SF News Video: Mission Street Loses Mind After 49ers Playoff Win, But Deplorable Taggers Paint On Muni Windshields The requisite Mission Street mayhem and fireworks erupted after the 49ers’ big win Saturday night, and was rowdy but not violent, though a few Muni buses will be placed on injured reserve.
SF News Bayview RV Lot for Homeless Opens, But Many Resist Moving in For Lack of Electricity Resources The new “vehicle triage center” opened Wednesday at Candlestick Point, but those who’ve been invited to stay are balking at the idea because propane tanks and generators are prohibited.
SF News SF Unemployment Rate Dips to Just 3%, But More Still Unemployed Than Before Pandemic The latest unemployment numbers are encouraging — though the figures are from before the Omicron variant hit — with the unemployment rate hitting just 3% in SF, and even lower in Marin, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.
SF Politics What’s the Deal With This School Board Recall Election and Why Are We Having It? An Analysis Confused about why we’re having a February 15 school board election? Class is in session, as we look at why this recall is happening, whose money is behind it, and what happens if the recall is successful.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seals Apparently Biting Swimmers Near Fisherman’s Wharf SF DPH kind of botched the latest COVID numbers, the high wind advisory returns for what’s expected to be a very blustery Friday, and a couple of swimmers have been bit by seals this week at Aquatic Park Cove.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marin Brewing Company Closing at the End of the Month, After a Nearly 33-Year Run One of the early trailblazers of the microbrewery craze is shuttering on January 31, as Larkspur’s Marin Brewing Company is the latest restaurant and brewery to go bottoms up during the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Giant Tiger Statues Ring in the Year of the Tiger All Over SF Meet all the tiger statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year, as these intricately designed tiger monuments now adorn parks, markets, and museums about the city.
SF Politics ‘Recall Chesa’ Campaign Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Alleged Ad Violations The Recall Chesa Boudin campaign’s $16,000-a-month spokesperson is the only person who appears in their latest glossy mailer, and the local Democratic party has filed a complaint that this is a campaign violation.
Arts & Entertainment FOG Design + Art Fair Is Back This Weekend, But With Plenty of COVID-19 Protocols There’s one annual arts event that’s not canceled in this January of 2021, and it's the FOG Design + Art Fair, which rolls into Fort Mason and beyond from Thursday to Sunday.
SF News 14-Mission Driver Badly Beaten, Eyewitnesses Say Police Let the Attacker Get Away Passengers describe the Muni driver as being dragged on the street and bloodied in the attack, and say police showed little interest in the suspect before merely moving on.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stinking Rose Will Reopen One Block Up the Street, Under the Same Ownership The North Beach restaurant beloved for putting way too much garlic on everything will head one block up Columbus Avenue, and reopen this coming Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House Building Ready to Put New Restaurant in Place by End of 2022 Lands End could have its Cliff House replacement restaurant by year’s end, as the applications are now available for any restaurateur interested in taking over the historic spot.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kimberly Guilfoyle Just Got Subpoenaed by the January 6 Committee An entire Vacaville Noah’s Bagels quit over TikTok, more than 1,000 people applied for just 91 below-market rate units at a new SoMa complex, and Gavin’s ex Kim Guilfoyle just got herself a subpoena from the House January 6 committee.
SF News Two Teens Give Shocking, Detailed Testimony in ‘Cool Mom’ Bail Hearing, Lawyer Requests Delay to Rebut The Tuesday testimony from two alleged assault victims was so damning that the attorney for ‘Cool Mom’ Shannon O’Connor asked for a 16-day delay to rebut the charges.
SF News Biden’s Free At-Home COVID Test Website Is Live, and Now Taking Orders COVIDtests.gov launched a day early, and has not yet experienced any Obamacare-style technical glitches, but many are finding that the free tests are not available to them.
SF News License Plate Theft Victim Uncovers Elaborate Criminal Scheme After Getting Hit With Massive Parking Tickets After getting her license plates stolen, a local woman started getting mystery parking tickets, and then she unraveled a complex ring of stolen license plates being slapped on stolen cars.
SF News The ‘Linkage Center’ at the Heart of Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Has Opened An office building at U.N. Plaza is now the treatment services headquarters of Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, which opened today with hopes of addressing the opioid and overdose situation in the TL.
Business & Tech Tesla Self-Driving Called Out in Full-Page NYT Ad, Which Claims ‘Millions Would Die Every Day’ if Universally Adopted A full-page ad in Sunday’s New York Times declares “We did not sign up our families to be crash test dummies for thousands of Tesla cars,” but the ad is affiliated with a rival self-driving software company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge Lines Mark Opening Weekend at Chef Matt Horn’s New Chicken Spot Kowbird People lined up as early as 7 a.m. on opening day and the lines continued through the weekend at chef Matt Horn’s ballyhooed new chicken sandwich spot Kowbird.
SF News Latest French Bulldog Theft Adds Insult to Injury, as Suspects Return to Steal Victim’s Car A grandmother attempted to battle off armed suspects with her cane, but they stole a purse and a French bulldog anyway, and then found her daughter's house and stole her Mercedes-Benz.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Stiff-Arm Cowboys for 23-17 Playoff Win, Face Packers Saturday Night Mission Street revelry returned to SF Sunday night, after the 49ers survived a bizarre ending to upset the Dallas Cowboys and position themselves for another possible Super Bowl run.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whack Vallejo Councilmember Firing Off Profanity-Laced Emails to Constituents “Weird Al” is coming to SF in June, the Prop I high-end real estate tax hike is expected to bring in an extra $170 million a year, and a dispensary-owning Vallejo city councilmember has been blazing off profane emails to constituents.
SF News Friday Morning’s ‘Bike Bus’ Drew More Than 100 Kids and Parents, and May Start a New Monthly Cycle One dad’s vision has turned into a pedal-powered Critical Mass for kids, as the second iteration drew more than triple the number than last month’s morning bike meetup.
Arts & Entertainment Edwardian Ball Postponed and ‘Twelfth Night’ Cancels Remaining Shows, as Omicron Upends Bay Area Activities It’s beginning to feel a lot like 2020 again, as more shows cancel and postpone, and several MLK Day celebrations Monday are cancelled too.
SF News California Mulls Bringing Back Extended COVID Sick Pay, But Feds Won’t Reimburse A law allowing employees up to 80 hours of paid leave for COVID-19 expired at the end of September, but with unprecedented numbers out sick, California lawmakers may bring it back.
