SF News Bay Area Braces for Rain, Winds, and Potential Flooding As More Storms Hit Sunday Intense rainfall is expected Sunday night, prompting flooding warnings and wind advisories.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers Beat Packers 24-21 In Nail-Biter Saturday, Will Head to NFC Championship Game Next Week The San Francisco 49ers pulled ahead of the Green Bay Packers in the last few minutes of their playoff game to win; anti-abortion advocates marched in rainy downtown SF Saturday; and another Half Moon Bay airplane crash victim was identified.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Seafood Towers, Focaccia Pizza, and Gumbo A new fancy bar has replaced another fancy bar in the Mission, there's a new focaccia pizza and drinks spot in the Presidio, and a new pop-up bar is arriving at a museum in the Dogpatch.
SF News San Francisco Budget Cuts Trash Plans for City's New Fancy, Expensive Trash Cans The Department of Public Works has already spent more than half a million dollars on this project to customize and prototype new trash cans, but they said Friday it's on pause amid the city's budget deficit.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area Rappers Saweetie and P-Lo Release New 49ers Hype Song Ahead of Playoff Game Bay Area-born rappers Saweetie and P-Lo dropped a new song Friday, "Do It For The Bay," and an accompanying video to support the San Francisco 49ers in their playoff game against the Green Bay Packers Saturday.
SF News Saturday Links: Niners Fans Catch Playoff Fever Niners' fans' playoff fever is reaching a fever pitch ahead of tonight's game against the Packers; a Google engineer is accused of murdering his wife; and some Muni service changes go into effect today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Caltrans Wants Your Name Ideas for Its New Snow Plows Last year's Caltrans snow plow name winners included "Scoop Dog" and "Snowbi Wan Kenobi;" former San Jose Mayor says the cost of the SJ BART project is too high; and $20K of bonsai trees were stolen from Oakland's Bonsai Garden.
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Broadway Preview of 'The Wiz' Brings Laughs, Terrific Dance Numbers to SF A Broadway-bound new production 'The Wiz,' featuring Wayne Brady and Deborah Cox, opened Thursday night at the Golden Gate Theater after several stops around the country. And it's a funny, bubbly production with some clever tweaks to the book.
SF News Macy’s Will Close Its San Leandro Store at Bayfair Mall as It Lays Off 2,350 Employees Nationwide A big bloodletting is coming to the franchise department store Macy’s, with a reported 2,350 employees being laid off nationwide, and the San Leandro’s Macy’s at the Bayfair Center will be one of five store casualties.
SF News SFUSD Students Staged Walkout Friday Afternoon Over Multiple Gun Incidents, District’s Safety Response There were three reported gun incidents in one day last month at SFUSD high schools, and today, some students staged a walkout over what they see as the district’s slow-footed response.
Arts & Entertainment Golden State Killer Movie Auditions Face Investigation After Alleged Creepiness By Actor Vincent Gallo Two actors who have faced sexual misconduct allegations, one of whom has not shied away from being labeled a fully certified creep, are attached to a film adaptation of the Golden State Killer story — and the actors' union is investigating.
SF News Anti-Abortion Activists to March In San Francisco Saturday, and They're Trying to Pray the Rain Away The annual Walk for Life is happening on Market Street in San Francisco, and it's all but guaranteed to be a wet one — but the godly among them are praying that rays of sunshine will come through like they apparently did a few years ago.
SF News Both Oakland and SF School Districts Face Federal Investigations, Allegedly Over Antisemitism While none of the reasons for the investigation have been made public, the U.S. Department of Education has opened investigations after receiving allegations of antisemitism in both the San Francisco and Oakland unified school districts.
SF News The L.A. Innocence Project Is, For Some Reason, Taking Up Scott Peterson's Case One of the most infamous murder cases in NorCal of the last few decades, that of Laci Peterson in 2002, is getting a fresh look from the L.A. Innocence Project, even though it seems like they could be spending their time and energy on more worthy — and more likely innocent — people in prison.
SF News Nonprofit ‘SF Safe’ Improperly Spent Tens of Thousands of SFPD Money on Limo Rides, Tahoe Trips A new report from the City Controller says that a long-standing “public safety services” nonprofit has been improperly billing the police department nearly $10,000 a month on limo rides, Vegas and Tahoe trips, and curiously pricey gift boxes.
SF News Pacifica Woman Says Boyfriend Died Trying to Protect Her From Estranged Husband A Pacifica woman who survived a brutal pre-Christmas attack by her estranged husband, against whom she had a restraining order, is now speaking out about the boyfriend who came to her rescue and gave his life protecting her.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Wet Weekend Ahead The rain is coming any hour now, and will continue on and off through the weekend; Barbara Lee responds to Nikki Haley saying the country has never been racist; and the Apple Mac turns 40.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Statue of Controversial ‘Colonizer’ Removed in Pacifica Another arrest has been made in the murder of the ex-cop providing security for a KRON4 crew; SF’s former Westfield mall is losing yet another tenant; and the controversial statue of a Spanish explorer has been removed in Pacifica.
SF News Presidio Heights Residents Appear to Get Their Way as Some Pickleball Nets Get Removed From Presidio Wall Courts Complaining neighbors in Presidio Heights who have been unhappy about the noise caused by pickleball games happening at the Presidio Wall tennis courts are getting their way, at least in part.
SF News It’s Official: Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake Will Be Renamed Blue Heron Lake After a seven-month debate over what to rename Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, the SF Rec and Parks Commission on Thursday bestowed the new name Blue Heron Lake.
SF Politics Activists Hang Giant ‘Let Gaza Live’ Banner From SF's Coit Tower The 60-foot banner saying "Jews Say: Let Gaza Live!" was unfurled from the top of Coit Tower Thursday morning, though it only remained for about ten minutes until police arrived.
Arts & Entertainment Apple Cancels 'Schmigadoon' After Two Seasons, Fans Revolt on Social Media Musical Theater Twitter and Gay Twitter and Tituss Burgess Twitter are collectively enraged that Apple TV+ would dare cancel the most brilliant sendup of musicals since Forbidden Broadway.
SF News Dungeness Crab Season Finally Starts Today, Fishermen Selling Crab Right Off the Boat The many-times-delayed local Dungeness crab season is finally here, and fishermen are selling the crab straight off the boat down at Fisherman’s Wharf Piers 45 and 47.
SF News Bay Area Woman Who Calls Herself 'Love,' Charged In 2017 Burglary and Stabbing Gets Parole Revoked Over Threats A 50-year-old woman, jailed in the East Bay since November, is facing a revocation of her parole over alleged criminal threats against judges, district attorneys, and others made since her last release.
SF News Five Shot In SF's Tenderloin Overnight, One Person Dead Five people were shot in a mass shooting Thursday morning in the Tenderloin, and one of the five people died from their wounds with the others all suffering life-threatening wounds.
