SF News Small Businesses in SF’s Little Russia Getting Hassled for Being Russian-Owned The Russian invasion of Ukraine is creating headaches for small businesses owned by Russian-Americans, even if the owners are from Ukraine or Georgia.
SF News Cocaine Laced With Fentanyl Blamed for Spike in OD Deaths, DPH Urges Use of Fentanyl Test Strips and Narcan Amidst a surge in fentanyl overdoses among people who thought they were using cocaine, the Health Department is emphasizing that it is easy to get free fentanyl testing strips and Narcan for safer drug use.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Lobbying Against Controversial SoMa High Rise That 27-story residential tower slated for a Nordstom’s parking lot, which the supervisors shot down last October, has now generated a complaint with the SF Ethics Commission that the district’s former supervisor Jane Kim improperly lobbied against it.
SF News St. Patrick’s Day Around the Bay: Castro Theatre Redesign Plans Revealed SFUSD teachers will finally get their damn paychecks with interest added, Nancy Pelosi gets roundly roasted for an ill-advised Bono poem recital, and Another Planet Entertainment’s plans for the Castro Theatre involve ripping out quite a few seats.
Arts & Entertainment Cockettes Exhibit at SF Public Library Has Thursday Night Opening Party Thursday night’s opening celebration kicks off several months of Cockettes content, in honor of the library’s new exhibit “The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy.”
SF News Anti-Patagonia-Vest, Anti-Marina Flyers Popping Up in San Francisco “Stop wearing vests, you look like a Republican” warns a series of new flyers being spotted about town, and the flyers also have some choice words for the Marina.
SF News Of Course SFPD Is Doing DUI Checkpoints for St. Patrick’s Day The San Francisco Police Department is very eager to inform that they will be out in force with DUI checkpoints and patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, because well-publicized checkpoints do indeed cut down on drunk driving.
SF News $400-Per-Californian Gas Rebate in the Works at State Assembly It’s another stimmy check for every California taxpayer — even if you don't’ drive or have a car — under a new gas rebate proposal before the state Assembly, but Gavin Newsom thinks only people with cars should get the rebate.
Arts & Entertainment Oscar-Winning Marin County Filmmaker John Korty Has Died at Age 85 The director of “Go Ask Alice” and “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” was the inspiration for Coppola and George Lucas to start up their own Bay Area film studios, and remained in Marin County throughout his prolific career.
SF News Report: 40% of SF Houses are Selling for $100K Over Asking Price Homes are selling for $100,000 or more over the asking price all over the Bay Area, as 40% of sales in SF and nearly 50% of San Jose homes are going for six figures over asking.
SF News Yet Another COVID-19 Surge? Wastewater Samples Suggest That Yes, We May Be in for Another Wave While it may just be a blip, the CDC confirms that wastewater samples from a third of the country’s sample sites show increasing case counts, right while China and Europe are seeing big COVID surges.
SF Politics Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kamala Harris’ Husband, First Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Has COVID-19 Michael Mina is launching a new boutique restaurant development group, the “food desert” Bayview may have a Lucky Supermarket on the way, and Vice President Harris’ husband has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Finally Nearing Completion Two or three people are still taking their lives on the bridge each month, but the completion date for a long-sought suicide detrerrent net is finally on the horizon.
SF News San Mateo County Convinced It Can Reach ‘Zero’ Homelessness in 2022 The Project Homekey bonanza has San Mateo County officials talking as if they will solve homelessness in their county in 2022, though their homeless population is a fraction of San Francisco’s.
SF News Hillsborough Police Release Video of So-Called ‘Criminal Tourist Burglary Crews From South America’ The public is getting its first look at a burglary crew suspected of making short work of a string of wealthy Silicon Valley homes, and authorities say they are professional "burglary tourists" from South America.
Bay Area Sports USF Dons Basketball Team Makes March Madness for the First Time Since 1998, Plays Thursday Night The University of San Francisco Dons have made the Men’s NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years, and while the Sweet 16 will be played at the Chase Center, the Dons are bracketed to a different region.
SF News Officer Edith is Leaving SF Animal Care & Control After 21 Years The wildly popular local Twitter celebrity Officer Edith, the SF Animal Care & Control officer who’s ruled the roost on Twitter for nearly seven years, is leaving the organization. But she’s not giving up the Twitter account, and will still tweet!
SF News Retired BART Cars Being Repurposed Into Arcades, Beer Gardens, and More Eight lucky winners have been awarded decommissioned BART cars, as BART announced these retired cars will be transformed into a retro video game arcade, a bike repair shop, and a beer garden at The Oakland A’s stadium.
Business & Tech Facebook Relaxes (and Then Reverses) Its Rules Over Calling for Leaders to Be Killed, Because of Putin Meta made a Putin-specific change to its policy on calling for the assassination of world leaders late last week, then backtracked today for ill-explained reasons.
Business & Tech Uber To Gouge You With New Gas Price Fee Now That The Oil Industry Is Gouging You They’re calling the new fee “temporary fuel assistance for drivers,” but whatever the name, starting Wednesday you will be paying anywhere between 35 and 55 cents extra for any Uber ride or Uber Eats order.
SF News Another West Oakland Encampment Fire Kills Two Dogs, Destroys Three RVs A Thursday afternoon encampment fire claimed the lives of two dogs and displaced five people, less than a half-mile from the site of a separate encampment fire just ten days ago.
SF News Furious Contra Costa Sheriff Calls It a ‘Sad Day’ That Deputy Was Sentenced to Six Years for Killing Someone It’s not just San Francisco where law enforcement is unhappy with their DA, as the Contra Costa County Sheriff blasts his DA for pursuing (and winning) a conviction against a deputy in a fatal on-duty shooting.
SF Politics New Proposed Board of Supervisors District Map Is Out, and Everyone Thinks It’s an Abomination The proposed redistricting of the SF Board of Supervisors map has been released, and early reviews from current and former supervisors describe it as ‘horrifying,’ ‘a joke,’ and ‘on crack.’
SF News BART Removes Board Member Lateefah Simon Over Seemingly Minor Residency Dispute The only Black member on the BART board, who had to move because of racial harassment, has been kicked off the board for moving “a stone’s throw” outside of her district. But she says she has the receipts showing BART officials said it was OK for her to move there.