SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Mark Farrell Lays Out His Law-and-Order Agenda Mayoral hopeful Mark Farrell, who is seeking to challenge the woman who he once before replaced, and who ultimately replaced him in his brief stint as mayor six years ago, has just spelled out some more specifics in terms of his agenda.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Acclaimed Burrito Now Costs $22 Meta is suing a former executive for stealing proprietary documents on his way out the door; a victim in an attempted car theft in San Lorenzo was shot at by thieves; and an acclaimed Mission burrito spot has significantly raised its prices.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another United Jet Has Problem Leaving Sydney An SFO-bound United flight had to turn back after leaving Sydney due to a "maintenance issue"; a car was stolen Monday in the East Bay with a toddler still in it; and Airbnb has banned the use of all indoor security cameras.
Bay Area Sports 49ers QB Brock Purdy Got Married This Weekend, and Here is the Wedding Registry Brock Purdy married his college girlfriend Jenna Brandt over the weekend, and we found their wedding registry, which is on Crate & Barrel and has mostly modest items priced at under $100.
Arts & Entertainment Former Pixar Screenwriter Says 'The Holdovers' Was Plagiarized From Something He Wrote The Oscar-winning film 'The Holdovers,' which stars Paul Giamatti and is set at a New England boarding school in the 1970s, is brazenly similar to a screenplay that a former Pixar writer penned and shopped around Hollywood in recent years, that writer says.
SF News SF Nonprofit Worker Charged With Sexually Assaulting Everett Middle School Student A 20-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with multiple felony sex abuse counts for an alleged sexual assault of an Everett Middle School student, and remains in custody.
SF News Scott Peterson Will Be Back In Court (Virtually) on Tuesday In Redwood City for New Hearing In 2002 Murder Case Convicted murderer Scott Peterson has, for some reason, attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, and the case against him in the 2002 murder of his wife Laci Peterson is getting a new hearing this week in San Mateo County.
SF News Popular, Recently Shuttered Vintage Store Stuff Opening New SF Location Saturday In Polk Gulch There are actually two new locations of the now-reincarnated vintage emporium Stuff, and the SF shop will have the same giant letters from the old Valencia Street location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Joyride Pizza Is Headed for Pier 1 on the Embarcadero Popular Detroit-style pizza outfit Joyride Pizza is expanding once again, and will be opening a new location soon right next to San Francisco's Ferry Building.
SF News One Kid May Have Exposed Up to 300 People to Measles at UC Davis Medical Center In Sacramento We probably have the anti-vaxxers to thank for this one, as a potential measles outbreak could be on the horizon in Sacramento after an unnamed child exposed as many as 300 people to the virus.
Business & Tech Trump Calls Facebook an 'Enemy of the People' For No Particular Reason Donald Trump is attacking Facebook again for no particular reason, calling it an "enemy of the people" and sending Meta's stock price tumbling.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Oakland Taco Bell Restaurant Shut Down Their Indoor Dining Rooms, Probably Due to Crime Four Oakland Taco Bell restaurants appear to have gone drive-thru only, though some only in the evening, in the latest hit to Oakland’s fast-food landscape.
SF News [Update] FBI Raids Dublin Women's Prison, Warden and Three Others Ousted Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations descended on the women's prison FCI Dublin Monday morning for unknown reasons, but it likely is connected with an ongoing cascade of abuse allegations against officer there.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fatal Hit-and-Run on I-80 In San Francisco A pedestrian was killed early Monday in a hit-and-run on I-80 in San Francisco; a Vallejo woman was arrested in a violent carjacking; and Jewish students at UC Berkeley are rallying against antisemitism.
SF News San Jose Sharks Face New Lawsuit Over Alleged Sexual Abuse by Youth Hockey Coach A new lawsuit alleges that a 12-year-old was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach connected to the San Jose Sharks, and accuses the owner of negligence.
SF News Catch the Oscars 2024 in Style at These San Francisco Bay Area Watch Parties From casual free watch parties at the Knockout to game-filled events at the Balboa Theater to a black-tie fete at Cinelounge Tiburon, here are some ways to watch the Oscars in and around SF Sunday.
SF News Sunday Links: Saturday Night Shooting in Tunnel on Bay Bridge Leaves One Hurt The Bay Bridge shooting left at least one woman injured and caused significant traffic delays around 8:30 p.m. Saturday; Code Pink SF had a feminist pro-Palestine march on the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday; and someone threw red liquid on VP Kamala Harris' motorcade in Arizona.
SF News San Francisco Cracks Down on E-Scooter and E-Bike Fires with New Battery Fire Codes After mobility device battery-related fires spiked in the past few years, the San Francisco Fire Department changed its codes regarding lithium-ion batteries, and they went into effect Thursday.
SF News Another United Flight From SFO Needed To Make An Emergency Landing After System Issues On Friday A United Airlines jet headed to Mexico City experienced a problem with the aircraft's hydraulic system, prompting an emergency landing at LAX on Friday afternoon.
SF News Saturday Links: SF's Union Square In Bloom With Over 80,000 Tulips for Annual Tulip Day Saturday Afternoon Tulip Day attendees can receive up to eight complimentary tulips; SF's animal shelter is at full capacity, so it's a great time to adopt a dog; and a motorcyclist fatally crashed in Golden Gate Park on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Unemployment Hits 4% in San Francisco Amid Tech Layoff New data shows that unemployment in SF jumped to the highest levels in the past two years; a new luxury women's knitwear store is bucking trends and opening a Union Square storefront; and the recall effort for the Alameda County DA is facing self-dealing allegations.
SF News Former Lefty O’Doul’s Owner Nick Bovis Sentenced to Nine Months in Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Case The one-time owner of Lefty O'Douls and the Gold Dust Lounge Nick Bovis is now heading to prison, as he was sentenced to nine months for fraud and bribery in the Mohammed Nuru case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Dinner Is Back at Tartine Manufactory, With Pizza Tartine Manufactory returns to dinner service with a sourdough pizza-focused menu, Four Kings debuts in Chinatown, and a new wine bar is headed for the Lower Haight.
SF News SF Shakespeare Festival Van Was Stolen In Oakland, and They're Asking the Public to Look Out For It Police in the East Bay don't exactly have the bandwidth to track down stolen vehicles. But the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival thought for sure someone would have spotted their stolen 12-person passenger van, with their name and logo emblazoned on it, by now.
SF News Another Massive Main Water Disaster Near Stern Grove, the Second One in Three Years Another mountainous gusher of water was spewing sky-high near Stern Grove Friday morning, and while the water burst has been stopped, Parkside residents may be faced with unusually low water pressure.