SF Politics Oakland Mayor Perpetuates Idea That Homeless Are Coming From Elsewhere, Wants to Charge Other Cities Oakland's mayor of five months Sheng Thao has now made some controversial statements about addressing the city's homelessness crisis, perpetuating an often-shared misconception that homeless people are moving to the Bay Area for its better homeless services.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Locanda Space Gets a New Italian Restaurant, Barberio Osteria A new Italian restaurant from the team behind Nob Hill's AltoVino is heading into the Locanda space on Valencia Street, just a few months after the closure of short-lived fancy seafood spot Ancora.
SF News Suspect In Chinatown Stabbing Allegedly Attacked Bakery Owner's Father, Was Known to Have Severe Mental Illness So, there is an apparent connection between the stabbing that happened at AA Bakery & Cafe in Chinatown on Monday and the stabbing that sent suspect Fook Poy Lai to prison for the last seven years — the bakery owner's father was the man stabbed by Lai in 2016.
SF Politics San Francisco Likely Needs Extra Funds From State to Implement CARE Court The state of California is putting the onus on cities to now set up CARE Courts in order to divert some of the most severely mentally ill into treatment and away from jail.
SF News Federal Crackdown Backed By Pelosi Aims to Cut Fentanyl Supply Into San Francisco There are a few new efforts happening at the state and federal level to address what is hardly a localized problem in San Francisco, which is the fentanyl crisis. And Mayor Breed is hinting at a new DEA raid or something in the works.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Settles Last Wildfire Lawsuit From 2020 Oakland police are investigating a shooting in which a 9-year-old was shot in the leg; the CA legislature has advanced a bunch of fentanyl-related bills; and PG&E has settled its criminal prosecution relating to the 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Delayed By Widespread Police Activity There were widespread delays on BART Wed. afternoon due to an equipment problem and all kinds of police activity; a car ignited a brush fire on Highway 37; and Meta is planning 1,100 more local layoffs.
SF News Vallejo Man Gets 14 Years For Death of Friend Whom He Was Helping to Confront an Ex-Boyfriend In Dublin It was characterized as a home-invasion robbery gone wrong, but the death of 28-year-old Adrianna Marie Navarro was a complicated case and a tragic one, involving a volatile relationship and a violent confrontation that followed a breakup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Expanding With Unnamed Mexican Spot In Former Village Rotisserie In Noe Valley In a sign of improving times for the local restaurant industry, the Tacolicious team is in expansion mode again, this time taking over the recently shuttered Village Rotisserie space at 4063 24th Street in Noe Valley.
SF News Two Drivers Dead After Head-On Collision On Highway 1; Both Cars Land In Lagoon Two men are dead and a passenger was seriously injured after a crash on Highway 1 in San Mateo County Tuesday evening which sent both cars careening off a cliff into a lagoon.
SF News Chinatown Stabbing Suspect Was On Parole for 2016 Chinatown Stabbing It's time for another round of "why was this person out of jail?" following a very violent incident in San Francisco's Chinatown — and in this case it allegedly took the suspect less than two weeks to re-offend after getting paroled.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Twitter Now Worth One-Third of What Musk Paid The woman charged in the death of that Kim K look-alike model is out on bail in San Mateo County; Twitter is now worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for it; and the parents of the Home Depot security guard killed in Pleasanton say that DA Pamela Price won't meet with them.
Business & Tech SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun Trying to counter several years of bad national press and a concerted effort by conservatives to single out San Francisco for urban ills that exist in many cities, SF Travel has launched its "largest ever" ad campaign to lure conventioneers and tourists back to town.
Arts & Entertainment On BottleRock Stage, Lizzo Reacts to 'Choke the Woke' Sign Outside Napa Home Lizzo gave festival-goers a stellar show Saturday night at BottleRock — performing what many said was the best set of the three-day festival, which wrapped up on Sunday. But she felt she had to comment on some signs that were posted outside of one downtown Napa home.
SF News Momeni Fires Defense Attorney Paula Canny (Or She Quit), Hires Miami-Based Persian Attorney Who Has Not Reviewed Case Welp, the legal circus shows no signs of quieting in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, and what was supposed to be a preliminary hearing in the case Tuesday has become another reason for delay: defense attorney Paula Canny asked to be removed from the case.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Set to Begin Her 11-Year Prison Sentence In Texas Today Today is the agreed-upon day for Elizabeth Holmes to report to federal prison in Bryan, Texas — the same minimum-security facility where "Real Housewife" Jen Shah is serving time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Nima Momeni Heads to Preliminary Hearing The suspect in the April 4 stabbing death of Bob Lee has his preliminary hearing today; Alameda police broke up a huge sideshow on Sunday; a delayed coyote pupping season has come to SF parks.
SF News Shooting Outside Mission Bay Hotel Leaves One Gravely Injured There was a shooting late Sunday night outside the LUMA hotel in Mission Bay, not far from Oracle Park, that left one man with serious injuries.
SF News Memorial Day Headlines: 26-Year-Old Drowns In Lake Del Valle The body of a 26-year-old San Jose man was recovered after he drownd in Lake Del Valle Saturday; a fire broke out at an apartment complex in Oakland Sunday; and both BART and Muni are seeking state funds to stay afloat.
SF News Sonoma County Sees 22% Drop In Homelessness In Latest Count The results of Sonoma County's point-in-time homeless count from January have just been released, and the county says it has 22 percent fewer people experiencing homelessness compared to the previous year.
SF News Shouting Match Escalates Into Violence at Contested Mission District Community Garden There was another dustup this week between some guerrilla gardeners and home-grown internet company Monkeybrains over the contested Parcel 36 in the Mission District, and this time a punch was thrown.
SF News Old Navy Flagship Store on Market Street Joins SF Retail Exodus The Old Navy flagship store on Market Street at Fourth, which has been in that location since the 1990s, will close on July 1, adding to the deepening retail exodus crisis on mid-Market and in Union Square.
SF News FBI Files Reveal San Francisco Plot to Assassinate Queen Elizabeth During 1983 Visit Newly released but heavily redacted FBI files reveal that Irish Republican Army members or sympathizers had plans to try to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to California with Prince Philip in 1983.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SFMOMA's White Facade Is Looking Pretty Grimy A road-rage incident on I-580 in Oakland Thursday led to shots being fired and a subsequent crash; an East Bay professor is entering the race for Barbara Lee's House seat; and the once gleaming white facade of SFMOMA's 2016 addition is looking pretty filthy these days.
Arts & Entertainment 'Let the Right One In' Presents a Spooky, Unsettling Adaptation of a Swedish Vampire Flick at Berkeley Rep Some of the creative team behind the hit, magic-filled play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' have crafted a new stage adaptation of the 2008 Swedish horror film 'Let the Right One In,' and it has just arrived at Berkeley Repertory Theater.
