SF News Helmet Cam Video Captures Near-Death Tahoe Ski Stunt Gone Wrong, as Skier Nearly Suffocates Immersed in Snow This daring ski jump and flip nearly turned fatal at Palisades Tahoe, and the skier’s helmet cam video is both exhilarating and absolutely terrifying.
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest 2022 Postponed Indefinitely Due to — Well, You Know Why The delayed 20th anniversary of the comedy festival Sketchfest is delayed yet again, but organizers insist “Hang on to your tickets!” for a future rescheduling.
SF News King Tides Set to Gush Hard Over Seawalls New Year's Day; Localized Flooding Possible Seven-foot tides will start hitting shores Saturday, and continue through the weekend, as the King Tides will roar in the new year and perhaps bring a little flooding with them.
SF News Top UCSF Doc Says That We Could Be in ‘A Pretty Good Situation in February’ Where COVID Is ‘Like the Flu’ An optimistic but data-rich tweetstorm from UCSF Department of Medicine chair Dr. Bob Wachter lays out the case that we could be on the verge of finally subduing the COVID-19 menace, albeit after a very rough January.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crazy-Wet December Could Help Drought Recovery The New Year’s Eve event cancellations are rolling in, Tahoe is a mess but people keep driving there anyway, but the flip side is that snowpack levels are looking shockingly encouraging.
SF News Selling ‘Meth by the Pound’ Nets Local Man Nine-Year Prison Sentence The sentence may have been for more than just selling meth, though, as 48-year-old Andrew Quintero also skipped bail with 28 grand in cash, a gun, and more meth.
SF News Millennium Tower Engineers Propose New Fix After Last Fix Backfired, Caused More Sinking The infamous sinking luxury tower is now tilting 26 inches, after a previous fix caused even more leaning, so engineers are instituting yet another controversial new fix.
Arts & Entertainment Should We Go to That Big SF New Year’s Party? We Asked Leading UCSF Doctors Several New Year’s events with hundreds or even thousands of guests are still planning to pop the corks. Infectious disease experts worry this means we’ll drop the ball and ring in new superspreader-y times.
SF News Santa Rosa Rideshare Stabbing Suspect Found Just Strolling Golden Gate Bridge A 19-year-old Santa Rosa man accused of stabbing his rideshare driver in the neck and elbow on Christmas Day has been arrested after being apprehended walking along the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NFL Legend John Madden Has Died An SF navigation center has seen an outbreak of nearly 50 COVID-19 cases, today may prove to be historically cold, and former Raiders coach and beloved NFL broadcaster John Madden has passed away.
SF News Breaking: SF Cancels New Year’s Eve Fireworks Display Amidst Skyrocketing COVID-19 Case Count The official New Year’s Eve fireworks display was abruptly canceled late Tuesday afternoon, and don’t be surprised if other planned New Year’s Eve parties start getting canceled en masse over the next 48 hours.
SF Politics Local Man Can Be Criminally Prosecuted For ‘Slash Your Throat’ Message to Mitch McConnell, Court Rules A federal appeals court has ruled that criminal charges can apply to a Bay Area man who emailed Mitch McConnell saying “the resistance is coming to DC to slash your throat,” and “You will die in the street,” along with some other choice profanities.
SF News Muni and Caltrain Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Hours Extended (But Still Full Price) Both Muni and Caltrain will offer free service on New Year's Eve, and while BART will not be free, they’re running an extra 1 a.m. train.
Business & Tech DoorDash Engineers Furious They Have to Deliver Food Once a Month The delivery service DoorDash is requiring employees with cushy desk jobs to perform a couple deliveries every month. Some of the cushy-desk-job types are throwing fits about it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CDC Lowers COVID-19 Isolation Period to Five Days for the Asymptomatic Oakland is beefing up police presence around Lake Merritt, Google will pay a $13 million settlement for stealing people's WiFi passwords, and the COVID-19 isolation period has been reduced to five days — but only if you’re asymptomatic.
SF Politics New State Assembly District Redraws Are In, Committee Scraps 'Majority-White' AD-17 Map The final redistricting maps are in, and the assembly district David Campos and Matt Haney are running for is slightly reconfigured, but not as whitewashed as originally proposed.
SF News Two Highway Patrol Officers Injured in Bay Point When SUV Plows Into Them After chasing down a blue Subaru Outback early Sunday morning in Bay Point, two officers got out of their cruisers to arrest the suspect. The suspect promptly mowed them down and drove off.
SF News Quelle Surprise! Cruise Ships Once Again Walloped With COVID-19 Outbreaks, Passengers Can’t Disembark In another sign of wealth absolutely not correlating with intelligence, multiple cruise ships are swimming in COVID-19, as outbreaks among passengers and crew have ships of fools unable to disembark at their destinations.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary California Painter Wayne Thiebaud Has Died at 101 Thiebaud’s paintings of cakes, pinball machines, and cityscapes have fetched up to $40 million, and the painter who passed away on Christmas Day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Farm ‘Strikes Black Truffle Gold’ After Nearly a Decade of Trying After nine years and millions invested in trying, a family has grown the first-ever black truffle to sprout in Geyserville, and these Sonoma County truffles may soon be a mainstay in northern California fine dining.
Arts & Entertainment This SF-Invented Toy is Getting Its Own Animated TV Series Fidget toy the Tangle was invented in 1980 here in the city, and 250 million units sold later, will be anthropomorphized into the the star of an upcoming animated children’s television show.
SF News Pier 39 Sports Bar a Textbook Example of How Government Screwed Up COVID Relief for Restaurants The feds offered $28.6 billion in grants to struggling restaurants this summer. Then they yanked the carpet out from restaurants that had already been awarded the money, and gave it to chains like Panera instead.
SF News Supervisors Give Breed Her Tenderloin Emergency Declaration in Late-Night 12:30 a.m. Christmas Eve Vote London Breed got her Tenderloin ‘State of Emergency’ declaration approved by the Board of Supervisors, in a contentious ten-and-a-half hour meeting that stretched into the early hours of Christmas Eve.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Fire Station With Snow Machine, Giant Santa, and Minions Wins SFFD Holiday Decorations Contest The votes are in, and the 25th Street fire station with a snow machine has won the 2021 San Francisco Fire Station Holiday Decorations Contest in a white-out.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor London Breed Has a Cameo in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Keep an eye out for SF mayor London Breed making a brief appearance near the end of ‘The Matrix Resurrections,’ and yes, she is wearing goth black leather and high-fashion sunglasses.