SF News New Video Seems to Exonerate Police Shooting Victim in San Jose Taqueria Shooting As the San Jose PD struggles with the fallout from a police shooting at the La Victoria Taqueria, they’ve released a new video showing the guy they shot was not initially armed, and rather heroically had wrestled the gun away from a felonious assailant.
SF News Video: Two Injured as PG&E Helicopter Crashes in Livermore The pilot and another individual suffered non-life threatening injuries as a low-flying copter crashed at a PG&E training facility in Livermore.
SF News Four East Bay Arson Suspects Arrested For an Astonishing 33 Fires in a 48-Hour Period It’s unclear whether the four suspects and more than 30 fires set over two days are in any way related, and while no one was hurt, one report says that a suspect managed to escape custody.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Stefani, Very Unsurprisingly, Endorses Boudin Recall SF General is asking for help to identify a badly injured woman they can’t ID, SFUSD managed to save the jobs of nearly 200 staff previously given pink slips, and Supervisor Catherine Stefani is the first SF elected official endorsing the recall of DA Chesa Boudin.
SF Politics Matt Dorsey’s Appointment to D6 Supervisor Throws More Gas On Blazing Debate Over Crime and Cops Mayor Breed’s appointment of SFPD PR guy Matt Dorsey is being seen as a favor to the police department and Recall Chesa Boudin movement, but while Dorsey is well-respected at City Hall, the oppo research on him is already starting to emerge.
Bay Area Sports Otherwise Despicable LA Dodgers Will Join Giants in Wearing Pride Logos for ‘Pride Night’ Game In SF It’s believed that it will be the first major American sports game with both teams wearing LGBTQ+ Pride logos, when both the Dodgers and the Giants will sport Pride-ified logos on their hats and uniforms for their June 11 Pride Night game.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Wine Brand Caymus Branches Out to Suisun Valley With New ‘Mega Tasting Room’ A little-recognized region just got a big new wine attraction, as the family behind prestigious Napa brand Caymus has opened a luxe outpost in Suisun Valley, with an Apple Store-esque design and a retro cassette-tape room.
SF Politics ‘Ice Cream With A Cop’ Event In SF Melts Down Amidst Raucous Anti-Police Protest A late April “Ice Cream With a Cop” event in the Inner Richmond turned into a hostile confrontation, with video now surfacing of protesters with a megaphone swarming officers and making the event a rocky road.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mission's Former Revolution Cafe Reborn as New Piano Bar, Ivory & Vine The Mission District's Revolution Cafe closed a year ago, but the 22nd and Bartlett Street fixture has a new incarnation that tries to hit similar musical notes.
Arts & Entertainment The SF Conservatory of Music Has Bought Itself a Record Label Big news in the local classical music scene, as the SF Conservatory of Music has acquired Netherlands-based Pentatone Music, a label that’s won numerous Grammy Awards.
SF News Beleaguered Oakland Encampment Getting $4.7 Million Grant From State to Try ‘New Model’ West Oakland’s Wood Street encampment, which has suffered dozens of fires in the last year, will try a new community cabins model with a $4.7 million grant from the state.
SF News Brace Yourself — Another Large ‘Red Bus Lane’ Construction Project Starts Monday, This Time on 16th Street The same concept from “the mess on Van Ness” is being applied to 16th Street, and is expected to take more than a year to complete, but in this case at least Phase 1 of the project was pretty much completed on time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smoothie-Making Robot Arrives at Metreon, Robot Asks To Be Tipped A new smoothie-swinging robot is bringing the Metreon into the Age of Ultron, but oddly, the Stepford smoothie robot asks to be tipped for its services.
Bay Area Sports The Ed Lee Statue at Chase Center Has Been Unveiled An Ed Lee statue now sits outside the Chase Center, an homage to the mayor who shepherded the arena’s approval and construction, and considered it his legacy project.
SF News We Have Hit One Million COVID-19 Deaths In the United States America remains the nation with the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, and regrettably, this week, the country suffered its millionth COVID death.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stork Club Reopening July 1, John Waters Will Be There SFPD may end up firing 23 officers for refusing to get vaccinated, Valencia-style street light strings could come to more commercial corridors, and the reincarnated Stork Club has an opening date with John Waters himself on the bill.
Arts & Entertainment Nevada County May Add an ‘Impact Fee’ Onto Burning Man Ticket Prices, To Keep Their Roads Maintained Washoe County commissioners are in discussions to add an extra fee onto Burning Man tickets to maintain a stretch of road that 70,000 Burners tromp across every Labor Day weekend.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Appoint Himself CEO of Twitter (Temporarily), He Apparently Told Investors The new CEO of Twitter under Elon Musk will be Elon Musk, according to people familiar with his investor briefings, though he says for now that he will only be an interim CEO.
SF News Everett Middle School Chaos Goes From Bad to Worse, Student Now Hospitalized With Life-Threatening Injuries A new report details multiple injuries among middle-schoolers at an increasingly violent Everett Middle School, including a 13-year-old “with life-threatening injuries.”
SF News Report: Hundreds of Below-Market-Rate Units Sit Empty, Despite Waiting List of More Than 20,000 A new City Hall report shows more than 300 below-market-rate housing units are sitting empty, thanks to red tape and a pandemic market where market-rate housing has gotten cheaper.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsar Nicoulai Caviar Getting Anti-Russian Blowback, Despite No Connection to Russia Apparently the name alone is creating harassment issues for the East Bay caviar company with an outpost at the SF Ferry Building, which has to keep reminding people that they are not a Russian company or affiliated with Russia in any way.
SF Politics Your June 7 Ballot Election Ballot Has Taken Shape, With Eight Local Ballot Measures, Including The Boudin Recall Your mail-in ballots will start arriving next week (!) as yet another election looms, with primary elections for Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi and Alex Padilla, plus eight SF ballot measures, including a DA recall you may have heard about.
SF News Text Messages Show San Jose Officials Tried to Bury Alleged BART-to-San Jose Cost Overruns In light of text messages becoming public, San Jose and VTA officials are now doing an about-face, calling for scrutiny into cost overruns they’d previously disputed.
Arts & Entertainment Carnaval SF Might Have Legal Cannabis Sales At Its 2022 Street Fair Later This Month Permit applications have been submitted to bring legal cannabis sales to Carnaval SF on May 28-29, and there’s a high likelihood that Carnaval will be the first California street fair with legal, regulated cannabis use.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former San Jose Mayor Norm Mineta Has Died California is already preparing to be an abortion “haven” if Roe v. Wade is indeed overturned, the Warriors are unveiling a very odd Ed Lee statue Thursday, and former San Jose mayor and US cabinet secretary Norm Mineta has died.