SF News Day Around the Bay: Grace Cathedral Laser Light Show Begins Again Tonight The FBI has unsealed their criminal complaint against an alleged Berkeley arsonist; we have fascinating new insights into how the neighborhood Dogpatch got its name; and the annual Grace Cathedral laser light show begins again Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Zany French Pop Dance Soiree 'Bardot A Go Go' Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Bastille Day Party This Saturday It’s the silver anniversary faire la fête of the French discotheque Bardot A Go Go’s annual Bastille Day Party this Saturday, and its co-founder looks back on 25 years of crepes, cigarettes, and 1960s period apparel.
SF News Alleged ‘Waymo Slasher’ Charged With Slashing the Tires on 17 Waymo Self-Driving Cars A 36-year-old man who’s apparently not fond of self-driving robotaxis allegedly went on a tire-stabbing spree against them, and stands accused of slashing Waymo tires 17 times in a three-day span, though the cars’ cameras caught him on video.
SF News 79-Year-Old Woman Arrested for Killing Her 98-Year-Old Nursing Home Roommate An elderly woman with a history of homicidal tendencies toward roommates who made too much noise at night has been charged with the fatal beating of a woman who was her roommate at a nursing facility in San Jose.
SF News Prankster Adds Sex Workers to Slow Streets Signs on Shotwell A prankster has added some stickers to signs to better represent the range of activities that go on on Shotwell Street, which is a designated Slow Street with city-installed signage.
SF Politics Alameda County Judge Up for Federal Bench Gets Grilled by Republicans Over Trump Criticism, Trans Issues Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise is in line for a big promotion to the federal judiciary, and as such, was lambasted by attention-seeking Republican senators Wednesday. But she’s still likely to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
SF News Shootout at 16th and Mission Leaves One Dead A shootout late Monday night/early Tuesday near 16th and Mission streets led to a four-car crash and left one individual dead.
SF News Repeat Offender In Castro Gets Punched By Nudist After Attack on Tourist A well known, criminally violent individual who has roamed the streets of the Castro for years was seen on camera last week assaulting a tourist and then getting taken down by a nudist bystander.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Abruptly Revokes That State Assistance He Offered to Alameda County DA Pamela Price In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
SF News Husband Kills Wife, Child, and In-Laws In Alameda, Injures Second Child An Alameda man allegedly went on some kind of domestic rampage Wednesday night, killing his wife, son, and his wife's parents, and also shot and injured another young son.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Arrested at SFO For Alleged Smuggling of 6 Kilos of Meth to Australia A Los Angeles man was arrested two weeks ago after he was caught by the TSA at SFO trying transport six kilograms of methamphetamine to Australia.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Bay Area Council Promotes California Forever Plan The influential Bay Area Council has surprisingly come out in favor of California Forever's Solano County plans; Scott Peterson is back in court today; and a luxury penthouse in Pac Heights has dropped its asking price significantly.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Found Safe After SF BART Station Kidnapping A 17-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped from the Powell Street BART station Tuesday night; the Bohemian Club is facing another lawsuit from employees; and the Pelosis have been buying up Nvidia stock.
Arts & Entertainment Giant New Statue of Woman in Jogging Gear Goes Up Along Embarcadero There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Unveils Latest Menu With a Theatrical Twist, 'Dogs: The Musical' Yes, the menu looks like a Playbill for a musical called 'Dogs,' styled after Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats,' and many of the drink names are, also, spoofs of character names from 'Cats.'
SF News Current COVID Uptick Appears to Be Coming With New Symptoms, Like Stomach Issues California is experiencing much the same summer COVID upturn as the rest of the nation, and there’s some evidence that the symptoms of the new virus variants now include gastrointestinal issues too.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Laying Off More Workers Just as 'Inside Out 2' Becomes Its Highest-Grossing Film Ever In an unfortunate turn of events, Pixar is continuing with layoffs at its Emeryville animation studio in the same month that its latest release is smashing box office records and raking in cash at theaters worldwide.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Brunch 'Sunday's a Drag' Returns at New Location, North Beach's Club Fugazi Veteran SF drag queen and hostess Donna Sachet has revived her popular Sunday drag brunch, which for years was a staple of Harry Denton's Starlight Room in Union Square.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Reportedly at Risk Again, Amidst Rising Event Costs and Lower Foot Traffic After returning from a four-month hiatus earlier this year, we have a report that the popular First Fridays event in Oakland may be on the rocks again, with financial concerns over permitting costs and fewer vending spots.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Accused of Killing Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Will Stand Trial There's an update in a brutal stabbing case from March 2023 in which a beloved member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and Olivet Oakland Church choir was brutally killed in his own apartment.
SF News SFPD Might Expand Their Police Chase Policies to Allow Chases of Nonviolent Felony Suspects The Prop E measure that SF voters approved in March is coming home to roost, as the SF Police Commission is about to consider new rules that expand the types of cases where SFPD officers can engage in car chases.
SF News [Update] Missing Australian Businessman Turns Up In SF Hospital, In Coma, After Fall? An Australian grain executive on a business trip in San Francisco appears to have been violently robbed and injured, and was put into an induced coma after arriving in a local hospital without identification.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Says 'It's Up to the President to Decide' Whether to Stay in the Race Nancy Pelosi once again hedged about Biden staying in the race; Oakland police appear to be under-reporting crime data; and San Jose business leaders are pushing for more federal funding for the BART extension.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Company Takes Gold Medal at California State Fair Cannabis Awards Elton John was announced as the headliner for the big Dreamforce 2024 concert; Waymo and the rideshare companies might be taxed to save Muni; and a Bay Area cannabis company just won the gold medal at the California State Fair Cannabis Awards.
SF News The Oakland Zoo Will Soon Lose Its Last Remaining Elephant, 30-Year-Old Osh The only elephant left at the Oakland Zoo will be moving to a sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, and once the male elephant Osh is gone, there won’t be any more elephants at any zoos in the Bay Area.
