SF News Saturday Links: Bernie Sanders Talks College Affordability At SF Warehouse California's having a relatively calm fire season so far, one person was stabbed and another was shot in the Mission, and the Times has a piece about Uber's lack of growth and enormous losses.
SF News Owner of Illegally Demolished Neutra House Proposes New Design For Rebuild In 2017, property owner Ross Johnston caused quite the ruckus after (illegally) demolishing a historic Richard Neutra home, circa 1935. Then, about a year later, San Francisco officials ordered him to rebuild an exact replica—but, now, there’s a fresh plan in the works.
SF News A 52-Year-Old Man is Swimming Across The Plastic-Filled Pacific on His Way to Crissy Field Somewhere off the coast of Hawaii, floating between there and the California coastline, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), spanning twice the size of Texas and containing an estimated 79,000-plus tons of plastic waste. And, currently, there’s a Frenchman swimming straight through it.
Business & Tech Uber Cuts $200,000 Balloon Budget for 'Uberversaries' Uber's Chief Financial Officer Nelson Chai reportedly sent out a company-wide email earlier this month to announce a bit of deflating news: The company is axing work anniversary balloons from their yearly expenditures.
SF News Judge 'Alarmed' After Seeing Footage of Homeless Man Attacking Woman, Backlash Mounting Prior to releasing James Austin Vincent — the homeless man who, unprovoked, attacked SF resident Paneez Kosarian outside her building — presiding Judge Christine Van Aken had not seen the video footage of the incident. And now that she has, Van Aken is “alarmed.”
SF News BART Board President Says Milpitas and Berryessa Stations Will Open by December 31st After much hoopla and delay, the president of the BART board has promised that two new South Bay BART stations are almost definitely going to open by December 31st.
SF News Sunday Links: Anti-Gun Violence Rally Engulfs the Steps at City Hall A man was arrested following a robbery and assault at the Tanforan Mall, a Civil War reenactment happened at Fort Point on Saturday, and a South SF woman was arrested for allegedly shooting her boyfriend.
SF News A Jury Now Will Decide If PG&E Was Responsible For the Tubbs Fire In wake of PG&E’s long list of financial and judicial woes, the presiding judge of the utility company’s mounting bankruptcy case has, as of yesterday, allowed a state-appointed jury to decide if the electrical company’s equipment was the cause of the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF News 186 Electric Fans Sent to Oakland Schools During This Week's Heatwave This week’s sudden (and sweltering) heatwave not only made throngs of Bay Area locals stampede toward swimming pools, but it also highlighted the underfunded status of Oakland’s public school system.
SF News Saturday Links: Bison Named Brunhilda Dies in Golden Gate Park At this late date, following a fire drill, the city is worried about Chase Center traffic during emergencies; Facebook replaced an SF nonprofit's stolen laptops; and SF could learn something from Portland in re: the homeless.
Business & Tech Eight LGBTQ YouTubers Sue Over The Company's Alleged Discrimination Against Them In an ever-evolving uproar around the tech-gargantuan that gave rise to viral makeup tutorials, eight LGBTQ YouTubers are suing the Google-owned video platform, saying, per court-released documents, that they’re being illegally discriminated against.
SF News Four Injured In Shooting Outside Fillmore McDonald's Saturday Night Late Saturday night, four people were injured in a shooting outside a popular McDonald's in San Francisco’s Western Addition. According to police, all victims have been transported to a nearby hospital.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers Win Their First Preseason Game Against the Cowboys Another pedestrian was fatally struck at 5th and Market, the SF resident outed to ICE by Daly City police is suing, and the 49ers won their first preseason game 17-9.
Arts & Entertainment The Best Spots To Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower in the Bay Area The jaw-dropping, eye-opening peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower is only two nights away (Monday), but starting Saturday you should be able to see lots of shooting stars if you're in the clearer, darker spots of the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 2: The Music (and Comedy) Outside Lands (OSL) is just a day-and-change away, which means Golden Gate Park will, again, be inundated with gastronomes, comedians, and, of course, more musical acts than you can shake a mic stand at.
Arts & Entertainment FKJ Enchants All Those in Attendance at His Sold-out Stop at The Warfield Bathed in meticulously pointed, multi-chromatic stage lighting, fingers dancing atop various string instruments, FKJ put his usual spell on the sold-out crowd at The Warfield last night, his second-to-last US tour stop.
Arts & Entertainment French Bulldog, Cherie, Wins This Year's World Dog Surfing Championships Along the Pacifica coastline this past weekend, beachgoers were treated to the usual array of breathtaking views, bouts of cetacean gymnastics—and, also, canines hanging 10 (or 20).
SF News Parents of Teen Accused in Murder of Italian Officer Say He Is 'Remorseful' Over a week since 35-year-old Italian police officer Mario Cerciello-Rega was fatally stabbed in Rome, the parents of suspect Finn Elder are ready to talk, and they say their son is "remorseful and scared."
SF News Protesters Continue Flocking to SF's ICE Headquarters as Part of the 'Month of Momentum' 30 days of non-stop protesting, called the "Month of Momentum," officially began August 1st at 630 Sansome Street, ICE's SF HQ.
SF News Sunday Links: Two Mass Shootings in Less Than 24 Hours The founder of 8chan says the site should be taken down after it's connected with another mass shooting, a fatal collision shuts down 101 south in Palo Alto, and SF is trying to ban single-use plastic cups.
Arts & Entertainment The Tenderloin Museum Puts Neighborhood-favorite Drag Bar, Aunt Charlie's Lounge, Under a Spotlight 2019 and early-2020 will see the Tenderloin Museum putting on a months-long series of exhibitions and happenings centered around Aunt Charlie’s Lounge.
SF News Saturday Links: Marsh Complex Fire Growing; $1,200 Bunk Beds are Now a Thing The wildfire in Contra Costa County has grown to over 500 acres, 45 arrests have been made in East Bay sex trafficking rings in recent weeks, and Biscuits & Blues is endangered.
Arts & Entertainment Tanya Tucker, Daniel Norgren and More Added To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 Lineup The latest round of teasers for this year's lineup includes Mdou Moctar, Buddy Miller, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, and Nikki Lane.
SF News Family and Friends of SF Teens Accused Of Slaying of Italian Cop 'Shocked and Dismayed' 19-year-old Finnegan Elder and 18-year-old Gabriel Natale Hjorth, two graduates from Tamalpais High School’s class of 2018, were accused of slaying 35-year-old Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega earlier this weekend. Now, those close to the vacationing duo are speaking out.
SF News Sunday Links: Olympian Gregory Billington Wins 42nd SF Marathon Former Rio Olympian wins the SF Marathon, Hong Kong Airlines is stopping service from SFO, and a Pick-and-Pull yard in San Jose caught fire.
