Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Coming Back On? Organizers Say They've Almost Hit Their $11 Million Goal The arts organization behind the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights project says they’re just $250,000 shy of the $11 million they need to turn those lights back on — and this time, cover both sides of the bridge with lights.
SF News Serramonte Plaza Caregiver Fined For Placing People With Criminal Records in Homes of the Elderly A Daly City-based senior care provider called Serving Seniors.Care had been hiring caretakers with criminal records, with the unsurprising result that one of them allegedly stole thousands of dollars from an elderly man.
SF News Oakland Finally Names a Police Chief: Former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell The year-plus search for a new Oakland Police Chief has finally concluded, as Mayor Sheng Thao has named Floyd Mitchell as the new chief, who’d previously held that role in Lubbock and Temple, Texas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 Finally Passes — Just Barely A Swiss company has bought up a large Genentech facility in Vacaville; storms will make Tahoe roads treacherous this weekend; and Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 can finally declare victory by a mere two-tenths of a percentage point.
SF News SF Worker Who Bought VR Headsets With City Money Now Accused of Stealing $627K In Workers' Comp It’s now two arrests in two months for a since-fired city HR manager who allegedly used city funds to buy fancy tech gear, as he was arrested again Thursday for charges of stealing $627,000 from the city through a fraudulent workers' compensation scheme.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Hit Pliny the Younger Releases Its 20th Anniversary Edition on Friday Are you willing to wait in a six-hour line for exceptional beer that only comes out once a year? You’ll get your chance starting Friday, as Russian River Brewing Company’s 20th anniversary edition Pliny the Younger comes out tomorrow, and will be available for two weeks.
SF News SFPD Cop Found Guilty of Sexual Battery Over Marina Bar Groping Incident A jury just found a five-year veteran of the SFPD guilty of sexual battery, over a 2021 incident where he groped a woman at a Marina bar, and brazenly did so with her husband right there.
SF News Berkeley Mother Allegedly Stabbed and Killed by Her Own Daughter While Daughter Was Having Mental Health Episode A 60-year-old Berkeley woman was stabbed and killed Sunday afternoon in her University Avenue apartment, and her 23-year old daughter who reportedly has mental health issues is in custody on murder charges.
SF News California State Senate Poised to Have a Female Majority for First Time Ever While election results are still pouring in, there are enough ‘women vs. women’ primary races that come December, the California state Senate is likely to be comprised of 53% women.
SF Politics Hold on to Your Hat, It’s Willie Brown’s 90th Birthday Today Former SF mayor, ex-California Assembly Speaker, and longtime political string-puller Willie Brown turns 90 years old today, and the tributes are pouring in for the man whose SF political machine may still be as strong as ever.
Bay Area Sports El Farolito Amateur Soccer Team Knocks Off Portland Pro Team in Stunning Tournament Upset We got your March Madness right here — the taqueria El Farolito’s amateur soccer team El Farolito SC defeated the pro team Portland Timbers 2 Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open Cup.
SF News Possible Measles Exposure Reported at San Leandro Restaurant The Alameda County Public Health Department says you may have been exposed to measles if you were at San Leandro’s Sons of Liberty Alehouse on Saturday, March 9, as the troublesome nationwide measles uptick continues.
SF News Cycling Community Outraged as Presidio DUI Driver Gets Very Generous Plea Deal After Killing Cyclist Cycling champion Ethan Boyes was killed last April by a driver operating under the influence, but that driver just got a very lenient plea deal of only two misdemeanor counts, and faces no longer than a year in jail.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Falcon Annie Has Laid Two Eggs, Third Egg Expected Wednesday The restaurant Quince got some powerful new ammo in their trademark dispute with a retailer; an SF startup is using AI to sort recycling; and the Berkeley Campanile falcons have two eggs in the nest, with another expected on the way.
Business & Tech Yahoo, of All Companies, Is Scooping Up SF Office Space In a Big SoMa Sublease Deal Yahoo may be considered a dinosaur among tech firms, but they’re one of the few companies that’s buying SF office space instead of unloading it, and they just scooped up an available floor at Third and Folsom streets.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Wants To Keep That Giant Ferris Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf Another Year and a Half The 150-foot Ferris wheel that’s technically known as the SkyStar Observation Wheel is scheduled to shut down April 30, but could stay at Fisherman’s Wharf through October 2025 if Mayor Breed gets her way.
SF Politics US Congress Targets UC Berkeley With Antisemitism Probe In Wake of Pro-Palestine Protests Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
SF News SFPD Reopens Investigation Into Death of 63-Year-Old Asian Woman, Breed Demands Video Be Released The July 2023 death of 63-year-old Yanfang Wu is back in the headlines, and now more politically charged, as Mayor London Breed is demanding that SFPD release the video of the shoving incident that killed Wu.
SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Stabs His Own Attorney, Then Attacks His Prosecutor, In Courtroom Outburst It was a wild scene at a Contra Costa County courthouse Monday, as a man on trial for murder allegedly busted his restraints, stabbed his own attorney with a pen, and attacked his prosecutor for good measure too.
SF News Four Seasons Embarcadero Owner Reportedly Defaulting on Loan, Bank Might Foreclose You know it’s hard times in the luxury hospitality racket when even the owner of a Four Seasons hotel can’t pay their bills, as the Four Seasons Embarcadero owner reportedly hasn’t made their loan payments in three months.
SF Politics Ex-SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Sentenced to Four Years In Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Corruption Scandal Former SF Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for fraud charges, after he was found guilty of taking bribes and giving phony information on a bank loan application.
Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Event Guide, Featuring the Reopening of FiDi Pub Harrington’s The 85-year-old Financial District Irish pub Harrington’s is reopening in time for St. Patrick’s Day weekend! That highlights three days of parades, parties, Irish food fare, and of course DUI checkpoints.
SF News In Landmark Ruling, Appeals Court Says SF Trans Woman Can Change Her Name to ‘Candi Bimbo Doll’ A huge win for self-identified bimbos everywhere, as the First District Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that yes, one can legally change their name to “Candi Bimbo Doll.”
SF News Crazy Berkeley Kids Appear to Have Set Guinness World Record for Fastest-Ever ‘BART Speedrun’ Seven UC Berkeley students completed what appears to be the all-time record by riding through all 50 BART stations in less than six hours, and they’re being verified to be awarded the Guinness World Record for the fastest BART speedrun ever.
