SF News Glen Park Rat Infestations Being Pinned on ‘Birdseed Lady’ Dropping Huge Piles of the Stuff On Sidewalks One woman allegedly dropping “15-30 pounds” of birdseed at a time has been at it for years, according to Glen Park neighbors and businesses, who say she’s single-handedly causing a rat infestation that’s roiling the neighborhood.
SF Politics Local Democratic Socialists Chapter Getting Roasted for Screening Pro-Putin Documentary With ’Pizza and Beer!’ The SF Democratic Socialists of America chapter is getting ratioed pretty hard on Twitter over an upcoming screening of a documentary that’s been described as a “dictator suckup” to Vladimir Putin.
SF News Repeat Offender Attacks AC Transit Driver With Hammer, Pulls Gun on Him It was not the first time this 45-year-old woman assaulted someone on AC Transit, but security video shows that on Sunday, she bashed a driver on the head with a hammer and tried to shoot him, but the gun malfunctioned.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Wins One-Year Reprieve, Gets Funding Fully Reinstated The beleaguered Laguna Honda Hospital got the best news it’s had in months Wednesday, as federal officials agreed to fully reinstate their $18 million a month in funding, and halted a forced patient transfer program that seriously risked patients’ health.
SF News ‘Police Did Nothing Vol. XXIV’: Local Man Tracks Down His Own Tools Being Sold on Mission Street A Vis Valley man had video of an intruder robbing his shed, followed the man to an encampment where his tools were sold, and then tracked the tools down being sold on Mission Street. But he says SFPD would not aid the investigation that he took into his own hands.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Merchants Hosting Halloween Block Party, But It’s a Daytime Thing For Kids and Dogs A revived Castro Halloween party billed as “Castro Family Halloween” will be a Sunday afternoon affair. It will be preceded by an early-evening Day-Glo costume party on Saturday, hosted for the second time by Comfort & Joy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yet Another Rape Rocks Stanford Campus The Castro Theatre’s new operator got more unwelcoming news from the neighborhood, a tree trimmer fell into a wood chipper in Menlo Park, and yet another violent rape was reported on the Stanford campus.
Business & Tech SEC Launches Probe Into Those ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs and the Company That Makes Them While the crypto bros lose their shirts over those monkey jpegs that they dreamed were worth $300,000, the Securities and Exchange Commission is opening an investigation into those NFTs’ creator, Yuga Labs.
SF Politics Supes Pile On Mayor Breed’s Resignation Letter Scandal in ‘Emergency’ Hearing There was plenty of insider tea spilled about how Mayor Breed allegedly muscled city commissioners in an “emergency” hearing Tuesday that made more political hay over Breed’s undated resignation letters scandal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trendy New STK Steakhouse Hit With Wage Theft Suit, Employees Say They Were Forced to Work With COVID Just one month after opening, buzzy nightclub-restaurant STK Steakhouse is already dogged by a class-action lawsuit over wage and tip theft, plus employees claiming they were forced to work while testing positive for COVID-19.
Bay Area Sports Warriors ‘Aggressively Investigating’ Who Leaked the Draymond Green Punch Video to TMZ Will the Warriors punish the person who leaked the video of Draymond Green punching out a teammate more harshly than they punish Green himself for throwing the punch? That may be the case, as the team is taking "every legal course of action" to find the leaker.
Arts & Entertainment Minnesota Man Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest With 2,560-Pound ‘Gourdzilla’ There’s a new Great Pumpkin in town, as the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Monday with the Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and a Minnesota man broke the North American record with a pumpkin weighing 2,560 pounds.
SF News Still-Flooded Out 33 Tehama Residents Sue Property Manager, Alleging Mismanagement and Dishonesty Four months into an ordeal where their building was flooded (twice!), replacement hotel accommodations were abruptly canceled, and contractors apparently pilfered a number of their possessions, more than 50 tenants of the beleaguered SoMa high-rise 33 Tehama are suing the property manager Hines.
SF News Two-Alarm Sunday Night Bayview Fire Burns Three Homes, Displaces 15 Residents An early evening fire spread to three homes between the Bayview District and Silver Terrace Sunday, and while the SF Fire Department was able to contain the blaze in under an hour, it still damaged three homes and left 15 people displaced.
SF News SFMTA Installs Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps on Three SF Corners Hoping to hit the brakes on the recent increase in San Francisco sideshows, SFMTA has installed speed bumps at certain, specific corners in the Mission, Oceanview, and the Excelsior.
Arts & Entertainment Italian American Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach Sunday for Its 154th Year It’s Fernet-Branca shots, Peronis, and parade floats all around on Sunday, as the “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” in America returns to North Beach, amid another weekend chock-full of activities.
Bay Area Sports Draymond Green Punches Warriors Teammate at Practice, TMZ Has Video A Wednesday training camp incident where Draymond Green punched up-and-coming guard Jordan Poole has the Warriors tight-lipped about some sort of “internal” discipline, but gossip site TMZ stirs the pot by publishing video of the punch.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Pardons Everyone With a Weed Possession Offense The much-ballyhooed Midnite Bagel Inner Sunset location is closing after just four months in business, SF Animal Care & Control confiscated 30 dogs from a negligent owner, and President Biden went full Dark Brandon with a mass pardon of everyone with a marijuana possession offense.
SF Politics Pile of Poop Prominently Placed In Political Pamphlet Now Arriving In SF Mailboxes The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it’s largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department
SF News Something Odd Is Happening at KGO's AM Radio Station, Which Is Suddenly Playing Only Gambling- and Money-Related Songs AM radio station KGO 810 just announced “Today we say goodbye,” and now they’re playing nothing but songs about money and gambling, which could be a staff revolt, or might be a strange casino promotion?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fine Dining Spot for Dogs on Valencia Has $75 Tasting Menu, Generates Gentrification Outrage People are dogpiling on a new fine dining restaurant for dogs, as San Francisco once again out-San Franciscos itself with a stunning new breed of income inequality.
SF News Kidnapped Merced Family Found Dead, Including Eight-Month-Old Baby A frantic search in Merced County has ended with a worst-case scenario, as the family of four that was kidnapped Monday morning was found dead late Wednesday afternoon, and with them the eight-month old child.
SF Politics In Yet Another Declared Drug Crackdown, DA Jenkins Says ‘This is a War on Fentanyl’ DA Brooke Jenkins tried to send a strong message to drug dealers, but got her message mixed with Supervisor Matt Dorsey, with him saying it’s “not the War on Drugs,” and her saying “it is a war on fentanyl.”
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Marc Andreessen Claims Modern California Is Like the Fall of the Roman Empire The man who bought the most expensive mansion in California history now says the state is “the ruins of a once great civilization,” comparing conditions to the fall of Rome, but perhaps ignoring the role of an incompetent wealthy ruling class in that analysis.
SF News Suspect In Custody In Merced Kidnapping, But Authorities Still Can’t Find Missing Family A horrifying kidnapping story emerged this week from the San Joaquin Valley, with an abductor allegedly kidnapping a family of four, including an eight-month-old child. While a suspect is now in custody, the family and baby are still missing.