SF News San Jose Police Arrest Trio Linked to Nearly 80 South Burglaries, Mostly Targeting Asian Households Three men have been arrested in connection with a slew of home burglaries in several South Bay cities, and authorities estimate the value of goods stolen around $1 million.
Arts & Entertainment SF Getting Another Mosaic Tiled Stairway, This One In Anza Vista, as a Tribute to ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee SF’s next tiled mosaic stairway was just approved to be installed without fees, and it’s a powerful homage to late 84-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee, who was killed nearby in a brazen morning attack in 2021.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidates Scramble for Asian Vote, and Polls Say Mayor Breed Is Winning That Vote for Now London Breed’s sudden new strong standing in mayoral-race polling seems powered by the Asian and Chinese-American vote, as her approval rating has doubled in that demographic over the last six months.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.
SF News Colorado Man Charged With Hate Crime In San Ramon In-N-Out Incident San Ramon police made quick work of identifying and locating a suspect last weekend following a Christmas Eve viral-video hate-crime incident at an In-N-Out restaurant, and a similar incident targeting AAPI victims the next day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Man's Racist, Homophobic Taunts at San Ramon In-N-Out Goes Viral on TikTok A creepy, scary, racist suspect is being sought in an incident that occurred in a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve, and most of the incident — at least the audio — was captured in a TikTok video.
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspect Who Kicked Elderly Woman As He Exited Muni Bus The SFPD on Wednesday released Muni surveillance video of an incident in which a male suspect kicked an elderly woman in the stomach on his way off of a Muni bus.
SF News Three Arrests Made Chinatown Attack of 70-Year-Old Woman, One Suspect Is Only 11 Years Old Four suspects have been identified and three were arrested in last month’s group attack on a 70-year-old woman in Chinatown, but it certainly complicates their prosecution that the suspects are ages 18, 14, 13, and... 11.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin in Murder of Elderly Anza Vista Man, Packing Courtroom and Drawing Rally The January 2021 killing of 81-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee in San Francisco had its first preliminary hearing at the Hall of Justice Tuesday, with the victim’s loved ones and their supporters rallying outside beforehand.
SF News Three Supervisors Propose $118 Million API Equity Fund to Boost Asian and Pacific Islander Communities Supervisors Chan, Mar, and Peskin hit the steps of City Hall Tuesday to propose a $118 million Asian and Pacific Islander Equity Fund, which is a big ask, though similar to the current African-American community reinvestment fund.
SF News Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women The suspects allegedly targeted Asian women exclusively, according to the Santa Clara DA, and had a pattern of attacking women walking alone to their cars.
SF News Two Elderly Asian Women Stabbed on Mid-Market, Suspect Arrested A pair of elderly Asian women were stabbed and seriously injured while waiting for a bus at 4th and Market streets on Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested a few blocks away.
SF News Asian Woman Attacked and Robbed at Gunpoint in Sunset District, Has $16K Rolex Stolen An Asian woman — who only wants to be identified as "Ms. Lee'' — was violently knocked to the ground and held at gunpoint while walking back to her niece's Sunset District residence from dinner with a friend. Her handbag and jewelry, which included a $16K Rolex, were stolen during the attack.
SF News Racist East Bay Letter Writer Arrested By San Leandro Police; Released Due to Backed-Up Bail Schedule 52-year-old Nancy Arechiga was apprehended by San Leandro police in relation to a number of xenophobic notes posted at the homes of East Bay Asian Americans, as well as in nearby public places, though she was later released due to the state’s backed-up bail schedule caused by the pandemic.
SF News Newsom Convenes Black and Asian Leaders to Discuss Tensions Following three recent, violent attacks on elderly Asian-American people by young African-American men in both SF and Oakland, Gavin is holding a conference today to discuss growing tensions within the two communities. Tomorrow
SF News Evan Low to Become Country's Youngest Gay Asian-American Mayor Yeah, it's a slow news day. Well, it's sort of slow. (SFO is busy! Lafayette is gassy and damp! Canopy Financial is a total sham!) But we would be remiss if we didn't
misc Survivor Winner Yul Kwon Speaks About Law School in S.F. It seems Yul is thinking about going back to public service. Is elected office in his future? In the meantime, he's still out promoting the Asian American Donor Program. He says that he
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Discussed In The Streets Before we launch into today's Ed Jew news, we just want to say -- have you guys seen this awesome debate on the political chatboard the Wall about whether our use of the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAFF: <em>Air Guitar Nation</em> Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Baby</i> Preview for the movie Baby, which premiered last night at the SF Int'l Asian-Am Film Fest. (Movie's not rated but this clip probably should be rated R for violence.) The clip is a
SF News Asian-American Democrats Have The Power Saturday, Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and about 400 Democratic Asian American party activists and officials filled the halls of the San Jose Marriott to attend the Asian American and Pacific Islander Democratic
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Americanese</i> Image from Americanese By contributing SFist MiHi Ahn
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Linkin Park Every Asian-American music listener has that list of Asian-American stars they whip out at a moment's notice: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, the half-Japanese violinist (of course he's a violinist) from Yellowcard, Karen
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered We're going to be seeing a ton of the movies, as well as hitting parties and other fun stuff like this Friday's and Saturday's Directions in Sound music events (we love Kero One!
