Arts & Entertainment Too Short Headlines ‘50 Years of Hip Hop’ Party Sunday In SF From Local Record Label Empire The Grammy-winning SF record label Empire has a local celebration for the 50th anniversary of hip hop Sunday, with Too Short, and DJs Sway Calloway and Chuy Gomez.
SF News Kaiser and Healthcare Workers Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Largest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History The biggest healthcare worker strike in the nation’s history technically only lasted three days, but resulted in a 21% wage increase for pandemic-frazzled employees of the Oakland-based healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente.
SF News Heads Up: A Stretch of Market Street Will Be Closed for Two Weeks, Starting Saturday For the next two weeks, several blocks of Market Street will be closed to traffic, and all vehicles will have to reroute off Market between Third and 11th streets, as a construction project begins Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Overwhelmingly Vote in Favor of Going on Strike Oakland’s oldest kosher bakery is for sale for $1, Haight Street’s counterculture costume shop Distractions is closing permanently, and SF schoolteachers voted to approve a strike by a 97% margin.
SF News SFPD Recovers Nearly $18,000 Worth of Stolen Apparel In Mission Street Illegal Vending Bust Some surprisingly high-end items were being sold by street vendors on Mission Street, as SFPD says they busted two vendors suspected to be part of a fencing operation, selling an estimated $17,880 worth of stuff allegedly stolen from Lululemon and Victoria's Secret.
SF News Union Square Dior Store Rammed With Car In Burglary Heist, at Least Two Arrested A brazen Thursday morning smash-and-grab at the Union Square Dior store was heavy on the smash, as burglars rammed a car into the store and stole a reported $270,000 in merchandise — but one of the getaway cars then crashed and the suspects in it were arrested.
SF News First Suspect Arrested In SFPD’s ‘Bait Car’ Campaign Has Prolific History of Car Break-Ins The SFPD’s ballyhooed bait-car campaign yielded its first arrest a week into the effort, and a KGO I-Team report found the suspect has a doozie of history of car break-ins — and of walking free after previous arrests.
SF News There Were Car Chases Galore on Bay Area Roads Early Thursday Morning, One Involving Nine Teens There were three high-speed car chases on Bay Area highways Thursday morning, one of which involved nine teens in a stolen car. Plus another East Bay chase Wednesday afternoon led to an on-foot manhunt for suspects wanted in a shooting.
Arts & Entertainment 111 Minna Turns 30, Celebrates With Huge Thursday Night Gallery Dance Party The art gallery, bar, and dancehall 111 Minna has survived COVID, a fire, and an ownership change, and honors its three decades of SF nightlife with a Thursday night party and gallery show that’s “30 years in the making.”
SF News SFMTA Ticketing Stolen Cars, Not Checking Whether They’re Stolen Nearly 100 obviously stolen cars are just sitting in plain sight collecting tickets in San Francisco right now, and could be recovered today, but the SFMTA and police department are simply not sharing information with each other.
SF News Richmond Couple Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter In Death of Five-Month-Old Son A 2021 incident at a Richmond hotel saw the death of a five-month-old boy, but the parents were just found guilty of manslaughter after the infant turned out to have broken bones, burns, and methamphetamine in his system.
SF News First Ever Fentanyl Dealer Charged With Murder In California Gets Sentenced to 15 Years In Prison In what may be the shape of things to come, a 21-year-old Placer County man was sentenced to 15 years on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday, the first time a fentanyl provider has been sentenced for murder in the state of California.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired LA Dodgers Bum Steve Garvey Running for Feinstein’s Former Senate Seat A 104-year-old woman died just a week after becoming the world's oldest skydiver, the Castro’s former Tacorgasmico space is now the reincarnated Zona Rosa, and one-time Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey is running for Feinstein’s former Senate seat as a Republican.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Three Chinatown SRO Owners, Alleging ‘Inhumane’ Conditions City Attorney David Chiu has three Chinatown SRO landlords at the center of his latest lawsuit, saying their properties are “a public nuisance,” and that “dozens of health and safety violations linger” at these buildings.
SF News The New SF ‘I Voted’ Sticker Contest Now Underway, and You Have One Week to Vote Ten finalists have just been announced for the new San Francisco ‘I Voted’ sticker, with designs featuring cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge, wild parrots, sea lions, and more, but you only have until October 17 to choose the winner.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill That Further Expands Conservatorship of Mentally Ill People Who Refuse Treatment Just a week after Governor Newsom’s CARE Courts started up to compel severely mentally ill people into treatment even if they don’t want it, Newsom has signed a new law that allows a broader interpretation of who can be forced into what they call conservatorship.
SF News Berkeley Native Believed to Be Among Hostages of Hamas Invasion, His Arm Reportedly Blown Off 23-year-old Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin was at the Saturday music festival near the Gaza Strip that was invaded by Hamas militants, and he is believed to have been taken hostage.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Tex-Mex Restaurant West of Pecos to Close After 11 Years The popular 11-year-old Tex-Mex restaurant and bar West of Pecos has apparently suffered a drop in business since the pandemic, as so many restaurants have, and has announced its final day in business will be Saturday, October 28.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 2,749-Pound Pumpkin Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest, Sets New World Record The 2,500-pound largest pumpkin ever grown in California still wasn't big enough to win the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Weigh-Off, as a farmer from Minnesota drove in a pumpkin that won the contest and set a new world record at 2,749 pounds.
SF News Newsom Vetoes Wiener’s Magic Mushrooms Bill, Haney’s Bill That Would Have Allowed Cannabis Cafes Two groundbreaking drug bills from SF's state legislators went to pot on Gavin Newsom’s desk, as he’s vetoed state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.
SF News Five People Injured In Four Separate Shootings In Oakland Saturday, One Victim Is a 16-Year-Old Girl Four shootings occurred across Oakland Saturday night, including three in a 30-minute span, leaving four people hospitalized, among them a 16-year-old girl. But none of the victims have life-threatening injuries.
SF News Capp Street Barriers to Be Made Permanent, Because Apparently They’re Working to Deter Street-Level Sex Trade The seemingly flimsy street barriers on Capp Street have done well enough at preventing late-night chaos on the street that they’ll be made permanent, though a different design will be utilized.
Bay Area Sports 54 Years Before Getting a WNBA Team, the Warriors Drafted a Woman Player Late 1960s women’s basketball star Denise Long had three 100-point games in high school, and became the first woman ever drafted by an NBA team, who just happened to be your Golden State Warriors.
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready to Rock: Golden Gate Park Legal Busking Program Starts Saturday, Signups Now Open You can hear (or perform!) live music legally at seven designated locations in Golden Gate Park starting Saturday, as the Rec and Parks’ new permitted busking system goes into effect.
SF News Rodeo Couple Charged With Murder, Torture After Bathtub Death of Two-Year-Old A Contra Costa County couple claimed their toddler had accidentally drowned in a bathtub, but authorities found signs of "prolonged abuse," and arrested them on charges of murder, child abuse, and torture.