Arts & Entertainment Reopened Museum of the African Diaspora Gets Raves for Ghanaian Paintings, Also Gets a Grant From the NBA Foundation Amoako Boafo’s first museum show ‘Soul of Black Folks’ is the toast of the local art scene, plus the MoAD scored a grant from the NBA Foundation, and a cameo in a new Dockers commercial.
SF News One Killed, Another Shot, Another Stabbed in Early Morning SoMa Incident Two people were shot, one of whom died, just after midnight Wednesday morning, and a nearby stabbing may have been related.
SF News Mill Valley Capitol Rioter Hit With More Charges of Assaulting Police, But He’s Still In Belarus A new indictment presents video of Mill Valley hotel heir Evan Neumann punching capitol police, but he’s sought asylum in Belarus, so we’ll see what happens.
SF News Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women The suspects allegedly targeted Asian women exclusively, according to the Santa Clara DA, and had a pattern of attacking women walking alone to their cars.
SF News Walnut Creek Nordstrom Flash-Mob Suspects Once Again Allowed To Walk Free After Computer Snafu In the second accidental suspect release in two weeks, the mere three suspects arrested in the 80-member flash-mob Nordstrom heist are all released, but two of them apparently shouldn’t have been.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Just Became the Three-Point King Of NBA History We have our first look at a 3,000-unit housing village coming to Stonestown, you can now pass your iPhone data to a loved one when you die, and Stephen Curry just broke the all-time NBA three-point record.
SF Politics Breed Announces Another Tenderloin Crime Crackdown; This Time She Must Be Serious Because She Said ‘Bulls**t’ The mayor of SF announced Tuesday her intention to stack the Tenderloin with more cops, with “more aggressive with law enforcement” to end “all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”
SF News San Francisco Remains the Safest Large City In the U.S. — When Comes to COVID Mortality Despite hysterical headlines about shoplifting and overdoses, San Francisco has suffered hundreds, sometimes even thousands fewer COVID-19 deaths than other major U.S. cities, relative to population size.
SF News Dead Body Found at Fremont Tesla Factory, Police Rule It a Homicide A body turned up Monday afternoon at the Tesla plant in Fremont, and something’s suspicious, because Fremont Police have referred the case to their homicide unit.
SF Politics Recall SF School Board Movement Sues Over Democratic Party Opposing Recall; Breed Proposes New Board Oversight The war over the SF Board of Education ramped up Monday as Mayor London Breed proposed a charter amendment that would limit the power of the board, and the recall movement is suing to halt a negative endorsement by the local Democratic Party.
SF News Police: Louis Vuitton Smash-and-Grab Was Coordinated on Snapchat The gang of thieves in the infamous November 20 Union Square flash-mob robbery apparently didn’t even know each other, as law enforcement officials now say the crew was recruited via the disappearing message app Snapchat.
SF News Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Busted, And — Surprise! — Auto Repair Shops Allegedly In On the Game San Jose police arrested 15 suspects for stealing and selling catalytic converters, but more interestingly, they say three auto shops were “knowingly purchasing stolen catalytic converters from street criminals.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alleged Looming Bacon Shortage Has Trade Groups Squealing For a Delay In New Regulations Some claim pork prices could fatten up by 60% when a new California law takes effect January 1, but this may be industry trade groups just hoping to bring home more bacon.
SF Politics Gavin Goes on ‘The View,’ Takes Pot Shots at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Over COVID Newsom told Whoopi, Joy, and the gang on ‘The View’ that “I don't mean this as a cheap shot,” but then proceeded to call out Governor Ron DeSantis over Florida’s COVID death toll.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Impossible Foods Launches Ghost Kitchen Concept With Dog Haus Restaurants Plant-based imitation-meat darling Impossible Foods is getting into the ghost kitchen game, with an app delivery-only concept called the Impossible Food Shop, and an SF location inside the notorious 60 Morris Street ghost kitchen.
SF News Two New SF Proposals Target Resale Markets Where Shoplifting Rings Sell Their Stuff Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Brace Yourself, Scott Peterson Might Get a Whole New Trial The Harvey Milk mural in the Castro has been painted over, Michigan is awash in school shooting threats, and Scott Peterson is angling to have his murder case tried all over again.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Will Livestream Its 40th Anniversary Chase Center Concerts for Free While tickets are still available for about $1,000 each, you can watch both next Friday and Sunday’s “Forty Years of Metallica” concerts absolutely free through an Amazon Prime livestream.
SF Politics Judge Tosses NIMBY Legal Motion Against Sunset 100% Affordable Housing Project The “No Slums in the Sunset” crowd is slumming it today, as their restraining order to stop the project was thrown out, but they’re still suing the city to prevent a 100% affordable housing project at 26th Avenue and Irving Streets.
SF News Amtrak Trains Hits Car in Oakland, Reportedly No One Injured Early reports indicate a vehicle was on the tracks at High Street, and a train collided with it, but no one was hurt and the trains are running again.
SF News SF City Hall Unveils 2021 Climate Action Plan With Bizarre TEDx Talk Infomercial The San Francisco Climate Action Plan is a legitimate and thoughtful document, but it was launched with a curiously branded TEDx Talk that felt more like a low-budget awards show than a policy discussion.
SF Politics Breed Picks Fight With Chronicle Over Alleged ‘Misinformation’ in Shared Spaces Red Tape Exposé After the Chronicle ran a report noting that 90% of the city’s Shared Spaces parklets “will need to be removed or significantly changed” under new regulations, Breed ran to rant on Medium and called the report “misinformation.”
SF News Vallejo PD Moves to Fire Officer Who Shot and Killed Sean Monterrosa Detective Jarrett Tonn was placed on paid leave a year after the 2020 shooting of SF resident Sean Monterrosa, and in the wake of new findings, the chief of police is looking to fire him.
SF News Potrero Avenue Shooting Victim Identified as Father of Three Who Helped U.S. Army in Afghanistan A November armed robbery took the life of a man now identified as Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, the sole provider for three young children, who’d assisted the U.S. in the Afghanistan war.
SF News SF Sheriff's Deputies Can Now Work Security at Retail Stores, in Latest Retail Theft Crackdown Tactic You may soon see legitimate, gun-toting, badge-wearing sheriff's deputies working private security at your local Walgreens, as the supervisors approved a plan to let them moonlight as private retail security.