SF News TogetherSF Impies Civic Center Farmers' Market Is Shutting Down Due to Fentanyl, Then Apologizes Because It's Not That tech-money-funded advocacy group TogetherSF, as part of its bizarre ad campaign to convince us of a drug-crisis problem we're all well aware of, has put out some misinformation about the Heart of the City Farmers' Market. They were called out on it, now they're apologizing.
SF News Saturday Links: Shooting Outside SF Nightclub Injures One One person was injured in a shooting outside a nightclub on Fourth Street in SoMa; Oakland police are searching for a 19-year-old man connected to young girl who was shot in the leg at home; and San Mateo County is going to have its first Pride Parade.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AI Has Already Replaced 4,000 Jobs A man was injured in a shooting in the Tenderloin Friday afternoon; the annual Pride Flag raising happened at SF City Hall today; and a new report suggests that AI has already replaced 4,000 jobs.
SF News Scammers Are Now Applying To California Colleges Just To Steal The Financial Aid A stunning 20% of all applications to California community colleges are now “ghost students,” that is, scammers using someone else’s name to pocket the financial aid and never show up for a single class.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena Chefs Expanding to Japantown It looks as though a well-loved, eight-year-old neighborhood restaurant plans to either close or relocate, and a liquor license app points to some new Michelin-star tenants.
Arts & Entertainment Big Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Descends On Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Burning Man and Ibiza on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream is firing up a daytime house music party all afternoon and into the early evening.
SF Politics New Multi-Agency 'Command Center' to Open Near UN Plaza to Disrupt Drug-Selling The SF Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor's Office announced Friday that they would be opening a new join "command center" on Market Street near Civic Center, in order to coordinate with the SFPD and public health department to try to shut down open-air drug markets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lori’s Diner Has Finally Reopened Its Flagship Union Square Restaurant On Sutter Street It’s been more than three years since the one remaining Lori's Diner has served its all-day breakfast and club sandwiches, but the retro tourist trap reopened this week, and yes there is still a 1959 Ford Edsel in the dining room.
Arts & Entertainment Jane Fonda Helps Kick Off Pride Month With Event at Castro Theatre Highlighting Climate Initiative The great Jane Fonda was in San Francisco Thursday, appearing "in conversation" on stage at the Castro Theatre with Manny's owner and SFMTA Board Member Manny Yekutiel.
SF News Only The Second Wolverine In 100 Years Just Spotted In California There are believed to be only 300-400 wolverines left in the contiguous United States, and one of them has been popping up in Yosemite and the Sierras, only the second wolverine seen in California in the last 100 years.
SF News Daly City Target Store Damaged In Suspected Arson Fire A fire broke out at the Serramonte Center Target store on Thursday, and it is being investigated as a case of arson.
SF News Man on Violent Rampage Kills Three, Injures Several Others In San Jose and Milpitas A South Bay man who was arrested in January but never charged for an alleged hate-crime assault on a trans person just allegedly went on a violent spree Thursday afternoon that left three people dead and two others stabbed and injured.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Major Backup on Westbound Bay Bridge A reportedly "despondent" man was causing a major backup on the westbound Bay Bridge Friday morning; CHP made an arrest in a Vallejo freeway shooting; and Margaret Cho is in town on tour tonight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: National Spelling Bee Finals Will Feature Three Bay Area Students A Santa Rosa mother allowed her one-year-old to OD on fentanyl, a Muni collision halted the Hyde Street cable car line this afternoon, and the Bay Area has three finalists in tonight’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Perpetuates Idea That Homeless Are Coming From Elsewhere, Wants to Charge Other Cities Oakland's mayor of five months Sheng Thao has now made some controversial statements about addressing the city's homelessness crisis, perpetuating an often-shared misconception that homeless people are moving to the Bay Area for its better homeless services.
SF News Two Dozen Killer Whales Spotted Off Farallon Islands, Likely There To Chow On Seals And Baby Whales Whale watchers were thrilled to see a giant pack of 24 orca killer whales right off the coast of the Farallon Islands, but you might be less thrilled to learn that those orcas are probably there to feast on sea lions, elephant seals, and baby gray whales.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Diner, the Mission’s 105-Year-Old St. Francis Fountain, Has Found a New Owner It’s not a done deal yet, but the 105-year-old legacy business St. Francis Fountain appears to have found a new owner, a veteran of North Beach spot Mama's on Washington Square.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Locanda Space Gets a New Italian Restaurant, Barberio Osteria A new Italian restaurant from the team behind Nob Hill's AltoVino is heading into the Locanda space on Valencia Street, just a few months after the closure of short-lived fancy seafood spot Ancora.
SF News Suspect In Chinatown Stabbing Allegedly Attacked Bakery Owner's Father, Was Known to Have Severe Mental Illness So, there is an apparent connection between the stabbing that happened at AA Bakery & Cafe in Chinatown on Monday and the stabbing that sent suspect Fook Poy Lai to prison for the last seven years — the bakery owner's father was the man stabbed by Lai in 2016.
SF News Two of Three Murder Charges Dropped In Already Controversial Oakland Triple-Murder Case The triple-murder trial of Delonzo Logwood was already a hornet’s nest after a judge threw out a plea deal and Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to remove him from the case, and now that same judge has agreed to dismiss two of the three murder charges against Logwood.
SF Politics San Francisco Likely Needs Extra Funds From State to Implement CARE Court The state of California is putting the onus on cities to now set up CARE Courts in order to divert some of the most severely mentally ill into treatment and away from jail.
SF News City of Oakland Employees Launch Class Action Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack Furious that gobs of their personal data are now available on the dark web, some Oakland employees are suing the city in a class action lawsuit over the February ransomware attack that hobbled the city’s IT systems.
SF News Federal Crackdown Backed By Pelosi Aims to Cut Fentanyl Supply Into San Francisco There are a few new efforts happening at the state and federal level to address what is hardly a localized problem in San Francisco, which is the fentanyl crisis. And Mayor Breed is hinting at a new DEA raid or something in the works.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Settles Last Wildfire Lawsuit From 2020 Oakland police are investigating a shooting in which a 9-year-old was shot in the leg; the CA legislature has advanced a bunch of fentanyl-related bills; and PG&E has settled its criminal prosecution relating to the 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Delayed By Widespread Police Activity There were widespread delays on BART Wed. afternoon due to an equipment problem and all kinds of police activity; a car ignited a brush fire on Highway 37; and Meta is planning 1,100 more local layoffs.
