Arts & Entertainment Holiday-Themed Projection Mapping Will Display on Downtown SF Buildings Animated ice castles, poinsettias, and polar bears are coming to the sides of four downtown buildings in December, as “the largest holiday projection mapping holiday in the U.S.” rings in the season.
SF News Day Before Thanksgiving Around the Bay: Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Returns at Full Capacity A KRON-4 security guard is in stable condition after being shot in Oakland, cult-hit microbrew Pliny the Younger will get an in-person release again, and the Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering returns in-person Thursday after a COVID-19 hiatus.
SF News Half of All Reported SF Shoplifting Incidents in One Month Came From the Metreon Target Shoplifting incidents reported to SFPD doubled in September! But the increase all came from one Target store, then the spike completely disappeared the next month, and what can we even believe anymore.
Business & Tech More Than 600 Google Employees Sign Manifesto Opposing Their Workplace Vaccine Mandate This is merely 600 workers out of 150,000, and you know they’re all just going to cave in eventually, but 600 Google employees won’t go down without a tantrum over the company’s vaccination mandate.
SF News Police Appear to Just Sit and Watch as NoPa Dispensary Gets Burglarized Here’s a new wrinkle in the ongoing smash-and-grab robbery chronicles, as security video indicates SFPD sat and watched the robbery of a dispensary, not intervening until after the getaway vehicle drove off.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Food Workers Set to Protest, Making Wednesday Even More Chaotic at SFO A state housing department is making noise over the supes’ rejection of a 27-story high-rise, SFPD will face the music at a town hall over last week's police shooting, and a food worker protest aims to make SFO even more hairy on the day before Thanksgiving.
SF News SF Dispensaries Gear Up for Green Wednesday, the ‘Black Friday of Weed’ The day before Thanksgiving is the second-busiest cannabis shopping day of the year, and we recommend you shop early, or pre-order online.
SF News Map: Everywhere You Can Get a Free COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Shot in SF There are 109 locations in San Francisco providing booster vaccine shots to the general public, and quite a few of them do accept drop-ins.
Arts & Entertainment Roving Jazz Concerts Bebopping Around City In Bay Area Jazz Mobile The “guerrilla jazz” van known as the Bay Area Jazz Mobile is popping up in parks and parking lots, and giving paid gigs to local jazz musicians.
SF News Tesla Fremont Plant Employee Sues Over ‘Rampant Sexual Harassment’ At the Facility An employee at the Tesla Fremont plant says she was routinely groped, catcalled, and propositioned on the job, even by her superiors, in a new sexual harassment lawsuit.
Arts & Entertainment 90s Nostalgia Mousses Up as 'Nash Bridges’ Reboot Premieres Saturday The trailer for the ‘Nash Bridges’ reunion just dropped before Saturday’s premiere, and it might be worth tuning in just to see Willie Brown in a pot dispensary.
Business & Tech DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.
SF News SF to Hand Out 5,500 Free Turkeys for Thanksgiving The San Francisco Turkey Giveaway is handing out free turkeys to gobble up for the 15th year in a row, this year with 5,500 birds being given out for Thanksgiving.
SF Politics Sup. Mandelman’s Fourplex Legislation Clears Major Hurdle By Passing Planning Commission A plan that could turn 110,000 single-family homes into fourplexes passed the Planning Commission after hours of testimony, but is still likely to face contentious debate in committees and before the Board of Supervisors.
SF News SFPD Fatally Shoots Knife-Wielding Man at Fifth and Folsom Residential Hotel There was heavy police activity Friday morning on the 900 block of Folsom Street, after an officer shot and killed a man armed with a knife inside an SRO.
SF News Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges, and Wisconsin May See Some Unrest Tonight Militia kid Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man, as a jury acquitted him of all charges after deliberating for three and a half days.
Arts & Entertainment Martin Scorsese Grateful Dead Biopic Nabs Jonah Hill to Play Jerry Garcia Scorsese’s upcoming flick will be a yet-unnamed Grateful Dead biopic for Apple, and Jonah Hill will portray the late Jerry Garcia.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Campaign Releases First TV Ad, Featuring Paid Campaign Staff The first Recall Chesa TV ad starts airing Thursday night, and tells you that “Chesa Boudin is failing.” It does not tell you which people featured in the ad are paid recall campaign staff.
Business & Tech Apple Relents and Will Let You Repair Your Own Devices, But Only On the Newest iPhones The long-sought consumer “right to repair” will finally arrive from Apple, but only for iPhone 12 and 13, and you have to buy the tools from them.
SF News Santa Clara Makes Very Small Exception to Unpopular Levi’s Stadium 10 p.m. Curfew Rule Levi’s Stadium has been a laughingstock concert venue over its nitpicky 10 p.m. concert cut-off, so Santa Clara just changed it — but only for five nights a year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Boudin Charges Alleged Target Mega-Thief on 128 Counts The whole nation is suffering from the same overdose crisis as SF, the DA throws the book at a woman accused of stealing $40,000 worth of stuff from a Target, and reviled sandwich franchise Chick-fil-A opens tomorrow just two miles from SF city limits.
SF Politics Yikes! Feinstein Could Be In Line of Presidential Succession If Dems Hold Senate Next Year A key Senate retirement could move 88-year-old Dianne Feinstein into the No. 3 spot in the presidential line of succession if Democrats keep control of the Senate — except she would be 89 if and when this happens.
SF News 3.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits San Ramon, Felt Across Local Earthquake Twitter There were actually three separate tremors just before noon Wednesday, and Earthquake Twitter was feeling it.
SF Politics More Indictments for Ex-DBI Commissioner and Building Inspector for Disguising Kickbacks as Rugby Donations “RoDBIgo” Santos and Bernie Curran are on the wrong end of a fresh set of federal indictments, in a scheme where alleged kickbacks came in the form of youth hockey and rugby donations.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Sure Has Questions About an Unexplained $461,000 Check the City Received from Recology The city apparently received a $461,000 check from Recology on September 16 and has no idea why. They haven’t cashed it yet, and Supervisor Peskin has a few pointed questions about this.
