SF News Day Around The Bay: No Wood Fires For Christmas, As It’s Spare The Air Through Sunday A carjacking at Ocean View Park left a man shot, run over, and in critical condition, the Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga is soon to close permanently, and Spare The Air days are in effect through the weekend, so no wood fires for your Christmas.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
Arts & Entertainment Let’s Party With The Tree Twins, Who Are Here In SF Through Christmas Eve SFist held court with the royal tannenbaums known as the Tree Twins, and these two “firries” will be out enlightening San Francisco every night through December 24.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Bar Managers Get Active-Shooter Workshop Ahead of New Year's Eve Sadly, San Francisco's gayborhood is preparing for the worst this New Year's Eve following a deadly mass-shooting in Colorado Springs — the second mass shooting in the U.S. in six years to target the LGBTQ community specifically.
Business & Tech Tesla In Self-Driving Mode Blamed For Eight-Car Pileup On Bay Bridge We are now learning that a Thanksgiving Day multi-car crash that injured nine people is being blamed on a Tesla in “full self-driving” mode, as the Tesla reportedly came to an abrupt stop after a lane change, causing a chain-reaction pileup in the Yerba Buena tunnel.
SF News Hate Crime Charge Filed In Alleged Antisemitic Assault With Skateboard on Haight Street An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
Arts & Entertainment SF Fire Station Trucks In Real Snow From Tahoe In Hopes of Winning Holiday Decoration Contest Hoping to “bank” another victory in the annual SF Fire station holiday decorations contests, a Potrero Hill fire station hauled in 15 cubic yards of snow from the Sierra mountains to embellish their display and give local kids a real white Christmas.
SF News This Winter's First King Tides Arrive For Christmas Weekend It's that time of year again, when the high tides are extra high and the low tides are extra low around the Bay Area, and this weekend is when you'll see the water splashing higher than it usually does in many spots.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Earthquakes Rattle the East Bay There have only been a few handfuls of flight cancellations so far at Bay Area airports due to the Midwest storm, a 3.3M earthquake in the East Bay caused BART delays Wednesday night, and a Fremont carjacking leads to a serious injury crash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Mandates Masks Again In All Government Buildings Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a powerful speech before Congress; Oakland has reinstated its mask mandate for government buildings; and Tesla is reportedly planning layoffs.
SF Politics Drama In Alameda County DA's Office, As Outgoing DA Tries To Direct $20 Million To Her Own Projects Retiring Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley tried to direct $20 million out incoming DA Pamela Price’s budget and into a set of her own pet nonprofits and projects, but she’s withdrawn that request after blowback.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Nanking Is Getting a Food Network Docuseries Premiering Next Week The six-episode docuseries about the father-and-daughter team behind House of Nanking and Fang is coming to the Food Network next week, as ‘Chef Dynasty: House of Fang’ goes behind the scenes with one of SF’s premier Chinese food families.
Bay Area Sports Meet the Local Food Entrepreneurs Behind the Delicious Food at Warriors' Games In the Bay Area, there's growing support, both among developers and consumers, for a new generation of mom-and-pop eateries as opposed to ubiquitous corporate chains. Chase Center might exemplify this trend.
Bay Area Sports Giant Screw-Up: Giants Lose Free Agent Mega-Acquisition Carlos Correa to Mets SF Giants fans are getting a lump of free agency coal this holiday season, as the team backed out of its blockbuster $350 million deal with All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa, and then Correa promptly bolted to the Mets.
SF News Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Hobbled By Hypothermia, Taken In By Oakland Zoo There’s another mountain lion rescue and hopeful recovery underway at the Oakland Zoo, as a young mountain lion cub found abandoned in freezing temperatures is recovering at the zoo from hypothermia.
SF News New Owner of Transamerica Pyramid Says It Is Around 80% Leased, Promises New City Park at Its Base At some point in 2023, the iconic Transamerica Pyramid is set to emerge from a $250 million renovation, with new public amenities at its base, including restaurants and a revamped redwood park.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi to Get Added Security In Congressional Spending Bill After Leaving Speakership A provision in the government funding package working its way through Congress ahead of a December 23 deadline would provide added security to former Speakers of the House — just in time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from the speakership.
SF News Residential Fire In Noe Valley Displaces Five Adults, Two Kids A two-alarm fire burned through a three-story residential building in Noe Valley early Wednesday, causing significant damage and displacing five adults, two children, and two family pets — though no one was injured in the blaze.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Power Still Out For Thousands In Humboldt County The lights are still off for thousands of homes and businesses in Humboldt County after Tuesday's quake; Elon Musk's security team is sought for questioning in SoCal incident; and the Oakland chapter of NAACP still wants the city to pay for a mayor's race recount.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Condor Club Becomes First Topless Club To Get Legacy Business Status Prominent SF landlord Victor Makras managed to avoid jail time for bank fraud, Oakland college Holy Names University is closing after 154 years, and North Beach’s Condor Club is officially the first strip club on the SF Legacy Business Registry.
Bay Area Sports Brock Purdy Jerseys Selling So Fast That 49ers Can’t Keep Up The 259th pick of the 2022 NFL Draft is now “the miracle worker” phenom Brock Purdy, and as such, the 49ers team shop is fresh out of his No. 13 jersey for which the team did not anticipate such overwhelming demand.
SF News Lil Six-Month-Old Pup Abandoned at SFO Adopted By Airline Pilot After Bizarre Odyssey This six-month-old pupper Polaris was abandoned at SFO back in September, but an airline pilot and his family have taken the dog in, after dozens of United Airlines employees clamored to adopt the puppy.
SF News We Are Going to Be Spared a New Scott Peterson Trial, at Least For Now A judge on Tuesday denied convicted wife-murderer Scott Peterson a new trial, so pending any further appeals, we may not need to hear from Peterson again, at least for a while.
SF News Nonprofits Lay Out Plan To End Homelessness In California — For $8 Billion a Year An $8.1 billion investment every year for the next 12 years could end homelessness in California, according to a new analysis that says pandemic-era levels of spending sustained over more than a decade would house everyone who needs housing.
Business & Tech Musk Said to Be Seeking New Twitter CEO, But He Now Says Future Polling On Policy Changes Reserved for Twitter Blue Users After 57% of respondents in a Twitter poll on Sunday told Elon Musk he should step down as Chief Twit, he seems to be following through — though how quickly a new CEO could be in place is anyone's guess.
