SF News Two Killed, One Injured In Vallejo Homeless Encampment Shooting One person has been taken into custody after three people were shot, two of them fatally, at a long-running encampment near Highway 37 in Vallejo on Monday night.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Dispensary Near Tesla Dealership Offers Discount Joints to Protesters Japantown’s Japan Video and Media is closing today; the brutalist and fugly Vaillancourt Fountain appears further doomed; and a pot dispensary near the SF Tesla dealership enticed customers with 20% discounts to anti-Elon protesters.
SF News Trump Still Barreling Forward With Certifiably Insane Plan to Reopen Alcatraz as a Prison President Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons officials insist they are moving forward with their out-to-lunch scheme to reopen the tourist site Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison, despite that this is all galactically unrealistic.
SF News Muni’s Boat Tram and Other Vintage Streetcars Begin Their Summer Return to Service Today Oh boy! The streetcar known as Boat Boi is among the vintage Muni streetcars that will be back in action for the summer months starting today, and there’s a real-time map where you can track which of your favorites are running, and where.
SF News Drug Smugglers Sneaking Synthetic Marijuana Into Jails By Soaking It Into Fake Legal Papers Santa Rita Jail and other prisons across the state are on high alert that a potent synthetic cannabis substitute is being smuggled into their jails, soaked into completely fake legal documents that the prisoners can just shred up and smoke.
SF News Mayor Lurie Yanks Funding for SF Parks Alliance, Amidst Multiple City Probes Into Agency's Finances The nonprofit that throws those free movie nights in SF parks is now in a blockbuster financial scandal, so Mayor Lurie has put a pause on their funding, and three city departments are now conducting audits and investigations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART’s Green Line Won't Be Running Again Until Tuesday The fired SFPD officer who allegedly caused a DUI crash pleaded not guilty; the Golden State Valkyries won their first game ever; and BART’s Green Line won’t run again until Tuesday, but you can still transfer trains and get anywhere.
SF News Wine Country Developer Arrested by Feds, Charged With Fraud and Money Laundering Federal officials allege that Sonoma County real estate tycoon Kenneth Mattson bilked nearly 200 investors out of at least $46 million in a series of fraudulent real estate deals, and arrested him today in a wine country gymnasium parking lot.
SF Politics US Senate Votes to Block California’s Electric Car Mandate, State Certain to Sue The GOP-controlled US Senate just voted Thursday to revoke California’s mandate to switch to only electric cars by the year 2035, in an obvious middle finger to California from politicians who claim to support “states’ rights.”
Business & Tech The Old Lucca Ravioli Space to Become a ‘Corner Store’ for Tech Payment Processing Company Square Valencia Street’s former Lucca Ravioli space will now be handling a different kind of dough, as the point-of-sale system Square is taking the place over and turning it into something like an Apple Store for their own products.
SF Politics Recall Joel Engardio Crowd Says They Have Enough Signatures to Force the Recall Election The effort to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio claims it’s hitting a major milestone today, as organizers say they have more than the 10,000 signatures needed to put the recall on the ballot, and they’re submitting them this afternoon.
SF News Those New SF Speed Cameras Are Catching 1,000 Speeders Every Day, Most on Fulton Street They’re still just giving out warnings for lead-foot drivers who are caught by those new speed-detecting cameras, but data from the first month of the program shows that a stunning 44% of all citations citywide were issued to drivers on Fulton Street.
Arts & Entertainment Seth Rogen Movie Shoot Creating All Sorts of Hubbub Across San Francisco Is Hollywood star Seth Rogen spending Wednesday in the cordoned-off bar the Make-Out Room? It’s possible, as he and Olivia Wilde have been spotted in SF, apparently shooting their new romcom called 'The Invite.'
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Tickets for Golden Gate Park Shows Go On Sale Next Week, $635 for All Three Shows The eyes of the world have been set on when those Golden Gate Park Dead & Company tickets would go on sale, and now we know they’re on sale next week for $635 for all three shows, with single-show sales forthcoming, plus three different opening acts.
SF Politics State Court Shoots Down SoCal School District’s Ban on Critical Race Theory The small Temecula Valley Unified School District in Southern California’s Riverside County has made a big deal out of their extremely vague ban on critical race theory, but a state appeals court just ruled that it violates the state Constitution.
SF News Rookie SFPD Officer Involved In Alleged DUI Crash Loses Job, Gets Charged On Multiple Counts Not much of a surprise that the freshly graduated SFPD officer involved in a suspected DUI crash Saturday morning has been let go from the force, and charged with a slew of counts of driving under the influence and reckless driving.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trans Community Activists Unfurl Huge Trans Pride Flag at Yosemite A just-announced Emmylou Harris show tips us off to some names likely to play this year’s bluegrass festival; there are gigantic lines to get into the new SF Nintendo store; and activists hung a huge trans pride flag at Yosemite.
SF News SF Parks Alliance Scandal Explodes, District Attorney’s Office Opens Criminal Investigation There may be nefarious or even criminal reasons why the Sunset Cinema outdoor movies in the park are not happening this summer, as the SF Parks Alliance that runs those movie nights is now facing a criminal probe over millions of disappearing dollars.
SF News Woman Arrested at SFO For Allegedly Trying to Board Flight With 151 Pounds of Marijuana A Glendale woman will not be flying high after an arrest at SF International Airport, as she allegedly attempted to board an international flight with 151 pounds of cannabis crammed into her luggage.
Arts & Entertainment Couple Gets Married on Moving BART Train, With Bouquet Made of BART Tickets Congratulations to newlyweds Lenora and John, who were married over the weekend on a moving BART train, with the bride’s bouquet fashioned from paper BART tickets, and flower garlands decking out their train car.
SF News Barbara Lee Sworn In as Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee speaks to thee when she gets sworn in as Mayor of Oakland in a noon ceremony Tuesday, and she’ll immediately face the challenges of a city dealing with a deficit as large as $270 million, and its reputation for crime.
SF News Convicted Killer Gets Life Sentence for 1982 Murder of Vacaville 14-Year-Old The story of a murder that happened 42 years ago just had its closing chapter written, as the killer of Vacaville teen De Anna Lynn Johnson got a life sentence, even though he’s already serving a life sentence for the murder of another woman.
SF News Decomposed Human Body Turned Up Over the Weekend at Ocean Beach Some alert beach-goers saw what appeared to be a human body floating in the waters of Ocean Beach Friday night, and their worst fears were confirmed, as emergency crews pulled a “badly decomposed” cadaver from the ocean.
SF News NY Times Dives Into the Whole SF Coyote Debate, Says They Probably Got Here Just By Walking From Marin The SF coyote discourse can get pretty hairy, and the NY Times has a new feature on our complex relationship with these canines, with surprising new details on the Trump administration stifling research to explain the coyotes’ occasional aggression.
Business & Tech Can’t Imagine Why, But Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Was 'Glitching' About ‘White Genocide’ In South Africa Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok has gone a on a bizarre bender where it’s spewing answers about fictional South African “white genocide” to completely unrelated queries, raising questions of whether Musk’s crackpot racism is baked into the product.
