SF News CHP Says Speeding Caused April Marin Crash That Killed Four Teens; 16-Year-Old Driver May Face Charges The California Highway Patrol is telling a whole different story than the two teens who survived a fatal crash in Marin County this April, saying that the 16-year-old driver was speeding, and recommending vehicular manslaughter charges.
Arts & Entertainment Hitmaker Dua Lipa Delights Chase Center Audience, Pays Tribute to Janis Joplin and Green Day Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong surprised the audience at Dua Lipa's Chase Center show Sunday, coming out to duet with her on "Wake Me When September Ends." And the previous night, Lipa did a cover of "Piece of My Heart" by Janis Joplin.
Arts & Entertainment Ginormous Gourds Compete In Half Moon Bay for Annual Pumpkin Weigh-Off; Winner Is From Santa Rosa The 52nd annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off happened Monday morning in Half Moon Bay, and great big pumpkins vied for this year's title.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Whomped 30-19 In Tampa Bay, Lose Star Linebacker to Injury for the Rest of the Season The 49ers not only lost the game Sunday to the Buccaneers, they continued their frustrating pattern of losing one of their best players to injury seemingly every week, and All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner is now done for the season.
SF Politics Recall Fever Comes to Fairfax, and It's All Over One Proposed Building If you ask Fairfax Mayor Lisel Blash, she doesn't love the idea of a 243-unit apartment building coming to her small Marin County town either. But the state has made such developments inevitabilities after decades of NIMBYism in places like Fairfax.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Here Comes the Rain Again SF supervisors push back on Marc Benioff's National Guard comments; fewer Bay Area workers are working remotely; and the first significant rain of the season is rolling in.
Arts & Entertainment Spike Lee Receives Mill Valley Film Fest Award, Suddenly Recalls He Made ‘Sucker Free City’ Esteemed filmmaker Spike Lee received a Tribute Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival this weekend. While on stage with Oakland-based actor Delroy Lindo, who starred in four of Lee’s films, Lee suddenly remembered he directed the 2004 film 'Sucker Free City.'
SF News Musk Jumps Into Benioff’s National Guard Discussion With SF ‘Drug-Zombie Apocalypse’ Trope Elon Musk recycled one of his tired, old ‘SF is a [fill in the blank] zombie apocalypse’ insults in an X post supporting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s statement about sending the National Guard to “clean up” crime in San Francisco.
SF News Trans Santa Rosa Junior College Volleyball Player at the Center of Protests, Title IX Complaint After three former women’s volleyball players filed Title IX complaints against Santa Rosa Junior College last month, the community rallied in support of an unnamed transgender player ahead of a game Wednesday amid ongoing anti-trans protests.
SF News Sunday Links: University of California Wins Record-Breaking Five Nobel Prizes in Single Year One of the victims in Monday’s medical helicopter crash in Sacramento has died; a suspect has been arrested in last week's hit-and-run crash in Bernal Heights; and UC California made history with the most Nobel Prizes in one year for a single institution.
SF News San Francisco's Only Adult LGBTQ Homeless Shelter Doubles Number of Beds, Triples in Size LGBTQ homeless shelter, Jazzie’s Place, received an $18 million city grant to triple its size and increase its beds from 24 to 50, six of them for non-LGBTQ residents. It also added lockers with phone chargers and bathrooms with ADA-accessible showers and changing rooms.
SF News Feds Launch New Tesla Probe After Several Cars Run Red Lights, Veer Into Traffic in Self-Driving Mode NHTSA opened its third probe into Tesla of the year. The agency said it's received 58 reports of the manufacturer’s "Full Self-Driving" system ignoring red and green lights, veering into oncoming traffic while changing lanes, and using the incorrect lane to turn or go straight.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Horror on Stage, 10-Cent Beers in the 510, and a Globe-Trotting Galapagos Albatross Farmers market colors; Club Waziema’s food menu; 10-cent half-pints; up-and-coming musicians; drag and horror; men loving men; Michael Jang and the Giants; honoring Filipino heritage; remembering Salesforce Tower’s architect; and a rare albatross sighting.
SF News Saturday Links: Yosemite Overrun With Hikers Cutting in Line, Squatting Amid Shutdown San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins tells Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, “We don't need your help here;” the SF Arts Commission was not consulted on Mayor Lurie’s “Big Art Loop” project; and nefarious characters are flocking to Yosemite, which currently only has one volunteer park ranger.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce's Marc Benioff Wants to Bring National Guard to SF, ‘Re-Fund’ SFPD The South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace embezzled funds said they caught her in the act; Two Gilroy elementary schools have encountered copper wire theft in the past month; and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mistakenly thought SFPD was defunded at some point.
SF News Supervisor Walton Not at All Happy With Plan to Move 16th and Mission Tiny Home Cabins to Bayview Former Supervisor Hillary Ronen fought like heck to get ‘tiny homes for the homeless’ cabins at 16th and Mission. Now that those cabins are moving to the Bayview, Supervisor Shamann Walton is on a warpath against them, even though they will be empty.
SF News Dolores Hill Bomb Didn't Happen This Year, a More Organized Version Set for Twin Peaks After years of general chaos and injuries, and now being "forced into cooperating with police," SF's skaters are going to be having a fully permitted and organized "hill bomb" event this weekend on Twin Peaks.
SF News 2024 SF Tesla Arsonist Found Guilty on 10 Counts, Because He Torched Six Other Cars Too The man arrested for torching two Teslas within a block of each other in SoMa on the same night in early 2024 was indeed a serial carsonist, as he was just found guilty at trial of also having torched five other cars the week before.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Steph Curry's Bourbon Bar and Bourbon Steak Now Open Bourbon Steak makes its big, second debut, Arquet sets an opening date at the Ferry Building, and Nob Hill's Ciccino is becoming something new, all in This Week In Food.
SF News San Francisco Mother Appears to Have Killed Husband and Daughters After String of Businesses Failed The tragic story of an apparent murder-suicide in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood earlier this week gained some details on Thursday, and we now know that the perpetrator of the murders appears to have been the mother.
SF News Nordstrom Opens Its Very Small New Boutique 'Nordstrom Local’ on Upper Fillmore Two years after Nordstrom pulled their gigantic department store out of San Francisco, the high-end retailer is back with a small shop that just opened in the Upper Fillmore, though this shop only offers pick-ups, returns, and alterations.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Brother-In-Law Alleged to Have Been Growing Marijuana and Smoking It In County Jail Some more highjinks from the SF Sheriff’s Office: Sheriff Paul Yamamoto’s brother-in-law has incident reports alleging he grew marijuana plants in a locker at SF County Jail 3, and openly smoked weed while working as a plumber there.
SF News Elon Musk Comes Crawling Back to the Bay Area, Seeking New Office Space for Neuralink and xAI What do you know? It looks like Elon Musk wasn't completely done with the Bay Area after all.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Freeway Shootout In Oakland Leads to Arrest In Walnut Creek Two cars were struck but no one was injured in a shooting on Highway 24 in Oakland; a significant early-season storm is heading our way; and there's a girls' softball vs. boys' Little League fight happening in Lafayette.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Scandal-Tainted SF Nonprofit Somehow Wins Court Decision to Keep Getting City Money The family of four killed in Westwood Park has been identified; a drone show dazzled and confused passersby in the Embarcadero; and the Collective Impact nonprofit accused of bribery survived a legal attempt to cut off their city funding.
