Arts & Entertainment Missy Elliot Announces Summer Tour With Busta Rhymes and Ciara, Coming to Oakland in July Get your freak on when Missy Elliott comes to the Oakland Arena in July with Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland, as tickets go on sale this week for Misdemeanor’s first tour in 20 years.
SF News Biden Taking Another Crack at This Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Thing After his original plan to forgive $400 billion in student loan debt was shot down by the Supreme Court, President Biden is embarking on a renewed effort that would wipe out substantial amounts of student debt for 23 million Americans, and cancel that debt outright for some.
SF News Patient Logbook Goes Missing at SF General Hospital, Security Review Underway A big privacy problem has come to light at Zuckerberg General Hospital, as a patient logbook containing personal and medical information has disappeared and cannot be accounted for, and the hospital is conducting security reviews.
Arts & Entertainment ‘SF Weed Week’ Hopes to Fill Void of Canceled 4/20 Party, With Promotional Marketing Events Would you rather go to branded promotional industry events for 4/20 instead of whatever party might happen at Hippie Hill? If so, boy does SF Weed Week have a marketing-type lineup for you.
SF News Valencia Street Shop Owner Declares Hunger Strike Over Bike Lane With Gloriously Rambling Graffiti Message The owner of Valencia Street art gallery Rossi and Mediterranean restaurant Yasmin has declared a hunger strike to protest the center-running bike lane on that corridor, and his graffiti declaration is quite a mouthful.
SF News Family of Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims Sues Mushroom Farm for ‘Failure to Protect Farm Workers’ Two brothers were shot and one was killed in last year’s Half Moon Bay mass shooting that took seven lives, and now the surviving brother and his family are suing the California Terra Gardens farm.
Bay Area Sports Big Warriors Win Effectively Clinches Playoff Spot (Well, Play-In Tournament Spot, At Least) Your Golden State Warriors’ sixth win in a row Thursday night all but ensured they will make the playoffs, or rather, squeak in as the No. 10 seed for the Play-In Tournament.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Little Hail Fell in Parts of San Francisco Today The Castro Theatre unearthed a beautiful relic while doing renovations; Oakland Coliseum workers are up in arms over the A’s moving to Sacramento; and some hail fell in the early afternoon Thursday.
Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
SF News Plan to ‘Lift’ the Ferry Building by Seven Feet Raises Alarm of Ferry Building Operator SF is embarking on a plan to “lift” the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.
SF News New Trees Installed in Civic Center Mark Grand Plan to ‘Reintroduce Vegetation on a Grand Scale’ to Plaza A tiny start to a very ambitious project got underway when Rec and Parks installed a few new sycamore trees in Civic Center Plaza, though this lofty landscape design has been stalled for years.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
SF News Newsom’s Highly Touted CARE Court Has Seen Only 22 Referrals In SF In Its First Six Months Gavin Newsom ordered SF to start compelling severely mentally ill people into CARE Court back on October 1. But now six months into the program, it’s only served 22 people.
Arts & Entertainment Richmond Woman on Verge of Holding World Record for Longest Scarf Ever Crocheted An East Bay woman has crocheted what appears to be the world's longest scarf at 982 feet long, and that scarf’s measurements are currently under review to grant her the Guinness World Record.
Bay Area Sports El Farolito’s Amateur Soccer Team Beats Yet Another Pro Team, Continuing Stunning Tournament Run No beans about it, the amateur soccer team affiliated with the taqueria El Farolito is now the best Cinderella story in soccer, as they beat their second consecutive professional team in the US Open Cup tournament Tuesday night.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
SF News SF Skier Rescued After Outdoor Overnight Ordeal In Lake Tahoe Wilderness A 34-year-old San Francisco man got a little off course at Lake Tahoe’s Kirkwood ski resort and ended up spending a night in the wilderness, but was eventually rescued by a cavalcade of search personnel and a CHP helicopter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Soccer Team Plays Another Pro Team Tonight, Match To Be Streamed Online A block of the Sunnyside neighborhood was shut down over a gas leak Tuesday morning; Oakland and the A’s failed to agree on a three-year Coliseum lease extension; and the El Farolito soccer team’s Cinderella tournament run continues tonight.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Bar Casements Wins Right to Extend Their Back Patio Hours Later Into the Evening The Mission Street Irish cocktail bar Casements recently got permission to keep their back patio open, but only until 10 pm. On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors extended their patio hours until 11 pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends, though with a lot of requirements.
Business & Tech Onetime ‘Law & Order’ Star Says Instacart Driver Shot and Killed Her Dog, Instacart Suspends Driver Late 1990s ‘Law & Order’ actor Angie Harmon is fuming publicly that an Instacart driver allegedly shot and killed her dog Saturday, and Instacart has sidelined that driver while police investigate.
SF News Ambitious Potrero Bus Yard Affordable Housing Project Might Get Slashed From 500 Units to 100 Units As the SFMTA proceeds with their grand plan to modernize the 109-year-old Potrero Yard bus facility and build 500 units of affordable housing on top of it, we receive word that they may reduce that affordable housing component to barely 100 units.
SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill Celebrating Its 175th Anniversary This Month, With $1.75 Bloody Marys And More SF’s legendary steak-and-seafood place Tadich Grill just kicked off its 175th anniversary celebration, and the third-oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US will get sweet and savory with $1.75 Bloody Marys and a “Tadich swag giveaway” every day all month.
SF News Toilet Overflows Into Cabin In Latest United Airlines Disaster on SFO-Bound Boeing Jet United Airlines really managed to outdo themselves with their latest mechanical problem this weekend, as a flight bound for SFO had to be diverted because of sewage flowing into the flight cabin.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
