SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Baby Falcon Chick Hatches Atop Berkeley Clock Tower The transfer of prisoners out of FCI Dublin has been even more chaotic than we realized; the Tesla layoffs will leave nearly 3,000 Bay Area workers out of a job; and a third baby peregrine falcon has been born at the famed Berkeley nest.
Business & Tech Empty Office Building at Sixth and Market, Which Last Sold for $62 Million, Sells for Just $6.5 Million The 955 Market Street building that was once home to Burning Man headquarters, and then a whole bunch of WeWork offices, is now empty and just sold for a measly 10% of the price it fetched in 2016.
SF News 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment,' Like the One at Columbia University, Established at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley has joined in a nationwide protest action on college campuses in which students are pitching tents in prominent plaza spaces, as a sort of "sleep-in" in solidarity with displaced Gazans and in protest of investments in war-profiting corporations.
SF News Two Suspects Plead Guilty, Take Plea Deals in Fatal Shooting of Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Pleasanton Home Depot security guard Blake Mohs was shot and killed trying to thwart a shoplifting last April, and the two suspects involved have just pleaded guilty to knock a few years off their sentences.
Arts & Entertainment Another Free Outdoor Concert Series Coming to SF This Summer, Shows Put Together By Your Favorite Nightclubs There’s yet another free outdoor concert series called SF Live that hopes to get you out of the house and spending money this summer, and the shows are curated by clubs like Bottom of the Hill, the SF Eagle, and Cafe Du Nord.
SF News Latest City Hall Remedy for Tenderloin Street Circus Is Shutting Down Corner Stores at Midnight Corner stores that cater to the crowds who hang out around UN Plaza and elsewhere into the wee hours of the morning are part of the problem, the mayor's office says.
SF News Inmate Escapes Custody at SF General By Climbing Into Ceiling There was a brief bit of chaos Tuesday morning at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital when an incarcerated person being held in the jail ward at the hospital escaped custody by climbing through ceiling tiles and trying to crawl away through the bowels of the hospital.
SF News Waymo Drives on Wrong Side of Street, But Has Excuse Because of Taunting Unicycle Riders A Friday night incident saw a self-driving Waymo pop into the wrong lane for a couple blocks, but it may have had good reason to do so, because it was being swarmed by electric unicycle riders.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2024 Lineup Includes Tyler the Creator, Grace Jones, Postal Service, and Post Malone Post Malone, Kaytranada, and Tyler, the Creator are all returning to Outside Lands this August for the second time in three years, and The Killers are returning to headline a decade after their last headlining set at the fest.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Child Predator Sting Operation Ensnares San Jose Firefighter A child predator sting operation out of Sacramento arrested a San Jose fire captain; PG&E CEO Patti Poppe's compensation is being compared to others; and Tesla is being sued over California layoff notification laws, and last week's layoff announcement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Attorney to Try to Toss Out Dolores Hill Bomb Civil Case SF is trying to get a class-action civil case thrown out that was brought by teens arrested for the Dolores Hill Bomb last year; the Joe Simitian/Evan Low recount is down to one vote again; and another United Airlines jet had to divert to SF, this time over smoke in the cabin.
SF News Rev. Cecil Williams, Evangelist of Equality and Dignity for All and Founder of GLIDE, Dies at Age 94 Reverend Cecil Williams, who until today had been a living testament to the modern era of San Francisco and its reputation for accepting all varieties of the human condition, has died at age 94.
SF News California Could Ban TSA Line-Skipping Service ‘Clear’ From CA Airports Under New Bill The pricey, $189-a-year service called Clear that lets people cruise through airport TSA lines could be banned in California, under a proposed bill from state lawmakers who think its unfair to people can’t pay the extra 200 bucks.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Two Baby Falcon Chicks Hatch on Berkeley Falcon Cam, and on Earth Day to Boot That’s two newborn baby falcons just after hatching beneath their mom Annie atop the Berkeley Campanile on Monday morning, and two more little hatchlings are expected to bust out of their shells in the days to come.
SF Politics Supreme Court Sounds Inclined to Allow Cities to Clear Homeless Encampments, Enforce Camping Laws Somewhat predictably, the conservative-majority Supreme Court signaled during oral arguments Monday that it will rule in favor of the Oregon town whose law penalizing public camping was struck down by the Ninth Circuit.
SF News Report: More Than 80% of Middle-Income 'Below Market Rate’ Housing Units Sitting Vacant In SF, Partly Thanks to Red Tape It’s great that San Francisco developers are given incentives to set aside housing for middle-income families that can’t afford the pricier units. It’s not so great that a large percentage of these units are sitting empty because of bureaucracy and the state of the housing market.
Arts & Entertainment Chappell Roan, Tyla, STRFKR, and Le Sserafim All Being Teased In Outside Lands Lineup Teasers In a series of three teaser comix, Another Planet Entertainment has let it be known who a handful of the acts will be on this year's Outside Lands lineup. And one strong headliner guess is The Weeknd.
SF News Motorcyclist Injured Amid Dirt Bike and ATV Sideshow Near Lake Merritt A Sunday evening sideshow near Oakland's Lake Merritt ended with one motorcyclist needing medical attention.
SF News Notorious Formerly $1.7 Million Noe Valley Public Toilet Opens With ‘Potty Party,’ Scatological Costumes A stream of yellow and brown balloons and toilet-humor costumes came out for Sunday’s official opening of the Noe Valley public bathroom that was once supposed to cost $1.7 million, though its cost plopped down to just a couple hundred thousand dollars.
SF News Churchgoer Stabbed Outside Saints Peter & Paul Church In North Beach On Sunday, following a reported altercation with a homeless individual who had entered the church, a parishioner was stabbed outside Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kaiser Nurses Protest Use of AI In Healthcare Kaiser nurses say AI is being embraced too quickly at hospitals without being properly tested; a dead gray whale was seen in the Bay off Alameda; and ferry service between SF and Sausalito is suspended indefinitely.
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Hippie Hill 4/20 Draws Thousands of Pot Smokers, Despite Being Officially ‘Canceled’ Several thousand marijuana enthusiasts still showed up for a supposedly “canceled” 4/20 at Hippie Hill, and we’ve got pictures and video of Saturday’s weed-smoking shenanigans at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
SF News Sunday Links: Presidio Heights Couple, Embroiled in Pickleball Dispute, Sells Home For $7M Under Asking Price The SF couple, Karl and Holly Peterson, had started a petition about the noise of a nearby pickleball court when they had one in their own home; the Stud reopened Saturday; and BART officially retired its legacy fleet.
SF News Celebrate 4/20 in the Bay Area At These Hippie Hill Event Alternatives From food fests to drag shows, check out these weed-themed things to do in San Francisco and beyond Saturday.
SF News Saturday Links: Oregon Runner Sets New Record Time on the Lost Coast Trail An Oregon woman, Emily Keddie, ran the Northern Californian Lost Coast in a record 5.5 hours; SF celebrated Bicycle Day on Friday; and Sacramento music festival Sol Blume was canceled at the last minute.