SF News Day Around The Bay: Mark Farrell Supporters Allegedly Deceived Local Grandma into Taking Photo-Op Supporters of Mark Farrell apparently misled a local grandma into a photo-op; A Cal Fire employee is accused of being a serial arsonist; and a police brutality case might get dismissed over paperwork.
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 'Mexodus' at Berkeley Rep Takes a Riveting Musical Journey Into a Little-Known Piece of History Berkeley Rep kicked off its new season this week with a new musical piece by a pair of talented performers and musicians that delves into a mostly untold piece of pre-Civil War history.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial Calls It Quits Le Colonial says "au revoir" after 26 years, a tiny Thai-Lao restaurant debuts in Parkside, and Four Kings gets a new national accolade, all in This Week in Food.
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.
Business & Tech Cruise Comes Crawling Back, Re-Launching Driverless Cars, With Drivers, On Peninsula Autonomous taxi company Cruise is slowly trying to reintroduce its robocars in the Bay Area, one year after the company went into freefall following a brutal collision in which one of the cars dragged an injured pedestrian.
SF News SF Jury Convicts Two for 2017 Murder of Photographer on Twin Peaks A brutal 2017 murder case that stemmed from a robbery of a photographer who was shooting pictures of the under-construction Salesforce Tower has finally come to a close, with the two suspects convicted more than seven years later.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mother Killed While Crossing Burlingame Street The mother of a special needs child was killed while crossing a street in Burlingame last week; shots rang out in Brentwood Thursday night and one man was injured; and homicides are at their lowest level in 60 years in SF.
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.
SF News Michelle Obama Makes Surprise Appearance at Livermore Costco, Hawking Soda Did you know Michelle Obama had a healthy soda line? Neither did I!
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.
Arts & Entertainment 'Private Lives' at ACT Transposes Noel Coward's Classic Comedy to Argentina The 2024-25 season at ACT kicked off Wednesday night with the opening of 'Private Lives,' Noel Coward's beloved 1930 comedy about the impossibilities and intransigencies of romantic love.
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 News City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.
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.
SF News Lawyers For Alameda Cops Accused In Mario Gonzalez's Death Seek Dismissal Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price acted in haste and missed a procedural deadline when she refiled charges in April against three City of Alameda police officers, their lawyers say.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four Arrested After Vehicle-Smash Store Burglary In Richmond District A 57-y-o Oakland man who was a suspect in a Berkeley murder died in police custody Tuesday; four people were arrested after a pickup truck smashed into a Richmond District store and it was burglarized; and Prop 36 is enjoying plenty of voter support.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Firefighters Put Out Apartment Fire In East Oakland Oakland firefighters put out a significant fire at a vacant apartment building Wednesday morning; the SF Symphony Chorus is threatening to strike; and a flash flood warning comes to the Park Fire burn scar area.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Pizza Pop-up Jules, From a Tartine and Roberta's Alum, Lands Permanent Spot In Lower Haight It's official: Buzzy pop-up Jules has secured a brick-and-mortar location, in the Lower Haight, and by mid-winter you should be seeing crowds gathering near Haight and Fillmore for their excellent New York-meets-California pies.
SF Politics President Biden to Host Global AI Safety Summit In San Francisco In November In late November, when, god willing, we will have a new president-elect whose name is not Trump, President Joe Biden will be gathering AI experts together in San Francisco for a global AI safety summit.
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.
