SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Murder Suspect Misses Court Appearance A man was shot by Fairfield police for allegedly having a gun near a school; Berkeley murder suspect Jonah Roper failed to appear in court today; and two women have been charged with a brazen retail theft in Pacific Heights.
Arts & Entertainment Local Architect Proposes a Much Saner Solution For Troubled SF Mall: Legoland San Francisco architect Mark Hogan, founder of OpenScope Studio, has thrown out an idea for filling the vacant former Nordstrom space in the mall formerly called the Westfield Centre on SF's Market Street, and it makes a lot more sense than a soccer stadium.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider's First Book, 'In the Form of a Question,' Hits Shelves Next Week The Bay Area's own 40-game 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has been at work on a book in the 20 months since her historic run on the game show ended, and it is set to land in stores on October 3.
SF News Predictably, Story About Sleeping Pods Prompts Investigation By SF Building Inspectors Today in unsurprising news: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection has launched an investigation into those $700/mo sleeping pods on Mint Plaza, which may not be permitted.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Will Have a New 'General Store' Selling Ice, Snacks, Sunblock, and More Organizers of the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just announced a new and welcome feature at this year's event: a 'General Store' selling a variety of picnic supplies and more.
SF News SF Is Among 50 City Governments and Organizations Asking the Supreme Court to Weigh In On Homeless Camping Democrats in multiple western states are making strange bedfellows with Republicans in a push to get the conservative-majority Supreme Court to settle the legal dispute over whether homeless people should be allowed to camp on public property without penalty.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Restaurants Say They're Cleaning Up Vandalism Constantly The vandalism problem for SF restaurants is huge and costly; Berkeley police chased armed robbery suspects into Oakland, where they crashed a car; and two Oakland residents were arrested in Fresno County with $600K worth of meth and fentanyl.
SF News Accomplice Driver In 2020 'Boogaloo' Murder of Federal Guard In Oakland Convicted of Murder The man who was behind the wheel of the white van out of which former Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo fatally shot a federal security guard during a night of George Floyd protests in downtown Oakland in late May 2020 has been found guilty of murder.
SF News Area Around Fairmont Hotel Closed to Cable Car and Vehicle Traffic Through Wednesday, Because Biden There will be some street closures and Muni interruptions on SF's Nob Hill through Wednesday due to a "VIP visit" which is obviously President Biden.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Proposes Linking Cash Assistance With Compelling Recipients Into Drug Treatment "SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Hills Matricide Has Long Criminal Past, History of Mental Illness The 36-year-old man who was arrested for the fatal stabbing of his mother on Saturday, as well as stabbings that injured two others, has a long and troubled past with law enforcement, and he appears to have begun having psychiatric problems around age 18.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Makes Candidacy Official For SF Mayor, Says There's 'Hunger For Change' Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Businesses Planning 'Strike' Today Over Public Safety Oakland businesses are planning a "strike" today to protest public safety issues and crime; a study funds that Alameda County has one of the highest violent-crime rates in the state; and SFUSD custodians are planning a strike in the coming weeks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Police Officer Facing Felony DUI Charges An SFPD officer is facing felony DUI charges relating to a December crash in Hillsborough; all schools in California will have to install gender-neutral bathrooms by 2026; and SF-based Anthropic just struck a huge deal with Amazon.
SF News Developer Behind Imagined New Solano County City Says Billionaire Group Wants to Build a 'City of Yesterday' Confirming fears by planning experts that the billionaire group behind an imagined, utopian city built on arid agricultural land in Solano County will be retrograde in concept, visionary developer Jan Sramek said as much in an interview with KQED today.
SF News Berkeley's Famed 'Hot Tub House' Hits Market For $899K It was a year ago last week that we learned of the death of Deward Hastings, a man whose name was not widely known but whose property has been visited by thousands of in-the-know East Bay residents for nearly 50 years.
SF News Heather Knight Files Her First New York Times Story, and It's About San Francisco's Beleaguered Reputation Heather Knight's first byline as San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times is a story about how everyone in the country — including self-satisfied New Yorkers who haven't been here in years — has bought into the narrative that SF is a hellhole now.
SF News Two People Killed In Oakland Hit-and-Run Involving Stolen Car From Daly City A high-speed collision Sunday morning in East Oakland left two people dead and another injured, and the 25-year-old driver who was allegedly responsible tried to flee the scene.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 19-Year-Old Killed In North Bay Crash Air quality is back to normal and there's a chance of rain in the North Bay; gas prices have gone up 14 cents in CA in the last week; and Hollywood writers may be headed back to work soon.
SF News Woman Fatally Stabbed In Berkeley Hills Home, Reportedly By Her Son A 60-year-old woman was stabbed in an apparent family conflict at a Berkeley hills home on Saturday, and two other people were injured in the attack, which police say was not random.
SF News A Known Fencing Operation For Stolen Goods In the Tenderloin Isn't Being Shut Down For Some Reason ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Rosa Teens Arrested With Gun They Were Allegedly Going to Bring to School One person was killed in a shooting near Oakland's Lake Temescal on Friday evening; two Santa Rosa teens were arrested following a tip they were going to bring a gun to school; and the Embarcadero Center Banana Republic closes today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID Swell Appears to Have Peaked In California All signs point to COVID cases declining in the Bay Area and CA; Gov. Newsom announced new sweeping home-insurance regulations; and Justice Elena Kagan is calling for an ethics code for SCOTUS.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Downtown Italian Stalwart Calls It Quits Downtown favorite Barbacco is closing next week after 14 years, Collina debuts on Nob Hill, and Bandit finally soft-opens next to Dolores Park.
SF News Apartment Sadness: 'Founders' Are Moving to SF and Living In Sleeping Pods Again Something must be shifting with the local economy, and as San Francisco continues to be a hotbed of artificial intelligence innovation, the people moving here for a piece of that gold rush are finding what many of us found coming here in years past: really high rents.
