SF News That Market Street IKEA Is Now Officially Under Construction The COVID-delayed but still definitely happening San Francisco IKEA store on Market between Fifth and Sixth Streets has started building out, but it’s going to be more of an “IKEA-anchored meeting place” (mall) with other tenants too.
SF Politics Supervisors OK $700K Settlement for Police Beating Victim, In Case Where SFPD Is Basically at War With Boudin High drama unfolded Tuesday as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement for a police beating victim, but the supervisors’ charged debate shows that major new battle lines are being drawn in the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Great Highway Food Truck Program Just Got Canned The first-ever Black Panthers Party office could be demolished, wild turkeys are causing a turmoil at a Bay Area NASA facility, and a project that allowed food trucks on the Great Highway on weekends will end this Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Comes Barrelling Back, Kicks Off Friday With Series of Smaller Events Beer Week is back, but COVID precautions will structure it differently, and Friday’s San Francisco Kick Off event is at a Chase Center taproom you may not have heard of before.
SF News In the Wake of Three Highway Shootings, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Wants Cameras on I-80 There have been three fatal shootings in three months on Oakland highways, so Mayor Schaaf says it's time for cameras. The problem? It’s not her decision.
SF Politics An ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Could Be Coming to Your November Ballot Amidst a recent uproar that nearly 10% of San Francisco housing stock is just sitting vacant, supervisors Dean Preston kicked off a campaign to get a vacancy tax on this November’s ballot.
SF Politics Peter Thiel Stepping Down From Meta’s Board, Will Focus on Getting Trumpers Elected in the Midterms The billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir will no longer serve on the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta, where he had Zuckerberg’s ear for years (or held Zuckerberg’s leash, depending on who you ask).
SF News The Gap Is Opening Four New Retail Stores at Its Rincon Hill Headquarters It’s encouraging news for retail that Gap is opening four new storefronts downtown, but they’re all in office space that Gap Inc. already owns, so this won’t put a dent in any retail vacancies.
Business & Tech SF Joins Legal Inquiry Into Uber for Allegedly Discriminating Against Trans, Non-Binary Drivers San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego city attorneys are all digging into Uber’s alleged discriminatory practices with trans and non-binary people who try to sign up for the platform, because the bots feel their names and faces do not adequately match their driver's licenses.
SF News Now SF Has a Graffiti Flash Mob; More Than 100 Taggers Coated Mission and 18th Streets Friday Night It may be an isolated incident gone wrong, or could be yet another new form of emerging petty crime, that “more than 100 people" thoroughly tagged a Mission District corner’s storefronts and vacant buildings Friday night.
SF Politics State Watchdog Dismisses SF Democrats’ Complaint That Recall Chesa Boudin Ads Were ‘Unlawful and Misleading’ The California Fair Political Practices Commission has tossed out an ethics complaint from the SF Democratic Party, which alleged that the ads didn’t disclose how they featured a spokesperson being paid $16,000 a month.
SF News Couple Trapped Since December 6 at Snowed-In Sierra County Cabin Finally Gets Airlifted Out A couple — and their dog — spent 57 days snowed in at a remote Sierra County cabin, and didn’t make it out until a California Highway Patrol rescue copter came for them Tuesday.
SF News Billionaire Enclave Woodside Claims It Can’t Build More Housing Because It’s a Mountain Lion Habitat The fur is flying in the fashionable tech billionaire quarters of Woodside, where the mansion-dwellers argue they can’t comply with a new state housing law because it’s a mountain lion habitat.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Octagon House Price Reduced to ‘Just’ $6.5 Million A GoFundMe is set up for the 49ers fan attacked in L.A., SF Supervisors are again making noise about cutting all ties with PG&E, and the Russian Hill Octagon House has its asking price slashed by more than a million bucks.
SF News Now the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema is Closing, as COVID Continues to Ravage Movie Theaters Thursday night is your last chance to see a movie at the Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema, as the place is closing permanently at the end of the night.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Chef and 49ers Fan Suffered Horrific Beatdown at Rams’ Stadium, Now in Medically Induced Coma A 49ers fan made the trip to L.A. only to be assaulted in the parking lot, and we now know that it was Daniel Luna, who owns a Peruvian restaurant in Oakland and is currently in a medically induced coma.
SF News BART Makes a Big To-Doo Over Finally Reopening the Bathrooms at Powell Street Station BART made a big stink over its new all-gender, shiny new bathrooms at Powell Street stations, in a grand opening celebration complete with a toilet paper-cutting ceremony.
SF News Activists Furious at Newsom for Granting PG&E a Safety Certification, Given All the Manslaughter Charges and Whatnot Critics did not mince words after the state gave PG&E a renewed safety certification Monday, saying that Gavin Newsom “handed a license to burn back to the most murderous corporation in history.”
SF News State of SF Economy: Tech Booming, Unemployment Low, But Tourism and Hospitality Still Screwed The SF unemployment rate is a fabulously low 2.9%, but the FiDi is still a ghost town, and SF’s economic recovery lags behind that of other cities, according to a new report from the Office of the Controller.
SF News Alleged Sham Contractors Arrested for Unlicensed Work in Camp Fire Rebuild Four men who claimed to be licensed contractors, but were not, were arrested after generating complaints from Camp Fire fire victims in Paradise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Boulevard Has Windows Smashed, Suspect Has Caused Trouble There Before Someone in San Francisco seems to have an issue with recently reopened Parisian-themed restaurant Boulevard, smashing its windows with a wine bottle, and on another occasion assaulting a manager.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Terrible Day for Muni, With Yet Another Operator Shortage Encampment fires surged during the pandemic, a sideshow showed up in the normally docile Richmond District, and more than 20 Muni lines were slowed by driver shortages today.
SF News Report: 10% of San Francisco’s Housing Stock Is Just Sitting Vacant and Empty A bombshell report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office confirms what many have suspected for years — that tens of thousands of San Francisco apartments are just cold sitting empty in the midst of a housing crisis.
Business & Tech Free Rides In Self-Driving Cruise Taxis Now Available in SF (But You Have to Get On a Waitlist) If you’re sick of looking at those self-driving cars with droids on top of them, now you can get into one and get a free ride instead — but the program seems unlikely to start for weeks or even months.
SF News Feral Pigs Running Amok in Lafayette, Moraga, and Really Almost the Whole State Pig problems persist in the East Bay suburbs, where the porkers are destroying property and risk contaminating the drinking water.
