SF Politics Mayor Breed Reportedly Wants to Arrest People for Being ‘Under the Influence of Drugs’ In what sounds like an ACLU profiling lawsuit waiting to happen, Mayor Breed’s newest strategy to combat the fentanyl crisis is reportedly to arrest anyone who appears to be “under the influence of drugs.”
SF Politics Breed and Supervisors Heckled and Shouted Down at Press Conference On U.N. Plaza Drug-Dealing This made-for-TV event is not going to look good on TV, as Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors were heckled off their own stage and reportedly had a brick thrown at them at a Tuesday joint press conference on drug dealing at U.N. Plaza.
SF News Oakland’s Homelessness-Focused Newspaper Street Spirit to Cease Publication After Losing Funding The 28-year-old Oakland newspaper Street Spirit, which chronicles homelessness issues and is sold by unhoused vendors, will publish its last issue on June 1 because they’ve lost their nonprofit funding.
SF News State Assembly Passes Bill To Undo ‘People As Pollution’ Ruling That Halted People's Park Development After a February appeals court ruling stopped the development of UC Berkeley’s controversial People’s Park housing complex, East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks has a bill cruising through Sacramento that could reverse that decision.
SF Politics London Breed’s Poll Numbers Are in the Dumps, 60% Disapprove of Job She’s Doing Some terrible poll numbers for SF Mayor London Breed as she sits 18 months from Election Day 2024, as a new poll has her with just a 36% approval rating, while 60% disapprove of her performance.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supreme Court Upholds California Foie Gras Ban Sorry, fans of the deliciously fatty foie gras, but the U.S Supreme Court upheld the California ban on foie gras in a case that’s been bouncing through the courts for more than ten years.
SF Politics Rep. Barbara Lee Joins Chorus of People Calling for More Seats to Be Added to Supreme Court As she runs for the U.S. Senate, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee joined a rally on Sunday calling for four more seats to be added to the Trump-heavy Supreme Court.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 2023 Bay to Breakers Monkeyshines Shine Through On a Foggy, Gray Sunday Foggy conditions would not stop more than 17,000 runners, walkers, and costumed jokers from the annual Bay to Breakers traditions of racing, partying, and the occasional naked keg stand.
SF News California Cops Worried That New ‘Fast & Furious’ Sequel Will Cause More Sideshows The City of Oakland just passed stricter new sideshow crackdown legislation, but some law enforcement authorities wonder if the new movie Fast X isn’t going to just set off more sideshows all over the state this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Bay Area Children’s Theatre Abruptly Closes After 19 Years of Performances for Kids The pandemic-era economic challenges to the theater business apparently also apply to children’s theater, as the Bay Area Children’s Theatre announced its sudden closure this week after nearly 20 years of performances.
SF News Florida Woman Extradited To Bay Area Over Odd Accidental Death of Kim Kardashian Look-Alike A silicone enhancement injection in a Burlingame hotel room that went very wrong took the life of a 34-year-old Kim Kardashian look-alike model, and the Florida woman who allegedly administered the fatal injection is being extradited back to San Mateo County to face charges.
SF News North Beach Restaurant American Bites Facing Backlash After Hosting Virulent Anti-Trans Event A Soleil Ho opinion piece in the Chronicle brought attention to an anti-trans dinner party at a North Beach restaurant, but now the restaurant itself is getting a barrage of bad press and one-star Yelp reviews for hosting the event.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Super Bowl Appears To Be Coming Back to Levi’s Stadium, For Better Or Worse West side supervisors are not happy about this expanded Outside Lands idea, Rep. Swalwell got a death threat from a former 49er, but the 49ers appear to have just scored the 2026 Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium.
Arts & Entertainment Your Bay to Breakers Guide To Drinking and Partying During the Run Our Bay to Breakers liquor store map is back for 2023, along with tips on navigating the enforcement hotspots where you run the risk of getting your booze confiscated, and which parts of town will be gated off to keep the drunken runners out.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Hands Big Tech a Big Win In Content Moderation Cases Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.
SF News Accused Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Found Guilty On Nine Counts After a trial where more than a dozen women described encounters of being grabbed, groped, or kissed by suspect Bill Gene Hobbs, Hobbs was found guilty Wednesday afternoon on eight misdemeanor counts and one felony.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bissap Baobab Wins Fight With NIMBY Condo Neighbors, Gets Alcohol License The Mission Street neighbors of Bissap Baobab failed to block the Senegalese restaurant and nightclub’s beer and wine license, as the state ABC ruled that Bissap Baobab has done more than adequate soundproofing work.
SF News Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bayview Is Getting a New Farmers' Market Starting June 1 A new farmers market hopes to change the Bayview District’s reputation as a food desert, as food justice nonprofit Dragonspunk is coming to Evans Avenue on June 1, and will run every Thursday going forward.
Arts & Entertainment Tupac Shakur Getting A Street Named After Him In Oakland Near Lake Merritt All eyes will be on a block of MacArthur Boulevard north of Lake Merritt, as the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to rename a block of that street “Tupac Shakur Way.”
SF Politics California Lawmakers Reluctant To Impose Harsher Fentanyl Laws State legislators in Sacramento have passed plenty of bills on fentanyl treatment and recovery services, but the bills intended to punish dealers and users of the drug have stalled.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein Reportedly Forgot She’s Been Absent From the Senate for Months The summertime “free movies in the park” schedule has dropped, a former BART cop is losing his job over a racist video, and Dianne Feinstein apparently forgot that she’d been missing from the Senate for nearly three months.
Arts & Entertainment Woohoo! Bay to Breakers No Longer Being Organized By Right-Wing MAGA Group Last year’s Bay to Breakers was marred by revelations that organizer Capstone Event Group gave donations to Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but new local organizers have taken over operation of this year’s race.
SF News Poll: One-Third of SF Small Businesses Hit By Crime Multiple Times Last Year A new poll from the Office of Small Business says that a third of SF small businesses were not just victims of crime, but victims of crime between two and ten times last year.
SF Politics Big-Money Tech Group Launches Bizarre Ad Campaign Making Sarcastic Jokes About Fentanyl Crisis A new-ish, tech-funded political advocacy group is putting flippant “That’s Fentalife!” ads across town, hoping that sardonic jokes about the fentanyl crisis will get people angrier at SF elected officials.
