SF News It’Sugar Abruptly Closes Union Square Store, But New Tenant Supposedly Lined Up Candy emporium It’Sugar has just closed down its Stockton and Market street store, which had previously been a Virgin Megastore and a Forever 21, but the realtor insists there’s already a new tenant moving in.
Business & Tech SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
SF News The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center Will Close Up for Good In March The Bayview RV triage site that’s been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” in SF history has been deemed a failure and will wind down operations in a few months, after blowing through $15 million and only accommodating about one-fifth of the people it was supposed to.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was DA Pamela Price’s Last Day on the Job Santa Clara’s vice mayor has been found guilty of perjury in a 49ers scandal; SF’s broken emergency sirens were useless when for once they were actually needed during the tsunami warning; and Pamela Price is officially no longer the Alameda County District Attorney.
SF News Police Find Dead Body Wrapped in Plastic Bag in West Oakland A gruesome discovery in West Oakland Thursday morning, as police discovered a dead body that was reportedly wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag, in a case that seems like it’s being investigated as a homicide.
Arts & Entertainment The Snow Will Go On: ‘Nutcracker’ Saved as SF Ballet Dancers’ Union Reaches Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike The San Francisco Ballet’s 'The Nutcracker' will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.
Arts & Entertainment Livermore House to Do Battle on ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ Thursday Night Livermore will get lit in the national TV spotlight tonight, as ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” has a home from the Alameda County locale whose display features more than 900,000 lights.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisors Eliminate $10 Million Per Year In Licensing Fees for Bars and Restaurants SF food and drink establishments will no longer have to pay licensing fees for outdoor seating and a host of other add-ons under newly passed legislation, though the breaks don’t kick in until 2026.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Leaving an $876 Million Deficit on Her Way Out the Door, and It Could Top $1 Billion Mayor London Breed’s final fiscal update of her tenure in office shows a budget deficit that’s nearly $100 million higher than it was projected to be just four months ago, and the Trump administration seems likely to yank some already-promised federal funding.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces This Year’s ‘Week After Outside Lands’ Concert, With Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
SF News British Indie Band Arrives for US Tour, Promptly Gets Van Robbed at Gunpoint In Vallejo UK alt-rock stars Sports Team arrived in NorCal Monday night to begin their US tour. Their van was robbed at gunpoint first thing Tuesday morning in Vallejo, but they’re still performing Saturday night at The Chapel.
SF News Family of 18-Year-Old Missing Since Halloween Says Her Body Has Been Found by Police Divers 18-year-old Mai Sai Vue had not been seen since 11 pm on Halloween night, but according to her family, her body was recovered by police divers on Thanksgiving Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Daniel Lurie Will Take a $1 Salary When He Becomes Mayor A woman was struck in an allegedly intentional Mission District hit-and-run; Wells Fargo is selling off its Financial District headquarters; and Daniel Lurie will be paid $1 a year when he takes over as mayor next month.
Business & Tech Tesla Temporarily Halts Cybertruck Production, Amidst Rumors of Slumping Demand Assembly line workers at a Tesla production plant that makes Cybertrucks were told to take the next three days off, without explanation, and the Tesla rumor mill says it may be because of declining sales.
SF News 14-Year-Old Mystery of 4,000 Human Bones Found at Fort Mason May Be Finally Solved Work crews made the gruesome discovery of 4,000 human bones from the Civil War era at Fort Mason Back in 2010. Now researchers think they’ve found the culprit behind them, a famed 1870s doctor who specialized in amputations.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Opening Two New Movie Theaters In the South Bay Santa Clara and Mountain View will both be getting new Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters this summer, as the hip theater chain is taking over two abandoned shopping mall movie theaters with plans to revitalize them.
SF News DA Jenkins Won’t Charge Suspect in Last Month’s Market Street Stabbing A mid-November fatal stabbing on Market Street outside the Embarcadero BART station will not be charged as a murder, as DA Brooke Jenkins says her office cannot prove the suspect wasn’t acting in self-defense.
SF News Report: SFUSD School Closures Would Have Sent Kids to Lower-Performing Schools Some damning new documents have been unearthed that show the spectacular mess that is the SF Unified School District bureaucracy, and how the school closures would have sent many kids to even worse schools than they'd previously attended.
Bay Area Sports WNBA’s Golden State Valkyries Announce 2025 Schedule (and the Games When Caitlin Clark is Coming to Town) The full season schedule for our new women’s pro basketball team the Golden State Valkyries was just released, with their first game in May bringing Stanford star Cameron Brink back to the Bay, and Caitlin Clark coming to the Chase Center twice.
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out: LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Sadly Not Returning to Golden Gate Park for the Holidays This Year An LED letdown for fans of dazzling holiday lights, as the popular LED forest installation “Entwined” will not be returning to Golden Gate Park for the holiday season in 2024, though there’s still a big Holiday Tree Lighting in the park Thursday night.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver In Marin County Drives Ferrari Right Into Richardson Bay A man who was allegedly driving drunk in Mill Valley Friday managed to drive his luxury Ferrari off the road and deep into the muck of Richardson Bay, creating quite a challenge for a tow truck operator.
Arts & Entertainment Annual Alcatraz ‘Unthanksgiving’ Sunrise Ceremony Is On for Thursday Morning, Will be Streaming Online SF’s most untraditional Thanksgiving tradition continues early Thursday morning, as the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island returns, and will be streamed online.
Arts & Entertainment No ‘Nutcracker’ This Year? SF Ballet Labor Dispute Threatens Beloved Annual Show San Francisco Ballet dancers say they're paid at levels below SF's low-income threshold, and they’re threatening to go on strike on the opening day of their popular annual production ‘The Nutcracker.’
SF News SF Man to Be Sentenced In Brutal Domestic Violence Case Where He Hung Wife’s French Bulldog A 36-year-old San Francisco man not only beat his estranged wife for five hours, but also hung her French bulldog from a stairway banister, and today he’ll be sentenced to as many as ten years in prison.
SF News Three Dead, One Injured In Early Morning Fiery Cybertruck Crash In Piedmont A Tesla Cybertruck jumped a curb, hit a cement wall, and burst into flames just after 3 am Wednesday morning in Piedmont, and three of the four occupants in the car died at the scene.
