SF Politics Watch: Trumper Trucker ‘Convoy’ Gets Pelted With Eggs in East Bay, Tries But Fails to Find Pelosi’s House A weekend appearance in the Bay Area by the trucker “People’s Convoy” was greeted by a pelting of eggs in Rockridge, they unsuccessfully tried to find Pelosi’s house in SF, and ultimately dragged their tails back to Sacramento.
Arts & Entertainment Leaked Stern Grove Schedule (On Muni!) Shows Liz Phair, Cat Power, Phil Lesh Playing This Summer’s Festival This summer’s Stern Grove lineup apparently gushed out a little early, on Muni ads of all places, with Tower of Power and Too $hort resuming where they left off, plus Liz Phair, Cat Power, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Old Crow Medicine Show.
Arts & Entertainment Starting Today, Golden Gate Flower Parks Are Free for SF Residents The Conservatory of Flowers and Japanese Tea Garden are now officially free for all San Francisco residents, though this will be offset by slightly higher prices for out-of-towners.
SF Politics Campos Won’t Run Against Haney Again in June, Even Though His Name Will Be On the Ballot The AD-17 state Assembly seat situation seems resolved (for now), because after Matt Haney’s landslide victory Tuesday, his opponent David Campos says he won’t run in the June primary or November general elections for the seat.
SF Politics San Francisco’s New Supervisor Districts Finally Approved by Redistricting Task Force The Tenderloin will be removed from District 6, Potrero Hill will remain in District 10, and Supervisor Mandelman will not be drawn out of his District 8 under a finally approved “final draft map” from a wildly contentious SF redistricting process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers’ Breakout Star Deebo Samuel Suddenly Demands Trade Students are apparently assaulting teachers at Everett Middle School, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reportedly killed a story critical of her boyfriend, and 49ers receiver-running back sensation Deebo Samuel is now demanding a trade.
SF News New Breed of Jellyfish With Nearly 40 Tentacles Discovered in the Depths of Monterey Bay Meet Atolla reynoldsi, a new species of jellyfish just discovered by Monterey Bay Aquarium Researchers, who has 26-39 tentacles, and spends its life 10,000 feet below water.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Says He Has the $46.5 Billion Lined Up to Buy Twitter Outright, But Investors Remain Skeptical of This Whole Deal Elon Musk’s original “best and final offer” language from last week has softened to “seeking to negotiate” language, but he says he now has funding secured for the deal to take Twitter private (a canard he has pulled before).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bayview’s Old Clam House Will Reopen in May, Will Remain the Old Clam House The charmingly outdated Old Clam House has been closed throughout the pandemic, and the building went on sale. But some familiar local restaurateurs have bought it and will reopen the place, keeping it the same, but expanding the menu.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Hippie Hill Blazes Up in Smoke as Nearly 20,000 Stoners Celebrate First 4/20 With Legal Weed Sales in Park The first-ever 4/20 with dispensaries legally selling pot in Golden Gate Park was the bomb, and Goapele wowed the crowd with a surprise set, though Berner seemingly did not realize it was 4:20 when the clock struck 4:20.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 4/20 Billboard Promises ‘Get Free NFTs When You Buy Weed’ We have reached Peak 2022 San Francisco, as a fresh, new 4/20 billboard at Mission and Geneva Streets declares “Get Free NFTs when you buy weed.”
Bay Area Sports Feral Cats Overrun Oakland Coliseum, Authorities Decide to Just Let Them Have Their Run of the Place A feral kitty committee of 30-40 feral cats is expanding and “having a field day on the A’s turf,” and stadium authorities have decided to simply cede the place to them, but will attempt to have the cats spayed and neutered.
SF News Defrocked Ex-Priest, Accused of Child Sex Abuse, Kills Pedestrian In Alleged Walnut Creek DUI Incident One man is dead and his wife briefly hospitalized after an allegedly drunk driver rammed into them Saturday, a driver who happened to be a former priest accused of molesting dozens of children.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Inevitable SF Redistricting Lawsuit Has Indeed Arrived San Quentin prison is now home the nation’s first “college behind bars,” the ban on use of rape kits to prosecute unrelated crimes is now San Francisco law, and sure enough, a gaggle of local residents is suing San Francisco over the ongoing redistricting drama.
SF News Two SFPD Officers Arrested for Destroying Evidence, Ex-Officer Arrested for Swiping Machine Gun From Evidence Room Two separate SFPD scandals hit the fan at the same time, as two current officers were arrested for destroying evidence (including meth, allegedly) and a former officer was arrested for relieving the evidence room of a machine gun.
Arts & Entertainment A San Francisco 4/20 Event Guide (For People Who Have No Interest In Going to Hippie Hill) A San Francisco 4/20 Preview (For People Who Have No Interest In Going to Hippie Hill) Plenty of SF dispensaries and venues are counterprogramming against the Hippie Hill high jinks with live music, comedy, and even “Wings, Weed & Waffles.”
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces 2022 Lineup, Featuring Green Day, Post Malone, and SZA Tickets will go on sale on 4/20 for Outside Lands 2022, as the festival announces a lineup including Green Day, Post Malone, Phoebe Bridgers, Lil Uzi Vert, and a whole bunch more.
SF News SF Man Who Spent Last 32 Years In Prison Gets Conviction Overturned, Now Free Joaquin Ciria has always maintained his innocence in a 1990 murder, and today he is a free man, the first person exonerated by DA Boudin’s Innocence Commission.
Arts & Entertainment Japantown Revels in Successful Return of Cherry Blossom Festival While there was no parade this year, the 55th annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival blossomed again, and every performance is available online so you can relive all the anime cosplay, Taiko Dojo, and swordsmanship.
SF News As SF Marks 116th Anniversary of 1906 Earthquake, Actual Earthquake Hits Near Gilroy Early Monday morning saw the return of the in-person Lotta’s Fountain earthquake anniversary ceremony, yet only 33 minutes before, a little 2.6 magnitude quake struck just south of Gilroy.
SF Politics Whack Vallejo City Council Meeting Goes Off Rails, Mayor Threatens to Arrest Councilmember What started as a discussion about a new Vallejo police station turned into free-for-all with one public commenter being physically hauled out by police, then threats from the mayor to do the same to a councilmember, who in turn speculated about certain parts of the mayor's anatomy.
SF News Oakland’s Top Cop Says Lenient Bail is To Blame for Oakland Crime Spike Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is pleading with the Alameda County Superior Court to end the pandemic-era loosening of bail fees, saying this is responsible for an alleged Oakland crime spike.
SF News Mission Street GameStop Hit by Flash Mob Robberies Three Times in Six Days The flash mob-style burglaries we saw in Union Square last November popped up again on Mission Street, as the GameStop store suffered a reported three robberies in less than one week.
SF News A Whole Bunch of Electric Vehicle Chargers Could be Coming to SF Gas Stations and Auto Shops The SF Planning Commission moved forward in approving an armada of electric vehicle charging stations — a “public charging network” which could be coming to an auto body shop or gas station near you.
SF News Day Around the Bay: People Are Already Jockeying for Dianne Feinstein’s (Still Occupied) Senate Seat Thursday's rainfall is nothing compared to a storm that’s coming Saturday, a guilty murder verdict finally came down in the case of a victim stabbed 39 times, and replacement names are already being floated after new reports of Dianne Feinstein’s “cognitive decline.”