Arts & Entertainment Corgi Con Forced to Leave SF’s Ocean Beach Over 'Regulation Changes,' Moves to Pleasanton Dog gone! The prized annual SF event Corgi Con has been chased off Ocean Beach over some federal regulations, and is rescheduled for September on non-federal land at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
SF News AG Bonta Launches State Investigation Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD, Says ‘We're Moving In’ As the Antioch police scandals of racist text messages and alleged cocaine distribution get worse, state Attorney General Rob Bonta declares, “We're going to get to the bottom of what's happening in the Antioch Police Department."
SF Politics Supervisors Come Out Swinging Against Plan to Shut Down Bayview Homeless RV Site The ‘Pier 94 Backlands’ is currently home to 118 people still waiting for permanent housing placement, and while the SF Department of Homelessness wants to close it ASAP, supervisors are saying place the residents first.
SF News SFO Will Be First In U.S. to Test Planes’ Wastewater For COVID Variants International arriving flights at SFO will have their wastewater tested for the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, the airport announced Tuesday, making it the first U.S. airport that's doing so.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A’s Las Vegas Deal May Be Falling Apart, Team Picks Different Stadium Site Trump lost his sexual assault and defamation case, free Narcan vending machines are popping up at Bay Area colleges, and the Oakland A’s just hastily pulled out of their Las Vegas stadium deal in favor of a different Las Vegas site.
SF News People Are Ditching BART Because of Safety and Uncleanliness, Says Pro-Business Group Poll A new poll suggests that it’s not remote work, but safety and lack of cleanliness keeping people off of BART. But the survey is from a business group with a history of somewhat dubious polls.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
SF News Now Berkeley and UC Berkeley Are Talking Name Change Over Namesake’s Problematic History 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley, who it turns out owned slaves and wrote pro-slavery pamphlets, may spur the latest renaming crusade, as both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley delicately consider a possible renaming.
SF News Five People Injured In Early Morning Sunset Fire, Believed to Be Caused by E-Bike Battery Two people were injured leaping from windows to escape the fire, with three others injured by the fire itself, as an early Tuesday morning fire at the Sunset’s Avalon Sunset Towers is believed to have been caused by an e-bike’s lithium-ion battery.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese Files for Bankruptcy as 330 Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Loom With a substantial 330 sexual abuse lawsuits looming against their priests, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, hoping to stem financial losses from all these abuse cases.
Bay Area Sports As Warriors Look to Bounce Back, Fans Fume Over the Referees Again Golden State Warriors fans are already complaining about Monday night’s Game 4 referees, hours before the game has even started, as the Dubs hope to even the series again on the Lakers’ home court.
SF News SF Home Prices Cooling Down After Hitting Pandemic Highs San Francisco bucked logic and saw its home prices increase during COVID-19, peaking to a record a year ago this time. But the high price of San Francisco houses is starting to come down.
SF News Cars Set On Fire And Rammed Into As Multiple Sideshows Rollicked Oakland Friday At least three large sideshows brought mayhem to Oakland streets Friday night and Saturday morning, and in one of them two cars set on fire and rammed into for sport by other cars.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Roosevelt Tamale Parlor Has A New Taqueria Opening Friday Night The 100-year-old Roosevelt Tamale Parlor closed last September, but now less than eight months after its closure, the new Tacos del Barrio opens there Friday night. And they’re keeping the vintage neon sign!
SF News Banko Brown’s Family Has Hired Famed Civil Rights Attorney John Burris It’s never a good thing for a district attorney to learn that John Burris may be involved in a case against your office, but the family of Walgreens shooting victim Banko Brown has retained the lawyer who successfully represented Rodney King, and the families of Oscar Grant and Mario Woods.
SF Politics Feinstein (Absently) Issues Defiant Statement as NY Times Editorial Board Calls For Her Resignation As more high-profile Democrats and media outlets urge Senator Dianne Feinstein to just quit now that she’s been absent for nearly three months, Feinstein’s office puts out a rebellious statement that someone else probably wrote for her.
Bay Area Sports ‘Playoff Klay’ Awakens From Slumber as Warriors Rout Lakers For Huge Game 2 Win Klay Thompson went off for 30 points as the Golden State Warriors evened the series with a 127-100 win over the Lakers, a blowout so thorough that LeBron James and Anthony Davis were benched the entire fourth quarter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Prof Admits To Faking Native American Heritage SF tourism spending is back to pre-pandemic levels despite all the terrible headlines, some Tahoe campgrounds are shutting for Memorial Day weekend over “Big Melt” concerns, and a prominent UC Berkeley professor has admitted to falsely claiming Native American ancestry.
SF News The Bay Bridge Is Getting a New Yerba Buena Island Off-Ramp, Opening On Sunday The ongoing effort to make Treasure Island a thing hits a new milestone Sunday, as a new and more modern eastbound off-ramp to Yerba Buena Island opens Sunday morning, and bicyclists will be able to access the islands (from the Oakland side) seven days a week.
Arts & Entertainment That Rogue Butterfly Statue Has Been Placed In Storage, Arts Commission ‘Evaluating Options’ For Its Future That unauthorized but very well-designed butterfly statue that went up in Golden Gate Park last month could still have a future, though the SF Arts Commission says the statue would not “last long in an outdoor environment.”
SF News Alleged Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Somehow Has All-Male Jury In Sexual Assault Trial The trial of accused serial groper Bill Gene Hobbs is now underway, and in an odd development, the man accused of groping and fondling 13 different women got an all-male jury for his criminal trial.
SF News Oakland Teachers Officially On Strike Over Pay and Working Conditions It is now Day One of the 2023 Oakland Unified School District teachers’ strike, and schools are still open, but attendance is sparse as teachers are out on the picket lines
SF News Formerly Homeless Pittsburg Woman Wins $5 Million On Lottery Scratcher Ticket Homeless in 2017, Lucia Forseth hit a $5 million jackpot Wednesday when she bought one lottery scratcher ticket at the Walmart Supercenter in Pittsburg.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Kuba Has Opened In the Former Cha Cha Cha Space on Mission Street The new restaurant Kuba has taken the reins at the former Cha Cha Cha at Mission and 19th Streets, and they’re keeping it Cuban with the jerk chicken and famed sangria pitchers.
SF News SFMTA Touts That Slow Streets Have Seen 50% Drop In Traffic Collisions, No Traffic Deaths A new analysis of SF’s Slow Streets program shows that people are still driving too fast on many of them, but they’ve also enjoyed a nearly 50% reduction in traffic accidents, and there have been no traffic fatalities on any Slow Streets.