Business & Tech Sunny Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes's Ex-Partner In Business and the Bedroom, Begins 13-Year Prison Sentence Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the 57-year-old former COO of Theranos who was convicted last year — like his former business partner Elizabeth Holmes — of defrauding investors in their blood-testing startup, is set to enter prison today.
Arts & Entertainment How 4:20 Came to Mean 'Smoke Weed' and Inspire SF's 4/20 Celebration It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
SF News Oakland Police Are Warning Drivers About a Wave of Carjackings and Robberies That Start With Intentional Collisions The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says that they are getting an increased number of reports about armed robberies and carjackings that follow a similar pattern, and they were urging drivers to be "vigilant" and take steps to reduce their risk of being a crime victim.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Move to Las Vegas Looks Like a Done Deal, Team Just Bought Stadium Site, But Who Knows A wild Wednesday night of developments loaded the bases for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas, as the A’s organization bought land for a stadium, Major League Baseball blessed the deal, and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao declared she was done negotiating with team executives.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 20,000 Stoners Expected to Crowd Hippie Hill For 4/20 20,000 people are expected to descend on Hippie Hill for 4/20; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe says he fears for his safety amid a police scandal; and this morning's SpaceX Starship launch was a failure, but not an abject failure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Needs a New $5M Elevator at 16th & Mission Newsom made a surprise visit to the Tenderloin today; an on-duty BART employee has been arrested in a fatal hit-and-run; and BART's new elevator at 16th & Mission somehow is costing $5 million.
SF News SFMTA Board Member Admits to Illegally Lobbying City Hall Colleagues To Get Permits for Italian Restaurant Vice chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors Gwyneth Borden took an undisclosed $12,500 to help a Sunset District Italian restaurant, and worked the Planning Commission she used to be a member of to help the restaurant get permits for a roof deck.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Announced SF Theater Seasons Include 'Company,' Pre-Broadway Preview of 'The Wiz' and World Premiere of 'Galileo' The announcements are in for the 2023-24 theater seasons in San Francisco and Berkeley, and after some sputtering through the last couple years of a pandemic, the show schedule finally looks very full once more.
SF Politics Four Candidates Already In Race For Ronen’s District 9 Seat, as She’s Termed Out Next Year Nearly 19 months before the November 2024 election, four candidates already say they’re running for the District 9 seat from which Hillary Ronen will be termed out, a real contrast from the other five 2024 SF supervisor races where no one has really declared.
SF News One Person In Critical Condition After Two-Alarm Fire In Russian Hill A two-alarm fire broke out in a four-story residential building on Leavenworth Street in Russian Hill Wednesday afternoon, and one person has been seriously injured.
Arts & Entertainment The End of an Era: Netflix Announces End of DVDs by Mail The business that got Netflix off the ground — and put Blockbuster in the ground — sending DVDs through the mail in red envelopes, is going to be no more as of this September.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area-Set Jennifer Garner Show 'The Last Thing He Told Me' Is Oddly Obsessed With Local Food Jennifer Garner's new show premiered Friday on Apple TV+, and it's based on the 2021 mystery-thriller novel by Laura Dave, 'The Last Thing He Told Me,' and set in Sausalito, San Francisco, and Texas.
SF News Random Loose Horse Spotted Near Oakland Coliseum We have another incident in the annals of roving farm animals in Bay Area cities, this time in Oakland, and nowhere near any farms.
SF News DA Price: Three Gang Members Shot Up Wrong Vehicle When Five-Year-Old Was Killed Sounding tougher on crime this week after the dustup involving the Jasper Wu case, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price gave a press conference with the CHP and Fremont police on Tuesday about the killing of five-year-old Eliyanah Crisostomo.
SF News With Over 200 Overdose Deaths In SF So Far This Year, 2023 May Be the Worst Year Yet For the Fentanyl Crisis The number of accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, most of them caused by fentanyl, has risen sharply in the first quarter of 2023 — with 200 deaths so far this year, up from 142 in the same period last year.
SF News Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Shot and Killed When Confronting Shoplifter A 26-year old Home Depot employee was shot and killed on the job in Pleasanton Tuesday afternoon while trying to thwart a shoplifter, in a story that gets more heartbreaking when we learn that the shooter had a getaway car with a young child inside.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Thursday Could Be a Real Cluster In SF, Traffic-Wise Thursday afternoon could bring a bunch of car traffic to two ends of San Francisco; Oakland's City Council has voted to end the eviction moratorium; and the NBA has suspended Draymond Green for Game 3.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Announces Single-Day Lineups Fox News settled their Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit for nearly $800 million, the Petaluma “mommy influencer” headed to court today over her allegedly faked kidnapping story, and Outside Lands announced its single-day schedules.
SF News ‘$1.7 Million Toilet’ Controversy Toilet Comes Out OK In the End, Supes Approve Lower-Cost Project After the $1.7 million toilet project released a torrent of outrage, the SF Board of Supervisors plopped down the cost with donations and state grants, approving the Noe Valley bathroom and maybe even a Precita Park bathroom too.
SF News Attorney for 'Techie' Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Tries to Cast Doubt on First-Degree Murder Charge — But There's Video The crazy insane murder case of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, the details of the prosecution's evidence for which were all laid bare on Friday, will no doubt make for some gripping courtroom drama, whenever the trial does take place.
SF Politics Republicans Rebuff Dianne Feinstein's Attempt to Get Temporary Replacement on Judiciary In a move that is bound to raise the pressure on Dianne Feinstein to do the proverbial thing or get off the pot, Senate Republicans on Monday scoffed at the idea that they would allow a temporary Democratic replacement to assume Dianne Feinstein's seat on a key committee.
Arts & Entertainment SF SPCA Celebrates 155th Anniversary Tuesday Night With ‘Late Night Wooftop Party’ The San Francisco SPCA is fur-nishing cocktails, bites, and DJ dancing at Thursday night’s Late Night Wooftop Party at Dandelion Chocolate Factory, with animal therapy pets on hand to greet you.
Bay Area Sports Still Stuck In Their Regular Season Road Rut, the Warriors Fall 0-2 Against the Kings In Round 1 With a 114-106 loss to the Sacramento Kings last night, the Warriors have fallen 0-2 in Round 1 of the playoffs heading back to Chase Center, with Game 3 on Thursday. This is new and ominous terrain for Golden State, though the problems sullying the Warriors in Games 1 and 2 are all too familiar.
SF News Dude Seen Harassing Pier 39 Sea Lions In Viral Video Being Investigated A video showing a guy shotgunning a beer, taking a backward dive into the Bay near Pier 39, and then jumping up on the sea lion platforms to scare them off has led to a federal investigation.
SF News Berkeley Gets Burned as Federal Appeals Court Overturns Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction, which could have national repercussions as other cities consider phasing out natural gas stoves, furnaces, and water heaters.
