SF News Day Around the Bay: Longtime Manager Bob Melvin Leaves the Oakland A’s Oakland A's’ manager Bob Melvin dumps the team after 11 great seasons, new city administrator Carmen Chu is already taking knocks for enabling corruption, and Outside Lands is promising some sort of livestream.
SF News Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Spiff Up and Open Under New Management, But Won't Reopen 'til 2022 The beefeaters may or may not be back out front of Union Square’s lux and historic Sir Francis Drake Hotel, as the joint was quietly sold off for $158 million in April, and is undergoing an "extensive renovation" before it reopens.
SF News Berkeley Scientist Sounds Alarm That the Bay Area May Be Losing Its Fog A UC Berkeley biologist says the Bay Area has lost 33% of its fog over the last 50-some years, or “basically three hours per day of fog,” in his words.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Non-Citizens Can Vote in the School Board Recall Mayor Breed gets a glowing New York Times mention, non-citizens can vote in the upcoming school board recall election, and Hertz just bought 100,000 Teslas.
SF News Supes Shoot Down 27-Story SoMa Residential Tower Over Seismic, Displacement Concerns What is currently a parking lot owned by Nordstrom’s at Sixth and Stevenson Streets was slated to become a residential high-rise, but was denied on appeal as supervisors did not trust the geotechnical review.
SF News UC Hastings Reckons With Founder’s Past, Which Is Chock Full of Genocide and Slavery Turns out that Serranus Hastings amassed his fortune by killing some 300 Native Americans and enslaving countless more, but these revelations are not deterring the law school from keeping his name.
Arts & Entertainment Will Golden Gate Park Be a Mud Pit for Outside Lands? We Scoped It Out We checked the mud conditions in Golden Gate Park in the aftermath of Sunday’s ‘bomb cyclone’ storm, as Outside Lands prepares to bring 200,000 pairs of feet tromping through the park this weekend.
SF News Sunday’s Storms Made Gas More Expensive, Thanks To Yet More East Bay Refinery Flare-Ups San Francisco gas prices are poised to hit their all-time high, as the heavy storms caused Richmond and Martinez refineries to experience what they call an “operational upset.”
SF News Hillsborough Heiress, Now in Civil Trial Over 2016 Murder, Unsurprisingly Blames Other Two Suspects A high-profile murder case that produced no guilty verdicts is now in a civil trial, with the accused billionaire heiress in China, but the depositions show the suspects are all still pinning it on the others.
SF Politics QAnon Types Hijacking Los Gatos Council Meetings, Declaring LGBTQ a ‘Terrorist Organization’ Los Gatos Town Council meetings are moved back to Zoom as maskless loons keep revving up the crazy, but they’re also targeting the mayor’s household.
SF News Lowell High Alums Take More Legal Action To Undo Lottery Admissions After already suing the district over changes to Lowell’s merit-based admissions system, a group of Lowell High alumni are seeking a court injunction against attempts to diversify the prestigious high school’s student body.
Business & Tech Lyft Logged More Than 3,000 Sexual Assault Incidents In Three Years, According to Their Own Data While the company claims that nearly 40% of the sexual assaults were by riders. more than a thousand assault cases a year seems unusually high for any type of business.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Effort Submits More Than Enough Signatures, Recall Election Likely Coming The Recall Chesa crowd submitted 83,000 signatures Friday, and kicked off a PR blitz to welcoming media outlets, as it now appears the recall election will definitely be happening in 2022.
Arts & Entertainment Sci-Fi Author Frank Herbert Lived in This Potrero Hill House When He Wrote ‘Dune’ For $1.6 million, you can own the house where Frank Herbert wrote the 1965 novel ‘Dune,’ which has yet another Hollywood remake of it opening today.
SF News In Holmes Trial, Ex-Pfizer Exec Testifies Holmes Swiped Pfizer Logo to Claim They Validated Her Tests Theranos sold Walgreens on their bogus blood test technology by claiming Pfizer had validated it. A Pfizer analyst says Holmes just did a ‘Right Click, Save As’ with the Pfizer logo.
SF News YouTube Troll of ‘Change My Mind’ Meme Fame Airs Racist Tirade on KPIX’s Betty Yu A two-bit Howard Stern wannabe who gained brief internet fame over the “Change My Mind” meme in hot water again over a racist segment targeting KPIX reporter Betty Yu. ]
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom’ Denied Bail, Now Accused of $120,000 Embezzlement Scheme In a story that promises to get stranger every time we check back in, teen sex party mom Shannon O’Connor (or Bruga?), has been denied bail, and additionally stands accused of bilking a Santa Clara-based wireless firm out of $120,000.
SF News One DoorDash Carjacking Kidnapper Indicted on 12 Counts, Other to be Arraigned Friday Morning The duo who in February allegedly stole a DoorDash delivery van with two toddlers in the backseat have been in County Jail ever since, and their grand jury indictments are being handed down this week.
SF News Tree Comes Crashing Down in Japantown During Early Morning Storms The badly needed rainstorms bring with them falling ficus trees, and this one did some serious damage to the Sutter Street sidewalk early Thursday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Netflix Employees Walk Out Over Chappelle, CEO Admits ‘I Screwed Up’ David Chiu’s first task as city attorney will be to take on DoorDash, SF just reversed a policy on asking city employees’ sexual orientation, and the CEO of Netflix admits he could have maybe handled this whole Chappelle thing better.
SF News Breed Announces Cash Rewards of Up to $100,000 for Info on Car Break-In Rings In a new take on trying to get rid of SF's reputation as a car break-in hot spot, business groups are offering six-figure sums for information leading to arrests of a suspected smash-and-grab syndicate.
SF Politics The SF GOP is Bringing Marjorie Taylor Greene to Town The San Francisco Republican party welcomes the crackpot QAnon Georgia congressional rep for their Saturday, November 6 dinner, but her unknown vaccination status may be forcing them to hold the event outside city limits.
SF Politics Real Estate Magnate Victor Makras the Latest Indicted by Feds in SF Public Corruption Probe Another fraud charge has arrived for ex-PUC chief Harlan Kelly, but the shocking shoe to drop here is a federal indictment of politically connected real estate investor Victor Makras.
SF Politics Yes, SFUSD is Running a Huge Deficit — But So Are Other Districts All Over the State The ‘Recall the School Board’ crowd points to the school district’s $116 million deficit, but a little perspective comes from realizing that pretty much every other district in the state also has a huge deficit.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Season Preview: A Return to Elite-Level NBA Dominance (We Think?) With Klay Thompson’s return expected next month and the rest of the old gang healthy (plus Iggy’s back!), your Golden State Warriors are eyeing their seventh NBA championship and tipping off against LeBron and the Lakers tonight.
