SF News Black Marin County Couple Lowballed by $500K In Home Appraisal Featured In New Documentary The new documentary “Our America: Lowballed” details how Black and Latinx families get far lower appraisals on their homes, and one of the families featured is a notorious case from Marin County.
Business & Tech Legal Problems Galore at Elon’s Twitter: Janitors Striking, Ex-Employees Suing, DBI Investigation Into Office 'Bedrooms' The world’s richest man is facing the wrath of jilted workers on several fronts, with janitors picketing the Market Street headquarters, and canned employees lawyering up as their promised severances are not being paid out.
SF News Friday Night Sideshow Has Embarcadero Residents Grumbling Over Lack of Arrests The fallout is still coming down from Friday night's sideshows on the Embarcadero and on the Bay Bridge, as residents complain to local TV stations about a lack of any arrests or citations in these affairs.
SF News Housing Element Drama Update: SF Still Set To Be 22,000 Units Short on State-Mandated Goal A looming state requirement that San Francisco present plans to build 82,000 housing units is starting to hit crunch time, and right now our best-case scenario is stuck at shy of 60,000 units.
Bay Area Sports Barry Bonds Denied Election to Baseball Hall of Fame Vote for the Umpteenth Time Cue up another round of ‘roid rage among San Francisco Giants fans, as Barry Bonds and a handful of other notorious steroids-era players were again denied Hall of Fame induction in a Sunday vote, though Bonds will be eligible for another vote in 2025.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Is Out For the Rest Of the Season With a Broken Foot The 49ers’ Super Bowl hopes got stepped on hard Sunday, as quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a broken foot that will sideline him the rest of the season, and the Niners’ hopes are now in the hands of (sigh) a young rookie named Brock Purdy.
SF News Muni’s New Battery Electric Buses Are Being Spotted in the Wild Look ma, no wires! Yet another new fleet of Muni buses has arrived, so keep your eyes peeled, because you may notice the new battery electric buses as they continue in their evaluation and testing phase.
SF News Reminder: The J Church Is a Bus This Weekend Some serious landscaping and tree-clearing is taking down the power lines of the J Church this weekend, and riders of that line will be on buses, and forced to transfer up until 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Oh Lord, There’s a San Francisco Hallmark Christmas Movie, Premiering Tonight The latest abominable snowman from the Hallmark holiday rom-com machine is the San Francisco-set “A Big Fat Family Christmas,” which premieres on the Hallmark Channel Friday night.
Arts & Entertainment Purr-fect Art Installation ‘Cathenge’ Has Public Opening Reception In Hayes Valley Tonight People are sure to have strong felines over the latest art installation on Hayes Valley’s Patricia’s Green, as “Cathenge” has its opening ceremony and ribbon cutting Friday night.
Business & Tech The Facebook-OnlyFans Bribery Lawsuit Is On, Claims Meta Took Cash to Label Adult Sites as ‘Terrorist Content’ A long-simmering allegation that Facebook execs took bribes from OnlyFans is now a lawsuit that will move forward, as several OnlyFans creators say rival adult sites were literally blacklisted onto a terrorist list.
Business & Tech Reportedly and Predictably, Twitter Seeing ‘Unprecedented’ Rise in Hate Speech Under the Elon Musk Regime It’s apparently open season for hurling racist and homophobic slurs on Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutist” Twitter, and even ISIS is back in the game as banned accounts galore get reinstated.
SF News In Possible Harbinger, Zuni Cafe Has Closed Temporarily Amidst Staff COVID Outbreak Uh-oh, we may be seeing more of this kind of news again — Zuni Cafe has temporarily closed until Wednesday, December 7 as the restaurant’s staff is largely sidelined by a COVID-19 outbreak.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Spitball-Throwing Legend Gaylord Perry Has Died Somebody jacked an Amazon delivery van in the Haight, a Mission District taqueria suffered another round of break-ins and vandalism, and pitcher Gaylord Perry, who has a statue outside Oracle Park, has died.
SF News Huge Booty of Sunken SF Gold Rush Treasure To Be Auctioned Off Saturday in Reno The S.S. Central America sunk in 1857, and 425 people did not make it off alive. But their artifacts have been recovered, and will be up for auction at a Saturday antiquities event in Reno.
SF News Downed Tree Kind of Snarled Things In SOMA Thursday Morning Thursday morning’s inclement weather brought down a tree at Mission and 11th Streets, and that tree pulled some Muni lines and a light pole down with it.
SF News Endangered Gray Wolves Give Birth to Largest Pack Of Pups California Has Seen in A Century Congratulations are in order for the two endangered gray wolves OR-85 and his female mate WHA01F, who just welcomed eight new pups, the largest litter of gray wolf pups California has seen in more than 100 years.
SF News COVID-Restriction-Flouting San Jose Church Wins Appeal for Flouting COVID Restrictions San Jose’s Calvary Chapel gained notoriety for defying COVID-19 restrictions throughout the pandemic, and the California Supreme Court just shot down $217,500 in fines the church had racked up.
SF News SF Public Works Will (Finally!) Clean Off Building Graffiti and Tagging For Free In a long-overdue move, SF Public Works will stop charging small businesses and building owners for having graffiti on their buildings, and instead come out and clean off the tagging for free.
SF News Baby Reportedly Ingests Fentanyl Found In Grass at Marina Park, Saved With Narcan A parent’s worst nightmare came true Tuesday after a trip to Moscone Park in the Marina, as a 10-month-old suffered a cardiac arrest reportedly after finding fentanyl somewhere in the park, and was saved using Narcan.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens On Ice Returns to the Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Thursday Night The Union Square Holiday Ice Rink is lacing ‘em up for the 13th annual Drag Queens on Ice Thursday night, as Donna Sachet and seven dazzling drag queens put on their slay bells for the family-friendly show.
SF News Supervisors Approve SFPD Use of Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong? The SF Police Department got Board of Supervisors approval to use robots as a “deadly force option” against suspects Tuesday night. But at least the robots will only have bombs instead of firearms?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Overnight Temperatures May Dip Into the 30s Retail cannabis sales have been a downer this year, two alleged shooters from a fatal August Muni bus shooting have been arrested, and an incoming cold wave could bring overnight temperatures in the 30s, and will leave Lake Tahoe on avalanche watch.
SF Politics Two January 6th Rioters Become the First to Be Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy Of the 900 criminal charges filed against the January 6 insurrectionists, a jury handed down the first two guilty verdicts for seditious conspiracy against the United States, to two Oath Keepers in a Washington, D.C. Federal District court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Bond Bar (the Former Esta Noche) May Become New Lesbian-Centric Queer Bar The ownership behind Thee Parkside may have a new “womxn and femme-centered queer bar” on tap in January, apparently in the 16th Street spot currently occupied by Bond Bar, which is the former Esta Noche.
