Bay Area Sports NBA Wants Caitlin Clark in SF for All-Star Weekend Competition, But She’s Reportedly ‘Disinclined’ to Participate Last year’s NBA All-Star Weekend had a huge hit with Steph Curry participating in a “man vs woman” three-point shooting contest. The NBA wants Caitlin Clark in a similar competition this year in SF, but Clark’s not feeling it.
SF News Lurie Holds City Hall Rally to Push His Fentanyl Emergency Order, Which Seems to Have the Votes to Pass Mayor Lurie’s Wednesday morning rally to support his fentanyl measure had more supporters lined up onstage than it had people in attendance, but more importantly, Lurie appears to have enough SF supervisor support to pass his measure next week.
SF News After Being Shot Seven Times Monday Night, Vapor Room Dispensary Owner Conscious and Speaking Vapor Room dispensary owner Martin Olive was shot seven times in Monday night’s SoMa melee that led to a police stand-off and the fatal shooting of his alleged assailant, but a few accounts from his friends say Olive is speaking and “in good spirits.”
SF Politics Alameda County Has a New District Attorney: Judge Ursula Jones Dickson While she’ll only serve as interim DA for potentially two years, current Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ursula Jones Dickson will now take over for Pamela Price after the November recall, and recall crowd favorite Annie Esposito will be her second in command.
Arts & Entertainment Cole Valley Is Your Newest Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ After Board of Supervisors Approval The to-go cocktails will be flowing on a few Cole Valley sidewalks during street-closure events, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made that neighborhood SF’s newest “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell to-go drinks during fairs and night markets.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Warriors Are Retiring Andre Iguodala's No. 9 Jersey Google is capitulating to Trump on the Gulf of Mexico moniker; Scott Wiener wants to let insurance policyholders sue Big Oil companies for climate change; and Andre Iguodala’s jersey is being retired to the Chase Center rafters.
Arts & Entertainment Anh Phoong Having a Contest Where You Can Design Her Next Billboard If you think there’s “something wrong” with Anh Phoong’s ubiquitous billboards, here’s your chance to design a new billboard for the Phoong Law Corp, and win as much as $500 in prize money.
SF News City Hall Rallies After at Least Five ICE Operations Were Attempted (and Apparently Failed) In SF The rumors appear to be true that ICE agents tried at least five detention operations in San Francisco over the last few days, but were apparently turned away, and a who’s-who of SF City Hall officials rallied against this Tuesday morning.
SF Politics AG Rob Bonta Facing Questions After Taking Campaign Donations From Casino His Office Was Investigating State Attorney General Rob Bonta took a $16,000 contribution from a Southern California casino in his first month on the job. The problem? His office was investigating that casino for money laundering at the time, and the charges have since disappeared.
SF News Scott Wiener Says That ICE Was In ‘Downtown SF Office Buildings’ as Part of Mass Deportation Operations Details are scarce, but state Senator Scott Wiener claimed today that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were investigating SF office building employees Friday as part of President Trump’s mass deportation sweeps.
SF News SF’s Speed Cameras Are Now Coming In March, But Ad Campaign For Them Already Gearing Up The new San Francisco speed monitoring cameras have been in the works for about a year and a half, and they’re supposedly going to finally arrive in March, with a billboard and online ad campaign going live now to announce their arrival.
SF News ICE Agents Confirmed to Be Carrying Out Operations Sunday In San Jose, Rumored to Be Back on Monday While there is no evidence yet that anyone was detained, San Jose officials have confirmed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out some sort of operation Sunday, and a watchdog group says they were back at it Monday morning.
SF News 97-Year-Old Sacramento Woman Murdered, Grandson and His Girlfriend Arrested for the Killing A 40-year-old man and his romantic partner stand accused of killing the man’s 97-year-old Sacramento grandmother and dumping her in the trunk of a car, and they also allegedly emptied out the household’s safes.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Announces Another Batch of Performers, Including St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard The third and final batch of Noise Pop acts was just announced for next month’s festival, and it features St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service frontman Benjamin Gibbard, both playing separate nights at the Grace Cathedral.
SF News SFMTA Has Issued at Least Two Wrongful Tickets to People Parked in the Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs in the Richmond Some renegade fake “no parking” curbs in the Richmond District seem designed to fool motorists into thinking they can’t park in these legal spots. They’ve apparently fooled some ticket agents too, as SFMTA has issued a couple of tickets they’ve had to rescind.
SF News Two Men Face Charges for Oakland Murder of Man Whose Body Was Found Wrapped in Plastic Garbage Bag Seven weeks ago, Oakland Police found a dead body abandoned and wrapped in a garbage bag in West Oakland. Now they’re naming two suspects, one of whom has been arrested, and the other is still at large.
SF News SF Gets an Early Morning Taste of SpaceX Rocket Activity in Our Skies Some crazy lights and cloud formations created a mysterious celestial display around 6 am Friday morning in San Francisco skies, and it was all because of a SpaceX rocket launch that happened more than 300 miles away in Santa Barbara.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Wants to Loosen Rules Around Police Car Chases After Gavin Newsom started haranguing the Oakland PD to engage in more car chases of suspects, new Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell agreed, and laid out his proposal for more car chases at higher speeds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Chinese New Year ‘Year of the Snake’ Statues Are Now Up in SF Some SF in-home caregivers allegedly drained a millionaire's bank account before she died; the JCPenney at the Tanforan shopping center is closing; and those Lunar New Year statues are back in SF for the Year of the Snake.
Arts & Entertainment SF City Hall Approves Huge Outer Mission Rock Climbing Gym, After Filipino Grocery Store Backed Out The long-vacant site of the former Pacific Supermarket at Alemany Boulevard near Mission Street lost its replacement tenant Island Pacific Supermarket, but the SF Planning Commission just approved making the place a 33,000 square-foot rock climbing gym.
Business & Tech Latest Robotaxi Criticism Claims They’re Blocking SF Housing Development Here’s a complaint we hadn't considered about Waymos and self-driving cars, as at least 600 units of proposed housing are not getting built, because the property owners are getting quicker and easier money by renting out the lots as vehicle charging stations.
SF News Central Subway Will Be Shut Down Next Month For Water Leak Repairs People who ride the T-Third line through the Central Subway will be relegated to bus service between late February and mid-March, as SFMTA fixes the subway's water leak issues that they once had to address with plastic red beer pong cups.
SF News Parking Vigilante Paints Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs In Richmond District as Daylighting Laws Kick In As the new daylighting laws preventing parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk are in effect, SFMTA has not painted all of the necessary curbs red. So some joker went and painted some counterfeit red “no parking” curbs, but got the dimensions completely wrong.
Business & Tech Conspiracy Theories Fly as Meta Users Find Themselves Suddenly Following Trump and JD Vance Millions of Facebook and Instagram users were shocked to find that they were suddenly following Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Melania Trump, but the company insists it was just the normal switching of official accounts that happens for every presidential transition.
SF News Early Morning Fire Displaces Four at the SRO Formerly Known as the Hotel Diva A 1 am apartment fire Wednesday morning on the second floor of the former Hotel Diva has left four people displaced, though no one was injured.
