Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
SF News SF’s Ankle Monitor System Not Working, As People Still Commit Crimes, or Just Tear Them Right Off GPS ankle monitors seem like a humane alternative to jail. But they may be too humane, as suspects are still committing crimes in San Francisco while wearing them, or simply cutting them off and throwing them in the trash.
Bay Area Sports A’s Negotiating to Stay In Oakland Three More Years, Because They Have Nowhere Else to Play The Oakland A’s are dragging their tails into negotiations with the City of Oakland and Alameda County to continue playing at the Oakland Coliseum through 2027, even though they’re still planning to move to Las Vegas, because they don’t have anywhere else to play.
SF News Waymo Problems With Self-Driving Cars, as Waymo Collisions With Tow Truck Force Software Recall Two self-driving Waymo robotaxis hit a truck being towed in Phoenix two months ago, perhaps confused because the angle of a truck being towed but facing rearward, and the Google-owned company recalled the software running the vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Sergeant’s Crime Novel Just Got Picked Up to Be Developed As a TV Series San Francisco police sergeant Adam Plantinga’s new novel ‘The Ascent’ is in some ways autobiographical, with one major exception — the protagonist cop is forced to break out of a maximum security prison.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fire Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks, Making Him Scapegoat for Super Bowl Loss The 49ers’ defensive collapse late in the Super Bowl was the last straw that has drawn the firing of defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, who was shown the door despite the Niners being the third-best defense in the league over the season.
SF News Two Teens Have Died In Two Weeks by ‘Surfing’ on the Tops of BART Trains, Agency Considers Modifications What appears to be another social media-fueled “dare” trend has taken the lives of two Bay Area teens who engaged in BART-surfing on the tops of trains, and BART is now considering modifications to the trains’ rooftop access.
Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2024 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Including One That Once Belonged to Robin Williams SF’s annual display of huge Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th anniversary, and this year’s batch includes one that used to belong to Robin Williams. You can see them at the Ferry Building through February 29.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Getting First Woman Primary Play-By-Play Announcer in MLB History The vacant Castro flower shop space for Ixia has a new tenant, Pinterest has unloaded their former headquarters as a sublease, and the Oakland A’s have hired the first-ever woman to be their primary play-by-play announcer.
SF Politics Let’s Consider the Upcoming SF Judge Elections, Which Have Been Upended by Pretend ‘Report Cards’ There are two SF Superior Court judge seats up for grabs in next month’s election, and a partisan group has been issuing report cards. These oddly leave out how one supposedly tough-on-crime candidate has a husband with a druggy past.
SF News More Vallejo Police Department Chaos, As Interim Chief is Reportedly Resigning for Another Job The Vallejo Police Department is reeling from a series of scandals and a highly unflattering new Netflix documentary, and interim Police Chief Jason Ta is reportedly leaving the department for a permanent job in Salinas.
SF Politics New Crypto Bro PAC Spending Millions on Ads to Defeat Katie Porter in California Senate Race Whatever remaining cryptocurrency moguls who are not looking at prison time have coalesced around a common enemy in Senate candidate Katie Porter, as money from Ron Conway and Andreessen Horowitz just bought $2 million worth of attack ads against her.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Formally Announces He's Running for Mayor, Giving Breed Three Moderate Challengers Former SF supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell officially threw his hat in the ring to challenge London Breed for mayor this November, so now Breed has three moderate opponents (two of whom are pretty wealthy).
SF News SFPD Touts 23 Arrests Last Week in U.N. Plaza Drug Crackdown ‘Night Operations’ The SF Police Department says they arrested 23 people in two nights during “night operations” last week in Civic Center’s long-beleaguered UN Plaza, as they continue their uphill battle to clean up that area.
SF News Peskin Says SFPD Has ‘Promising Leads’ In Hunt for Who Torched That Waymo In Chinatown Saturday Whoever set that self-driving Waymo car on fire in Chinatown Saturday night may have reason for worry, as the district’s supervisor Aaron Peskin claims that SFPD has “promising leads” on suspects.
SF News Activists Paint Street Mural Around Shipping Containers at Berkeley’s People’s Park, Get Harassed by Security A group opposing the housing complex being put up in People’s Park used their Super Bowl Sunday to paint a street mural around the shipping containers barricading the park, and you’d better believe there was a contentious brush with campus police.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Can Only Lick Their Wounds, Hope Their Championship Window Isn’t Closing Your San Francisco 49ers have to somehow process and hopefully rebound from blowing yet another 10-point Super Bowl lead to the Kansas City Chiefs, but if it's any consolation, oddsmakers have installed the 49ers as favorites to win next year’s championship.
SF News Former Mission-Bernal Big Lots Slated to Become 70 Units of Affordable Senior Housing The big lot that used to house Big Lots on Mission Street may soon be home to an affordable senior housing complex, from the same nonprofit that’s rebuilding the burnt remains of the 3300 Club across the street.
Bay Area Sports London Breed and Kansas City Mayor Make Most Predictable Super Bowl Bet Possible The mayors of SF and Kansas City made their obligatory Super Bowl friendly wager Friday morning on MSNBC, both offering up the most extremely obvious food dishes associated with their cities.
Business & Tech SF Pot Dispensary CEO In Hot Water Over Video Where He Brags About Not Paying His Bills The CEO of the Off The Charts dispensary chain, which has one location in San Francisco, has gone viral for the wrong reasons, in a video where he’s caught blustering to his colleagues he doesn’t pay “these f*cking mom and pops” vendors who supply his stores.
SF News Longtime SF Herbal Apothecary Scarlet Sage Herb Co. to Close Permanently This Month The 29-year-old herbal shop Scarlet Sage Herb Co. had just moved from Valencia Street to Lower Pac Heights last year, but city red tape and slow foot traffic have the store announcing they’ll close permanently “at the end of February.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bagdad Café Space to Be Reborn (Again) as Bar 49 It’s confirmed that the potential 49ers championship parade would indeed be in San Francisco and not Santa Clara; a Fremont man was arrested with 500 pounds of copper wire; and the old Bagdad Café space will rise again as a new bar from a Hi Tops manager.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Backs Republican-Led Campaign to Overhaul Prop 47 Facing less-than-outstanding poll numbers in the November election and being hammered by her opponents on crime, Mayor London Breed campaigned Thursday for a Republican-authored effort to redo the state’s Prop. 47 sentencing law.
SF News SFPD Announces Street Closures for Super Bowl Sunday, Anticipating 49ers Fan Mayhem Whether the 49ers win or lose Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, SFPD and the Highway Patrol say they're still shutting down streets and highway off-ramps in anticipation of the rowdy public lunacy that may break out in the Mission District.
SF News We Now Have a Delivery Date and First Look at the Formerly $1.7 Million Toilet Coming to Noe Valley You won’t have to hold it much longer for the public toilet at Noe Valley Town Square, as there’s sneak peak at the prefab facility once infamously priced at $1.7 million (but will now be much cheaper), and a March 7 delivery date for it.
