Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Headed to the Raiders; Artist ‘Drawing Jimmy G Every Day’ Will Stop Drawing Jimmy G The Jimmy Garoppolo era is officially over in San Francisco, and a cult-hit fan artist “Drawing Jimmy G every day until he gets traded” has also declared her project is drawing to a close.
SF News Apartment Shootout In Brentwood Leaves Alleged Gunman And Possible Hostage Victim Injured What was a suspected hostage incident Sunday night in Brentwood has left both the alleged hostage-taker and the victim hospitalized, after a confrontation led to gunfire exchange with the police.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank In Huge Trouble As Shares Collapse By More Than 70%, Trading Halted The feared “contagion” from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse has now spread to banks whose branches and ATMs you see around San Francisco, as the SF-based First Republic Bank tanked in the markets over bank-run fears.
SF News Stormy Turbulence Forced Several SFO and San Jose Flights to Be Rerouted Thursday Night The unfriendly skies during Thursday night’s atmospheric river storm limited arrivals at the San Francisco and San Jose airports, causing some impromptu detours to Oakland.
SF News Floods Force Road Closures Across Bay Area; Ducks Were Swimming On I-580 In Oakland The latest round of storms have left flooded roads that have stranded hundreds in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with flood advisories in effect for several Bay Area counties, and a flooded I-580 in Oakland was taken over by a paddling of ducks.
SF News City Attorney Sues Company Behind Workplace Posters That He Says Falsely Impersonate the Government SF City Attorney David Chiu has brought a lawsuit against a company he says is “impersonating government actors” and forcing small businesses to buy bogus workplace compliance posters and threatening $37,000 fines if they don't.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entwined LED Forest Has Its Closing Party Canceled Over Weather The Cure is coming to the Bay Area in May, the 49ers laid off a bunch of longtime stadium staffers while making some dubious revenue claims, and the big Saturday night closing party for the LED forest Entwined has been canceled because of the rainy weather.
SF Politics Rupert Murdoch Rips Kim Guilfoyle In Leaked Fox News Text, Also Gets Her Name Wrong As more bombshell leaked texts come out in the Fox News-Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, we see one where Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch declared that Kimberley Guilfoyle is “not good people!”, though he gets her name wrong.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Based 'Weird Al' Yankovic-Themed Burlesque Group Is Making a Documentary, Will ‘Bare To Be Stupid’ “The world's first and only all Weird Al themed burlesque troupe” Tight and Nerdy was founded here in San Francisco, and after a slew of sold-out shows, they’re crowdfunding a full-length feature documentary about their troupe called “Showgals.”
SF News Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Stabbed And Killed In His Own Lake Merritt Apartment Building We now have more information on a bizarre fatal stabbing near Lake Merritt this past weekend, and the victim was Curtis Marsh, a 53-year-old member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and occasional drag performer.
SF News KGO-TV Reporter Luz Peña Recovering From Near-Fatal Ski Accident in Tahoe You haven’t seen KGO’s Luz Peña on the ABC7 news for four weeks, and it turns out that she suffered a ski accident that left her unconscious and unable to breathe, and she nearly needed to have a leg amputated.
SF News Sup. Preston Pushing to Extend SF Eviction Moratorium Another 60 Days With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency proclamation now in sight, Supervisor Dean Preston is proposing to tack an extra 60 days onto the city’s eviction moratorium that would otherwise end once the emergency proclamation ends.
Arts & Entertainment Report: Two Remaining 1980s-Era Members of Journey Hire Bodyguards to Protect Them From Each Other The SF-founded band Journey is on tour again, but the two remaining 1980s members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain are suing each other while on tour, and each has allegedly hired bodyguards to keep the other out of their dressing rooms.
SF News Fairfield Police Find Remains of Missing Woman, Husband Already Charged With Murder The burnt remains of Fairfield woman Anu Anand Hobson, missing since Valentine’s Day, were found in Fresno County. And it does not look good for her husband, who’s been charged with murder.
SF Politics Supervisor Catherine Stefani Has Filed to Run For State Assembly In 2024 Assemblymember Phil Ting’s seat is up for grabs next year, and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani has filed to run for it — she's also changed her Twitter handle, and set up a campaign website.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Appraiser Ordered To Pay Up In Notorious Racial Disparity Case A study shows the Bay Area has actually gotten more affordable for many renters in the last decade, protesters disrupted a PG&E wildfire mitigation conference in San Ramon, and the real estate appraiser who seemingly lowballed a Black couple has agreed to pay a settlement.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Keep Remote Public Comment In Place For Now, But Changes Could Be Coming The threat to end public comment by phone at City Hall meetings did not succeed at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, but a new set of public comment rules is in the works for mid-April which could somehow shorten those lengthy public comment sessions.
SF News Martinez, Pacheco Residents Urged Not to Eat Produce From Their Own Gardens, Thanks to Refinery Incident Folks in parts of Contra Costa County are being advised not to eat produce grown in soil near the Martinez Refining Company, after its November hazardous chemical release left white ash strewn about their neighborhoods.
SF Politics YIMBY Law Set to Sue Sausalito Over Allegedly Out-of-Compliance Housing Element The YIMBY crowd is unleashing their lawsuits on cities whose housing elements are not yet approved by the state, and in the case of an impending Marin County lawsuit, claiming that some proposed housing sites are literally “in the water.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuttered FiDi Bar Harrington’s Trying to Make A Comeback, Via Crowdfunding There will be some sort of St. Patrick’s Day party again at downtown Irish pub Harrington’s, and the Financial District bar that’s been closed for two-and-a-half years is mounting a crowdfunded comeback bid.
SF News SF Man Charged in Bizarre, Unprovoked Assault of 78-Year-Old Woman A 47-year-old SF man will stand trial in the seemingly unprovoked February attack on a 78-year-old woman, where he allegedly kicked her cane away from her and left her head badly lacerated.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Can Have His Sentence Lightened For 2000 Killing Case, Judge Rules Another new legal ruling Monday in the case of Mayor Breed’s brother could potentially see him released from prison, where he’s been for 20 years, as he’s now eligible for a resentencing that will likely lower his sentence.
Business & Tech Another Glitchy Day at Elon Musk's Twitter, Snafu Breaks Several Features Across the Platform Twitter had a roughly 90-minute meltdown for thousands of users Monday morning, and while the platform is back up and running, these things seem to be happening more frequently in the wake of Musk's mass layoffs.
SF News The Oakland Ransomware Attack Files Have Been Leaked The hacker group taking responsibility for the ransomware attack on the City of Oakland has leaked their first batch of files, leaving city employees’ personal data potentially exposed while the hack continues to cripple city systems.
SF Politics Ron DeSantis Fundraising In California, Newsom Jabs That DeSantis Is ‘Going To Get Smoked by Trump’ The ongoing taunt war between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom flares up again as the Florida governor comes fundraising to California this weekend, with Newsom razzing that DeSantis will “get smoked by Trump” in the upcoming GOP primary.