SF News Day Around the Bay: Five 49ers Make AP's 2023 NFL All-Pro Team Christian McCaffrey and Fred Warner were unanimously selected for this year's All-Pro team; a South SF man who ran a day care was arrested for alleged child sexual abuse; and the Hilton Financial District in San Francisco has defaulted on its mortgage.
SF News Another Car Torched In Bernal Heights, Prompting Serial Arson Concerns After four cars were set ablaze on New Year’s Eve in Bernal Heights, yet another car was lit on fire some five blocks away on Tuesday night, though in this case the described arsonist had actually lit a disposed Christmas tree on the curb.
SF News SF Is Going to Install 400 License Plate Readers to Hopefully Deter Car Theft, Sideshows, and Such With a $17 million grant from the state to combat retail theft and auto burglaries, San Francisco is going to put 400 license plate readers about town in hopes of catching more criminals.
Arts & Entertainment Alex Edelman's 'Just For Us,' a One-Man Show About a Jew Attending a Nazi Cabal, Is a Dark Laugh Riot at Berkeley Rep "A Jewish Millennial walks in to a semi-secret meeting of white supremacists in Queens" sounds like the setup to a joke, and it basically is the setup for an hour and a half of non-stop jokes and funny stories in Alex Edelman's manic but charming 'Just for Us.'
SF News March Ballot Measure Proposes Giving SF Cops Drones, More Surveillance Tools Mayor London Breed’s priorities are all over your March 5 primary ballot, including one measure that proposes to give San Francisco police expanded use of drones and surveillance cameras.
SF Politics Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Homeless Encampment Sweeps The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear arguments in a case that will likely have broad implications for how cities, particularly on the West Coast, address the ongoing homelessness crisis.
SF News Former SF Man Gets Four Years In Prison, $5 Million Fine In Crypto Fraud Scheme A one-time San Francisco man was just sentenced to four years in prison for a cryptocurrency scheme that promised “10% returns every 30 business days,” but actually made no money whatsoever, and now he’s headed to prison for four years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink TikTok Food Critic Keith Lee Gives Bay Area Poor Review After Getting Hospitalized for Shellfish Allergy A TikTok food reviewer with an outsized amount of influence has, like he did in Atlanta and New York recently, given the Bay Area kind of a blanket poor review and he's cut his trip here short.
SF News Video: Watch This Big Rig Slow-Motion Slide Down a Snowy Donner Pass A big-rig's brakes froze up on I-80 Thursday, on the westbound, downward slope of Donner Pass, and the driver was left to keep the thing steady as it slid down the hill.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Second Avalanche Occurs at Palisades Tahoe A second avalanche occurred Thursday in a different part of Palisades Tahoe, though no one was hurt; an American Canyon cop shot a suspect who'd been chased into Vallejo; and passengers on that Alaska flight with the blown-out door panel have filed a class-action suit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Will Finally Begin Next Week Another avalanche hit Palisades Tahoe Thursday; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is running for state treasurer; and Dungeness crab season will finally begin on January 18 after many delays.
SF News Get Ready For Another Round of Rain on Saturday From an Atmospheric River We have not been inundated with atmospheric river downpours yet this winter — knock on wood — but Saturday will be bringing one in our direction, with a larger storm making landfall in the Pacific Northwest.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Just Got Married on a Beach... Somewhere OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the It Boy of the tech world last year and one of the most visible figures in the artificial intelligence space, just married his partner Oliver Mulherin in a small ceremony on an undisclosed tropical beach.
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Hearts in SF’ Are Already Out, And One of Them Is Made of 88,000 LEGO Bricks Your 2024 Hearts in SF are out a little early this year at the Ferry Building, and one of the lovely creations is constructed of 88,748 LEGO bricks.
SF News BART Announces the Next Eight Stations Getting Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates The new and supposedly gatehopping-proof BART fare gates are already in use at the West Oakland station, and now BART has announced the next eight stations that will get them. Of course, SF’s notorious Civic Center station is on the list.
Arts & Entertainment North Bay Librarian Gains Social Media Fame, National Recognition for Spreading 'Library Joy' A 33-year-old librarian in Solano County has gained TikTok and Instagram notoriety for his cheerful videos about "library kids," the pleasures of books, and "library joy."
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: This Weekend Is Your Last Chance to See a Movie at the Castro Theatre as We Know It The 16-month closure and overhaul of the Castro Theatre now looms, and this weekend will see the final film screenings at the Castro Theatre as we know it — with the 1932 horror masterpiece ‘Vampyr’ Friday, and a Sunday double-feature of 'Blade Runner’ and ‘Robocop.’
SF News Pro-Palestine Youth Rally in SF Draws One of the Palestinian Students Who Was Shot in Vermont Several hundred protesters marched on Market Street Wednesday night calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, and among them was one of the three Palestinian college students who was shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend.
SF Politics Rev. Amos Brown Issues Apology Over Alleged Intimidation of Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track A week after he denied doing any such thing, longtime SF civil rights leader Rev. Amos Brown issued a formal apology for intimidating an SF restaurant owner and rapper who made a diss track and video about Mayor London Breed.
SF News Man Killed In Tahoe Avalanche Identified as Marin County Resident; Survivors Describe Scene The man who was killed Wednesday morning in an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe has been identified as a Bay Area resident who also had a home in Truckee.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Huge Pile of Flaming Garbage Dumped on Great Highway An 18-wheeler carrying garbage caught fire and dumped its load on the Great Highway this morning; BART's 'Fleet of the Future' is coming in under budget; and Google laid off hundreds of engineers overnight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BottleRock Three-Day Passes Sell Out Fast SF-based Twitch is laying off a third of its staff; three-day passes for BottleRock have already sold out; and SF Animal Care & Control has a full shelter and is waiving adoption fees for dogs.
SF News Luxury Apartment Complex NEMA Dodges Foreclosure by Striking a Deal With Its Lenders The impending foreclosure on the mid-Market apartment building NEMA is apparently no longer impending, as the developer behind the luxury high-rise has struck a deal with its creditors.
SF News J. Crew and Hollister Both Closing Stores at SF Centre Mall, Adding to String of Vacancies We have two more closures to add to the list of retailers leaving the former Westfield mall in downtown San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halfway Club Opens Today in Crocker-Amazon’s Former Broken Record Space The former Broken Record bar at Geneva Avenue and Edinburgh Street will be officially reborn as the Halfway Club when it opens Wednesday night, with a kitchen, full bar, and a “70’s dad’s basement bar” vibe.
