SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lunar New Year Celebration Draws Big Crowd A dragon drone show had to be canceled for Saturday's Chinese New Year celebration due to technical problems; protesters march from San Mateo to SF; and DOGE is accessing IRS records.
Arts & Entertainment 'Back to the Future: The Musical' Is a Kitchsy and Fun (If Forced) Take on the Classic Film The latest movie-to-musical adaptation to hit the national tour circuit is 'Back to the Future: The Musical,' and I may be in the minority among the theater-going public in wishing it was more than just a spectacle.
SF Politics Wingnuts Impersonating DOGE Officials Enter SF City Hall, Demand to 'See Files' Let the emboldened nutjob lunacy begin! Much like in the first year of Trump's first presidency, we can expect there to be uprisings and shenanigans here in the Bay Area by his — and Elon Musk's — emboldened acolytes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Behold Piccino Presidio Piccino Presidio debuts, Outer Orbit's future looks uncertain, and The Morris team branches out with a French-inspired spot in Oakland's Grand Lake, all in This Week in Food.
SF News 25-Year-Old Australian Woman Arrested at SFO With Alleged 20 Kilos of Meth An Australian woman says she was offered a free vacation to San Francisco if she agreed to transport a suitcase containing 20 kilos of methamphetamine.
SF News ICE Might Be Looking to Use Shuttered Dublin Women's Prison as Immigrant Detention Center The nightmare of undocumented immigrants being rounded up en masse into camps could be closer to reality than we think, as a rumor is now out there that ICE has been sniffing around FCI Dublin, the shuttered women's prison in the East Bay.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Landslides Temporarily Block 101-S Lanes In Marin Three separate landslides blocked multiple lanes of US 101 southbound in Sausalito Thursday night; PG&E posts another record profit; and TikTok is back in the Apple and Google app stores.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Felt In SF Comes After Series of Small Temblors In Hayward Is something happening on the Hayward Fault? We can't say if these are precursors to something bigger or just your average minor earthquake swarm. But the Hayward Fault has been moving today.
SF News Armed Assault In San Rafael Leads to Police Chase, Arrests In San Francisco San Rafael police chased some allegedly armed suspects across the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, ultimately making three arrests on Presidio Parkway after the suspects' car experienced engine failure.
SF Politics In Typical Fashion, Trump Now Spreading Lies About the California Vote Count In 2024 Trump naturally doesn't like anyone to point out the margin by which he won the 2024 election, which was very small, and now he's trying to blame the vote count in California.
SF News As Water Levels Rise, NorCal's Largest Dams Put Spillways Into Action The two largest reservoirs in California, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, have been nearing capacity in recent weeks, and so their giant spillways are back in use, releasing millions of gallons of water.
SF News Evacuation Order Issued In Santa Cruz and More Impacts From the Latest Rain Flood Advisories have been issued for western Sonoma County, San Francisco, San Jose, and the Big Sur coast, and the rising San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz has led to the evacuation of the Felton Grove area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: RFK Jr. Is Our New Health Secretary A rescue crew came to the aid of a driver who went off a road on Mt. Hamilton; the PG&E contractor shot on Wednesday in SF was shot in the leg; and, insanely, the Senate has confirmed RFK Jr. as our new Health Secretary.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teslas In Humboldt County Get Anti-Nazi Flyers Put On Them Tesla owners in Arcata have been receiving some vaguely threatening flyers; BART says it is prepared for All Star Game Weekend and Chinese New Year Parade crowds; and the Burke Williams Day Spa is now leaving the SF Centre mall.
SF News Two Women Charged For Sunday Crash Into Napper Tandy Parklet on 24th The two women who were in the allegedly stolen SUV that crashed into the Napper Tandy's parklet in the Mission District on Super Bowl Sunday, injuring seven people, have now been charged.
Arts & Entertainment A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Parlor Pops Up, and More Excitement On Powell Street For All-Star Game Weekend The usually beleaguered, largely vacant first couple blocks of Powell Street will suddenly come back to life this weekend, as all of Union Square becomes a hub of activity linked to the All-Star Game, which is being played Sunday at the Chase Center.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Still Says She's Innocent, Gives Prison Interview to 'People' Magazine Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes still maintains her innocence, and apparently she saw a reason to give an interview to People Magazine that's out this week, trying to un-tarnish her reputation, or something.
SF News Felon on Parole Allegedly Carrying Meth For Sale Leads Police on Chase, Tries to Hide In East Bay Casino A man fleeing from Vallejo police last weekend led the cops on a multi-county pursuit into the East Bay, where he reportedly ran into a casino in San Pablo in an attempt to escape from arrest.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Held In Fatal East Bay Crash A 36-year-old man is on a mental health hold after allegedly killing a woman with his car Monday in Hayward; conservationists fight a development plan on San Bruno Mountain; and the rain is moving in today after 4 pm but will be heaviest overnight.
SF News SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder Asks SFPD For Answers About Chase That Led to Sunday's Crash One new SF supervisor is pressing the SFPD for answers about the latest example that left seven people injured.
SF Politics Biden's Medicaid Chief Daniel Tsai Appointed to Lead SF's Department of Public Health Seeking refuge from the current Trump era in Washington, a former Biden administration health official has just landed a job in SF's Lurie administration.
SF News BART Says 'Fiscal Cliff' Is Coming Next Year, and They Obviously Won't See More Federal Funding A day after BART was touting rising ridership numbers and a drop in crime, the transit agency is warning the public that its much discussed "fiscal cliff" is set to arrive in 2026, absent new funding sources.
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Murder Distances Himself From 'Zizian' Cult, Suggests He Is Primarily Motivated By Veganism It may not get us any further in understanding actual motive in the case of a January murder in Vallejo, but we now have an extended statement from the suspect in the case.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: More Flu Deaths Than COVID Deaths This Winter In CA The rain will arrive a little earlier than previously forecast this week, starting late Tuesday night; more people have died from the flu than from COVID in CA for the first time since 2020; and Trump is looking to destroy The Kennedy Center now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Why Was the SFPD Chasing That SUV on Sunday? Many are questioning why the SFPD was engaging in a high-speed chase on Super Bowl Sunday in the Mission; a reportedly naked man was arrested for starting a fire in the Mission Monday; and more Trump-created chaos in DC.
