SF News SFPD Hosts Town Hall on Last Weekend’s Police Shooting on Shotwell Street The police department is still not exactly saying who shot first in an August 6 shootout between officers and a suspected bike thief, but it turns out the suspect did not have a real gun.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Defends Secretive $100,000 Payment from Anti-Boudin Group, Which Turns Out Was Actually $153,000 In her first interview on the matter of a previously unreported $100,000 payment, which we now learn was a $153,000 payment, SF DA Brooke Jenkins continues to insist that her consulting for a group bankrolling the recall was unrelated to the recall.
SF News 12 People Need Rescue When Napa Fair Double-Ferris Wheel Breaks Down Mid-Ride Children as young as eight years old were stuck in the sky when a ride malfunctioned Saturday night at the Napa Town & Country Fair, requiring a fire department ladder truck to get them all down safely.
SF News SF Taiko Dojo Being Evicted at End of the Month, May Be Forced to Disband With their rent being tripled effective September 1, the popular long-running Bay Area Japanese drumming group and cultural collective San Francisco Taiko Dojo is looking at eviction, and may have already had their last performance.
SF News Stanford University Issues Alert After Woman Raped on Campus It’s unknown whether the victim was a student, but there is a physical description of the suspect, who has been seen “on campus before.”
SF News Feds Target Marin County ‘Wellness’ Gurus Accused of Fraudulent Business and $2 Million In Unpaid Taxes The author of “Skinny, Tan and Rich: Unveiling the Myth,” and her husband, stand accused of dodging a $2 million tax bill, and federal prosecutors allege they set up an LLC scheme to hide their assets.
Business & Tech Amazon to Bring Eerie-Sounding ‘Palm Scanner Payment Technology’ to SF Whole Foods Stores A bizarre biometric form of payment is coming to several Bay Area Whole Foods locations, allowing you to pay just by waving your palm. But is it worth handing your biological data to Amazon just to avoid the extremely menial task of pulling out a credit card?
SF News Tempers Flare as Castro Theatre Hosts First Public Meeting With Another Planet Entertainment A packed Castro Theatre saw a slew of “Save the Seats” activists sound off at a raucous public meeting about the theater’s future Thursday night, and there were other concerns that Another Planet’s Entertainment’s rebooted Castro Theatre might also be a Ticketmaster-only venue.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Recalled School Board Member Gabriela López is Running Again in November The 33 Tehama building has flooded yet again, UC Davis accidentally killed 21,000 fish, and freshly recalled school board member Gabriela López has thrown her hat in the ring to run again in November.
SF Politics D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Facing Residency Questions After Moving Three Times In Three Months All three moves by D4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie coincided with primary and special elections, plus a (seemingly missed) deadline for registering to run in November, and now the Department of Elections has opened a review about her residency in the district.
SF Politics We Now Have a DA Race, as Vocal Brooke Jenkins Critic John Hamasaki Is Running Against Brooke Jenkins November’s San Francisco District Attorney election will now definitely be a barnburner, as former police commissioner and fierce SFPD critic John Hamasaki files to run against Brooke Jenkins.
SF News Leslie Griffith, a 22-Year KTVU News Reporter and Eventual Anchor, Has Died Bay Area news viewers from the 1990s and early 2000s have lost a longtime favorite, as former anchor Leslie Griffith’s family announced she passed away in Mexico on Wednesday.
SF News Woman Says SFFD Sedated Her Against Her Will During Abortion Protest, She Just Served the City a John Burris Lawsuit A protest stunt at a June Warriors game meant to stand up for abortion rights, but allegedly ended with the spiking of a protester with a sedative, and that protester has enlisted famed civil rights attorney John Burris in a lawsuit against the city.
Business & Tech GM Cruise Self-Driving Vehicles Have Been Involved in Nine Hit-and-Runs This Year There’s no evidence that the self-driving cars were at fault in these accidents, but there is a very clear pattern that when people realize they’ve been in an accident with a car that has no driver, they just drive right away.
SF News Judge Rules Walgreens Can Be Held Liable For Overprescribing Opioids in SF, In Landmark Decision A huge win for City Attorney David Chiu, as a judge rules in the city’s favor and against Walgreens, who apparently prescribed more than 100 million opioid pills in San Francisco alone.
SF Politics New DA Brooke Jenkins Got $100,000 From Anti-Boudin Political Organization Nice “volunteer” work if you can get it! Brooke Jenkins claimed she was a volunteer for the recall campaign, but new campaign finance filings show she was paid a cool $100,000 as a consultant to a group that largely financed the recall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Six Million Californians Had Their Unemployment Payments Botched During the Pandemic San Francisco now has more than 500 monkeypox cases, the family of missing Oakley woman Alexis Gabe wants her ex-boyfriend’s mother charged as an accessory, and we now know nearly half of unemployed Californians had their benefits delayed during the pandemic downturn.
SF News Search for Missing Truckee Teen Drawing National Attention Four Days After Her Disappearance 16-year-old Truckee girl Kiely Rodni has not been seen since Friday night, and nor has her car, and law enforcement are treating her case as an abduction as more information emerges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A New Souvla is Opening in Dogpatch Next Week, in the Former Magnolia Brewery Space The Greek wrap, salad, and froyo sensation Souvla is expanding its cult-hit San Francisco footprint, with a new Dogpatch location opening next week featuring new small plates and an expanded Greek wine list in addition to the Souvla menu you’ve come to know and love.
SF News UC Berkeley Researchers Think They May Have Developed a Nasal Spray Thats Stops COVID There could be a miracle COVID-19 treatment coming out of the labs of a UC Berkeley toxicology department, as Bay Area researchers may have developed a nasal spray that prevents the spread of COVID-19.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe Abruptly Closes Its Doors In Emeryville After 20 Years A 20-year East Bay favorite known for their all-day breakfast and sticker-covered bathrooms, retro diner Rudy’s Can't Fail Cafe suddenly announced Monday that they’re closing for good, without citing a reason.
Arts & Entertainment Trivia Dream Come True: Amy Schneider to Host ‘Literary Pub Trivia’ Night on Tuesday The Bay Area Book Festival scored a pretty big get with 40-time Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider hosting a Literary Pub Trivia night Tuesday, and there’s still time for you to register to compete.
Arts & Entertainment As First Public Meeting on Castro Theatre Looms This Week, Debate Over Removing Seats Still Rages There’s sure to be much gnashing of teeth at Thursday night’s first community meeting on the overhaul of the Castro Theatre, with the fate of its lower-floor seats, and whether the venue’s programming will still be LGBTQ-themed enough, still very unresolved issues.
SF News Report: SF Has Largely Stopped Doing Contract Tracing for Monkeypox As the city now has nearly 450 confirmed monkeypox cases, we learn that the SFDPH is only contact tracing for a fraction of those cases, with one department email saying “Don’t want to say too much, or beg more questions.”
SF News After One-Year-Old Boy Found Dead on Ukiah Train Tracks, Deputies Arrest ‘Person of Interest’ A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two very young Ukiah boys went missing Wednesday, and the body of one of them was found dead on a set of train tracks.
