SF News California State Senate Poised to Have a Female Majority for First Time Ever While election results are still pouring in, there are enough ‘women vs. women’ primary races that come December, the California state Senate is likely to be comprised of 53% women.
SF Politics Hold on to Your Hat, It’s Willie Brown’s 90th Birthday Today Former SF mayor, ex-California Assembly Speaker, and longtime political string-puller Willie Brown turns 90 years old today, and the tributes are pouring in for the man whose SF political machine may still be as strong as ever.
Bay Area Sports El Farolito Amateur Soccer Team Knocks Off Portland Pro Team in Stunning Tournament Upset We got your March Madness right here — the taqueria El Farolito’s amateur soccer team El Farolito SC defeated the pro team Portland Timbers 2 Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open Cup.
SF News Possible Measles Exposure Reported at San Leandro Restaurant The Alameda County Public Health Department says you may have been exposed to measles if you were at San Leandro’s Sons of Liberty Alehouse on Saturday, March 9, as the troublesome nationwide measles uptick continues.
SF News Cycling Community Outraged as Presidio DUI Driver Gets Very Generous Plea Deal After Killing Cyclist Cycling champion Ethan Boyes was killed last April by a driver operating under the influence, but that driver just got a very lenient plea deal of only two misdemeanor counts, and faces no longer than a year in jail.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Falcon Annie Has Laid Two Eggs, Third Egg Expected Wednesday The restaurant Quince got some powerful new ammo in their trademark dispute with a retailer; an SF startup is using AI to sort recycling; and the Berkeley Campanile falcons have two eggs in the nest, with another expected on the way.
Business & Tech Yahoo, of All Companies, Is Scooping Up SF Office Space In a Big SoMa Sublease Deal Yahoo may be considered a dinosaur among tech firms, but they’re one of the few companies that’s buying SF office space instead of unloading it, and they just scooped up an available floor at Third and Folsom streets.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Wants To Keep That Giant Ferris Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf Another Year and a Half The 150-foot Ferris wheel that’s technically known as the SkyStar Observation Wheel is scheduled to shut down April 30, but could stay at Fisherman’s Wharf through October 2025 if Mayor Breed gets her way.
SF Politics US Congress Targets UC Berkeley With Antisemitism Probe In Wake of Pro-Palestine Protests Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
SF News SFPD Reopens Investigation Into Death of 63-Year-Old Asian Woman, Breed Demands Video Be Released The July 2023 death of 63-year-old Yanfang Wu is back in the headlines, and now more politically charged, as Mayor London Breed is demanding that SFPD release the video of the shoving incident that killed Wu.
SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Stabs His Own Attorney, Then Attacks His Prosecutor, In Courtroom Outburst It was a wild scene at a Contra Costa County courthouse Monday, as a man on trial for murder allegedly busted his restraints, stabbed his own attorney with a pen, and attacked his prosecutor for good measure too.
SF News Four Seasons Embarcadero Owner Reportedly Defaulting on Loan, Bank Might Foreclose You know it’s hard times in the luxury hospitality racket when even the owner of a Four Seasons hotel can’t pay their bills, as the Four Seasons Embarcadero owner reportedly hasn’t made their loan payments in three months.
SF Politics Ex-SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Sentenced to Four Years In Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Corruption Scandal Former SF Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for fraud charges, after he was found guilty of taking bribes and giving phony information on a bank loan application.
Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Event Guide, Featuring the Reopening of FiDi Pub Harrington’s The 85-year-old Financial District Irish pub Harrington’s is reopening in time for St. Patrick’s Day weekend! That highlights three days of parades, parties, Irish food fare, and of course DUI checkpoints.
SF News In Landmark Ruling, Appeals Court Says SF Trans Woman Can Change Her Name to ‘Candi Bimbo Doll’ A huge win for self-identified bimbos everywhere, as the First District Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that yes, one can legally change their name to “Candi Bimbo Doll.”
SF News Crazy Berkeley Kids Appear to Have Set Guinness World Record for Fastest-Ever ‘BART Speedrun’ Seven UC Berkeley students completed what appears to be the all-time record by riding through all 50 BART stations in less than six hours, and they’re being verified to be awarded the Guinness World Record for the fastest BART speedrun ever.
SF Politics DA Pamela Price Accused of Retaliating Against Employees Who Supported Her Opponents While the recall campaign against her just hit a signature snag, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is also getting some bad publicity today over some wrongful termination claims from former employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Return Two-Acre Plot of Land to Ohlone People A stretch of I-680 in Pleasanton will be closed for repairs this weekend; Girl Scout Cookie season is being extended for another week; and Berkeley is returning a sacred plot of land to the Ohlone people.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
Arts & Entertainment ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep Is a Glorious Historical Epic About a Terrible Chapter In SF History 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Far Country’ makes its way to the Bay Area stage, with a brutal depiction of what it took for Chinese immigrants to enter San Francisco in the early 1900s.
SF News Outrage Grows Over Postal Carrier Robberies After Armed Robber Sentenced to Only 30 Days in Jail As robberies of postal carriers skyrocket in the Bay Area and nationwide, the Postal Service is up in arms over one suspect who committed an armed robbery of a mail carrier and only got a 30-day sentence.
SF News SF Exodus Still Reversing: New Census Numbers Show Small Population Uptick Last Year San Francisco gained population in 2023, while most of the surrounding Bay Area lost population, though SF’s fraction-of-a-percentage-point increase still indicates a slow population rebound from the pandemic.
SF News More China Live Drama, as Bank Is Now Threatening to Foreclose Property on the Landlord The tables may have turned in the China Live restaurant-landlord dispute, as now it's Wells Fargo suing the landlord who’d previously sued China Live over unpaid rent, and the bank is threatening to foreclose.
Arts & Entertainment Seattle Indie Station KEXP Buys Up Bay Area’s Constantly Format-Changing 92.7 FM, Starts Broadcasting Tuesday A popular Seattle radio station has bought the Bay Area’s 92.7 FM station (currently known as 92.7 The Hu$tle), and will start broadcasting their indie rock stylings next week.