SF News Dead Body on BART Train Leads to Brief Closure of Berryessa Station A deceased male was found on a BART train early Thursday morning when an end-of-day cleaning was occurring on the train parked at Berryessa/North San Jose Station.
SF News Multi-Vehicle Crash On Market Street Stemmed From Road-Rage Incident, Police Chase A collision involving two vehicles that happened late Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Market and Front streets appeared to have been catastrophic, and stemmed from a road-rage incident several miles away.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four People Killed In Major North Bay Crash Four people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Rio Vista Wednesday night, Marin County authorities have made an arrest in last weekend's Marin City homicide, and a South San Francisco truck driver has been ID'd as responsible for crashing into the Gilman Street overpass in Berkeley last week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Getting 4200 More Monkeypox Vaccine Doses SF is getting more monkeypox vaccine later this week, a study by UCSF researchers finds that 80% of COVID cases are going unreported, and the Biden Administration has offered a prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
SF News SFPD Mission Station Doubles Down on Seemingly Pointless Barricades, Wants Permanent New Ones Those baffling barricades have been in front of the SFPD Mission Station for more than two years, and now we learn the department wants to erect permanent new barriers in front of the whole station.
SF News UC Hastings to Be Renamed the Rather Awkward 'College of the Law San Francisco' In case you missed the news of this reckoning last year, the namesake of the University of California's SF law school, Serranus Hastings, had a lot of Native American blood on his hands, and many have called on the school's board of directors to rename UC Hastings. And now they have.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Does List of Best Splurge Restaurants, Snubs French Laundry, Manresa, and Quince A big-city newspaper critic has to deal with the big-name, Michelin-starred places eventually, and it seems that Soleil Ho's tour of the Bay Area's more acclaimed, pricey spots is finally complete.
SF News Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Bar Broken Into and Robbed — Twice In the Same Night The island of swank in an ocean of Tenderloin known as the Black Cat jazz bar suffered a break-in and burglary in the wee hours Tuesday morning, and once police cleared the scene, people promptly broke back in and robbed the place again.
Bay Area Sports Awards, Trades, Taxes and Fines: An Offseason Check-In With the Golden State Warriors After winning their fourth 'chip' in June, the Warriors have taken to the stage, the internet, podcasts, and the bleachers, always with the golden glow and gaping grins that emanate from those who sit upon the throne.
SF News Oak Fire Smoke Floats to Tahoe, Not Bay Area, So Far An air quality advisory issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been extended to Thursday, and we may still see some haze from the drifting smoke of the Oak Fire here around the Bay. But so far, it hasn't happened as predicted.
Business & Tech Twitter Is Slashing Its Office Footprint, Canceling Plans for Oakland Office Twitter announced plans Wednesday to downsize its office holdings in multiple cities, including at its San Francisco headquarters, and the company is canceling plans for a downtown Oakland office announced last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Board Considers Renewing Mask Mandate BART's board of directors will vote Thursday on whether to renew the mask mandate on trains, a reward has gone up to $20K for information about the fatal shooting of an Oakland rideshare driver, and the Oak Fire is now 32% contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces First Batch of 2022 Acts Hundreds of SRO workers are planning a strike Wednesday, Outside Lands’ weed area Grass Lands announced its return, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass dropped a preview teasing 10 acts playing the festival this year.
SF News Tenderloin Tennis Coach Declares Tennis Court Untenable, Because, You Know, the Tenderloin A built-in tennis court may sound like a heavenly amenity in San Francisco, but when it’s located near Van Ness Avenue and Eddy Street, you’ll have some problems lobbed at you.
SF Politics Despite Impassioned Speech By Mandelman, Board Upholds Breed's Veto of Fourplex Legislation — By Just One Vote Supervisor Rafael Mandelman gave a barnburner of a speech Tuesday criticizing the mayor’s veto and YIMBY darling law SB 9, and almost overrode the mayor’s veto of his fourplex legislation, but still fell one vote short.
SF News Hundreds of Richmond Residents Complained About an Incessant, Late-Night Bass Beat, Mayor Uses Reward to Find Culprits A lot of people living in Richmond and nearby towns posted to Nextdoor and Facebook late Saturday/early Sunday to complain about a never-ending, droning bass beat coming from somewhere, and keeping them up well past 2 a.m. Mayor Tom Butt got on the case, and apparently has figured it out.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Reportedly Getting Increasingly Snippy and ‘Intense’ In Pivot to Metaverse, Amidst Declining Profits Some new leaks of palace intrigue from Facebook (now Meta) show that Mark Zuckerberg is becoming increasingly demanding to work for as the company pivots its focus to the Metaverse, which by the way, still does not actually exist.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Series of North Bay Gigs This Week, LGBTQ Activists May Protest Controversy-courting comedian Dave Chappelle is doing more shows in the Bay Area this week, and hosting three consecutive nights of events at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa, despite being persona non grata with much of the LGBTQ community at this point.
SF News Afternoon Shooting Kills One Person In SF's McLaren Park One person was found suffering from a gunshot wound in San Francisco's McLaren Park on Monday afternoon, and the victim later died from their injuries.
SF News Confederate Flags Popped Up at Sonoma Raceway This Weekend, Controversy Ensues The Confederate flag has been banned from Sonoma Raceway since 2018, but a couple campers flew the flag this weekend anyway, and the NAACP Santa Rosa-Sonoma County branch says the response was not particularly speedy.
SF News Shootout In Potrero Hill Leaves Two Injured, Multiple Homes Riddled With Bullets An apparent shootout early Monday morning left four residential buildings on San Bruno Avenue riddled with bullet holes, and left two individuals with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Halts Encampment Clearing In Santa Rosa A planned sweep of a longstanding encampment on Santa Rosa's Joe Rodota Trail was halted by a judge, Stanford researchers are looking for monkeypox in wastewater, and Richmond residents were upset by an incessant "bass beat" Saturday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Monkeypox Cases Hit 215 In San Francisco The number of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox in SF hit 215 on Sunday up from just 16 four weeks ago, little kids aren't getting COVID vaccinations in large numbers, and an air quality advisory for the Bay Area has been extended through Wednesday due to Oak Fire smoke.
SF News Local Paper Tracks Down ‘Varsity Blues’ Scandal Mastermind, Finds Him at Florida Mobile Home Park The man who made $25 million illicitly getting kids into elite colleges — and then flipped on their parents to the FBI — now lives a life of pickleball and Rummikub at a Florida trailer park.
SF News Port of Oakland Reopens as AB5 Trucker Protest Moved to a ‘Free Speech Zone’ A trucker blockade that held up operations at the Port of Oakland for a week is resolved for now, though could return, as port officials promise they will “liaison” with Governor Newsom over the impact of independent contractor law AB5 on the trucking industry.
