Arts & Entertainment 'The Hills of California' Tells the Story of English Sisters and the Stage Mother Who Raised Them As they gather to await the death of their hard-charging, ambitious stage mother, three sisters, and then a fourth, estranged sister, parse through their past in playwright Jez Butterworth's 'The Hills of California,' now playing at Berkeley Rep.
SF News Oakland DMV That Was Ransacked by Copper Wire Thieves to Reopen Monday After Seven-Month Closure A copper wire theft job at the Oakland Coliseum DMV ended up wrecking the HVAC system and flooding the place, leading to a seven-month repair job, but that DMV office will open again on Monday.
SF News SFO Sees Ground Stop Early Friday, and 45 Canceled Flights Amid FAA-Ordered Traffic Reduction San Francisco International Airport was seeing widespread delays, though not extreme ones, Friday morning, and a ground stop of over four hours was ordered for incoming flights that began at 4 am.
SF News Alleged Peeping Tom Charged With Trespassing and Burglary at UC Berkeley Sorority House A 45-year-old Dublin man is charged with peeping and loitering inside a UC Berkeley sorority house, as well as stealing residents’ underwear. Then a search of his home turned up an assault rifle and 900 rounds of ammunition.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California SNAP Recipients See EBT Cards Filled Millions of California SNAP recipients woke up to full EBT cards Friday; Safeway is closing another Bay Area store; and RVs were seen getting towed en masse in SF's Bayview on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bruce Bochy Likely Returning to the Giants in a Front Office Advisory Role Journey is doing a farewell tour that won’t come to SF; the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE officer was found not guilty; and Bruce Bochy is on the verge of returning to the Giants in an executive advisory position.
SF News San Mateo County Reveals Seven Candidates for New Sheriff, Three are Current or Former SFPD Cops The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has whittled it down to seven candidates to fill their open county sheriff position, and two of them are former SFPD cops, while one is still an active SF police officer.
Business & Tech OpenAI Not Looking at an IPO Anytime Soon, CFO Says OpenAI, which had previously been thought to be looking at an IPO in the next two years, may be holding off on that plan, according to comments made Wednesday by the company's CFO.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Wants to Open One of Those Tesla Diners in the Bay Area Well look who wants to open a business in California now, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk says it “makes sense” to build one of his Tesla Diner locations in Palo Alto, in addition to the one that opened in LA this summer.
SF News United and Delta Say That Mostly Regional Flights Out of SFO Will Be Impacted By Air Traffic Restrictions Airlines are telling passengers Thursday not to worry too much about pending air-traffic restrictions stemming from the shutdown and ongoing strain on the nation's air traffic controllers. But if you're scheduled to take a shorter, regional flight, you may be impacted.
SF Politics Justice Jackson Chides Fellow Supreme Court Justices for Having 'Misunderstood the Assignment' In Trans Passport Case The Supreme Court's conservative majority issued an emergency order Thursday allowing the Trump administration to stop issuing passports for trans people with their stated gender identity on them, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has again made her disgusted feelings known in a dissent.
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Ice Rink Now Back Open, Macy’s Holiday Tree Coming Back This Tuesday The Union Square Holiday Ice Rink officially reopened for the holly jolly season Wednesday night, and mark your calendars, because the giant Macy’s Christmas tree is getting lit up next Tuesday night.
SF News Former Dream Keeper Chief and Human Rights Commission Director Sheryl Davis Hit With Array of Ethics Charges The San Francisco Ethics Commission has now formally accused former Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis of a range of ethics violations that may also amount to illegal acts involving improper gifts and conflicts of interest.
SF Politics Lurie Names New D4 Supervisor as Engardio’s Replacement: Largely Unknown Isabella ‘Beya’ Alcaraz We now have a new District 4 supervisor taking the place of Joel Engardio, as Mayor Lurie has named former pet shop owner, music and arts teacher, and lifelong Sunset resident Isabella ‘Beya’ Alcaraz to the seat.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Says She'll Retire After 2026 As has been mostly expected, Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will not seek reelection next year, leaving San Francisco's House seat open for the first time in 40 years.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Tahoe Likely to See Early-Season Snow Next Week The Sierra is likely to see some snow next week (and we will get rain); a person was struck by a BART train in Oakland Wednesday evening; and thieves stole dozens of rose bushes from Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 68-Year-Old Sailor Rescued In Bay During Morning Storm A 68-year-old sailboater required rescue early Wednesday off Alameda; the Killers have been added to the pre-Super Bowl lineup of concerts in SF; and a UPS cargo plane went down in a fiery crash in Louisville.
Business & Tech Alleged SoCal Tech Burglar Crew Charged With Stealing $22 Million Worth of Gear From Bay Area Companies A crew of six Southern California men has been charged with heists targeting Nvidia and Apple shipments, where they allegedly broke into warehouses or robbed delivery trucks of their high-priced contents.
SF News FAA Swears They’ll Cut US Air Flights by 10% This Week Because of the Government Shutdown Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the Trump administration will start cutting US airline flight capacity by 10% starting Friday thanks to the government shutdown, though it’s unclear whether SFO flights will be affected.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ingka Centres, Which Manages the IKEA Mall, Is Dropping Their Food Hall Operator In a further indication that all is not so well with Saluhall, the food hall at SF's still newish IKEA mall, the parent company Ingka Centres is dropping the British operator of the food hall that they've been working with for a year and a half.
Arts & Entertainment Muni Gussies Up 49-Van Ness Buses With Holiday Wraparound Decorative Furbishing Look how freakin’ festive the 49-Van Ness bus will look for the holidays, with snowflakes, mittens, wrapped gifts, and more. But is that… a Christmas coyote near the front left wheel?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sons & Daughters Debuts New Digs, In the Former Osito Space, This Weekend Michelin two-starred restaurant Sons & Daughters, which transitioned in recent years from modern California cuisine to New Nordic under executive chef and co-owner Harrison Cheney, is about to transition again into much larger, swankier digs in the Mission District.
SF News SF Man Found Guilty of Murdering 88-Year–Old Grandmother in Vis Valley Park, Plus Many Other Robberies, Carjackings The suspect in the fatal beating of 88-year–old grandmother Yik Oi Huang has just been found guilty, and for good measure, he was also found guilty of robbing her house afterward, plus a slew of other robberies and carjackings.
SF Politics Fairfax Mayor Appears to Survive Recall Effort Amid Fight Over Downtown Development An effort to recall the mayor of the small town of Fairfax, in Marin County, appears to have failed, at least based on early returns, with 54% of voters saying "No."
SF Politics Republicans Sue to Try to Stop Prop 50 From Taking Effect The same Republican Party that was all for disenfranchising Democratic voters and people of color in Texas are asking a federal court in California to declare the proposed new California congressional districts under Prop 50 unconstitutional.
