SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese May File For Bankruptcy Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits The Diocese of Oakland is trying to get ahead of what appears to be around 330 looming clergy sexual abuse lawsuits, announcing they may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which critics say is just a tactic to avoid testifying and paying damages.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergio Romo Signs Symbolic Contract, Will Retire as A Giant PG&E admits Tuesday’s outages were the worst in nearly 30 years, the 4/20 Hippie Hill party announced its 2023 plans, and Sergio Romo, who famously wore an “I just look illegal” t-shirt in a championship parade, will retire as a San Francisco Giant.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Cult Hero ‘Sister Jean’ Was Born And Raised Right Here in San Francisco The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is underway, and it turns out that the 103-year-old nun who’s become the tournament’s unofficial Cinderella-team mascot, Sister Jean Schmidt, grew up here in San Francisco.
SF News Central Subway Ridership Already Declining, Barely Two Months After Fully Opening We have two months of ridership data on the new Central Subway, and the second month saw a notable decline in riders — and stunningly, only about 300 people are using the Yerba Buena/Moscone Station on average each day.
SF News It’s the Three-Year Anniversary of Our COVID-19 Lockdown, San Francisco On the three-year anniversary of the Bay Area’s stunning shelter-in-place announcement, which would be duplicated within days around much of the country, we look back on these three bad years, and the order that was originally only supposed to last for three weeks.
SF News Condo Neighbors and Bissap Baobab Wrangle In Eight-Hour Hearing at State ABC The new, big Bissap Baobab was hauled before the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for eight hours on Wednesday, as condo neighbors are trying to deny the restaurant and bar’s beer and wine license — essentially put it out of business — over NIMBY noise complaints.
Arts & Entertainment The Cure Tickets Went On Sale Today, and It Was A Ticketmaster Disaster The Cure had hoped to make tickets affordable for their first U.S. tour in seven years. But Ticketmaster’s gonna Ticketmaster, so fees sometimes exceeded the price of tickets, and many fans were still left empty-handed.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Approve Reparations Draft Document; SF NAACP Comes Out Against $5 Million Payments The SF NAACP came out on record against the proposed $5 million per Black SF resident proposal in the current list of reparations recommendations, and the Board of Supervisors approved a draft of that document that won’t be finalized until September.
Business & Tech Report: Ron Conway Was Among Venture Capitalists Begging For Silicon Valley Bank Bailout The “small-government libertarians” got their big government bailout this past Sunday, and as observers slag the hypocrisy of founders and VCs who oppose safety nets for everyone else, we learn that local mayor whisperer Ron Conway was helping pull strings to get the bailout.
SF News Car Catches Fire at SFO Parking Lot, Which Then Spreads to Multiple Cars One car caught fire at the SF International Airport parking lot Wednesday morning, which quickly spread to three cars, though flights and schedules were not affected and no one was injured.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Winds Knock Over Big Rig On Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Reddit has been down for several hours Tuesday, Muni riders seem to be skipping fare more than ever, and a semi that got overturned by wind gusts closed down traffic on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for about three hours.
SF News Allegations of SF Fire Department Assault and Cover-Up Roil Department There had been rumors about an SF firefighter attacking another with a wrench last year, and now there’s a lawsuit from the alleged victim saying the SF Fire Department interfered with the criminal investigation, and took away the accuser's healthcare when he refused to drop the charges.
Business & Tech Appeals Court Upholds Prop. 22 Gig Worker Law, But It’s Still Likely Headed To State Supreme Court A big win for Uber and Lyft to not treat their drivers as employees, as a state appeals court has upheld the Prop. 22 law exempting rideshare companies from minimum wage and overtime rules, but this thing’s expected to go to the state Supreme Court.
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Waiving the First Year of Parklet Permit Fees Bars, restaurants, and other businesses will have to pay permit fees for their “shared spaces” parklets starting April 1, but Supervisor Ahsha Safai wants to eliminate that few-thousand dollar fee before it goes into effect.
Business & Tech Meta Laying Off Another 10,000 Employees, Or 13% Of Workforce It’s another 10,000 layoffs at Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, on top of the 11,000 layoffs from November, as their pandemic growth hangover collides with bad bets on Web3 and metaverse boondoggles.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Headed to the Raiders; Artist ‘Drawing Jimmy G Every Day’ Will Stop Drawing Jimmy G The Jimmy Garoppolo era is officially over in San Francisco, and a cult-hit fan artist “Drawing Jimmy G every day until he gets traded” has also declared her project is drawing to a close.
SF News Apartment Shootout In Brentwood Leaves Alleged Gunman And Possible Hostage Victim Injured What was a suspected hostage incident Sunday night in Brentwood has left both the alleged hostage-taker and the victim hospitalized, after a confrontation led to gunfire exchange with the police.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank In Huge Trouble As Shares Collapse By More Than 70%, Trading Halted The feared “contagion” from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse has now spread to banks whose branches and ATMs you see around San Francisco, as the SF-based First Republic Bank tanked in the markets over bank-run fears.
SF News Stormy Turbulence Forced Several SFO and San Jose Flights to Be Rerouted Thursday Night The unfriendly skies during Thursday night’s atmospheric river storm limited arrivals at the San Francisco and San Jose airports, causing some impromptu detours to Oakland.
SF News Floods Force Road Closures Across Bay Area; Ducks Were Swimming On I-580 In Oakland The latest round of storms have left flooded roads that have stranded hundreds in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with flood advisories in effect for several Bay Area counties, and a flooded I-580 in Oakland was taken over by a paddling of ducks.
SF News City Attorney Sues Company Behind Workplace Posters That He Says Falsely Impersonate the Government SF City Attorney David Chiu has brought a lawsuit against a company he says is “impersonating government actors” and forcing small businesses to buy bogus workplace compliance posters and threatening $37,000 fines if they don't.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entwined LED Forest Has Its Closing Party Canceled Over Weather The Cure is coming to the Bay Area in May, the 49ers laid off a bunch of longtime stadium staffers while making some dubious revenue claims, and the big Saturday night closing party for the LED forest Entwined has been canceled because of the rainy weather.
SF Politics Rupert Murdoch Rips Kim Guilfoyle In Leaked Fox News Text, Also Gets Her Name Wrong As more bombshell leaked texts come out in the Fox News-Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, we see one where Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch declared that Kimberley Guilfoyle is “not good people!”, though he gets her name wrong.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Based 'Weird Al' Yankovic-Themed Burlesque Group Is Making a Documentary, Will ‘Bare To Be Stupid’ “The world's first and only all Weird Al themed burlesque troupe” Tight and Nerdy was founded here in San Francisco, and after a slew of sold-out shows, they’re crowdfunding a full-length feature documentary about their troupe called “Showgals.”
SF News Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Stabbed And Killed In His Own Lake Merritt Apartment Building We now have more information on a bizarre fatal stabbing near Lake Merritt this past weekend, and the victim was Curtis Marsh, a 53-year-old member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and occasional drag performer.
