Business & Tech Vaping Illnesses Linked To THC Pod Additive Vitamin E Acetate For the first time since the outbreak of lung illnesses associated with e-cigarettes earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control says it has identified a specific ingredient as a "very strong culprit": Vitamin E acetate.
Arts & Entertainment Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Gets Huge Mural In Downtown SF The face of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is going up on the side of a building near Union Square, and the artist painting is hoping a band will donate their services for an unveiling ceremony.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: First Orinda Shooting Lawsuit Is Filed The jury in the trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat is going into their ninth day of deliberations, BART service to San Jose may begin in December, and Elizabeth Holmes just won a small battle over evidence in court.
SF News Day Around The Bay: NRA Drops Its Lawsuit Against San Francisco Airbnb has agreed to pay for Orinda victim funerals, Suzy Loftus has a 879-vote lead in the DA's race, and Lyft's e-bikes are returning in force next month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Testmatch' at ACT's Strand Theater Is a Strange But Satisfying Lens on Cricket ACT's latest production is a world premiere by an American- and British-trained playwright about the game of cricket, in particular women's cricket, and it spans three centuries and two continents in a brisk 90 minutes.
SF News Michael Bloomberg Is Prepping a Possible Presidential Bid, Filing Paperwork For At Least One Primary Former New York City mayor and self-made billionaire Michael Bloomberg is reportedly inching toward declaring his candidacy for the 2020 presidential campaign, and is making moves that include filing paperwork calling himself a candidate in the Democratic race in the Alabama primary.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Project Kicks Off With Pelosi In Attendance, Completion Due in 2021 The official "groundmaking" ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the process of building and landscaping what will create 14 acres of parkland over the top of the 101 freeway tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the Presidio to Crissy Field.
Business & Tech Two Former Twitter Employees Accused of Spying For Saudi Arabia The U.S. government has accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia via their access to sensitive Twitter user data.
SF News Shooting At Sixth and Market Injures One, Shatters Window of Nearby Restaurant A shooting Thursday morning near the intersection of Market, Sixth Street, Taylor, and Golden Gate Avenue has left one person injured, and at least one bullet hit the window at Dosa Allee (1020 Market).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Gets Chain-Store Exemption To Move Into Hayes Valley It'll probably be two years before the store opens, but Hayes Valley is finally going to get a grocery store as Trader Joe's won its formula-retail exemption from the Board of Supervisors this week to move into 555 Fulton.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Stock Tanks On Latest Losses Newsom has closed-door meeting with PG&E CEO, Alphabet's board is wrapping up a sexual misconduct investigation of some executives, and Suzy Loftus has extended her lead in the DA's race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Angers Police Officers Association The Kincade Fire is 100 percent contained, 42 people have been shot at short-term rentals in 6 months, and Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer has angered the police union.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Wants To Be Your Mom, Provocateur, and High Priestess in 'Madame X' Tour, and It's A Lot "Are you all starting to get it?" Madonna asked from the stage, at least several times, to a fawning, screaming audience whom she treated more like a kindergarten classroom than who they were — a crowd of mostly middle-aged fans.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Legend Heklina Announces She's Moving On From Oasis, Ending 'Mother' It's the end of an era as one of San Francisco's queen bee drag queens says she needs a "break" and is stepping back from her ownership role at the SoMa nightclub she helped found almost five years ago.
SF News Orinda Shooting Prompts Town To Change Rental Rules, Airbnb To Vet Guests The Halloween shooting that cost five people their lives at an unsanctioned party in an Orinda Airbnb has led the city council to enact a 45-day emergency ban on all un-hosted short-term rentals.
SF News Dangerous Monterey County Inmates Nabbed At Mexico Border A pair of inmates who escaped prison in Monterey County on Sunday clearly didn't have much of a plan for evading capture. While they appear to have succeeded in the cliche flight to Mexico, they were caught by authorities trying to cross back into the U.S. from Tijuana around midnight last night.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Someone Brought a Pony On BART A pony appeared on BART Tuesday, and this delighted many people on Twitter.
SF Politics With 70,000 Ballots Left to Count, Props A and D May Still Fail The too-close-to-call races for San Francisco district attorney and District 5 Supervisor will not be decided until some 70,000 mail-in and provisional ballots get counted this week. And if Props A and D don't hold onto their 66.66 percent majorities, they will not pass.
SF Politics Election Results: Affordable Housing Bond Passes, Prop C Dies, DA's Race and D5 Too Close To Call Just over 23 percent of registered San Francisco voters mailed in ballots or went to polling places on Tuesday. And while Mayor London Breed and her $600 million housing bond measure both won easily, a couple of the races remain in ranked-choice limbo as of Wednesday morning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Mayor Breed Declares Victory The Kincade Fire hits 88 percent containment, a CHP officer pulls a woman out of a burning car in Dublin, and residents packed the Orinda City Council meeting to debate short-term rentals after that shooting.
SF News Day Around The Bay: One Escaped Inmate Possibly Found In Motel 6 Near Salinas The CA DMV revealed private info on 3200 people to federal agencies, one of two of those escaped murder suspects has likely been located in a motel, and BART is recovering from a brief but major delay in the East Bay direction.
SF Politics Here's How to Find Your Polling Place in San Francisco — Go Vote! I know, this is just a local election and the stakes could hardly be lower in most people's minds. But this is basically the first time that San Francisco is electing a new
SF News Mike Pence Is Stopping Through The Bay Area and Monterey Next Week Our extra-special right-wing vice-president Mike Pence is making a couple of Republican fundraising stops in California next week, and dropping by the San Francisco Bay Area for a quick, not-easily-protested speaking engagement.
SF News Massive Junk Lot and Encampment In West Oakland Gets Cleaned Out, Evicting 100 Homeless A major project began Tuesday morning to transform a four-acre parcel of private land in West Oakland from a homeless encampment and automotive dumping ground into a city-sanctioned RV- and vehicle-parking area for the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Bear Get Himself Un-Stuck From a Tahoe Dumpster A black bear known to local authorities as "T-Shirt" got himself trapped in a dumpster in the North Lake Tahoe town of King's Beach early Monday morning.
