SF News Hundreds Show Up To Protest Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley, Seven Arrested As expected, there was a good deal of anger and protest Wednesday night about white nationalist sympathizer Ann Coulter showing up on the Berkeley campus to promote her four-year-old book about why immigration is bad.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Issues All Clear A woman was robbed outside South Hayward BART a day after a murder happened there, a bomb was found at a high school in San Jose, and SF may someday be able to purify it wastewater for drinking.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Recall Effort Begins For Sup. Sandra Fewer The victim in Tuesday's BART stabbing has been identified, the Page Street shortcut to Octavia is getting shut down, and Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid is retiring after 23 years.
SF News Berkeley Campus Braces For Potential Protest Chaos As Ann Coulter Arrives Conservative opportunist Ann Coulter has landed in the Bay Area for a speaking engagement at UC Berkeley — making good on her promise to set foot in the home of the Free Speech Movement, albeit two years late.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan-Friendly Middle Eastern Restaurant Saha Reopens In the Tenderloin After Three-Year Stint In Berkeley A well-loved, semi-secret spot for Middle Eastern tapas, lamb curry, and plenty of vegan options, Saha Restaurant, has returned to San Francisco to the same spot in the Hotel Carlton where it had been for 12 years before closing in 2016.
Arts & Entertainment How to Watch the Rare 'Unicorn' Meteor Storm Thursday Night A meteor shower happening on Thursday, November 21 could turn into a meteor storm with hundreds of meteors per hour streaking across the sky. The rare meteor burst known as the alpha Monocerotids is set to potentially give a flashier than usual show like one that was seen 24 years ago.
SF News 50 Alleged Norteño Gang Members Arrested In Stockton, Drugs and Guns Seized Following a spike in violence and a three-month joint investigation by multiple state and local law enforcement agencies, 50 people were arrested this week in Stockton who are believed to be part of the notorious Norteño street gang.
SF News Rain and Hail Possible Around Thanksgiving In the Bay Area Our very first winter storm may be arriving in the middle of next week, just in time to mess up Thanksgiving travel, and it may feature thunder, hail, and even some snow.
SF News AIDS Memorial Quilt To Return To San Francisco Next Month The 32-year-old AIDS Memorial Quilt, all 50,000+ panels of it, will be returning home to San Francisco in December, apparently for good.
SF News Shoeless Sacramento Man Suspected of Murder On BART Train In Hayward A grisly murder occurred Tuesday afternoon in front of multiple witnesses on a Warm Springs-bound BART train, and it allegedly stemmed from an attempted theft of a sleeping man's shoes.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 90,000 Lose Power In North Bay A house fire in the Outer Sunset, Orinda's city council votes to abolish un-hosted Airbnbs, and Fodor's tells tourists to stop coming to Big Sur.
Business & Tech Twitter Gets Pushback On Its 'Minefield' Of a Political Ad Policy Twitter fleshed out its rather convoluted new policy for political ads on Friday, and it was met with immediate criticism, skepticism, and outright bafflement from both sides of the political spectrum.
SF News Despite No Weather Changes, PG&E Changes Its Mind Again About Alameda County, Lamorinda Shutoffs The messaging game remains fraught with flip-flopping over at PG&E as the company announced Tuesday afternoon that conditions are "changing" and some 12,000 power customers in Alameda County who were told Monday they'd be losing power Wednesday are now not expected to do so.
SF News Four People In Guy Fawkes Masks Arrested After Scaring Families At West Sonoma Self-Help Retreat Four freaky souls with an apparent vendetta against the Berkeley-based Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) donned Guy Fawkes masks and hooded robes as they blockaded the entrance to a Sonoma retreat venue the group was using for an alumni weekend on Friday.
SF News San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties Added to PG&E Shutoff List Three more counties were added early Tuesday to the list of those with residents and businesses who will be potentially impacted by a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) set to begin early Wednesday.
SF News Number Of Homeless In SF Could Be More Than Double the Point-In-Time Count According to city data on individuals who seek healthcare and other services, the number of homeless in San Francisco jumped 30 percent between 2018 and 2019 — and the total number was more than twice the number counted in the January homeless census.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New South Bay BART Stations Won't Open In December A standoff ends peacefully in San Jose, steam from a power plant caused some panic in Crockett, and BART is once again disappointing everyone with a new delay on the Milpitas and Berryessa station openings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Charges Filed For Orinda Shooting Suspects The Alameda County DA's office has announced charges in a 22-year-old sexual assault case, PG&E is testing technology that would reduce the need for shutoffs, and there are no charges being filed against the five men arrested last week in the Halloween shooting case.
SF News Shortened Sutro Tower Antenna Getting Replaced To Support 5G, KGO-TV You may have noticed recently — as I did walking toward the Castro — that one of the antenna towers on Sutro Tower looks like it broke off. But it's actually just getting replaced with a new one with higher-tech antennas inside.
Arts & Entertainment Moviegoers Revolt As Local Century and Cinemark Theaters Crack Down On No-Backpack Policy A backpack and large bag ban that's been officially in place for almost two years at the Cinemark/Century cinema chain has apparently been getting enforced more vigorously in the Bay Area in recent months according to various reports from disgruntled theater-goers.
Arts & Entertainment Don't Be Fooled By These Real-Looking AirPod Stickers Being 'Dropped' On SF Streets An artist and prankster is having some fun with Apple-product-adoring San Franciscans, leaving life-size, realistic-looking AirPod stickers on sidewalks and streets in an effort to hoodwink unsuspecting passers-by into reaching for them.
SF News Accused Chinese Spy In Bay Area Linked To Possible Hotel Scheme Involving Chinese Investors In newly released, partially redacted search warrants in the federal prosecution of a Hayward man for Chinese-backed espionage, there's a new wrinkle being revealed involving the purchases of $20 million worth of hotel properties in and around the Bay Area.
SF News Oakland/Berkeley Hills and Part of Contra Costa County Added to PG&E Shutoff Map For Wednesday As should be expected, the impacts of a still-in-planning Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) by PG&E on November 20 are a moving target, and now we're learning that Alameda and Contra Costa County are in the mix.
SF Politics Multiple Transit Directors Nationwide Reportedly Turned Down SFMTA Job A few days after learning that Mayor Breed had named her pick for SFMTA chief, we're hearing that a few people with more direct experience leading urban transit agencies may have scoffed at the job after seeing how Breed treated Ed Reiskin.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Airbnb Becomes Olympics Sponsor A Palo Alto city worker died in an electrical accident Saturday, a Valencia ice cream shop is offering a reward to catch a vandal, and there was severe traffic on eastbound I-80 this morning due to a fatal crash.
