Business & Tech Prince Harry Takes Job With SF-Based Mental Health Startup In addition to their Netflix and Spotify money, Harry and Meghan will have another income source in the form of a job that the self-exiled Duke of Sussex has just taken with the San Francisco-based startup BetterUp.
SF News [Update] Veterans Home In Yountville Locks Down on Report of Armed Woman; No Suspect Is Found Three years after a former patient at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville shot and killed three women, the complex is on lockdown following reports of an armed woman on the campus.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Announces Basic Income Pilot Treasure Island is getting a vaccination site, three Antioch men have been charged in a Feb. 23 laundromat assault on an Asian man in SF, and bars in three counties are getting ready to open outdoors this week without mandatory food.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate and Orpheum Theaters Sold to UK Company State and city leaders gathered for a rally in Chinatown to condemn violence against the Asian community, SF's lawsuit against its school district moves forward, and the UK's Ambassador Theatre Group just bought the Golden Gate and Orpheum theaters.
Bay Area Sports ‘Last Stanford Wrestler’ Wins National Title After Program was Eliminated Stanford eliminated its wrestling program in July, but wrestlers finished out their season. Now one of them, Shane Griffith, just won the national championship.
Arts & Entertainment Hunky Jesus Contest Will Be Online-Only Once More This Year It's nearly Easter, and once again the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be putting up a blasphemous display of thirst traps dressed up as Our Holy Savior for people to vote on.
SF Politics Recall Gavin Campaign Hastily Deletes ‘Chinese’ Virus Rhetoric From Website After getting called out for racist “Chinese” virus language on their website, the Recall Gavin Newsom effort has scrubbed the offending words — and it’s not the first time, either.
Business & Tech LOL: Trump Is Going to Launch His Own Version of Twitter Oh this should be fun and embarrassing. Serial shyster Donald Trump, who used to hold some kind of government job, is reportedly planning to launch his own social media platform now that he's been banned from Twitter and Facebook.
SF News 12-Year-Old Grazed By Bullet In Bernal; Two Shot and Injured in Sunday Shooting In Mission Bay Three people, including a 12-year-old boy, were left injured over the weekend in two separate shootings.
SF News Two Bay Area Counties Have Expanded Vaccine Eligibility to 50+ Set On Monday, Contra Costa County expanded its COVID vaccine eligibility requirements to everyone age 50 and over, regardless of health conditions. It's the second Bay Area county to do so after Solano County made the same move last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To Encourage Vaccinations, Krispy Kreme Is Giving Away Free Doughnuts If You Show Your Vaccine Card In a sweet freebie to help encourage doughnut lovers to go get vaccinated, Krispy Kreme is offering a free doughnut if you walk in and show your vaccination card. But it's not just the one doughnut the one time.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF's Third Baptist Church Opens Vaccine Clinic An SF woman was involved in a wild chase in Santa Rosa on Sunday, a large crowd gathered in the Castro for a march in solidarity with the Asian community, and Mills College's president says that a reversal of its historic decision to stop granting degrees is highly unlikely.
SF News Mayor Breed, Other Elected Officials Call for SF School Board Vice President To Resign Over Past Racist Tweets Amid the controversy ginned up over SF School Board Vice President Alison Collins' 2016 social media comments — which evoke “racist, anti-Asian” beliefs — Mayor Breed and other elected officials have called for her immediate resignation.
SF News Dog Stolen From Bay Bridge Crash Victim Returned to Owner A young pup was stolen by a not-all-too-good samaritan after he did a “welfare check” on an injured victim involved in last weekend's multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge — but CHP has now retrieved the dog, returning it to its rightful owner.
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Rally in Oakland and SF Chinatowns to Denounce Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans A disabled Asian man in Redwood City discovered someone had set his car on fire Saturday morning, JFK Drive was alive with demonstrators calling for the street to remain car-free, and hundreds rallied in SF and Oakland's Chinatowns yesterday to support Asian communities.
SF News Proposal From Architecture Company Would See the Now-Closed Albany Bowl Turned Into Housing Project The site that once belonged to the much-loved Albany Bowl — which had housed the iconic business since 1949 — might become a multi-unit housing project; 21 of the apartments in the 207-unit proposal are expected to be affordably priced.
SF News Amazon To Start Testing Fleet of Electric Delivery Vans in San Francisco This week, Amazon announced the company will start testing its current fleet of cartoonish-looking EVs in San Francisco, adding to the growing number of clean-energy delivery cars and public transport vehicles driving on our streets.
SF News Saturday Links: 70-Year-Old Suspect in '90s SF Homicide Turns Up in Santa Barbara SF police have identified James Francis Edwards as the suspect of a fatal shooting outside a food bank in the Mission circa 1990, Bay Area artists are set to give out some 20,000 artful masks to underserved communities, and a 7.0 earthquake struck Japan early Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Over $730K Raised for Elderly Asian Grandmother Attacked in San Francisco A rally to advocate for a car-free JFK Drive will happen tomorrow, the Noe Art Mart continues this weekend (helping support queer artists), and a GoFundMe page created to cover the expenses of Xiao Zhen Xie — the 75-year-old who fought off her attacker with a wooden plank — has raised almost $740K.
SF News Newsom Says All Californians Should Be Vaccine-Eligible By Late April As the vaccine rollout and the availability of appointments continues to be a source of frustration for some Bay Area residents, the governor on Friday indicated that he believes everyone in the state should be eligible to get a vaccine by late April.
SF News Mountain View’s Moffett Field Nixed as Possible Shelter Site for Migrant Children A vacant NASA facility in Santa Clara County was on the list as a possible migrant children's shelter, but the feds removed it with little explanation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prolific SF Restaurateur Opening Two New Restaurants In Pac Heights and Hayes Valley We have word of two new spots coming from his Back of the House Restaurant Group: The Tailor's Son on upper Fillmore, and a second location of The Bird in Hayes Valley.
SF News Fender Bender Turns Into Road-Rage Shooting In SF's Silver Terrace Neighborhood A minor traffic accident turned extremely violent on Thursday, with a rage-filled driver shooting and critically injuring one 25-year-old man as well as injuring the man's 12-year-old passenger.
Business & Tech Bankrupt Poop-Testing Startup uBiome Charged In $60M Fraud Scheme SF-based startup uBiome, which got plenty of attention in the last decade for its at-home fecal testing kits and trendy focus on gut health, is now the focus of a federal complaint that accuses the founders of defrauding investors and health insurers to the tune of $60 million.
SF Politics Parks Alliance Pushes Back On Accusations, Tells Supervisor Chan to Kiss Richmond Playground Goodbye The drama! A wealthy San Francisco nonprofit that helps support the city's Rec and Parks Department is having none of Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan's insinuations.
