SF News Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Bar Broken Into and Robbed — Twice In the Same Night The island of swank in an ocean of Tenderloin known as the Black Cat jazz bar suffered a break-in and burglary in the wee hours Tuesday morning, and once police cleared the scene, people promptly broke back in and robbed the place again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces First Batch of 2022 Acts Hundreds of SRO workers are planning a strike Wednesday, Outside Lands’ weed area Grass Lands announced its return, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass dropped a preview teasing 10 acts playing the festival this year.
SF News Tenderloin Tennis Coach Declares Tennis Court Untenable, Because, You Know, the Tenderloin A built-in tennis court may sound like a heavenly amenity in San Francisco, but when it’s located near Van Ness Avenue and Eddy Street, you’ll have some problems lobbed at you.
SF Politics Despite Impassioned Speech By Mandelman, Board Upholds Breed's Veto of Fourplex Legislation — By Just One Vote Supervisor Rafael Mandelman gave a barnburner of a speech Tuesday criticizing the mayor’s veto and YIMBY darling law SB 9, and almost overrode the mayor’s veto of his fourplex legislation, but still fell one vote short.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Reportedly Getting Increasingly Snippy and ‘Intense’ In Pivot to Metaverse, Amidst Declining Profits Some new leaks of palace intrigue from Facebook (now Meta) show that Mark Zuckerberg is becoming increasingly demanding to work for as the company pivots its focus to the Metaverse, which by the way, still does not actually exist.
SF News Confederate Flags Popped Up at Sonoma Raceway This Weekend, Controversy Ensues The Confederate flag has been banned from Sonoma Raceway since 2018, but a couple campers flew the flag this weekend anyway, and the NAACP Santa Rosa-Sonoma County branch says the response was not particularly speedy.
SF News Local Paper Tracks Down ‘Varsity Blues’ Scandal Mastermind, Finds Him at Florida Mobile Home Park The man who made $25 million illicitly getting kids into elite colleges — and then flipped on their parents to the FBI — now lives a life of pickleball and Rummikub at a Florida trailer park.
SF News Port of Oakland Reopens as AB5 Trucker Protest Moved to a ‘Free Speech Zone’ A trucker blockade that held up operations at the Port of Oakland for a week is resolved for now, though could return, as port officials promise they will “liaison” with Governor Newsom over the impact of independent contractor law AB5 on the trucking industry.
SF News In First Weekend, Fences at 24th and Mission Fail to Deter Vending, Mostly Just Block Sidewalk Access The new fences meant to discourage vending at 24th and Mission Street saw their first Saturday and Sunday of action, and did not seem to deter illegal vending, but instead just deterred access for folks using wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers.
SF News Fruitvale Avenue Ice Cream Shop Flavor Brigade Has Storefront Demolished In ATM Theft Security camera video catches the entire heist, as two suspects plow a car through the front window and all the way into the back of a Lower Dimond’s ice cream shop Flavor Brigade, just to make off with an ATM machine.
SF News Three Alleged Gang Members, Two From SF, Charged With Murder for March Shooting in Lafayette Contra Costa County prosecutors say that a March 23 shooting in Lafayette was the work of Tre-4 gang members, and are charging three suspects with murder and robbery.
SF News Federal Judge Hands Another Reprieve to Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment Residents A three-day restraining order on the clearing of the West Oakland encampment has been extended for a month, as a judge rules that Caltrans must provide residents with relocation plans by August 26 before they can clear any more of the site.
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars-Themed Burlesque Show ‘Empire Strips Back’ at Great Star Theater Is a Real Blast You’ll laugh it up, fuzzball, at ‘The Empire Strips Back,’ a Star Wars burlesque parody stage show that uses the force of elaborate costumes, props, and puppets that are out of this world.
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Has Sold His Dolores Heights Home After 10 Years The neighbors must be thrilled that the Chan-Zuckerbergs have unloaded their Dolores Heights area home for a reported $31 million, but Google Maps has blurred the residence, because Big Tech does respect certain people’s privacy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: January 6 Committee Hearings Return to Primetime Beloved Senegalese joint Little Baobab is getting a bigger, better location, downtown SF businesses’ loss has been residential neighborhood businesses’ gain, and the January 6 Commission is in session again for a primetime hearing.
SF News Caltrain Mulls Adding Another Bayview Station, Possibly at Oakdale Avenue The minds of Caltrain, the SFCTA, and the SF Planning Commission are considering adding another San Francisco Caltrain station in Bayview, and Planning says an Oakdale Avenue location should have the inside track.
SF Politics Breed Vetoes Fourplex Legislation, Says It Would ‘Set Back Housing Production’ Single-family zoning in San Francisco lives on, for now at least, as Mayor Breed vetoes Sup. Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation, saying it would "make it even less likely for new housing to be built."
SF News Now Four Patients Have Died After Being Moved Out of Laguna Honda Laguna Honda hospital is simultaneously moving patients out over its decertification while working on its recertification so it can keep patients there, and four fatalities highlight the tragic folly of this seemingly contradictory process.
Business & Tech Amazon Buying Up SF-Based One Medical for a Reported $3.9 Billion Those One Medical offices that have popped up around town over the last ten years are actually a national chain, and Amazon just bought up that SF-based chain for nearly $4 billion.
SF News Flooded SoMa High-Rise Cutting Off Tenants' Hotel Reimbursement, as They Learn They Can’t Return for Months Hotel assistance is being rescinded next month for the nearly 500 displaced residents of the flooded 33 Tehama building, just as they learn they can’t move back in "until late 2022 or even early 2023.”
SF News Federal Judge Halts Clearing of Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment, Though It Might Resume Friday It’s probably no comfort to the couple dozen people whose camps have already been removed, but a federal judge has halted Caltrans’ clearing of the Wood Street encampment, though that decision could be reversed as early as Friday.
SF Politics Supervisor Gordon Mar Smeared With ‘Communist Pedophile’ Flyers Posted in the Sunset The Epoch Times-Shen Yun faction of San Francisco politics is slinging some pretty toxic mud at District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar, with an anonymous flyering campaign accusing him of “grooming children” and providing “free money to crackheads.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elon Musk Loses Fight to Delay Twitter Trial The SF Public Defender is up in arms that the new DA is charging people just for possessing drug paraphernalia, Meta is being sued by another company called Meta, and Elon Musk swung and missed in his first legal battle of the Twitter trial.
SF Politics Supervisors Approve Ballot Measure to Move the Year We Elect the Mayor This November you will vote on which November will be the time you vote on who will be San Francisco's mayor, as the Board of Supervisors approves Sup. Dean Preston’s ballot measure to move the SF mayoral election to presidential election years.
SF Politics Bay Area Reps Jackie Speier and Barbara Lee Proudly Get Arrested at D.C. Abortion Rights Protest If you need another reason to love peninsula and East Bay congressional representatives Barbara Lee and Jackie Speier, they just blocked a street and got arrested Tuesday at a Washington, D.C. abortion rights rally.