SF News Violent Night: Five Separate SF Shootings In Six Hours on Monday Night While all eight victims have thus far survived, it’s concerning that San Francisco saw five separate and seemingly unrelated shooting incidents between 8 p.m. Monday night and 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.
SF News Too $hort Movie Shooting In Oakland, But Businesses Blow the Whistle Over Disruption, Lack of Notice There is no shortage of frustration over Too $hort’s 'Freaky Tales' filming in Oakland, where business owners say film crews blocking their storefronts have cost them tens of thousands of dollars — and they were not given much notice that all this would be happening.
Day Around The Bay: Union Square Macy’s Employees Might Strike Before Christmas They’re building a gondola between two major Tahoe ski resorts, ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford parents may be in hot water too, and the Union Square Macy’s might be looking at an employee strike before Christmas.
Business & Tech Twitter Reportedly Not Paying Rent as Musk Lawyers Up For That and Other Legal Battles Twitter has reportedly not been paying rent at its San Francisco headquarters, or any of its offices, in the six weeks since the start of the Elon Musk regime, and Musk has shaken up his legal team in anticipation of an avalanche of lawsuits from jilted creditors.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Back At Fairmont Hotel, And You Can Book A Dinner Inside It The 22-foot-tall, 3,300-brick life-size gingerbread house is back at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, and you too can make a dinner reservation to eat inside of it, for what shakes down to about a $1,500 minimum.
SF Politics San Mateo Appoints Amourence Lee As Mayor, Yet She Is Now Making Corruption Allegations San Mateo’s week-long mayor-less nightmare is over, as Amourence Lee was appointed the city’s first Asian American mayor Monday night, but she still described the proceedings as an attempted "insurrection."
SF News Senate Judiciary Committee to Investigate Bureau of Prisons, and Former Dublin Wardens Specifically A Congressional investigation is looking into why a regional prisons official and former acting warden of FCI Dublin was able to rise the ranks despite a history of inmate-beating charges for which other guards got fired.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California's Flavored Tobacco Ban The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from R.J. Reynolds on the flavored tobacco ban California voters approved last month, and the ban will go into effect in less than ten days.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest in Fatal Castro Safeway Stabbing From October Two months after a 40-year-old man was stabbed and killed outside the Castro Safeway shopping plaza, police arrested a suspect Thursday who’s currently in custody.
SF News Pac Heights Renters Got $410,000 To Move Out, Third-Highest SF Tenant Buyout Ever The tenant buyout market is at an all-time high this year, and we learn that two renters in Pacific Heights were paid $410,000 to vacate their unit, the third-largest ever such buyout in recorded SF history.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Elon Musk Joins Dave Chappelle On Stage At SF Show, Gets Booed Lustily The Twitter and Tesla CEO bizarrely joined standup comic Dave Chappelle on stage at the Chase Center Sunday night to a loud chorus of boos, yet the “free speech absolutist” Musk has apparently removed the videos of this from Twitter.
Arts & Entertainment WARNING: SantaCon Is Saturday, Though It Will Definitely Get Rained On If you want to mark yourself “Safe From SantaCon,” you’ll want to avoid the bars on Saturday, and once again, some hucksters are out pushing $30 tickets to this event that is actually free and completely unorganized.
SF Politics Ex-DBI Inspector Bernie Curran Pleads Guilty To Taking Bribes To Grant Permits Another one goes down in the ongoing Mohammed Nuru-spawned federal corruption investigations, as the Justice Department announced former Department of Building Inspection inspector Bernard Curran pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks "as rewards for approving building permits."
SF News New Plan For That SoMa High-Rise On A Nordstrom Parking Lot Making Its Way Through City Hall The proposed 27-story residential tower that gained notoriety when the SF Board of Supervisors rejected it last year is back with a revised plan that went before the Planning Commission Thursday, and it generated shockingly little discussion or debate.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Echo Chamber Busy Trying to Manufacture More ‘Twitter Files’ Scandals Musk has another underemployed Substacker trying to dig up dirt on the previous Twitter regime, as right-wing hack Bari Weiss serves up another batch of “Twitter Files” revelations that don’t deem to reveal much.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensaries Can Now Have Non-Transparent Roll-Up Security Gates, Which They Couldn’t Before Today I learned that marijuana dispensaries are not allowed to have roll-up security gates that are not transparent. But also today, the SF Planning Commission removed that restriction for pot shops.
Business & Tech Elon Musk No Longer World’s Richest Man, Which Is Maybe Why a Blue Check Might Cost $11 On iOS Twitter’s vaunted, re-revised $8 blue-check system is supposedly coming out within the next 24 hours, and because of Apple’s App store fees, Musk will reportedly charge iOS users $11 for a blue check instead of the normal $8 price.
SF News Rejoice! BART Is Dumping the $6.40 ‘Excursion Fare’ For Getting On and Off at The Same Station The good news is that BART will stop charging you $6.40 for leaving the station that you had just entered. The bad news is that this change likely won’t happen until “sometime in the summer of 2024.”
SF News Lowell Teachers Pulled Mass Sickout Wednesday Over Still-Ongoing Payroll Fiasco As many as 90% of Lowell High School teachers, and perhaps a third of the student body, staged a sickout Wednesday over the still-faulty payroll system that is ironically called “EMPower.”
SF News SFMTA Makes 16 Slow Streets Permanent, Including the Humongously Controversial Slow Lake Street A full 16 so-called Slow Streets became permanent after a Tuesday night SFMTA board vote, though a dozen others will lose their Slow Street status, and six hours of public comment furor swayed the board to keep the Richmond’s Lake Street a Slow Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Disgraced Belcampo Meat Co. Reportedly Under USDA Investigation for Horribly Unsanitary Conditions Did you ever have that “sustainable” high-end meat from Belcampo Meat Company? Well, some bits of it were found on the bathroom floor covered with ants at their meat-processing plant, according to new documents that have come to light from a USDA investigation.
SF News Sonoma County Mountain Lion Straight Up Walks Into Woman’s Home, Drags Out Her Dog The dog survived, but the mountain lion was tracked down and euthanized, after an incident last weekend where the mountain lion casually walked into a Sonoma County home and picked a fight with the dog.
SF News Great Highway Will Now Remain Car-Free (On Weekends) Through 2025 The current status quo of the Great Highway being car-free on weekends and holidays is now set in stone, or until the end of 2025 at least, as the SF Board of Supervisors voted on a three-year extension of the program.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mosswood Meltdown Names Le Tigre As Its 2023 Headliner The Giants have their first free agent signing (but it’s not Aaron Judge), there are fresh rumors that the Trump family hates Kim Guilfoyle, and the reunited Le Tigre is on tap for Mosswood Meltdown 2023.
SF Politics Supervisors Stunningly Undo Their Own Vote on SFPD Killer Robots, Protesters Disrupt Meeting The SF Board of Supervisors unexpectedly reversed their own vote from seven days ago authorizing SFPD to arm robots with lethal explosives, and for good measure, some rabble-rousers tried to shout down the hearing.
