Arts & Entertainment Eddie Izzard Bringing Solo 'Hamlet' to ACT's Strand Theater In April Much lauded comedian Eddie Izzard is bringing her one-person version of Shakespeare's Hamlet to San Francisco in April, and Dame Judi Dench has reportedly called the performance "spectacular."
SF News Two Men Face Charges for Oakland Murder of Man Whose Body Was Found Wrapped in Plastic Garbage Bag Seven weeks ago, Oakland Police found a dead body abandoned and wrapped in a garbage bag in West Oakland. Now they’re naming two suspects, one of whom has been arrested, and the other is still at large.
SF News London Police Say They're Seeking Three Men For Questioning In Connection With 2023 Death of Drag Queen Heklina London Metro Police have put out a notice, nearly two years after the fact, about three men seen on CCTV footage in the vicinity of the apartment where SF drag legend Heklina was found dead. Friends of Heklina say the London cops have been inept and unresponsive.
SF News SF Gets an Early Morning Taste of SpaceX Rocket Activity in Our Skies Some crazy lights and cloud formations created a mysterious celestial display around 6 am Friday morning in San Francisco skies, and it was all because of a SpaceX rocket launch that happened more than 300 miles away in Santa Barbara.
SF News SFUSD Superintendent Fuels False Rumor About ICE Agent on Muni Bus As fear continues to spread among immigrant communities across the country about potential deportation by the Trump administration, the San Francisco Unified School District didn't help the situation by spreading a rumor, now proven false, about ICE agents questioning kids on public transit.
SF News Chronicle Staff to Temporarily Leave Historic Headquarters as Hearst Prepares to Demolish Next-Door Building The Hearst Corporation is looking to revive a stalled condo tower project on the site of the former SF Examiner offices — a building at 110 Fifth Street that is connected to the Chronicle headquarters by a bridge over Minna Street.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Wants to Loosen Rules Around Police Car Chases After Gavin Newsom started haranguing the Oakland PD to engage in more car chases of suspects, new Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell agreed, and laid out his proposal for more car chases at higher speeds.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Murder Trial Ends In Mistrial The girlfriend of the man killed in Sunday's SoMa crash talks about being in the car when it happened; an Oakland murder trial ends in mistrial; and the SF Zoo restaurant is closed due to rodents.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Chinese New Year ‘Year of the Snake’ Statues Are Now Up in SF Some SF in-home caregivers allegedly drained a millionaire's bank account before she died; the JCPenney at the Tanforan shopping center is closing; and those Lunar New Year statues are back in SF for the Year of the Snake.
SF News Robert Cromey, Former Trinity Church Rector and Longtime Champion of LGBTQ Civil Rights, Dies at 93 You may not know that there was a liberal priest in San Francisco who was performing same-sex marriages as far back as 1968. But there was, and he was a much beloved and sometimes controversial figure in the local Episcopal diocese.
Arts & Entertainment SF City Hall Approves Huge Outer Mission Rock Climbing Gym, After Filipino Grocery Store Backed Out The long-vacant site of the former Pacific Supermarket at Alemany Boulevard near Mission Street lost its replacement tenant Island Pacific Supermarket, but the SF Planning Commission just approved making the place a 33,000 square-foot rock climbing gym.
Business & Tech Latest Robotaxi Criticism Claims They’re Blocking SF Housing Development Here’s a complaint we hadn't considered about Waymos and self-driving cars, as at least 600 units of proposed housing are not getting built, because the property owners are getting quicker and easier money by renting out the lots as vehicle charging stations.
SF Politics Republicans Want to Claw Back $200M Given to the Presidio Under Biden In the first what are sure to many, many middle-finger gestures in the direction of San Francisco and California generally, wrathful Republicans are trying to take back $200 million that was granted to the Presidio.
Arts & Entertainment Is Aaron Sorkin Plotting a Sequel to 'The Social Network,' About the Moral Downfall of Mark Zuckerberg? In an interview with Jesse Eisenberg on 'Fresh Air' this week he talks about his changing view of a man he portrayed over a decade ago, Mark Zuckerberg. And, apparently, a sequel or follow-up to 'The Social Network' may be in the works.
SF News Central Subway Will Be Shut Down Next Month For Water Leak Repairs People who ride the T-Third line through the Central Subway will be relegated to bus service between late February and mid-March, as SFMTA fixes the subway's water leak issues that they once had to address with plastic red beer pong cups.
SF News Parking Vigilante Paints Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs In Richmond District as Daylighting Laws Kick In As the new daylighting laws preventing parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk are in effect, SFMTA has not painted all of the necessary curbs red. So some joker went and painted some counterfeit red “no parking” curbs, but got the dimensions completely wrong.
SF News Serial Killer David Misch Breaks Out Into Song During Sentencing For 1986 Murders of Two East Bay Women Convicted serial killer David Misch was likely just trying to get himself kicked out of the courtroom Tuesday when he broke out into song as he was forced to listen to family members talk about the loss of two women he killed in 1986.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SUV Crash Damages BART Third Rail In Pittsburg Service was halted on part of BART's Pittsburg/Antioch line this morning following a fatal car crash on the tracks; the Hughes Fire now exceeds 10,000 acres; and Netflix is raising its prices again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Wildfire Consumes 8,000 Acres North of LA The Hughes Fire, which broke out near Santa Clarita this morning, has already burned over 8,000 acres; Sonoma State announces they're cutting athletics, eight academic programs amid a budget crisis; and Trump issues a possibly empty threat toward SF officials.
Business & Tech Conspiracy Theories Fly as Meta Users Find Themselves Suddenly Following Trump and JD Vance Millions of Facebook and Instagram users were shocked to find that they were suddenly following Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Melania Trump, but the company insists it was just the normal switching of official accounts that happens for every presidential transition.
SF News Early Morning Fire Displaces Four at the SRO Formerly Known as the Hotel Diva A 1 am apartment fire Wednesday morning on the second floor of the former Hotel Diva has left four people displaced, though no one was injured.
SF News Stanford Drops Disciplinary Case Against Student Journalist Covering Gaza Protest A Stanford student who was covering the occupation of the university president's office by pro-Palestinian protesters last year for the campus newspaper when he was arrested alongside those protesters has been cleared of wrongdoing, at least by the school.
SF News San Jose Police Arrest Trio Linked to Nearly 80 South Burglaries, Mostly Targeting Asian Households Three men have been arrested in connection with a slew of home burglaries in several South Bay cities, and authorities estimate the value of goods stolen around $1 million.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Fumes as $500 Billion AI Data Center Investment Comes From Sam Altman and Not Him The completely unproven and unreliable AI sector says it’s going to build $500 billion worth of data centers with Trump’s blessing, and with AI safeguards now repealed, that’s a lot of deepfake porn to produce. But Elon Musk is mad that he’s not in on the action.
SF News Victim In Sunday Crash Identified as 27-Year-Old Computer Engineer Who Was Previously Hit In Different Crash The man killed Sunday when his car was violently struck by other vehicles in a multi-car crash on Sixth Street in SoMa was previously involved in a crash that was the result of a high-speed police chase.
