SF News US Navy Found High Levels of Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point, Failed to Mention This for 11 Months The US Navy detected high levels of the radioactive isotope plutonium-239 at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard about a year ago, and the city of SF is wondering why they didn’t get around to informing us until just now.
Arts & Entertainment LED Disco Dinosaur ‘Doloresaurus’ Revs Up to Roar for Halloween Here’s one costume that goes paleo for Halloween, and the entire year, as the fifteen-foot-long glowing LED dinosaur “Doloresaurus” roars, plays music, and tricera-tops all the other costumes in town.
SF News SFPD Arrests 19-Year-Old Suspect in Last Week’s Golden Gate Park Sexual Assault of a Child Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
SF Politics City Economist Report Says Lurie’s Upzoning Plan Won’t Build Much Housing, Lawsuits and Recall Threats Now Brewing A new City Hall report throws cold water on Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan, saying it won’t really build much housing. YIMBY groups are threatening to sue, while west side voters say it’s overdevelopment and are threatening a recall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Where All of the SF Trick-or-Treat Street Closures Will Be for Halloween Mayor Lurie reportedly ghosted Marc Benioff for Dreamforce; the Raiders donated $250,000 to fix that scorched Mount Diablo football field; and Mission Local scared up a map of all the streets closed to cars for trick-or-treating.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Forced to Remain in Custody, Curses Out Judge in Courtroom Longtime serial SF harasser Bill Gene Hobbs will remain in SF County Jail for the foreseeable future after a Thursday morning hearing, but went off on the judge with a profane tirade that likely did him no favors for upcoming hearings.
Arts & Entertainment Skrillex to Return In Late December, Plus Swedish House Mafia Too, as Lurie Announces ‘Winter of Music’ Mayor Lurie took to Instagram to announce a series of late December SF concerts at places you wouldn’t expect them, featuring Skrillex, Four Tet, Swedish House Mafia, and Fisher, between December 19-30.
SF News Massive Art Heist Hits Oakland Museum of California, More Than 1,000 Items Stolen One of the biggest California art thefts in years went down at a warehouse for the Oakland Museum of California, and now the FBI is involved, as thieves pilfered more than 1,000 artifacts and works of art in a 3:30 am heist this month.
SF News Early Morning FBI Raid Hits Oakland After Feds Indict Nine Alleged Gang Members Oakland’s Lower Dimond district was rocked by a 4 am Wednesday morning FBI raid that targeted nine freshly indicted alleged members of the Sureño gang, alleging they pulled a pair of 2019 murders and a host of drug crimes.
Arts & Entertainment Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre Sets Sights on Reopening Under New Ownership, Possibly With Booze and Karaoke Once dubbed “the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America,” the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre has been closed since the pandemic. But a new ownership group hopes to revive it, possibly with alcohol service and karaoke.
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: Per Sia Is San Francisco's New Drag Laureate After D’Arcy Drollinger’s two-and-a-half year reign as the nation’s first ever Drag Laureate, the wig has been passed on to Per Sia, a staple of Drag Queen Story Hour and an afterschool arts program teacher.
SF Politics Lurie’s Office Unwilling to Share Details of His Call With Trump That Called Off Federal Troop Deployment The SF Public Press put in a records request for call logs of Mayor Lurie’s famed call with President Trump where Trump called off the cavalry of an impending federal troop invasion. Lurie's office refuses to disclose details.
SF News CHP Pursues Vehicle That Went 160 MPH in Chase That Went Both Ways Across Bay Bridge, Suspects Still Get Away California Highway Patrol officers went on a wild ride across the Bay Tuesday night, pursuing a vehicle that reached speeds of 160 miles per hour in a chase that went from Oakland to SF and then to Hayward, though the five suspects are still at large.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Finally Gets an Inspector General, and It’s Mohammed Nuru’s Prosecutor Sergey Brin’s blimp showed up in the SF skies again today; California Democrats are salivating to run for the new districts Prop 50 could create; and SF City Hall named its new Inspector General, who’s Mohammed Nuru’s prosecutor.
SF Politics More Sheng Thao Fallout: San Leandro City Councilmember Charged With Bribery, Lying to FBI There’s more dirty laundry coming out in the whole Sheng Thao mess, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo faces federal charges for taking bribes and kickbacks, and lying to the FBI about a $2,000 envelope of cash.
SF News Notorious New Year’s Eve DUI Hit-and-Run Suspect Troy McAlister Will Face Trial, Won’t Get Diversion After a month-long firestorm that a hit-and-run suspect accused of killing two women while driving on meth could get a diversion program instead of facing trial, an SF Superior Court judge just ruled the case will indeed go to trial.
SF News Update: Supervisors Pass North Beach Zoning Changes That Have Neighborhood Small Businesses Up in Arms North Beach’s supervisor Danny Sauter just passed legislation allowing storefronts to merge in that neighborhood, supposedly to fight vacancies. Business owners wonder what he’s talking about, pointing out one of the city’s lowest vacancy rates.
SF News Condor Club Manager’s Shooting May Have Been Motivated by Couple Getting Fired As Santa Rosa police sift through evidence in the killing of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni, they’ve arrested a couple that both used to work there, and say the pair’s firing was "at least one motivating factor" in the alleged murder.
SF Politics Now California Will Bring In State Election Monitors to Monitor Trump’s Federal Election Monitors The Trump administration has already declared they’re sending election monitors to California for next week’s Prop 50 vote. But the Gavin Newsom administration just announced they’ll have their own monitors to monitor Trump’s monitors.
Arts & Entertainment Walnut Creek Native Becomes First Person Ever to Ski Down the North Face of Mount Everest Former Walnut Creek resident Jim Morrison just skied about 30,000 feet down the north face of Mount Everest, becoming the first person ever to ski down Everest’s steepest and most challenging route, the Hornbein Couloir.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Annual Sandcastle Classic Won by Giant Crabs Playing Video Games Students from Daniel Webster Elementary School won the 43rd Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic on Saturday at Ocean Beach, with their interpretations of two SF-style crabs playing with Nintendo game controllers.
SF News Older Woman Killed In Sunday Night-Hit-and-Run In Ingleside Neighborhood, Suspect in Custody A still-unidentified woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash at Ocean and Ashton avenues early Sunday night, though police quickly found their suspect, who remains in SFPD custody.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Bulldozed 26-15 By a Houston Texans Team Wearing Very Strange One-Off Uniforms Your San Francisco 49ers looked jet-lagged and hungover for their early Sunday morning game, scoring their fewest points all season, and giving up nearly 500 yards in a 26-15 loss to the oddly dressed Houston Texans.
SF News ‘Black Ivy league’ School Howard University Reportedly in Discussions to Open Oakland Campus While San Francisco is courting the Tennessee school Vanderbilt to bring a satellite campus to town, Oakland is reportedly in negotiations with one of the most prestigious historically Black colleges and universities, Howard University.
SF Politics Trump Administration Declares It’s Sending ‘Election Monitors’ to California for November 4 Election Even though there’s only one issue on your upcoming November 4 ballot, Trump’s Justice Department is calling out the cavalry of so-called election monitors to spy on polling places, perhaps as a warm-up for the 2026 midterms.
