Bay Area Sports As 49ers Host Vikings for Playoffs, End Zones Return to Fugly-Fabulous 80s Design Jimmy GQ’s first ever playoff start, and Levi’s Stadium’s first NFL playoff game, comes Saturday afternoon with the end zones returning to their old-style red ‘saloon font’ with the massively outdated helmet.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Swearing-In Draws Progressive Icons, Video Address From Justice Sonia Sotomayor Danny Glover, Angela Davis, and the ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ Jimmy Fails were on hand, with Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor beamed in, as Chesa Boudin took the oath as San Francisco’s 30th district attorney.
SF News Academy of Art Forced to Pay $38 Million for Eliminating Affordable Housing The Academy of Art has been more of a mega-landlord than an art school, and the Board of Supervisors approved the clawing back of $37.6 million for the Academy’s illegal conversion of affordable housing stock.
SF Politics Get Ready for the Chesa Boudin Administration — He’s Sworn in as DA Wednesday The Democratic Socialist and son of incarcerated radical activists hopes to change the face of San Francisco law enforcement, starting at his 5:30 p.m. swearing-in Wednesday.
SF News Lawn Mowers and Leaf Blowers May Go Bye-Bye If Berkeley-Style Ban Goes Statewide Gas-powered mowers, leaf blowers, and weed whackers could get whacked as pollution opponents target gasoline-fueled lawn equipment.
SF News Women’s Shelter Gets New Permanent Home in SoMa With $1M City Grant Longtime domestic violence prevention nonprofit La Casa de las Madres has bought a building, after bouncing around the city with three previous moves.
SF News California May Lose a Congressional Seat After 2020 Census The loss of one Congressional seat doesn’t sound like much, but too low of a census count this year would also cost the state hundreds of billions of dollars in federal tax appropriations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Generational Shifts Take Out Chinese Food Restaurants in SF and Beyond San Francisco has seen a higher percentage of Chinese food restaurant closures, as family-owned restaurants watch their next generations duck out of the food business.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Hearing Draws Huge Crowd, Judge Agrees to Consider Case The moms can remain at the West Oakland house they’ve crashed for now, but a final ruling is expected in the next 24 hours as an Alameda County Superior Court judge declined to toss out their request to stay.
SF News Tenderloin’s Philosophical Tire Shop Sign Has Met the End of the Line The always-profound sign out front of the Kahn & Keville tire store will soon come down, as the shop has closed and the sign faces its end times.
SF News A Half-Mile of the Great Highway To Be Eliminated for an Ultramodern Sewage Plant Remodel The sewage facility we once tried to name after George W. Bush is getting a big (and overbudget) upgrade, but will remove a small chunk of the Great Highway.
SF News Christmas Eve Shooting in Tenderloin Leaves One Dead, Two Injured The 40th San Francisco homicide of 2019 marks the second Tenderloin killing in the last five days.
SF News Joyeux Noel Headlines: Christmas Miracle Cancels Out San Jose Toy Money Heist A heartwarming holiday ending in San Jose, a fake gold scam targets the Richmond District, and people are fighting Prop. 13 with walking tours.
Business & Tech Guy Implants Tesla Key In His Hand, Possibly Hastens Cyborg Revolution Tesla fanboys worldwide are surely wetting themselves with fascination as a Utah man has implanted his Tesla key into his hand, obvious medical and surveillance concerns be damned.
SF News Burning Man Sues the Feds, Claiming They’ve Been Gouged for Millions of Dollars After years of large and unexplained price increases, Burning Man is sticking it to the man and suing the Bureau of Land Management.
SF News Italian Police Charged for Blindfolding Marin County Teen and Leaking the Photos Two Italian officers were charged for unlawfully blindfolding and releasing pictures of the 18-year-old suspect, and another officer’s false statements could upend the prosecution.
SF News Pelosi Presides Over Impeachment Day; New York Times Mulls Her Unwanted Legacy The satisfying paydirt of watching the House vote to impeach Donald Trump comes after 4 p.m. Pacific Time, but in the meantime we can agree that this isn't something the House Speaker is relishing. At all.
SF Politics Dean Preston Sworn in as Supervisor By a Blue-Haired Tom Ammiano Preston takes the helm as District 5 supervisor just in time for today’s full Board meeting, but faces re-election again in just ten months.
SF Politics Sup. Ronen Moves to Toughen Up Tenant Buyout Protections With the eviction crisis is still hitting the Mission District the hardest, Hillary Ronen wants to close loopholes that landlords use to lowball tenants on buyout offers.
SF News Fresh Flaws Found in New Muni Train Cars as It Turns Out They Rear-End Each Other The “Fleet of the Future” takes another hit — literally — as double cars are found prone to detaching and bumping into one another.
SF News Oakland’s Sweeping Affordable Housing Plan Has Produced Zero Units in Three Years A 2016 ‘impact fee’ on market-rate housing was supposed to produce $65 million for 160 new affordable units, but so far has not produced one new affordable unit.
SF News Audit Finds PG&E Diverted $123 Million From Power Line 'Undergrounding' PG&E can’t account for what it actually did with that $123 million, which was supposed to be spent on building underground power lines less prone to starting wildfires.
SF News Lucky 13 Survives a Little Longer, but Developer Wants to Triple the Apartment Complex The building owner starts still wants raze Lucky 13 and build an apartment complex, but instead of 33 units, now they want 90 units.
SF News Judge Overturns Six-Month Jail Sentence for Man Who Ate a Leftover Cookie The public defender’s office has successfully undone a bizarre six-month jail sentence for a man who nibbled a leftover cookie after preparing free lunch for the homeless.
SF News SF Planning Commissioner With Revoked Permits Tells Inspectors to ‘Go F*** Themselves’ Planning commissioner Dennis Richards has had nine permits revoked at a property he co-owns, but claims there’s a vendetta against him, and describes it in some very colorful language.
