SF News Two More French Bulldogs Were Stolen in the Bay Area Saturday A pair of French bulldogs owned by Oakland resident Lynne McInnes was taken from her this weekend after thieves broke into her car while she briefly stepped inside a CVS store on Redwood Road.
SF News Sunday Links: Hit-and-Run in SF's Outer Sunset Leaves One Dead SF police responded to a fatal car crash Saturday night at 46th Avenue and Lincoln Way, the Colorado Fire is now 90% contained, and Ghirardelli plans to renovate many of the chocolate shops inside the Fisherman's Wharf square this year.
Sponsored SF Motorcycle Accident Lawyers Likely Saw Change In Caseload, Per CHP Data CHP motorcycle accident reports plummeted during COVID. Motorcycle accident lawyers likely saw a major change in caseload at their law firms.
SF News A Couple Staying at a Sonoma Airbnb Allegedly Stole an Adopted Cat... and Took Her to SoCal Described as a "neighborhood cat," Nubbins has lived in Sonoma County off Railroad Avenue for years — until she was apparently taken by a couple staying at a nearby Airbnb.
SF News Alleged Police Beating Victim Poised for $700K Settlement, Judge Not Buying Cop’s Claim That Boudin Buried Evidence While the city is ready to settle an alleged police brutality claim for $700K, the officer asking a judge to toss his assault case had a bad day in court Thursday.
SF News Colorado Fire Is Now 85% Contained, All Road Closures and Evacuation Orders Lifted Since starting over a week ago, the rare January wildfire near Big Sur is currently at least 85% contained — up from 75% yesterday — as of Saturday morning; many recruited fire engines and crews have now also returned to their respective home stations.
SF News Saturday Links: More Luxury Retailers Are Coming to Union Square Chanel and upscale jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels have both snatched up new retail store locations in downtown SF, Santa Clara's Elk Lodge erupted in a fire Friday, and you can now get a third J&J shot in San Francisco — if you're eligible to receive one.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Park's 'Entwined' Exhibit Gets Month-Long Extension The California Attorney General says that Meta can't just "eat” up competitors, the Oakland Redistricting Commission has finally decided on a new map, and the LED forest currently glowing in Golden Gate Park will beam for at least one more month.
SF News Veritas Tenants End Rent Strike After Winning Significant Concessions on Back Debt San Francisco’s biggest landlord Veritas Investments hoped to leave tenants on the hook for rent not covered by federal relief, but a tenants' group changed that with a five-month rent strike that ended Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Long-Awaited, Avett Brothers-Scored Musical 'Swept Away' Is Some Dour Stuff at Berkeley Rep While striking in its staging, this world premiere may not be the ideal vehicle for the band's bluegrass- and folk-inflected songs in these already trying times.
Bay Area Sports Reminder: 49ers Pass Rusher Nick Bosa’s Great-Grandfather Was Al Capone’s Bodyguard, Eventually Became Mob Boss The 49ers’ playoff run resurfaces a genealogical quirk — that defensive end Nick Bosa’s great-granddad was the former chauffeur and bodyguard for Al Capone, and eventually took over the Chicago Outfit.
Bay Area Sports SF Mayor London Breed Remembers Playing In Her Middle School Band For the 49ers and Meeting Joe Montana As the San Francisco 49ers head into the big NFC Championship weekend, Mayor London Breed is talking about her fandom starting back in the 80s in elementary and middle school — and about the time she met Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott.
SF News SoMa Sandwich Shop Deli Board Vandalized and Robbed, But Quickly Crowdfunds $13,000 For Repairs Popular Folsom Street sandwich shop Deli Board found itself broken into and robbed Thursday morning, but a GoFundMe campaign has raised close to $14,000, despite (or perhaps because) how donors have politicized it.
SF Politics Lawsuit Against Boudin Over ‘Brutal’ Chinatown Attack Seems a Little Shaky as Further Details Emerge Allegations of a horrible-sounding baseball bat attack against an Asian senior sound a little less horrible as we learn that the baseball bat was a plastic toy, and the alleged attackers were a disabled man in a wheelchair and an 11-year-old boy.
Business & Tech Waymo Is Suing the California DMV to Keep Its Crash Data Secret Alphabet's self-driving car arm is running up against a roadblock in its path to becoming a fully-fledged autonomous taxi service in California, and that is coming in the form of a legal battle over its crash data.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Big Rig at Fault In Deadly Richmond Bridge Crash The CHP has determined that the big rig slammed into the vehicle causing that fiery crash Wednesday, the wildfire near Big Sur has reached 75% containment, and San Jose has had an especially bad year for traffic fatalities.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Casa Sanchez Building Officially Gets Historical Landmark Status The Castro Theatre's new management speaks out about whether it will remain a movie theater, a fire broke out at a Pleasanton senior home, and Casa Sanchez will officially become a historical landmark.
SF News BART Station Bathrooms in Underground Stations to Reopen Again, Starting February 2 The Powell Street BART station will have working bathrooms again on February 2, Oakland’s 19th Street will get them on February 25, and eventually, you’ll be able to relieve yourself at pretty much every station on the line.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Still Host SFFILM Festival In Late April The future of the Castro Theatre as an almost-full-time movie house is in question, but for the short term, the SFFILM Festival will still be screening there this year from April 21-May 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Hopeful Sign for Downtown SF, Upscale Steakhouse STK (With In-House DJs) Signs Lease at One Market Plaza Splashy, upscale steakhouse chain STK, which for over a decade has had a pair of "high-energy" locations in New York City as well as others in LA, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and more, is headed for a big restaurant space in downtown SF.
SF News SFPD Ups Reward For Information on Notorious Serial Killer 'The Doodler' and Links Sixth Victim to Case The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of The Doodler, a San Francisco serial killer from the mid-1970s who targeted gay men, was doubled Thursday by the SFPD as they say they are "closer than ever" to solving the case.
SF News Mask Mandate Exceptions for Offices and Gyms Return Next Week In SF As Omicron Surge Dissipates There still seems to be plenty of Omicron to go around, but starting February 1, San Franciscans will again be able to take their face masks off at the gym and in vaccinated and boosted offices.
Business & Tech Lighthouse Real Estate Buys Sizable Vacant SF Property In The Mission. The Planned for Nonprofit Space Will Now Be Repurposed for Life Science Facility After Sale Lighthouse Real Estate bought a 14,000-square-foot San Francisco property in December 2021 with the plans to redevelop it into a life science lab site.The previous owner was developer Chris Foley, who
SF News West Oakland ISIS Wannabe Gets Sentence Reduced After Terrorism Charges Dropped An East Bay man who’d tried to get recruited by ISIS in 2016, but was dealing with undercover FBI instead, had his sentence reduced from 16 years to seven years, after an appeals court decided that his Twitter threats did not constitute actual terrorism.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Ends 40-Game Winning Streak By Forgetting About Bangladesh Oakland's own Amy Schneider, who now stands second only to host and longstanding champion Ken Jennings after winning a streak of 40 games in a row, was taken out in Wednesday night's game, ending her historic run.
