Bay Area Sports Giant Screw-Up: Giants Lose Free Agent Mega-Acquisition Carlos Correa to Mets SF Giants fans are getting a lump of free agency coal this holiday season, as the team backed out of its blockbuster $350 million deal with All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa, and then Correa promptly bolted to the Mets.
SF News Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Hobbled By Hypothermia, Taken In By Oakland Zoo There’s another mountain lion rescue and hopeful recovery underway at the Oakland Zoo, as a young mountain lion cub found abandoned in freezing temperatures is recovering at the zoo from hypothermia.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Condor Club Becomes First Topless Club To Get Legacy Business Status Prominent SF landlord Victor Makras managed to avoid jail time for bank fraud, Oakland college Holy Names University is closing after 154 years, and North Beach’s Condor Club is officially the first strip club on the SF Legacy Business Registry.
Bay Area Sports Brock Purdy Jerseys Selling So Fast That 49ers Can’t Keep Up The 259th pick of the 2022 NFL Draft is now “the miracle worker” phenom Brock Purdy, and as such, the 49ers team shop is fresh out of his No. 13 jersey for which the team did not anticipate such overwhelming demand.
SF News Lil Six-Month-Old Pup Abandoned at SFO Adopted By Airline Pilot After Bizarre Odyssey This six-month-old pupper Polaris was abandoned at SFO back in September, but an airline pilot and his family have taken the dog in, after dozens of United Airlines employees clamored to adopt the puppy.
SF News Nonprofits Lay Out Plan To End Homelessness In California — For $8 Billion a Year An $8.1 billion investment every year for the next 12 years could end homelessness in California, according to a new analysis that says pandemic-era levels of spending sustained over more than a decade would house everyone who needs housing.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Rape, But Mistrial On Siebel Newsom Charges Twin Peaks is gearing up for the worst car break-in week of the year, a leading voice in VR is quitting Meta, and Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty on three of the seven sexual assault charges against him.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The Five Most Festive SF Fire Stations In the Holiday Decorating Contest The block parties and judging contests in the SF Fire Department holiday decoration contest are scheduled for Wednesday, and these five SF fire stations are decked out with gushers of yuletide razzle-dazzle that you won’t want to miss.
SF News Biden Administration Claims It Will Cut Homelessness By 25% In Two Years, Offers Little Detail On How An ambitious plan to reduce homelessness by 25% seems to lack the “plan” part in the Biden administration’s new effort to house people, as homelessness has ticked up nationally by 3.4% this year.
SF News Narcan Everywhere: Haney Introduces Bill To Require Narcan In Bars, Gas Stations, Libraries, SROs Assemblymember Matt Haney is proposing a bill that would require bars, gas stations, libraries and SROs to stock the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan, though that state would pay for the supply.
SF News Ghost Ship Proprietor Derick Almena Won’t Face Extra Jail Time For Possessing Bow, Arrow, Machete, and Bullet The master tenant in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire was back in an Alameda County courthouse today on weapons charges, but a judge ruled the charges were all a misunderstanding, and Derrick Almena will not go back to jail.
SF Politics Deficit Times Again? Mayor Breed Says SF Looking At $728 Million Budget Shortfall SF has gone from a $650 million deficit, to a $108 million surplus, and now back to a $728 million deficit, all in less than two years, and Mayor Breed is ordering department heads to slash their budgets ASAP.
SF News SFPD Touts 60 Arrests In New Retail Shoplifting Crackdown Today in ‘People congratulating themselves for doing their job,’ the San Francisco police announced they’ve been running a secret anti-shoplifting operation since late November, and have nabbed 60 retail theft suspects in the process.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Suspends Several Journalists From Twitter, Claims They Posted ‘Assassination Coordinates’ A bizarre chain of events unfolded on Twitter Thursday night, starting with the suspension of journalists who cover Musk, Musk himself joining (then shutting down) a live chat about this, and the platform being jimmied so users couldn’t post links to a rival social media network. Free speech!
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Tried To Bring A Gun Into SF City Hall You can now order another batch of free at-home COVID-19 tests, North Beach jazz bar Savoy Tivoli reopens today, and someone tried get a handgun through the metal detector at City Hall.
SF News Activists Blast ‘Developer Dirty Bomb’ And Lack of Racial Equity In SF’s Housing Element Plan The phrase “developer dirty bomb” entered the chat surrounding the San Francisco Housing Element debate at Thursday’s Planning Commission meeting, as affordable housing activists argue the soon-to-be-final draft of the plan gives short shrift to racial equity.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested In 2021 Freeway Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu Four alleged San Francisco gang members have been identified as the suspects in last year’s I-880 shooting of toddler Jasper Wu. Three were arrested today, the fourth was already shot and killed in a separate drive-by shooting last month.
SF News Billionaire 555 Fulton Developer Arrested In London On Mohammed Nuru Bribery Charges Mega-rich developer Zhang Li, accused of buttering up Mohammed Nuru with a $2,000 bottle of wine and luxury trips, was arrested in London and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for bribery.
SF News SFPD Officer Named In Celeste Guap Scandal Still Making Full Salary, Relegated to SFPD's Version of a 'Rubber Room' SF taxpayers have paid about $17 million to continue to employ police in desk jobs for largely disciplinary reasons, including one officer implicated in the notorious Celeste Guap scandal who’s pulling up to $240,000 a year.
SF News Violent Night: Five Separate SF Shootings In Six Hours on Monday Night While all eight victims have thus far survived, it’s concerning that San Francisco saw five separate and seemingly unrelated shooting incidents between 8 p.m. Monday night and 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.
SF News Too $hort Movie Shooting In Oakland, But Businesses Blow the Whistle Over Disruption, Lack of Notice There is no shortage of frustration over Too $hort’s 'Freaky Tales' filming in Oakland, where business owners say film crews blocking their storefronts have cost them tens of thousands of dollars — and they were not given much notice that all this would be happening.
Day Around The Bay: Union Square Macy’s Employees Might Strike Before Christmas They’re building a gondola between two major Tahoe ski resorts, ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford parents may be in hot water too, and the Union Square Macy’s might be looking at an employee strike before Christmas.
Business & Tech Twitter Reportedly Not Paying Rent as Musk Lawyers Up For That and Other Legal Battles Twitter has reportedly not been paying rent at its San Francisco headquarters, or any of its offices, in the six weeks since the start of the Elon Musk regime, and Musk has shaken up his legal team in anticipation of an avalanche of lawsuits from jilted creditors.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Back At Fairmont Hotel, And You Can Book A Dinner Inside It The 22-foot-tall, 3,300-brick life-size gingerbread house is back at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, and you too can make a dinner reservation to eat inside of it, for what shakes down to about a $1,500 minimum.
SF Politics San Mateo Appoints Amourence Lee As Mayor, Yet She Is Now Making Corruption Allegations San Mateo’s week-long mayor-less nightmare is over, as Amourence Lee was appointed the city’s first Asian American mayor Monday night, but she still described the proceedings as an attempted "insurrection."