SF Politics Mayor London Breed Wants to Put $6M Toward Fixing Up Powell Street, Filling Empty Storefronts The three blocks of Powell Street between Union Square and Market Street are being made a priority in SF Mayor London Breed's proposed new budget, with money being aimed at beautifying sidewalks and finding tenants for some big, vacant stores.
SF News Protests Erupt Following Banko Brown Charging Decision, Video Release; Peskin Calls for AG and DOJ Review There was a protest Monday that marched down Market Street to City Hall following the announcement by SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that no charges would filed in the Walgreens shooting of 24-year-old Banko Brown.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Bad Studios and Bunk Beds Are Back Rents are climbing back up in San Francisco and all the landlords with stuff they probably couldn't rent to anyone the last couple years are creeping back onto Craigslist, hoping to find new takers.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's Lawyers Buy Her More Time Before Prison Report Date As they await the near-guaranteed denial of her appeal to the Ninth Circuit, attorneys for convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes have made another legal maneuver that appears to give her another few weeks of freedom.
SF News Pickup Truck Collides With BART Train In Oakland, Three Injured Including Train Operator An accident occurred Monday night near E. 8th Street in Oakland in which a pickup truck crashed through a fence and collided with a northbound BART train between Fruitvale and Lake Merritt stations.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Injured In Shooting Near Jefferson Square There was a shooting Monday evening on the 1200 block of Eddy Street; the suspect in that deadly wrong-way crash on I-280 has entered a not-guilty plea; and the Merced River is expected to reach flood stage in the Yosemite Valley this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: After Video, SF Supervisor Says Banko Brown Was 'Executed' Supervisors Shamann Walton and Dean Preston have some strong words about the Banko Brown shooting video; a BART police officer resigned over a racial slur incident; and the Fisherman's Wharf Safeway calls it quits this Friday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Chinglish' at SF Playhouse Brings Laughs and New Insights Into Chinese Business Culture Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's 'Chinglish' has enjoyed some notable longevity in its geopolitical relevance since it premiered over a decade ago, and SF Playhouse's new production is a slickly executed and well-acted version with loads of well-timed laughs.
SF News Video of Banko Brown Shooting Released as DA Jenkins Announces Final Decision Not to File Charges Against Security Guard SF DA Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office has come to a final decision not to file charges against the Walgreens security guard accused of shooting alleged shoplifter Banko Brown, and with the decision the surveillance footage from the case has been made public.
Business & Tech After Hiring Ad Exec as Twitter CEO, Musk Says He's Still 'Adamant About Defending Free Speech' Over the weekend Musk defended his CEO-hiring choice, telling fans not to judge too quickly and saying he's not afraid to lose some money over the defense of "free speech."
SF News North Bay Man Charged as an Accessory In Death of Two-Year-Old Found Buried In Napa County Gets Released on Bail There have been some new developments in the case of the murder of two-year-old Ja'mari Madkins, whose lifeless body was found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County back in December.
SF News Scammers Pretending to Be SF Animal Control Are Calling Demanding Money For Lost Pets A phone scam has been targeting the owners of lost pets in San Francisco who post about them on social media, and SF Animal Care & Control wants everyone to be aware of it.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Teachers' Strike Ends The Oakland teachers' union announced a tentative deal and has called off their strike; SF Mayor London Breed says her car was broken into last year; and Sup. Rafael Mandelman plans to oppose the 'fixed seating' update for the Castro Theatre's landmark language.
SF News Lots of Big Retail Stores Are Closing In Big Cities, and It Has Everything to Do With Economics While we're living in the days of the very loud, hard-to-counter narrative of San Francisco's "doom loop" and general perceived death, at least some experts are trying to make it known that San Francisco's downtown problems are hardly unique.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Promoters Hope to Bring Second Weekend of 'Headliner-Driven Events' to Polo Field After Next Year's Fest While Another Planet Entertainment (APE) continues to run up against preservationist headwinds in their effort to take over and transform the Castro Theatre primarily into a music venue, they may separately score a coup with the city for more, likely very lucrative big shows in Golden Gate Park.
Business & Tech New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Comes From Media/Broadcast Ad World It's not clear how long Elon Musk has known Linda Yaccarino, or how long he's been courting her to be the new CEO of Twitter. But it's pretty clear from the hiring decision that Musk knows advertising is going to be key to Twitter's future viability.
SF News Man Accused of Fatally Stabbing 64-Year-Old Neighbor In Duboce Triangle Is Charged With Murder A fatal stabbing in San Francisco last Friday morning left a 64-year-old woman dead in a common area of her apartment building, and we now know the identities of the suspect and victim.
SF News Gas Thief Accidentally Torches Six Cars In Antioch eBART Parking Lot A suspect apparently trying to steal gas by way of an electric drill caused a fire Thursday afternoon that spread to six cars in the eBART parking lot in Antioch.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two Earthquakes Rattle Northern Plumas County A pair of earthquakes within 12 hours of each other have rattled Plumas County; the SF Chamber of Commerce brought on Amazon as a sponsor for Small Business Week; and Newsom has come out against cash payments for reparations.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF News El Niño All But Guaranteed For Next Winter, So... More Rain? Climate scientists say the indicators are all there for the forming of an El Niño pattern in the Pacific this year, and now it's just a matter of how soon it will fully take shape.
Business & Tech [Updated] Elon Musk Hires New CEO For Twitter, and She's an Ad Sales Exec In typical fashion, Elon Musk made a major announcement about Twitter via tweet on Thursday without providing complete details — which, again, might have been handled differently if he had a PR department.
SF News Friend of Accused Killer Nima Momeni Claims He Had 'Massive Drug Problem' It was pretty clear from moment one in the Bob Lee murder case that drugs were going to be pretty central to the narrative of how Lee ended up stabbed at 2:30 a.m. on April 4. But thus far we've mostly only heard about Lee's drug use.
SF News Heat Wave Will Bring Some of the First Hot Days of Spring to Inland Spots (But Not SF) Thanks to a ridge of high pressure, we're going to be seeing a warming trend around the Bay over the next few days, ushering in the first truly warm weekend of the year — though temperatures are going to remain pretty mild closer to the ocean and the Bay.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crab Fishermen Test New Whale-Friendly Pots The Oakland teachers' strike stretches into its sixth day; SF crab fishermen are testing a new pot design that could reduce whale entanglements; and a new study suggests Australia's brush fires four years ago may have contributed to our triple La Nina seasons.
