SF News 20-Year-Old Vallejo Man Arraigned on Murder Charges Stemming From High-Speed Crash That Killed Mother and Son A 20-year-old man from Vallejo has been charged with murder after an allegedly stolen SUV he was driving crashed into a woman's car in Rodeo last week, killing her and one of her twin sons, and injuring the other.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award Finalists Include SingleThread, Lazy Bear, Abaca's Pastry Chef San Francisco isn't so well represented on this year's James Beard Award roster of finalists, but a couple of local stars have gotten nods, including Healdsburg's Michelin three-starred SingleThread.
Arts & Entertainment Pacifica’s 64-Year-Old Bowling Alley Announces It’s Closing Permanently On May 31 The old-school bowling alley and arcade with old-school prices, Sea Bowl in Pacifica, has announced it is closing permanently in two months, so schedule a visit if you want one more trip down its memory lanes.
SF News London Breed Talks Homelessness, Conservatorship and SF's 'Complicated Soup of Problems' on Jon Stewart's Podcast Now in his second season doing 'The Problem With Jon Stewart' podcast that also has a video component on Apple TV+, the comedian just had SF Mayor London Breed come on for an extended conversation on what he calls San Francisco's "complicated soup of problems."
SF News Oakland Mother Says Body of Woman Found Wrapped In Plastic and Carpet Is Her Daughter Oakland police aren't saying much about the “suspicious death” of a victim found Monday in the city's Uptown neighborhood, but a mother has come forward and said it was her 33-year-old daughter, and that the body was found wrapped in plastic and rolled in a carpet.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Twitter Restricts Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account (Again) Twitter has restricted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account over comments about the Nashville shooter; the feds have charged two more alleged Tenderloin drug dealers; and state economists have put a price tag on statewide reparations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Angling To Bring 2026 Super Bowl To Santa Clara Today’s storms wreaked havoc on NorCal roads from Napa County to Lake Tahoe, the scandal-scarred Lefty O’Doul’s restaurant in Fisherman’s Wharf will reopen as a candy emporium, and the 49ers are trying to bring the Super Bowl back to Santa Clara in 2026.
Business & Tech SF Game Developers Conference Rollicked By Multiple Allegations of Drink Spiking, Sexual Harassment At least six people say they were roofied at a Game Developers Conference afterparty in San Francisco last week, while other assault reports are trickling in, and the primarily male-attended conference is suffering some serious reputational damage.
SF News Yet More High-Rise Windows Crack as Salesforce East Has Second Broken Window Incident In a Week Another storm has brought another set of broken windows to 350 Mission Street, the high-rise otherwise known as Salesforce East, in a story that’s becoming frighteningly common this month.
SF News San Francisco's 'Urban Forest' Is Going to Need a Lot of Help Recovering From This Neverending Winter According to a running tally on the city's website, San Francisco has lost more than a thousand trees and tree limbs in the last couple of months, thanks to a battering parade of wet and windy storms. Reaching the city's tree-planting goal just got a whole lot harder.
Business & Tech Pinterest Offloading Yet Another Office Building In SoMa, This Time at Fourth And Brannan Streets Another office space haircut for a downtown SF tech firm, as Pinterest is bailing on 505 Brannan Street ten years before the lease is up, following rounds of layoffs in both December and February.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Elbo Room Was Slated to Close Permanently, But Has Found New Buyers at the Last Minute Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
SF News Two Recent Cases of Drug Dealers Arrested In SF End In Mistrials; Defense Argued Dealers Were Trafficked Supporters of crackdowns on open-air drug dealing in SF might be glad to know that two low- or mid-level drug dealers were recently put on trial. But the DA's office dropped the charges against them after both trials ended in hung juries.
SF News Pacifica Residents Wake Up to Wind, Rain, Three Small Earthquakes Three relatively small earthquakes, the largest a 3.4M, jolted Pacifica and nearby parts of the Peninsula Tuesday morning, but most of San Francisco likely slept through it.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 400th Winter Storm of the Season Passes Through SF Expect the rain to start fading by 2 p.m. in SF; an 11-year-old girl has died from injuries sustained after an alleged DUI collision outside her Solano Co. middle school; and a skydiver miraculously survived a crash into some power lines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That NFT-Backed Restaurant In Salesforce Park Appears Delayed There are tornadoes being forecast as possible along Highway 1 Tuesday and Wednesday; First Republic Bank shares rebounded a bit; and that proposed, NFT-backed sushi restaurant atop the Transit Center appears to be stalled.
Bay Area Sports Sergio Romo To Pitch For Giants One Last Time Tonight Former Giants pitcher Sergio Romo will end his 15-year career on a quickie contract with the Giants Monday night, and it looks like he may see more action than just a ceremonial first pitch in the Giants-A’s exhibition game at Oracle Park.
SF Politics South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna Won't Be Running for Feinstein's Seat, Endorses Barbara Lee Welp, one likely candidate in next year's race for California's soon-to-open-up Senate seat has taken himself out of the running, and that's South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown Food Hall China Live Hit With Eviction Lawsuit, Allegedly Owes $4.2 Million In Back Rent Some stunning local food industry gossip is now spilling publicly into the headlines, as the sprawling upscale food court China Live is allegedly $4.2 million in arrears on unpaid rent, but it seems there’s a whole lot more backstory to this nasty landlord-tenant feud.
Arts & Entertainment Murdoch's Bride-to-Be Had Bitter Court Fight Over Her Last Rich Husband's Modesto Estate Since we learned last week that billionaire conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch had taken a new fiancée with Bay Area roots, a few more details about her past divorces have emerged. And it looks like she's none too ashamed to be seen as a gold digger!
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Zoo Recovers Five Out of Six Escaped Birds The Oakland Zoo over the weekend successfully recaptured five out of six exotic birds that escaped their damaged enclosure last week, after a big eucalyptus tree came crashing down and tore the netting.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Gets Acquired By Something Called First Citizens Bank, Back Operating This Morning What’s left of the bankrupt and taken-over-by-the-government Silicon Valley Bank has been bought up by North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank, and while we don’t know the price, First Citizens got a hefty discount of at least $16.5 billion.
Business & Tech Disgruntled Former Employee Allegedly Leaked Twitter's Source Code on GitHub Twitter executives were scrambling late last week after the revelation that the platform's source code had been live and publicly available for download on the developer collaboration platform GitHub.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Next Storm Arrives Tonight With Wind and Rain Our next storm system is knocking at the door; longtime Oakland BBQ spot Everett & Jones was burglarized on two successive nights last week; and a portion of Highway 101 in Novato has reopened following a landslide.
SF News Shots Fired at Santa Clara County Deputies During Armed Standoff in Gilroy Sunday Morning When deputies tried to perform a wellness check on a Gilroy man, he responded by pulling out a gun and firing at them, and the crisis negotiations team has been tryinng to de-escalate.
