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.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Neighborhood Wants In on Night Market Game, Will Host One On 18th Street Next Month A first-ever Castro Night Market will be happening on Friday, October 18, following the success of recent neighborhood night markets in Chinatown and the Sunset.
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 Politics Does Janet Jackson's Beef With Kamala Harris Stem From Comments Harris Made Before Michael Jackson's 2005 Trial? Pop star Janet Jackson has not walked back some odd comments she made during an interview with a UK publication, repeating falsehoods promulgated in right-wing circles about Kamala Harris's race. And this has raised questions about what Jackson's motivations may be.
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.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Pro Artem Chigvintsev Won't Be Charged In Napa Domestic Violence Case The Napa County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday that Artem Chigvintsev will not face charges relating to a domestic violence arrest last month that made national headlines.
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.
SF News Investigators Say Gambling Debt Was Motive In Friday Shooting at VTA Yard Authorities said Monday that a shooting on Friday, allegedly committed by one Valley Transportation Authority employee against another, did not have to do with workplace tensions.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Near Collision On United Flight Injures Two A near-miss collision event on a United Airlines flight into SF last week left two passengers injured; Oakland fans are not reacting well to A's owner John Fisher's goodbye note; and this heatwave will subside tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Janet Jackson Called Out For Repeating Misinformation About Kamala Harris's Race Janet Jackson is facing backlash for saying she'd "heard" that Kamala Harris isn't really Black; two brothers from Hayward are facing murder charges stemming from a botched robbery; and SF Travel has a new, permanent CEO.
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.
SF News More Details Emerge About Officer-Involved Shooting at Powell Street BART Station We're now learning a bit more about what led to the police shooting of an allegedly armed man at Powell Street Station two Fridays ago, and it was actually some proactive policing.
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 Politics It's a Boomer vs. Boomer Battle Over Political Speech In One Small East Bay Retirement Community Out in eastern Contra Costa County, there have been political battles being waged in the pages of the community newspaper and in small demonstrations, and tensions this election year even boiled into a physical fight on a pickleball court.
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 Politics Kimberly Guilfoyle Is No Fan of Kamala Harris, and Their History In SF Politics Is Personal The New York Times is dredging up some old dirt about a longstanding beef between presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and Trump's almost-daughter-in-law Kimberly Guilfoyle, which dates back to when Harris was an assistant DA.
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 News VTA Employee Arrested For Friday Slaying of Coworker In San Jose A Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee was arrested Sunday in San Jose in connection with a fatal shooting of a coworker Friday in a VTA parking lot.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Mateo County Sheriff Files Complaint San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus has filed a complaint against a male colleague; port workers in Oakland and elsewhere could be headed for a strike; and a night market on the Great Highway was a success.
SF News 1,500 S.F. Hotel Workers Have Gone on Strike in Union Square Unite Here Local 2, the union chapter representing the workers, says they've been in contract negotiations with the Grand Hyatt San Francisco Union Square, Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Westin St. Francis hotels for months, to no avail.
SF News Sunday Links: Last Call for the Oakland A's The A's are singing their swan song; SFUSD's board is under fire this morning; and the worst of fire season might still be around the corner
SF News San Francisco's School Board Scheduled an Emergency Meeting for Sunday San Francisco's School Board has placed an emergency meeting on their schedule for Sunday morning. The meeting's agenda has only one item listed, a "public employee performance review" for embattled Superintendent Matt Wayne.
SF News Saturday Links: College Football Twitter Gets Introduced to the "Calgorithim" "Woke" Cal Fans are taking over college football twitter; Elon Musk has capitulated to Brazil's courts; and Michael Bloomberg just dropped big money on Sam Liccardo.
