Business & Tech Convicted Crypto Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Appealing Conviction, Wants Retrial or Trump Pardon Notorious cryptocurrency huckster Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a new trial on all the fraud counts that netted him a 25-year prison sentence, while his parents are angling to get Trump to give their rich-kid son a pardon.
SF News Vaillancourt Fountain Will Now Likely Be Removed, as SF Arts Commission Approves Taking the Fountain Down A 15-month-long controversy over the possible removal of the brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is over, as the SF Arts Commission just voted 8-5 to take it down, though they say it will be put into storage and it could possibly be rebuilt.
SF News Two People Killed in Early Monday Morning Liquor Store Fire in Redwood City A fire just before 5:30 am Monday morning at a Redwood City strip-mall liquor store took the lives of two people who were apparently trapped inside, both of whom were declared dead upon being discovered.
SF News SF’s RV Parking Ban Is Now In Effect, So We’ll See How This Works Out Mayor Lurie’s long-promised two-hour limit on RV parking on SF streets took effect Saturday, though its effect may be limited, as many of the RVs already have a six-month extension lined up to stay parked right where they are.
SF Politics Charlie Kirk’s Memorial-Rally Road Show Coming to Berkeley on November 10 Slain conservative activist’s Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA traveling rally “American Comeback Tour” is coming to UC Berkeley in just one week, so the university is forced to reconsider security after Kirk’s assassination.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Manhandle Hapless NY Giants 34-24, Already Match Last Year's Win Total There sure were a lot of 49ers fans in the stands 3,000 miles away in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, and they were rewarded with the sight of a dominant Niners win, despite quarterback Mac Jones getting a gusher of a nosebleed.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Basically Accuses Sam Altman of Murdering OpenAI Engineer on (Of Course) Joe Rogan’s Podcast Elon Musk visited Joe Rogan’s podcast again, and continued his crusade against his more successful AI competitor Sam Altman, pretty much flat-out saying that Altman murdered the engineer found dead in his SF apartment.
SF News US Navy Found High Levels of Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point, Failed to Mention This for 11 Months The US Navy detected high levels of the radioactive isotope plutonium-239 at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard about a year ago, and the city of SF is wondering why they didn’t get around to informing us until just now.
Arts & Entertainment LED Disco Dinosaur ‘Doloresaurus’ Revs Up to Roar for Halloween Here’s one costume that goes paleo for Halloween, and the entire year, as the fifteen-foot-long glowing LED dinosaur “Doloresaurus” roars, plays music, and tricera-tops all the other costumes in town.
SF News SFPD Arrests 19-Year-Old Suspect in Last Week’s Golden Gate Park Sexual Assault of a Child Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
SF Politics City Economist Report Says Lurie’s Upzoning Plan Won’t Build Much Housing, Lawsuits and Recall Threats Now Brewing A new City Hall report throws cold water on Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan, saying it won’t really build much housing. YIMBY groups are threatening to sue, while west side voters say it’s overdevelopment and are threatening a recall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Where All of the SF Trick-or-Treat Street Closures Will Be for Halloween Mayor Lurie reportedly ghosted Marc Benioff for Dreamforce; the Raiders donated $250,000 to fix that scorched Mount Diablo football field; and Mission Local scared up a map of all the streets closed to cars for trick-or-treating.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Forced to Remain in Custody, Curses Out Judge in Courtroom Longtime serial SF harasser Bill Gene Hobbs will remain in SF County Jail for the foreseeable future after a Thursday morning hearing, but went off on the judge with a profane tirade that likely did him no favors for upcoming hearings.
Arts & Entertainment Skrillex to Return In Late December, Plus Swedish House Mafia Too, as Lurie Announces ‘Winter of Music’ Mayor Lurie took to Instagram to announce a series of late December SF concerts at places you wouldn’t expect them, featuring Skrillex, Four Tet, Swedish House Mafia, and Fisher, between December 19-30.
SF News Massive Art Heist Hits Oakland Museum of California, More Than 1,000 Items Stolen One of the biggest California art thefts in years went down at a warehouse for the Oakland Museum of California, and now the FBI is involved, as thieves pilfered more than 1,000 artifacts and works of art in a 3:30 am heist this month.
SF News Early Morning FBI Raid Hits Oakland After Feds Indict Nine Alleged Gang Members Oakland’s Lower Dimond district was rocked by a 4 am Wednesday morning FBI raid that targeted nine freshly indicted alleged members of the Sureño gang, alleging they pulled a pair of 2019 murders and a host of drug crimes.
Arts & Entertainment Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre Sets Sights on Reopening Under New Ownership, Possibly With Booze and Karaoke Once dubbed “the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America,” the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre has been closed since the pandemic. But a new ownership group hopes to revive it, possibly with alcohol service and karaoke.
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: Per Sia Is San Francisco's New Drag Laureate After D’Arcy Drollinger’s two-and-a-half year reign as the nation’s first ever Drag Laureate, the wig has been passed on to Per Sia, a staple of Drag Queen Story Hour and an afterschool arts program teacher.
SF Politics Lurie’s Office Unwilling to Share Details of His Call With Trump That Called Off Federal Troop Deployment The SF Public Press put in a records request for call logs of Mayor Lurie’s famed call with President Trump where Trump called off the cavalry of an impending federal troop invasion. Lurie's office refuses to disclose details.
SF News CHP Pursues Vehicle That Went 160 MPH in Chase That Went Both Ways Across Bay Bridge, Suspects Still Get Away California Highway Patrol officers went on a wild ride across the Bay Tuesday night, pursuing a vehicle that reached speeds of 160 miles per hour in a chase that went from Oakland to SF and then to Hayward, though the five suspects are still at large.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Finally Gets an Inspector General, and It’s Mohammed Nuru’s Prosecutor Sergey Brin’s blimp showed up in the SF skies again today; California Democrats are salivating to run for the new districts Prop 50 could create; and SF City Hall named its new Inspector General, who’s Mohammed Nuru’s prosecutor.
SF Politics More Sheng Thao Fallout: San Leandro City Councilmember Charged With Bribery, Lying to FBI There’s more dirty laundry coming out in the whole Sheng Thao mess, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo faces federal charges for taking bribes and kickbacks, and lying to the FBI about a $2,000 envelope of cash.
SF News Notorious New Year’s Eve DUI Hit-and-Run Suspect Troy McAlister Will Face Trial, Won’t Get Diversion After a month-long firestorm that a hit-and-run suspect accused of killing two women while driving on meth could get a diversion program instead of facing trial, an SF Superior Court judge just ruled the case will indeed go to trial.
SF News Update: Supervisors Pass North Beach Zoning Changes That Have Neighborhood Small Businesses Up in Arms North Beach’s supervisor Danny Sauter just passed legislation allowing storefronts to merge in that neighborhood, supposedly to fight vacancies. Business owners wonder what he’s talking about, pointing out one of the city’s lowest vacancy rates.
SF News Condor Club Manager’s Shooting May Have Been Motivated by Couple Getting Fired As Santa Rosa police sift through evidence in the killing of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni, they’ve arrested a couple that both used to work there, and say the pair’s firing was "at least one motivating factor" in the alleged murder.
