SF News Humpday Headlines: FAA System Failure Causes Widespread Flight Delays A critical FAA system went down Wednesday causing widespread flight delays and cancellations; a 71-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in West Oakland this morning; and you can expect more rain throughout the day today, along with possible thunder.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Storms Have Claimed At Least 17 Lives An SF gallery owner is going viral for spraying an unhoused woman with a hose, the Giants are now looking vindicated in the Carlos Correa mess, and the death toll stands at 17 in these two weeks of California storms.
Arts & Entertainment Punk Bands Rocked Out an Impromptu Live Show On a Moving BART Train Friday Night Punk’s not dead, it just slithered onto an eastbound BART train Friday night for a live show called “Sh*tshow On BART” that more than lived up to its name before BART Police shut the shenanigans down.
SF News Mother and Daughter Rescued From Car After Tree, Power Lines Fall on Fulton Street A mother and daughter were able to be rescued — and their car appeared mostly undamaged — after a very big tree fell along Fulton Street Tuesday, bringing power lines down with it, one of which blew out their sunroof.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Drops, Includes Björk, Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean BottleRock beat them to the punch by a day, but now Coachella's organizers have unveiled the lineup for 2023's dual-weekend fest in the desert — the first lineup in three years that is a wholly new bill and not a cobbled-together lineup of rescheduled acts from a COVID-canceled festival.
SF News Fallen Tree Crushes Car Near Japantown; Tree Falls on Muni Bus Near Union Square A big tree fell over Tuesday next to the Hamilton Playground and tennis courts on Post Street between Pierce and Steiner, totaling a parked car and temporarily blocking part of the street.
SF News SFPD Now Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Cold-Case Shooting In Marina That Killed Visitor 32-year-old Samuel St. Pierre was visiting SF from Placer County when he was shot and killed on June 19, and police are now offering $50,000 for information that could help lead to an arrest.
SF News Update: Lightning Strikes Transamerica Pyramid, Sutro Tower Lightning strikes in San Francisco were caught on video people on Twitter on Tuesday, and bolts appears to strike the tip top of the Transamerica Pyramid — which is not unheard of — as well as Sutro Tower.
Business & Tech Laid-Off Twitter Employees Finally Get Severance Offers, Which Are Unsurprisingly Less Than Promised That three-months severance for laid-off Twitter employees is more like a one-month severance, does not include owed bonus and stock money, and comes with a lifelong commitment to testifying on Twitter’s behalf in lawsuits.
SF News Longtime Bay Area Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Still Lives For the Drama at KTVU We at SFist have long been fans of weatherwoman Roberta Gonzales, who blithely delivered the weather for two decades over at KPIX for decades, and now she's in the middle of all this weather news in her post at KTVU.
SF Politics Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF News Here's a Satellite Image of the Storm Currently Battering Northern California The storm bringing with it heavy rain, high winds, and thunderstorm cells can be seen as a distinct cyclone off the coast of Oregon and Northern California — and it's not through with us yet.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Wind, Blinding Rain, and Hail Cause Damage Around the Bay Hail fell hard around San Francisco at 6:15 a.m. and continues to fall around the Bay, downed trees are being reported all over, and an apartment complex in South San Francisco had part of its roof blown off.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Second Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Another mountain lion cub was found abandoned near Santa Cruz and brought to the Oakland Zoo, some spots to our south saw 10 inches of rain between last night and this morning, and Mary's Pizza Shack is closing several more locations.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ Center Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Will Be Hopping All Week This year marks a double-anniversary: the 40th of the San Francisco Jazz Festival and this week’s 10th anniversary of the SFJAZZ Center, and the stars will be out including Laurie Anderson, Bill Frisell, and Marcus Shelby.
SF News Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Can Prosecute Resentencing the Murder Case Against Mayor Breed’s Brother, Court Rules A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied a motion Monday morning that asked to take the murder resentencing of Mayor Breed’s brother out of the hands of DA Brooke Jenkins’s office, a motion that was made by Breed’s brother’s attorneys.
SF Politics Board of Supervisors Palace Intrigue: Peskin Takes Presidency as Board Ousts Walton From Top Spot If you thought last week’s Kevin McCarthy drama was nuts, wait 'til you hear about Supervisor Aaron Peskin winning the SF Board of Supervisors presidency after 17 votes, in what was either a masterful move of three-dimensional chess, or a sign of just utter dysfunction.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win 10th Game In a Row to End Regular Season, Face the Seahawks In Wildcard Game Next Week With one of the best records in the league, it's kind of a bummer that the 49ers have to play in the wild-card round. But that is what's happening on Saturday.
SF News Huge Landslides Shut Down Roads In Santa Cruz County, Including Southbound Highway 17 Impacts from the ongoing parade of storms continue to be most severe just south of the Bay Area in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and on Monday, the main route into Santa Cruz from the north, Highway 17, was completely blocked by a landslide.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Drops Its 2023 Lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and More The tenth anniversary BottleRock lineup and dates were just announced, with tickets going on sale Tuesday for a jam-packed roster of artists that includes Lil Nas X, Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince, One of SF's Three Michelin Three-Star Restaurants, to Close For Six-Month Renovation Nine years after its last large-scale renovation, downtown dining destination Quince is closing later this month for six months to undergo another significant overhaul.
SF News Rainy Morning Gives Way to Dry Monday as Next Deluge Sets Up for Tuesday Most of the Bay Area will get a brief respite from the rain today after a wet and windy Monday morning.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Federal Disaster Aid Approved For California Biden approved federal disaster aid for California's storms; BART delays, flooding, downed trees, and more were impacting this morning's commute around the Bay; and NOAA's hurricane hunters are now out studying atmospheric rivers over the Pacific.
