SF News White Supremacists In East Bay Tried to Stoke Race War After Buffalo Shooting With 'White Lives Matter' Sign A disgusting demonstration took place in the East Bay community of Blackhawk Saturday just hours after a mass shooting claimed ten lives at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, most of them Black people.
SF News Body Found on Tracks In Visitacion Valley Was Person Struck By Muni Train; Victim May Have Been Dragged After the SFPD put out the vaguest of vague reports about human remains found on rail tracks on the south side of San Francisco Sunday night, more details are coming to light and the SFMTA is admitting that this person was hit by a T-Third train.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New Report Tracks K-9 Bites as Excessive Force BART saw two hours of delays on Monday due to someone on the tracks at Lake Merritt, Oakland is poised to let rent-controlled rents rise 6.7%, and a new report by KTVU looks at K-9 bite incidents across 25 law enforcement agencies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeless Population Rises 35% In Contra Costa County The homeless population around the Bay Area rose 8% overall since 2019 with the biggest rises in the East Bay, the mayor of Antioch is again talking tough on sideshows, and popular Cambodian spot Nyum Bai is relocating, but where?
Business & Tech Venture Capitalist on Current Startup Environment: 'This Is a Proper Correction' If you work for a tech startup — or even if you work for Uber or Twitter — you may be having the layoff blues right now, or the arguably worse layoff anxieties that come with weeks upon weeks of bad news, rising tensions, and inter-office innuendo.
Business & Tech Netflix Tells Employees They Can Seek Other Jobs If They Object to Content Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.
SF News SF's Homeless Population Actually Declined During the Pandemic, and Nearly 20% More Are Sheltered The data from San Francisco's latest point-in-time homeless "census," taken one night in February 2022, shows the first decline in the number of homeless individuals in the city in seven years — countering the age-old narrative that homelessness is "worse than it's ever been."
SF News New Bay to Breakers Organizers Had Private Security Firm Taking People's Booze Away Near Alamo Square The SFPD didn't seem too concerned with the usual shenanigans of Bay to Breakers, at least when it came to people carrying around Trulys and bottles of Champagne. But a private security firm was hired to police any and all booze mid-way up Hayes Hill, and they meant business.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Why Are SF's COVID Cases So Much Higher Than Other Cities? SF's high COVID case rate right now is likely due to how cautious the city has been up to now, police are investigating a double shooting in San Jose, and McDonald's announced that it is fully pulling out of Russia after 30 years.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Finding Suspect Who Attacked and Strangled a Woman In Visitacion Valley Last Weekend San Francisco police have released photos of a man who they say attacked and strangled a woman randomly on the street last Saturday, and they're seeking the public's help to identify him.
SF News Grandfather and Uncle Arrested In San Jose Exorcism Murder Case There are a couple of more developments in the disturbing case of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered last fall by her mother, grandfather, and uncle in an "exorcism-like ritual" in a back-room San Jose church.
SF News Bay Area Health Officers Issue New Statement Strongly Urging Mask-Wearing Indoors Amid Uptick In Hospitalizations COVID hospitalizations in the Bay Area ticked above the 500 mark for the first time since early March on Thursday, and daily new case counts continue to be high in San Francisco and elsewhere around the region amid the BA.2 surge.
SF News [Update] Building Fire at Ellis and Laguna Sends Smoke Over Western Addition, Injures Five, Displaces 18 A two-alarm fire broke out around 10:20 a.m. Friday at a residential building in the Western Addition, sending smoke up over the middle of San Francisco that could be seen from around the Bay.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Millennium Tower Fix Hits Yet Another Potential Snag An underground wall could pose a problem for the ongoing Millennium Tower fix, SFO had a computer meltdown this morning, and Newsom's office is discussing "inflation relief" checks and a higher minimum wage.
SF News Police: San Jose 3-Year-Old Killed By Mother and Grandfather During 'Exorcism'; Church Also Linked to Infant Kidnapping A creepy-sounding Pentecostal church in San Jose that police apparently linked to the recent kidnapping of a three-month-old boy is also connected to a previously unreported death of a three-year-old in September — a death that occurred during an attempt at exorcism.
Arts & Entertainment Massive New Furniture Showroom and Restaurant From RH (Restoration Hardware) Opens In Dogpatch After a majorly ambitious, six-year renovation project, the company formerly known as Restoration Hardware is ready to unveil perhaps its grandest showroom-restaurant combo to date in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, at Pier 70.
Business & Tech Twitter CEO Ousts Two Top Execs, Freezes Hiring, Cuts Spending Ahead of Musk Takeover In what may be a bid to right the ship after a disappointing quarter, or a gesture toward trying to hold on to his job when Musk's purchase of the company closes, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired two top executives and laid out cost-cutting measures in a memo to employees this week.
Arts & Entertainment Chair of Company That Now Owns Bay to Breakers Is a Trumper, Gave Money to Right-Wing Loons Greene and Gaetz A North Carolina-based company called Capstone Event Group quietly acquired the rights to host Bay to Breakers back in 2019, and now when you pay your registration fee it is going to an organization whose founder is a donor to far-right-wing political candidates, and Donald Trump.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wildfires Break Out Around State Three fires are burning around the state after Wednesday's winds including one that's destroyed 20 homes in Laguna Beach, Catherine Stefani likely tops London Breed's shortlist for Boudin replacements, and a retail theft ring was busted in Pittsburg.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD May Be Banned From Making Low-Level Traffic Stops San Francisco may soon prohibit low-level traffic stops by police, Chesa Boudin continued his media blitz on KQED today, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is crafting a plan to lure businesses to California if abortion gets banned in their states.
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History and Fun Facts About Bay to Breakers, a.k.a. Straight Pride, a.k.a SF's Oldest Footrace It's Bay to Breakers again this weekend, and it's the first Bay to Breakers in three years thanks to a stupid plague that hasn't quite left us. And in case you didn't know, there's a lot of history to this race — and it's not all beer-soaked.
SF News Mills College Will Celebrate Its Last Commencement as an Independent Women's College This Weekend It will be a bittersweet graduation weekend for Mills College's Class of 2022 to be sure, as this will be the last undergraduate class of women to complete their studies at the school as we know it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Park Central Hotel Has Become a Second Hyatt Regency, and It's Getting a French Brasserie From Mina Group Spinoff Confusingly, downtown San Francisco now has two Hyatt Regency hotels, and this summer, the new one at 50 Third Street will be home to a French-inspired brasserie from Mina's spinoff group called La Société Bar and Café.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Office Makes Huge Fentanyl Bust In Oakland High School Parking Lot The sheriff's office announced Tuesday that deputies had arrested four individuals and seized a whopping 15 pounds of fentanyl.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Woman on Scooter Killed In Tenderloin A 25-year-old woman on a scooter was killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday, the SF school board approved far fewer layoffs than had been expected, and Elon Musk is hinting that he'll move Twitter out of the Bay Area because of "strong left bias."
