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Day Around the Bay: Brown Paper Tickets Leaves Bay Area Theaters Holding the Bag

A street name will indeed be renamed Vicha Ratanapakdee Way, Elon Musk is in hot water for deleting messages he was supposed to keep, and Brown Paper tickets is badly in arrears with some of your favorite local theaters and performers.

Arts & Entertainment

Critical Mass Gears Up for Its 30th Anniversary Ride Friday, After Decades of Adjusting the Resistance

Critical Mass still brakes for no one after 30 years of blazing paths and creating controversy, though it’s sped up the adoption of urban biking in SF and all over the world.

SF News

More Details Emerge About Shocking Double Homicide In Which Sheriff's Deputy Is the Sole Suspect

The double homicide that took place earlier this month in a Dublin, California subdivision has sent shockwaves across the law-enforcement community — and sent a cadre of state inspectors to examine the hiring practices of the sheriff's department for whom the suspect was working.

Arts & Entertainment

New Exhibit Shows Off the Three-Decade Living Legacy of SF Drag Star Juanita MORE! — and Her Collection of Hats

A San Francisco treasure and an enduring icon in the local nightlife scene, Juanita MORE! has always been more than just a drag queen. But defining what and who she is, as a person and a persona, requires a thorough look back at her, to-date, 30-year career which hasn't been undertaken until now.

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SF's COVID Numbers Didn't Drop That Low This Month After All, DPH Says

Some sort of data snafu at the California Department of Public Health — the latest of many since the pandemic began — meant that San Francisco's COVID case count was looking a whole lot lower than it actually was in September.

SF News

Guess Who’s California’s Only Archbishop Who Won’t Name the Priests Accused of Sexually Abusing Children?

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone refuses to name the 312 men currently or formerly employed by the SF Archdiocese accused of abusing children. Sorry Padre, but on Thursday, the victims are going to release the names anyway.

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Plea Deal Rejected By Judge In Case of Napa Man With 'White Privilege Card' Who Threatened to Blow Up Democrats

A Napa car mechanic who fancied himself a right-wing radical terrorist intent on blowing up "a Democrat building" in the wake of Joe Biden's election didn't adequately express any remorse, and now a federal judge is tossing his plea deal.

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Mission District Attack Victims Can Identify Their Attackers, Denounce Police Inaction on Cases

Two recent assault victims in the Mission District say they can point out or even name their attackers, yet both attackers continue to roam the neighborhood without consequences.

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Search Continues for Oakland School Shooters; Two Victims Have Life-Threatening Injuries

Wednesday's mass shooting on the campus of two Oakland high schools left six people injured, and two of them were reportedly students. Oakland police say the shooting was targeted and arose out of "group and gang conflict."

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Thursday Morning What's Up: SFO Food Worker Strike Ends

The three-day strike by food workers at SFO has ended with the workers getting better pay, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office is being investigated by the state over its hiring practices, and there is some city council drama in Daly City.

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Day Around the Bay: SF Faces Backlog of COVID Rent-Relief Applications

A major injury crash in Sonoma County briefly shut down 101 today, Gov. Gavin Newsom was in SF signing a package of laws aimed at boosting housing production, and SF is dealing with a backlog of COVID rent-relief applications and is stopping taking new ones.

SF Politics

Newsom Razzes Elon Musk Over Tesla Taking $3.2 Billion in California Subsidies

Gavin Newsom is happy to rub Elon Musk’s face in how many billions of dollars Tesla has taken in state subsidies, declaring there is “no Tesla without California.”

SF News

Shooting at Oakland School Leaves at Least Six Critically Injured

There was a school shooting Wednesday in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood of Oakland, the details of which are still coming in — but we know that at least six students or staff were injured.

SF Politics

Pelosi’s Trips Abroad Have Tea-Leaf Readers Speculating She’s Ready to Call it Quits

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trips to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Armenia are being seen as a “swan song” among prognosticators, potentially capping a historic four congressional terms as Speaker of the House.

Arts & Entertainment

SF's Japanese Tea Garden Pagoda Unveiled Amidst $2 Million Renovation (Which Is Not Done Yet)

The white plastic has come down and the renovated Japanese Tea Garden debuted Wednesday in Golden Gate Park, though there’s still another year of stonemason and landscaping work until the job is complete.

SF Politics

San Francisco DA's Office Formally Announces Potential Murder Charges for Fentanyl Dealers

SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is taking another tough-on-drug-crime stance ahead of the November election that will determine if she keeps the job, stating that her office will pursue murder charges if and when they link a fentanyl dealer to an overdose death.

SF News

Chico Man Lived With Dead Roommate's Body For Four Years In Order To Cash His Checks

A Chico man has been charged with forgery and identity theft after prosecutors determined he had been impersonating his dead roommate in order to collect his U.S. Navy retirement benefit checks.

SF News

Advocates for Homeless Population Sue San Francisco to End Encampment Sweeps

A coalition of the Coalition on Homelessness, the ACLU, and a handful of unsheltered people have brought a U.S. District Court lawsuit against San Francisco, hoping to halt encampment sweeps under the claim that they are unconstitutional on several levels.

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3.4M Earthquake Gives a Small Shake to the San Jose Foothills

A smallish Wednesday morning earthquake rattled the area of the Alameda-Santa Clara county border, and it was measured at 3.4-magnitude by the USGS.

SF News

[Update] Rape Suspect Arrested After Hiding Inside Pleasant Hill Nordstrom Rack

A standoff ensued Tuesday evening and into Wednesday at a Nordstrom Rack in Pleasant Hill after police pursued a wanted rape suspect to the area, and he managed to keep himself hidden in the store for over 12 hours.

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Humpday Headlines: SFPD Seeks Suspect Who Swung Axe at Muni Driver

Police are seeking a suspect who allegedly swung an axe at a Muni driver near Van Ness and California, a carjacking suspect tried to carjack an off-duty SFPD officer's car, and Elizabeth Holmes may succeed in getting her sentencing delayed.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: We Now Know Which City Officials Submitted Those Undated Resignation Letters

A Tuesday morning shooting in Oakland’s Brookfield Village left one man dead and another injured, we have a video tour from inside the infamous Painted Lady fixer-upper, and the trove of city officials Mayor Breed demanded undated resignation letters from has become public.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Causwells Reopens In the Marina With New Look, New Menu, and a 'Dirty Tequila Martini'

Eight-year-old restaurant Causwells in the Marina District just closed for a two-week remodel and a revamp of its entire menu, and while there is still that popular cheeseburger, there's some more adult stuff to find there as they reopen Tuesday night.

SF News

Caltrans Crew Hits an Amtrak Train With a Crane While Trying to Clear Wood Street Encampment In Oakland

An unexpected snag straight from a Looney Tunes cartoon has held up the renewed clearing of West Oakland's Wood Street encampment, as Caltrans reportedly managed to hit a moving Amtrak train while bagging and tagging unsheltered people’s tents and structures.

Business & Tech

Facebook Takes Down Influence Campaigns Originating In Russia and China Regarding Ukraine War

Meta/Facebook says that it has discovered and removed "the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation" to influence social media users since the war in Ukraine began, as well as a separate, smaller, more inept campaign out of China.

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