SF News Pier 39’s Sea Lion Population Surges to Seven-Year High, Fueled by Delicious Anchovies There may be more than 1,000 sea lions on SF’s Pier 39 right now, sunning themselves, barking, and getting good and fat, largely thanks to a school of anchovies available for them to feast upon.
Business & Tech Williams-Sonoma Fined Nearly $3.2 Million for Labeling Products as ‘Made in USA’ When They Were Not San Francisco-based houseware and cookware purveyor Williams-Sonoma just got nailed with a $3.18 million fine for claiming that products were “Made in USA” when they were actually made in China, and it’s not the first time the company has done this.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Proposes a $360 Million Bond Measure to Fund a Potpourri of Seemingly Unrelated Causes When you vote on whether to reelect Mayor London Breed on November 5, you might also be voting on Breed’s new $360 million bond measure that would fund hospitals, homelessness services, street improvements, and even Harvey Milk Plaza.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie PAC Already Spending Gigantic Sums To Clog Your Mailbox With November Election Mailers There’s only one candidate who’s already sending out mailers for SF’s November mayoral elections while it’s still April, and that’s Levi Strauss heir Danial Lurie, whose campaign PAC is bolstered by a million-dollar donation from his mom.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Camp Mather Celebrates 100 Years (Though at a Party 180 Miles Away From Camp Mather) The spirit of rural Tuolumne County came to the Bayview District Sunday, as the SF Rec and Parks Department celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of San Francisco's furthest-flung park, the popular Mather Family Camp.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill 175th Anniversary Party Draws Willie Brown, Mayor Breed, and Aaron Peskin (Who Were Very Nice to Each Other) The oldest restaurant in California, Tadich Grill, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Sunday, bringing many local luminaries, with political foes Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin burying their hatchets for one brief afternoon over cioppino and crab cakes.
SF News SF Federal Judge Hands Down 10-Year Sentence for Man Who Hired Assassin to Kill Zimbabwean Model Ex-Partner A San Francisco-based federal judge is sending an attorney to prison for ten years, after he hired a hitman to kill his estranged partner, a Zimbabwean fashion icon, but unfortunately for him the hitman was actually an undercover FBI agent.
Arts & Entertainment Area Man Buys Satire Site The Onion, Also Happens to Be Twilio Co-Founder Jeff Lawson Beloved humor site and “America’s Finest News Source” The Onion has been sold to San Francisco resident and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, who says “The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it.”
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Roller Skating Area Will Start Renting Out Skates This Weekend You no longer need to own roller skates to go roller skating at Golden Gate Park’s Skatin’ Place, because starting Saturday, roller skates and inline skates will be available for rental at the celebrated outdoor rink.
SF News Former SF AIDS Foundation Employee Brutally Murdered in New York City The SF HIV/AIDS prevention community is mourning the loss of 33-year-old Melanie Woods, a staple at fundraisers and events, who spent nearly three years organizing those events for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
SF News Early Morning Two-Alarm Fire Consumes Vacant Presidio Heights Building A large fire just before 4:30 am Friday morning consumed a four-story residential building at Lyon and Clay streets, but fortunately no one was injured, as the building was vacant and still under construction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NFL Draft is Tonight, 49ers Finally Have a First-Round Pick Again There’s impressive new renderings of a proposed reimagining of the former Westfield Mall; bike activists’ guerrilla street alterations near Duboce Park have been removed; and the NFL Draft is underway, with plenty of 49ers intrigue.
Arts & Entertainment After Last Summer's Santa Cruz Otter Sensation, SFFILM Festival Brings a Glorious Otter Documentary If you were captivated by the exploits of “Otter 841” evading the authorities in Santa Cruz all last summer, you’ll love SFFILM’s otter documentary screening this Saturday at the Marina Theatre.
SF News SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto Speaks Out on Recent Jail Lockdowns, Staffing Shortages After the recent SF County Jail lockdowns and complaints of severe staffing shortages, SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto opens up about his office’s challenges, while the deputies’ union is demanding he calls in the National Guard.
SF News SF Opens New ‘State-of-the-Art’ 911 Call Center, System Promptly Melts Down the Next Day San Francisco opened a brand new high-tech 911 call center on Wednesday. But early Thursday morning, the city’s 911 system crashed, and dispatchers were handling calls with pen and paper.
SF News Berkeley-Born Israeli Hostage Appears to Still Be Alive, After 201 Days, In Newly Released Video Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage in Israel on October 7 and even had his arm blown off in the process, but a new-proof-of-life video from Hamas, which appears to have been shot Wednesday, shows him very much alive.
Business & Tech New State Bill Hopes to Break Up Ticketmaster Monopoly, 49ers and Warriors Totally Against It Concert and sporting event ticket prices have exploded since the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger, but a new California bill could break up their monopoly. And the 49ers and Warriors are completely against this bill, because they benefit handsomely from that monopoly.
SF News Defense Says Man Who Drove Family Off Cliff In Tesla Should Avoid Jail, Get Treatment Instead Court hearings are underway in the case of that doctor who drove his family off a cliff in San Mateo County last year, and his attorneys argue he was mentally ill and obsessed with conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein, fentanyl, and Ukraine.
Business & Tech Larry Ellison Moving Oracle Headquarters Again, Now Heading for Nashville Barely three years after Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison made a big stink about leaving the Bay Area for Austin, he’s planning to move the company headquarters again, this time to Nashville, Tennessee.
SF News SF Man Critically Injured In Sunday Morning Hit-and-Run Identified as Bob’s Donuts Baker A 3 am Sunday morning hit-and-run near Market and Guerrero streets has left a man in critical condition, and we now learn that man is Bob’s Donuts employee Jesus Zamudio, who is reportedly still unresponsive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Baby Falcon Chick Hatches Atop Berkeley Clock Tower The transfer of prisoners out of FCI Dublin has been even more chaotic than we realized; the Tesla layoffs will leave nearly 3,000 Bay Area workers out of a job; and a third baby peregrine falcon has been born at the famed Berkeley nest.
Business & Tech Empty Office Building at Sixth and Market, Which Last Sold for $62 Million, Sells for Just $6.5 Million The 955 Market Street building that was once home to Burning Man headquarters, and then a whole bunch of WeWork offices, is now empty and just sold for a measly 10% of the price it fetched in 2016.
SF News Two Suspects Plead Guilty, Take Plea Deals in Fatal Shooting of Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Pleasanton Home Depot security guard Blake Mohs was shot and killed trying to thwart a shoplifting last April, and the two suspects involved have just pleaded guilty to knock a few years off their sentences.
Arts & Entertainment Another Free Outdoor Concert Series Coming to SF This Summer, Shows Put Together By Your Favorite Nightclubs There’s yet another free outdoor concert series called SF Live that hopes to get you out of the house and spending money this summer, and the shows are curated by clubs like Bottom of the Hill, the SF Eagle, and Cafe Du Nord.
SF News Waymo Drives on Wrong Side of Street, But Has Excuse Because of Taunting Unicycle Riders A Friday night incident saw a self-driving Waymo pop into the wrong lane for a couple blocks, but it may have had good reason to do so, because it was being swarmed by electric unicycle riders.