Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2020 ‘Hearts in San Francisco,’ Which Hit the Streets Today The new annual batch of Hearts in SF sculptures are out for Valentine’s Day, and we caught their unveiling last night to talk with the ‘heartists’ who created this year’s works.
SF News Jackie Speier’s Revived Equal Rights Amendment Passes House, Has Tiny Chance in Senate The ERA was OK’d by the House of Representatives Thursday morning, some 50 years after it was introduced Rep. Martha Griffiths (pictured at right).
SF Politics California’s Largest-Ever $15 Billion School Bond Ballot Measure, Explained There’s only one state ballot measure on the usually-crowded March 3 election slate, so let’s school ourselves up on what the $15 billion school construction bond proposes to do.
SF News Supervisor Haney Wants To Break Up Public Works, Create New Agency That Just Cleans Streets As shoes keep dropping in the Mohammed Nuru/DPW scandal, Matt Haney proposes making the street-cleaning unit its own separate city department.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Calls Facebook ‘Lame,’ Encourages His Twitter Followers to Delete It Little rocket man Elon Musk set his targets on Facebook over the weekend, though the ‘Friendship Ended With’ animosity on this one goes back years.
SF News Union Square Pot Dispensary OK’d After ‘Private Agreement’ with Suspicious Neighbor Chanel A cannabis dispensary got approval to move into the former John Varvatos space in the ‘Luxury Zone’ of the Union Square shopping district, despite months of opposition from its bougie retail neighbors.
SF News Tracy Mayor Calls for Busing His City's Homeless Off to Stockton Not even hiding it, the mayor of Tracy says “I know they just built a nice big shelter in Stockton” and “get a bus ticket to some of these shelters.”
SF Politics Breed Wants Ballot Measure to Streamline Housing in Wake of SB-50 Defeat The mayor introduces a ballot measure effort to eliminate red tape for affordable housing developments, but the definition of “affordable” is a bit mind-boggling.
Business & Tech Top 10 Airbnb Scams Bamboozling Users Out of Money Across the World “The plumbing suddenly broke” is the new “dog ate my homework” on the often-inhospitable hospitality platform.
SF News Wiener Introduces PG&E Public-Takeover Plan, Utility’s Stock Jumps 12 Percent Anyway PG&E wants to dig out of their problems by just adding some safety experts to their board, but state Senator Scott Wiener would prefer to end PG&E as we know it.
SF Politics Scandal-Embroiled DPW Head Still Not Fired, Possibly Still Eligible for Pension The City Hall director accused of multiple bribery and fraud charges has not yet been officially disciplined, but Supervisor Matt Haney got a nasty letter for publicly saying that Mohammed Nuru should be disciplined.
SF Politics Wiener’s Controversial SB-50 Housing Bill Dies for Third Consecutive Year A 20-hour scramble to whip up more support for a do-over vote has failed, and Sen. Scott Wiener’s high-density housing plan fell short yet again.
SF News Car-Free Market Street Plan Could Spread to Valencia Street, Too The SFMTA chair gave a full-throated endorsement to banning cars on Valencia Street too, though other Muni honchos prefer to walk that back to just a few blocks of the corridor.
SF News SF’s Biggest Landlord Insists It Won’t Delay Selling Its 67 Rent-Controlled Buildings Corporate mega-landlord Veritas Investments is performing a massive sell-off of mostly rent-controlled residential properties in San Francisco, drawing the ire of a few SF supervisors and a housing nonprofit.
SF News Activists Want to Rename South Van Ness Avenue as ‘Dolores Huerta Boulevard’ An online petition hopes to honor the labor movement icon by naming South Van Ness Avenue after her, but the logistics are perhaps a little overwhelming.
SF News Many Bay Area Hospitals at Risk of Earthquake Collapse, 12 Years Past Retrofit Deadline More than 40 California hospitals are well past their seismic compliance deadline, and a group of Bay Area hospitals are at significant risk of collapsing in an earthquake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building’s Members-Only Techie Club Stumbles in Attempt at Liquor License A Board of Supervisors committee delays consideration of the Michael Mina-backed Shack15’s liquor license request, yet the private club is already advertising “multiple full-service bars.”
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Musician and Performance Artist Laurie Anderson Arrives at SFJAZZ This Weekend Saturday’s collaboration with Mike Patton still has a few tickets available, and the avant-garde legend’s other shows this weekend throw audiences a kitchen sink of experimental jazz.
SF News Hard-to-Recognize Sex Offender Named ‘Pirate’ Riles NorCal Town After Returning There A face-tattooed man with a history of rape and sexual assault charges has returned to Redding after being run out of Alaska, and the community is understandably a little freaked out.
SF News Feds Finding Ways to Bleed Accused Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes of $700 Million (If Found Guilty) It’s real deep legal trouble for the fake deep-voiced Theranos founder, who could be on the hook for more than a half-billion dollars.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: Valencia Street Bar Amnesia Definitely Closing... Thanks for the Memories Amnesia’s owners have confirmed the 20-year-old bar’s closure, effective February 29, 2020.
SF Politics Pelosi Slams ‘Irresponsible’ Facebook Disinformation; Hands Out Impeachment Pens As the Senate impeachment trial technically started this morning with the swearings-in, the partisan food fight sees Pelosi take unexpected jabs at Facebook.
SF Politics D1 Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer Announces She’s Not Running for Re-election The District 1 supervisor will be a one-and-done, leaving the seat up for grabs in the November race.
SF News Oakland Kicks Off ‘Homelessness Audit’ In Hopes of Better Managing Encampments One of Moms 4 Housing’s biggest advocates at Oakland City Hall is demanding answers on how many encampments are in Oakland, and whether the city’s $32 million annual investment is even making a dent.
SF News Alleged Drone Killing of Hawk In Dolores Park Has Birder Community Ruffled We don’t know for sure that a drone killed a hawk in Dolores Park on Christmas Eve, but one earwitness account was enough to get avian advocates and Nextdoor gadflies furious at the possibility. Animal Care and Control has yet to confirm a cause of death for the bird.
