SF News Saturday Links: PG&E May Hike Rates To Make Up For New SF Tax That Funds Homelessness Aid Your PG&E bill might soon increase by almost a $1, two men were shot at Jack London Square, Madonna moves her Haloween show to early November and more Saturday headlines.
SF News 24-Year-Old Woman Swept Out To Sea Near Land's End, Search Called Off A 24-year-old woman who went swimming off Mile Rock Beach Friday evening was swept out by the current and her friends say they lost sight of her.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Washington High Alums Sue Over Contentious Mural An alumni group sues over the covering of a widely-seen-as-racist mural, the Castro’s Naan N Curry suffers a Health Department shutdown, and high-flying weed delivery service Eaze lays off 20 percent of its staff.
SF Politics DA Gascón Suddenly Resigns, Mayor Breed Shivs His Successor And Installs Suzy Loftus The District Attorney’s office looks like an episode of “Succession” — literally — as Gascón suddenly quits a month before the election, and Breed power-plays candidate Suzy Loftus into the job.
Arts & Entertainment Six Halloween Haunts Around The Bay To Scare The October Out Of You In the Bay Area, Halloween goes way beyond candy and costumes to get at something primal, as we shake off the monotony of everyday life, don alter egos, and seek out some spooky, mind-altering times.
Business & Tech Reddit Relocates Its Headquarters to Mid-Market Home of Uber and Square Reddit has just leased a bunch of new office space at 1455 Market Street, a.k.a. the building where Square and Uber both occupy a fair amount of square footage.
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To Navigating The 19th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival SFist brings you our guide to getting around this weekend’s 19th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, in hopes of easing your transportation and security check-in woes. Yes, you will need a clear plastic backpack if you’re taking anything with you into the festival grounds.
SF News Apparently Drunk Guy Gets Into Woman's Hot Tub, Spends Two Hours Trying to Get Into Her House A Sacramento-area woman says she's freaked out by the fact that a naked stranger got into her backyard last week, took his clothes off, and chilled naked in her hot tub. And he also kept trying to get her back sliding door to open, to no avail.
SF News Jurors Hear Gun and Blood Evidence In Murder Trial of Peninsula Heiress On Thursday in a San Mateo County courtroom, jurors heard evidence of suspect Kaveh Bayat's gun collection, and of the vehicle believed to have transported Green's body.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Victims In Wrong-Way Crash on 101 Identified The wrong-way driver in yesterday's crash was "impaired," Biden makes a quip about Trump's China accusations while in the Bay Area, and a new Red Flag Warning has been issued for the North Bay tomorrow.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Movie Theaters On Edge For 'Joker' Premiere Seven years after a mass shooter dressed as the Joker killed a dozen people at a Colorado movie theater during a premiere screening of The Dark Knight, the release of the dark Warner Bros. origin story Joker had theaters around the country bracing for the worst.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whole Foods Wants More Legal Protection From Protesters Whole Foods is seeking an expanded restraining order against a Berkeley animal-rights group, a Vacaville woman was arrested for an attempted kidnapping outside a school, and Uber launches temp-worker app.
SF News ’Carmageddon’ Predicted To Snarl 101-Alemany Boulevard Area Much Of Next Summer When even Caltrans is referring to a construction event as “Carmageddon,” you can expect miles-long traffic jams, and this one’s scheduled to disrupt travel on the 101 around Portola next summer.
SF Politics Joe Biden Is In The Bay Area Today, And You Can See Him For Just $2,800 A $1,500 lunch with Biden is already underway in Palo Alto, but you can catch him at Feinstein’s mansion later today for the affordable price of $2,800.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Outer Richmond Restaurant Aziza To Reopen October 14 After a three-year hiatus and some staffing shuffles, local chef Mourad Lahlou is reopening his original flagship in the Outer Richmond (named for his mother), Aziza.
SF News MGM Resorts To Pay Out Up To $800 Million to Las Vegas Shooting Victims In a landmark settlement for a victims' fund that is exceeded only by funds for victims of September 11th and the 2010 BP oil spill, MGM Resorts International is expected to pay up to $800 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Civic Center Burger King Permanently Closed After History Of Health Violations The Market Street Burger King abruptly closes following another recent health complaint, ending a 32-year run of giving San Francisco the runs.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kamala Is Polling Way Behind In California A baby was found safe after an alleged abduction in Emeryville, a Menlo Park police was attacked, and people are texting as fast as they type now.
SF News Four Dead In Wrong-Way Crash On 101 Near Candlestick Point A horrific crash on northbound 101 after midnight Wednesday night claimed the lives of four people, including a taxi driver and two passengers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Cruz Man Killed In Apparent Botched Kidnapping The body found in the Santa Cruz kidnapping investigation has been confirmed as Tushar Atre's, work crews are starting to clean up a major Sausalito mudslide from February, and #TrumpMeltdown trends on Twitter.
SF News Elderly Palo Alto Airbnb Owner Returns Home to Find Party, Gets Robbed A Palo Alto man in his 60s who went to check on a smoke alarm that went off at the home he was renting on Airbnb got accosted and robbed, twice, after discovering an unauthorized party at the house and trying to shut it down.
SF Politics Supes Haney And Ronen Unveil Sweeping Mental Health Bill, Mayor Is Quick To Oppose It Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hina Yakitori, the Bay Area's First Omakase-Style Yakitori Spot, Debuts On Divisadero Yakitori, the Japanese cuisine sub-genre that stars grilled chicken parts, has emerged in multiple locales around the Bay Area in the last decade. But Hina Yakitori offers an elevated version, with a prix fixe.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Warren and Mark Zuckerberg Face Off In War Of Online Words After some comments by Mark Zuckerberg at an internal Facebook meeting in July leaked out Tuesday in which the CEO spoke candidly about his concerns for a possible Elizabeth Warren presidency, Warren responded pointedly on Twitter — and it didn't end there.
SF News Alleged Kidnapping of Santa Cruz Tech Exec Led To Possible Homicide In a mysterious case in which very few details have been publicly revealed, a 50-year-old tech entrepreneur from Santa Cruz was allegedly kidnapped from his home early Tuesday, and his girlfriend's vehicle was later found with a dead body in it.
