Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
SF News Plan to ‘Lift’ the Ferry Building by Seven Feet Raises Alarm of Ferry Building Operator SF is embarking on a plan to “lift” the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.
SF News New Trees Installed in Civic Center Mark Grand Plan to ‘Reintroduce Vegetation on a Grand Scale’ to Plaza A tiny start to a very ambitious project got underway when Rec and Parks installed a few new sycamore trees in Civic Center Plaza, though this lofty landscape design has been stalled for years.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
SF News Newsom’s Highly Touted CARE Court Has Seen Only 22 Referrals In SF In Its First Six Months Gavin Newsom ordered SF to start compelling severely mentally ill people into CARE Court back on October 1. But now six months into the program, it’s only served 22 people.
Arts & Entertainment Richmond Woman on Verge of Holding World Record for Longest Scarf Ever Crocheted An East Bay woman has crocheted what appears to be the world's longest scarf at 982 feet long, and that scarf’s measurements are currently under review to grant her the Guinness World Record.
Bay Area Sports El Farolito’s Amateur Soccer Team Beats Yet Another Pro Team, Continuing Stunning Tournament Run No beans about it, the amateur soccer team affiliated with the taqueria El Farolito is now the best Cinderella story in soccer, as they beat their second consecutive professional team in the US Open Cup tournament Tuesday night.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
SF News SF Skier Rescued After Outdoor Overnight Ordeal In Lake Tahoe Wilderness A 34-year-old San Francisco man got a little off course at Lake Tahoe’s Kirkwood ski resort and ended up spending a night in the wilderness, but was eventually rescued by a cavalcade of search personnel and a CHP helicopter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Soccer Team Plays Another Pro Team Tonight, Match To Be Streamed Online A block of the Sunnyside neighborhood was shut down over a gas leak Tuesday morning; Oakland and the A’s failed to agree on a three-year Coliseum lease extension; and the El Farolito soccer team’s Cinderella tournament run continues tonight.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Bar Casements Wins Right to Extend Their Back Patio Hours Later Into the Evening The Mission Street Irish cocktail bar Casements recently got permission to keep their back patio open, but only until 10 pm. On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors extended their patio hours until 11 pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends, though with a lot of requirements.
Business & Tech Onetime ‘Law & Order’ Star Says Instacart Driver Shot and Killed Her Dog, Instacart Suspends Driver Late 1990s ‘Law & Order’ actor Angie Harmon is fuming publicly that an Instacart driver allegedly shot and killed her dog Saturday, and Instacart has sidelined that driver while police investigate.
SF News Ambitious Potrero Bus Yard Affordable Housing Project Might Get Slashed From 500 Units to 100 Units As the SFMTA proceeds with their grand plan to modernize the 109-year-old Potrero Yard bus facility and build 500 units of affordable housing on top of it, we receive word that they may reduce that affordable housing component to barely 100 units.
SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill Celebrating Its 175th Anniversary This Month, With $1.75 Bloody Marys And More SF’s legendary steak-and-seafood place Tadich Grill just kicked off its 175th anniversary celebration, and the third-oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US will get sweet and savory with $1.75 Bloody Marys and a “Tadich swag giveaway” every day all month.
SF News Toilet Overflows Into Cabin In Latest United Airlines Disaster on SFO-Bound Boeing Jet United Airlines really managed to outdo themselves with their latest mechanical problem this weekend, as a flight bound for SFO had to be diverted because of sewage flowing into the flight cabin.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: ‘Jesus Ken’ Wins Hunky Jesus Contest as Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Celebrate Their 45th Anniversary ‘Barbie’-mania had one more hurrah at Easter Sunday’s Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park, with a perfectly Mattel-produced Jesus Ken winning the title and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honoring their 45th anniversary.
SF News City of SF Taking Over Lease for Five Floors of the Former Uber Headquarters, May Buy the Whole Building It’s like a 180-degree turn from the “Twitter Tax Break” days, as the City of San Francisco is grabbing office space in the 1455 Market Street building that used to be headquarters to Uber and Stripe, with an option to buy the whole building.
SF News Report: SF Rents Still Coming Down, Despite Rents Going Up Pretty Much Everywhere Else Nationwide The San Francisco rental market is still facing a sluggish recovery, which is great news for local apartment-hunters, as the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in SF is now 3.3% lower than it was a year ago.
SF News Newsom Announces He’s Putting 480 More Street Cameras Up In Oakland to Go After Suspected Criminals A new batch of 480 car-surveilling security cameras are going up on the streets and highways of Oakland, in Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to crack down on Oakland crime.
SF News Another United Flight From SFO Has Engine Issues, Has to Be Diverted to Denver The steady stream of mechanical problems with Boeing jets on United Airlines continues, this time with a Thursday night flight to Paris that only made it as far as Denver, because of engine issues.
SF News Opening Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Restrict Parking Lot Access to Squelch Fan Protest BART is touting that they’re arresting lots more people on their trains these days; the Giants sadly released Pablo Sandoval once and for all; and the Oakland A’s refused to open their parking lot Thursday afternoon because of fan protesters.
SF News Oakland Cigarette Shop Busted for Selling Marijuana, and Maybe a Little Meth A raid on a cigarette shop in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood turned up pounds of marijuana, cases of illegal menthols, two loaded guns, and what police call “suspected crystal methamphetamine.”
SF News Former Windsor Mayor Won’t Face Criminal Charges (For Now) on Numerous Sex Assault Allegations Ex-Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli was accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, but the state AG’s office says they don’t have the evidence to prosecute him, though several accusers’ civil cases will still proceed.