SF Politics Sheng Thao Issues Executive Order to Ramp Up Oakland Encampment Sweeps Facing a recall election and a slew of scandals, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is seizing on a recent Supreme Court decision to proclaim that the city will get a lot more aggressive in clearing homeless encampments.
SF News Kidnapped at Age 6 in 1951, Man Finally Reunited With Oakland Family 73 Years Later It's a stunning happy ending to a 73-year-old cold case, as a man who was kidnapped in Oakland when he was six years old was finally reunited with his family once he was 79 years old.
SF News SF Schools Superintendent Survives Ouster Attempt, But Will Have ‘Stabilization Team’ Looking Over His Shoulder SF Unified School District Superintendent Matt Wayne pulled through an attempt to remove him from the job Sunday, but going forward, he’ll have some sort of “School Stabilization Team” meddling in his very fraught decision-making.
SF Politics Ex-SF School Board Prez Now Says She Quit Because of Superintendent, Previously Claimed It Was for Health Reasons A very curious change of tune from recently resigned SF school board president Lainie Motamedi, who claimed she quit over her “health and personal circumstances,” but now says she quit in protest of Superintendent Matt Wayne, whom she helped hire.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Is On for Saturday, After Four-And-A-Half-Month Delay The 2024 How Weird Street Faire was postponed not even 48 hours before the event in May, but will indeed rear its weird head again on Saturday for what will be the street fair’s 25th anniversary.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Chorus Goes on Strike, Canceling Thursday Night’s Season Opening Performance Ticket holders to Thursday night’s SF Symphony season opening performance of Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ were wrecked to find the performance canceled barely two hours before showtime, as the symphony’s chorus is on strike because their wages have been frozen.
SF Politics In Fifth (and Probably Final) Mayoral Debate, Sharp Barbs on Homelessness and Corruption The Coalition On Homelessness was the unexpected boogeyman at Thursday night’s SF mayoral debate, but London Breed and Mark Farrell took plenty of heat for their own alleged corruption issues.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Maya Angelou Monument Unveiled at SF Public Library Some very gross illegal vending problems are plaguing Chinatown; a Fremont teen won a national award for the best mullet haircut in the US; and the long-awaited Dr. Maya Angelou monument was unveiled at the SF Public Library Main Branch.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Commits to Three More Years In SF (But Benioff Gives Himself a Loophole to Leave) Salesforce announced they will keep their Dreamforce conference here through 2027 in a windfall for the city’s tourism industry, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave himself an out, saying Dreamforce will only stay as long as SF “remains safe and secure and trusted.”
Arts & Entertainment R&B Star Thundercat Will Headline Just-Announced Free Concert In Golden Gate Park This October The latest in a glut of free San Francisco outdoor concerts will feature R&B bass wizard Thundercat and soul artist Lee Fields in an outdoor concert at Robin Williams Meadow on Sunday, October 20.
SF News 70-Year-Old Convicted Child Molester Slain In Cell at San Quentin Prison, Cellmate Suspected of Murder San Quentin prison officials are saying it’s a homicide after a 70-year-old child molestation convict was found unresponsive in his cell and later died, and his 36-year-old kidnapping convict cellmate is suspected of doing the deed.
SF Politics With Another Mayoral Debate Tonight, Breed Tries to Tag Farrell With Permit Scandal on Home Renovations With a 7 pm Thursday night mayoral debate looming, Mayor Breed, who’s had something of a scandal-ridden week, is suddenly alleging that opponent Mark Farrell illegally pulled strings to expedite permits on a half-million-dollar renovation of his new house.
Arts & Entertainment Final Batch of SF Live Free Concerts Announced, Includes Halloween Weekend Show at McLaren Park Yet more free outdoor concerts from the SF Live crew have been announced, and the stretch run of the series includes a Halloween weekend daytime rock show at McLaren Park’s Jerry Garcia Amphitheatre.
SF Politics Russian Troll Farms Blamed for Fake Viral Story That Kamala Harris Ran Over a 13-Year-Old Girl A story from a fake and supposedly SF-based news site claimed that VP Kamala Harris had hit a 13-year-old girl with her car and left her paralyzed. The site has since gone offline, and Microsoft analysts have determined it was run by a Russian influence campaign.
SF News BART’s New ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates Apparently Not Completely Evasion-Proof The supposedly unjumpable new BART fare gates are certainly deterring fare evasion, but some determined scofflaws are still finding ways to get through them without paying.
SF News SF Man Identified as Dead Three Years Ago Turns Up Alive, Family Is Flabbergasted The SF Medical Examiner's Office declared a 50-year-old Tenderloin resident dead of an overdose in May 2021, sending his daughter the man’s ashes. But it turns out those were someone else’s ashes, the man was still alive, and the family is going through quite an ordeal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tonight’s Full Harvest Moon Will Also Have a Partial Eclipse It’s the 165th Anniversary of the original Emperor Norton declaration; Oakland police arrested a journalist covering an encampment sweep; and tonight’s full moon will come with plenty of extra magic (if we can see it).
SF Politics Leaked Document Reveals the Secrets of Billionaire-Funded TogetherSF, of ‘That’s Fentalife’ Fame The local pressure group and political action committee TogetherSF has $17 million of SF Standard owner Michael Moritz’s money and an agenda to stoke rage and “community dissatisfaction,” according to internal documents that were just leaked to the press.
SF News Supervisor Ronen Proposes City Fund to Pay Workers Ripped Off by Wage Theft Around 14,000 SF workers get stiffed by wage theft every year. Supervisor Hillary Ronen just introduced one of her last proposals before she leaves office, which would be a $500,000-a-year fund to pay workers who never got paid by their employers.
Business & Tech Instagram Tightens Up Protections on Teen Accounts, Adds Major Restrictions for Users 16 and Under After years of criticism over online bullying, ads that stoke depression, and predators chasing teens on the platform, Menlo Park-based Instagram is tightening up the controls over what teens can see when they log in.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Will Skip Tie-Breaking Vote on City Contract to Business Associate of Possible FBI Probe Target Confronted with the very messy optics of steering millions of dollars to someone whose business partner may be a target of the very same FBI investigation that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may be a target of, Thao is choosing to merely duck the vote.
SF Politics Guy Who Bought Kamala Harris’s Old SoMa Condo Now Renting It Out on Airbnb The former South of Market home of presidential nominee Kamala Harris has now been transformed into a Kamala Harris-themed Airbnb, though it will cost you a minimum of $6,000 to stay there.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Corgi Con Celebrated Its 10th Anniversary Saturday at Alameda County Fairgrounds A couple thousand corgis and their human companions unleashed corgi magic at the Alameda County Fairgrounds for the tenth anniversary Corgi Con Saturday, and made short work of many different contests where they competed fur prizes.
SF News Man Rushed to Hospital After His Leg Gets Trapped Under a Muni Bus A man somehow ended up with his leg trapped under a Muni bus at Geary and Masonic over the weekend, and was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News SFUSD Delays School Closure Announcement Until Sometime in October Wednesday was going to be the big day when the SF Unified School District would announce which schools they’re going to close. But in a surprising Sunday afternoon statement, they said they’re putting off that announcement “until October.”
