SF Politics Big-Money SF Tech Groups Hoping To Steer Friendlier Policy Toward Big Money and Tech Groups with generic and interchangeable-sounding names like GrowSF, TogetherSF Action, and Abundant SF are trying to exert more moderate influence on SF politics, with few actual members, but large amounts of campaign donation cash.
Arts & Entertainment SF Public Library Teaming Up With Amoeba Music To Create Bay Area Artist Streaming Platform The SF Public Library has announced that it's launching a streaming music platform for Bay Area bands and musicians, paying artists $250 if they’re accepted, and users will be able to stream and download full albums with just a library card.
Business & Tech Feds’ Autopsy On Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Blames Bank Management, Loosened Regulations The Federal Reserve performed a post-mortem on last month’s spectacular, sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and blamed terrible decisions by bank management, but also themselves and the FDIC for lax regulation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeless Man Released From Jail in Alleged Attack on Former Fire Commissioner The 2023 NFL Draft is underway (though the 49ers don’t pick until Friday night), 10% of SF’s housing stock for the homeless is just sitting empty, and the former SF fire commissioner didn’t show up in court today so his accused attacker is a free man.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Ordered To Be Deposed in Trial Over 2018 Tesla Autopilot Crash in Mountain View Tesla attorneys have argued that Elon Musk can’t be responsible for video evidence of him touting “Full Self-Driving” mode because the videos might be deepfakes, so the judge in the trial of a man killed in a 2018 Tesla crash is ordering Musk to be deposed himself.
SF News Photos: One of 24th Street’s Largest Ficus Trees Has Been Reduced to Sawdust and a Stump What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
Business & Tech Twitter Relaxes Cannabis Ad Rules, Becoming First Platform to Allow Them Twitter made a big announcement that they’ll allow cannabis ads on the platform, but surprise surprise, companies can only do so if they’ve bought a blue-check subscription.
SF Politics SF Supes Overturn Their Own Ban On Doing Business With States With Discriminatory Laws The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who’ve passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.
SF News Video: Antioch Police Now Have Excessive Force, Racial Profiling Scandal On their Hands Video of a Latino man who was not even suspected of a crime, yet received a thorough beatdown from Antioch police officers, is the latest dirty linen for a department already reeling from a racist text scandal and a federal investigation into their possible cocaine distribution.
SF News BART Has Local Kids With Autism Doing Station Announcements for Autism Acceptance Month You might be hearing some new voices on your BART station announcements this month, as a group of Bay Area youngsters with autism are the stars of a new series of BART public-address bits.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Has Indeed Closed, Will No Longer Operate at Haight and Ashbury Despite rebounding from last summer’s shock closure announcement, Haight Street jazz and swing nightclub Club Deluxe is apparently finished for good at its 1511 Haight Street location amidst an ongoing landlord dispute.
SF News SF Art Institute Has Declared Bankruptcy, Looks Finished After 152 Years Saddled with $10 million in debt and with only 41 students currently enrolled, the San Francisco Art Institute has declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the school appears to be liquidating all assets and calling it quits.
SF News Ninth Grader Stabbed at Walnut Creek High School, Another Student in Custody A ninth grade girl was stabbed Tuesday at Walnut Creek’s Northgate High School, and while another ninth-grader is in custody on attempted murder and mayhem charges, a vice principal at the school is being praised for his swift intervention.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom In A Pickle Over Feinstein’s Lengthy Senate Absence Palo Alto High was locked down over the discovery of a threatening message, accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni had his arraignment delayed, and Gavin Newsom is stuck in paralysis-analysis mode over Dianne Feinstein’s continued absence from the Senate.
SF News New Valencia Bike Lane Construction Underway, Parking on Valencia Street Currently Quite Restricted The new project to create “center bike lanes” in the middle of Valencia Street has started construction, and it may be tough to find parking on certain swaths of Valencia through the end of June.
SF News SoCal Defendant Takes Stand In Case of Teen Prank Gone Bad That Left Three Youngsters Dead A prank that went wrong and left three teenagers dead has brought a trial of the man who chased after them in his car, and it doesn’t look good for him that he admitted to driving 99 mph after drinking 12 beers.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Announces 2023 Lineup: Flaming Lips, Indigo Girls, Patti Smith, And More The 2023 Stern Grove Festival announced its 2023 summer lineup Tuesday morning, with the Flaming Lips, plus Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy, the Indigo Girls, and plenty more.
SF News Arrest Warrant Issued for Oakland Police Officer On Suspicion of Perjury, Bribery It’s likely to cause more tension between the Oakland Police Department and Alameda County DA Pamela Price that Price has issued an arrest warrant for OPD officer Phong Tran on five felony counts of perjury and bribery.
SF News Supes Take Up New Legislation Over High-Rise Windows Breaking, Windows May Have Been From Same Manufacturer In the aftermath of this winter’s slew of storms breaking high-rise windows and blowing panels off buildings, the SF Board of Supervisors is learning that many of the broken windows may be from the same manufacturer.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin In Trial of Fatal Freeway Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu In a case that had already become quite controversial before the trial has even started, preliminary hearings started Monday morning for the suspected freeway gang shooting that took the life of two-year-old Jasper Wu.
SF News [Update] 81-Year-Old Woman Being Evicted From Upper Haight Condo Hits Back With Lawsuit In a sad tale that combines predatory lending with the seeming financial abuse of an elder, an 81-year-old woman’s Upper Haight condo was auctioned at a fraction of its value, and the new buyer gave her a three-day notice on Friday. But now she’s suing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City View Dim Sum Has Reopened at New Chinatown Location After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.
SF News Goats Gone Wild Again, Dozens Escape to Rampage Near Fisherman’s Wharf Another goat mob escaped their confines and ran wild through the streets near Francisco Park Tuesday afternoon, though they were eventually corralled using SFPD and a tasty bale of hay.
SF News Two Congressional Reps Call for DOJ Probe Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch Police Department As the Antioch Police Department faces a slew of allegations of wrongdoing from distributing cocaine, to accepting bribes, to having a trove of racist text messages recently exposed, two Bay Area congressional reps are calling for a Department of Justice investigation.
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Plan For Infamous, Rejected 27-Story Residential Tower In SoMa That 27-story residential tower on a Nordstrom parking lot that the SF supervisors infamously rejected in October 2021 had its revised plans approved Thursday, along with plans for a controversial six-story development near Dolores Park.
