SF News Mayor London Breed's Plan To Speed Up Affordable Housing Faces Supervisor Opposition Supervisors are unhappy with the mayor's proposed City Charter amendment, which would take away the right for the public to appeal Planning decisions about affordable housing projects.
Bay Area Sports The Warriors Are Facing a Chaotic 2019-2020 Season Due To Injuries, Free Agency Now that the 2018-'19 NBA season is officially over, everyone in the Bay Area is wondering: What are the Golden State Warriors' plans for their two injured stars, Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson?
SF News Sunday Links: Corgi Con Draws 1,000 Dogs A grass fire in Antioch was sparked by illegal fireworks, all debris fires have been suspended in six NorCal counties because of wildfire risks, and Ocean Beach was overrun with Corgis on Saturday.
SF News Jessica Biel Lobbies Against Vaccination Bill, Says Families And Doctors Should Have Choice She says she still "support[s] children getting vaccinations," but, "I believe in giving doctors and the families they treat the ability to decide what’s best for their patients."
Bay Area Sports ICYMI: This Video Of Drake Taking Credit For the Raptors' Win Is Insane Drake probably shouldn't give impromptu press conferences. Just saying.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Cops Can't Stop the Sideshows A 23-year-old man was arrested in Concord after making threats to shoot up a synagogue, Pelosi was in town for Mayor Breed's women's summit, and a runaway golf cart injured five at Pebble Beach.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flint's BBQ Is Coming Back As A Pop-Up Facebook is unveiling its cryptocurrency Libra next week, BLM wants to cap Burning Man attendance where it was last year, and BART's new cars are soon going to be built locally, in Pittsburg.
SF News SFMTA Wants Your Input About Extending The Central Subway Past Chinatown Want to take a train from Union Square to the Presidio? That could be an option. Someday.
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Vinod Khosla Believes That AI Will Replace Musicians and Songwriters In 10 Years You may be hooked on your algorithm-generated Discover Weekly playlist listening on Spotify, but what if machine learning could auto-generate music tailored to your exact taste and mood? That's what local billionaire Vinod Khosla thinks will be happening within 10 years.
SF News Duboce Park Area Resident Detained For Chasing Down, Allegedly Assaulting Car Burglar In the heat of Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, one SF resident near Duboce Park decided to take justice into his own hands after seeing a man outside his apartment breaking into his car.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dinosaur Train’ Host Named New Director of the Academy of Sciences You may know him as “paleontologist Dr. Scott” of the PBS kids show “Dinosaur Train,” but he’s now California Academy of Sciences executive director Dr. Scott Sampson.
SF News SF's TV-Friendly Medical Examiner Leaving For Better Paying Job In Central Valley SF's chief medical examiner since 2015, Dr. Michael Hunter — also known for his work on a cable TV series — is leaving the job for a major pay raise in San Joaquin County.
SF News Sonoma County Man Pleads No Contest In 2004 Jenner Beach Murders, Killing Of Brother On the eve of his trial for both the 2017 murder of his brother and the highly publicized 2004 double homicide of a couple who were camped on a beach in Jenner, 40-year-old accused killer Shaun Gallon entered a new plea of no contest Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Klay Tore His ACL The Toronto Raptors' president apparently shoved an Alameda deputy, the Ritz in Half Moon Bay is being fined over beach access issues, and a tree crushed a car on Sutter Street.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Loses Game 6 114-110, Raptors Bring Canada Its 1st NBA Title It wasn't exactly the final game at Oracle the Bay Area had hoped for. The Golden State Warriors gave all that they had, lost another star to injury (Klay Thompson), and ultimately came up short, losing Game 6 and the NBA Finals to the Toronto Raptors 114-110.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Unarmed Man Fatally Shot By Police In San Leandro Defense witnesses testify to the character of Max Harris in the Ghost Ship trial, BART board rejects fare hikes, and a visit to the Rat Bar.
Arts & Entertainment Mezzanine Gets Three-Month Extension, May Get More Thanks To Sup. Matt Haney The Board of Supervisors has been known to push its weight around and impose zoning controls when popular entertainment venues and bars are at risk, and that is now the threat by District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney to the landlords of Mezzanine.
SF News Anonymous Anti-Transphobia Group Puts Hangtag 'Alerts' On Muni Trains The incendiary language points to the work of Gay Shame, but these professionally printed hangtags saying "Transphobia Prohibited" came from an ostensibly new underground group called Anti-Transphobia Action.
Bay Area Sports Tickets For Final Warriors Game Ever In Oakland Going For $900 to $35,000 As the clock ticks down to tip-off at tonight's Game 6 of the NBA Finals, prices for Warriors tickets on the resale site TickPick are also ticking down a bit, but the average list price this morning was $5,822.
SF News SFPD Touts Fewer Use-Of-Force Incidents In Mental Health Calls Mental health crises and 5150s are resulting in use of force only 0.2% of the time, according to an extremely detailed report just presented to the Police Commission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Loves The $8 Slices At Flour + Water Pizzeria, But Twitter Critics Are Skeptical A $10 lunch or dinner in this town that didn't come from a taqueria or a Burger King is sadly a rarity these days.
SF News San Mateo Cop Catfished By Gender-Swap Filter, Arrested For Contacting A Minor A 20-year-old in the Bay Area says that he went seeking potential predators on Tinder by using Snapchat's gender-swap filter, and claiming to be a 16-year-old girl. The guy he ensnared turned out to be San Mateo police officer, and that officer was arrested and placed on administrative leave.
Bay Area Sports Raiders Selected to Appear on Latest 'Hard Knocks' Season With a host of new faces, including a few who are no stranger to controversy, the HBO reality series couldn't help but cover the Raiders in their final season in Oakland.
SF News Salesforce Tower Needs To Offer More Tours Than One Day A Month The company released some more free tickets for tours of the 61st floor which were snapped up in record time, but four time slots once a month seems stingy, no?
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART's New Fare Gates Dangerous For Disabled Oakland City Council pushes to expedite new A's stadium, the Sand Fire in Yolo County nearly reaches containment, and ACE train service was suspended due to a gas leak.
