SF News Sideshows Barraged All Corners of the Bay Area This Weekend, In SF, Oakland, and San Jose After a wave of sideshows again hit San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose this weekend, police are touting that they did make a few arrests, handed out more than 30 citations, and impounded nearly a dozen cars.
SF News Breed Announces $600 Million Plan To Cut Unsheltered Homelessness In Half Within Five Years Mayor Breed came out with a new $600 million plan to reduce “unsheltered homelessness by 50%” in five years, but the key word there is “unsheltered,” because the details of the plan reveal it would only reduce overall homelessness by 15% over that period.
SF News BART Unveils Renderings of Its New $90 Million, Allegedly Evasion-Proof Fare Gates, Which Have Spikes Think you can hop these upcoming new supposedly evasion-proof BART fare gates? Before you jump, realize they’re going to have bird-repellent spikes designed to be very hostile toward gate-hoppers’ hands.
SF News Two Men In Custody For Last Weekend’s Freeway Shooting of Five-Year-Old In Fremont A big development in last Saturday's I-880 shooting of five-year-old Eliyanah Crisostomo, as two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder, and both are alleged gang members who may have been involved in a separate freeway shooting where no one was hurt.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Berkeley Falcon Chick Hatches, and There Is Video An SF street will be named after Emperor Norton, Pier 70 is getting a new Standard Deviant Brewing and Breadbelly bakery, and a third baby falcon hatched Thursday afternoon alongside its snuggling siblings.
SF News Another Racist Police Text Scandal Hits In Antioch, Mayor Goes Apoplectic Antioch mayor Lamar Thorpe is justifiably upset that his city’s police officers offered among themselves a “prime rib dinner” to any cop who’d shoot at him, but his yelling “'You want to go? Let's go!” during a city council meeting has raised a few eyebrows.
SF News Another Freeway Shooting on I-580 Killed One Person Wednesday Night A yet-unidentified driver of a Toyota Tacoma died after being shot and colliding with another vehicle just before midnight Wednesday night, in a shooting that happened on I-580 but whose aftermath spilled into a gas station on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland.
SF News Someone Died From an Overdose Inside the Mid-Market Whole Foods That Just Closed We’re learning there had been a fatal overdose in September at the Whole Foods at Eighth and Market Street that was closed down early this week, with someone who had OD’ed on fentanyl and methamphetamine while in the grocery store’s restroom.
SF News One Oak Property Has Reportedly Gone Into Foreclosure, 40-Story Tower Likely Won’t Get Built What started as a proposed 309-unit condo tower at Market and Oak Streets, and was turned into a proposed 460 rental units at the same location, will now perhaps be zero units, as the developer has surrendered the property to their lending bank.
SF News More Oakland PD-LeRonne Armstrong Drama, Fired Captain Claims He Was Made A Scapegoat A subplot of Oakland PD chief LeRonne Armstrong’s February firing has spawned another subplot, as a former captain who lost his job over a seemingly botched internal affairs investigation insists he’s not the one who botched the investigation.
SF News Winter Storm Bonus: Lake Tahoe Bluer Than It’s Been In Nearly 40 Years A combination of fresh precipitation and a resurgence in the population of zooplankton has Lake Tahoe appearing bluer than it has since the 1980s, according to UC Davis researchers who measure the lake’s water clarity levels.
SF News Some Analysts Wonder If California Economy Is Barreling Into Recession A combination of inflation, high interest rates, and tech layoffs have some economists worried that a nasty California recession is brewing, though the downturn may be limited to commercial real estate landlords and people who made bank during the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Board of Supervisors Couldn’t Meet Because Someone Sliced Their Comcast Cables Salesforce is now trying to offload all of its office space at Salesforce East, ousted post-recall school board member Ann Hsu is starting her own private school, and the SF Board of Supervisors couldn't meet today because someone chopped their SFGovTV fiber-optic cables.
SF News Drastic California Water Reductions Could Be Looming as White House Proposes Unilateral Usage Limits on States The seven U.S. states (including California) that get their water from the Colorado River could be looking at severe water supply cuts, as the Colorado River is shrinking prodigiously, potentially setting up both a water crisis and an electricity crisis.
SF News Jellyfish-Like Sea Blobs Showing Up On California Beaches, Could Indicate Another El Niño In the Works Thousands of little sea blobs called “by-the-wind sailors” have appeared on Orange County and Los Angeles-area beaches over the last couple of weeks, and biologists think their unusual arrival could mean there’s another El Niño brewing.
Bay Area Sports Levi’s Stadium To Host CONCACAF Gold Cup Soccer Games This Summer The biennial North American, Central American, and Caribbean soccer tournament CONCACAF Gold Cup will return to Levi’s Stadium this summer, in advance of the Santa Clara venue hosting the 2026 World Cup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another New Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Shop Is Coming, This Time to Dogpatch Dogpatch will be getting its cornflake crunch on, as the popular ice cream shop with the unconventional flavors Humphry Slocombe will open another SF store at 22nd Street at Third Street.
SF News Man Accused of Marina Attack of Former Fire Commissioner Claims He Was Pepper-Sprayed First The suspect in last week’s alleged Marina District crowbar attack of a former fire commissioner claims through his attorney that he was pepper-sprayed first, though DA Jenkins is not buying it, and has filed felony charges.
SF News Very Difficult-To-Watch Video: Woman In Crisis Gives Birth On SF Sidewalk A gut-wrenching video is making the rounds on social media of a woman in crisis giving birth on a sidewalk near the Tenderloin, though thankfully the SF Fire Department says the woman and child are now both doing okay.
Arts & Entertainment In Biggest Hunky Jesus Contest Ever, Ensemble Group ‘Haus of Jesus’ Takes Crown, and We Have Videos JFC, there were more than 50 Jesuses competing for the coveted Hunky Jesus title Sunday at the annual Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter party, including several ensemble-cast groups with puppets and stage productions.
Arts & Entertainment Confirmed: 4/20 Hippie Hill Is On For 2023, With Erykah Badu On Stage The biggest free cannabis event in California gets its biggest star yet, and this year’s 4/20 Hippie Hill celebration will feature four-time Grammy winner Erykah Badu, plus D’wayne Wiggins from Tony! Toni! Toné!, though legal cannabis sales are not yet confirmed.
Arts & Entertainment Brad Pitt Moving to Monterey County, Buys Himself A Getty House (In L.A.) Some Big Divorce Energy coming from movie star Brad Pitt, as he’s bought a “historic, castle-like oceanside home” in Monterey County’s Carmel Highlands, but he also bought Aileen Getty’s SoCal house for the occasional L.A. work trip or hook-up.
SF News USA Cycling Champ Hit By Car and Killed In the Presidio A Tuesday afternoon accident on Arguello Boulevard in the Presidio took the life of two-time USA Cycling Masters Track National Champion Ethan Boyes, who was struck by a car under circumstances the U.S. Park Police continue to investigate.
SF News Alameda County DA Says She’s ‘Reviewing’ Murder Charges In Toddler Shooting, Received ‘Racist Messages’ Since We’re seeing another major flare-up for a reform-minded district attorney, as Alameda County DA Pamela Price says she’s “reviewing” murder charges in the shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, but also says the “racist messages" she’s received are “unprecedented.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Placer County Hostage Situation Leaves One Dead, Two Injured Registration for Burning Man ticket sales ends Friday at noon, the Alameda DA is doing battle with the judge who rejected her plea deal, and Placer County’s Roseville had a hostage situation that left one victim dead.