SF News Day Around the Bay: Farewell SFO Post Office, We Hardly Knew Ye Those wacky new Van Ness bus shelter sculptures have their lighting ceremony tonight, beloved 100-year-old park national park ranger Betty Reid Soskin has retired, and the SFO airport post office that you never knew about just closed permanently today.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Bringing K-Pop Star BamBam to Perform at Regular Season Home Finale, Which Hopefully Ends Their Skid Thailand’s Number One pop star is set to perform the halftime show at the Warriors’ regular season home finale against the Lakers, and the Dubs need whatever help they can get after losing four straight.
SF News SF’s Largest-Ever AIDS Quilt Display Coming to Golden Gate Park in June We’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex, because the largest AIDS Quilt display since the 2012 Washington, D.C. National Mall display — and the largest ever here in San Francisco — is set for June 11 and 12 in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Male In Famous Berkeley Falcon Pair Found Dead, Bringing Tragic End to Five-Year Romance Ugh! It's just been one thing after another the past few months for the stable and enduring pair of peregrine falcons who claimed the much-watched nest atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower. And now Grinnell, the male, was found dead in downtown Berkeley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla Is Taking Over Magnolia Brewery Space In Dogpatch, Will Open Largest Restaurant Yet In June Souvla, the popular Mediterranean-inspired salad and wrap operation, is opening a fifth SF location in Dogpatch — with a sixth in Marin not far behind — and it will be their largest restaurant to date.
SF News Surge of Street Blight in the Mission Spurs Neighborhood Outcry; Action Plan Hopes to Remedy It Mission conditions have deteriorated noticeably in the last few months, with street vendors hawking hot merchandise, encampments, and trash galore, but the neighborhood is on a mission to fix it.
Business & Tech Search Engine Yahoo! Hit With $15 Million Patent Infringement Bill A federal jury in Oakland says Yahoo has to give a Texas-based software company $15 million for infringing on its quick-search patent.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Own 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Invited to White House for Transgender Day of Visibility Amy Schneider, the openly trans Oakland resident who made history earlier this year with her 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy!, made an appearance Thursday in the White House Press Briefing Room to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility.
SF News 1993 Cold Case Killing of San Carlos Store Owner Likely Solved After Oklahoma Cops Find Confession In Suspect's Journal A San Mateo County cold case from 1993 may finally be reaching the justice phase after what appears to have been a happenstance discovery of a confession by investigators probing a separate case in Oklahoma.
Business & Tech Apple and Facebook Both Duped By Hackers Posing as Law Enforcement, Handed Over Personal Data Phone numbers, home addresses, and (yikes!) internet browsing histories have been handed right over to hackers who approached tech companies while posing as police, and what’s more, most of the hackers were teenagers.
SF News Kristin Smart Murder Trial to Be Moved Out of San Luis Obispo A San Luis Obispo County judge on Wednesday granted a change of venue for the trial of the accused killer of onetime Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, Paul Flores, and his accused accomplice father, Ruben Flores.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Cesar Chavez Day Cities and labor groups are celebrating Cesar Chavez Day today, there's a long line to get mochi at Japantown's Benkyodo on its last day in business, and a Belmont flag shop can't keep Ukrainian flags in stock.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Police Face Civil Rights Lawsuit After Taqueria Shooting San Jose police are being accused of negligently shooting a Black man who had actually taken a weapon away from a potential shooter, SF's Laguna Honda hospital is in trouble with the feds, and CHP is seeking a Bay Bridge carjacking suspect.
SF Politics Latest Proposed SF Redistricting Map Still Drawing Ire of LGBTQ Activists Supervisor Mandelman would be drawn out of his own district, while the Leather/LGBTQ and Transgender Cultural Districts would be split into different supervisor districts, under the latest revised supervisor district map that’s still creating controversy.
SF News Pair of Oakland Teens, Ages 14 and 16, Arrested for SF Carjackings Targeting Asian Victims San Francisco police chased and then arrested a pair of juveniles who were allegedly part of a quartet of carjackers who targeted two Asian male victims in San Francisco on Monday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tickets Sell Out in 29 Minutes, Technical Glitches Burn Some Would-Be Buyers Burning Man tickets went on sale at noon Wednesday, and despite (or because of?) some technical glitches, Burners with pent-up demand snatched up all the tickets in a mere 29 minutes.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops to Finally Open In Mid-July; New Battery Bluff Area Opens April 23 The new park spaces atop and around the Presidio Parkway tunnels, which have been under construction for over two years, will finally open to the public starting April 23, with the main Presidio Tunnel Tops opening on Sunday, July 17.
SF News Three Arrested For Burglary of Castro Theatre Three men were arrested on suspicion of breaking into and burglarizing the historic Castro Theatre early Tuesday morning.
SF News Murder and Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Oakland Gas Station Shooting Charges have now been filed and more details are emerging in a March 19 shooting at an East Oakland gas station, caught on video, in which a 64-year-old Army veteran was killed and a 21-year-old woman was paralyzed.
Arts & Entertainment World Turned Upside-Down: SF Chamber of Commerce to Ring In 4/20 With a Week-Long Weed Festival The 4/20 bacchanalia has officially transformed from outlaw menace to a squeaky-clean tourist attraction, as SF Travel and the Chamber of Commerce have organized a high-end, “multi-day celebration tied to 420.”
SF News Humpday Headlines: Chris Rock Coming to Paramount Theater A coroner's report confirms that the Morro Bay boogie-boarder who died from a shark attack on Dec. 24 died within minutes, Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has been denied parole once again, and Chris Rock is coming to the Paramount Theater in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cable Cars Knocked Out Tuesday by Technical Difficulties The FBI is asking for the public’s help to bust the LAPSUS$ hacker ring, some Presidio hiking trails are ‘no dogs allowed’ again for coyote pupping season, and the cable car system was down much of the day over equipment problems.
Bay Area Sports ICYMI, Steph Curry Won an Academy Award Sunday Night Yeah I guess a few things got overshadowed at the Oscars Sunday night, one of them being Steph Curry and Shaq winning Best Documentary Short for ‘The Queen of Basketball,’ the story of the only woman ever drafted by the NBA.
Arts & Entertainment Betty White's Carmel Vacation Home Hits Market For $8M A Monterey County vacation home with sweeping ocean views that the late Betty White built with her husband Allen Ludden in the late 1970s has just hit the market for the first time, listed for $7.9 million.
SF News Third Man Convicted In Infamous NorCal Kidnapping of 26 Schoolchildren Gets Parole A 70-year-old man who's been imprisoned for 45 years for an infamous 1976 kidnapping inspired by the movie 'Dirty Harry' has just been granted parole after 18 tries.
