SF News PG&E On the Hook for $6.7 Million After ‘Shoddy Work’ Destroyed an SF Home, Damaged Five Others The SF Board of Supervisors just approved a $6.75 million settlement from PG&E, after a 2016 incident where the utility’s faulty gas line work caused six Sherwood Forest houses to slide down a hill.
SF News UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter Says He’s Masking Up Again, Says 1 in 30 San Franciscans Has COVID and Doesn’t Know It COVID Twitter sage Dr. Bob Wachter says “there's a lot of Covid out there” in San Francisco, encouraging masking up indoors as he estimates that one out of every 30 asymptomatic people in SF are indeed positive for COVID-19.
SF News SF Father Solves His Own Luggage Theft Case, Despite Lack of Action From ‘Do-Little Cops’ In another iteration of a San Francisco crime victim complaining that the police did nothing to help, and made no attempt to arrest the suspects, one SF dad successfully took matters into his own hands to recover his belongings.
SF News Court Thwarts SF’s Attempt to Ban Four Alleged Repeat Drug Dealers From the Tenderloin The SF City Attorney attempted to ban certain specific repeat drug dealing arrestees from re-entering a 50-block radius of the Tenderloin, but a state appeals court just shot that down.
Business & Tech Airbnb Ending Their Refunds for COVID-19 Cancellations You will no longer get a refund if you cancel your Airbnb reservation due to COVID-19 after the end of this month, which happens to coincide with the launch of the company’s forthcoming "guest travel insurance product.”
SF News Three Separate Sideshows Rollicked Downtown, Mission, and Excelsior This Weekend There were no reported injuries — but no reported arrests either — as three separate sideshows laid the skids on SF streets this weekend.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis Wage Taunting War as Florida Governor Calls SF a ‘Dumpster Fire’ Florida man Ron DeSantis, perhaps unaware of his own state’s punchline status in oddball news stories, calls San Francisco a “dumpster fire” in his ongoing spat with Gavin Newsom.
SF News First Bit of California High-Speed Rail in NorCal Approved, Still Not Coming Until 2031 One 90-mile segment of the elusive California high-speed rail project has won approval to connect San Jose and Merced, but a look at the projected competition dates will certainly dampen any excitement you may feel over this.
SF News Oakley Woman Still Missing After Three Months, But Police Have Identified Person of Interest 24-year-old Oakley resident Alexis Gabe disappeared in late January, and after months without leads, Oakley police have released surveillance video of someone they think may be involved with the disappearance.
SF News One Month In, SFMTA Says Van Ness BRT Slashing Trip Times By Up To 35% Was it worth many years of construction and hassle? The SFMTA has the early numbers on the new Van Ness bus lanes, and says they’re cutting down trip times and leading to a boom in 49-Van Ness ridership.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The SF Redistricting Saga is Finally Finished The NFL Draft is now underway with the 49ers as the wild card in the room, the Chronicle editorial board came out swinging against the Department of Homelessness, and the new supervisor districts were finalized and are now in effect.
Business & Tech Tesla’s Value Is Nosediving While Elon Musk Pursues Twitter Takeover Elon could have bought Twitter for $44 billion three times over with the $150 billion in market value Tesla has lost since he pulled this Twitter stunt, as Tesla stock has been plummeting all week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Original Joe’s, Tadich Grill Bartender Adam Richey Has Died A bartending local legend whose career spanned Tadich Grill, Original Joe’s, Kuleto’s, Enrico’s, Momo’s, Moose’s and more, Adam Richey passed from a heart attack and is mourned by many establishments.
Business & Tech Two SF Crypto Bros Charged for Fraud Over ‘Auto Trader Bot’ Whose Results They Were Just Faking by Hand A pair of blockchain founder types claimed their crypto bot was producing “jaw dropping,” “eye-popping,” and “insane” profits. An SEC charging document says they “fabricated the performance results.”
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Executive Gets Drawn Into Twitter Fight with Fictional Giants Ballpark Seagull Protip: If you are a successful sports executive with a million-dollar salary, and you are arguing with a fictional bird on Twitter, you are losing that argument regardless.
Arts & Entertainment Infamous Burning Man 747 Bought by Las Vegas Investors, to Become ‘Immersive Experience’ Tourist Trap on the Strip One of Burning Man’s grandest art projects, which turned into one of its grandest embarrassments, is off to the Las Vegas strip to live out its life as a new tourist attraction.
Arts & Entertainment Orpheum Theatre Getting a Remodel, With an On-Site VIP ‘Admission-Only Club’ The latest new investment in downtown San Francisco is the Orpheum Theatre’s half-million dollar remodel, which will feature the new Marquee Lounge, a food-and-cocktails private club you can get access to for an extra $95.
Business & Tech Layoffs May Loom at Elon Musk's Twitter, Analysts Say One analyst predicts Musk might lay off 20% of Twitter’s workforce, as the company is still not profitable every quarter, and interest rates could rise on the borrowed money he’s using to finance the deal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2,000 Tiny Homes Could Be Coming to SF to House the Homeless Population UC schools will offer free tuition to Native American students, the Far East Cafe and Buddha Lounge are getting Legacy Business designations, and 2,000 new tiny homes may be coming to put a big dent in the SF homeless population.
Arts & Entertainment The B-52s' Final Tour Will Have Two SF Dates in October, at the Masonic Auditorium Hurry up and bring your jukebox money, because the B-52s are hanging up their touring boots after 45 years, and there are two San Francisco dates on their farewell tour.
SF News That $4 Million Stern Grove Flood Clean-Up? That’s Now More of a $20 Million Stern Grove Flood Clean-Up The cost of restoring the Stern Grove park after last August’s water damage has ballooned to five times the original cost estimate, according to documents submitted to the Board of Supervisors.
SF News [Update] Supes Approve Permanent Car-Free JFK Drive, After 12 Hours of High-Drama Debate After debating the issue for 12 hours — including nine non-stop hours of public comment — the SF Board of Supervisors just gave permanent car-free status to a 1.5-mile span of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Oakland Police Department Wants Out of Their 20-Year-Long Federal Oversight, Will Get Their Day in Court The Oakland police have been under the oversight of a federal monitor for nearly 20 years after the long-ago “Riders” scandal, but on Wednesday will make their case to end this arrangement.
SF News Warren Buffett Auctioning Off Lunch With Him in Benefit for Glide, One Last Time 2022 will offer your final opportunity to pay millions of dollars for a steakhouse luncheon with Warren Buffett, as the billionaire investor says he’s doing this Glide fundraiser for the final time.
SF News SF Teacher Uses Cotton Plant in Slavery Lesson, Outrage Ensues A charter school teacher found herself in hot water for using a cotton plant in a lesson about slavery, as San Francisco has its own mini-scandal amidst the national Critical Race Theory frenzy.