SF News Oroville Nine-Year-Old Swipes Mom’s Car, Rams It Into Highway Patrol Cruiser A nine-year-old in Oroville took the liberty of grabbing his mom’s car keys and driving her car to school, but things ended poorly for the youngster when he ended up in a chase with a Highway Patrol car, which he then rammed into.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s First Fridays Announces Its Return From Hiatus Next Weekend For First Friday April The popular outdoor nighttime street fair Oakland First Fridays has been on hiatus since January, but recently announced they’re bringing the event back for the First Friday of April, next Friday, April 5.
Arts & Entertainment SFFILM Festival Announces 2024 Film Festival Lineup, Including Richard Roundtree’s Final Role The SF International Film Festival SFFILM just announced its 2024 lineup, with an Opening Night feature shot in Fremont, and a Closing Night feature that has the final screen appearance of the late Richard Roundtree (“Shaft”).
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Born Metal Sculptor Richard Serra, Known As the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Has Died at 85 Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed Tuesday in New York from pneumonia.
SF News Tech Bus Trouble Snarled Traffic for Two Hours In Noe Valley Tuesday Night A gigantic tech shuttle bus blocked traffic for at least two hours Tuesday night at 24th and Dolores streets, as apparent transmission problems kept the enormous bus stuck, forcing Muni reroutes and confusing a steady stream of motorists.
SF News Here's What We Know About the Anchor Brewing Company Auction, As It Stands The winning bid for the up-for-auction Anchor Brewing Company was supposed to be announced at the end of January, but things appear to be delayed, and a company rep tells us “a winner most likely will be announced in late April.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jellyfish-Like Sea Blobs Showing Up on SF Beaches The Halfway Club (the former Broken Record) was awarded a live entertainment permit; Richmond taqueria Tacos El Tucán is opening a Castro outpost; and some gelatinous, jellyfish-like creatures are washing up on SF beach shores.
SF News Berkeley To Repeal Natural Gas Ban, Probably Because the Courts Are Forcing Them To After a lawsuit for the California Restaurant Association, that group says the City of Berkeley is going to repeal their ban on natural gas in new buildings that went into effect in 2020.
SF Politics Supervisors Override Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Density Limit Legislation, In Big Win for Peskin With two supervisors likely running for mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors flexed a supermajority and shot down Mayor Breed’s veto of their measure to limit large towers along parts of the city’s northern waterfront.
Arts & Entertainment People Are Putting ‘Free Blockbuster’ Kiosks Around the Bay Area, and Really the Whole Country Retro movie lovers are creating their own DIY “Free Blockbuster” kiosks so people can borrow or leave DVD and VHS movies for free, and a smattering of these lending libraries are popping up around the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 on Hippie Hill Gets Canceled By Organizers, For 2024 At Least The organizers of the official Hippie Hill 4/20 event have canceled this year’s smoke-filled festivities over budget cuts and lack of sponsorship. But considering 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, mobs of stoners are probably going to show up anyway.
SF News Pro-Choice Activists Rally at SF Federal Building for Abortion Pill Access, as Supreme Court Set to Hear Case In advance of the Supreme Court hearing arguments Tuesday on their first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, a group of activists took to the SF Federal Building Sunday to defend access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20 SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.
SF Politics Supervisor Candidate Deletes Claims He’s a ‘Neuroscientist’ After Actual Neuroscientists Dispute It District 5 supervisor candidate Bilal Mahmood promoted himself as a “neuroscientist” in early campaign materials, but after actual neuroscientists questioned this, Mahmood's campaign scrubbed the claim off their website and advertising.
SF News Elderly Woman Attacked and Beaten at Oakland Laundromat, Suspects Let Go and Only Charged With Misdemeanor Despite there being video footage of an obvious assault with several punches landed on an 65-year-old, 88-pound woman at a laundromat near Lake Merritt, only one of the two suspects was cited for a misdemeanor, and police released them.
SF News Friday Morning Stabbing Marks SF’s Seventh Stabbing In Last 11 Days The knives are out in San Francisco these last couple weeks, as a Friday morning Mission District stabbing was the city’s seventh in 11 days, and four of them happened in the Mission District.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Coming Back On? Organizers Say They've Almost Hit Their $11 Million Goal The arts organization behind the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights project says they’re just $250,000 shy of the $11 million they need to turn those lights back on — and this time, cover both sides of the bridge with lights.
SF News Serramonte Plaza Caregiver Fined For Placing People With Criminal Records in Homes of the Elderly A Daly City-based senior care provider called Serving Seniors.Care had been hiring caretakers with criminal records, with the unsurprising result that one of them allegedly stole thousands of dollars from an elderly man.
SF News Oakland Finally Names a Police Chief: Former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell The year-plus search for a new Oakland Police Chief has finally concluded, as Mayor Sheng Thao has named Floyd Mitchell as the new chief, who’d previously held that role in Lubbock and Temple, Texas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 Finally Passes — Just Barely A Swiss company has bought up a large Genentech facility in Vacaville; storms will make Tahoe roads treacherous this weekend; and Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 can finally declare victory by a mere two-tenths of a percentage point.
SF News SF Worker Who Bought VR Headsets With City Money Now Accused of Stealing $627K In Workers' Comp It’s now two arrests in two months for a since-fired city HR manager who allegedly used city funds to buy fancy tech gear, as he was arrested again Thursday for charges of stealing $627,000 from the city through a fraudulent workers' compensation scheme.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Hit Pliny the Younger Releases Its 20th Anniversary Edition on Friday Are you willing to wait in a six-hour line for exceptional beer that only comes out once a year? You’ll get your chance starting Friday, as Russian River Brewing Company’s 20th anniversary edition Pliny the Younger comes out tomorrow, and will be available for two weeks.
SF News SFPD Cop Found Guilty of Sexual Battery Over Marina Bar Groping Incident A jury just found a five-year veteran of the SFPD guilty of sexual battery, over a 2021 incident where he groped a woman at a Marina bar, and brazenly did so with her husband right there.
SF News Berkeley Mother Allegedly Stabbed and Killed by Her Own Daughter While Daughter Was Having Mental Health Episode A 60-year-old Berkeley woman was stabbed and killed Sunday afternoon in her University Avenue apartment, and her 23-year old daughter who reportedly has mental health issues is in custody on murder charges.