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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giant Holiday Wine Barrel Tree Lighting Up in St. Helena Wednesday Former Rep. Katie Porter has filed for a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend; the long-vacant Lombardi Sports building in Russian Hill finally has a tenant; and the lighting of a 36-foot-tall wine barrel tree kicks off the holiday season Wednesday night in St. Helena.
SF News Woman Who’s Been Serially Menacing Children in SF Parks Has Been Charged and Detained 37-year-old Kim Andrews is well-known to parents and nannies as someone who frequently makes violent threats toward small children, but her four-year run of terrorizing kids may be over, as she’s been arrested and may be detained indefinitely.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Kills Two, Injures Three Others In Ingleside Crash A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.
SF News SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
SF Politics FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.
Bay Area Sports Judge Won't Block San Jose State From Conference Volleyball Tournament Over Alleged Transgender Player The San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team will still compete in the Mountain West Tournament this week, after a judge just refused to rule the team out of the tournament following a lawsuit from nine players over a supposedly transgender player.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: They’ve Got Baby Reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences for the Next Two Weeks for a Holiday Exhibit This is not the kind of baby reindeer you see on Netflix, but instead real, live baby reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences through December 5, and the museum is also bringing in baby camels and baby yaks for their ‘Tis the Season for Science’ exhibit.
SF News SF-Bashing Twitter Troll ‘Raw Ricci’ Arrested for Allegedly Pimping Women Out of His Luxury SoMa Apartment One of SF's most notorious Twitter provocateurs and “anti-crime” Fox News guests finds himself in SF County Jail today, after being arrested at SFO on pimping and pandering charges that allege he ran a sex work ring from his upscale apartment.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man for Fare Evasion, He Turns Out to Be an SF Murder Suspect A routine fare evasion arrest at the Bay Fair BART station turned up a suspect for a San Francisco murder, and 36-year-old Johnathon Calvin Wright was handed over to SFPD and is now in County Jail on that murder charge.
SF News Judge Dismisses Most Charges Against Gaza Protesters Who Blocked the Golden Gate Bridge A big courtroom win for the protesters known as “the GG26” who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge with a Gaza ceasefire protest on April 15, as an SF judge has thrown out 32 of the 44 charges that DA Brooke Jenkins had brought against them.
SF News Lake Tahoe Is Getting An Electric ‘Hydrofoil’ To Speed You Across the Lake In 30 Minutes Time The first ever electric hydrofoil watercraft in the US is coming to Lake Tahoe, promising to be the fastest craft on the water with "hydrofoil wings” that appear to make it fly.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Denies Facebook’s Appeal to Halt Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit From Jilted Investors A multi-billion lawsuit investors brought against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data breach can proceed, as the Supreme Court just shot down Facebook’s appeal in a one-sentence ruling.
Arts & Entertainment Local Crypto Mogul Buys That Banana Taped to a Wall for $6.2 Million If you need more evidence that the billionaires are not being taxed enough, SF cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun just paid $6.2 million for an art piece that is merely a banana duct taped to a wall, and says he is going to eat the banana live on the internet.
SF News Severe Flooding in Santa Rosa Leaves 300 People Stranded Cars were headlights-deep in floodwater in Santa Rosa on Thursday, leaving people stranded at a hotel, while a medical center had to be evacuated amidst historical volumes of rainfall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Extreme Weather Forces Closure of Famed Redwoods Drive, Travel to Tahoe Not Advised The author of an iconic SF stairway book has died; there’s more damning evidence against the San Mateo County Sheriff; and the bomb cyclone is completely disrupting travel to NorCal and Lake Tahoe.
SF News SFPD Arrests Gang of Teens, One of Them Just 12 Years Old, for String of Walgreens Robberies Totaling $84,000 Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price Faces Another Accusation She Offered Lesser Charges for Campaign Donations Pamela Price has been recalled, but the Alameda County District Attorney is still facing another allegation that she dangled lenient sentencing in exchange for a financial contribution to fight the recall campaign against her.
SF Politics Meet Adena Ishii, the Political Newcomer Who Will Be the Next Mayor of Berkeley More than two weeks after Election Day, the City of Berkeley has finally tabulated the votes and determined that its new mayor will be former League of Women Voters chapter president Adena Ishii, the city’s first Asian American mayor.
SF News Famed Leather Bar SF Eagle Robbed of $30,000 In an Alleged Inside Job Someone connected to the cleaning crew at the legacy queer bar SF Eagle allegedly broke in and stole $30,000 in cash and checks early Monday morning, and one arrest has been made while another suspect is still at large.
SF News Good News for Newsom, as California Deficit Slashed From $68 Billion to Just $2 Billion What a difference a year makes, as the state’s Legislative Analyst Office said early last December that California had a $68 billion budget deficit, but now that deficit is down to just $2 billion.
Arts & Entertainment Fur Real: Puppies and Kittens Return to Macy’s Windows in Union Square on Friday Santa’s little yelpers will be back in the windows for the SF SPCA Holiday Windows at Macy's promotion starting this Friday at noon, and the impending closure of Macy’s means this may be the last year for what is purr-haps SF’s favorite holiday tradition.
SF News Mountain View Barber Skips Bail on Charges of Sexually Assaulting Men While They Were Unconscious A 34-year-old Mountain View man may have sexually assaulted as many as 20 men after spiking their drinks, and he’s skipped bail and currently remains at large, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
