Arts & Entertainment A New Bushman Has Arrived to Terrify Unsuspecting Fisherman’s Wharf Tourists Again There’s a new Bushman in town — with a far better costume and a powerful Youtube presence — resurrecting a legendary SF street performance act that dates back more than 40 years.
SF News King and Queen of the Netherlands Heading to the Castro Next Week On Educational Tour Symbolic monarchs King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will pop into the Castro on Tuesday (Twin Peaks Tavern, even!), so expect a little more security than usual that morning.
SF News Hate Crime Charges for Homeless Mountain View Woman Who Allegedly Attacked Teen Wearing Headscarf A July 1 incident where an unsheltered woman allegedly strangled a teen in a hijab and called her a “terrorist” will be heard as a hate crime in a Santa Clara County courthouse today.
Bay Area Sports Lights Go Down At Giants Game, Journey Sing-Along Ensues A lighting malfunction at Monday night’s Giants-Padres game delayed play for about 40 minutes, but a spontaneous mass-karaoke version of Journey’s “When the Lights Go Down in the City” broke out.
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Burning Man 2022 Art Projects and Curiosities (So Far), as the Event is Now Underway It’s already Day Two of Burning Man 2022, and thanks to a bunch of Burners taking their beloved Starlink satellite internet kits with them, they’re online and we can see what’s been built in Black Rock City this year.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Will Not Be Traded, Staying With 49ers One More Year Instead of being traded, 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo will be the highest-paid backup QB in the NFL, albeit with a nearly $18 million pay cut.
Arts & Entertainment Transgender District Celebrates Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Anniversary With ’Riot Party’ Part party, part riot, part gala, Sunday night’s second annual Riot Party helped close out Transgender History Month, and commemorated the 56th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, an early turning point in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.
SF News Fatal Shooting of Mountain Lion Begets Social Media Spat Between Hollister PD and Oakland Zoo A Central California police department is none too happy with the Oakland Zoo over a social media post involving a mountain lion that was shot by police, leading to some Facebook drama.
SF Politics Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Booted Off the Ballot Over Residency Issues City Attorney David Chiu has removed District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie from the November ballot, saying she “failed to meet her burden to prove she changed her legal 'domicile' from her long-time District 10 family home.”
SF Politics More Nuru Fallout: Prominent Landlord Victor Makras Found Guilty of Bank Fraud As we learn more about the terms of Mohammed Nuru’s prison sentencing, another big shoe drops — SF real estate magnate Victor Makras has been found guilty in a bank fraud scheme involving former PUC chief Harlan Kelly.
SF News CHP Makes Arrests In Two Separate East Bay Freeway Shootings From Earlier This Summer Some progress in the troubling rash of freeway shootings in recent years, as the California Highway Patrol feels they’ve solved the cases of two separate freeway shootings, one near Lake Merritt, the other near Mount Diablo.
SF News SF Man Killed In Piedmont Avenue Hit-and-Run Thursday Afternoon A 35-year-old San Francisco man was killed in a hit-and-run at about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, and an Oakland woman is in custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 24,000 East Bay PG&E Customers Lost Power for a Couple Hours Today Paul Pelosi’s DUI Porsche is up for auction, the Castro Theatre's conversion into a concert hall took another hit, and 24,000 PG&E customers in the East Bay lost power in the late morning and early afternoon Thursday.
SF News Mohammed Nuru Sentenced to Seven Years for Fraud, Bribery Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday afternoon, with prosecutors saying, “Mr. Nuru can still be Mr. Clean on the outside” but “deeply corrupt on the inside.”
SF News Former Hemlock Tavern Site, Now 54 Units of Empty Housing, Finally Moving Forward After Condo Conversion Compromise More than 50 units of housing have sat empty for two years on property that used to be the home of Hemlock Tavern, but they can now be occupied, as the Board of Appeals rules on a developer who said they were building apartments and then switched to condos.
SF News Report: SF Fire Department Has Sedated 4,000 People In Less Than Five Years A recent lawsuit highlighted the seemingly outrageous non-consensual use of sedatives on a protester. Turns out this is an everyday practice, and the SF Fire Department apparently does it two or three times a day.
SF News Dietary Supplement Blamed In Death of Sacramento Valley Rep. Tom McClintock’s Wife Longtime California statehouse and now Congressional figure Tom McClintock’s wife Lori died in December, and newly acquired coroner’s report findings suggest an odd mulberry leaf remedy was likely to blame, bringing scrutiny on the highly unregulated dietary supplement industry.
SF News Former Warden at Dublin Women’s Prison Indicted on More Sexual Abuse Charges, Victim List Continues to Grow Five officers have already been charged with lurid sexual misconduct charges for exploiting incarcerated women at the Dublin federal correctional facility, and the ex-warden was just indicted on charges involving two more victims.
SF Politics D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Calls Jewish Jounalist a ‘NAZI,’ As Her Candidacy Gets Fringier Some investigative reporting into District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie prompted her to call a Jewish reporter “NAZI” on social media, which her opponent Gordon Mar says is “shockingly anti-Semitic.”
SF News Petaluma Woman Kept Her Mother’s Corpse In Her House for More Than a Year, Police Say A routine wellness check produced a grisly discovery in Petaluma Tuesday, as police found a woman had been living with her mother’s dead body in the house for more than a year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland PD Investigating Alleged Sex Act in Stands at A’s Game SFUSD is building a new $95 million elementary school despite declining enrollment, authorities have confirmed the body found in a lake is Kiely Rodni, and two people apparently getting busy in the stands at an A’s game have prompted a police investigation.
SF Politics Paul Pelosi Sentenced to Five Days for DUI, TMZ Posts His Sobriety Test Video Twin indignities have befallen Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, as he gets sentenced to five days in jail (though he won’t serve them), and gossip site TMZ posted video of his highly unsuccessful attempt at a field sobriety test.
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Led Way On Delivering Spectacular New Telescope Images of Jupiter The best pictures ever of the biggest planet in the solar system have been unveiled, and it turns out an astronomer at UC Berkeley played a major role in making them happen.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Is Staying Open After All, and Will Remain at Its Same Haight Street Location A “marathon mediation at City Hall” Monday resulted in a deal where Haight Street swing music nightclub Club Deluxe will indeed stay open and in business, at the same Haight and Ashbury Street location where it’s operated for 33 years.
Business & Tech Twitter’s Ex Head of Security Blows Whistle On ‘Egregious’ Security Flaws, Possible Spies on Company Payroll Twitter has much bigger problems than bots, according to its former head of security, who just dropped a bomb in claims to the federal government that the site’s security is so lax it’s a risk to national security, and the company allegedly has foreign intelligence agents on the payroll.