Arts & Entertainment Holiday-Themed Projection Mapping Display ‘Let’s Glow SF’ Returns to Razzle-Dazzle SF Buildings Friday Night Friday night kicks off the third year of the holiday projection mapping display Let Glow SF, bringing animated ice castles and freaky festive projections to the sides of San Francisco buildings.
SF News Berkeley Advocates for Homeless Up In Arms Over Roped-Off ‘For Customers Only’ Section at BART Plaza A very Berkeley story out of Berkeley this week, as a little restaurant plaza outside the BART station has roped off one area with signage saying “For Customers Only,” and advocates for the homeless population are furious over the move.
SF News Car Bursts Into Flames on 24th Street in the Mission District A white BMW somehow caught fire and was consumed in flames shortly before 8:30 Friday morning, and while the fire was significant, there are reportedly no injuries nor was there damage to other vehicles or structures.
SF Politics Curiously Tan Gavin Newsom Holds Up Well In Fox News Debate With Sean Hannity and Ron DeSantis Fox News stacked the deck against Gavin Newsom in his Thursday night debate with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity, but a calm, collected Newsom scored the night’s best zingers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Northern Lights May Be Visible in Northern California Tonight Former San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo looks like he’s running for Rep. Anna Eshoo’s seat, Beyonce’s 'Renaissance' movie is premiering tonight, and the famed aurora borealis Northern lights may be visible tonight in northern California.
SF News Bribery Scandal In Fisherman’s Wharf: Nick's Lighthouse Owners Charged by FBI With Trying to Bribe Port Officials The good news is that established restaurateurs hope to take over the vacant Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack. The bad news is they allegedly tried to bribe port officials with $19,000 to do so, and one of the port officials was actually an undercover FBI agent.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Nightclub Amado’s Has Closed Permanently, Owner Blames New Center Bike Lane Eight-year-old Valencia Street bar Amado’s apparently closed for good over the weekend, with the owner blaming the street’s new center bike lane. To add insult to injury, the SFMTA just delayed its evaluation of possible changes to that bike lane.
SF News Multiple Data Sources Say Retail Theft Is Declining In San Francisco SFPD is hailing it as proof that their crackdown is working that both internal and external data show a decline in San Francisco retail theft, though it’s not yet a long-term trend, and the findings could just be statistical noise.
SF News Supervisor Proposes Expanding ‘Homeward Bound’ Program That Buses Homeless Out of SF An 18-year-old program that offers free bus tickets out of town for unsheltered people to reunite with family is not so well used anymore, but mayoral hopeful Supervisor Ahsha Safai wants to bolster and expand the Homeward Bound initiative.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Sue SF-Based Developer for Allegedly Not Paying the Bill for Their Luxury Box Suites Developer Mosser Companies is allegedly $4 million in arrears on their luxury suites at the Chase Center, and the team-owned arena managers are taking them to court for the unpaid bills.
SF Politics In a Blast From the Past, Former SF Supervisor Mark Farrell Indicates He Might Run for Mayor Apparently there’s some purported campaign to draft former District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell to run against London Breed in the 2024 mayoral race, and polling suggests he’d have a good shot at winning the increasingly crowded race.
Arts & Entertainment Another Movie Theater Bites the Dust: The Regency 6 Cinema In San Rafael More tragic endings for Bay Area film fans, as San Rafael’s Regency 6 Cinema apparently closed permanently on Sunday, as the sluggish rebound from COVID claims another longtime Bay Area movie house.
SF News SF Man Sentenced to Four Years In Prison for Selling Guns, Meth, and Ecstasy to Undercover Informant 36-year-old Trajordon Svarda pleaded guilty to selling six illegal guns and about 300 grams of meth and ecstasy to an undercover informant, and was sentenced to 52 months in prison, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
SF Politics Supervisor Safai’s ‘Cop Tax’ Headed for the March 5 Ballot, But Would Fund More Than Just Cops SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safai may have won the first battle in the war of the 2024 SF elections with a new ballot measure tying police staffing to tax revenue, though a colleague called it “the worst-written piece of legislation I think I’ve seen.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Silicon Valley Bank (Sort Of) Back From the Dead, Leases SF Space From LinkedIn Valencia Street’s Stonemill Matcha is going to reopen, Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team, and the bankrupt-but-acquired Silicon Valley Bank has agreed to leasing some space in the downtown SF LinkedIn building.
SF Politics Facing Crucial Deadline on High-Stakes Housing Ordinance, SF Supervisors Just Plain Delay Their Vote With a 30-day state deadline that has potentially hundreds of millions of dollars at stake on a critical piece of housing legislation, the SF Board of Supervisors yawned, stretched, and delayed their vote by another week at Tuesday’s meeting.
Arts & Entertainment SF Approves Reborn Version of The Stud's Liquor License for Its New SoMa Location The Stud stepped forward toward getting a liquor license at their new Folsom near Seventh Street location Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors endorsed granting a liquor license to the reborn incarnation of The Stud.
SF News Heads Up: BART Trains Won’t Run Though Glen Park, Balboa Park, or Daly City Stations This Weekend Inconveniences and delays of up to 30 minutes loom this weekend for BART riders, as they’re shutting down train service between the Glen Park and Daly City stations and offering buses instead, but the ripple effects will affect riders at other stations too.
SF Politics Newsom Announces $300 Million In New Grants to Clear Homeless Encampments Governor Gavin Newsom says he’s handing $300 million to cities and state organizations to clear homeless encampments, but insists it’s not just for clearing encampments, but for providing shelter too.
SF Politics Sean Hannity Saying Curiously Complimentary Things About Gavin Newsom Fox News host Sean Hannity is on a media blitz promoting his show’s somewhat puzzling Thursday night debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis, and surprisingly, Hannity keeps talking about how much he and Newsom “hit it off.”
Business & Tech Google Will Begin Mass-Deleting Unused Accounts on Friday, Purging Accounts Not Used In Two Years If you have an old Gmail account you haven't used in two years, be warned it is on the chopping block, as on Friday Google will start deleting accounts that have not been used in two years or longer.
SF News Monday Night Vigil to Mark 45th Anniversary of Harvey Milk and George Moscone Assassinations One of the darkest days in SF history will be marked with the annual vigil in the Castro honoring the legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, both murdered 45 years ago today.
SF News New Names Being Floated for the Renaming of Stow Lake A years-long campaign to change the name of Stow Lake, named for a man with an ugly legacy of antisemitism, has resulted in a short list of ten suggested new names for the 130-year-old man-made lake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Chef Speaks Out, Launches GoFundMe After Fire Destroys the Restaurant Despite its building being decimated by a fire and red-tagged, the hit West Oakland restaurant Horn Barbecue was still handing out free turkeys to those in need Wednesday afternoon. Chef Tyler Florence was on hand helping, while a GoFundMe campaign seeks to rebuild the place.
SF News Annual Alcatraz Sunrise ‘Unthanksgiving’ Happening Thursday, Colin Kaepernick Springing for Breakfast There will once again be a few thousand Indigenous people and allies on Alcatraz for the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Thursday, and while Colin Kaepernick may or may not be attending, he’s providing food from a renowned Native American chef.
