SF Politics Megabucks Conservative Donor Not Happy With Daniel Lurie’s Attacks on Mark Farrell In Mayoral Ads The rich kids are fighting in the SF mayoral race, as the Republican-leaning money man behind the political group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco is not pleased with Daniel Lurie’s mailer attacks on Mark Farrell’s dubious campaign finances.
SF News Governor Newsom Has Signed the Bill to Legalize Cannabis Cafes Across California Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill to legalize food and beverage sales inside dispensary lounges has gotten by on the second try, and Amsterdam-style cafes and performance venues could be popping up in your local pot shops next year.
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Fabric Outlet Store at 17th and Mission Is Closing Permanently on November 23 It will rip the hearts out of crafty types across the Bay Area that the 29-year-old fabric emporium Fabric Outlet has just announced its impending permanent closure, and the place is packed with customers jumping on the 40%-75% off clearance deals.
SF News Man Shot and Killed at McClymonds High School Reunion in West Oakland Park A 38-year-old man was shot and killed at a McClymonds High School alumni gathering early Saturday evening at West Oakland’s De Fremery Park, and the victim was just two days away from his 39th birthday.
SF News Rampant Sideshows in Vallejo Early Sunday Morning, One Participants’ Pants Catch on Fire A swarm of sideshows in Vallejo brought multiple injuries early Sunday morning, including one participant who managed to get his pants caught on fire, and Vallejo’s mayor released an odd statement asking “Why don’t these brats do this where their momma lives.”
SF News Shards of Glass Fell From the Transamerica Pyramid Thursday Night, So That’s a Concern Is San Francisco back in the phase of window glass flying off buildings? We may have just seen something similar, as the DBI has confirmed that shattered glass fell from on high at the Transamerica Pyramid on Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair Ropes In Brontez Purnell, More Bars Selling To-Go Alcohol, and a New Truck Stage You’re bound to have a ball at Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair, with more leather bars than ever selling to-go cocktails, Brontez Purnell headlining the main stage, and the former bar and now pop-up Truck rocking its own new disco/play space.
SF News Feds Convict SF Software Engineer for Tax Evasion Over Fraudulent Medical Deductions An SF software engineering manager was found guilty on three counts of tax evasion for overstating his medical tax deductions by more than $1 million for an appendectomy that he had nine years prior to the deductions.
SF News Two Dead After Thursday Napa Shooting, Suspect Shoots Own Self After Police Pursuit A Thursday morning shooting in the city of Napa left two people dead. A suspect was quickly identified and was chased by police, he shot himself, and he survived and has been taken into custody.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fair Amount of Fan Mayhem at A’s Last Ever Game in Oakland A battery fire in a garage briefly shut down Cesar Chavez Street Thursday; Gavin Newsom vetoed a reparations bill; and there were a few incidents of fan rowdiness as the Oakland A’s won their last-ever game in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment City to Buy Barry's Building In the Castro, Will Make It the GLBT Historical Society Museum What was once the popular Tower Records building at Market and Noe streets has just been bought by the city, and its upper floor will be home to the museum and archive for the GLBT Historical Society.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Mistakenly Print Up “A’ss” Hat, Quickly Remove It, Now It’s Selling for $5,000 on eBay I’ve heard the term “asshat,” but this is ridiculous. Major League Baseball printed up Oakland A’s hats that appear to say “A’ss,” and while they immediately yanked them, some fans still managed to buy one, so now they’re on eBay for $5,000.
SF News Breed Proposes Yet Another Incentive to Convert Offices to Housing, as No One’s Been Jumping on Previous Incentives Mayor Breed is pushing a new proposal to eliminate an estimated $70,000 and $90,000 per unit in costs to convert downtown office space to housing, as developers aren’t really biting on previous conversion incentives.
SF News Waymo Gets Tagged With Rider (and Little Dog) Still Inside in Mission District The latest SF anti-self-driving car shenanigans were captured on a now-viral video where a team of taggers gangs up on a Waymo and tags the bejesus out of the vehicle, while a passenger and a little dog are stuck nervously inside.
SF News Amazon Semi Truck Seems to Join In on NorCal Sideshow This seems like a first — an Amazon semi truck appears to have joined in on a recent sideshow in Sacramento, as several revelers jumped on the truck for the ride.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Tried to Steal Seats From Coliseum Tuesday Night, But Did Not Successfully Steal the Seats In the third-to-last ever Oakland A’s home game Tuesday night, a couple fans ripped their seats out of the Oakland Coliseum. But they reportedly did not manage to leave the Coliseum with those seats, and could face charges.
SF News SFPD’s Non-Lethal ‘Lasso’ Tool Failed Three Times In Lead-Up to Union Square Police Shooting Just-released bodycam video shows that a September 13 Powell Street BART station police shooting was preceded by three attempts to use a sort of “lasso gun” called a BolaWrap, but that tool failed to subdue the suspect three times.
SF Politics AG Rob Bonta Finds Himself Possibly Dragged Into Whatever the Sheng Thao Raid Is All About New reporting on one possible suspect in the Sheng Thao FBI raid shows that state Attorney General Rob Bonta once steered $680,000 in state money to a failed energy startup run by that particular suspect who had an extremely checkered past.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full Schedule for Next Weekend’s Festival Caltrain’s first day of all-electric train service was marred by electrical problems; there’s more prison high-jinks for the FTX crypto kids; and we now have the full three-day schedule for next weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
SF News SF Supervisors Streamline Permit Rules to Create More Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties The recent tick-up of more alcohol-permitted “entertainment zone” parties may turn into a flood of more such parties, as the SF supervisors just approved legislation to create a whole lot more of these parties downtown, and in SoMa and Union Square.
SF News SFMTA Unveils New Valencia Bike Lane Design That’s No Longer in Center of Street, ‘Swerves’ Around Parklets The center-running Valencia Street bike lane experiment is done for, and the bike lanes will move back to the curb side. The SF Municipal Transit Agency just released diagrams of what the redesigned bike lanes might look like.
SF News Report: Gun Used to Shoot Ricky Pearsall Was Purchased Legally at Arizona Pawn Shop It was obviously not legal for the 17-year-old minor accused of shooting 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall to carry a gun, but an investigation of the gun’s origin shows it was purchased legally, though may have been stolen once or twice since its last purchase.
SF News Parents to Rally at SF School Board Meeting Tonight In Hopes of Halting School Closures Tuesday night’s SF Board of Education meeting is shaping up to be a raucous one, as parents and teachers are planning to rally before the 6:30 pm meeting, and will likely overflow into the meeting to protest the proposed school closures.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day Revisits Their Hometown Pinole 7-Eleven, Gets Key to the City It’s normal for a big, successful rock band to get a key to the city when they return to their hometown. It is not normal for the ceremony to be in a 7-Eleven parking lot, but that’s what Green Day did on Sunday when they returned to their native Pinole, California.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Sues Exxon for Falsely Claiming Plastics Were Recyclable When They Were Not The oil giant ExxonMobile is also in the plastics production industry, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta says they’ve been lying to the public for decades claiming that non-recyclable plastic was actually recyclable, just in order to sell more single-use plastic containers.
