SF News Humpday Headlines: Kevin McCarthy Is Leaving Congress Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is, as has been expected, retiring at the end of the year; Sonoma County is dealing with an outbreak of avian flu; and the FBI is warning of imminent threats against the U.S.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jerry of the ‘Tom & Jerry Christmas House’ Has Died San Francisco office vacancy hit another all-time high; two long-planned residential towers at Fourth and Brannan have been redesigned yet again; and Jerry of the famed ‘Tom & Jerry House’ has passed away.
SF News SF Supervisors Pass Crucial Housing Ordinance Urged by State, But With Changes State Might Reject The SF Board of Supervisors played chicken with a state deadline to remove constraints on housing production, and while they theoretically met the deadline Tuesday, the amendments they added could still cost SF big money.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Dean Preston Introduces Resolution Calling for Ceasefire In Gaza, Release of Hostages The SF Board of Supervisors will be wading into the controversy of the Israel-Hamas conflict, as Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced a resolution calling for a ceasefire, but another supervisor has already dismissed it, saying “We need to stay in our lane.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It Now Looks Like North Beach's Park Tavern Is Gone For Good It opened with fanfare, a fancy remodel, and a mosaic threshold that presaged a long life: "Est. 2011." But just over a decade and a pandemic later, Park Tavern looks to have gone dark for good.
SF News Bay Area Pilot Accused In Shroom-Related Cockpit Incident on Alaska Flight May Return Home This Week The Bay Area-based Alaska Airlines pilot who has been accused of endangering the lives of a plane-load of people in October has now been indicted by a grand jury, but not on attempted murder charges.
SF News State Commission Alleges That Cruise Withheld Evidence, Misled Public in Pedestrian-Dragging Incident The California Public Utilities Commission is hauling self-driving taxi company Cruise to court for allegedly “failing to provide complete information” by leaving out the rather significant detail that their car dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in an October 2 collision.
SF Politics VP Kamala Harris Has Now Cast More Tiebreaking Senate Votes Than Any VP In U.S. History Vice President Kamala Harris broke a record Tuesday that took two previous vice presidents about eight years to break, and she did it only three.
SF News Man Shot and Injured In Daylight Robbery In Lower Pac Heights A young man was shot in the course of a robbery Monday morning in a typically quiet residential neighborhood of San Francisco, but thankfully his injuries are not life-threatening.
Arts & Entertainment Lots of People Were Assigned Berkeley as Their Spotify Wrapped 'Sound Town,' But Also San Luis Obispo? Why? The annual flurry of Spotify Wrapped year-end lists and genre leanings dropped last week, and like your zodiac chart, these categorizations have come to mean something for multiple generations who rely on Spotify for most of their music.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested in Alleged $137,000 Stolen Cigarette Fencing Operation Cartons upon cartons of stolen cigarettes were being sold in East Bay convenience stores, as the California Highway Patrol just learned in busting up a fencing operation with well over $100,000 in stolen cigarettes.
SF News Victim In Possible Homicide In Presidio Heights ID'd as 27-Year-Old Tech Product Designer A young woman at just the start of a seemingly successful career as a user experience designer was found dead in her apartment last week in Presidio Heights, and police are investigating the case as a homicide that was possibly the result of domestic violence.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Ryan Gosling Charms at SFFILM Awards Actor Ryan Gosling charmed everyone in presenting an award to Greta Gerwig in SF on Monday; Tule fog is blanketing the region all over in the morning; Assemblymember Evan Low has entered the House race for Anna Eshoo's seat.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Break-Ins Go Down By Half In SF Oakland police are investigating a fatal shooting at a 7-Eleven today; a woman was fatally struck by a car in a Walmart parking lot in Mountain View; and SFPD data shows car break-ins down significantly this fall compared to last year.
SF News A New Muni Mobile App Launched Today, and They’re Killing Off the Old App, So Use Up Your Old Tickets Muni’s new trip planner and digital ticketing app MuniMobile is now up, running, and available for download, and the old app’s being discontinued on January 15, so it’s time to use up any fares you bought on the old one.
SF News YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Airplane In 2021 Sentenced to Six Months YouTuber Trevor Jacob made a poor example of himself and YouTube stunt artists in general two years ago when, while promoting a wallet for a sponsor, he filmed a video in which he deliberately crashed a small plane in Santa Barbara County.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Suddenly, Rosamunde Sausage Grill Announces It Will Reopen This Weekend Sausage fans (and Tuesday night trivia lovers) rejoice! Rosamunde Sausage Grill just announced they’re reopening at their 24th and Mission Street restaurant this Friday, which will be just 17 days after they appeared to close permanently.
Arts & Entertainment 'Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes' Returns With Coco Peru Stepping In as Dorothy This year's holiday edition of 'The Golden Girls Live' at the Victoria Theater is every bit as campy and delightful as it always is, but with a new addition to the cast.
SF News More Westfield Mall Woes, as SF’s Only LEGO Store There Has Closed Permanently Things apparently weren't connecting anymore in San Francisco’s only LEGO store, located in the beleaguered mall formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, as that LEGO store quietly closed permanently last week.
Arts & Entertainment The Streets of SF Lit Up With Pop-Up Drag Performances All Weekend for the First 'San Francisco Is a Drag' Thanks to a trio of SF drag legends and funding from the recently launched Civic Joy Fund, 100 drag queens, kings, and performers blanketed different neighborhoods on Saturday and Sunday for the first ever "San Francisco Is a Drag."
SF Politics The Code Pink Crew Hits Nancy Pelosi’s House for Another Demonstration Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza It was nowhere near the size of Saturday’s downtown SF March that drew thousands, but a couple dozen Code Pink protesters demonstrated outside Nancy Pelosi’s house Sunday calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
SF News One of the Palestinian Students Shot In Vermont Was Born In SF We’re learning that 20-year-old Hisham Awartani, one of the three Palestinian students shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend in an apparent hate crime, was born in San Francisco. But we’re also learning he’s now paralyzed from the chest down.
Arts & Entertainment Lineup For Inaugural Festival La Onda In Napa to Include Alejandro Fernandez, Mana A first-ever, multi-day, large-scale music festival in Northern California devoted entirely to Latin music has been announced for next June in downtown Napa, the weekend after BottleRock, and we now know the lineup.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Sneaker Waves Forecast Today The SFUSD reached a tentative agreement with tradespeople threatening to strike; there are again rip currents and sneaker waves forecast along the coast today; and Spotify has announced layoffs.
SF News [Update] SF Unified School District Staves Off Strike By Tradespeople A union representing around 65 district employees responsible for maintaining public school buildings across San Francisco was accusing the district of unfair labor practices and unpaid wages.
