SF Politics DA Pamela Price Accused of Retaliating Against Employees Who Supported Her Opponents While the recall campaign against her just hit a signature snag, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is also getting some bad publicity today over some wrongful termination claims from former employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Return Two-Acre Plot of Land to Ohlone People A stretch of I-680 in Pleasanton will be closed for repairs this weekend; Girl Scout Cookie season is being extended for another week; and Berkeley is returning a sacred plot of land to the Ohlone people.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
Arts & Entertainment ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep Is a Glorious Historical Epic About a Terrible Chapter In SF History 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Far Country’ makes its way to the Bay Area stage, with a brutal depiction of what it took for Chinese immigrants to enter San Francisco in the early 1900s.
SF News Outrage Grows Over Postal Carrier Robberies After Armed Robber Sentenced to Only 30 Days in Jail As robberies of postal carriers skyrocket in the Bay Area and nationwide, the Postal Service is up in arms over one suspect who committed an armed robbery of a mail carrier and only got a 30-day sentence.
SF News SF Exodus Still Reversing: New Census Numbers Show Small Population Uptick Last Year San Francisco gained population in 2023, while most of the surrounding Bay Area lost population, though SF’s fraction-of-a-percentage-point increase still indicates a slow population rebound from the pandemic.
SF News More China Live Drama, as Bank Is Now Threatening to Foreclose Property on the Landlord The tables may have turned in the China Live restaurant-landlord dispute, as now it's Wells Fargo suing the landlord who’d previously sued China Live over unpaid rent, and the bank is threatening to foreclose.
Arts & Entertainment Seattle Indie Station KEXP Buys Up Bay Area’s Constantly Format-Changing 92.7 FM, Starts Broadcasting Tuesday A popular Seattle radio station has bought the Bay Area’s 92.7 FM station (currently known as 92.7 The Hu$tle), and will start broadcasting their indie rock stylings next week.
SF News California Retail Theft Rings Making Millions Allegedly Just Selling Stolen Goods on Amazon One SoCal woman allegedly netted $8 million by selling shoplifted cosmetics on Amazon, while a San Jose operation reportedly made a mint reselling stolen TJ Maxx items at flea markets, as organized retail theft operations become more ruthlessly organized.
SF News City Vows to Crack Down on Bernal Heights RV Encampment, Which Has Been Growing In Recent Months A smattering of RVs permanently camped on Bernal Heights Boulevard has grown larger, and now City Hall says they’ll enforce a long-forgotten 27-year-old ban on overnight parking on the street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford Basketball Star Cameron Brink is Leaving the Farm for the WNBA The principal of Everett Middle School is on leave over that school’s sexual assault scandal, Bernie Sanders endorsed Dean Preston for supervisor, and Stanford basketball star Cameron Brink has declared she’s heading to the WNBA Draft.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’ The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
SF News Looks Like Recology’s SF Monopoly Will Live On, as Competing Trash Collector Drops Their Rival Bid You would think that overcharging SF residents by $95 million would lead to Recology losing its monopoly on local trash collection. It has not, and now it appears Recology will keep that monopoly after a competitor dropped their bid.
SF News Racist Zoom-Bombs at Emeryville City Council Meeting Test Remote Public Comment Policies Literally every remote public commenter at last Tuesday's Emeryville City Council meeting was a racist troll, presenting a test for one of the few Bay Area cities that still allows remote public comment.
SF News CHP Announces They’ve Made 168 Arrests, Recovered 360 Stolen Vehicles In Oakland In the Last Five Weeks Governor Gavin Newsom says his Oakland crime crackdown is working, announcing that California Highway Patrol sting operations have netted 168 suspects and 360 stolen cars since early February.
Bay Area Sports 49ers QB Brock Purdy Got Married This Weekend, and Here is the Wedding Registry Brock Purdy married his college girlfriend Jenna Brandt over the weekend, and we found their wedding registry, which is on Crate & Barrel and has mostly modest items priced at under $100.
SF News SF Nonprofit Worker Charged With Sexually Assaulting Everett Middle School Student A 20-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with multiple felony sex abuse counts for an alleged sexual assault of an Everett Middle School student, and remains in custody.
SF News Popular, Recently Shuttered Vintage Store Stuff Opening New SF Location Saturday In Polk Gulch There are actually two new locations of the now-reincarnated vintage emporium Stuff, and the SF shop will have the same giant letters from the old Valencia Street location.
SF News One Kid May Have Exposed Up to 300 People to Measles at UC Davis Medical Center In Sacramento We probably have the anti-vaxxers to thank for this one, as a potential measles outbreak could be on the horizon in Sacramento after an unnamed child exposed as many as 300 people to the virus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Oakland Taco Bell Restaurant Shut Down Their Indoor Dining Rooms, Probably Due to Crime Four Oakland Taco Bell restaurants appear to have gone drive-thru only, though some only in the evening, in the latest hit to Oakland’s fast-food landscape.
SF News Former Lefty O’Doul’s Owner Nick Bovis Sentenced to Nine Months in Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Case The one-time owner of Lefty O'Douls and the Gold Dust Lounge Nick Bovis is now heading to prison, as he was sentenced to nine months for fraud and bribery in the Mohammed Nuru case.
SF News Another Massive Main Water Disaster Near Stern Grove, the Second One in Three Years Another mountainous gusher of water was spewing sky-high near Stern Grove Friday morning, and while the water burst has been stopped, Parkside residents may be faced with unusually low water pressure.
SF News Plea Deal Falls Through for Serial Stonestown Target Shoplifter Accused of Stealing $40K In Merchandise The $40,000 in allegedly stolen merchandise from Target is just one of the many SF shoplifting cases against Aziza Graves, who is not in jail, but instead back in court for hearings that have dragged on for nearly two and half years.
SF News Formerly $1.7 Million Toilet Has Arrived In Noe Valley (But Won’t Function For Another Three Weeks) The head that made headlines for nearly a year and a half over its initial $1.7 million price tag has finally squatted down in Noe Valley, but it won’t be up and flushing until the end of the month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ron Conway Is a ‘Top Funder’ of the Recall Sheng Thao Campaign The CPUC approved yet another PG&E rate hike; we’re learning about more scary SFO plane equipment failures; and the Recall Sheng Thao campaign says Ron Conway is one of its “top funders.”
