SF News The King Tides are Here, Bringing 'Astronomical High Tides’ Through the Weekend You are advised to wear galoshes near the Embarcadero and coastal areas this weekend, as the King Tides are making an earlier-than-expected return.
SF News Report Details Evidence Of Harrowing Final Hours Of Former SF Couple Who Died From Heat In Mariposa County A newly obtained report from the investigation into the August deaths of two former Bay Area residents, their infant and their dog suggests a likely sequence of events. And it's beyond tragic.
Business & Tech Omicron Scare Likely to Push Back Bay Area Back-to-Office Timeline for Many Despite there being no immediate threat of an Omicron outbreak in the Bay Area and an overall lack of data on the new variant, the general uncertainty around it is very likely to cause big Bay Area tech companies and smaller offices alike to rethink their January return-to-the-office plans.
Arts & Entertainment Rival ‘Sexy’ SantaCon Angers Traditional SantaCon with $20 Wristband Fee, Cheesecake Advertising What’s worse than SantaCon? A copycat Santacon that’s stealing the idea and charging money to participate, with an advertising blitz that’s fit for the naughty list.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club's 18th Street Pop-Up Becomes Good Good Culture Club; Liholiho Returns to Sutter Street in 2022 The menu at Liholiho Yacht Club in its 18th Street "pop-up" iteration has evolved and changed a bit since the original Liholiho in the TenderNob, and it's evolving some more and morphing into a new restaurant as of today, with a new name.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain May Come, But Later In December A planned CVS closure has Marin City residents upset, air quality has been kind of bad around SF due to a weather pattern, and it looks like rain may come in the long-range forecast later in the month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Concord Man With Nazi Fetish Convicted of Making Criminal Threats A 25-year-old man from Concord who talked online about shooting up a synagogue two years ago has been convicted, an Emeryville accountant is in trouble with the IRS, and five more Omicron cases have been found in NY.
SF Politics More School Board Drama Looming, as Lowell High Sticks to Lottery-Based Admissions Another Year The SFUSD superintendent says there’s not enough time to implement a court order to re-vote on admissions changes at Lowell. That’s likely to further infuriate the alumni groups that sued the district to win that court order.
SF News Sebastopol Woman Arrested For Trying to Snatch Toddlers In San Francisco A 42-year-old Sebastopol woman was arrested Wednesday after a strange and crazed-sounding incident in the Richmond District that likely terrified a caregiver caring for two small children.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Holiday Cocktail Spots In San Francisco For Your Yuletide Imbibing Pleasure It's that time of year again, and you may as well get drunk. San Francisco usually does it up nicely during the holiday season, and this year things should be extra festive given how dismal last year was.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ritual Roasters Announces It’s Transitioning to a Worker-Owned Company Now a six-cafe mini-empire, Ritual Coffee Roasters will offer employees shares of stock and the chance to be worker-owners at the company.
SF News Matthew Muller, Man Charged In Bizarre 2015 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping and Rape, Now In State Mental Hospital It's been several years since we had an update on Matthew Daniel Muller, the Harvard-educated, mentally ill man who pleaded guilty in a federal case to kidnapping a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, in a case that received national attention in 2015.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Becoming More Attractive to Oakland A’s, and They’ve Secretly Bid on the Bally’s Tropicana Site It’s becoming clear that the Oakland A’s would flat-out prefer Las Vegas, as they’ve made a bid on a property along the Strip as the Howard Terminal stadium plan continues to languish.
SF News Second and Third US Omicron Cases Found; Theory Forms That Mutations Occurred In Single Immunocompromised Person A second and a third American patient have been confirmed to be infected with the Omicron variant: an adult male in Minnesota who recently traveled to New York for an anime convention, and an adult female in Colorado who recently returned from southern Africa.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Carlos Santana Recovering From Surprise Heart Surgery Carlos Santana had an "unscheduled heart procedure" over the weekend, a Palo Alto couple has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and unemployment claims in CA are near pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Family Wins on ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ A new “Matrix Resurrections” trailer just dropped, SFUSD says Lowell High is sticking with lottery admissions for now, and a Santa Rosa household won Monday night’s episode of “The Great Christmas Light Fight.”
SF News Vallejo Police Officers Association Claims Crisis Over ‘Unprecedented Rate’ of Officers Quitting The union for one of the Bay Area’s most scandal-plagued police forces says the sky is falling over officer attrition rates, conveniently ignoring that department’s own massive, self-inflicted reputational damage.
Business & Tech Square Is Changing Its Name to 'Block' In a Meta-Esque Move Like Facebook, Square has outgrown its original focus, dealing with payment-processing systems for sellers, and now the company is rebranding as Block, in a nod to its ambitions in the world of blockchain.
SF News Swift Sequencing of Omicron Sample at UCSF Highlights Challenges of Tracking Variant's Spread Perhaps the only reason the first U.S. case was found in SF is because of the caliber of the health system here, not because it isn't already in other places in the country.
SF News Breed, Colfax Say No New Restrictions Because of Omicron Variant, While Heckler Tries to Steal the Show Mayor Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax urged San Franciscans to “get your booster,” but announced no new restrictions in response to the Omicron variant arriving here, as a heckler tried to shout them down.
SF News San Jose Police and Mayor Decry Release of Two Homicide Suspects Without Bail; Attorney Says It's a Self-Defense Case It's not just San Francisco where fingers are being pointed in multiple directions in the ongoing debate about criminal justice reform, accountability, and the efficacy of the justice system to combat crime.
SF Politics Trump Could Have Given Biden COVID At First Debate, Tested Positive Days Earlier According to New Account Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows details how Trump initially tested positive for COVID last fall days ahead of his first debate in Cleveland with Joe Biden, but went ahead with his schedule anyway.
SF News Judas in SF 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Arrested For Role in Capitol Insurrection The actor who played Judas in a recent local ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ production also allegedly stormed the U.S. Capital on January 6, he’s since been charged by the feds and kicked off of the tour.
SF News First U.S. Case of Omicron Variant Found In San Francisco Wouldn't you know it, the first known case of the Omicron variant of COVID to arrive in the U.S., via South Africa, is in San Francisco, and the patient is already reportedly recovering.
SF Politics Former Investigator Sues SF District Attorney In Whistleblower Complaint The embattled San Francisco District Attorney's Office has one more headache to add to the pile this week as a wrongful termination suit has arrived from a former investigator.
