Business & Tech The Old Twitter Building Bird Logo Sign Is Up for Auction, But You Have to Pay for the Shipping The very large, old Twitter bird logo that used to be attached to the building's former Market Street headquarters is on the auction block and hoping to fetch $40,000, but you’ll have to pay the shipping on the 12-foot, 560-pound piece.
Business & Tech All-Day Internet Outage Affecting Comcast Customers Across SF Xfinity/Comcast customers lost internet, phone, and TV service Monday morning around 10 am. And an initial promise of service restoration by 1 pm has now been updated to 8 pm.
SF News Several Big Corporate Sponsors Decline to Participate In SF Pride This Year, Because Trump Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, and booze conglomerate Diageo are among the corporations that are backing away from supporting San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebrations this year, marking some shameful fair-weather-friend behavior in a time of frightening fascist action.
SF News Napa Mother Charged and Arrested for DUI After Sunday Morning Crash That Killed Her Two Children A 31-year-old Napa woman was allegedly under the influence and speeding when she crashed her car into a tree Sunday morning, killing her own ten-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.
SF News Man Found Dead In San Mateo County Jail Was Convicted In Street-Racing Death of Couple A man who was serving time for the vehicular manslaughter deaths of a Redwood City couple, stemming from a 2022 street-racing incident with a teenager, was found dead over the weekend in his cell.
SF News Mural at Great Highway Park Defaced Just After Highway Was Closed Permanently The Sunset District did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for their new car-free Great Highway, as on the very first night of its new car-free status, a mural in the park was vandalized in what may have been an act of protest.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Promises 'New Era of Accountability' In New Homelessness Plan SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a new executive order Monday and announcing an ambitious plan for tackling the combined crises of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health, which includes holding nonprofits more accountable for outcomes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Schumer Postpones Book Tour That Would Have Brought Him to SF VTA workers are entering their second week of a strike; BART Red Line service between SFO and Millbrae is suspended; and Chuck Schumer is postponing his book tour over "security concerns."
Arts & Entertainment 'Justice For Heklina' Protest To Take Place In London On March 31 Local drag icon Peaches Christ is organizing a protest in London on March 31 as part of an ongoing effort to push the investigation forward into the 2023 death of longtime friend and creative partner, Heklina.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Free Tulips, ‘Screaming Queens’, Bikes & Books, Burlesque, Game Fest This week, March 17-23: The annual free tulip event will be at Union Square; Roxie's having a one-night screening of the Compton Cafeteria riot doc, 'Screaming Queens'; plus, bikes and books, a burlesque extravaganza, and a free game fest.
SF News Juvenile Too Young For A License Leads Police On Chase Through Vallejo Streets A Vallejo youth who was reportedly below legal driving age was pursued by police on Friday after the juvenile was seen speeding through a red light in a stolen vehicle, causing several near-collisions.
SF News Sunday Links: Stranded Astronauts Set To Return Home This Week The astronauts who've been stranded in space for several months are getting picked up by a new crew; the Nintendo store is bringing its second US location to Powell Street; and an American influencer apologized for snatching a baby wombat from its mom in Australia.
SF News Mendocino Woman Claims Her Father Is A Serial Killer, FBI Won’t Pursue Case [Update] A series of Facebook posts have been circulating this weekend written by a Mendocino County woman urging the FBI to take on the case she says she's compiled against her elderly father, a prominent local doctor, asserting that he's a confessed serial killer spanning decades.
SF News Public Works Deflects From Overflowing City Trash Can Complaints With Announcement of $12,000 ’Slim Silhouette’ Relaunch When Supervisor Danny Sauter requested more trash cans in his district, Public Works deflected by announcing the relaunch of the costly Slim Silhouette to replace existing ‘90s-era cans already on the streets, but they’re not adding additional trash cans to the mix, which doesn't solve the shortage.
SF News Transit Groups To Rally Against Muni Service Cuts At City Hall On Tuesday Local community groups will be rallying in front of City Hall next Tuesday morning prior to SFMTA’s board meeting in the afternoon when the board will make its final decision on Muni service cuts.
SF News Saturday Links: Tesla Driver Arrested For DUI After Crashing Into Muni Train, Destroying Transit Stop A Tesla driver who crashed into a Muni train was arrested under suspicion of driving while intoxicated; helicopters have been banned from Washington DC airport; and a Walnut Creek nine-year-old is the youngest person to complete a BART speedrun.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pinole Teen Caught With Loaded Gun At School A Pinole high school student was reportedly caught with a loaded gun at school and then fled police; Bay Area health officials urge residents to get the measles vaccine if they haven't already; and State Farm has been given the go-ahead to increase California customers' rates.
Arts & Entertainment St. Patrick's Day Weekend Is Here to Green You Up and Black You Out, With These Parties and Parades Your big days to go out and get Blarney-stoned for St. Patrick’s Day are Saturday at the parade and big downtown celebrations, and real St. Patrick’s Day Monday for the legendary Front Street bar block parties.
SF News RFK Jr. Apparently Coming After Poppers Manufacturers Because of a Long-Discredited AIDS Conspiracy Theory The circus continues out of Trump's Washington, where clown-car cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now apparently wielding the power of the FDA to go after manufacturers of amyl nitrate, or poppers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Turtle Tower Daytrip returns as a counter-service operation, Turtle Tower returns in new downtown digs, and finally we have a replacement restaurant moving into the former Petit Crenn, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Man Charged In Brutal Throat-Slashing Murder at SoMa Hotel It's not clear why it took almost five months to file charges, but a suspect has now been formally charged in an October murder that took place inside a hotel on Seventh Street in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Reality TV Sendup 'Nobody Loves You' at ACT Is Witty, Sharp, and Entirely Lovable The modern musical hasn't ever tackled the ubiquitous phenomenon that is reality television, maybe because the two worlds seem like they'd be incompatible. But Nobody Loves You, which just opened at ACT Wednesday, proves they can be a match made in Broadway heaven.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Hits His 4,000th Career Three-Pointer, On the Eve of His 37th Birthday Today is Steph Curry’s birthday, but his gift came Thursday night, as he became the only player ever in NBA history to hit 4,000 three-point shots, just piling up more numbers for the man who already holds the record for the most three-pointers ever.
SF News Owner of Scandal-Plagued Specialty Towing Now Indicted for Setting Competitors' Tow Trucks on Fire Here's some next-level scandal for the Bayview-based tow truck firm Specialty Towing, as its owner was just indicted for committing arson on competitors' tow trucks, crimes totally unrelated to the company's previous charges of fraudulent tows and fake car accidents.
SF News SFUSD Avoids Teacher Layoffs Thanks to Early Retirements In a rare bit of good news for the San Francisco Unified School District and its ongoing budget woes, the jobs of at least 100 teachers have been saved thanks to other teachers taking early retirement incentive packages.
