Arts & Entertainment Mayor London Breed Has a Cameo in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Keep an eye out for SF mayor London Breed making a brief appearance near the end of ‘The Matrix Resurrections,’ and yes, she is wearing goth black leather and high-fashion sunglasses.
Business & Tech Fancy Las Vegas Gadget Convention CES Is Still On, Despite Omicron, and Absolutely Everyone Pulling Out Organizers of the usually trend-setting trade show CES are determined to play chicken with surging COVID-19 case rates, but their biggest brands and keynote speakers are dropping out minute by minute.
SF News 36-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Fatal Skateboard Beating of Homeless Man, And It’s Not His First Time, Either This is the second skateboard beating charge for Joshua Stroman of Oakland, and this one was fatal, making it Oakland’s 131st homicide of the year — the most since 2012.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Central Subway Supposedly Opening in Fall 2022 The Warriors have COVID problems, the SF Gay Men’s Chrous had to cancel its Christmas show, and — stop me if you’ve heard this — the long-delayed Central Subway is supposed to be coming soon.
SF Politics Boudin Wins Guilty Verdict in Fatal Shooting of Six-Year-Old, Critics Still Furious Shooter Was Tried as a Minor It’s a win that Boudin got guilty verdicts on murder and weapons charges in the killing of six-year-old Jace Young, but a loss in the eyes of those upset he tried the defendant as a minor, meaning a far shorter prison sentence.
SF News Napa Good Samaritan Missing for Eight Days, Authorities Fear She May Have Been Swept Up in River Flooding Friends and family of 37-year-old Crystal Lea McCarthy are still organizing furiously to find her, but police have troubling evidence she may have been swept away in a flood after feeding residents of a homeless encampment.
SF News Court Rules Family Can Sue See’s Candies for Husband’s COVID Death Resulting From Wife’s Workplace Infection A new state appeals court ruling says that a household member can sue a company if the company’s negligence brought a fatal case of COVID-19 into the household, and See's Candies allegedly did just that.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bring On the Longest Night of the Year SF COVID cases just doubled in five days amidst the Omicron surge, a dead body on the tracks shut down Civic Center station, and the longest night of the year is underway.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Does Comedy Central Interview, It Does Not End Well The vice president appeared on Charlamagne Tha God’s ‘Tha God's Honest Truth’ Friday, and it got to where her spokesperson tried to cut off the interview, not once, but twice.
SF Politics East Bay Man Sentenced to Three Years for Death Threats to CNN Hosts Who Reported That Trump Lost CNN’s Don Lemon and Brian Stelter both testified at the sentencing of a 36-year-old Bay Point man who threatened to kill CNN hosts, their parents, and their children over the network's lack of faith in Trump’s claims about the 2020 election results.
SF News SF Medical Examiner's Office Gets Its Accreditation Back After Going 18 Months Without a Major Scandal After four years of “missing” drugs, gigantic case backlogs, and some possibly shady manipulation of Jeff Adachi’s autopsy report, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office is accredited again — but only provisionally.
SF News Man With Rifle Causing Standoff at San Jose UPS Station, Police Attempting to Negotiate UPS employees have been sheltering in place since about 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, as a man with "what is believed to be a rifle" was menacing a San Jose neighborhood and is now barricaded in an RV.
SF Politics DA Boudin, Unsurprisingly, Not a Fan of Breed’s Proposed Tenderloin Crime Crackdown It’s not a shocker that progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin has come out against mayor Breed’s plan to stack the Tenderloin with more law enforcement, but board president Shamann Walton is opposing it too, which could derail the mayor's plan.
SF News SFPD Arrests 76-Year-Old Colorado Man in Cold-Case Murder From 1978 Teenager Marissa Rolf Harvey was found dead in Sutro Heights in 1978, but thanks to “advanced forensic investigative techniques,” SFPD found a suspect in Colorado and arrested him for that murder on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Every Single SF Fire Station That’s Decked Out for the Holiday Decorations Competition Dozens of San Francisco fire stations have gone all out to create spectacular Christmas light shows for their holiday decorations competition, and we’ve got pictures and video of every single one of them.
SF News Union Square Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Vendors Busted En Masse This Weekend, Carts Confiscated The DPH and the police spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday impounding hot dog vendors’ carts and handing out citations, in one of the more “victimless crime” crackdowns from a city eager to appear that it's cracking down on misconduct.
SF News Oakland Opens Mass COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Site at Frank Ogawa Plaza Need a COVID test or booster shot fast before the holidays? Oakland may be your best bet, as Frank Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall is performing them free through the holidays, though for rapid tests “cost may apply.”
SF News Breed Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in the Tenderloin Over ‘Nasty Streets’ An unusual declaration of emergency in the Tenderloin over opiate use may win praise for adding more cops and treatment options, but Breed might get pushback for the enhanced surveillance, and who knows
SF News Nuru Takes Plea Deal With the Feds and Will Plead Guilty to Fraud, Plus Yet Unreported $20,000 Bribe A certain “former government employee” and “unnamed developer” should be very worried right now, as Mohammed Nuru is taking a plea deal with the feds and appears ready to sing like a canary.
SF News Landlords Getting Nailed With Huge, Million-Dollar Settlements for Sham Owner Move-In Evictions Two record-setting settlements of more than $2 million apiece in recent months, where the settlement cost more than the house itself, are putting a chill on the old owner move-in eviction runaround.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Schools Bracing for Violence Friday Over the Latest TikTok Challenge The Omicron variant is spreading at frighteningly exponential rates in major cities, Apple is delaying its return to the office indefinitely, and those meddling kids on TikTok are literally encouraging “acts of violence” at schools Friday.
SF News Breed Proposes $400 Million Ballot Measure to Make Muni Less Rickety, Hopefully More Reliable Your June 2022 ballot will have a $400 million bond measure to upgrade aging Muni equipment if Mayor London Breed has her way, but it will need a two-thirds supermajority from the voters to pass.
Arts & Entertainment Keanu Says He Jumped From This SF Building ‘19 or 20 Times’ for ‘Matrix Resurrections’ The stars of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ did many of their own stunts, including leaping from a Financial District skyscraper. We jumped to conclusions about which skyscraper it was, and its actual height.
SF News Cannabis Dispensaries Suffering Rash of Burglaries, Seemingly Indifferent Police Response Your favorite marijuana shops are turning to armed security, high-tech glass, and even AI to stave off a surge of robberies amidst conspicuously slow-footed action from law enforcement.
Business & Tech Waymo Car Hits Pedestrian in Lower Haight, Company Claims a Person Was Driving at the Time One of those omnipresent, sensor-topped Waymo vehicles collided with a pedestrian late Wednesday night, but the company insists the vehicle was not in self-driving robot mode at the time of the accident.