SF News Student Shot at SF’s Burton High School, Suspect in Custody A high school student was shot Tuesday afternoon at Phillip and Sala Burton High School near McLaren Park, and is reportedly in stable condition, while a suspect is in custody for the shooting.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Sues Ten ‘Ultraprocessed Food’ Companies, Claiming Their Products Area Causing Widespread Disease The Nanny State is coming after the Coca-Cola Company and other ‘Big Food’ brands right here in SF, as City Attorney David Chiu has sued the manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, saying they’re behind spikes in cancer and diabetes.
SF News Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Ripping Out Its Toll Booths This Month The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge has not used its toll booths since going all FasTrak in 2020, and those booths are now being ripped out, in a process that is also scheduled for the SF Bay Bridge.
SF News Oakland Is About to Get Speed Cameras Like SF Has to Catch Scofflaw Drivers San Francisco has had 33 speed cameras catching drivers going too fast for nearly a year now, and Oakland is about to get 18 of their own speed cameras to be put up at their most notorious corners for traffic collisions.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Christmas Tree Gets Lit Tonight, and Alameda’s Famed Christmas Tree Lane Show Begins Tonight Too The holiday season holly-jollies start getting fired up on both sides of the Bay Monday night, as the Castro Holiday Tree gets its lighting ceremony tonight, and Alameda’s epic Christmas Tree Lane display begins its run Monday night, too.
Business & Tech NYT: Trump’s Silicon Valley ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ David Sacks Apparently Enriching Himself and Friends In White House Role SF’s own right-wing VC billionaire David Sacks was named the Trump administration’s ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ last year, and a New York Times analysis says that since then, his investments have hit the jackpot over policies he helped craft.
SF News Rohnert Park Police Arrest 17-Year-Old for Friday Night Hit-and-Run That Killed Pedestrian After a Friday night Sonoma County collision where a Chevy Silverado hit and killed a pedestrian and then just drove away, Rohnert Park police have found the suspect driver, who it turns out is just 17 years old.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Make Mincemeat Out of an Inept Cleveland Browns Team In 26-8 Win The San Francisco 49ers literally did ‘the Dougie’ on the Cleveland Browns in a lopsided 26-8 win, the Niners’ third straight victory that gave them a stronger grip on a playoff spot, and put them within a hair of the NFC West lead.
SF News SF Supervisor Wants Tenderloin Liquor Store Curfew Expanded Into SoMa Corner stores in parts of SoMa would be forced to close at midnight if the district’s Supervisor Matt Dorsey gets his way, as Dorsey proposes a corner store “curfew” similar to the one that’s been placed on parts of the Tenderloin.
Business & Tech Report: SF Home Hit by $11 Million Crypto Theft Owned By Sam Altman’s Ex While Sam Altman’s one-time romantic partner Lachy Groom was not the person who had $11 million in crypto stolen from his account, Groom does own the home where the invasion happened, and reportedly lives there too.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Grocery Stores Where You Can Still Buy Food (and Booze) on Thanksgiving Day Last-minute, unanticipated needs are sure to strike any Thanksgiving Day celebration, so we've listed all of the major SF grocery chains’ Thanksgiving Day hours, for when you absolutely need that forgotten food item or an alcohol restock.
SF News Killer of Visitacion Valley’s 88-Year-Old ‘Grandma Huang’ Sentenced to Life In Prison It’s actually two consecutive life sentences for the 25-year-old man found guilty of brutally beating and killing 88-year-old Yik Oi Huang in Visitacion Valley in January 2019, and then robbing her house immediately afterwards.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Roundup of SF Free Thanksgiving Dinners for Those In Need Data shows when the worst times to drive in the Bay Area will be these next few days; Rep. Eric Swalwell is hitting back hard against his Trump prosecution; and there’s a list of SF charitable organizations serving free Thanksgiving dinners.
Arts & Entertainment Classic Kitsch Game Show ‘Hollywood Squares’ Roars on Stage This Weekend as ‘San Francisco Squares’ Lacy Camden leads a giant tic-tac-toe tower of local drag and nightlife stars in a warped reboot of the game show ‘Hollywood Squares,’ in Saturday night’s on-stage ‘San Francisco Squares’ where the cash and prizes all go to charity.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Island’s Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering Has Its 50th Anniversary Thursday It was 50 years ago this Thursday that San Francisco’s own annual ‘Unthanksgiving’ started on Alcatraz Island, and as always, this year’s sunrise ceremony will be streaming online if you can’t make it to Alcatraz at 6 am.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Panthers 20-9 In Monday Night Football Game Memorable Mostly Just for Nut-Punch Fight The 49ers easily manhandled a terrible Carolina Panthers team 20-9 on Monday Night Football, but everyone’s talking about a dirty punch to the unmentionables of Niners’ Jauan Jennings’s that set off a post-game fracas.
Business & Tech The Hilton Union Square and Parc55 Sold for $408 Million, Though Were Previously Worth $1.5 Billion We’re just now learning the sale price of a hotel deal that happened three months ago, and SF’s largest hotel the Hilton Union Square, plus the also-very-large Parc55, sold for $408 million, though they’d been worth $1.5 billion in 2016.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: How SF’s Cable Cars Get Decked Out With Their Holiday Decorations The “cable car elves” have struck again, and 12 SF cable cars are now resplendent in holiday razzle-dazzle, though it turns out this decoration job is done entirely by a team of volunteers.
Arts & Entertainment Vogue Theater Got Its Neon Sign Fully Restored, Public Lighting Ceremony Is Next Week Presidio Heights’ 119-year-old Vogue Theater has just had its marquee neon sign fully restored to its former glory, and will have a public lighting ceremony next Wednesday, December 3, followed by a free screening of the 1936 gem “San Francisco.”
SF News Obscure, 12-Year-Old Port of Oakland Coal Battle Could End Up Bankrupting City of Oakland The City of Oakland signed a development deal for a coal-shipping terminal in 2013, and then backed out over environmental protests. Now that’s coming back to haunt them, as legal rulings against their flip-flop could cost the city hundreds of millions.
SF News Proposal to Bring Semi Trucks Back to Oakland’s I-580 Rigs Controversy Across East Bay Semi trucks have not been allowed on Oakland’s I-580 in 74 years, as big rigs have had to take I-880 instead. Caltrans is considering undoing that policy, and everyone who lives anywhere near either interstate has an opinion about it.
SF News Meet the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ Baron of California, Who’s Influenced Housing Battles Statewide One developer in Beverly Hills has become the poster child for the “builder’s remedy” free-for-all in the current housing wars, but surprise surprise, he does not even intend to build the projects that he’s suing cities to get approved.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Hit With New Scandal of Officers Allegedly Taking Video of Women's Strip Searches Nearly 20 women just filed a claim against the city saying that SF Sheriff’s deputies recorded their strip searches on video while laughing, with some deputies even threatening to post the video online.
SF News SF’s Beleaguered Former Westfield Mall Now Actively Kicking Out Its Few Remaining Tenants A very small number of shops has scraped by to survive the death spiral of the mall known as the San Francisco Centre. But now the mall's new owners are reportedly kicking out those couple-few remaining stores, too.
SF Politics State AG Rob Bonta Dragged Back Into Sheng Thao Scandal, With Claims There Is ‘Compromising’ Video of Him A witness in the Sheng Thao investigation claims there is “compromising” video tying state Attorney General Rob Bonta into the whole mess, which may be a hogwash claim, but Bonta has spent about $500,000 on lawyers to defend himself.
