Business & Tech Netflix Is Letting Go of Its Original Headquarters Building In Los Gatos (But Not Its Main HQ) Netflix, in the wake of a couple of rough quarters, hundreds of layoffs, and intensifying competition from the likes of HBO Max, Hulu, and others, is downsizing its office holdings both in the Bay Area and in SoCal.
SF News Viral Video Leads to Onslaught of Complaints About Deluxe Dog Hotel In SF One local woman's TikTok video about her dog Miso's recent stay at a Wag Hotel in San Francisco has sparked a round of expected online outrage from the dog-owning community.
SF News Three Arrests Made Chinatown Attack of 70-Year-Old Woman, One Suspect Is Only 11 Years Old Four suspects have been identified and three were arrested in last month’s group attack on a 70-year-old woman in Chinatown, but it certainly complicates their prosecution that the suspects are ages 18, 14, 13, and... 11.
SF News SFPD Offers $50K Reward, Releases Suspect Vehicle Photo In April Basketball Court Shooting Four men were shot, two of them fatally, at a Crocker-Amazon playground basketball court in April, and the SFPD is now seeking the public's help in finding the shooter.
SF News Two Alleged Gang Members Found Guilty of Federal Murder Charges In 2019 Fillmore Heritage Center Shooting Two men who are said to be members of San Francisco's Mac Block gang have been found guilty by a federal jury of killing one man and injuring several others in a March 2019 shooting at a memorial service on Fillmore Street.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Hosting a Phone-In Town Hall on Monkeypox at 5 p.m. Tuesday Nearly 30% of all California monkeypox cases are right here in the City and County of San Francisco, and so our congressional rep and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing a phone town hall with a who’s-who of local public health figures tonight.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hot Weather Fuels Wildfires Around the Bay This week's heatwave is expected to test California's power grid once again, a 50-acre wildfire was threatening a subdivision in Dublin on Monday, and Apple is now saying employees need to be back in the office three days per week after Labor Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Gets Two-Month Reprieve From Feds Laguna Honda doesn't have to discharge or transfer patients now until November 13, Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody is being deposed in a COVID lawsuit from a church, and a Southwest flight had to make an emergency landing in Oakland.
SF News SFPD Hosts Town Hall on Last Weekend’s Police Shooting on Shotwell Street The police department is still not exactly saying who shot first in an August 6 shootout between officers and a suspected bike thief, but it turns out the suspect did not have a real gun.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Defends Secretive $100,000 Payment from Anti-Boudin Group, Which Turns Out Was Actually $153,000 In her first interview on the matter of a previously unreported $100,000 payment, which we now learn was a $153,000 payment, SF DA Brooke Jenkins continues to insist that her consulting for a group bankrolling the recall was unrelated to the recall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Love Is Expanding to Gough Street In Hayes Valley Burma Love, the offshoot of Burma Superstar with a lively location on Valencia Street, will be adding another location soon in the former Boxing Room/Barcino space in Hayes Valley.
SF News New Study Shows a Potential California Megaflood Could Be the Most Costly Natural Disaster In Human History Residents of California are conditioned to fear the "Big One." But as the climate crisis worsens, environmental experts believe that it's not an earthquake Californians should worry about most — but rather a megaflood that could engulf the entire state.
Arts & Entertainment It's Been Four Years Since Salesforce Park and the Transit Center Opened — and Then Closed and Opened Again The building and its rooftop park remain shining examples of innovative urban development and canaries in the coal mine of a slowly reviving downtown, waiting for you to return.
SF News SoulCycle Is Shutting Down One Of Its San Francisco Locations Amid Full-Scale Downsizing Once mega-popular spinning gym SoulCycle has taken a hit from pandemic at-home workouts, lingering anxiety around group fitness, and widespread sales of Peloton bikes, and it means that the company is shutting down 25 percent of its U.S. studios and laying off around 75 employees.
SF News 12 People Need Rescue When Napa Fair Double-Ferris Wheel Breaks Down Mid-Ride Children as young as eight years old were stuck in the sky when a ride malfunctioned Saturday night at the Napa Town & Country Fair, requiring a fire department ladder truck to get them all down safely.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Arrested In Double-Homicide of Relatives In Bayview A 23-year-old man has been arrested following an investigation into the killings of two people said to be related to him inside a Bayview District home.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crashes Kill Two In Oakland and Napa A five-car pileup early Monday on I-880 in Oakland led to a hit-and-run fatality, mental health workers are going on strike at Kaiser, and two children were wounded in separate shootings in Oakland.
SF News Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Opens Its First Weekend Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic To vaccinate as many people against monkeypox as possible, the walk-in vaccine clinic at 1001 Potrero Avenue opened Saturday for its first weekend to immunize patients.
SF News Sunday Links: Warm Temperatures Expected to Heat Up Bay Area Next Week A fast-casual vegan spot will open tomorrow in Hayes Valley, this year's USA Masters Summer Diving Championship at College of Marin in Novato included a 94-year-old athlete from the East Bay, and many parts of the Bay Area will get uncomfortably hot next week.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Attacks Two Asian Women in SF's Richmond District, Leaves Neighbors 'More Afraid' A French bulldog was stolen from a boy in Oakland, a cohort of East Bay artists has successfully avoided displacement from live-work units, and surveillance footage shot Wednesday shows two Asian women — one of them 65 years old — being brutally assaulted by a man donning a black hoodie.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vice President Kamala Harris Returns to Oakland for College Fund Announcement The man killed in a shooting at a Brentwood 24 Hour Fitness has been identified, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Oakland Friday to support the launch of the Oakland Generation Fund, and classified documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
SF News SF Taiko Dojo Being Evicted at End of the Month, May Be Forced to Disband With their rent being tripled effective September 1, the popular long-running Bay Area Japanese drumming group and cultural collective San Francisco Taiko Dojo is looking at eviction, and may have already had their last performance.
SF News Stanford University Issues Alert After Woman Raped on Campus It’s unknown whether the victim was a student, but there is a physical description of the suspect, who has been seen “on campus before.”
SF News Feds Target Marin County ‘Wellness’ Gurus Accused of Fraudulent Business and $2 Million In Unpaid Taxes The author of “Skinny, Tan and Rich: Unveiling the Myth,” and her husband, stand accused of dodging a $2 million tax bill, and federal prosecutors allege they set up an LLC scheme to hide their assets.
Business & Tech Amazon to Bring Eerie-Sounding ‘Palm Scanner Payment Technology’ to SF Whole Foods Stores A bizarre biometric form of payment is coming to several Bay Area Whole Foods locations, allowing you to pay just by waving your palm. But is it worth handing your biological data to Amazon just to avoid the extremely menial task of pulling out a credit card?
