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.
SF News A Violent Weekend at People's Park In Berkeley With a Hate-Crime Assault, Arson and More As Berkeley's People's Park continues to be occupied by homeless individuals and others, while the UC Regents pause a planned construction project at the site, there was a weekend of multiple violent incidents there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Three-Star Restaurant Manresa For Sale, and Chef David Kinch Is Bowing Out One of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, Manresa in Los Gatos, may be going away at the end of this year as executive chef and owner David Kinch has decided to step away and tend to his more casual businesses.
SF News Mission District Sees Fatal Shooting Sunday In Which Three Others Were Injured One person is dead and three others suffered injuries following an early morning shooting in the Mission District on Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Will Newsom Veto Safe-Consumption Site Bill? Today is the deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill legalizing safe-consumption sites, BART saw delays on Sunday after a person entered the Transbay Tube, and a family of four needed to be rescued in Tahoe National Forest.
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know There Was an Internment Camp For Suspected Japanese Spies During WWII on San Francisco Property? One internment camp specifically for "enemy aliens" was on San Francisco property, set up in 1942 next to a municipal golf course just south of the city proper.
SF News Mohammed Nuru Could Face Nine-Year Prison Term As Sentencing Looms Next Week Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru is set to be sentenced next week, and in newly filed court documents, federal prosecutors refer to him as a "quintessential grifter" whose schemes as a city employee amount to a "tale of greed as old as time."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalva's Bar-Within-a-Bar, The Hideout, Swings Back Open For the First Time In 2.5 Years Fans of good cocktails in cozy spaces can rejoice, at long last, over the reopening of Dalva's Hideout, the separate, semi-secret bar back behind Dalva on 16th Street that hasn't welcomed guests since early 2020.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed, Michelin-Starred Mission Restaurant AL's Place to Close Next Week After Seven Years Chef Aaron London is pulling the plug on his much lauded, vegetable-focused restaurant AL's Place in order to focus more on his young family, despite the restaurant still being packed every night. The last night of service will be Sunday, August 28.
SF News 23-Year-Old SF Man Confesses to Shooting Father and Stepmother and Live-Streaming Crime Scene A 23-year-old man who was arrested last weekend for the double murder of his father and stepmother inside a home in San Francisco's Bayview district has given a jailhouse confession to a local TV station — but says he will plead not guilty to premeditated murder.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom's Office Threatens to Withhold Funds From Oakland Over Encampment Issues Two men were wounded in a shooting in Emeryville Friday morning, an Oakland nonprofit's building was damaged by street-racing vehicles crashing into it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a scathing letter to the city of Oakland over the handling of the Wood Street encampment.
Arts & Entertainment Decidedly Dark 'Oklahoma!' Revival Is a Tour de Force of Revisionist Direction The Tony Award-winning revival production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opened this week in its tour stop at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater, and while almost entirely loyal to the original text it exists worlds away from the 1943 musical that begat it.
SF News SF School Board Now Facing Lawsuit Threat Over Vote To Observe Two Muslim Holidays The same lawyer who previously sued the San Francisco school board and the school district over a decision to rename dozens of city schools is now threatening to sue again, this time over a vote to close schools on two Muslim holy days.
SF News 54-Year-Old Suspect In Potrero Homicide Arrested In Yolo County A man suspected in an early July homicide in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood has been located and arrested six weeks later.
SF News Mushroom- and Weed-Dispensing Church In Oakland Sues Over Police Raid, Confiscated Property A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Rescued at Fort Funston After Getting Lost A 20-year-old woman called 911 and got an SFFD geo-locating rescue at Fort Funston, an Oakland woman was shot multiple times inside her home, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho pans Little Saint in Healdsburg.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body Found Sitting In Chair After Decomposing For Three Years In NorCal Home The Secret Service apparently withheld information about a threat on Nancy Pelosi's life two days before January 6th, Airbnb is rolling out a new party-rental-detection system, and two local dog owners have been reunited with their stolen pups.
Arts & Entertainment BART Seeks Artists to Create Anime-Style Mascots BART has put out a call for illustrators and graphic artists to create "a series of original anime-style mascots" to promote the BART system.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Backs Out of Big Food Hall Project at Chase Center Over at Thrive City, the Kaiser-named collection of shops and restaurants adjacent to the Chase Center, one big-name tenant is canceling their plans to move in.
SF News Oakland Man Causes Panic at Las Vegas Airport Amid Apparent Mental Health Episode A 33-year-old Oakland man who reportedly really wanted to go home and get the eff out of Vegas was arrested twice last weekend at Harry Reid International Airport for causing disturbances that police compared to terrorism.
SF News San Jose Church That Defied Pandemic Public Health Orders Wins Appeal Based on Supreme Court's Rightward Shift The evangelical Calvary Chapel in San Jose was ordered to pay over $200K in contempt-of-court fines over its defiance of county public health orders in 2020, but a state appeals court has just overturned that and ruled in favor of the church, because of Amy Coney Barrett.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Possible Amid Hot and Moist Conditions Today Thunderstorms remain a possibility today around the Bay, Britney Spears's first husband Jason Alexander has been booked on seven-year-old charges in Napa, and Santa Clara County says its COVID surge is finally abating.
Business & Tech Netflix Is Letting Go of Its Original Headquarters Building In Los Gatos (But Not Its Main HQ) Netflix, in the wake of a couple of rough quarters, hundreds of layoffs, and intensifying competition from the likes of HBO Max, Hulu, and others, is downsizing its office holdings both in the Bay Area and in SoCal.
SF News Viral Video Leads to Onslaught of Complaints About Deluxe Dog Hotel In SF One local woman's TikTok video about her dog Miso's recent stay at a Wag Hotel in San Francisco has sparked a round of expected online outrage from the dog-owning community.
