SF News Day Around the Bay: We Just Got Our First Spare the Air Alert of 2022 Alameda County has its first reported case of monkeypox, three teens have been arrested for the GameStop smash-and-grab robberies in April, and Friday brings our first First Spare the Air alert of 2022.
Business & Tech High Times on the Hook For $5 Million In Unpaid Rent at Failed Union Square Dispensary Space High Times magazine’s foray into cannabis dispensaries has been fraught with troubles, and a judge just ruled they have to pay up the $5 million in back rent they’ve racked up on the former John Varvatos space in Union Square.
Arts & Entertainment Bernal Rock Gets Painted Purple and Glittered Up for Prince’s Birthday A purple reign has rained upon the famed painted rock of Bernal Heights Park, and dig if you will these pictures of “Happy Birthday 2 U” messages to Prince for his birthday.
SF News Mandelman’s Shelter-for-All Plan Passes Board Unanimously, Though Many Are Skeptical It Will Do Anything Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his freshly passed “Place for All Program” is “maniacally focused” on ending homelessness in San Francisco, but the city has seen these slogan-driven plans have had little effect in the past.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Makes First Post-Recall Remarks, Carefully Avoids Spiking Football In the wake of Tuesday’s recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, London Breed struck a conciliatory “Now is a time for healing” note, and served word salad designed to appeal to both sides.
SF News Quick Heatwave On the Way for Thursday and Friday, East Bay Temps Could Exceed 100 Degrees Some more “shorts weather” will be welcomed in Thursday and is expected to last through Friday, but the National Weather Service is warning of an Excessive Heat Watch and high wildfire risk in parts of the East Bay And Marin County.
SF News California Man Arrested Near Brett Kavanaugh’s Home, Was Reportedly Armed and Making Threats In the days before we expect a Roe v. Wade ruling to come down, an unidentified armed man was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, and he had reportedly made threats against the Supreme Court justice.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Where to Watch The Recall Election Results Come In SF is eliminating COVID testing sites despite the surge, California is issuing strict new water rights curtailments, and there’s a few outlets that will be running tonight’s recall and primary election results right as they roll in.
SF News Nation's First Openly Trans Lutheran Bishop, SF’s Rev. Megan Rohrer, Resigns Amid Political Furor in Lutheran Church Accusations of verbal harassment, and countercharges of racism, brought some local Lutheran church drama to a boil, and SF’s historic first trans Lutheran bishop has resigned their position.
SF Politics SF Pride Hired a Crisis PR Firm to Broker Compromise Deal With Police Over Parade Boycott Turns out that recent compromise deal for police to march in the SF Pride parade was drawn up by a tech industry public relations firm SF Pride hired for $4,000 a month, hoping to tell, in their words, a “fun and urgent story.”
SF News Flooded SoMa High-Rise Tenants Say They Had Hotel Rooms Revoked, Now Forced to Fend for Themselves SFist has exclusive pictures and video from inside the flooding of apartment tower 33 Tehama, but more troublingly, emails showing that several tenants’ temporary hotel accommodations have already been rescinded.
SF Politics New York Media Already Has Undies In Bunch Over Tuesday's Boudin Recall Election New York City is 3,000 miles away, but its newspapers of record are all going full-bore with lengthy features obsessing over ‘what it all means’ that San Francisco is about to hold a DA recall election.
SF News Wow, This Sucks: Bay Area Woman Has Been Stuck on Cargo Ship in China for Four Months Vallejo Maritime Academy grad Madeleine Wolczko has been unable to leave a ship stuck near Shanghai for more than four months, as China’s COVID lockdowns have restricted the whole crew to being stuck on board.
SF News SoMa Luxury Apartment Building Totally Flooded Friday, Residents All Displaced at Hotels Tenants at the swanky 33 Tehama apartment complex will not be tenants at 33 Tehama Street for at least the rest of the week, as a roof-level pipe burst flooded every floor below and forced the evacuation of all of the building's 383 leased units.
SF News Caltrans Worker Killed in Hit-and-Run on I-80 Near Vacaville, Traffic Backed Up for Hours A yet-unidentified Caltrans employee was killed in the line of duty by a hit-and-run driver Friday morning some three miles west of Vacaville, and lanes of traffic are just beginning to reopen late Friday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Fair Suddenly ‘Postponed’ Just Ten Days Before the 2022 Event The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair will not wear flowers in its hair as scheduled next Sunday, June 12, but organizers say they are “aiming for the end of the summer” with a replacement date.
SF News Berkeley High School Community Wonders Why It Took Nine Days to Arrest Suspect In Mass Shooting Plan Berkeley Police looked pretty good compared to Uvalde, TX after a high school shooting plot appeared nipped in the bud. But maybe it wasn’t, as parents learn police knew of the plot for nine full days before allowing the teen to turn himself in.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It’s Warriors NBA Finals Time, Babyyy! The SFPD is facing heavy criticism over that Mission Bay shooting of two men, GM is poised to start charging money for those driverless Cruise rides, and let’s take a peek inside the Chase Center as the Warriors tip off for Game One of the NBA Finals.
SF News Body of Missing San Jose Hiker Found in Stanislaus National Forest Swimming Hole 28-year-old Devin Brewer of San Jose had been missing for two weeks, and his body was found by another hiker Sunday in a popular but deadly swimming hole in the Stanislaus National Forest.
Arts & Entertainment Your SF Summer and Fall Street Fair Mega-Preview, Covering Every Weekend From June to October There are free, public street fairs and festivals in San Francisco every single weekend from June until well into October, and we’ve catalogued every single weekend’s free-of-charge festivities for the next four months.
SF Politics Honey Mahogany Officially Declares She’s Running for District 6 Supervisor It was an open secret that SF Democratic Party Chair and prominent local drag figure Honey Mahogany would pursue the District 6 supervisor seat, and that’s now official, setting up what will surely be November’s most interesting local race.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Tells Tesla Employees to Stop Working From Home, Or They Can ‘Pretend to Work Somewhere Else’ A leaked email shows that Musk declared to Tesla employees Tuesday that “Remote work is no longer acceptble” [sic] and the work-from-home ride is over for Tesla engineers and execs.
SF Politics In Completely Foregone Conclusion, New Supe Dorsey Endorses Recall of DA Boudin The new supervisor who was on the SFPD payroll up until last month has, very unsurprisingly, endorsed the recall of the district attorney whom the SFPD hates with a white-hot passion.
SF News Pink Triangle Ceremony Kicks Off Pride Month Tonight, But Many LGBTQ Groups Will Boycott Over Breed’s Police Stance The Pride Month of boycotts and counter-boycotts starts with Wednesday night’s Pink Triangle lighting ceremony, with prominent LGBTQ organizations refusing to attend in protest of Mayor Breed, and Breed countering with some trans homelessness legislation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Napa Brush Fire Grows to 100 Acres, Forces Evacuations Oakland officials might block that 6.7% increase on rent-controlled units, Berkeley’s People’s Park just made the National Register of Historic Places, and a Napa brush fire dubbed the Old Fire is at 100 acres and growing.