Bye bye bunnies! @SFAC #sf #Intrude pic.twitter.com/n2AQ9aJJFy
— SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) April 25, 2016
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- Those awesome, inflatable bunnies that graced Civic Center as part of a touring art project were deflated earlier today. [Twitter] [SFist] [SFist] [SFist]
- A case of alleged sexual assault at UC Berkeley may have been known about by the school's rowing coach, but according to the victim the coach blamed her and didn't report it. [Mercury News] [KRON4] [Chronicle] [ABC 7]
- Does San Francisco need a public advocate? Supervisor David Campos thinks so. [Chronicle]
- Musician Prince was secretly "the driving force and checkbook" behind East Bay environmental group Green For All, and supported the installation of solar panels in Oakland. [Chronicle]
- It was so windy that the Great Highway was closed and high wind advisories were issued for bridges. [KRON4] [Bay City News] [ABC 7]
- Tony Robbins bought a ground floor commercial space in the Mission and gave it to two nuns to runs a soup kitchen (yay!). Now, some residents in the building at 1930 Mission Street are freaking out and trying to stop the nuns (boo!). [Mission Local]
- Princess, the Maya Rudolph-helmed Prince tribute band formed at UC Santa Cruz, performed Saturday in Austin. There's video! [People]
- San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi has formed a legal team to contest the bail conditions for people in SF jails as an attempt to counter racial disparities demonstrated in who actually makes bail. [PBS Newshour]
- Hoping to use Caltrain to get in or out of downtown this Saturday? Tough luck, as it won't be running. [SFMTA]
- San Francisco's economy is apparently doing much better than Los Angeles's, despite being in roughly the same shape in 1970. An "economic geographer" thinks he knows why that is. [City Lab]
- A man who beat a fellow gymgoer to death with exercise equipment was just setenced to 17 years in prison. [SFist] [SFist] [CBS 5]
- Anthony Bourdain is planning a tour to promote his new cookbook, and will be making a stop in SF. [Eater]
- Architecture critic John King does his critic thing and comes down hard against "facadism" — wherein the old facade of a building is left mainly intact while another building is basically tacked onto the back of it. Basically, he says there's been enough of it in SF and it should probably stop. [Chronicle]
