SF News Day Around the Bay: Yet Another Boeing Plane Has Mid-Air Mechanical Problems Flying Into Oakland Looks like more layoffs are coming at Twitter/X; the California legislature is poised to pass what they know is a completely bogus budget; and more Boeing airplane trouble as a plane did an inadvertent “Dutch roll” flying into Oakland
SF Politics Mark Farrell Wants to Be Called ‘Small Business Owner’ on Ballot, Though His Company Has $100 Million Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell just filed his paperwork to run for mayor on the November ballot, and curiously asks to be called “Small Business Owner” even though his venture capital firm has $100 million to throw around.
SF News More Details Emerge on CEO’s Lavish Spending That’s Imperiled Aquarium by the Bay, Feds Now Investigating Former employees are spilling the beans on the extravagant spending and head-scratching decision-making by now-fired Bay.org CEO George Jacob. He’s hired former SF supervisor Angela Alioto as his attorney, but that may be little help as the feds are reportedly sniffing around.
SF Politics In First SF Mayoral Debate, Crowd’s Jeers are More Memorable Than Candidates’ Performances All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Taking Over a Warehouse Near the Golden Gate Bridge In July for Inaugural ‘Skate Week’ A 20,000-square-foot warehouse near the Golden Gate Bridge will be transformed into a gigantic disco roller rink for the Church of 8 Wheels’ first-ever Skate Week in July, and wait ‘til you see the faux stained-glass windows they’ll be decorating the place with.
SF News SFPD Says New License Plate Readers Have Already Nabbed Numerous Carjacking, Sexual Assault Suspects Some 100 of the eventual 400 law-endorsement license-plate readers coming to San Francisco are already up and running, and SFPD says they're making arrests on the daily with the data these are bringing in.
Arts & Entertainment Sony Just Bought the Alamo Drafthouse Theater Chain, Including the SF Location Sony Pictures Entertainment just bought up all 35 locations of the boozy and boutique movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, including the New Mission theater on Mission Street, after the chain had previously declared bankruptcy in 2021.
SF News Yet Another COVID Uptick Hitting California, and the Bay Area Is Seeing the Worst of It The dread “two red line” COVID test results are showing up at rates we haven’t seen since January, as the new FLiRT variants and a surge in travel are creating another summer increase in COVID-19 cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers' Christian McCaffrey Gets ‘Madden 25’ Video Game Cover (and the Curse That Comes With It?) The SF Board of Supervisors approved Mayor Breed’s controversial police commission pick; billionaire Chris Larsen wants to give SFPD $1 million; and 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey will grace this year’s popular ‘Madden’ video game cover.
SF News SFMTA Will Consider Ditching the Valencia Street Center-Running Bike Lane Next Week Nearly one year and plenty of controversies into the center-running bike lane on Valencia Street, the SFMTA has had enough of the complaining, and will consider moving the bike lane back to the curb side at next week’s meeting.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Neon Sign Will Be Fully Restored and Lit Back Up Next Week The Castro Theatre’s marquee and neon sign will be lit back up and fully restored next Wednesday night, as part of the Frameline Opening Night block party that will also feature a screening of the new Lil Nas X documentary, and you don’t even need tickets to this free community event.
SF Politics Crime Down Both In SF and Nationally Over the Last Year; Breed and Biden Sure to Campaign On It With crime a hot-button issue in the upcoming November elections, both SF Mayor London Breed and President Joe Biden can tout that crime has decreased significantly in the last six to twelve months. But they may have a tough time convincing voters of that.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protesters Set Up Encampment Outside SF Federal Building, But Police Clear It Quickly Is a tent encampment really the best form of protest in San Francisco regarding the situation in Gaza? A few dozen protesters figured so on Monday, but were quickly driven off by police with something resembling rubber bullets.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Delights Folsom Teens by Showing Up Unannounced for Pickup Basketball Game It was a dream come true for some Folsom, California youth who got to watch Steph Curry show up for a pickup basketball game, but a nightmare for the poor amateur guy who was tasked with guarding him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Union Workers Vote Yes, They Would Go Work for the Chobani Guy The new owner of Anchor Brewing says he wants the old employees back, and those unionized employees just voted in favor of doing so, but these are mostly just public negotiations happening via press statements.
Business & Tech Apple Announces Their Plunge Into Generative AI in WWDC Keynote Apple’s WWDC keynote showed the tech giant’s jump into AI is along the lines of a personal assistant with more privacy emphasis than its competitors, though many features are copycats of what Google and Facebook have already offered for years.
Bay Area Sports 83-Year-Old Golden Gate Fields Has Run Its Last Race, Closed Permanently on Sunday The Berkeley-Albany horse-racing track Golden Gate Fields, the last full-time horse-race track in Northern California, ran its last race ever on Sunday as the facility is now closed permanently. And no one has any idea what will happen next to those 140 acres.
Business & Tech Nvidia Stock Rally Made the Company More Valuable Than Apple This Week, But Government Antitrust Probe Looming Santa Clara-based chipmaker Nvidia briefly toppled Apple as the second most-valuable company in the US after a market rally on Wednesday, but the feds may have Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI in their sights for an antitrust investigation.
Arts & Entertainment Big Outdoor House Music Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Returns to Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Ibiza and Burning Man on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream brings back its outdoor, daytime house music party with DJ Lee Burridge.
SF Politics Breed and Supervisors Arguing Publicly After Committee Rejects Breed’s Police Commission Pick With two of Mayor Breed’s nominees for the Police Commission up for a vote, a Board of Supervisors committee rejected Breed’s pick Debra Walker, setting off Twitter spats between the mayor and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, but the full board will have the final say on this.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Ballers Have First Woman Pitcher to Start Game in League History, Which Results In Win Anything you can do, yadda yadda yadda… Oakland Ballers pitcher Kelsie Whitmore became the first woman to start a game in the history of the club’s minor-league Pioneer League, and the end result was a 9-8 victory.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trumpers Descend on SF for Rally, Met by Inflatable Trump Chicken We now know where that Union Square Nintendo store is going to be; San Franciscans are suddenly smoking less weed than they have in years; and MAGA masses are in the Marina to cheer on Trump — but they’re met by a giant Trump Chicken in a prison jumpsuit.
SF News New State Legislation Targets Street Vendors Selling Stolen Goods, Permitted Vendors Are All For It The latest attempt at a crackdown on illegal street vending is a law that hopes to separate the legal, permitted vendors from the folks just selling stolen stuff, and the legal vendors on Mission Street say it’s a step in the right direction.
Arts & Entertainment Juanita MORE! Hosting Pride Month Fundraiser Friday at Saks Fifth Avenue, Has Now Raised $1 Million in Charitable Donations The fashion of Mr. David Couture and the fashion icon Juanita MORE! will hold a free fundraiser for LYRIC this Friday at SF’s Saks Fifth Avenue, as Juanita has now raised a staggering $1 million for local charities over the last 30 years.
SF Politics Tonight’s SF Trump Fundraiser Shows the MAGA-fication of So-Called ‘Moderates’ Bay Area VC billionaires and podcast bros will roll out the red carpet for convicted felon Donald Trump Thursday night at a Pacific Heights fundraiser, a sign of the increasing commingling of political “moderates” with full-on Trumpers.