SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Giving SF $17 Million to Fight Organized Retail Theft The Fillmore Street sinkhole may take up to six weeks to fix, someone’s throwing their hat in the ring for Aaron Peskin’s D3 seat, and Governor Gavin Newsom is rolling in the Brink’s truck to fight organized retail theft.
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Disqualified From Murder Case, and Boy Is She Upset at the Chronicle’s Coverage After the Chronicle broke a story that DA Brooke Jenkins’s office had been disqualified from a case involving her family member, Jenkins took to Twitter to excoriate the paper’s seemingly accurate reporting on the topic.
SF News Social Worker Stabbed Four Times at Tenderloin SRO Wednesday, Remains Hospitalized A 29-year-old SRO resident is in custody on charges of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing employee Wednesday, and the employee is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical’ Brings a Sexy, Sardonic Romp to the Victoria Theatre “‘Dangerous Liaisons’ but it’s teenagers” gets a 1990s jukebox musical reboot with ‘Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical,’ whose spectacular sets and occasional nudity serve a memorable feast for your eyes as well as your ears.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Arinell Pizza Space on Valencia Street Is Getting a Black-Owned Coffee Roaster Shop A second location of SoMa’s Sextant Coffee Roasters will fill the void left by Valencia Street late-night pizza place Arinell Pizza, with an opening date of late next month.
SF News Former Vallejo Police Captain Gets $900k Settlement After Whistleblowing on Badge-Bending Scandal A former Vallejo police captain was ousted after alleging that officers were bending their badges to celebrate fatal shootings, but he just got a $900,000 settlement, and it now appears the allegation was true.
SF News Scammers Are Spoofing SF Sheriff’s Phone Number, Demanding Bogus Fines Be Paid Don't take a call if your caller ID identifies the caller as “SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY,” and don’t pay the $5,000-$10,000 fine they’re demanding for some non-existent arrest, as it’s the latest scam hitting San Francisco.
SF News Reminder: Muni Is Shutting Down the Twin Peaks Tunnel at Nighttime for a Week, Starting Thursday Riders of the K-Ingleside and M-Ocean View be aware, Muni is closing the Twin Peaks Tunnel every night for a week starting Thursday, and the Forest Hill and West Portal stations will close at 9 p.m. September 14-21.
Business & Tech Tech Bigwigs Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and Others Hold Private Meeting With Congress on Regulating AI In what seems like inviting the foxes to a forum on henhouse safety, the biggest names in AI held a secret meeting in Washington, D.C. yesterday to advise Senate leaders on how to regulate the fast-growing AI industry.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Threatens to Declare ‘State of Emergency’ Over Lack of City Police Chief The city of Oakland has now gone seven months without a proper police chief while crime is spiking. Mayor Sheng Thao says the police commission is dragging its feet, so she’s threatening to declare a state of emergency over the matter.
Business & Tech Feds’ Blockbuster Antitrust Suit Against Google Is Underway, Could (Maybe) Break Up Google As We Know It In what is likely the most significant tech trial of the modern internet era, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Google has grown into an “illegal monopoly” for search and internet ad sales that ought to be broken up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Latest Tenant in Castro’s Former Bagdad Café Has Also Called It Quits The sinkhole trouble continues in Pacific Heights, Caltrain walked back their fare increase scheduled for next summer, and the former Bagdad Cafe’s latest tenant Los Amigos on Castro has also given up the ghost.
SF News American Eagle Sues Westfield Mall, Saying Ownership Let the Place ‘Deteriorate Into Disarray’ A new wrinkle in the Westfield Centre drama, as large tenant American Eagle Outfitters just filed a lawsuit saying Westfield management abandoned any attempt at security and allowed the place to go to hell in a handbasket.
Arts & Entertainment Weekend After Outside Lands Concerts Approved by City Hall, Coming to Polo Fields in August 2024 Another Planet Entertainment will have another weekend of concerts the weekend after Outside Lands, as the SF Board of Supervisors approved granting a permit for the extra weekend of concerts starting August 2024.
SF News SF Residential and Commercial Fires Troublingly on the Rise, Fire Department Says Fires in San Francisco buildings hit a ten-year high in 2022, with several big ones striking this year too, as fire officials point out that residential, commercial, and encampment fires are all happening more frequently.
Business & Tech Lyft Rolling Out Feature Allowing Women to Request Women Drivers The rideshare company that once put pink mustaches on cars is launching a new change intended to lure women and nonbinary riders and drivers, as those riders can now specifically request a woman driver in San Francisco and San Jose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Fast-Food Workers Will Be Paid $20/Hour Next Year, Under New Deal A super-size pay raise is coming to fast food workers in California next year, as labor groups just pressured fast food franchises into a deal that would establish a $20 hourly minimum wage for crew at fast food restaurants.
SF News Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Arrives Tuesday, Bringing Celebrities, Street Closures, Traffic, and Breathless AI Hype Some 43,000 corporate types will converge on South of Market for SF’s biggest conference Dreamforce, which starts Tuesday, making a mess of traffic, but hopefully also a mess of money for the local hospitality biz.
SF News Seven Oakland Shootings Between Friday Night and Monday Leave Four People Dead A rash of shootings in Oakland between Friday night and about 3 a.m. Monday morning has left four victims dead, and as of yet, there are no arrests reported, suspects named, nor suspect descriptions released.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Oakland Pride Is This Weekend, With Deborah Cox and Block Parties Starting Friday Night Oaklash takes over a block of Downtown Oakland Friday night to kick off this weekend’s Oakland Pride, while Fairyland gets a FairyProud Pride Night Saturday, and of course the East Bay’s biggest Pride Parade is on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Gets Closer to Approval for Extra Weekend of Polo Field Concerts, Free Downtown Concerts A proposal for an extra weekend of Golden Gate Park concerts the weekend after Outside Lands, plus three free concerts in downtown SF, picked up steam with approval this week from a key Board of Supervisors committee.
SF News City Hall May Revive Gold Rush-Era SF Patrol Special Police, Who Look Like Cops But Technically Aren’t Cops The SF Patrol Special Police look like police officers, but they’re not, and there’s only one of them left. Now Supervisor Aaron Peskin wants to beef up the 176-year-old program.
SF News SF Art Institute Could Be Saved as an Art School; Group Including Laurene Powell Jobs Looking to Buy It A group of deep-pocketed investors and arts patrons is reportedly lining up a bid to buy the bankrupt and shuttered SF Art Institute, a group including Laurene Powell Jobs, and they’d be keeping the famed Diego Rivera mural right where it is.
datb Day Around the Bay: California Legislature Decriminalizes Psychedelic Shrooms Walgreens settled with jilted patients over Theranos fraud claims, the New York Times gave the Tenderloin a glowing write-up, and a bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms is heading for Gavin Newsom’s desk.