Arts & Entertainment Rare, Full Johnny Cash San Francisco Concert From 1968 Digitally Restored and Free Online An SF Johnny Cash concert from 1968, recorded just one week before the release of his landmark Folsom Prison album, has been digitally restored and released online by the son of famed Grateful Dead roadie “Bear” Stanley.
SF News Alameda Sheriff's Association Offers $10,000 Reward for Info on Shooting of Recruit Near Bay Bridge After 28-year-old Alameda County Sheriff's deputy-in-training David Nguyen was fatally shot near the Bay Bridge Tuesday, that county’s sheriff’s association is now offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
Business & Tech Crypto Bro War of Words (and Memes) Breaks Out Between Jack Dorsey and Top Silicon Valley VCs There are no good guys, and certainly no women at all, in the latest Silicon Valley high school drama that pits Jack Dorsey and the bigwigs at Andreessen Horowitz arguing over the true meaning of crypto.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Part of Great Highway Might Go Car-Free No Matter What SFUSD was drastically understaffed today amidst a ‘sickout,’ turns out someone tried to pipe-bomb Kamala Harris last January 6, and an obscure environmental measure might automatically render part of the Great Highway car-free permanently.
Business & Tech Sister of Federal Officer Killed by Boogaloo Extremists Sues Facebook for Letting Them Organize Online The feds say that far-right “Boogaloo” militia types killed federal officer David Patrick Underwood, while trying to pose as Antifa. Underwood’s sister says Facebook gave them the tools to do it, and is suing the company.
SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Claims She Raised $3 Million for January 6 Insurrection, Leaked Texts Show While Pelosi gets dragged for bringing Dick Cheney and the ‘Hamilton’ cast for a Jan. 6 remembrance, new evidence emerges that Kimberly Guilfoyle says she raised $3 million to finance the Trump rally that day, and angled to get Alex Jones and Steve Bannon speaking slots.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taco Bell Launches a ‘Taco Subscription Service’ That Purports to Give You 30 Tacos for $10 A $10 monthly “taco subscription” entitles you to one taco every day for 30 days, but you have to go pick it up yourself, and “prices may vary by location.”
SF News A Princess Cruise Ship Docked in SF Thursday Morning After a COVID Outbreak Onboard The Ruby Princess cruise ship is now docked in SF with a number of confirmed COVID-19 cases onboard, and one passenger says “We’re not getting tested, so the Bay Area is getting us as is.”
SF News SF Teachers Planning a Mass ‘Sickout’ on Thursday Over COVID Safety Frustrations Hundreds of teachers have signed an online petition saying they won't work Thursday because of SFUSD’s alleged COVID safety failings, but can you really have a sickout when more than 10% of the staff is already legitimately out sick?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill Getting Grilled For Celebrating Donor With History of Assault Allegations and Rape Jokes Tadich Grill has declared Thursday “Dave Portnoy Day” to honor a Barstool Sports grant it received last year, but this is awkward, given that Dave Portnoy is still lawyering through multiple sexual assault allegations.
SF News Supervisors Take a Do-Over Vote on Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, Decide to Delay Their Vote Again After demanding a revote on Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin “state of emergency” declaration, the supervisors debated it for three hours Tuesday night, and then just punted another vote out to February 8.
SF News Details Emerge on Milpitas Murder and Car Chase Where Ex-Boyfriend Allegedly Stalked, Killed Victim We now know the identity of the victim and the alleged killer in Sunday’s grisly Milpitas high-speed chase, where the victim was an aspiring realtor, and her ex-boyfriend a registered sex offender.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Than 10% of SFUSD Teachers Were Out Sick on Tuesday More than 20,000 people still don't have power near Tahoe, Zuni Cafe has harsh words for Matt Haney over his Tenderloin “state of emergency” vote, and the first days back in school have seen hundreds of SF teachers calling in sick.
SF News DoorDash Driver Pleads Guilty to Strangling, Threatening to Kill Someone Who Told Him the Mask Goes Over Your Nose A South San Francisco DoorDash delivery went south when a liquor store clerk reminded a DoorDash driver that the mask goes over your nose, which resulted in a death threat and attempted strangulation.
SF News SF COVID Testing in Meltdown, as Lines Stretch Several Blocks, Results Taking Multiple Days Mayor Breed announced a testing surge Tuesday morning, but it may be too little too late, as people are standing in line for hours and waiting several days for COVID-19 test results.
SF News SF Dad Starts ‘Bike Bus’ of Kids Riding to School, It Swells to Several Dozen In Size Inspired by a similar “bicibús” ride in Barcelona, a pro-slow-streets group has created a pint-sized Critical Mass bike ride for kids pedaling to school en masse.
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom' Faces More Uncool Problems, Hit With Defamation Suit From Kid She Called a ‘Rapist’ An unnamed teen boy has a defamation lawsuit against the notorious mom who allegedly threw boozy teenage parties, for spreading the rumors that the teen was a “rapist” and a “predator.”
SF News Year-End Stats Show SF Property Crime Down 11.2% Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Despite ‘Moral Panic’ A detailed analysis of property crime in Bay Area cities shows that San Jose and Berkeley have seen property crime decrease over the last two years, and while many Bay Area cities saw an increase in 2021, thefts are still down double-digit percentages compared to 2019.
SF News San Ramon Police Sic Attack Dog on Uber Driver Who’d Merely Missed Car Payments An Uber driver who’d missed rental car payments had his vehicle reported stolen, and San Roman police allowed their K-9 to maul him badly, in an incident that begs ethical issues of gig car rental companies and police use of force.
SF News [Update] Elizabeth Holmes Jury Deadlocked on Three of Eleven Counts, Judge Polls Jurors The big news of Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos fraud trial today is not entirely big news yet, just another delay, but the flip side of the jury being deadlocked on three counts means they will render a verdict on the other eight.
SF News Milpitas Police Drawn Into High-Speed Chase With Man Who Had Ex-Girlfriend’s Dead Body in Car A police pursuit yielded a grisly discovery Sunday afternoon, after a high-speed chase between Milpitas and Fremont ended with a murder victim’s body being found in the back of her own stolen car.
SF News Video: 120 MPH Car Chase Ends When Suspect Tries to Swim Away in Bay at Emeryville Chevy’s, Does Not Get Far Fasten your seat belts for a wild, 11-minute California Highway Patrol high-speed car chase video, which ends with the suspect absconding into the bay, but lo, this tactic proves unsuccessful.
SF News City Investigating SFPD for Lax Response to Dispensary Robberies, Pot Shop Owners Unsatisfied Tensions are high between cannabis dispensaries and the SF police department, after cops seemingly watched a dispensary get robbed without taking action, but the Department of Police Accountability says it's launching a probe.
Arts & Entertainment More New Year’s Eve Party Cancellations, as the Oasis, El Rio, the Melvins Concert, and More All Pull the Plug The Omicron surge has forced the cancellation of New Year’s festivities for Hard French at El Rio, the Melvins concert at Great American Musical Hall, and more.
SF News Helmet Cam Video Captures Near-Death Tahoe Ski Stunt Gone Wrong, as Skier Nearly Suffocates Immersed in Snow This daring ski jump and flip nearly turned fatal at Palisades Tahoe, and the skier’s helmet cam video is both exhilarating and absolutely terrifying.