Arts & Entertainment Expect Magic, Music, and Puppetry In ACT's World Premiere 'A Whynot Christmas Carol' In setting out to do a new spin on the Dickens classic, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon enlisted playwright and friend Craig Lucas to write a new metaplay about a small-town putting on a production of 'A Christmas Carol.'
Arts & Entertainment No ‘Nutcracker’ This Year? SF Ballet Labor Dispute Threatens Beloved Annual Show San Francisco Ballet dancers say they're paid at levels below SF's low-income threshold, and they’re threatening to go on strike on the opening day of their popular annual production ‘The Nutcracker.’
SF News SF Man to Be Sentenced In Brutal Domestic Violence Case Where He Hung Wife’s French Bulldog A 36-year-old San Francisco man not only beat his estranged wife for five hours, but also hung her French bulldog from a stairway banister, and today he’ll be sentenced to as many as ten years in prison.
SF Politics Trump Names Anti-Lockdown Stanford Doctor to Lead NIH The ridiculous clown car that is the second Trump administration just gained another clown.
SF News Three Dead, One Injured In Early Morning Fiery Cybertruck Crash In Piedmont A Tesla Cybertruck jumped a curb, hit a cement wall, and burst into flames just after 3 am Wednesday morning in Piedmont, and three of the four occupants in the car died at the scene.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: Pedestrians Killed On I-5, I-680 Pedestrians were killed this morning in separate collisions on I-680 and I-5; a man was just convicted in a March 2022 murder outside a San Leandro bar; and PG&E is requesting yet another rate hike.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giant Holiday Wine Barrel Tree Lighting Up in St. Helena Wednesday Former Rep. Katie Porter has filed for a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend; the long-vacant Lombardi Sports building in Russian Hill finally has a tenant; and the lighting of a 36-foot-tall wine barrel tree kicks off the holiday season Wednesday night in St. Helena.
SF News Woman Who’s Been Serially Menacing Children in SF Parks Has Been Charged and Detained 37-year-old Kim Andrews is well-known to parents and nannies as someone who frequently makes violent threats toward small children, but her four-year run of terrorizing kids may be over, as she’s been arrested and may be detained indefinitely.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Kills Two, Injures Three Others In Ingleside Crash A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.
SF News Brrr! Cold Snap to Take Hold Across the Bay Through the Weekend Following the rains, expect some frigid winter cold to set in, with the season's first frost advisory happening Wednesday night into Thanksgiving morning.
SF News Injury Crash on Southbound 101 In San Francisco Snarls Airport-Bound Traffic Anyone trying to run to SFO Tuesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving holiday could encounter a snag unless they avoid the 101 freeway until they're further south.
SF News SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
SF News Berkeley-Born Animal Rights Extremist Captured For Bay Area Bombings Two Decades Ago A radical animal-rights activist who was linked to three Bay Area bombings in 2003 has recently been captured after two decades on the run, in the United Kingdom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whiskey Lovers Line Up For Rare Finds at New Pleasanton Costco In case you weren't aware (I wasn't), grand openings at Costco are treasure hunts for a certain band of whiskey lovers and wine aficionados, with certain labels getting stocked just for opening events.
SF Politics FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.
SF News Man Shot and Critically Wounded In SF's Bret Harte Neighborhood A male victim was found shot and critically wounded Monday night in San Francisco's Bret Harte neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Speaks Out ABC 7 gave a very friendly interview to embattled San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus; Urban Alchemy was hit with some hateful graffiti; and Kamala Harris was passing through SF last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In the Mission District A pedestrian was killed Sunday morning near 16th and Valencia streets in SF; the family of a Vallejo man killed in 2022 is upset about a lenient plea deal for his killer; and the CHP is starting a 'maximum enforcement period' on Wednesday.
Bay Area Sports Judge Won't Block San Jose State From Conference Volleyball Tournament Over Alleged Transgender Player The San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team will still compete in the Mountain West Tournament this week, after a judge just refused to rule the team out of the tournament following a lawsuit from nine players over a supposedly transgender player.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: They’ve Got Baby Reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences for the Next Two Weeks for a Holiday Exhibit This is not the kind of baby reindeer you see on Netflix, but instead real, live baby reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences through December 5, and the museum is also bringing in baby camels and baby yaks for their ‘Tis the Season for Science’ exhibit.
SF News SF-Bashing Twitter Troll ‘Raw Ricci’ Arrested for Allegedly Pimping Women Out of His Luxury SoMa Apartment One of SF's most notorious Twitter provocateurs and “anti-crime” Fox News guests finds himself in SF County Jail today, after being arrested at SFO on pimping and pandering charges that allege he ran a sex work ring from his upscale apartment.
SF Politics President of Oakland City Council, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Declares Victory In County Race, Complicating Mayoral Transition Who will be interim mayor of Oakland? That's a more open question now as City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas announced victory in her bid to become an Alameda County supervisor.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man for Fare Evasion, He Turns Out to Be an SF Murder Suspect A routine fare evasion arrest at the Bay Fair BART station turned up a suspect for a San Francisco murder, and 36-year-old Johnathon Calvin Wright was handed over to SFPD and is now in County Jail on that murder charge.
SF News Buyer Interest Emerges for Macy's Union Square Property; City Holds Out Hope Macy's Will Stay In Some Form The Macy's corporation hasn't shared much in the way of plans since its bombshell announcement earlier this year that it would close its flasghip San Francisco store. But there are a couple of possibilities emerging for the property.
SF News SF to Expect Off-and-On Rain Through Thanksgiving, Though Most of Thursday Could Be Dry After some record-setting rainfall around the Bay Area last week, we won't be seeing much of a dry spell until later in the week, as showers will continue arriving for the next couple of days.
