SF News Day Around the Bay: Justice Department Wants To Break Up Google Governor Newsom met with Monterey Park shooting hero Brandon Tsay, Kevin McCarthy is tossing East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee, and the Department of Justice wants to break up Google over its digital ad monopoly.
SF News Supervisors Pass Ambitious Housing Element Plan to Build 82,000 New Units By 2031 A nearly year-long housing policy battle appears to have come to a surprisingly harmonious conclusion, as the SF Board of Supervisors just unanimously passed a state-mandated housing element, and in an unexpected surprise, the state says it will approve the plan.
SF News SFPD Again Raises Reward Money for Info In 'Doodler' Case, This Time to $250,000 Following a 2021 podcast that shed some new light on the long cold Doodler serial-killer case from the 197os, the SFPD said they were "closer than ever" to solving the case at this time last year. But they are still coming up short on evidence.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Defensive Lineman Charles Omenihu Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges It’s a bad time for a bad distraction, but the 49ers now have one as defensive end Charles Omenihu was arrested in San Jose late Monday afternoon for misdemeanor domestic violence.
Arts & Entertainment New Carol Doda Mural Now On Display Outside North Beach Bistro Bodega Groundbreaking exotic dancer Carol Doda, once known as "the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco," now graces the peaks of North Beach, as the nation’s first topless dancer receives tribute in a new outdoor mural at Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Allegedly Made Threats, Acted Violently Toward Coworker a Decade Ago The first bit of evidence has emerged about a volatile, violent past involving former coworkers and Half Moon Bay mass-shooting suspect Zhao Chunli, and this comes via a restraining order that was filed ten years ago.
Arts & Entertainment Music and Theater Venue PianoFight Is Closing Its SF and Oakland Locations In March While scrappy Tenderloin theater PianoFight may have survived the pandemic til now, it's been clear that the casualties are continuing to mount, and it is now adding itself to the list.
Business & Tech Now Even King Charles III Is Suing Twitter Over Unpaid Rent Elon Musk’s office-space squatting strategy is making waves of litigation on the other side of the pond too, as the real estate manager for the Royal Family’s Crown Estate is also hauling Musk to court over refusal to pay rent at Twitter’s London office.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Scores Big With Oscar Noms for German-Language War Epic, But Streamers Mostly Shut Out This Year Los Gatos-based Netflix is the only one of the big players in streaming video to score big with Oscar nominations this year for their German-language WWI epic 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
SF News President Biden Offers Condolences, Pledges Support For Half Moon Bay; First Victim Named President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued a statement early Tuesday expressing grief for the victims in the latest mass shooting in California — this one close to home for us on the San Francisco Peninsula. And we are beginning to learn the names of those who were killed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 69 People Killed In Mass Shootings So Far This Year In U.S. There is still no known motive for Monday's mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay; a person was fatally struck by a BART train at Lafayette Station Tuesday morning; and a shootout between individuals at a gas station in Oakland left one dead and seven injured.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dog Rescued From Under Rocks at Ocean Beach There may be more victims in the Half Moon Bay shooting from earlier today, Twitter is officially being sued by its Market Street landlord, and a dog was rescued from a curious predicament at Ocean Beach.
SF News [Update] Shootings With Eight Victims In Half Moon Bay, Suspect Arrested Details are few as of now, but at least four people are dead in Half Moon Bay in two shootings, one of which may have occurred at a cannabis farm.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smart-Alecky ‘Vegan McDonald’s’ Knock-Off Opens in Union Square, Right Across From Real McDonald’s Saturday saw the San Francisco opening of the up-an-coming plant-based fast-food chain Mr. Charlie’s, whose menu items and promotions clown on Ronald McDonald and the broader McDonald’s franchise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Night Market-Inspired Restaurant From Former Aina Chef Debuts In the Mission Fans of chef Chris Yang and his popular former Hawaiian spot Aina (RIP), and/or pop-up projects like El Chino Grande, will be excited to hear (if they haven't already) that he's opened a new brick-and-mortar spot on Mission Street.
SF News Sunday’s 49ers Traffic In Santa Clara ‘Worse Than Any Time In Levi’s History’ Eight and a half years into the Levi’s Stadium era, Santa Clara and the 49ers seemingly still have not figured out the traffic situation near the stadium, and fans and sports media alike care calling Sunday’s game-day mess the “worst traffic jam in Levi’s Stadium history.”
SF Politics Safe Drug-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs' Back on the Table In SF With New Proposed Legislation San Francisco may try to follow the "New York Model" of turning a blind eye and providing some funding for "wellness" centers that allow consumption of illegal drugs under new legislation being put forward by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.
Bay Area Sports Niners Best Cowboys In a Defensive Grind, Move On to NFC Championship Game vs. Philadelphia When the Dallas Cowboys' huge, lightning fast defensive lineman smothered Brock Purdy on a 2nd and 10 less than one minute into Sunday's Divisional game at Levi's Stadium, it was clear that the San Francisco 49ers were going to have their hands full.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: SF’s 15% Delivery-Fee Cap Effectively Ends Next Week, When New ‘Compromise’ Deal Kicks In After San Francisco was first to adopt a pandemic-era fee cap for third-party delivery sites like DoorDash and Grubhub, a compromise deal will take effect here January 31 where the apps can go back to charging way more than 15%.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Join London Breed to Celebrate $400M Federal Grant for Golden Gate Bridge Upgrades "We know that the dollars in the federal government are hard to get, which is why this funding is significant," said SF Mayor London Breed at a Monday morning event at the Roundhouse Cafe at the Golden Gate Bridge, celebrating a major new grant from the Biden Administration.
SF Politics Suspended Oakland Police Chief Swings Back, Mounts Campaign to Be Reinstated Placed on paid administrative leave over alleged mishandling of internal discipline, Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong is going on offense with a lawyer, PR representative, and allies he’s rounded up.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Plan Increased Security at Lunar New Year Events Following SoCal Shooting The mood was subdued on Sunday at an annual Lunar New Year kickoff event in San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, after members of the Asian American community in the Southern California city of Monterey Park were senselessly gunned down amid celebrations there the night before.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Castro Bar Closes After 27 Years A pedestrian was killed in a vehicle collision on Cathedral Hill; SF firefighters rescued two people from a cliff at Fort Funston; and Harvey's, the 27-year-old bar and restaurant at the corner of 18th and Castro, closed for good on Sunday.
SF News Back-to-Back Early Sunday Morning Collisions In the Mission Leave Two Injured, One Dead The suspect accused of crashing his vehicle into a pedestrian and another vehicle — fatally — on 16th Street is reportedly in custody and an investigation is ongoing.
SF News Sunday Links: Woman Dies After Tesla Crashes Into Residential Swimming Pool in Marin Police say the car careened through a fence and into the pool, though the reason for the crash is still unknown.
