Arts & Entertainment Netflix Strikes $83B Deal to Acquire Warner Bros. (and HBO) to Create Content Juggernaut If government regulators don't torpedo the deal, Netflix is poised to become a movie, TV, and streaming giant even larger than it is today, bringing everything from 'Batman' to 'Game of Thrones' into its fold.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Marina Residents Already Making Noise About Safeway Plan A 21-year-old Santa Rosa woman crashed after leading CHP on high-speed chase; critics are pouncing on Pamela Price trying to run for Alameda County DA again; and Marina residents are already making noise about a huge proposed development on the site of the Safeway there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike Teachers went on strike today in the West Contra Costa school district; SF Unified teachers have taken a vote to authorize a strike, but this may not be imminent; and a car crashed into a doggy day care in Alameda.
SF News SF City Hall Employee Who Embezzled $627K, Bought VR Headsets With It, Pleads Guilty A former SF City Hall HR employee who was notoriously busted for invoicing the city for “earthquake supplies” but was actually buying VR headsets and tablets (and then selling them on eBay), pleaded guilty Thursday to all charges.
Arts & Entertainment Uncle John’s Tree Gets Lit Tonight In Golden Gate Park, Salesforce Park Firing Up Its Lights Too For the 96th year in a row, SF biggest and roundest Christmas tree gets its switch flipped in a 6:30 pm lighting Thursday night. Meanwhile, Salesforce Park gets its holiday light display lit Friday, plus a sing-along 'Frozen' Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Director Jon Chu Make Surprise Appearance at 'Wicked' Screening In San Rafael The two stars of Wicked For Good and the film's Bay Area-born director made a surprise appearance after a screening of the film Wednesday night in San Rafael, and did a Q&A with the audience.
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Let’s Glow SF’ Holiday Projection Mapping Extravaganza Kicks Off Again Downtown Friday Night What they’re calling “the nation’s largest holiday projection art festival” will turn the sides of downtown SF buildings into ice castles and gingerbread houses, as Let’s Glow SF returns for its fifth year this Friday night.
SF News Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
SF News Stanley Roberts Returns! 'People Behaving Badly' Gets Revived on KRON4 After 7-Year Hiatus The Bay Area's favorite finger-wagging scold of the local news, Stanley Roberts, will be back on the air on KRON4 starting next week, with his first "People Behaving Badly" segment in seven years.
SF News Lurie Names Longtime SFPD Veteran Derrick Lew as New San Francisco Police Chief A San Francisco native and 22-year veteran of the SF Police Department, SFPD Deputy Chief Derrick Lew has just been named the permanent new SF Police Chief. And, interestingly, he was once shot by London Breed’s cousin.
Arts & Entertainment Cause of Death Revealed for Claude, the Academy of Science's Albino Alligator Claude the albino alligator, the longtime mascot of the California Academy of Sciences who died unexpectedly earlier this week at the age of 30, now has an official cause of death.
SF Politics Recalled Alameda County DA Pamela Price Is Running for the Job Again We have the odd situation of someone who was just recalled from office running for that same office again a year later, as thrown-out former Alameda County DA Pamela Price announces she’s running to be District Attorney again.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Darrell Issa May Relocate to Texas Due to Prop 50 Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is likely to be a casualty of Prop 50 and is talking about moving to Texas; an abalone poacher was arrested in Sonoma; and some atmospheric rivers are coming... to the Pacific Northwest.
SF News That 5.9M Earthquake Warning Out of Nevada Was Fake News Millions of Northern California residents received a Shake Alert warning at 8:06 am Thursday about an earthquake with an epicenter in Lyon County, Nevada, but the quake itself soon disappeared from the USGS website, and the agency said it was a false alarm.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Huge Godzilla Festival Coming to Japantown This Weekend An Excelsior house fire left one dead Wednesday; parents in the Marin car crash that killed four teens do not want the driver to be prosecuted; and a big Godzilla festival is roaring into Japantown this weekend.
Business & Tech DMV Now Hammering Out Rules for Self-Driving Trucks to Come to California The next frontier of the self-driving car movement is likely to be self-driving commercial trucks, and the California DMV is creating the rules right now for the testing of autonomous semi trucks.
SF News 67-Story Residential Tower at South Van Ness and Market Is Moving Forward A stalled residential project which could make up nearly 1,000 of the 82,000 new units San Francisco is mandated to build in the next half-decade appears to be back in motion and headed toward construction.
SF News Huzzah! All Clipper Card Systems Will Take Credit and Debit Cards, Starting Next Wednesday Muni, Caltrain, and all the public transit services that take Clipper will accept credit or debit card taps for rides in just a week, as paying with credit or debit won’t just be a BART thing anymore starting this Wednesday.
SF News Randa's Market on 16th Street, Home of the Late KitKat, Has Gotten a New Bodega Cat The home of the bodega cat who was tragically killed by a Waymo in October, Randa's Market on 16th Street, has gotten a new cat, and her name is Coco.
SF News Teen Charged With Attempted Murder in Valley Fair Mall Black Friday Triple-Shooting The 17-year-old who allegedly shot three people in a crowded Santa Clara mall on Black Friday has been charged with attempted murder, and the Santa Clara County DA is determined that the kid face trial as an adult.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes, Angling for Trump Pardon, Challenges Specific Evidence From Her Trial Elizabeth Holmes's best bet for getting out early from the Texas prison where she's incarcerated is probably a pardon from President Trump himself, and she's using social media, via a surrogate, to make her case.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Developer Buys Mostly Vacant Live-Work Building on Mid-Market A Mid-Market building full of affordable studio units that was the subject of a protracted eviction fight in the last decade is now slated to become home to 400 sleeping pods, if a developer gets his way.
SF News Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ Plan Approved by Board of Supervisors, Handing Lurie Major Political Win Mayor Lurie’s ambitious upzoning proposal known as the ‘family zoning’ plan passed the Board of Supervisors in a 7-4 vote Tuesday, jacking up building heights in the Sunset, Marina, and elsewhere.
SF News Convicted Killer Nima Momeni Sues Media for Defamation Nima Momeni, the man who was convicted one year ago in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, has now filed a lawsuit against multiple media organizations claiming defamation, among other claims.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Elderly Pedestrian Killed In Russian Hill A 72-year-old pedestrian was killed by a vehicle in Russian Hill Tuesday; the DA in Santa Clara County is seeking to try the Valley Fair Mall shooting suspect as an adult; and more Ubers and Waymos could be coming to Market Street.
