Business & Tech Twitter Fails To Remove Blue Checks For People Who Didn’t Pay, Only Removes the NY Times’ Check The Twitter D-Day for removing verification blue checks came and went without any noticeable blue check removal, with only the New York Times getting their check removed, and now Elon Musk has replaced the blue bird logo with a crypto meme.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Community Mourns the Loss of Legendary San Francisco Queen Heklina As news ripples out through the local and national drag community about the loss of San Francisco legend Heklina, many are processing the shocking news and mourning on social media.
SF News Sierra Snowpack April Measurement One of the Deepest Recorded In 80 Years Monday marked the all-important measurement of the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, and it was, as predicted, one of the deepest snowpacks recorded since records began being kept in 1941.
Arts & Entertainment Report: SF Drag Icon Heklina Dies While On Tour In London A beloved San Francisco drag legend, club owner, and pillar of the local nightlife community has reportedly passed away. Heklina, a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko, was on tour in London with friend and longtime collaborator Peaches Christ, and Peaches reported the news on Facebook.
SF News Three Months of Storms Have Wreaked Havoc On Bay Area Farmers’ Markets and Vendors The double-whammy of flooded crops and low attendance has farmers' markets and their vendors struggling, in a phenomenon that may not be over, even though it’s April.
SF News Developer Wants to Build Massive Residential Building at Sloat Garden Center Site, City Pushes Back About Height A Reno-based developer with a let's-call-it-interesting past when it comes to San Francisco projects is looking to build a huge, 646-unit residential building in the Outer Sunset, and the city says they have misinterpreted how the planning code and density bonus work.
SF News Some Bay Area Counties Ending Mask Requirements In Healthcare Settings, Unclear Whether SF Will Too Today’s the day that California is ending its mask and vaccine requirements for healthcare workers, but Alameda and Contra Costa counties will continue requiring masks, while SF public health officials have not made an announcement.
SF News Death Involving New Street Drug 'Tranq' Confirmed In San Jose While public health officials have been warning for months now that the new street drug "tranq" is being mixed with fentanyl and causing deadly results, we now have news of a South Bay death associated with the drug.
SF News Monday Morning Links: High Winds Expected Through Evening A man was killed in a shooting outside a Pleasant Hill sports bar early Monday; a high-wind advisory is in effect until 11 p.m.; and the year's most important measurement of the Sierra snowpack happens today.
SF News Two San Francisco Women Arrested on Suspicion of Arson, Burglary, and Vandalism at Rohnert Park Condo Two SF residents, Danesha Morales, 26, and Breanna Lewis, 36, are accused of setting a fire to their former residence in the North Bay that caused $200,000 of damage.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers' George Kittle Makes Exciting WWE WrestleMania Appearance Saturday Night A Watsonville woman died after her car went off an embankment near Seacliff State Beach in Aptos; the 49ers' famous tight end helped wrestler Pat McAfee take down WWE champion the Mix; and Mum's Cafe in Japantown is closing its doors.
SF News Man, 52, Shot and Killed in Tenderloin Saturday, Gunman Still At Large At 1:04 p.m. Saturday, on Golden Gate Avenue, a victim was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and later died in the hospital.
SF News BART's Chronic Delays Caused by New Trains' Braking Glitch in Wet Weather The new trains' automatic control system applies fail-safe brakes when sensors detect spinning wheels on wet tracks, causing all the wheels to go flat and suffer uneven wear — and no permanent fix is in sight.
SF News Mount Davidson Time Capsule from 1933 Opened Up Saturday Morning The old time capsule contained a bible, newspapers, and a directory, and a new one will be buried with an iPhone, an Armenian Bible, a face mask, issues of the San Francisco Chronicle, and more.
SF News Saturday Links: Three Back-To-Back Earthquakes Shake the East Bay Near the Oakland Zoo Saturday Morning The first 3.0-M quake had its epicenter right near the Oakland Zoo in Knowland Park around 9:30 a.m.; an investigation found that California's flavored tobacco ban isn't being enforced; and popular dumpling restaurant Dumpling Home is getting a second storefront.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Young Elephant Seals Return in Droves to Marin County A teen suspect has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two Berkeley brothers last year; Young elephant seals are back at Drakes Beach in Point Reyes; and a pair of Sacramentans allegedly killed a man, waited a few days, and dumped his remains near Vacaville.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Mexican Restaurant Don Ramon's Closing After 41 Years In SoMa Ugh. Two and a half years after we learned that longtime 11th Street stalwart Don Ramon's was in some financial trouble, the family that owns the restaurant announced that it is closing as of Friday, March 31.
SF News Big Meeting Looms Monday On the Fate of the Castro Theatre's Seats If you care one way or the other over the controversy regarding the Castro Theatre's seats, you may want to carve out some time to speak up at a crucial hearing on the matter this Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SPQR Chef Opens Mattina, a Pac Heights Breakfast Cafe and Aperitivo Bar That Will Offer Dinner Soon There's some exciting news up in Pac Heights, where chef Matthew Accarrino has just opened a second restaurant around the corner from the stellar SPQR, and it's called Mattina.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Raising Cane's Restaurant In Oakland Closes Dining Room Due to Crime Less than a year after the opening of the first Bay Area location of popular chicken-finger chain Raising Cane's in East Oakland, that location has decided to close its dining room to patrons out of safety concerns.
SF News NorCal Hunter Indicted For Smuggling Endangered Sheep Carcasses Through SFO These majestic Ladakh urial wild sheep are highly endangered, and some Sacramento-area big game hunter was indicted by the feds for allegedly killing and smuggling eight of them through SFO with forged papers claiming they were some other species.
SF News Shooter In 2017 Las Vegas Massacre Found to Have Grievance Against Casinos In Newly Revealed Documents The broader public, surviving victims, and victims' families have remained baffled for five and a half years by the motivations of Stephen Paddock, who perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history on October 1, 2017.
SF News Late-Night High-Speed Chase Knocks Down Power Pole in East Oakland, 6,000 Households Lose Power An estimated 6,000 East Oakland PG&E customers were without power between 3:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, all because of the wreckage caused by a 125 mph chase on I-880 near Fruitvale.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested After Alleged Armed Robbery at Santa Rosa Safeway, High-Speed Chase Down 101 Three men in their 20s surrendered to police after leading them on a high-speed chase for miles down Highway 101 Thursday night, following an alleged armed robbery at a Safeway store in Santa
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Set to Regulate Polluting Semi Trucks California has been granted a waiver from the feds to begin setting new emissions standards for semi trucks; a man shot in Oakland came to SF for hospital care Thursday; and there remains a small possibility of a spring storm next week.
