SF News Area Woman Charged With Cashing Unemployment Checks Using Identities of Scott Peterson and the ‘Yosemite Killer’ A former contractor at San Quentin Prison used the personal information of multiple inmates to pull in $145,000 worth of fraudulent EDD benefits over a two-year period, and one of the identities she used was that of Scott Peterson.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Boba Guys at Valencia and 19th Street Closes Amidst Very Bizarre Staff-Management Dispute Elon Musk is claiming he’s going to lay off 75% of Twitter staff, Stow Lake might get renamed, and the flagship Boba Guys shop fired nearly all of its employees over some apparent interpersonal drama.
Arts & Entertainment 13 Best Bay Area Haunted Houses, Pumpkin Patches, and Halloween Whatnot For 2022 Submitted for your approval… 13 spooky Halloween weekend attractions in SF and the grave beyond for haunted houses, fiendish drag queens, spooky nights out, and family-friendly pumpkin patch spirits.
SF Politics Wealthy SF Recall Backer Pumping Millions to DeSantis and J.D. Vance, Hyping That Ukraine Needs to Surrender One of the most prominent funders of all three big recall campaigns is now the MAGA movement’s San Francisco money man, and David Sacks is also on a curious kick preaching that Ukraine needs to surrender to Putin.
SF News Big Ol’ Earthquake Drill ‘The Great ShakeOut’ Happening Thursday Morning Your Thursday morning BART commute may have been disrupted for a noble cause, as the biggest earthquake drill of the year, the Great ShakeOut, is happening across California and the whole world.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Not At All Ashamed That She Threatened to Punch Trump on January 6 After January 6 footage leaked last week showing Nancy Pelosi vowing to punch Donald Trump on the day of the Capital riot, Pelosi pulled no punches in gleefully defending the remark.
SF News Nearly Four Months In, Neighbors Complaining of Violence and Chaos Around SoMa Rise ‘Sobering Center’ Originally billed as a ‘meth sobering center’ and then simply as a ‘drug sobering center,’ the new facility SoMa Rise is raising tensions among neighbors who think it’s only making the area near Seventh and Howard Streets worse.
SF News Supervisors Demand Scooter Crackdown, Want Them Banned From SF Sidewalks Complaining of a “scourge of e-scooter sidewalk riding,” the SF Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday demanding that scooter companies add geofencing technology to keep people from riding the damned things on sidewalks.
SF Politics DA Candidates Debate: Jenkins Still Attacking Boudin, Challengers Say She’s Worse Than Him Interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins faced her three challengers Tuesday night in the first in-person debate before next month’s election, and all three challengers relished in pointing out that crime is up during her thus-far short tenure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Ranked the Fifth ‘Rattiest’ City in the U.S. The evicted Wood Street encampment campers rallied at Oakland City Hall, a man survived being both shot and run over by a vehicle in the Mission, and Orkin has ranked San Francisco as the fifth “rattiest” city in America.
SF News Fourplex Legislation Finally Passes Board of Supervisors on Mandelman’s Third Try The third time was the charm for fourplexes, as Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s third attempt to densify as many as four units onto all residential lots citywide, and six units on corner lots, overwhelmingly passed the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
SF News Oakland Police Mull Acquiring Robots Armed With Shotguns The shotgun-toting robots prefer to be called “percussion actuated nonelectric disruptors,” and the Oakland Police Department wants some, though is currently offering a compromise measure where they’d only be armed with pepper spray.
SF Politics Bizarrely, Clarence Thomas’s Wife Is Pumping Money Into an East Bay School Board Race Three candidates for the Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board have pulled in more than $10,000 in campaign contributions, much of it from the insurrectionist wing of the Republican party.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom’s 2005 Affair Will Be Back In the News, Courtesy of the New Harvey Weinstein Trial The latest Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is shaping up to be a wild one (Mel Gibson will take the stand), and Weinstein’s defense will use emails about Gavin Newsom’s 2005 affair as evidence in the trial.
SF Politics Breed Zings Elon Musk, Saying He ‘Got a Ton of Tax Breaks in California and Decided to Take That Money and Run’ SF Mayor London Breed had choice words for Elon Musk’s moving Tesla headquarters to Texas in a new Bloomberg interview, and even ribbed Marc Benioff a bit.
SF News Two Oakland Men Arrested On 38 (Yes, 38) Counts of Auto Burglary Two men alleged to be affiliated with gangs are in custody and stand accused of an astonishing 38 counts of auto burglary, and they’re both now in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
SF News Permanent Sunday Streets-Style Street Park Being Proposed for the Tenderloin It could be Sunday Streets every day on the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue, as a coalition of volunteer groups and nonprofits continues pushing for a plan to close that street to car traffic and make it a permanent playground.
Business & Tech Kanye West is Buying Right-Wing Social Media Site Parler, What Could Go Right? Increasingly incoherent and unraveling rap star Kanye West’s latest bid for attention has him buying the wingnut-haven social media site Parler, though financial terms were not disclosed, and might not even exist.
Arts & Entertainment New Documentary Dives Into the Furor Over That Wildly Controversial Washington High Mural The high school mural that’s spawned years of shouting matches, lawsuits, and national media animus towards San Francisco gets the documentary treatment in ‘Town Destroyer,’ playing at The Roxie and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
SF News [Update] Well-Known Alleged Serial Sexual Predator Arrested Following Warrant Alleged SF serial predator Bill Gene Hobbs has spent plenty more time in the headlines lately than in custody, though he was arrested Friday not long after a warrant was issued for him Friday morning.
SF News BART Delays Are Worse Than They’ve Been In a Decade, According to BART’s Own Data If you think BART's been bad lately, it’s not your imagination — one in three BART cars has been delayed over the last year, thanks to staffing shortages, aging equipment malfunctioning, and what we euphemistically call “police activity.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nancy Pelosi Said She Would Punch Trump on January 6 Excellent news on the MPX front as monkeypox has largely receded, the death of 16-year-old Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled an accident, and footage from the January 6 Commission shows Nancy Pelosi vowed to punch Trump on that chaotic day.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party Returns Saturday, But This Year Rocks A Different Block Block out your calendar Saturday for the return of Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party, but this year’s popping noise will be at a new Valencia Street location.The high-powered San
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison Street Fair Barrels Back on Saturday In SoMa Things are going to get hairy Saturday, as Harrison Street turns into a real bear trap for the second annual Bearrison Street Fair, with plenty of live wrestling and weightlifting, but perhaps not so much shirt-wearing.
Arts & Entertainment Broke-Ass Stuart Celebrates 20 Years of Being ‘Broke-Ass Stuart’ In San Francisco Local bon vivant Broke-Ass Stuart broke the mold with two decades of hustling as a travel writer, TV host, and mayoral candidate, and celebrates 20 years of his SF penny-pinching shenanigans with a Public Works party Thursday and a new zine.