SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Would-be Napa Terrorist Ordered to Get Psych Evaluation The Napa Trumper who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb "Democrat buildings" is being ordered to get a psych evaluation, two new Omicron subvariants are likely to drive some sort of winter surge, and Jane Fonda has endorsed Honey Mahogany for D6 supervisor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One of Two Juries In Kristin Smart Murder Trial Returns With Verdict Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID state of emergency will officially end in late February, a high-speed chase ends tragically in Oakland, and the jury deciding on the guilt or innocence of Ruben Flores in the Kristin Smart murder trial has returned.
SF Politics Breed Zings Elon Musk, Saying He ‘Got a Ton of Tax Breaks in California and Decided to Take That Money and Run’ SF Mayor London Breed had choice words for Elon Musk’s moving Tesla headquarters to Texas in a new Bloomberg interview, and even ribbed Marc Benioff a bit.
SF News Two Oakland Men Arrested On 38 (Yes, 38) Counts of Auto Burglary Two men alleged to be affiliated with gangs are in custody and stand accused of an astonishing 38 counts of auto burglary, and they’re both now in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
Arts & Entertainment The Legendary Kiki & Herb Return to San Francisco to Do a Holiday Show at the Curran For the first time in 15 years, Kiki & Herb are on tour, and they are bringing the latest iteration of their holiday spectacular, "Do You Hear What We Hear?" to the Curran Theater for one night only, December 9.
SF News Permanent Sunday Streets-Style Street Park Being Proposed for the Tenderloin It could be Sunday Streets every day on the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue, as a coalition of volunteer groups and nonprofits continues pushing for a plan to close that street to car traffic and make it a permanent playground.
Business & Tech OMG Elizabeth Holmes Showed Up In Court Looking Pregnant, Again As Elizabeth Holmes stares down a prison term of an indeterminate amount of years, she remained smiling as she showed up in court Monday for an evidentiary hearing that's a last-bid attempt by her attorneys to get her a new trial. And, she seems to be possibly pregnant yet again.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fall to Atlanta In a Game They Were Expected to Win When the 2-3 Atlanta Falcons marched straight down the field on their first, seven-ish-minute drive on Sunday for the eventual touchdown, it was clear that the game — which on paper favored the San Francisco 49ers — was going to be tougher than expected.
Business & Tech Kanye West is Buying Right-Wing Social Media Site Parler, What Could Go Right? Increasingly incoherent and unraveling rap star Kanye West’s latest bid for attention has him buying the wingnut-haven social media site Parler, though financial terms were not disclosed, and might not even exist.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Did Not Stray Far From His and Relatives' Homes to Find Victims We've learned a bit more information about suspected serial killer Wesley Brownlee since his arrest on Saturday, and it appears that several of his victims were killed within feet of either his home or the homes of relatives in Stockton.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Police Arrest Sexual Assault Suspect BART police have arrested a suspect in an Oct. 6 sexual assault in Walnut Creek, two Sonoma County deputies shot a man near downtown Sonoma who they say fired on them, and flu season may have already arrived in California with an outbreak in San Diego.
SF News [Update] Two People Shot In San Francisco's Fillmore District A shooting Sunday night left at least two people injured on a street near Jefferson Square Park, after a barrage of gunfire was heard throughout the Fillmore neighborhood.
SF News First-Ever Map Depicting San Francisco Bay Is Going to Auction This Month A map, which was scribed in Mexico on October 30, 1770, and is considered among historians to be the first map showing the San Francisco Bay, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on October 25.
SF News SF Zoo's New Pygmy Hippo Is As Cute As It Is Endangered San Francisco Zoo & Gardens announced Friday that it recently became home to a two-year-old male pygmy hippopotamus named "Udo" — which translates to "peace" in Igbo — becoming the first of this rare species to be kept at the zoo since 2004.
SF News Sunday Links: In Some '90s Nostalgia, Toys 'R' Us Has Returned to the Bay Area Macy’s stores across SF and San Jose are debuting new Toys 'R' Us pop-ups, cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Garfield Square Park, and the space that belonged to the former Touchless Car Wash at Divisadero and Oak streets will no longer become an apartment complex.
SF News Police: Serial Killer Suspect Arrested In Stockton While Out 'Hunting' For New Victim Law enforcement said last week that the modus operandi of an apparent serial killer made him very likely to be caught, and on Saturday, Stockton police announced an arrest.
SF News Bay Area 7-Eleven Sells Winning Mega Millions Lottery Ticket Worth $247M On Friday, one of two winning tickets for the CA Mega Millions lottery was sold at the 7-Eleven at 1413 Kooser Road in San Jose — leaving the two players to split the $494M Mega Millions jackpot evenly, each of them now entitled to a massive $247M prize.
SF News Saturday Links: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Vandalized, Over 60 Windows Broken There was an "ambush-style" robbery in the Mission District, a security camera filmed dozens of windows at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital being broken, and a Yountville bakery made a life-size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite — completely out of carbs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nearly 30 New Lanterns Come to SF's Chinatown — and Each Tells a Story 29 new lanterns were recently installed in San Francisco's Chinatown, Albertsons — which is Safeway with different branding — is being bought by Kroger, and FYI: The largest hay maze in the city is located at the SF Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment New Documentary Dives Into the Furor Over That Wildly Controversial Washington High Mural The high school mural that’s spawned years of shouting matches, lawsuits, and national media animus towards San Francisco gets the documentary treatment in ‘Town Destroyer,’ playing at The Roxie and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jagged Little Pill' Wears Its Pain On Its Sleeve, and It's an Exhilarating and Clever New Rock Musical A jukebox musical featuring the angsty but sometimes poetic music of Alanis Morissette, directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, and featuring a book by Oscar winner Diablo Cody, may sound cringe-y, but it is more than the sum of its parts.
SF News [Update] Well-Known Alleged Serial Sexual Predator Arrested Following Warrant Alleged SF serial predator Bill Gene Hobbs has spent plenty more time in the headlines lately than in custody, though he was arrested Friday not long after a warrant was issued for him Friday morning.
SF News Three Arrested Following Standoff, Including 15-Year-Old, In Armed Robbery Outside Mission Bar The SFPD apprehended three suspects believed to be responsible for an armed robbery outside of a Mission District bar earlier this week, following a Wednesday standoff in SoMa.
SF Politics Retired Judge Files State Bar Complaint Against SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Citing Dishonest Conduct Ahead of the November election in which mayoral appointee to the SF DA's office Brooke Jenkins is hoping to be elected by the people, there appears to be at least one October surprise.
SF News BART Delays Are Worse Than They’ve Been In a Decade, According to BART’s Own Data If you think BART's been bad lately, it’s not your imagination — one in three BART cars has been delayed over the last year, thanks to staffing shortages, aging equipment malfunctioning, and what we euphemistically call “police activity.”
