SF News Capp Street Will Be Barricaded Off Over Concerns There’s Too Many Sex Workers Strolling A long-running concern over the world’s oldest profession has Capp Street residents saying their street is “a sanctioned red-light district,” and apparently street barriers will be going up on a four-block stretch of Capp.
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest Turns 25, And Is Now Underway At The Roxie The 25th annual SF Independent Film Festival better known as IndieFest is now rocking at the Roxie, plus online until February 12, with 95 independent films including documentaries about Moby and Negativland.
SF News BART San Jose Extension Gets $375 Million State Grant, Expects To Start Construction Next Year Another big pile of state money is kickstarting BART’s extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, which will come in handy, as authorities now admit the total project cost will indeed be about $9 billion.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Friends of the Urban Forest Giving Away Free Fruit Trees It looks like rain for Saturday’s Lunar New Year Parade, a man fired shots in an SF synagogue but they ended up being blanks, and Friends of the Urban Forest are having a fruit tree giveaway.
SF News NoPa Home Featured on ‘Hoarders’ Sells For $500K Over Asking, Despite Atrocious Conditions A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
SF News Judge Rules PG&E Can Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in 2020 Zogg Fire PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
SF News Cable Car Derails in Nob Hill, Two Injured, And This May Have Been a Hit-And-Run A Wednesday night cable car derailment appears to have left two Muni operators injured, and while details are scarce, the derailment may have been caused by a hit-and-run motorist.
SF News Castro Theatre Gets Landmark Recommendation from City Hall, in Big Setback for Another Planet Entertainment Trouble for Another Planet Entertainment, as the SF Historic Preservation Commission just recommended landmark designation protections for the Castro Theatre’s seats, at a six-hour meeting where both “Save the Seats” and “Change the Seats” factions turned out in force.
SF Politics Breed Machine Politics Backfires at Tyre Nichols Vigil, As Mayor Gets Roundly Heckled After a vocal critic of DA Brooke Jenkins was disinvited at the last minute from speaking at a Wednesday City Hall vigil to honor Tyre Nichols, the apparent stage-management attempt went wrong, and spurned activists shouted Breed down.
SF News Two More Sonoma County Hells Angels Sentenced to Prison on Racketeering Charges A five-year-long federal murder investigation into the Sonoma County Hells Angels is also prosecuting several Angels on other lesser charges, like the two just sentenced for a series of beatings and the robbery of a marijuana grow.
SF News Second Consecutive Monarch Butterfly Population Rebound Has Butterfly Fans Just Thrilled While the migrating monarch butterfly population is still down 80% over the last 30 years, it’s estimated there are nearly 100,000 more of the winged critters in California right now compared to their numbers in last year’s annual trek.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Kids Throw ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-Themed Kegger, Are Alright 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans has been poached for a head coaching job, mid-Market vegetarian spot Ananda Fuara is closing, and Glen Park is in a huff after youngsters commandeered a park for a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-themed keg party.
Business & Tech SF DBI Just Might Let Twitter Keep Its Unpermitted Bedrooms, If They Get Some Paperwork In Order The permitting dustup over unsanctioned beds and bedrooms at Twitter’s SF headquarters just might end peacefully, as the SF Department of Building Inspection is giving them a path to keep the beds, though the larger problem remains that Twitter is simply not paying rent.
SF News New Proposed Bill Would Require CA Gun Owners to Carry Liability Insurance California could become the first state in the nation to require gun owners to carry liability insurance for negligent or accidental use of the firearms they own, under a new bill just introduced in the state Senate.
SF News SF Regulators Have Had It With Self-Driving Cruise, Waymo Mishaps, Ask State To Halt Expansion In light of 92 incidents in seven months of self-driving Cruise and Waymo cars stopping, idling, and causing havoc on San Francisco streets, the SF County Transportation Authority is asking the state to hold off on giving them more expanded permits.
Arts & Entertainment Kilowatt Has Reopened, Redesigned and Under New Ownership Longtime Mission District punk-rock-sports-biker-dive bar Kilowatt has reopened under its new ownership team of ex-Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside bartenders, and here are some first-look pics at the new Kilowatt that will soon be a live music venue again.
SF News Renowned South Lake Tahoe Pro Skier Kyle Smaine Killed In Avalanche In Japan A former world champion halfpipe skier and gold medal winner, Tahoe-based freestyle pro skier Kyle Smaine, died Sunday morning in an avalanche in Nagano, Japan.
SF News Senior Care Worker Charged With Elder Abuse After 94-Year-Old Man Dies From Drinking Cleaning Fluid A San Pablo woman has been charged with felony elder abuse after a resident at the Atria Senior Living facility in Walnut Creek died from drinking cleaning fluid, in a death that the facility allegedly first attempted to blame on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
SF News Another Planet Submits New Castro Theatre Plans With ‘Motorized' Flooring, Opponents Not Moved The latest chapter in Another Planet Entertainment’s plans to overhaul the Castro Theatre involve a “motorized raked floor” to quell opponents’ outrage about removing the floor seats, yet opponents seem no less outraged.
SF News BART Had To Halt All Service Early Friday Morning, But Most Lines Now Running As Normal Some “unscheduled track repairs” brought down all service for a while Friday morning. BART now insists “all lines are now restored,” though commenters are noting some lingering delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cop Who Shot Keita O’Neil Wants Case Dismissed, Blames Chesa Gallo Winery is laying off more than 350 people, the Bored Ape company admits their NFTs have no copyrights, and the ex-SFPD officer who shot and killed Keita O’Neil wants the case dismissed on the eve of his first hearings.
Bay Area Sports DoorDash Delivery Guy Walks Onto Floor During Basketball Game, Internet Debates If It Was Publicity Stunt Wednesday night’s Loyola Chicago-Duquesne college basketball game was interrupted by a fake DoorDash delivery person wandering onto the court, and angry school officials insist it was a publicity stunt.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Draws Attention to Squalid Conditions For Farm Workers Who Live On-Site While San Mateo County prosecutors are busy investigating the details of Monday’s mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, they also say “we have to act” on the conditions of farmworkers living in shipping containers, working 70-hour weeks, at well below minimum wage.
Arts & Entertainment The North Bay’s Go-To Online Movie Schedule Guides are Shutting Down Today The 28-year run of SonomaMovies.com, and its sister site NorthBayMovies.com, will come to an end today, as the site’s sole proprietor is calling it quits on aggregating movie showtimes for a five-county, 160-mile stretch of Northern California.
SF Politics SF Attorney Harmeet Dhillon Might Be Elected Chair of the Republican National Committee This Week “San Francisco Values,” hmmm? Local attorney and longtime Republican gadfly Harmeet K. Dhillon is running against Ronna McDaniel in Friday’s race for RNC chair, but her reported “unity ticket” with the MyPillow Guy might doze her odds off.