Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Stunt Skier Backflips Over Highway 50 In Tahoe Almost exactly one year ago, noted professional skier Josh Daiek completed a stunt he'd been eyeing for years at Echo Summit Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe — a ski jump over Highway 50. It was all a matter of waiting for the right snow.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's Lawyers Make End Run To Have Fraud Case Thrown Out An attorney for Holmes moved to have a federal judge throw out all 11 fraud charges against the two defendants claiming the government's case is too "broad" and "full of ambiguity and fudging language."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink West Portal Candy Shop Shaw's, Famed for PEZ Dispenser Display, Closes After 89 Years A candy shop that's been the delight of youngsters and the young at heart since 1931 has quietly closed its doors in West Portal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole To Close In April and Relocate; Obispo Closed for Re-Concepting Local bar impresario Thad Vogler just announced that two of his four businesses will be undergoing changes in the coming months, including his design- and bar-award-winning Bar Agricole, which opened on 11th Street in 2011.
SF News Lovely Rainless Early Spring Weather Could Mean Fire Danger Later If you'd like to go sip your rosé and simply enjoy this unseasonably warm February weather, be our guest. But otherwise, you can read about the downside and enjoy it a little bit less.
SF News [Update] Accused BART Station Murderer John Lee Cowell Says Wilson Sisters Were Aliens 29-year-old John Lee Cowell took the witness stand in his own defense as scheduled on Tuesday, after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. And he unleashed some choice quotes that may bolster an insanity defense.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Woman Struck By Car in Portola A woman was struck by a car outside a Portola nightclub, the Chevron refinery in Richmond did more early morning flaring, and the first coronavirus case among American evacuees in quarantine has been confirmed in San Diego.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tartine Declines to Recognize Union Tartine is hoping employees reconsider the union effort, the Board of Supes is considering a 20-year lease for a Navigation Center for homeless youth in the Tenderloin, and Berkeley High students walked out to protest rape culture.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Calls Facebook ‘Lame,’ Encourages His Twitter Followers to Delete It Little rocket man Elon Musk set his targets on Facebook over the weekend, though the ‘Friendship Ended With’ animosity on this one goes back years.
SF News New Flower Mart to Rise In Potrero Instead of 395 Units of Housing The six-year-old battle over the San Francisco Flower Mart appears close to a resolution today, however it looks like it's happening at the expense of a lot of housing, which is a damn shame.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Has Resigned From His Post at Public Works While there have been calls in the last two weeks for Mayor London Breed to fire embattled Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, she said that she had to follow proper procedure — and now Nuru has resigned of his own accord.
SF News Local Hospitals Prepare for Coronavirus Patients; Richmond Lab Begins Testing While there has yet to be a case of the Wuhan/novel coronavirus in San Francisco, health officials are preparing for the possibility that a case will appear here.
SF News Chevron Refinery Conducts Flaring, Briefly Evacuates Employees Something went down Monday morning at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, and it led to some flaring — the practice of safely burning excess hydrocarbon gases that comes with dramatic flames shooting out of smokestacks and the release of smoke.
SF News BART Adds Ambassadors, Switches Up Some Train Schedules Starting Today Today is the first day for the pilot BART Ambassadors program, so commuters may begin seeing the unarmed outreach personnel patrolling trains in search of quality-of-life infractions. Also, some train schedules are shifting for commuters between SF and the East Bay.
SF News Crazy Wind Storm Knocks Down 15 Trees and 9 Power Lines On One Castro Valley Street An East Bay neighborhood was partially evacuated due to collapsing trees and downed power lines. And that 209-mph wind gust recorded at Kirkwood may have been the result of an equipment error.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Off-Duty FBI Agent Shoots Man In Haight-Asbury Fight Three people died in house fires in Oakland and Vacaville overnight, a hit-and-run driver was arrested in Richmond, and a new SFPD "foot beat office" has opened in mid-Market.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From San Francisco's 162nd Chinese New Year Parade Thousands convened at Market and 2nd Streets Saturday where the SF festivities began to celebrate the Year of the Rat — hissing firecrackers, lanky dragons, chromatic fashions, and all — in the largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia.
SF News Window Blown Out From Millennium Tower, No Injuries Reported Today's 30-plus-mile-an-hour winds shattered a window on the 41st floor of the tilting SoMa building; the Big Bad Wolf could never.
SF News BART To Change Services Starting Tomorrow, Significant Updates For Yellow And Green Lines Brace yourself for longer headway times between BART trains on Sundays, certain rail car services ending at Concord instead of Pleasant Hill, and a host of other noteworthy adjustments the rapid transit agency will kick off Monday morning.
SF News Sunday Links: Strong Weekend Winds To Blow Into Monday Looks like Saturday and Sunday's strong Bay Area winds will carry into Monday morning, a late-evening car accident in Montclair left two dead and a 5-year-old boy and adult man in critical condition, and UCSF’s Dr. Charles Chiu has developed a more immediate test for coronavirus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Line 51 Brewery And Tasting Room Opens In Oakland, Complete With Charming Transit Bus Tap Mass transit fans and beer aficionados alike, rejoice. Oakland's newest watering hole combines the best of both those worlds, pouring a selection of on-tap IPAs and ales from the side of a retired and restored AC Transit bus from 1972.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Founder Is Daughter Of Homeless Woman Gifted a Piedmont In-Law Unit Last Year You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
SF News Bay Area Woman Among Those Quarantined For Coronavirus Onboard British Cruise Ship In Japan What was meant to be a carefree 15-day vacation at sea, San Francisco resident Julie Choy now finds herself in a viral hellscape, trapped inside her small windowless room aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship — some 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area.
SF News Saturday Links: 4-Year-Old Child Killed In East Bay Hit-And-Run A 4-year-old was killed in an East Bay hit-and-run Friday around 5 p.m., Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey plans to grow the company’s workforce outside of San Francisco, and it was actually hotter in Antarctica than it was in Los Angeles this past Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It's Going to Be Windy Expect traffic around downtown SF for the Chinese New Year Parade Saturday, Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy has resigned amid a texting scandal, Trump's Justice Department has dropped its fuel efficiency probe, and morale at Juul Labs is bad.
