Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Announces Another Batch of Performers, Including St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard The third and final batch of Noise Pop acts was just announced for next month’s festival, and it features St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service frontman Benjamin Gibbard, both playing separate nights at the Grace Cathedral.
SF News SFMTA Has Issued at Least Two Wrongful Tickets to People Parked in the Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs in the Richmond Some renegade fake “no parking” curbs in the Richmond District seem designed to fool motorists into thinking they can’t park in these legal spots. They’ve apparently fooled some ticket agents too, as SFMTA has issued a couple of tickets they’ve had to rescind.
SF News Two Men Face Charges for Oakland Murder of Man Whose Body Was Found Wrapped in Plastic Garbage Bag Seven weeks ago, Oakland Police found a dead body abandoned and wrapped in a garbage bag in West Oakland. Now they’re naming two suspects, one of whom has been arrested, and the other is still at large.
SF News SF Gets an Early Morning Taste of SpaceX Rocket Activity in Our Skies Some crazy lights and cloud formations created a mysterious celestial display around 6 am Friday morning in San Francisco skies, and it was all because of a SpaceX rocket launch that happened more than 300 miles away in Santa Barbara.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Wants to Loosen Rules Around Police Car Chases After Gavin Newsom started haranguing the Oakland PD to engage in more car chases of suspects, new Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell agreed, and laid out his proposal for more car chases at higher speeds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Chinese New Year ‘Year of the Snake’ Statues Are Now Up in SF Some SF in-home caregivers allegedly drained a millionaire's bank account before she died; the JCPenney at the Tanforan shopping center is closing; and those Lunar New Year statues are back in SF for the Year of the Snake.
Arts & Entertainment SF City Hall Approves Huge Outer Mission Rock Climbing Gym, After Filipino Grocery Store Backed Out The long-vacant site of the former Pacific Supermarket at Alemany Boulevard near Mission Street lost its replacement tenant Island Pacific Supermarket, but the SF Planning Commission just approved making the place a 33,000 square-foot rock climbing gym.
Business & Tech Latest Robotaxi Criticism Claims They’re Blocking SF Housing Development Here’s a complaint we hadn't considered about Waymos and self-driving cars, as at least 600 units of proposed housing are not getting built, because the property owners are getting quicker and easier money by renting out the lots as vehicle charging stations.
SF News Central Subway Will Be Shut Down Next Month For Water Leak Repairs People who ride the T-Third line through the Central Subway will be relegated to bus service between late February and mid-March, as SFMTA fixes the subway's water leak issues that they once had to address with plastic red beer pong cups.
SF News Parking Vigilante Paints Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs In Richmond District as Daylighting Laws Kick In As the new daylighting laws preventing parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk are in effect, SFMTA has not painted all of the necessary curbs red. So some joker went and painted some counterfeit red “no parking” curbs, but got the dimensions completely wrong.
Business & Tech Conspiracy Theories Fly as Meta Users Find Themselves Suddenly Following Trump and JD Vance Millions of Facebook and Instagram users were shocked to find that they were suddenly following Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Melania Trump, but the company insists it was just the normal switching of official accounts that happens for every presidential transition.
SF News Early Morning Fire Displaces Four at the SRO Formerly Known as the Hotel Diva A 1 am apartment fire Wednesday morning on the second floor of the former Hotel Diva has left four people displaced, though no one was injured.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Fumes as $500 Billion AI Data Center Investment Comes From Sam Altman and Not Him The completely unproven and unreliable AI sector says it’s going to build $500 billion worth of data centers with Trump’s blessing, and with AI safeguards now repealed, that’s a lot of deepfake porn to produce. But Elon Musk is mad that he’s not in on the action.
SF News Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Kingpin of the Bitcoin Drugs-and-Murder Online Market Silk Road In another sop to the libertarian crypto bros, President Trump has pardoned the San Francisco founder of the Silk Road online drug marketplace, indicating Trump’s increasing fondness for crime among the cryptocurrency crowd.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Books Inc. Files for Bankruptcy, Will Close Berkeley Store We’re getting more information on Sunday’s mass-casualty crash in SoMa; Vans has closed its Marina District store; and the 174-year-old Bay Area bookstore chain Books Inc. has filed for bankruptcy and will close its Berkeley location.
SF News San Jose Police Union Exec Gets Probation for Dealing Opioids, SF Officer Who Robbed Rite-Aid Resurfaces Two high-profile examples of Bay Area law enforcement personnel being on the wrong side of the opioid trade are back in the news, just with lighter sentencing than what law enforcement usually clamors for in the newspapers.
SF Politics Bay Area Trans Community Braces for Civil Rights Onslaught After Trump Remarks ‘There are Two Genders, Male and Female’ Donald Trump’s inaugural speech seemed to be an opening salvo of war against the trans and non-binary communities, who are gearing up for legal attacks on their passports and driver's licenses, and the potential for widespread discrimination.
SF News Federal Employees Ordered Back to Office Five Days a Week, Including in SF One of Trump’s Day One executive fiats was to order all federal employees back to the office five days a week, which seems more like an attempt to manufacture excuses to fire career civil servants who are not Trump loyalists.
Business & Tech Big Tech Bigwigs Agree to Strict New EU Hate Speech Moderation Rules, But They’re Free to Just Ignore Them Xitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have signed on to a European Union agreement to prevent and remove hate speech from their platforms, which seems meaningless, because all of their CEOs and founders were at Trump’s inauguration today.
SF News In 2024, SF Saw Fewest Fatal Drug Overdoses In Five Years San Francisco may have turned the corner on its fentanyl overdose crisis, or at least, we saw substantially fewer overdose deaths in 2024 than in the record year of 2023, and 2024 had fewer SF overdose deaths than any year of the last five years.
SF Politics Feds’ Sheng Thao Indictment Says She Actually Tried to Solicit $3 Million Bribe When the Department of Justice announced their indictment of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao last week, they said her live-in boyfriend was bribed to the tune of $95,000. But the full indictment says Thao actually asked for $3 million, though didn’t get it.
SF News Tesla Reportedly In Autopilot Mode Plows Into Mission District Plant Store A plant store called Mellow SF was hit by a Tesla that was reportedly in autopilot mode early Sunday afternoon, but the car seems to have taken more damage than the shop, and no people or plants were harmed.
Bay Area Sports Charles Barkley Claims He Will Refuse to Attend NBA All-Star Game Because It’s in SF, Though He Absolutely Will Be Here The latest SF provocation from TNT jokester-analyst Charles Barkley was him claiming Thursday night that “I’m not going to that rat-infested place out in San Francisco” for the All-Star Game, though he has contractual obligations to attend and he surely will.
SF News Nob Hill’s Posh Stanford Court Hotel Hit With Foreclosure Lawsuit Over Claims of Missed Mortgage Payments In the latest debt trouble for a San Francisco hotel, lender Deutsche Bank AG just sued the owners of the Stanford Court Hotel for allegedly missing payments on their $105 million mortgage, and for supposedly allowing elevators to go unrepaired.
SF News Fire Raged Thursday Night at Monterey County's Moss Landing Battery Plant, At Least 1,200 Evacuated The fire is still going as of Friday at the Moss Landing Power Plant in northern Monterey County, though it is largely contained — but parts of Highway 1 remain closed and at least 1,200 residents had to be evacuated.
