Arts & Entertainment SF Chinatown Has a Long and Lawless History In the Illegal Fireworks Trade We are deep in fireworks season right now all over the Bay Area, as every owner of a skittish dog is well aware. But did you know that for decades, people flocked to SF's Chinatown to buy caches of illegal fireworks and law enforcement mostly turned a blind eye?
SF News Supreme Court Provides Late-Term Victory for LGBTQ Civil Rights In Flower Shop Case The Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would let stand a lower court's ruling in favor of a gay couple in Washington State who were refused service by their local flower shop when they sought arrangements for their wedding.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Rise 10% In Bay Area; Sonoma County Seeing About 60 New Cases Per Day Among Unvaccinated The pandemic picture in the Bay Area hasn't entirely cleared up and turned sunny, and there continue to be pockets of new infection in multiple local counties, as well as an unsettling uptick in new COVID hospitalizations.
SF News SFPD Seeks Public's Help In Finding Second Suspect In Killing of Six-Year-Old One Year Ago San Francisco police named a second suspect in the July 4, 2020 killing of six-year-old Jace Young, saying that the suspect is at large, armed, and dangerous and may still be in the city.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Target Stores Closing Early Due to Crime The six Target stores in SF are now closing at 6 p.m. due to a spike in crime, the Oakland A's are blasting BART for not running later trains after their fireworks show tonight, and gas prices in the Bay Area are the highest in seven years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kanye West Dined at Nari, Assistant Lied to Get Him Table The Trump Organization and its CFO have been indicted in a 15-year tax scheme, Kanye West's people apparently told the restaurant Nari that they were from Noma in Copenhagen to get a last-minute table, and that Goop store in Pac Heights is gone for good.
SF Politics California's Pointless Recall Election Will Happen on September 14 The special election to recall Gavin Newsom has been scheduled for September 14, and until then the state will continue to waste taxpayer dollars on a pointless exercise that amounts to a few Republicans jacking themselves off and whining about Newsom's French Laundry dinner.
SF News Data Finds 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Exceedingly Rare Among Vaccinated Californians Despite the ongoing presence of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19, and an average of 950 new daily cases around the state in the last several weeks, so-called "breakthrough" cases of the disease in vaccinated Californians continue to be very rare.
SF News You Can Now Go to Jail for Tweeting About Sideshows in San Jose The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that will levy fines and threaten jail time for promoters of illegal sideshows on social media.
SF News Oakland Homicide Rate Is Up 30% Over Last Year After Three Weekend Shootings As we mark the halfway point in the year, Oakland has just marked its 66th homicide of 2021, with someone killed on average every three days in the city so far since January.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant Cries Foul After PG&E Forces Removal of Parklet An Outer Sunset restaurant is complaining that the SF Department of Public Works and PG&E showed little sympathy for their small business in demanding the removal of a parklet they spent thousands of dollars to construct.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Guts Final Part of Voting Rights Act The 17-year-old fatally shot in the Tenderloin has been identified, the Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of Arizona Republicans to further gut the Voting Rights Act, and the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge just went up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Freeway Slingshot Bandit Sentenced to 15 Years A 54-year-old San Luis Obispo County man has been sentenced in the bizarre string of slingshot-marble attacks on Monterey County roads, candidates for governor are being forced to show tax returns, and over 120 deaths are being attributed to the Northwest heatwave.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Board of Supervisors Reach Deal On Budget One Day Before Fiscal Year Begins SF Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors announced Wednesday that they had reached a deal on a $13 billion budget for the new fiscal year which begins Thursday, July 1 — and it includes another $32 million for the city's rent-relief program.
Business & Tech San Francisco Attorney Intends to File 400 Separate Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases Against Uber A personal injury firm in San Francisco has filed 85 separate lawsuits on behalf of women who say they were sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, harassed, and/or stalked by Uber drivers, and they say they have over 300 more to go.
SF News Donald Rumsfeld Is Dead Unapologetic war hawk Donald Rumsfeld went to his grave this week believing that the Iraq War was justified and that he was on the right side of history. We'll see about that.
SF News San Jose Woman Allegedly Confessed to Strangling 7-Year-Old Son Because She Was Frustrated With Him The 35-year-old San Jose woman arrested in Denver on June 8 following the discovery a week earlier of her 7-year-old son's body near a hiking trail in Las Vegas has reportedly confessed to killing the boy in frustration.
SF News SoMa Shopkeepers Assaulted By Shoplifting Suspect The owners of a deli in SoMa were severely beaten on Monday by a suspect who had just stolen a beverage and walked out of the store, according to the SFPD.
SF News Biden Sends $37M In Wildfire Mitigation Funds to Sonoma, Promises Raises For Firefighters Sonoma County was one of the first in the country to apply for a grant under a new FEMA program dedicated to pre-disaster mitigation, and President Joe Biden announced today that they would be getting the aid immediately.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Domestic Terrorists May Target July 4th Gatherings Homeland security is warning of extremist group chatter about targeting mass gatherings over the Fourth, Pride weekend crowds left behind a lot of trash in Dolores Park, and Francis Ford Coppola is selling off his Sonoma wineries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Club Fugazi Show Gets a Name A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 34-year-old was injured in a Monday shooting in the Tenderloin, Newsom has signed the $5.2 billion rent-relief bill into law, and Scoot has lost its permit to operate in SF.
Business & Tech In Effort to Placate Employees, Uber Backtracks On Back-to-the-Office Plan Uber is the latest company to offer increasing flexibility for its workforce that has gotten very comfortable with their telecommuting situation.
SF News 70% of Latinx People In SF Have Had at Least One Vaccine Dose; 81% Vaccinated Citywide San Francisco announced what it said was an "important milestone" on Tuesday, saying that 70% of eligible Latinx residents, i.e. those over the age of 12, have received at least one vaccine dose as of today.
SF News Possibly Aggressive Coyote Menaces Children In SF Botanical Garden There's been some fairly odd and aggressive behavior by one or more coyotes in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park recently, which may have something to do with a litter of coyote pups spotted there this spring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Octavia Reopens For the First Time Since the Pandemic With New Chef de Cuisine, More Pasta At long last, Melissa Perello's Michelin-starred Pac Heights hot spot Octavia is reopening tonight, serving dinner for the first time since the pandemic hit last March.
