SF News They’re Back — Indoor Mask Mandates Return to Berkeley Schools, In What May Be the Shape of Things to Come Hoping to just make it through the rest of the school year without further COVID catastrophes, Berkeley Unified School District puts the indoor mask mandate back on.
SF News 30-Acre Brush Fire Raged in Contra Costa County for Two Hours Friday, Now Fully Contained A grassy hill brush fire between Concord and Bay Point forced several evacuations early Friday afternoon and eventually grew to 30 acres, but Cal Fire had it fully contained by 2 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment H.R. Pufnstuf Cosplay Convention ‘Kroftt Kon’ Lands In Orinda This Weekend Sid and Marty Kroftt themselves will be on hand, with cosplayers competing for cash prizes, in a celebration of retro TV shows like ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ and ‘Land of the Lost’ that will be anything but a routine expedition.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Sexual Misconduct Charges Arrive; Allegedly Exposed Himself and Propositioned Flight Attendant “Elongate” dropped early Thursday night, with a report that his SpaceX company paid a flight attendant $250,000 to buy her silence over an incident where Musk allegedly exposed himself and offered her a horse if she would “do more.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Firefighter Accused of Assaulting Another SF Firefighter Elon Musk got hit with sexual misconduct allegations, a report says the Bay Area is the only place in the nation whose rents are still lower than pre-pandemic, and the SF Fire Department is facing some questions about their handling of an alleged firefighter-on-firefghter violence incident.
SF News Anti-Abortion Activists Charged With Breaking Into UCSF, Recording Patients, Doxxing Doctor With Flyer Campaign DA Chesa Boudin has charged three anti-abortion crusaders for allegedly crashing a women’s clinic and recording patients, and then flyering a doctor's neighborhood with handbills that exposed that clinician’s name and address.
Bay Area Sports TNT’s Charles Barkley Escalates Beef With SF, Tells Warriors Fans He’ll ‘F*** Your Mama’ Charles Barkley continued his “I hate San Francisco” Warriors postgame show act by shouting at SF fans “I’m going to come to your house and f*** your mama!” But folks, this is just something he does for ratings and social media engagement.
SF Politics SF Juvenile Hall Still Has Kids Locked Up, Despite Promise to Close The Facility by the End of Last Year The Board of Supervisors vowed to shutter SF's Juvenile Hall three years ago. But kids are still incarcerated there well past the closure deadline, at a cost of more than $1 million per year, per kid.
SF News Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Released From Prison, Now Smirking in Halfway House Reviled Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli served only four years of his seven-year sentence, but remember that he was not in prison for being a Pharma Bro, but instead for being a Securities Fraud Bro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink First Bay Area Eataly Location Gets an Opening Date, and Here Are Some Food Pics We have a June 16 Grand Opening now officially scheduled for Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair location of the Italian food emporium Eataly, which will be a staggering three stories, 45,000 square feet, and have two dedicated restaurants.
SF News Billionaire-Backed Security Cameras Everywhere In SF Finally Getting Set of Rules For How They Can Be Used A full 10 years and 1,000 surveillance cameras later after a cryptocurrency mogul started putting security cameras all over town, we’re finally getting a set of rules on how they can and cannot be used.
SF News With Stunning $97.5 Billion Surplus, Newsom Will Spend Big to Help Beleaguered Schools Governor Gavin Newsom now has an astonishing amount of surplus money to throw around, and he’s throwing a big chunk to bail out California schools with declining enrollment and awash in red ink.
Business & Tech Facebook Releases Report On Which Posts They Remove and Censor, Turns Out Most Aren’t Political Facebook held a conference call Tuesday to discuss which posts they most often remove and why, which was inconveniently timed after the weekend’s Buffalo mass shooting video was still on the platform.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants’ Tommy La Stella Just Hit Fifth-Longest HR Recorded in Team History A San Francisco school bus was hit by a bullet Tuesday morning, the Mission Cultural Center is now an SF landmark, and Giants second baseman Tommy La Stella just hit one of the longest home runs in team history.
Arts & Entertainment John Oliver Calls PG&E 'A Fire Company That Occasionally Delivers Power To People’s Homes’ Sunday’s episode of ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ featured a lengthy stemwinder shredding PG&E to bits, and for good measure, razzing Gavin Newsom for going so easy on the wildfire-plagued utility.
SF News More Recology Problems: City Report Alleges They Pulled $23.4 Million More In Profits Than Was Agreed The waste hauler with a monopoly on San Francisco refuse collection is facing another round of pointed questions, as a new report from the city controller says the company “netted profits of $23.4 million over and above” their rate-setting agreement with the city.
Business & Tech Musk Claims Twitter Deal ‘Cannot Move Forward’ Because of Fake Accounts, Probably Just Trying to Drive Down Price Another infantile tweetstorm from Elon Musk claims his Twitter purchase “cannot move forward” because of the prevalence of fake accounts, but analysts suspect he’s trying to drive down the price or back out entirely.
SF Politics Sanitation and Streets Department To Take Shape Tuesday, Hopes to Be ‘Laser Focused’ On Cleaning Up SF Streets Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.
SF News Grisly Weekend In SF With Homicide on Balmy Alley, Three Stabbings Saturday, Human Remains Found Near Vis Valley SF police are seeking information on a number of violent crimes from over the weekend, including an early Saturday morning homicide on Balmy Alley, and a set of human remains found on rail tracks near Visitacion Valley.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Adorable Teen From Mill Valley Gets to Play Drums For Pearl Jam in Oakland A Tamalpais High senior got to jam with Pearl Jam at Saturday night’s Oakland Arena show, and even flowed right in after the band's drummer tested positive for COVID-19.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers Returns In Its Full Drunk-As-Hell-at-8 a.m. Glory At least 18,000 booze bags, costumed loons, and even the occasional serious jogger turned out for the first bay to Breakers since 2019 Sunday, and SFist captured a trove of images of the day’s prime silliness.
SF News Quickly Boba Shop Suspect In Stolen Goods Ring Had Already Been Arrested In 2019 For a Similar Scheme There are plenty of questions about the legal process on a suspect just charged with running a fencing operation from a Tenderloin Quickly storefront, as it turns out the suspect was already arrested and still awaiting trial for a 2019 case with the same charges.
SF News San Jose Cop Accused of Masturbating In Front of Mother and Daughter In Department's Latest Bizarre Scandal A department already reeling from police scandals involving a meth pipe and drinking on the job has an even more unsavory situation, as an officer is accused of indecent exposure toward a young woman and her mother while responding to a call.
Business & Tech Surprise! Elon Musk Now Getting Wobbly On Buying Twitter, Claims Deal Is 'Temporarily On Hold’ The erratic billionaire may be trying to back out of his stunning bid to take over Twitter, now claiming he is concerned about “spam/fake accounts,” but analysts suspect he's just getting cold feet and that he may not actually be able to line up the money.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFUSD Has Hired Themselves a New Superintendent The 49ers just released their full 2022 season schedule, the VTA has razed the building where a shooter killed nine of his colleagues last year, and the SF Unified School District has plucked Hayward’s superintendent Matt Wayne to serve in the same position here.
