Business & Tech Uh-Oh: Reddit Says It Will Start to Paywall Some of Its Subreddits The free ride might be over soon for Reddit lovers, as the company’s CEO said on a Thursday ‘Ask Me Anything’ that they might start charging subscriptions for certain Subreddits.
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 Politics The Expected Mass Firing of Biden-Appointed US Attorneys Is Underway, Including Northern California’s The frankly expected firing of most US Attorneys appointed by Biden has come to pass, and our US Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail Ramsey just got the axe.
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.
Bay Area Sports Yes, Charles Barkley Is In San Francisco for NBA All-Star Weekend, and Local Fans Have Already Booed Him Despite NBA television personality Charles Barkley’s claim that he was “not going to that rat-infested place out in San Francisco” for the NBA All-Star Game, he is very much here, and was quickly booed on-air Thursday as he gleefully antagonized local fans.
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 Day Around the Bay: Rain Expected to Let Up by Noon Friday, Shouldn't Ruin Big Weekend Witnesses say they didn’t even hear police sirens before Sunday’s police car chase parklet crash; there will be no “men vs women” three-point shooting contest at the NBA All-Star festivities; and the rain has already canceled one NBA party but showers are expected to end.
SF Politics More San Mateo County Sheriff Drama; Deputies Accused of Sleeping on the Job, Allowing a Rape Behind Their Back There’s more soap opera developments with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, with two county judges sending a letter that deputies were sleeping or playing on their phones while watching prisoners, and allowed a rape while they weren’t looking.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Facing Eviction, the Birthplace of ‘Entwined’ and Other Burning Man Art Has Found a New Home The Hunters Point industrial arts space that gave birth to ‘Entwined’ and the Flaming Lotus Girls’ projects, known as the Box Shop, was just weeks from eviction. But the space has found a new home just about a mile away, and will remain here in San Francisco.
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 News Piedmont Undergrad Cybertruck Crash Victims Had Cocaine and Alcohol in Their Systems, Says Toxicology Report After an early morning Cybertruck crash in Piedmont killed three college sophomores in November, the Alameda County Coroner’s Office has determined that the driver and the two other victims had cocaine and alcohol in their systems.
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 Muni Is Free This Weekend, Because SF Really Doesn’t Want You Driving During NBA and Chinese New Year Events The blockbuster combination of both the NBA All-Star Game and the Lunar New Year Parade in SF this weekend has SFMTA making Muni free on Saturday and Sunday to limit traffic gridlock, and the little-used Chinatown Subway and T-Third will be in the spotlight.
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.
SF News Visitacion Valley Shooting Leaves One Injured, and It May Have Been a PG&E Contractor A shooting just before 1 pm some two blocks from McLaren Bike Park in Visitacion Valley has left one person hospitalized, and PG&E is saying that the victim may have been one of their contractors.
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.
SF News Unhoused Fairfax Woman Delays Clearing of Her Own Encampment With Lawsuit; Fremont Passes Strict New Ordinance Two Bay Area cities are going in different directions in battling encampments, as a Fairfax woman just won a delay on the clearing of her own encampment, while Fremont just passed a law that activists fear could illegalize handing cash or food to the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Two Transit Nerds Embark on Nine-County Odyssey to Ride All 24 Clipper Card Transit Services In 24 Hours These two youngsters with a big appetite for Bay Area public transit took on the task of seeing if they could ride all 24 Clipper Card-using transit agencies within a 24-hour period, and actually pulled it off by a hair.
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.
