SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Foundation to Help Oakland Tackle Illegal Dumping Michael Moritz's Crankstart Foundation is giving Oakland a $9M hand with its illegal dumping problem; Olympian Eileen Gu's house in Sea Cliff has apparently been doing some dumping of its own; and SF Pride had an official kickoff variety show last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Red Flag Warning for North, East Bay Hills A "severe" Red Flag Warning has been issued starting at 11 pm tonight for the North and East Bay hills; SFUSD's Maria Su made it through her congressional hearing without much drama; and the trial of the accused Palisades Fire arsonist began today.
SF News First Major Overhaul of Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square In Decades Has Begun Following years of disputes, construction has begun on the $73 million renovation of the historic Portsmouth Square park in SF’s Chinatown, which is expected to take two years.
Arts & Entertainment Will Another Planet Continue Doing Extra Golden Gate Concerts After Outside Lands? A new report estimates that the Bay Area saw $245.1 million in extra economic activity last summer thanks to the three consecutive weekends of major concerts in Golden Gate Park, produced by Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF Politics Supe Melgar Delays Proposed Smoking Ban at SF Bar Patios Following Backlash After facing widespread outrage over a proposed ban on smoking at bar patios in SF, Supervisor Melgar has put the plan on hold while she and Mayor Lurie continue discussions with the community.
SF News SF Faces Second Class-Action Lawsuit Over Treatment of Women at County Jail Following a class-action lawsuit last month over alleged illegal strip searches of women at SF County Jail No. 2, a second suit filed Tuesday claims conditions for women in custody are worse than those for men.
SF News SFPD Offering $250K Reward, Asks For Public's Help In Solving Doodler Murders San Francisco police are again trying to raise the profile of the so-called Doodler killings in the mid-1970s, in which six men, all likely led there for clandestine gay hookups, were murdered on and around Ocean Beach and Lands End.
SF Politics SF Filmmaker and Booster Group Drop Celebrity-Filled 'Comeback City' Video Joe Talbot, the director of 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco,' and the group Believe In SF have just unveiled a new video promoting the city's comeback, featuring Joe Montana, Steph Curry, Dominique Crenn and others.
SF Politics Trump-Endorsed Steve Hilton Wins Second Spot For California Governor Behind Becerra Former Fox News host Steve Hilton will face Xavier Becerra in California’s November governor’s race, according to the latest projections, with Hilton beating out billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer for the second spot in last week’s primary.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shootout That Injured Officer and Suspect According to department protocol, the SFPD has released their formal presentation of the bodyworn camera footage from the night of May 31, when police say a robbery suspect fired at them and multiple officers returned fire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Victim Identified In Likely Hit-and-Run In Excelsior The victim in a probable hit-and-run incident last week in the Excelsior was a 26-year-old SF resident; Aaron Peskin responds to the passage of Prop B; and a San Jose man is convicted for seeking insurance coverage for his road rage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Natalie Gee Withdraws From November Election For District 4 Supervisor A 33-year-old swimmer aims to be the first person to swim the entire California coast; an activist was convicted after protesting in front of OpenAI’s headquarters last year; and Natalie Gee has dropped out of the November race for District 4 supervisor.
Arts & Entertainment SCRAP Creative Reuse Center Buys Building In SF’s Bayview Twice the Size of Old Space Beloved SF art center SCRAP is nearly doubling in size with the purchase of its own 26,000-square-foot building in the Bayview District not far from its current location, and the transition will take place in phases over the summer.
SF News Oakland Man Dies at Santa Rita Jail After Hospital Release Within a Week of Prior Jail Death An Oakland man died at Santa Rita Jail Saturday after being released from the hospital an hour earlier, marking the jail’s third in-custody death this year and the second within a week.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Gets Shouted Down By LGBTQ Protesters at Two Separate Events as Pride Month Kicks Off Mayor Daniel Lurie has not exactly been warmly embraced by everyone in the city's LGBTQ+ community in the last week, as Pride Month celebrations begin.
Arts & Entertainment October EDM Festival In Napa to Grow This Year, Feature Kygo and Zedd An electronic music festival that launched last year at Napa's Meritage Resort is returning in early October, and will expand from one to two days, with headliners Kygo and Zedd.
SF Politics Lurie, Mahmood Shelve Proposal to Halve Transfer Taxes on Property Sales Over $10M A proposal recently introduced by SF Supervisor Mahmood and Mayor Lurie, which was put on hold, would have cut transfer tax rates in half on property sales of $10 million or more, returning them to pre-2020 levels before voters approved Proposition I.
SF News Assessor In Contra Costa County With Troubling Past Gets Raided By FBI The longtime county assessor in Contra Costa County, who just days earlier had symbolically passed the torch to his right-hand man after decades of being reelected himself, saw his home and office raided by the feds on Tuesday morning, and so did his successor.
Bay Area Sports Massive, Asinine Planned Boxing Match In Civic Center Isn't Happening President Trump may be getting his MMA fight in front of the White House in true Idiocracy-come-to-life style, but there won't be a similarly idiotic boxing match in front of San Francisco City Hall, as was being planned.
SF News DOJ Opens Inquiry Into Gender and Sex Ed Policies at SFUSD, Three Other Districts Ahead of Maria Su’s DC Visit As SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su prepares to give testimony in Washington DC Wednesday, the DOJ announced it’s performing a compliance review into policies surrounding gender and sexuality at SF public schools along with three other California school districts.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Another Clipper Glitch Lets BART Riders Ride Free A pedestrian killed last week in SoMa has been identified as a postal worker; a Clipper glitch let people ride BART for free on Monday; and there are several unnamed finalists for Oakland police chief, but they won't be revealed to the public.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Makes Guests Shelter-In-Place Following Threat A wildfire near the Yolo-Solano county border has grown to 360 acres; Prop D has officially been declared a failure; and the SF Zoo had a shelter-in-place situation Monday after a "swatting" incident or similar sort of phoned-in threat.
Business & Tech Meta Says Israeli Spyware Firm Targeted WhatsApp Users in Spear-Phishing Campaign Following reports that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to “critical,” Meta said an Israeli spyware firm was caught targeting a small group of WhatsApp users.
Business & Tech OpenAI Has Filed For an IPO, Company Says Timing Remains Up In the Air Following rumors about a pending IPO filing, and following the announcement of an IPO filing by competitor Anthropic, OpenAI has confirmed that it has made its confidential pre-IPO filing with the SEC.
Arts & Entertainment New SF Symphony Music Director Elim Chan Given Effusive Welcome at First Concert Since Being Hired Though she won't officially start her tenure as SF Symphony Music Director until next year, Elim Chan conducted her first two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall over the weekend in her capacity as Music Director Designate.
