SF News Apparent Rash of Wallet Thefts Hitting East Bay Trader Joe’s Stores The Livermore Police Department is sounding the alarm over a “crime trend” of unattended wallets being stolen from shopping carts at Trader Joe’s locations, though the obvious solution is just not leaving your wallet unattended.
SF News California Legislators Introduce First Reparations Bill, Cash Payments Not Proposed In a move that coincides with the beginning of Black History Month, members of the California Legislative Black Caucus introduced 14 bills addressing reparations for the harms of slavery and historical racism, though cash payments are not among the proposals.
SF News Right-Wingers File Lawsuit Against SF’s Transgender Guaranteed-Income Program Mayor Breed launched a Guaranteed Income for Trans People program in 2022, but a new lawsuit from a conservative legal group (that regularly sues Bay Area cities) hopes to halt it.
SF Politics Poll Shows Daniel Lurie Beating London Breed by 18 Points Head-to-Head, But Breed Still Leads If You Count All Candidates The good news for mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is that a new poll shows him 18 points ahead of London Breed in a head-to-head matchup. The bad news for him is that Breed’s still ahead by five points if you count all candidates, though ranked choice favors Lurie.
SF News San Mateo County Will Charge Unhoused People With a Crime If They Refuse Shelter While it only applies to unincorporated areas of the county, a new law just passed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will make it a misdemeanor to refuse shelter if you’re homeless.
SF News Alt-Right Wackadoodles Now Impersonating the NorCal Journalists Who Exposed Their ‘Zoom-Bombing’ of City Meetings Two Northern California journalists got to the bottom of who was disrupting various city hall meetings with anti-semitic messages in Berkeley and Marin County. The neo-Nazis then started impersonating those journalists in the same meetings, and others across the country.
SF Politics Three SF Supervisors Say They’ve Received Death Threat Mailers After Garry Tan’s ‘Die Slow’ Tweet After a weekend uproar over a tweet in which local political donor Garry Tan posted that some SF supervisors should “Die slow,” three supervisors say they received physical hate mail citing the tweet and reading “I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lost MC Hammer Tapes Discovered in Modesto Storage Unit Michael Bloomberg just gave $200,000 to re-elect London Breed; a San Leandro man has been sentenced to eight years for sex trafficking; and a trove of what appears to be lost MC Hammer tapes was discovered in a storage unit in Modesto.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Rape Lawsuit From Woman Who Says She Was Impregnated by Her Driver We’ve heard untold numbers of sexual assault stories from women riding Lyft and Uber over the years, but the latest stands out, because the alleged victim says she was impregnated by a driver a driver who raped her.
SF News Report: Vallejo PD Considering Unbendable Badges, So Cops Can’t Bend Them to Celebrate Killing People Since the Vallejo Police Department has been dogged by scandals for the better part of a decade now, the department is reportedly considering a rebrand with new badges — badges that can’t be bent to celebrate fatal police shootings.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Giant Dragon Statues Ring In the ‘Year of the Dragon’ In SF Meet all the dragon statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Dragon, as these intricately designed, wooden dragon monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims the First Human Subject Has Gotten a Neuralink Implant In Their Brain The first human patient has reportedly had the Neuralink computer chip implanted into their brain, according to a tweet from Elon Musk, marking either a milestone for people with neurodegenerative disorders, or one giant leap for oligarch mind control.
Arts & Entertainment A Sacramento Chihuahua Named ‘Bark Purdy’ Will Compete In the Puppy Bowl A Chihuahua mix by the name of ‘Bark Purdy’ hails from Sacramento, and he’s hardly Mr. Irrelevant as he heads to Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl XX. But sorry suitors, he’s already been adopted.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District Bar Casements Can Continue Rocking Live Music on Back Patio After City Hall Gives OK Mission Street bar Casements had to get new approval for live music on their back patio, despite that they’ve had live music on that patio since 2020. They did get their City Hall approval, but now their live music has a 10 p.m. cut-off time.
SF Politics Local Tech CEO and Political Donor Garry Tan Tweets That Some SF Supervisors Should ‘Die Slow’ In Late-Night Rant A seemingly drunken and now-deleted tweetstorm from Y Combinator CEO and political donor Garry Tan called on most of the SF Board of Supervisors to “Die slow motherf***ers,” which may be awkward for one supervisor candidate whose company funding is linked to Tan.
SF News Vintage 1956 Muni Bus Delighted Transit Nerds This Weekend at Duboce Park The good folks at Muni busted out a 1950s-era Muni Mack bus this weekend, and let transit lovers hop onboard and enjoy it in its fully restored glory, as part of a “120 years of SFMTA” exhibit happening over that the Harvey Milk Photo Center.
SF Politics Pelosi Calls on FBI to Investigate Alleged Links Between Russia and Pro-Palestine Protestors Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi made a curious charge without evidence on a Sunday talk show, saying some pro-Palestine protesters are “connected to Russia” and called on the FBI to investigate the financing of the protests.
SF News Army Corps of Engineers Unveils Plan to Raise the Embarcadero as Much as 7 Feet for Rising Sea Levels Since we as a society are basically giving up and letting climate change happen, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Port of SF have released their plan to raise SF’s shoreline by as much as seven feet in response to the inevitable climate floods.
SF Politics DA Brooke Jenkins Has a Challenger This November, And It’s Someone Who She Once Fired Former SF Assistant DA Ryan Khojasteh was fired by Brooke Jenkins right after she was appointed in July 2022. Now he’s declared he’s running to unseat her in the November 2024 election.
SF News Someone Is ‘In Custody’ In Connection With Bernal Heights Car Fires — But They’re Not In SF There’s been a development in the case of four cars torched in Bernal Heights on New Year’s Eve, as someone, somewhere is in custody in connection with the investigation. But they’re in custody elsewhere “for an unrelated matter,” according to SFPD.
Arts & Entertainment The LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Has Now Sprouted Up at Civic Center, Too ‘Entwined’ is still shining nightly at Golden Gate Park, but some of its pieces have just branched out to UN Plaza, and these shrub sculptures will be lit up there every night for up to two years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muddy Waters Coffee House is Up for Sale Levi’s is laying off 10% of its corporate workforce right after spending big on Levi’s Stadium naming rights; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe is changing his name; and the Muddy Waters on Valencia Street is on the selling block for $75,000.
SF News Another City Hall Employee Charged for Corruption, Allegedly Using Earthquake Funds to Buy VR Headsets An SF City Hall bribery scheme that surfaced in August has spawned a new set of charges wherein a city worker allegedly billed for earthquake supplies, but instead bought VR headsets and tech gear which he then resold on eBay.
SF Politics Willie Brown’s Old Clothes Now On Sale Through Goodwill In the ‘Willie Brown Collection’ We kid you not, former SF mayor Willie Brown is now selling his clothes on Goodwill, and you can own Da Mayor’s old clothes. There aren't any fedoras on sale, but you can buy one of his puffy Patagonia vests, and… his old coat hangers?
SF News Levi’s Agrees to Pay $170 Million for Ten-Year Extension of Levi’s Stadium Naming Rights Deal Levi’s Stadium will continue to be called Levi’s Stadium until 2043, as the apparel company has agreed to re-up their naming rights deal for $170 million, even though they still have nine years left on their original deal.
