SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Armed Standoff In Emeryville Ends With Suspect Asleep Oakland police are investigating a body found in the hills near Tilden Park, the second victim in the Marin Headlands small-plane crash has been ID'd, and an armed standoff at an Emeryville hotel ended Sunday morning with the suspect asleep in the lobby.
SF News SF Debuts New Initiative That Connects People With Mental Health Disorders to Available Services The Office of Coordinated Care (OCC) — a brand-new program launched Friday by the City — will expand SF's mental health resources and help connect people with available services before they enter into an otherwise avoidable crisis.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Dominate Game 3 as Grizzlies' Ja Morant Suffers Apparent Knee Injury The shooting was spectacular, the defense stingy, and the victory decisive. The Warriors won Game 3 142-112 to take a 2-1 series lead.
SF News More Details Emerge About Deadly Bay Area Plane Crash; One Passenger Killed in Accident Identified A single-engine airplane crashed in the Marin Headlands Friday afternoon, killing the two people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still investigating the crash, but one of the deceased passengers has been identified by their family.
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Convene at Powell Street BART Station in Support of Abortion Rights Saturday saw hundreds at Market and Powell streets supporting abortion rights, an adorable fox was rescued in Oracle Park, and Jill Biden paid Ukraine a surprise visit on Sunday — spending part of Mother's Day in Uzhhorod, a small war-torn city in the far southwestern corner of the country.
SF News Get Ready for Blackouts This Summer As 'Unprecedented' Strain Could Affect CA's Power Grid While it's not exactly a surprise nowadays, it's still wild to think that because California's out-of-date power grid is so incompetent, residents of the state expect scheduled power outages and random blackouts regularly — which, for this summer, might affect some 1.3 million.
SF News Saturday Links: Arsonist Lights Fire Inside San Francisco Parklet Bartenders at Cow Hollow's The Blue Light watering hole recently extinguished a fire inside its parklet, Local Take in the Castro is moving locations, and FYI: Xanath Ice Cream on Valencia Street is, in fact, not permanently closed, after all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Decades-Old Berkeley Flea Market Must Move to Make Room for Housing Chinatown's massive Tiger Dragon mural was recently defaced, a small plane crashed in the Marin Headlands this afternoon — killing two people — and the 48-year-old flea market at the BART station parking lot on Ashby Avenue is being forced to move.
SF News Brace Yourself — Another Large ‘Red Bus Lane’ Construction Project Starts Monday, This Time on 16th Street The same concept from “the mess on Van Ness” is being applied to 16th Street, and is expected to take more than a year to complete, but in this case at least Phase 1 of the project was pretty much completed on time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smoothie-Making Robot Arrives at Metreon, Robot Asks To Be Tipped A new smoothie-swinging robot is bringing the Metreon into the Age of Ultron, but oddly, the Stepford smoothie robot asks to be tipped for its services.
SF News Berkeley Sees Its Second Homicide of 2022, and It Was Staged to Look Like a Suicide A 20-year-old Berkeley man is in custody following the shooting death of his roommate on Tuesday, which police say happened in the course of an altercation in the home that was witnessed by the suspect's grandmother, who also lives there.
Bay Area Sports The Ed Lee Statue at Chase Center Has Been Unveiled An Ed Lee statue now sits outside the Chase Center, an homage to the mayor who shepherded the arena’s approval and construction, and considered it his legacy project.
SF News San Francisco, Three Other Bay Area Counties Return to CDC's 'Yellow' Tier as Latest COVID Surge Hits You may know someone with COVID right now, or you may have it yourself, as San Francisco is a couple of weeks into a surge being driven by the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
SF News We Have Hit One Million COVID-19 Deaths In the United States America remains the nation with the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, and regrettably, this week, the country suffered its millionth COVID death.
SF News Four People Injured After Car Goes Off Cliff Near Sutro Baths at 3 a.m. Friday Authorities have not said that alcohol or Cinco de Mayo partying had anything to do with it, but a car with four adults in it missed a bend in the road or something and went off a cliff near San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
SF News Cinco de Mayo Brings Sideshows to Oakland and Santa Rosa; One Man Shot In Santa Rosa Sideshow events erupted in the East and North Bay on Thursday night, as revelers came out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in full force — and a massive sideshow in Santa Rosa ended with one man getting shot multiple times.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Four Arrested For March Killing In the Mission Four people have been arrested in connection with a March fatal stabbing in the Mission, the VTA has approved the first construction contract for Phase II of BART's San Jose extension, and fish are dying around Clear Lake due to the drought.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stork Club Reopening July 1, John Waters Will Be There SFPD may end up firing 23 officers for refusing to get vaccinated, Valencia-style street light strings could come to more commercial corridors, and the reincarnated Stork Club has an opening date with John Waters himself on the bill.
Arts & Entertainment Nevada County May Add an ‘Impact Fee’ Onto Burning Man Ticket Prices, To Keep Their Roads Maintained Washoe County commissioners are in discussions to add an extra fee onto Burning Man tickets to maintain a stretch of road that 70,000 Burners tromp across every Labor Day weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Free Concert Celebrating Cinco de Mayo at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park If you're not trying to do Cinco de Drinko after work, maybe you'd like to celebrate more maturely in the spirit of Cinco de Mayo by taking in a free concert of Latin music at the bandshell in Golden Gate Park.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Appoint Himself CEO of Twitter (Temporarily), He Apparently Told Investors The new CEO of Twitter under Elon Musk will be Elon Musk, according to people familiar with his investor briefings, though he says for now that he will only be an interim CEO.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Campanile Falcon Chicks Starting to Hatch for Mom Annie and Stepdad Alden The last three offspring of Annie with her falcon mate of five years Grinnell look to have been successfully incubated, despite concerns they might not be following Grinnell's untimely death in late March.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuggie's Trash Pie & Natural Wine Makes Colorful Debut in the Old Velvet Cantina Combining the trends of upcycling food waste and natural wine, along with pizza which never goes out of style, Shuggie's Trash Pie & Natural Wine has opened its doors in the Mission District.
SF News Everett Middle School Chaos Goes From Bad to Worse, Student Now Hospitalized With Life-Threatening Injuries A new report details multiple injuries among middle-schoolers at an increasingly violent Everett Middle School, including a 13-year-old “with life-threatening injuries.”
SF News Report: Hundreds of Below-Market-Rate Units Sit Empty, Despite Waiting List of More Than 20,000 A new City Hall report shows more than 300 below-market-rate housing units are sitting empty, thanks to red tape and a pandemic market where market-rate housing has gotten cheaper.
