SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oregon Safeway Shooting Leaves Two Dead, Plus Gunman A shooting left three people dead in Bend, Oregon, a standoff ended peacefully Sunday in Santa Rosa with a man threatening to burn down his house, and the SF Dept. of Public Health may now be quietly giving second monkeypox vaccine doses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Piccino Debuts, an NFT Restaurant Breaks Ground, and More It's about time we revived this weekly roundup of food and restaurant news from SF and around the Bay — now that there's a real, steady flow of restaurant news coming down the pike once again.
SF News GPS Trackers Are Turning SF Petty Crime Victims Into Vigilantes The prevalence of GPS-tracking devices on cars, in cellphones, and attached to various objects including car keys and wallets, means that victims of petty crime don't have to rely on the police to find out where a thief has gone off to with their belongings. But that's not necessarily a good thing.
SF News It Will Always Be More Profitable/Clickable to Shit On San Francisco, So People Will Always Do It Being a San Francisco-basher gets you a lot of cred on Twitter (and Fox News) these days, as an Examiner columnist points out. But lots of people have been at this game for many years.
SF News Outer Sunset Meth Dealer Busted, Seven Pounds of Drugs Seized Officers from the SFPD's Taraval Station raided the home of a suspected meth dealer this week, arresting two individuals and seizing seven pounds of assorted narcotics and pills.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Moderna Now Suing Pfizer and BioNTech For Copying Vaccine Technology New and updated COVID vaccine boosters are coming in September, Moderna is now suing Pfizer for stealing its mRNA vaccine technology, and protesters continue to fight a plan to cull 100 geese from a flock in Foster City.
Arts & Entertainment Joyful 'Goddess' at Berkeley Rep Looks and Sounds Very Likely Broadway-Bound Berkeley Rep likely has another hit on its hands with a world-premiere musical that it has helped nurture since the pre-pandemic times, and Goddess seems assured to be another Broadway-bound show the theater can take credit for launching on its way.
SF News Sausalito Cleared Homeless Out Of Marinship Park — By Paying Them Each $18,000 to Leave Sausalito managed to clear a sprawling encampment in Marinship Park this month that had been growing more unsanitary and problematic over the last two years, but they did it via a court settlement that included cash payments.
SF News Castro Merchants Threaten Tax Strike Over Vandalism, Crime, Lack of Mental Health Response From City After more than two years in which problems of vagrancy, vandalism, and petty crime have gotten only worse, Castro merchants say they're going to withhold taxes from the City of San Francisco if it doesn't address their concerns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4AM Last Call Bill Voted Down Once Again, This Time In the Assembly Say what you will about state Senator Senator Scott Wiener, he has been indisputably steadfast in his commitment to passing a bill extending last call at bars and nightclubs to 4 a.m. — even if it's just in SF and a couple of other cities.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crazy Police Chase Tears Through Western Addition Walkways A police chase tore through several parking lots and pedestrian walkways in the Western Addition yesterday afternoon, a paving patch on a Presidio Heights Slow Street is a hazard to cyclists, and another study has found SF's downtown recovery is the slowest in the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFFD Investigates String of Five Dumpster Fires The SF Fire Department is investigating a string of dumpster fire arsons in SoMa and the Western Addition, Dreamforce is kicking off in a month and might be large-ish, and Senor Sisig's Ferry Building outpost opens Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants, Including Rooftop Venue, Announced for Mid-Market's LINE Hotel There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
SF News Monkeypox Infections On the Decline In SF the Last Three Weeks The number of new monkeypox infections has been steadily declining for three weeks in San Francisco, leading the city's health officer to say she's "cautiously optimistic" that the city has turned a corner on the outbreak.
SF News California Set to Become the First Government In the World to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars (In 2035) California is set to become the first state in the nation, and the first jurisdiction on the planet, to officially ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, starting in 2035 — thanks to a new rule from the California Air Resources Board.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces More of the 2022 Lineup, Night Shows For the first time in three years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will return to the western meadows of Golden Gate Park the weekend of September 30, and we now have the full lineup of artists and "Out of the Park" night shows.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Five Arrested In North Bay Beauty Store Heists Five suspects including to teens from San Francisco were arrested following alleged robberies and a pursuit in Petaluma, a VTA driver who threatened "shooting" is being forced to retire, and Biden is forgiving $10K in student loans!
SF News One of the Four 'Grizzly Scout' Boogaloo Militia Men Who Conspired to Obstruct Carrillo Case Gets 10 Years In Prison One of the four men who participated in on- and off-line anti-government conspiracy and military-style drills with convicted Boogaloo murderer Steven Carrillo has now been sentenced.
SF News Poop Complaints Are Down 30% In the Tenderloin! In the name of fecal data journalism and clicks, the Chronicle is back on the poop beat this week — and there's some good news for the chronically poopy streets of the Tenderloin!
SF News [Updates] Three-Alarm Apartment Fire Injures Three, Displaces 13 at McAllister and Divisadero The news copters were out and traffic was being diverted around busy Divisadero Street in San Francisco's NoPa neighborhood due to a two-alarm apartment fire on McAllister Street.
SF News San Rafael Police Officer Seen Dropping Off Homeless, Mentally Ill Man In San Francisco A San Rafael police officer was caught on camera dropping off a homeless man and handing him his belongings in the area of Lake Street and 14th Avenue — clearly having just come across the Golden Gate Bridge to offload the man and make him San Francisco's problem.
SF News SF Likely to Move Ahead With Safe-Consumption Sites Run By Non-Profits, Despite Newsom Veto San Francisco would have neither the cover of the state nor federal governments, but city leaders are likely going to take Newsom's cue to go ahead with a model pioneered by New York City to have safe drug-consumption sites that are run by non-profits.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vigil Held For Dentist and Mother Killed In Oakland There was a vigil Monday for Dr. Lili Xu, the dentist and mother killed in Oakland's Little Saigon on Sunday; a car explosion in Fremont was said to be caused by a "criminal" who blew himself up accidentally; and the SF police union backs Newsom's veto of safe-consumption sites.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Has Vetoed the Safe Consumption Site Bill Gov. Newsom has vetoed a bill to create a pilot program of safe drug consumption sites, BART isn't putting the fences back up at 24th and Mission, and smoke from Humboldt fires is likely to drift down over the Bay on Tuesday.
SF News Convicted Stanford Assaulter Brock Turner Goes Viral Again Via 'Whisper Network' In Ohio Brock Turner's name is once again bubbling up on social media, specifically on TikTok, where women in Ohio are using the platform to warn each other about Turner's presence in local bars.
