SF Politics Mayor Breed Admits Relationship With Nuru, As Well As a $5600 'Gift' From Him One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.
SF Politics Sanders and Buttigieg To Campaign In Northern California This Weekend In another sign that California will actually play a decisive role in this year's primary season — for a change! — 2020 Democratic frontrunners Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are both heading here to do some campaigning this weekend ahead of Super Tuesday on March 3.
SF News Police Put BART Chain-Attack Suspect On Psychiatric Hold A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: No Charges For Moms 4 Housing Activists A 16-year-old driver helped rescue a man who drove off a cliff on Highway 1, Union City police are announcing an update in the investigation of the homicides of two young boys, and Trump went tweeting about his absolute powers to interfere in the DoJ.
SF Politics New Bernie Sanders Ad Specifically Comes After PG&E A new three-minute ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign is squarely aimed at Democratic voters in California, and makes the case that only Sanders will have what it takes to fight corporate interests like PG&E that value profits over human life.
Arts & Entertainment 'The SpongeBob Musical' Is Ridiculously Clever and Gloriously Dumb Fun A creative team led by director Tina Landau and a slew of talented pop-star songwriters created a critical darling out of unlikely material, garnering 12 Tony nominations in the 2018 season, and now 'The SpongeBob Musical' is on tour.
SF Politics City Attorney Is Investigating Private Companies That Allegedly 'Funneled' Money to DPW Holiday Parties Subpoenas issued Wednesday by the City Attorney's Office for records and emails from eight private companies and non-profits appear to relate in part to a kids' baseball charity run by indicted local restaurateur Nick Bovis.
SF News Two Pedestrians Critically Injured After Prius Runs Red Light In Mission District A 62-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of felony hit-and-run after his burgundy Prius allegedly plowed through the intersection of 23rd and Mission, clipping a Muni bus and hitting three pedestrians, critically injuring two.
SF News PG&E Equipment Fire Causes Blackout In Hayes Valley and Haight, Shuts Down Ballet A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFO Reopens Its Observation Deck The star witness in the Hillsborough heiress murder case is now in federal custody, Colin Kaepernick is writing a memoir for Audible, and SFO is about to reopen a public observation deck at Terminal 2 for the first time in 25 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Attorney Issues Subpoenas to PG&E and Recology Over DPW Scandal The CDC says the coronavirus testing kits sent out to states are "flawed," a San Francisco woman was found dead in a Santa Rosa creek, and the City Attorney's office is making good on its promise of a swift corruption investigation into the DPW scandal.
SF News BART Police Seek Suspect Who Attacked Rider With Chain Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Ghost Kitchen Complex In SoMa Is Making Food For Dozens of Delivery Brands Have you recently ordered food on a delivery app from "American Eclectic Burger," "Fork & Ladle," or "Red Corn Taqueria"? Because these are all ghost restaurants operating out of so-called "ghost kitchens" in SF.
SF Politics Local Republicans File Ballot Measure To Limit New Navigation Centers A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
Business & Tech Juul Targeted Kids With Web Ads On Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, Lawsuit Claims Juul's annus horribilis looks to be extending into 2020 as a lawsuit has just been filed in Massachusetts with potentially some of the strongest evidence to date that the company was targeting children and teens with its marketing.
SF News Palo Alto Mom and Daughter Return Home After Coronavirus Quarantine in SoCal A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
SF News Humpday Headlines: PG&E Lays Out Plans for This Year's Power Shutoffs BART has lost almost 10 million riders on nights and weekends, unlicensed contractors nabbed trying to bid on work in Paradise, and yes, PG&E does plan to keep shutting off the power when it's windy and dry this year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Andrew Yang Is Out Berkeley High School students walked out for a second day in a row protesting "rape culture" on campus, an Oakland man was robbed in his driveway Monday afternoon, and Janet Jackson just announced a San Jose stop on her summer tour.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out the Flight Path of the Helicopter During Sunday's 'Matrix 4' Shoot in Downtown SF Thanks to a Twitter bot that does nothing but tweet map details when aircraft are circling over parts of the Bay Area, we have a funny sketch of the flight path of a helicopter that was being used in the 'Matrix 4' shoot in San Francisco's Financial District on Sunday night.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Stunt Skier Backflips Over Highway 50 In Tahoe Almost exactly one year ago, noted professional skier Josh Daiek completed a stunt he'd been eyeing for years at Echo Summit Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe — a ski jump over Highway 50. It was all a matter of waiting for the right snow.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's Lawyers Make End Run To Have Fraud Case Thrown Out An attorney for Holmes moved to have a federal judge throw out all 11 fraud charges against the two defendants claiming the government's case is too "broad" and "full of ambiguity and fudging language."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink West Portal Candy Shop Shaw's, Famed for PEZ Dispenser Display, Closes After 89 Years A candy shop that's been the delight of youngsters and the young at heart since 1931 has quietly closed its doors in West Portal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole To Close In April and Relocate; Obispo Closed for Re-Concepting Local bar impresario Thad Vogler just announced that two of his four businesses will be undergoing changes in the coming months, including his design- and bar-award-winning Bar Agricole, which opened on 11th Street in 2011.
SF News Lovely Rainless Early Spring Weather Could Mean Fire Danger Later If you'd like to go sip your rosé and simply enjoy this unseasonably warm February weather, be our guest. But otherwise, you can read about the downside and enjoy it a little bit less.
SF News [Update] Accused BART Station Murderer John Lee Cowell Says Wilson Sisters Were Aliens 29-year-old John Lee Cowell took the witness stand in his own defense as scheduled on Tuesday, after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. And he unleashed some choice quotes that may bolster an insanity defense.
