Arts & Entertainment Lots of People Were Assigned Berkeley as Their Spotify Wrapped 'Sound Town,' But Also San Luis Obispo? Why? The annual flurry of Spotify Wrapped year-end lists and genre leanings dropped last week, and like your zodiac chart, these categorizations have come to mean something for multiple generations who rely on Spotify for most of their music.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested in Alleged $137,000 Stolen Cigarette Fencing Operation Cartons upon cartons of stolen cigarettes were being sold in East Bay convenience stores, as the California Highway Patrol just learned in busting up a fencing operation with well over $100,000 in stolen cigarettes.
SF News Victim In Possible Homicide In Presidio Heights ID'd as 27-Year-Old Tech Product Designer A young woman at just the start of a seemingly successful career as a user experience designer was found dead in her apartment last week in Presidio Heights, and police are investigating the case as a homicide that was possibly the result of domestic violence.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Ryan Gosling Charms at SFFILM Awards Actor Ryan Gosling charmed everyone in presenting an award to Greta Gerwig in SF on Monday; Tule fog is blanketing the region all over in the morning; Assemblymember Evan Low has entered the House race for Anna Eshoo's seat.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Break-Ins Go Down By Half In SF Oakland police are investigating a fatal shooting at a 7-Eleven today; a woman was fatally struck by a car in a Walmart parking lot in Mountain View; and SFPD data shows car break-ins down significantly this fall compared to last year.
SF News A New Muni Mobile App Launched Today, and They’re Killing Off the Old App, So Use Up Your Old Tickets Muni’s new trip planner and digital ticketing app MuniMobile is now up, running, and available for download, and the old app’s being discontinued on January 15, so it’s time to use up any fares you bought on the old one.
SF News YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Airplane In 2021 Sentenced to Six Months YouTuber Trevor Jacob made a poor example of himself and YouTube stunt artists in general two years ago when, while promoting a wallet for a sponsor, he filmed a video in which he deliberately crashed a small plane in Santa Barbara County.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Suddenly, Rosamunde Sausage Grill Announces It Will Reopen This Weekend Sausage fans (and Tuesday night trivia lovers) rejoice! Rosamunde Sausage Grill just announced they’re reopening at their 24th and Mission Street restaurant this Friday, which will be just 17 days after they appeared to close permanently.
Arts & Entertainment 'Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes' Returns With Coco Peru Stepping In as Dorothy This year's holiday edition of 'The Golden Girls Live' at the Victoria Theater is every bit as campy and delightful as it always is, but with a new addition to the cast.
SF News More Westfield Mall Woes, as SF’s Only LEGO Store There Has Closed Permanently Things apparently weren't connecting anymore in San Francisco’s only LEGO store, located in the beleaguered mall formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, as that LEGO store quietly closed permanently last week.
Arts & Entertainment The Streets of SF Lit Up With Pop-Up Drag Performances All Weekend for the First 'San Francisco Is a Drag' Thanks to a trio of SF drag legends and funding from the recently launched Civic Joy Fund, 100 drag queens, kings, and performers blanketed different neighborhoods on Saturday and Sunday for the first ever "San Francisco Is a Drag."
SF Politics The Code Pink Crew Hits Nancy Pelosi’s House for Another Demonstration Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza It was nowhere near the size of Saturday’s downtown SF March that drew thousands, but a couple dozen Code Pink protesters demonstrated outside Nancy Pelosi’s house Sunday calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
SF News One of the Palestinian Students Shot In Vermont Was Born In SF We’re learning that 20-year-old Hisham Awartani, one of the three Palestinian students shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend in an apparent hate crime, was born in San Francisco. But we’re also learning he’s now paralyzed from the chest down.
Arts & Entertainment Lineup For Inaugural Festival La Onda In Napa to Include Alejandro Fernandez, Mana A first-ever, multi-day, large-scale music festival in Northern California devoted entirely to Latin music has been announced for next June in downtown Napa, the weekend after BottleRock, and we now know the lineup.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Sneaker Waves Forecast Today The SFUSD reached a tentative agreement with tradespeople threatening to strike; there are again rip currents and sneaker waves forecast along the coast today; and Spotify has announced layoffs.
SF News [Update] SF Unified School District Staves Off Strike By Tradespeople A union representing around 65 district employees responsible for maintaining public school buildings across San Francisco was accusing the district of unfair labor practices and unpaid wages.
SF News Nature Photographer Captures Photo of Unusual Ghostly Badger in Point Reyes Despite a large badger population in the Marin park, this is be the first known member with these white markings characteristic of leucism, according to park rangers .
SF News Florida Man Arrested for Threatening 'Mass Casualty Attack' at Tesla Cybertruck Launch Event in Texas Authorities thwarted a tech-hating 28-year-old man who had apparently driven from Florida to Texas to try to attack the public launch event for Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertrucks.
SF News Sunday Links: SFPD Investigating Murder of Woman in Presidio Heights As Possible Domestic Abuse The woman found dead on Thursday night might have been the victim of domestic abuse, according to sources; LAPD found the suspect at large connected to 3 murders; and there's another hazardous beach warning Sunday.
SF News Richmond Pastor Arrested on Charges of Sex Crimes Allegedly Against Underage Church Members Victor Hernandez Pineda, a Pentecostal pastor in the East Bay, is accused of sexual assault of multiple children.
SF News Saturday Links: One Injured in Stabbing at Mission Bay Residence Friday Night Police are investigating after an aggravated assault on the 600 block of Mission Bay Boulevard North left one person injured; actor Annette Bening criticized Gavin Newsom's handling of the actor strike; and an apparent serial killer in L.A. is targeting homeless people.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cyberattack Compromises Blue Shield of California Customer Info Hackers might have gotten details about customers including Social Security numbers; Caltrain's festive annual Holiday Train will make its rounds this weekend; and companies are leaving downtown SF for Jackson Square.
Arts & Entertainment Holiday-Themed Projection Mapping Display ‘Let’s Glow SF’ Returns to Razzle-Dazzle SF Buildings Friday Night Friday night kicks off the third year of the holiday projection mapping display Let Glow SF, bringing animated ice castles and freaky festive projections to the sides of San Francisco buildings.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Four Hobbits Walk Into Atelier Crenn The close of November brought the much anticipated reopening of Quince, a couple of sad closing announcements, a celebrity sighting at Atelier Crenn, and more.
SF News Possible Homicide In Presidio Heights as Police Investigate Woman's Death A welfare check on Thursday evening led to the discovery of a dead body in a Presidio Heights home, and it is being investigated as a homicide.
