently disabled Petaluma man who had reported his car stolen and then not informed Sonoma County authorities that it had been found was forcibly removed from his vehicle last week, placed in a carotid hold, and accidentally killed.
Arts & Entertainment Adrian Grenier, Betty Gabriel, and Zoe Kazan Starring In Oakland-Based Thriller For Netflix A new Netflix limited series called 'Clickbait' is currently being shot in Melbourne, Australia, but the story is set in Oakland and centers on a missing persons case that's impacted by social media.
SF News California DMV Claims Walk-In Wait Times Are Now Half What They Were A Year Ago Ahead of the rush for Real IDs that's about to start, the notoriously unloved DMV says wait times for those without appointments are down 48 percent over last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchen Story Set to Open Korean-Themed Sequel In Oakland's Rockridge Restaurateur Hoyul Steven Choi is continuing on in building his Bay Area empire in the coming year, and the next addition to open will be a second location of Kitchen Story in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood — this time with more of a Korean focus rather than Thai.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Ends Presidential Run The shining moment now over and the financial and political realities setting in, California Senator Kamala Harris is calling off her campaign for the presidency as of today.
SF News Undocumented Suspect In Kate Steinle Shooting Returns to Court, Could Be Retried Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate is headed back to court today, two years after he was acquitted of all but a gun charge in the July 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle on San Francisco's Pier 14. And prosecutors will be announcing their decision either to retry him or to drop all charges against him.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Ghost Ship Landlords Can No Longer Be Criminally Charged Video shows the entirety of an altercation at Emeryville's Bay Street shopping center that injured a CHP officer, a new poop-cleaning program is getting announced today for the Tenderloin, and we're currently in a break between rainstorms.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CHP Officer Knocked Out By Teens In Emeryville Altercation A mother and her adult son were the two fatalities in a Sunday crash on 101, families and friends of Ghost Ship fire victims gather for a third-anniversary memorial concert, and looking at how the PG&E shutoffs impacted people and their medical devices.
