SF Politics Even if Dems Retain House Majority, They’re Privately Discussing Dumping Pelosi as Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to step down as Speaker of the House in 2022, a promise she’s since backed off from. But some top Democrats say she doesn’t have the votes to stay on, even if Democrats manage to keep the House.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Kinky Boots’ at the Victoria Theatre Towers With Well-Heeled Sets, Costumes, and Performances Ray of Light Theatre’s new production of the Tony-winning “Kinky Boots” is one of the best shows the Victoria Theatre has had in years, with boot-strapped but ambitious sets that take that stage to new heights.
SF News Reminder: You’ve Got One More Week to Give Feedback on Those $20,000 Trash Can Prototypes You SF taxpayers paid big money for those sleek new stainless steel (and very pricey) trash can prototypes, so you might as well get your money’s worth and try ‘em all in these final seven days of the feedback period.
Arts & Entertainment New Circus Show Acrobatically Meld’s Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon' Into ‘The Wizard of Oz’ This weekend’s great gig in the sky is “The Dark Side of the Circus,” which mashes “The Wizard of Oz” into Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” but with juggling, acrobats, and pole dancing.
SF News Electrical Fire Investigation Into Central Subway Could Further Delay Its Opening A June electrical fire inside the long-delayed Central Subway system was a lot more dangerous than we’d realized at the time, and its aftermath may push the Central Subway’s opening out to 2023 — a full five years past its original opening date.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Leather Week Is Nigh Upon Us, Starts Sunday With LeatherWalk Confused migrants were dropped at Kamala Harris’s home in a political stunt, Scott Wiener’s death-threat suspect was found guilty, and Sunday’s Leather Pride Fest means street closures, bus reroutes, and a few bare bottoms.
SF News Epic NY Times Feature On San Francisco Fog Makes Case That the Fog Is Slowly Disappearing Everyone’s talking about this new 5,000-word New York Times love letter and research piece about the San Francisco fog, but it describes our fair fog’s cloudy future, as evidence indicates the fog has decreased by a third over the last 50 years or so.
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide to Flower Piano 2022, Happening This Weekend In Golden Gate Park The pianos descend on the SF Botanical Garden for five days beginning Friday, and here’s what to see, do, and bring so you can do Flower Piano like a maestro.
SF News French Bulldog Stolen From San Leandro Found 900 Miles Away in Arizona, Returned Home One-year-old French bulldog Bruno’s dognapping was captured on video, which helped connect the dots to recover the dog 927 miles away in Wilcox, Arizona, and return that little pupper home.
SF News State of California Sues Amazon for Price Manipulation, Anti-Competitive Practices State AG Rob Bonta claims he has the proof that Amazon forces other websites to maintain artificially high prices, and that’s how Amazon maintains the lowest prices, and that he’s going
SF News Vallejo High Football Coach Shot Trying to Break Up Fight Between Students and Adults The Vallejo High School football team’s defensive coordinator Joe Pastrana took a bullet Tuesday afternoon when off-campus adults fired into a crowd of Vallejo students, but his injuries are not life-threatening and he remains in stable condition.
SF News Ghost Ship Proprietor Derick Almena Faces Jail Time Again For Weapons Possession Found to be in possession of a machete, bows and arrows, and a live bullet, master tenant in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire Derick Almena could face prison time again because Alameda County prosecutors say those items constitute a violation of his probation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Police Barricades Finally Removed From Valencia Street Station SF-based Patreon laid off a chunk of its staff, DA Brooke Jenkins will try 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for certain “egregious” crimes, and those nonsense sidewalk barriers have finally been removed from the SFPD Mission Station.
SF News Supes Approve Another Payout in Stengel Beating Case, $47,500 to Victim’s Ex-Girlfriend The last loose end appears tied up in the first excessive force case against an on-duty SFPD officer, as the victim’s ex-girlfriend will receive a $47,5000 settlement.
SF News Woman Whose Rape Kit DNA Was Used to Prosecute Her Sues the City and Chief of Police The fallout continues from a February revelation that SFPD was keeping rape victims’ DNA and using it to potentially prosecute the victims for other crimes, as the Jane Doe in that case has sued the city in a U.S. District Court.
SF Politics Not One But Two Oakland Mayoral Candidates Have Been Arrested on Gun Charges There are ten candidates vying to be the Mayor of Oakland on the November ballot, and two of them have been arrested on gun charges for incidents that happened in 2021.
SF News RH Drops $25 Million on Napa Resort Full of Crumbling, Formerly Glorious Structures Napa’s Soda Springs resort has been out of use and in disrepair since the 1960s, but RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) just bought it for $25 million and hopes to put it back on the map as a winery and resort.
SF News 24th and Mission Vending Permit System About to Kick In, Violators to Have Their Goods Confiscated The long-discussed permitting system for 24th and Mission Street vendors will supposedly take effect Tuesday, with violators first getting a warning, and getting their items seized if they get a strike two.
SF Politics Dueling Sports Gambling Ballot Measures Have Tribes, Sportsbooks Spending Big on Misleading Ads There are probably no good guys in the November ballot fight over gambling measures Props 26 and 27, but there is a record $425 million going into ads from tribes and online sportsbooks determined to grab financial control of internet sports betting in California.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Look All Wet In Soggy 19-10 Loss to Bears, Trey Lance Already in Hot Water The Chicago Bears were crowing that Trey Lance “ain’t do sh*t” in his first game as the full-time starter, and the 49ers managed to look even worse than the underdog Bears in a bad-weather Chicago game.
SF News Three People Shot In Unsuccessful Robbery Attempt at San Leandro Marijuana Grow What may or may not have been a legal indoor cannabis grow facility suffered an armed robbery attempt where plenty of gunfire was exchanged Sunday morning, with one of the suspects and two facility workers now hospitalized.
Business & Tech Developer Barreling Forward With $1 Billion Van Ness Office-Condo High-Rise, Despite Office Market Being in Toilet The 47-story development at 30 Van Ness is actually going to be called Hayes Point. And its developers are being called crazy for building office space in the current slump, but they’re rolling up the Brink's truck anyway.
SF News DA Jenkins Rolls Out New Policy To Clamp Down on Repeat Misdemeanor Drug Offenders Call it a “five strikes” law if you will — SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s new drug misdemeanor policy hopes to tighten the screws on repeat offenders once they’ve racked up five drug possession and/or paraphernalia charges.
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Sets SF Ablaze With Three-Hour Chromatica Ball Extravaganza, Complete With Many Fire Cannons The most anticipated concert tour of 2022 fired up SF Thursday night, as Lady Gaga delivered three hours of glorious pop delirium, more than a half-dozen outfits, and gigantic blazing cannons shooting humongous flames across Oracle Park.
SF News Historic Designation for Stonestown’s Old Movie Theater, Which Is Not Even Used Anymore, Could Alter Housing Plan The now-shuttered Regal UA Stonestown Twin movie theater apparently has some claim to a historic designation, which could throw a monkey wrench into a proposed 2,900-unit housing development.