SF News Day Around the Bay: The Betty White Postage Stamps Have Arrived We’re now learning that Monday’s South San Francisco police shooting may have been over a tree-trimming dispute; Berkeley City Council passed another one of those Gaza resolutions; and the Betty White forever stamps are now arriving at SF post offices.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Gulch Wine and Spirits Emporium The Jug Shop Has Been Evicted Despite being an SF legacy business, 60-year-old SF wine and spirits store The Jug Shop appears to have served its last drop, as its owner confirms the shop has been evicted from their Polk Gulch location.
SF Politics SF Audit Finds City Hall Departments Overcharging Other City Hall Departments, Despite Nearly Billion-Dollar Deficit A report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst shows that City Hall departments are billing each other to the tune of nearly $80 million a year, and then not paying, allowing for confusion or even chicanery on the following year’s budget.
SF News Newsom to Set Strict Staffing Rules at For-Profit Mental Hospitals After Reporters Exposed Conditions A series of recent press exposés showed California’s for-profit mental health hospitals have way lower staffing than their nonprofit counterparts, so now Governor Newsom is pushing an emergency order forcing the for-profits to beef up their staffs.
SF News International Tourism to California Is Taking a Beating Under the Trump Administration Far fewer tourists from other countries are visiting California since Donald Trump took office again, and visits from Canada and Mexico are down particularly sharply, amidst immigration anxiety and tariff resentment.
SF News Wow, It’s Now Been Five Whole Years Since JFK Drive Went Car-Free Golden Gate Park's east-west road formerly known as JFK Drive, now known as JFK Promenade, celebrated its five-year anniversary as a car-free thoroughfare with a Sunday party.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Beauty Bar Reopening Soon, Getting Its Mural Fully Restored We’re looking at a June reopening date for Mission Street’s beloved kitschy nightclub Beauty Bar, which will be under new ownership, and it’s getting its popular mural redone by the same artist who originally painted it ten years ago.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Giants Win In a Walk-Off On Wacky, Slapstick In-the-Park Home Run The final play of Sunday’s 3-2 Giants win was a blooper reel for the ages, as the Texas Rangers committed multiple comical errors allowing Heliot Ramos an in-the-park home run, making for the most hilarious baseball play of the season so far.
SF News Renters Rally In Sacramento In Support of Statewide Rent Control Bill People were projecting “Lower the rent! It’s too damn high” onto the State Capitol building Sunday night, and renters are rallying there again today, in support of a statewide rent control bill that would cut maximum rent increases from 10% to just 5%.
SF Politics Lots More Bay Area Tech Companies Gave Millions to the Trump Inauguration Than We Had Realized The Bay Area spent more than $30 million sucking up to Donald Trump by shoveling donations to his inauguration, and as it turns out, tech companies like Uber, Robinhood, and Chris Larsen’s Ripple Labs all bent the knee with $1 million or more to Trump.
Business & Tech You Might Be Able to Buy and Own Your Own Self-Driving Waymo Someday If you’ve ever wanted to own your own self-driving Waymo vehicle, and are willing to shell out a great deal of money for it, parent company Google/Alphabet says it may eventually start selling those vehicles to the public.
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Theater Explains How They Managed to Raise Millions to Buy Their Building The Roxie Theater is still in the home stretch of its $7 million capital campaign to buy their building outright, but the theater’s leadership gave us some insights into how the mighty little Roxie had already secretly raised 75% of that money.
SF News SFMTA Lays Off 12 Senior Managers, And It Sounds Like There May Be More Job Cuts to Come The SF Municipal Transportation Agency that operates Muni just canned 12 of its senior managers in a reorg effort to tackle their massive deficit, and that reorg might mean more layoffs in the near future.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supervisor Wants Homeless Shelters Spread Out Evenly All Over Town The California Bar is red-faced over an AI screw-up on their recent bar exam; Real ID might get delayed again because DMVs nationwide are a mess; and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood wants more homeless shelters in districts other than his own.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Free Outdoor Movies Return Friday Night, as SFFILM Presents John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’ The SFFILM festival is rolling into the Presidio Friday night with a free screening of John Carpenter’s classic 80s horror film “The Fog,” which was filmed in Marin County. The show is free, but you do have to RSVP in advance.
SF News California Moves Up to Fourth-Largest Economy In the World, and Boy Is Gavin Newsom Crowing About It Take that, red states! California has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world, with an estimated Gross Domestic Product of more than $4 trillion.
SF News Oakland School Board Goes Through With Firing Longtime Superintendent, Still Gives No Explanation Why As they telegraphed they were going to two weeks ago, the Oakland Board of Education went and fired Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell Wednesday night, behind closed doors and with no explanation. But it seems the teachers’ union may have played a role.
SF Politics SF City Department Head Removed From Post, Mayor Lurie Accuses Her of ‘Unlawful Activities’ SF’s Department on the Status of Women director Kimberly Ellis was under a cloud of allegations of unauthorized moonlighting, no-bid city contracts for friends, and extravagant conference spending, and now she’s been ousted, presumably on Mayor Lurie’s orders.
SF News East Bay Developer Charged With Trying to Bribe Antioch City Councilmember With Coffee Mug Full of $5,000 Cash A Concord-based housing developer was stalled on city permits in Antioch because they hadn't completed some other required work. So their CEO allegedly tried to bribe a city councilmember with $15,000, $5,000 of which was straight-up cash crammed into a coffee mug.
SF News Fancy Cupertino Whole Foods Shut Down, Called a ‘Threat to Health and Safety’ Amidst Vermin Infestation The Cupertino Whole Foods just three miles from Apple’s headquarters apparently has a vermin problem, and has been ordered closed by Santa Clara County health officials until they can get it cleaned up.
SF Politics San Mateo County Sheriff Brazenly Rehires Alleged Boyfriend Whom the County Previously Dismissed San Mateo County had fired embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus’s alleged romantic partner after she gave him a $246K job, but even now that she may be on the verge of being removed from office, she just went and flat-out rehired him anyway.
Arts & Entertainment SFFILM Festival Film Relives When ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Got Invaded by the Proud Boys SF drag queen Panda Dulce did not give up on Drag Queen Story Hour when the Proud Boys violently stormed her reading in 2022. Instead, she stars in a new short film about it, and it has its West Coast premiere tonight at the SFFILM Festival.
Arts & Entertainment SF Street Jerry Garcia Grew Up On Will Be Renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ The Excelsior District street that was the 1940s boyhood home of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia just got City Hall approval to be renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street.’ It’s currently called Harrington Street, but new signage will shakedown this street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Custody After Brutal Unprovoked Easter Sunday Attack In Castro A famed nude beach in San Mateo County is being preserved; a Berkeley man who got whooped by an older woman at a Tesla protest has since been shot by police; and there was a brutal sucker-punching in the Castro Sunday but a suspect is in custody.
Business & Tech Tesla Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit From Fremont Factory Worker, Still Has More Discrimination Suits Pending One former Fremont Tesla factory employee has received a settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit over alleged racially charged workplace incidents. But there are still more big lawsuits against Tesla looming, including a class-action suit from 16,000 Black workers.
