SF News UC and Stanford Campus Systems Both Breached In Major Cyber Attack The rival schools have a new common enemy — the cybercriminals sending their students and faculty emails reading “Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."
SF News PG&E Slapped with Felony Criminal Charges Over 2019 Kincade Fire The Sonoma County district attorney has charged PG&E with 33 criminal counts — including five felonies — in light of findings that their transmission lines did cause the Kincade Fire.
SF Politics Fight Against Boudin’s Recall Gets $100,000 Gift From Gascón PAC Remember George Gascón? Both SF district attorney Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles DA Gascón face recall efforts, a pro-Gascón PAC has made a lavish contribution to help Boudin.
Bay Area Sports A’s Pitcher Hits Cheating Houston Astro With Pitch, Oakland Crowd Roars with Approval Fans don’t normally cheer wildly when a batter gets hit by a pitch, but the Houston Astros’ World Series cheating scandal is clearly on the minds of Oakland A’s fans.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Is On for 2021 — But Not 'Til Mid-September The now 22-year-old How Weird Street Faire is the latest to announce they will indeed be having an in-person celebration this year, but with some asterisks in their announcement.
Arts & Entertainment Springtime Palate Cleanser: ‘Swan Lake’ Outdoor Ballet on the SF Bay Another stunning outdoor ballet video from Post:ballet, as their interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ premieres today and pirouettes around the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Vaccine Hunters, Rejoice! New App Channel Aggregates Available Bay Area Appointments The MyTurn website is now accepting people ages 50 and up for vaccine appointments, but a new Telegram channel is blasting out available Bay Area vaccination appointments almost non-stop.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rash of Russian Hill Wine Burglaries Suggest We’ve Got a Wine Thief on the Prowl Two successful break-ins, plus another attempt, show a pattern where the perpetrator is interested in stealing Italian wine — while leaving cash and other valuables untouched.
Business & Tech SF No Longer the Top City for Tech Industry Office Space Leasing, Knocked Down Several Notches San Francisco is now No. 6 in an annual study where we'd perennially ranked No. 1, as we fall from the top five in terms of how much office space the tech industry is leasing here.
SF News FiDi Thieves Beat and Rob Elderly Man of Camera, as the Weekend Saw Something of a Robbery Spree Though robberies are down 28 percent compared to this time last year, the slow return of gatherings and semi-normalcy may bring back both petty and violent theft.
SF Politics A Third of All ‘Recall Chesa Boudin’ Donations Come From One Tech Donor In yet another case of a recall campaign being largely financially dependent on an individual tycoon, a third of the money going to the Chesa Boudin ouster attempt is financed by “PayPal Mafia” investor David Sacks.
Arts & Entertainment WATCH: Steph and Ayesha Curry Appear On ‘Sesame Street,’ Muppet High Jinks Ensue The latest episode of ‘Sesame Street’ has a very special guest appearance from Steph Curry, but Ayesha Curry and Cookie Monster steal the show.
SF News ‘Guaranteed Income’ Pilot Program for Struggling SF Artists Now Accepting Applications 130 San Francisco artists who live in zip codes “hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic” will be eligible for $1,000 a month under a Guaranteed Income Pilot program that opened for applications on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SFFILM Festival Announces 2021 Lineup, Which Will Be Streamed and Shown At the Drive-In SF’s homegrown film festival returns with 103 films from 41 countries, highlighted by the Oakland High-focused 'Homeroom,' a 'Sesame Street' documentary, and the first batch of COVID-19 and quarantine films.
SF News Hugely Inconvenient BART-Caltrain Transfer at Millbrae Just Became Less Inconvenient The lumbering up a set of stairs and across the concourse and down another set of stairs to transfer between BART and Caltrain is no longer necessary, thanks to a new modification.
Bay Area Sports ‘Last Stanford Wrestler’ Wins National Title After Program was Eliminated Stanford eliminated its wrestling program in July, but wrestlers finished out their season. Now one of them, Shane Griffith, just won the national championship.
SF Politics Recall Gavin Campaign Hastily Deletes ‘Chinese’ Virus Rhetoric From Website After getting called out for racist “Chinese” virus language on their website, the Recall Gavin Newsom effort has scrubbed the offending words — and it’s not the first time, either.
SF News Mountain View’s Moffett Field Nixed as Possible Shelter Site for Migrant Children A vacant NASA facility in Santa Clara County was on the list as a possible migrant children's shelter, but the feds removed it with little explanation.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tells Camps To Start Planning for Possible 2021 Event It’s not an announcement or confirmation, but the Burning Man Project has sent a “gentle nudge” to the biggest camps to start planning, and giving deadlines for those wanting prime placement.
SF News SFPD Vows There Will Be DUI Checkpoints Galore For St. Patrick’s Day You’ll want to avoid the paddy wagon on this St. Paddy’s Day, and SFPD promises you’re courtin’ trouble if you drive drunk because they’ll be out in force at checkpoints.
SF News Humpback Whale Arrives in SF Bay in Early March, Believed To Be Earliest Feeding Here Yet The resurging humpback whale scene usually starts in late April or May, but a few whale spottings in the SF Bay last week indicate their calendars may be springing forward.
SF News Good Samaritan Thwarts Safeway Carjacking of 75-Year-Old Woman When three female suspects assaulted an elderly woman and tried to steal her car Thursday night, a fellow Safeway shopper literally jumped onto the car to stop the caper.
SF News More of SF Eligible for Vaccine Monday: People With Health Issues, in Homeless Shelters, Incarcerated People with a whole range of medical conditions will be eligible for their vaccine shot effective Monday, March 15, as will anyone in a congregate care facility like a homeless shelter or jail.
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Movie and TV Production Scene is Heating Back Up The TV version of “Blindspotting” just wrapped shooting in Oakland, and a slew of new Hollywood productions are slated to shoot in SF and the greater Bay Area.
SF News California Murder Suspect Remains at Large After Police Let Him Go By Accident US Route 101 was shut down for an hour Tuesday near Hollywood after a murder suspect was mistakenly released, but LA sheriff's deputies still couldn’t find the guy, and he could be anywhere at this point.
