SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Promises 'New Era of Accountability' In New Homelessness Plan SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a new executive order Monday and announcing an ambitious plan for tackling the combined crises of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health, which includes holding nonprofits more accountable for outcomes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Schumer Postpones Book Tour That Would Have Brought Him to SF VTA workers are entering their second week of a strike; BART Red Line service between SFO and Millbrae is suspended; and Chuck Schumer is postponing his book tour over "security concerns."
Arts & Entertainment 'Justice For Heklina' Protest To Take Place In London On March 31 Local drag icon Peaches Christ is organizing a protest in London on March 31 as part of an ongoing effort to push the investigation forward into the 2023 death of longtime friend and creative partner, Heklina.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Free Tulips, ‘Screaming Queens’, Bikes & Books, Burlesque, Game Fest This week, March 17-23: The annual free tulip event will be at Union Square; Roxie's having a one-night screening of the Compton Cafeteria riot doc, 'Screaming Queens'; plus, bikes and books, a burlesque extravaganza, and a free game fest.
SF News Juvenile Too Young For A License Leads Police On Chase Through Vallejo Streets A Vallejo youth who was reportedly below legal driving age was pursued by police on Friday after the juvenile was seen speeding through a red light in a stolen vehicle, causing several near-collisions.
SF News Sunday Links: Stranded Astronauts Set To Return Home This Week The astronauts who've been stranded in space for several months are getting picked up by a new crew; the Nintendo store is bringing its second US location to Powell Street; and an American influencer apologized for snatching a baby wombat from its mom in Australia.
SF News Mendocino Woman Claims Her Father Is A Serial Killer, FBI Won’t Pursue Case [Update] A series of Facebook posts have been circulating this weekend written by a Mendocino County woman urging the FBI to take on the case she says she's compiled against her elderly father, a prominent local doctor, asserting that he's a confessed serial killer spanning decades.
SF News Public Works Deflects From Overflowing City Trash Can Complaints With Announcement of $12,000 ’Slim Silhouette’ Relaunch When Supervisor Danny Sauter requested more trash cans in his district, Public Works deflected by announcing the relaunch of the costly Slim Silhouette to replace existing ‘90s-era cans already on the streets, but they’re not adding additional trash cans to the mix, which doesn't solve the shortage.
SF News Transit Groups To Rally Against Muni Service Cuts At City Hall On Tuesday Local community groups will be rallying in front of City Hall next Tuesday morning prior to SFMTA’s board meeting in the afternoon when the board will make its final decision on Muni service cuts.
SF News Saturday Links: Tesla Driver Arrested For DUI After Crashing Into Muni Train, Destroying Transit Stop A Tesla driver who crashed into a Muni train was arrested under suspicion of driving while intoxicated; helicopters have been banned from Washington DC airport; and a Walnut Creek nine-year-old is the youngest person to complete a BART speedrun.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pinole Teen Caught With Loaded Gun At School A Pinole high school student was reportedly caught with a loaded gun at school and then fled police; Bay Area health officials urge residents to get the measles vaccine if they haven't already; and State Farm has been given the go-ahead to increase California customers' rates.
Arts & Entertainment St. Patrick's Day Weekend Is Here to Green You Up and Black You Out, With These Parties and Parades Your big days to go out and get Blarney-stoned for St. Patrick’s Day are Saturday at the parade and big downtown celebrations, and real St. Patrick’s Day Monday for the legendary Front Street bar block parties.
SF News RFK Jr. Apparently Coming After Poppers Manufacturers Because of a Long-Discredited AIDS Conspiracy Theory The circus continues out of Trump's Washington, where clown-car cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now apparently wielding the power of the FDA to go after manufacturers of amyl nitrate, or poppers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Turtle Tower Daytrip returns as a counter-service operation, Turtle Tower returns in new downtown digs, and finally we have a replacement restaurant moving into the former Petit Crenn, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Man Charged In Brutal Throat-Slashing Murder at SoMa Hotel It's not clear why it took almost five months to file charges, but a suspect has now been formally charged in an October murder that took place inside a hotel on Seventh Street in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Reality TV Sendup 'Nobody Loves You' at ACT Is Witty, Sharp, and Entirely Lovable The modern musical hasn't ever tackled the ubiquitous phenomenon that is reality television, maybe because the two worlds seem like they'd be incompatible. But Nobody Loves You, which just opened at ACT Wednesday, proves they can be a match made in Broadway heaven.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Hits His 4,000th Career Three-Pointer, On the Eve of His 37th Birthday Today is Steph Curry’s birthday, but his gift came Thursday night, as he became the only player ever in NBA history to hit 4,000 three-point shots, just piling up more numbers for the man who already holds the record for the most three-pointers ever.
SF News Owner of Scandal-Plagued Specialty Towing Now Indicted for Setting Competitors' Tow Trucks on Fire Here's some next-level scandal for the Bayview-based tow truck firm Specialty Towing, as its owner was just indicted for committing arson on competitors' tow trucks, crimes totally unrelated to the company's previous charges of fraudulent tows and fake car accidents.
SF News SFUSD Avoids Teacher Layoffs Thanks to Early Retirements In a rare bit of good news for the San Francisco Unified School District and its ongoing budget woes, the jobs of at least 100 teachers have been saved thanks to other teachers taking early retirement incentive packages.
SF Politics Pelosi Joins Chorus of Democrats Slamming Schumer for Supporting GOP Spending Bill Things are tense in Washington today as Congress moves to avert a government shutdown. And while there are arguments on both sides for how a shutdown would not help anyone, many Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, say that this was a "false choice" and they should have gone to the mat.
SF News Five Years Later, Oakland High School Grads Reflect on How COVID Wrecked Their High School Years As we approach the five-year COVID lockdown anniversary, a New York Times feature talks to a dozen Oakland Technical High School grads about how it affected them to spend their prime teen years stuck in their room, and just on Zoom.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Child's Remains Found In East Bay House Fire The remains of the child missing in Thursday's house fire in San Leandro were found; a fatal crash shuts down eastbound Highway 24; and a federal judge pushes back on Justice Department expanding January 6th pardons.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Is Tonight, Will Skies Be Clear Enough to See It? A couple was sentenced for robbing two SF banks in the same day; an SFO caterer is laying off more than 800 employees; and there’s a lunar eclipse coming tonight, but who knows if it will be visible in Bay Area skies.
SF News Two SF Women Charged With $500K In Welfare Fraud by Claiming They Were Caring for 17 Kids An SFMTA employee and her partner have pleaded guilty to a $30,000-a-month Section 8 fraud scheme where they claimed they were caring for 17 children, but were not caring for any children whatsoever.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Chefs Featured In Season 22 Cast of 'Top Chef' On Season 22 of Bravo's Top Chef, which was shot in multiple locations across Canada and premieres tonight (Thursday, March 13) at 9 pm, two chefs from the Bay Area are among the competitors.
