SF News Bay Area, Santa Cruz Residents Comprise Most Of Those Presumed Dead In SoCal Boat Fire We're learning today that the majority of the 34 people aboard the Conception, the boat that caught fire early Monday off the Santa Barbara coast, were local residents, including the daughter of the tour company founder.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bans Coolers, Adopts Clear Bag Policy For The Mass Shooting Era It will be an Outside Lands-style gated entrance with security at this year’s free bluegrass festival, and your cooler is no longer welcome, but your dog still is.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Diplo Pimps Popeyes Chicken Sandwich At Burning Man, Via Instagram It happens every year that people publicly do things that are in violation of Burning Man's basic rules around commercial promotion. And this year, it was DJ/producer Diplo who proudly enabled Popeyes to advertise their new chicken sandwich from the playa.
Arts & Entertainment Pretty Much None of the 900 Parking Spots At the Chase Center Are For the Public In case the word hasn't gotten out far and wide enough, I'm just going to say it again here: Do not drive to games and concerts at the Chase Center.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Ghost Ship Trial Deliberations Restart Yet Again A man who crashed through security gates and drove across the tarmac at Oakland Airport over the weekend was found dead in the Oakland Estuary, and Austin Vincent, the SoMa assault suspect, is due back in court.
SF News Labor Day Links: Huge Weekend Sideshow Busted In Contra Costa County The BART track replacement project knocked out a major power line along Highway 24 near Lafayette, a man dove into the Bay after driving across Oakland Airport last night and evaded capture, and 71 people were arrested in a Contra Costa sideshow bust.
SF News New Zealand Man Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at Burning Man The man was burned Saturday night and many Burners are packing up and heading out of the desert today. But for one Burning Man camp, Sunday night's Temple burn will take on even more somber significance than usual.
SF News One Dead and Multiple Sickened After 'Chemical Suicide' At Fairmont San Jose The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose was the center of all manner of chaos yesterday morning: A woman took her own life in a “chemical suicide” with an unknown substance, sickening at least nine others in the process.
SF News Sunday Links: Third Puppy in SF Animal Care Heist Recovered, Abandoned in East Oakland The third puppy that was stolen from SF Animal Care was recovered Saturday, the Mission's poem-writing pigeon-lover John Ratliff is back on the streets, and District 5 supervisor candidate Dean Preston lost the Democratic nomination.
SF News Yet Another High-Speed Chase In the North Bay Ends In Arrest of Allegedly Intoxicated Man People keep leading law enforcement on high-speed chases along 101 in Sonoma County this summer. The latest was a guy who yelled out his window to Petaluma police that he had "nothing to lose."
SF News Garcia-Zarate Has Gun Possession Conviction Overturned In the 2015 Shooting of Kate Steinle Yesterday, a California state appeals court decidedly threw out the sole conviction against 46-year-old Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, the immigrant who fatally shot a 32-year-old Kate Steinle back in 2015.
SF News Saturday Links: Famous Twin Peaks Home, Designed by Richard Neutra, Won't Be Resurrected After All The San Francisco Planning Commission has opted for a completely different rebuild of the 1935 Neutra-designed Twin Peaks home, deferring to the wishes of the property owner who tore it down.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beloved Sacramento Restaurateur Biba Caggiano Dies The Embarcadero homeless Navigation Center construction is well underway, a huge new British ad agency is moving into SF, and Gordon Ramsay is opening a restaurant in Tahoe.
SF News Van Ness Stabbing Suspect Released From Jail; SoMa Murder Suspect Also Freed The cases of two dead homeless men in San Francisco are now both "pending further investigation" as the suspects believed responsible for their deaths have been let out of jail.
Business & Tech Hackers Seize Jack Dorsey's Twitter, Make Bomb Threats, Praise Hitler Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chow Replacement Cook Shoppe Is Closing On Church Street; Owner Jailed For Being A Fugitive Three-month-old Castro area restaurant Cook Shoppe is already dunzo, and the unfolding story behind it is totally nuts. The owner of record, Mark White, has apparently been using an alias, and someone he opened the restaurant with is in jail now.
SF Politics Wiener Wages Rhetorical War on Cupertino’s Plan B For Giant ‘Dead Mall’ Cupertino’s enormous and empty Vallco shopping mall has seen a zigzag of fortunes in the quest to turn it into a large housing development, and state Senator Scott Wiener is furious over the latest compromise.
Business & Tech CDC Issues Broad Warning About Vaping, and SF-Based Juul Is Not Having the Greatest Summer Some 200 people have come down with serious respiratory illnesses in recent months that are linked to street-purchased vape products. The CDC has now taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about vaping, despite there being no single product that's been identified as the culprit.
SF News Death at Burning Man Being Investigated As Suspicious A man was found dead at Burning Man on Thursday, and was declared dead by event medical staff before the local county coroner arrived on the scene.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Palo Alto Teen Arrested For Threatening To 'Shoot Up' His School An early morning fire damaged businesses in downtown Los Gatos, Ronen and Haney want a hearing about mental health beds, and local hotels are getting more angry with Airbnb.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Neighborhood Terrorized By Cows DeMarcus Cousins has been charged with domestic violence threats, a Mountain View landlady who staged a home invasion to scare her tenants appears in court, and one more victim has been found in the Gilroy shooting.
Business & Tech Uber's Half-Billion-Dollar Marketing Campaign Reportedly Hasn't Helped Its Reputation Uber laid off 400 people on its marketing team last month, and a big reason for that is likely the fact that efforts to turn around public sentiment about the company don't appear to have worked. Like, at all.
SF News Law Firm Investigates Possible Sexual Misconduct At SF's University High School Going Back Decades A sexual misconduct investigation is underway stemming from the revelation earlier this year that a former soccer coach at SF's prestigious University High School (SFUHS) had multiple allegations against him from his time at another Bay Area prep school.
Arts & Entertainment Some Companies Are Letting Employees Expense Trips To Burning Man Some Bay Area companies have "chief culture officers," and some of these party mavens think that Burning Man is the perfect place for coworkers to bond and unwind over a few hallucinogens.
SF News Disgraced Oakland Bakery Attorney Would Like To Practice Law Again, Thank You The Berkeley lawyer who who smuggled her client’s ‘hit list’ out of prison insists the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and asks the State Bar for reinstatement.
