Arts & Entertainment 'Octet' at Berkeley Rep Is a Beautiful and Evocative Trek Into the Depths of Internet Hell Something shifted in me about four songs in to the new, extraordinary chamber choir musical 'Octet' at Berkeley Rep, and I went from passive, half-engaged audience member to willing participant in the room.
Business & Tech Tesla’s Value Is Nosediving While Elon Musk Pursues Twitter Takeover Elon could have bought Twitter for $44 billion three times over with the $150 billion in market value Tesla has lost since he pulled this Twitter stunt, as Tesla stock has been plummeting all week.
SF News Car Theft and Burglary Suspect Injures Multiple People While Trying to Flee Police In San Francisco A suspect believed to be connected to multiple recent auto burglaries in the North Beach area and whom police say they found driving a stolen vehicle in the vicinity on Tuesday, now faces multiple possible charges stemming from a reckless chase through the city.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Grind Out an Anxious Game 5 Win to Close Out Nuggets, Advance to Second Round The Warriors battled to a 102-98 victory, eliminating the Nuggets and advancing to the Western Conference semi-finals against either the Memphis Grizzlies or the Minnesota Timberwolves. Even though the Warriors were comfortably ahead in the series, it was gutsy, character re-affirming win.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Original Joe’s, Tadich Grill Bartender Adam Richey Has Died A bartending local legend whose career spanned Tadich Grill, Original Joe’s, Kuleto’s, Enrico’s, Momo’s, Moose’s and more, Adam Richey passed from a heart attack and is mourned by many establishments.
SF News Frank Somerville's Official Replacement As Anchor Named at KTVU: Mike Mibach Following a strange year that included an on-camera slurring incident, an unexplained absence from the air, and then a very public DUI incident, local anchorman Frank Somerville has been officially replaced at KTVU.
SF News BART Just Reinstated Its Mask Mandate Through Mid-July BART is now the lone transit agency in the Bay Area with a mask mandate, after going a week with some flip-flopping on the policy.
Business & Tech Two SF Crypto Bros Charged for Fraud Over ‘Auto Trader Bot’ Whose Results They Were Just Faking by Hand A pair of blockchain founder types claimed their crypto bot was producing “jaw dropping,” “eye-popping,” and “insane” profits. An SEC charging document says they “fabricated the performance results.”
SF News Victim In Oceanview Murder-Suicide Identified as SF Firefighter and Father Friends and family of slain San Francisco firefighter Eric Deng have set up a crowdfunding campaign to help support his widow and young child.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vegetation Fire Contained Near Altamont Pass A wind-whipped vegetation fire grew to 50 acres last night in eastern Alameda County, Twitter released decent earnings for the first quarter of 2022, and Alice Waters' new LA cafe has opened and isn't that exciting according to one Berkeley resident.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sphere Sculptures Outside Chase Center Vandalized Those sculptures outside the Chase Center have been vandalized and permanently damaged, there could be some bad traffic tonight with Warriors and Giants games, and the Guerneville Safeway was targeted with a "swatting" incident.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Executive Gets Drawn Into Twitter Fight with Fictional Giants Ballpark Seagull Protip: If you are a successful sports executive with a million-dollar salary, and you are arguing with a fictional bird on Twitter, you are losing that argument regardless.
Arts & Entertainment Infamous Burning Man 747 Bought by Las Vegas Investors, to Become ‘Immersive Experience’ Tourist Trap on the Strip One of Burning Man’s grandest art projects, which turned into one of its grandest embarrassments, is off to the Las Vegas strip to live out its life as a new tourist attraction.
Arts & Entertainment SF Theaters Announce Next Season Lineups Including 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Six,' and 'The Wizard of Oz' 'Dear Evan Hanson' is returning to the Bay Area next winter, the West End and Broadway hit 'Six' is coming to town next year, and ACT is bringing in a new show by the acrobat troupe that created 'Dear San Francisco.'
Arts & Entertainment Orpheum Theatre Getting a Remodel, With an On-Site VIP ‘Admission-Only Club’ The latest new investment in downtown San Francisco is the Orpheum Theatre’s half-million dollar remodel, which will feature the new Marquee Lounge, a food-and-cocktails private club you can get access to for an extra $95.
Business & Tech Another Racial and Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Filed Against Tesla On Friday, a female employee filed a lawsuit alleging that electric vehicle juggernaut Tesla failed to properly respond to widespread racism in its facilities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 70s-Themed Cocktail Lounge, For the Record, Opens In Cow Hollow A couple of Future Bars alums, Barry John Walsh and Janice Bailon, are bringing some 1970s disco and funk flair to the Cow Hollow space that was formerly home to Michael Mina's Test Kitchen (and more recently U:Dessert Story).
Business & Tech PayPal to Close Its Downtown SF Offices In June Another company has announced that it's vacating its San Francisco offices, citing a shift to a more remote workforce.
Business & Tech Layoffs May Loom at Elon Musk's Twitter, Analysts Say One analyst predicts Musk might lay off 20% of Twitter’s workforce, as the company is still not profitable every quarter, and interest rates could rise on the borrowed money he’s using to finance the deal.
SF News 39-Year-Old Student Identified as Suspect Who Made Shooting Threat on UC Berkeley Campus The man who allegedly made criminal threats against individuals at UC Berkeley last Thursday, leading to widespread anxiety and an hours-long, campus-wide shelter-in-place order, has been identified and charged.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Suspects in San Jose Abduction ID'd The three suspects in Monday's kidnapping in San Jose have been identified, a 25-year-old man died while skiing at Palisades Tahoe, and Jeff Bezos made some kind of jab at fellow billionaire Elon Musk about his purchase of Twitter — on Twitter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2,000 Tiny Homes Could Be Coming to SF to House the Homeless Population UC schools will offer free tuition to Native American students, the Far East Cafe and Buddha Lounge are getting Legacy Business designations, and 2,000 new tiny homes may be coming to put a big dent in the SF homeless population.
Arts & Entertainment The B-52s' Final Tour Will Have Two SF Dates in October, at the Masonic Auditorium Hurry up and bring your jukebox money, because the B-52s are hanging up their touring boots after 45 years, and there are two San Francisco dates on their farewell tour.
SF News That $4 Million Stern Grove Flood Clean-Up? That’s Now More of a $20 Million Stern Grove Flood Clean-Up The cost of restoring the Stern Grove park after last August’s water damage has ballooned to five times the original cost estimate, according to documents submitted to the Board of Supervisors.
SF News San Francisco and Bay Area In For a Lot More 'Bomb Cyclones' This Century, According to New Study It was called the biggest and strongest rainstorm to hit the Bay Area in a quarter century, but last October's "bomb cyclone" event may be just a preview of what climate change will bring to the Bay Area in the coming decades.
