SF News Suspects Sought In Violent Weekend Robberies In Chinatown A pair of violent incidents in Chinatown are being investigated as potentially linked after four suspects in a dark-colored SUV assaulted three elderly men in Chinatown's Portsmouth Square on Saturday, following a violent robbery involving a similar vehicle the night before.
SF Politics Democratic Socialist Dean Preston Wins District 5 Supervisor Seat On Second Try After narrowly losing to London Breed in 2016, Dean Preston eked out a win in the District 5 supervisor race on Saturday, taking the seat from Vallie Brown, the mayor's appointee.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crash Shuts Down I-580 in Oakland A car chase in Concord left multiple vehicles damaged, a Sonoma woman's pet dog was mauled by loose pit bulls on a hiking trail, and an off-duty cop shot and killed a man in Vallejo.
SF News BART Riders Stage 'Eat-In' To Protest Man Detained For Consuming Sandwich Ravenous riders flooded SF's Embarcadero Station yesterday to snack and protest the fact that a man was handcuffed for literally eating a breakfast sandwich on BART's Pleasant Hill platform earlier in the week; it was a modern-day “eat-in,” if you will.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Booed In Vegas For Going On After Midnight, Sued By Florida Man For Late Starts Shortly after Madonna departed San Francisco on her Madame X Tour last week, her first show in Las Vegas was reportedly met with boos and 500 demands for refunds when she took the stage at 12:30 a.m. — two hours late for her already late scheduled curtain time of 10:30 p.m.
SF News Sunday Links: Progressive Chesa Boudin Wins DA Race Over Suzy Loftus Boudin is officially SF's new DA after provisional ballots were counted, someone decided to fire arrows at a homeless camp in the East Bay, and a construction worker fell 40 feet from an elevated platform near Twitter’s downtown office.
SF News [Update] Election Results: With Final Mail-In And Provisional Ballots Counted, Preston (Unofficially) Bests Brown With all 474 precincts reporting and most ballots counted, the District Attorney's race is all but settled with Boudin beating Loftus's 31.13 percent with 35.56 percent of the vote – and Dean Preston now appears to have won his District 5 seat on the Board of Supervisors, as well.
SF News #ByeFelicia: BART Retires First Legacy Car 'Felicia' To Make Room For Newer Fleet Vehicles After nearly two decades of (somewhat) faithful service, BART has scrapped a 19-year-old car in order to make way for the 775 new autos the transit system will roll out in the coming years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Northern California's 2019 Wine Vintage Is Just Fine, Post-Fire Sonoma County wineries, restaurants, and hotels are trying to get the word out that Sonoma wine country escaped mostly unscathed from the Kincade Fire, which was declared 100 percent contained as of Wednesday.
SF News Saturday Links: An Endangered California Condor Arrives At The Oakland Zoo BART is now independently investigating yesterday's cringe-worthy breakfast sandwich moment, “dopamine fasting" is gaining traction in Silicon Valley, an endangered California Condor arrives at the Oakland Zoo for medical treatment, and more Saturday headlines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeowners In Kincade Fire Zone May Have To Pay For Cleanup The progressive candidates Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston have taken slight leads as ballots keep getting counted, a female bicyclist was struck and severely injured in SF, and a pedestrian struck last weekend in Potrero Hill has died.
SF News Suspect In April Homicides Admitted To Killings, Gets Maximum Sentence for Shooting Cop in Nevada Stefon Demar Jefferson, who's implicated in a killing spree in the Bay Area on April 26 that left three men dead, was just sentenced for his shootout with police later that night in Nevada's Douglas County.
Arts & Entertainment PigPen Theatre Co’s ‘The Tale of Despereaux: A New Musical’ Is Coming To Berkeley Rep After a stint at San Diego’s The Old Globe, PigPen Theatre Co’s "The Tale of Despereaux: A New Musical" – which tells the tales of one brave mouse as he attempts to save a human princess from malicious vermin – will come to the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for a six-week residency, the 21st.
SF News BART Police Officer Detains and Cuffs Black Man For Eating Breakfast Sandwich On Platform A pair of videos has been making the rounds of a BART police officer having a heated interaction with a rider whom he wanted to cite for eating on the Pleasant Hill BART platform earlier this week.
SF News Camp Fire Anniversary Marked With Stories Of Rebuilding, and Mystery Man's Remains One year ago today, the ferocious Camp Fire broke out in the forested hills east of Concow and Paradise, California. And marking the anniversary the local media has published dozens of stories checking back in on the survivors and the rebuilding effort.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Second-Graders' Rewrite Of Lizzo Song Featured on 'Good Morning America' Video went viral this week of a Pittsburg second-grade teacher's classroom where the students learned a version of Lizzo's self-empowerment anthem "Truth Hurts" with rewritten lyrics to inspire their schoolwork. And the story got picked up Friday by ABC's Good Morning America.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Can Seek Reprieve In Manslaughter Charge, Judge Rules The mayor’s brother Napoleon Brown won the chance at a re-sentencing in his manslaughter conviction from 14 years ago, thanks to a ruling that just came from a San Francisco Superior Court judge.
Business & Tech Vaping Illnesses Linked To THC Pod Additive Vitamin E Acetate For the first time since the outbreak of lung illnesses associated with e-cigarettes earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control says it has identified a specific ingredient as a "very strong culprit": Vitamin E acetate.
Arts & Entertainment Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Gets Huge Mural In Downtown SF The face of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is going up on the side of a building near Union Square, and the artist painting is hoping a band will donate their services for an unveiling ceremony.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: First Orinda Shooting Lawsuit Is Filed The jury in the trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat is going into their ninth day of deliberations, BART service to San Jose may begin in December, and Elizabeth Holmes just won a small battle over evidence in court.
SF News Day Around The Bay: NRA Drops Its Lawsuit Against San Francisco Airbnb has agreed to pay for Orinda victim funerals, Suzy Loftus has a 879-vote lead in the DA's race, and Lyft's e-bikes are returning in force next month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Testmatch' at ACT's Strand Theater Is a Strange But Satisfying Lens on Cricket ACT's latest production is a world premiere by an American- and British-trained playwright about the game of cricket, in particular women's cricket, and it spans three centuries and two continents in a brisk 90 minutes.
SF News Michael Bloomberg Is Prepping a Possible Presidential Bid, Filing Paperwork For At Least One Primary Former New York City mayor and self-made billionaire Michael Bloomberg is reportedly inching toward declaring his candidacy for the 2020 presidential campaign, and is making moves that include filing paperwork calling himself a candidate in the Democratic race in the Alabama primary.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Project Kicks Off With Pelosi In Attendance, Completion Due in 2021 The official "groundmaking" ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the process of building and landscaping what will create 14 acres of parkland over the top of the 101 freeway tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the Presidio to Crissy Field.
Business & Tech Two Former Twitter Employees Accused of Spying For Saudi Arabia The U.S. government has accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia via their access to sensitive Twitter user data.
