SF Politics Latest Proposed California Ballot Measure Named After Luigi Mangione Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione could be immortalized in California law even if Trump sends him to the electric chair, as a ballot effort is underway to create an insurance measure called the “Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act.”
Arts & Entertainment After Legion of Honor ‘Cake Picnic’ Sells Out Instantly, Renegade Cake Picnics to Pop Up All Over Town Saturday There was plenty of finger-pointing when Saturday’s Legion of Honor Cake Picnic sold out the instant tickets went on sale, but now those fingers can run through the frosting at a number of rival cake picnics happening at the same time Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Now Valencia Street is Getting a Night Market Too, And Yes It Will Be Boozy The night markets that have been such a hit in the Sunset, Castro, and Chinatown are now coming to Valencia Street, with a new series of monthly “second Thursday” parties where bars will be able to sell to-go cocktails.
SF News SF Law Firm at Forefront of Fighting Back Against Trump’s Attempts to Punish Legal Industry As Donald Trump’s executive orders target law firms that have taken on his administration, many big firms are cowering and backing down. Others are doubling down on their mission, like one here in San Francisco that's fighting the legality of ICE raids.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Win Opening Day Game With Ninth Inning Home Run The waterfront Chevys in Emeryville might become a Benihana; that 'Bigballs' DOGE kid has a history of cybercrime; and you’ll want to see this video of the Giants winning their opener with a two-run, ninth inning homer.
SF News SF Lyft Driver Found Guilty of DUI on the Job, After Running Into Motorcycle and Fighting With Bystanders An SF Lyft driver with twice the legal BAC limit hit a motorcycle, got into a physical fight with people in front of the Roxie Theater, and tried to drive away. Today he was found guilty on these charges.
SF News Despite Strike Ending, VTA Trains Won’t Run Friday, Because Thieves Stole So Much Copper Wire It will not be a smooth resumption of service for Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority trains after their workers’ strike ended Wednesday, because thieves stole so much copper wire off the tracks that the trains can’t run again until next week.
Arts & Entertainment First-Ever Miss Chinatown Pageant Winner Is About to Celebrate Her 100th Birthday Penny Wong has been Chinatown royalty ever since 1948 when she won the first-ever Miss Chinatown Pageant, and now she’s gearing up to celebrate her 100th birthday.
SF News Yuba County Police Officer Shot and Killed, As Was Suspected Drug Kingpin, in Massive Raid It’s the first time in more than 100 years that a police officer in the Yuba County city of Marysville was killed in the line of duty, as a Wednesday morning raid led to a shootout that killed an officer and suspected drug dealer.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants Season Preview: It’s the Dodgers’ World, Can Buster Posey Ruin It for Them? Giants legend and fan favorite Buster Posey is now running the team's baseball operations, but as the new season starts Thursday, he faces a challenging landscape where the defending World Champion bum Dodgers keep getting richer with superstar talent.
SF News SFPD Encourages More Ricci Wynne Sex Assault Victims to Come Forward In a sign that they clearly think “anti-crime” crusader and indicted child pornographer Ricci Wynne has plenty more skeletons in his closet, the SFPD is putting out a public dragnet asking that any of Wynne’s victims come speak to their investigators.
SF News Last Week’s Big 40-Arrest Raid at Market and Van Ness Produced Exactly Zero Criminal Charges A much-publicized March 19 drug bust at Market and Van Ness got plenty of headlines for resulting in 40 arrests, but in a much-less reported development, absolutely none of the people arrested will face any criminal charges.
SF News Woman Charged With Stealing $56,000 Worth of Merch From SF Sephora and Luxury Eyewear Stores A 22-year-old woman stands accused for her alleged role in an organized theft ring that plucked a total of $56,000 in merchandise from local Sephora and high-end sunglasses shops, and was on supervised release at the time of the thefts.
SF News Water Main Break Leaves Bernal Heights’ Cortland Avenue With Sinkhole, Cars Diverted A block of Cortland Avenue at Moultrie Street is fully shut down to car traffic Wednesday morning after a water main ruptured, but 24-Divisadero buses are still running normal routes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Napster Still Exists, Somehow Just Sold for $207 Million A toxic algae bloom is killing sea lions all over the California coast; Elon Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ emails are now creating bouncebacks because the mailbox is full; and the dead, dusty bones of Napster just sold for more than $200 million.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Fires Football Coach Troy Taylor After Bullying Scandal, People Want Them To Hire Andrew Luck The once-mighty Stanford football program just fired its coach amid a four-season tailspin, and some are clamoring for star quarterback Andrew Luck, who’s been recently hired to run the football program from an administrative standpoint.
SF News Watch: Older Woman In Berkeley Gives a Whoopin’ to Pro-Trump Counterprotester Who Tried to Stun-Gun Her The Bay Area’s latest viral video star is a woman who opened a can of whoop-ass on some young Trumper half her age after he tried to stun-gun her at a Berkeley Tesla protest Saturday.
SF Politics Ousted Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone Speaks Out, Blasts Both Lurie and Breed Freshly fired SF Police Commissioner VP Max Carter-Oberstone gave a lengthy exit interview, and painted both Mayor Lurie and ex-Mayor London Breed as being imperious, vindictive, and defensively secretive.
SF News Union Square Chanel Store Rammed by Car In Apparent Smash-and-Grab Attempt Yet another would-be smash-and-grab was unsuccessful at the Union Square Chanel store early Monday morning, though the would-be burglars did serious damage to the storefront, and police suspect the same burglars tried this again at a nearby McDonald’s.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Is Back at the Chase Center This Weekend, But Ticket Demand Is Surprisingly Weak The March Madness college basketball “Sweet 16” games come back to the Chase Center Thursday, but ticket prices for the games here are slumping, thanks to low-interest match-ups of schools that are located 2,000 or so miles away.
SF News Flight to Shanghai Diverted to SFO, Because the Pilot Forgot Their Passport The latest major US airline snafu does not involve any of Elon Musk’s DOGE staffing cuts, but instead just some United Airlines pilot forgetting their passport, forcing an emergency landing at SFO.
SF News Great Highway Walls Vandalized Yet Again, With Angry Graffiti From Apparent Park-Haters Saturday night was the second time since the Great Highway closed that its concrete walls were defaced with graffiti, this time with misspelled messages of “gentriffy” and “Your bringing trouble.”
SF News New 16th Street Police Presence Just Moving Blight to Nearby Alleys, Residents Say The hulking police RV and crew of officers now stationed at 16th and Mission may have cleaned up that one corner, but has moved new pockets of crime and drug bazaars to nearby small alleys, making life for residents there a newfound hell.
SF News Amidst 'Fiscal Cliff’ Panic, Scott Wiener Introduces BART and Muni Funding Package As fears set in that BART trains would run just once an hour and Muni might cut frequency by 50%, state Senator Scott Wiener is proposing a funding package to save them, but it involves voters approving a new sales tax.
SF News SoMa SRO Mosser Hotel Gets Rejected In Their Attempt to Convert the Place Into a Full Tourist Hotel It seems counterintuitive to scrap housing that people need in exchange for hotel rooms, especially when the SF tourism economy is struggling. But SoMa’s Mosser Hotel hoped to do just that, though the SF Planning Commission shot that idea down Thursday.
