SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Shooting at 24-Hour Fitness In East Bay Kills One A shooting at a 24-Hour Fitness in Brentwood left one man dead and three injured this morning, closing arguments in the hearing to decide if Scott Peterson gets a new trial happen today, and the number of monkeypox cases in the U.S. just topped 10,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wyoming Crash Leads to Meth Warehouse Bust In South Bay A Wyoming car crash led federal investigators to a big meth bust in Santa Clara, Newsom just nominated the first Latina CA Supreme Court chief justice, and there's another map going around that reduces SF to a few stereotypes and it's upsetting Twitter.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin and His Supporters Seize On Revelation About Brooke Jenkins's Recall Payday: 'Integrity Is Central to the Job of DA' The dirty secret about District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's paid involvement in the campaign to oust her predecessor and former boss, Chesa Boudin, was bound to come out eventually, and it's sparking a lot of chatter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Bay Area Chef and Food TV Personality Joey Altman Joins the Brixton Team In Opening Hazie's In Hayes Valley The restaurant space at the corner of Hayes and Octavia formerly occupied by brunch spot Stacks, at 501 Hayes Street, will come to life again this week as Hazie's, a new bar and restaurant from the team behind The Brixton.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Butcher Golden Gate Meat Co. Is Closing Its Ferry Building Shop After 20 Years One of the OG tenants at the revamped Ferry Building two decades ago, Golden Gate Meat Co., is, like some other longtime tenants in recent years, giving up its spot in the complex.
Business & Tech Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Sharing Personal Data of Dissidents With Saudi Government Ahmad Abouammo, who worked at Twitter over seven years ago, has been convicted in federal court on charges relating to spying for the Saudi Arabian government.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Holds Town Hall on Gun Violence Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf held a town hall meeting in East Oakland last night on gun violence, SF leaders gathered Wednesday morning for a press conference about safe-consumption sites, and Elon Musk just sold off a bunch of Tesla shares ahead of his Twitter battle.
SF News Vague New Retail Concept Involving Crytpo Bros and Merchandise Chosen By Committee Heads to Hayes Valley Something very odd is coming to Hayes Valley, which at least a few investors think could be some futuristic retail concept that's more of a co-op community than a traditional store.
Arts & Entertainment Company Launching Pricy Riverboat Cruise From SF to... Stockton? Riverboat cruising, that seemingly luxurious European concept that gets advertised a lot to affluent seniors in between PBS shows, is coming to the Bay Area and NorCal — but would you pay $12,000 to go from SF to Stockton and back via the Delta?
SF Politics In-Fighting Over Affordable Housing at City Hall Escalates With New Lawsuit; Meanwhile Newsom's Office Launches Unprecedented Review of SF Policy A housing nonprofit aligned with Mayor London Breed, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, has now filed suit in what seems to be a last-ditch effort to keep a competing charter amendment about affordable housing off the November ballot.
SF News Fremont Recycling Firm Implicated In Purchase of Hundreds of Stolen Catalytic Converters Following a year-long investigation and sting operation, Fremont police say that a recycling outfit called Arrow Recovery has been purchasing obviously stolen catalytic converters from thieves and recycling the rare and precious metals inside for profit.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic Reopens at SF General The monkeypox vaccine supply has been refreshed in SF and the drop-in clinic is back open, state Sen. Scott Wiener is chairing a select committee hearing today on the crisis, and Hazie's is getting ready to open in Hayes Valley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beer-Themed Water Park Plan In Napa Was, Indeed, a Prank New Belgium Brewing has finally admitted that their proposed water park gambit in Napa was just a prank and publicity stunt, SF DA Brooke Jenkins made her candidacy official for November, and a protest over monkeypox vaccination delays and slow testing was happening at the SF federal building.
SF News 4.4M Earthquake Hits Same Place Near California-Nevada Border As One 13 Months Ago A significant, 4.4M earthquake struck an area south of Topaz Lake Monday afternoon, with an epicenter very near that of a 5.9M quake that hit in July 2021.
SF News Four Alleged Gang Members Arrested, Including Three Teens, and Seven Guns Seized at Hunters Point Home The SFPD arrested three teenagers and one 20-year-old, all of whom were allegedly in possession of weapons, and seized seven guns, including one ghost-gun rifle in a raid last week.
SF News Rogue Bike Brigade Took Over Eastbound Bay Bridge Lanes, Possibly Then Committed Burglaries In Oakland A group of what appeared to be teenagers on bicycles, numbering around 200, took over the lower deck of the Bay Bridge on Saturday afternoon and biked their way into Oakland. A short while later, some East Oakland businesses reported that they were burglarized by a gang of about 200 bicyclists.
SF News Early Saturday Shootings Near Downtown Oakland Leave One Dead, Three Wounded, Nightlife Operators Shaken A pair of shootings came after a night of First Friday partying in Oakland's Uptown District, and one of the shootings, a drive-by on Broadway in the early morning hours of Saturday, left one person dead.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Arrest Made In SoMa Attack on Former City Commissioner The drop-in monkeypox vaccination clinic at SF General reopens Tuesday, an arrest was made following an August 2 assault in SoMa on a well-known Asian community leader, and Congress is set to pass the nation's first climate-action bill.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands' Cocktail Magic Features LGBTQ-Themed Bar Concession Is it weird or kind of nice that a music festival themes one of its cocktail concessions after LGBTQ civil rights and queer-bar nostalgia?
SF News Sup. Dean Preston Wages Fight Over HUD-Related Evictions of Longtime Tenants at Western Addition Complex The bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the likely profit motives of one management company are once again running head-first into San Francisco politics and this city's chronic housing shortage.
Business & Tech 'Botometer' That Musk Used to Make Counterclaim About Twitter Spambots Once Deemed Musk Himself a Likely Bot Well, the fun hasn't stopped in Delaware's Chancery Court this week, with Elon Musk filing a fraud countersuit against Twitter, Twitter delaying its unsealing so they could respond and redact things.
Arts & Entertainment Friday Likely to Be the Best Weather Day at Outside Lands, But We Could See Three Sunny Afternoons Right on schedule for Outside Lands weekend, it's set to be a solidly pretty foggy Fogust weekend. But there's almost always one nice-weather day, and it looks like it's going to be today.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sunnydale Muni Bus Shooting Was 'Targeted' Wednesday's shooting onboard a Muni bus in the Sunnydale neighborhood was targeted and possibly linked to a Monday shooting, former MMA star Cain Velazquez is back in court today, and Reno just received a torrential amount of rain in two days.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Detroit-Style Square Pizzas In San Francisco, Ranked Detroit-style pizza has kind of taken the country by storm in the last several years, and San Francisco is no exception. And what's not to love, really, when it comes to the style's deep-dish crispiness and burnt-cheese edges.
SF News COVID Cases In This Summer's BA.5 Surge Most Concentrated In San Francisco's Southern Neighborhoods According to data from the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH), Bayview/Hunters Point continued to be a hot spot of COVID infection — and re-infection — in this summer's surge, and the highest concentrations of cases were in the southern part of the city overall.
