SF News Dirt Bike Mayhem Swarmed Both Sides of the Bay Sunday; Oakland Store Robbed, Traffic Held Up In SF The motorbike gangs were particularly brazen on both sides of the Bay Sunday afternoon, halting traffic on the Bay Bridge, allegedly robbing a store in Oakland, and creating bedlam in the Castro, Mission District, and North Beach.
SF Politics New Trump PAC Ad Unloads on Kamala Harris Over 2008 Incident When She Was SF DA You won’t see this TV ad in California, but it’s all over the swing states, dredging up a 2008 incident where an undocumented immigrant whom Kamala Harris released on drug charges committed a purse-snatching that ended in the victim’s skull being fractured.
SF News After SF Supes Banned It Locally, Rent Price Software RealPage Gets Sued by US Justice Department Less than a month after the SF Board of Supervisors banned a rental price algorithm tool from being used here, the company called RealPage that makes that tool was just sued by the US Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing.
SF Politics Trouble for Trumper Silicon Valley Billionaires: Project 2025 Is Actually Pretty Anti-Tech Even though some of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capitalists are jumping on the Trump train, the Project 2025 that would apparently guide a second Trump term says that tech companies "prey on children, like drug dealers."
SF Politics SF Police Union Endorses London Breed for Mayor, But Members Complain There Was No Actual Vote Mayor London Breed won the coveted SF Police Officers Association endorsement Thursday, but members of the union are grumbling off the record that there was no real vote, and claim that there’s more support for Mark Farrell among the ranks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cancellation of Oakland’s Hiero Day Leads to Plenty of Finger-Pointing Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema has released its 2024 schedule; three people were injured when an AC Transit bus hit another vehicle; and the cancellation of Hiero Day has many complaining about unpaid bills.
Business & Tech Beleaguered Self-Driving Car Company Cruise Teams Up With Uber for Their Comeback Bid Robotaxi company Cruise currently has its California permits suspended, but they are definitely plotting their comeback, and just announced they’re partnering to offer self-driving Cruise rides on the Uber app.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Secret List of Twitter Buyout Investors Made Public; It Includes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover was largely financed by a secret group of wealthy investors. Those investors’ names are now public, and the list includes Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Campaign Paying Google to Run Fake, Anti-Mark Farrell Headlines on Real News Articles The latest skullduggery in the SF mayor’s race has Google search results for Mark Farrell that make it look like prominent local publications ran headlines declaring “Don’t Trust Mark Farrell.” But the headlines are fake, and the Lurie campaign appears to be paying Google to manipulate them.
SF News Dog Shelter Muttville Gets Power Shut Off by PG&E, Dogs Reportedly Being Euthanized Because of It If you need another bone to pick with PG&E, they cut off the power for the beloved senior dog rescue operation Muttville, and the disruption in electricity is apparently resulting in elder dogs being euthanized instead of getting a chance at a new home.
SF Politics Report: Mark Farrell Took $100K Check From Employer the Day He Became Interim Mayor, Which Seems Not Exactly Legal It is illegal for the Mayor of San Francisco to hold a second job. So is it odd that Mark Farrell got paid more than $100,000 by his employer, just hours before being sworn in as interim mayor in 2018?
SF News Twin Peaks Tunnel About to Shut Down Again for Eight Days, Starting Thursday Heads up, those who ride Muni’s K, L, M, and S lines — the West Portal and Forest Hill stations, and all of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, will be closed for eight whole days, effective Thursday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Bissap Baobab Can Stay Open Until 4AM on the Weekends, Thanks to New Permit At one point last year, neighbors were trying to get Bissap Baobab’s alcohol license revoked because of music playing past 10 pm. But the Senegalese restaurant won that fight, and now can stay open until 4 am on Friday and Saturday nights.
SF News Hayes Valley Building Destroyed By Fire Full of Squatters, Stoking Fears It Could Be Destroyed By Fire Again It was last August when an under-construction Hayes Valley building caught fire, with many speculating that people camped just outside the site caused the fire. Construction has gone nowhere since, and neighbors are alarmed that squatters appear to have moved in, and it could just burn again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County’s Point Bonita Lighthouse Bridge to Be Closed for Repairs Indefinitely SF is getting a bronze bust of Willie Brown that no one asked for; a Tuesday plane crash at the Tahoe airport left one dead; and the bridge at Point Bonita Lighthouse in Marin County will be closed for quite some time.
SF Politics RFK Jr.’s Bay Area Veep Pick Says Campaign Might Soon Throw In the Towel and Endorse Trump The RFK Jr. presidential campaign must be feeling bearish about their chances, as his VP pick Nicole Shanahan just admitted on a podcast that they’re thinking of quitting and endorsing Trump.
Business & Tech WSJ: Elon Musk’s Deal to Buy Twitter Rated Worst Deal for Banks Since the 2008 Financial Crisis The seven major banks who lined up to finance Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in 2022 are still on the hook for $13 billion, setting unpaid debt records not seen since the 2008 Great Recession collapse. Let that sink in!
SF News 31-Year-Old Single Mother Killed by Suspected Five-Time DUI Driver In Santa Rosa A man with four previous DUI charges just picked up a fifth in Santa Rosa, and this one took the life of a 31-year-old mother who worked as a juvenile corrections officer.
SF News Famed Los Gatos Nudist Resort Lupin Lodge Is on the Market for $32.8 Million The 90-year-old clothing-optional Lupin Lodge Naturist Club in Los Gatos has been listed for sale, though with a $32.8 million price tag that will take the shirt right off your back.
Arts & Entertainment Nicolas Cage Cast to Star In Biopic About… John Madden? Boom! Amazon’s new movie about the life of former Raiders coach, football announcer, and video-game namesake John Madden has cast none other than the prolifically over-acting Nicolas Cage to star in the title role.
SF News Man Charged With Burglarizing FBI Truck In SF, Trading the Stolen Gear for $20 Bag of Meth A man who allegedly stole thousands of dollars of gear from an FBI truck may not have realized the value of the equipment, as his charging documents say he sold a $1,500 ballistics vest from that haul for a $20 bag of meth.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Very Strange Statue Commissioned of His Wife I’ve heard of a “trophy wife,” but this is ridiculous — zillionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a towering, seven-foot-tall statue of his wife Priscilla Chan, depicting her in an aqua, sea-foam bluish-green hue.
Bay Area Sports This Weekend Is the Last-Ever A’s-Giants ‘Bay Bridge Series’ Before the A’s Leave Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
SF News Major Shen Yun Exposé: Dancers Not Allowed to Get Treated for Medical Injuries, Paid Only $12,000 a Year The NY Times just dropped a massive exposé on our favorite butt of jokes Shen Yun, but there’s nothing funny about the fact that the troupe is sitting on more than $250 million, while paying its dancers $12,000 a year and forbidding them from getting medical treatment.
SF News 24-Year-Old Jogger Attacked by Black Bear in Sierra Nevada, But Lives to Tell There was a very rare black bear attack on a human being on Monday in Tuolumne County, but the 24-year-old jogger who suffered the attack has since reportedly been released from the hospital.