SF News Day Around the Bay: Cop Who Shot Keita O’Neil Wants Case Dismissed, Blames Chesa Gallo Winery is laying off more than 350 people, the Bored Ape company admits their NFTs have no copyrights, and the ex-SFPD officer who shot and killed Keita O’Neil wants the case dismissed on the eve of his first hearings.
Bay Area Sports Uber Eats/DoorDash Guy Walks Onto Floor During Basketball Game, Internet Debates If It Was Publicity Stunt Wednesday night’s Loyola Chicago-Duquesne college basketball game was interrupted by an Uber Eats or DoorDash delivery person wandering onto the court, and angry school officials insist it was a publicity stunt.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Draws Attention to Squalid Conditions For Farm Workers Who Live On-Site While San Mateo County prosecutors are busy investigating the details of Monday’s mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, they also say “we have to act” on the conditions of farmworkers living in shipping containers, working 70-hour weeks, at well below minimum wage.
Arts & Entertainment The North Bay’s Go-To Online Movie Schedule Guides are Shutting Down Today The 28-year run of SonomaMovies.com, and its sister site NorthBayMovies.com, will come to an end today, as the site’s sole proprietor is calling it quits on aggregating movie showtimes for a five-county, 160-mile stretch of Northern California.
SF Politics SF Attorney Harmeet Dhillon Might Be Elected Chair of the Republican National Committee This Week “San Francisco Values,” hmmm? Local attorney and longtime Republican gadfly Harmeet K. Dhillon is running against Ronna McDaniel in Friday’s race for RNC chair, but her reported “unity ticket” with the MyPillow Guy might doze her odds off.
SF News Thief Steals Van That Turns Out To Have Eight Dogs Inside, But Dogs And Van All Quickly Recovered A van thief at Buena Vista Park may not have realized the cargo of the vehicle they were swiping, as the Mercedes Sprinter was a dog-walking van with eight dogs inside, but the dog-napping was foiled within three hours.
SF Politics Oakland NAACP Rallies Behind Suspended Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, Whose Supporters Are Closing Ranks A week into his suspension for allegedly mishandling internal discipline, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is mounting an aggressive PR campaign to get his job back, with the Oakland NAACP and several community figures rallying for him outside an Oakland courthouse.
SF News Santa Rosa Police Arrest At Least Seven Suspects for July Sideshow, Still Looking To Arrest More Sideshows in Sonoma County? Indeed there was a big one there in early July, and Santa Rosa police just issued 14 arrest warrants, plus their searches have turned up nearly a dozen firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Suspect Caught On Video Beating 78-Year-Old Man in Downtown Alley Police are hoping newly released security video can help identify a suspect in an early morning aggravated assault a few weeks back that occurred on Natoma Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Justice Department Wants To Break Up Google Governor Newsom met with Monterey Park shooting hero Brandon Tsay, Kevin McCarthy is tossing East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee, and the Department of Justice wants to break up Google over its digital ad monopoly.
SF News Supervisors Pass Ambitious Housing Element Plan to Build 82,000 New Units By 2031 A nearly year-long housing policy battle appears to have come to a surprisingly harmonious conclusion, as the SF Board of Supervisors just unanimously passed a state-mandated housing element, and in an unexpected surprise, the state says it will approve the plan.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Defensive Lineman Charles Omenihu Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges It’s a bad time for a bad distraction, but the 49ers now have one as defensive end Charles Omenihu was arrested in San Jose late Monday afternoon for misdemeanor domestic violence.
Arts & Entertainment New Carol Doda Mural Now On Display Outside North Beach Bistro Bodega Groundbreaking exotic dancer Carol Doda, once known as "the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco," now graces the peaks of North Beach, as the nation’s first topless dancer receives tribute in a new outdoor mural at Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street.
Business & Tech Now Even King Charles III Is Suing Twitter Over Unpaid Rent Elon Musk’s office-space squatting strategy is making waves of litigation on the other side of the pond too, as the real estate manager for the Royal Family’s Crown Estate is also hauling Musk to court over refusal to pay rent at Twitter’s London office.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smart-Alecky ‘Vegan McDonald’s’ Knock-Off Opens in Union Square, Right Across From Real McDonald’s Saturday saw the San Francisco opening of the up-an-coming plant-based fast-food chain Mr. Charlie’s, whose menu items and promotions clown on Ronald McDonald and the broader McDonald’s franchise.
SF News Sunday’s 49ers Traffic In Santa Clara ‘Worse Than Any Time In Levi’s History’ Eight and a half years into the Levi’s Stadium era, Santa Clara and the 49ers seemingly still have not figured out the traffic situation near the stadium, and fans and sports media alike care calling Sunday’s game-day mess the “worst traffic jam in Levi’s Stadium history.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: SF’s 15% Delivery-Fee Cap Effectively Ends Next Week, When New ‘Compromise’ Deal Kicks In After San Francisco was first to adopt a pandemic-era fee cap for third-party delivery sites like DoorDash and Grubhub, a compromise deal will take effect here January 31 where the apps can go back to charging way more than 15%.
SF Politics Suspended Oakland Police Chief Swings Back, Mounts Campaign to Be Reinstated Placed on paid administrative leave over alleged mishandling of internal discipline, Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong is going on offense with a lawyer, PR representative, and allies he’s rounded up.
SF News Downtown Berkeley’s Last Remaining Movie Theater, the Regal UA, Is Closing Pour another one out for another movie theater biting the dust, as the Regal UA on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley is closing. There’s no closing date announced, but it looks like their lease will expire February 15.
SF News Paid Parklet Permit System Hits Application Deadline, Most SF Businesses Intend To Keep Their Parklets The free ride is over for San Francisco parklets, but now that businesses must pay $2,000 a year for each parking space their parklet occupies, nearly 80% of current parklet owners are still opting to keep them.
SF News Whole Foods Moves In Again On Long-Vacant Former Best Buy Location at Geary and Masonic Whole Foods has submitted new plans to occupy the space that Best Buy vacated way back in 2017, as the grocer continues its now nearly-six-year quest to be the new anchor tenant at City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Placed on Administrative Leave Over Alleged Mishandling of Internal Investigation New Oakland mayor Sheng Thao is moving fast, placing the city’s police chief LeRonne Armstrong on paid administrative leave just one day after an internal report was made public saying he’s failed to hold officers accountable for misconduct.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Announces Grants Of Up To $5,000 for Storm-Damaged Businesses UC Davis fired the prominent chemistry professor accused of raping a high school student, the wildly popular Dave’s Hot Chicken opens Friday in Oakland, and SF small businesses that suffered storm damage are now eligible for grants of up to $5,000.
SF News Video: President Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties, Announces More Relief Funds President Joe Biden touched down in Santa Clara County just before noon, toured the wreckage in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and Capitola, and announced more relief funds in a speech that’s already posted online.
SF News Check Out the Upcoming Ferry Building Renovations, Including a New Coat of Paint Just in time for the Ferry Building’s 125th birthday, we have fresh new renderings of the enhancements coming to the plaza and marketplace, including a new coat of paint with a custom color called “Ferry Building Gray.”
