SF Politics Even In Liberal Berkeley, Aggressive Encampment Sweeps Set to Begin A ruling by the Supreme Court allowing cities to crack down on illegal camping without necessarily providing shelter to the unhoused has even brought Berkeley's city council around to approving more unfettered encampment sweeps.
SF News Oldest House In San Francisco Sold, Will Become Noise Pop Headquarters The 174-year-old “Abner Phelps House” at Oak and Divisadero streets is considered the oldest house in San Francisco, and it has just changed hands, with plans to make it the headquarters of local music promoter Noise Pop Industries.
SF News Defense Attorney For Teen Who (Allegedly) Shot Ricky Pearsall Says Video Proves This Was Not Attempted Murder The public defender representing the 17-year-old Tracy boy who's been charged with armed robbery and attempted murder in the August 31 shooting of Ricky Pearsall says that video evidence suggests the attempted murder charge should be dropped.
SF News Developer of Market and Van Ness Tower Strikes Deal to Restart Construction, Nix Affordable Units Australian developer Lendlease may not completely abandon its 47-story Hayes Point project after all, as SF city leaders are looking to cut a deal and let them out of an affordable housing requirement.
SF News SFPD Raids Underground Casino Operating Inside Tenderloin Market San Francisco police raided what appeared to be an illegal casino operation inside of one or more Tenderloin storefronts Tuesday evening, seizing 16 gambling machines.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Offers to Impregnate Taylor Swift In Ill-Advised, Tuesday Night Tweet Elon Musk doubles down on the creepiness of his already weird polygamist-baby-factory lifestyle by tweeting at Taylor Swift Tuesday night, following her endorsement of Kamala Harris.
SF News San Pablo Police Warrant Turns Up 700 Catalytic Converters, More Than a Thousand Pounds of Copper Wire A Tuesday search warrant on two East Bay homes in Richmond and San Pablo resulted in the discovery of more than 700 apparently stolen catalytic converters, as well as 1,100 pounds of copper wire, and $113,000 in cash.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Firefighters, City Leaders Remember 9/11 The San Francisco Fire Department held its annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony; an arson arrest was made in a big SoCal wildfire; and somehow Trump never managed to drag "liberal San Francisco" while debating Kamala Harris.
SF News Overturned Big Rig Blocks Westbound Caldecott Tunnel, Snarling Traffic An injury crash involving an overturned big rig that dumped a large amount of debris in the roadway closed all lanes of westbound Highway 24 in Oakland today, causing a major traffic situation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dreamforce Road Closures Already Underway We now know the day the L-Taraval trains are going to begin running again; the Giants are finally ditching those bizarre creamsicle-orange uniforms; and Dreamforce road closures have already started with the conference looming next week.
Arts & Entertainment Update: Big Thursday Night Light Show to Celebrate Transamerica Pyramid’s Public Reopening A Thursday night light show celebrating the public reopening of the Transamerica Pyramid will cover the east-facing side of the tower with an array of precision laser graphics.
SF News Center-Running Valencia Bike Lanes Could Be Heading Back to the Curbside in January The experiment moving the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street was not a success, and SFMTA says they’ll be moving the bike lanes back to the curbside possibly as soon as January 2025.
SF News Yuba County Resident Charged In Stabbing and Vehicle Assault Spree That Ended In Castro District A Brownsville man has now been charged with multiple felonies, including eight counts of attempted murder, in connection with a September 1 spree of violence and mayhem that began with a hit-and-run collision in the Haight.
Business & Tech Ninth Circuit Sides With Musk In Case About California Social Media Content Moderation Law A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has taken Elon Musk's and Xitter's side in a case concerning a new California law that mandates broad disclosures for social media platforms about their content moderation practices.
SF Politics Six Presidential Debate Watch Parties Tuesday In San Francisco The microphones won’t be muted at these six Bay Area presidential debate watch parties Tuesday night, many featuring booze, bingo, or comedians just making fun of the whole thing.
SF Politics Over a Quarter of SF Voters Still Undecided, But Breed and Farrell Still Lead Mayor's Race In New Poll Former Supervisor and (briefly) Mayor Mark Farrell leads incumbent Mayor London Breed by the slimmest of margins in a new poll, with Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Asha Safai trailing. But over a quarter of voters polled said they were still undecided about the race.
Arts & Entertainment Patti Smith Headlines the Just-Released Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup We already had an impressive Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup with Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart, and Cat Power on the bill, but the complete artist list just dropped and now includes punk poet Patti Smith and guitarist Chuck Prophet.
SF Politics Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Cousin Hosting Trump Fundraiser In Woodside The billionaire CEO Tom Siebel, who is a second cousin of California's First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is a big Trumper, and he's hosting a Trump fundraiser this week.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Boyles Fire Mostly Under Control in Clearlake The Boyles Fire only grew by a few acres Monday in Clearlake and is now 40% contained; two Alameda County men were charged with a series of organized Home Depot thefts; and a Tahoe musical festival has been canceled due to rising costs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Davis Fire Prompts Evacuations Near Mt. Rose The Davis Fire south of Reno has grown to 6,500 acres; activists succeeded in getting a hotel stay for a woman who says she contracted meningitis at an SF homeless shelter; and more people are going to SF's downtown, at least on weekends.
SF News SF Police Slam Down and Handcuff a Sidewalk Hot Dog Vendor, In Front of Her Screaming, Crying Daughter In the latest case of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors being more harshly persecuted than other illegal street vendors, video has emerged of a Sunday incident where a woman was tackled and detained for selling hot dogs, in front of her terrified toddler daughter.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fans Were Already Lined Up at Noon to Get Into Levi’s Stadium Parking Lot for Tonight’s Season Opener A new, more restrictive tailgate policy at Levi’s Stadium may have backfired on its first try, as 49ers fans showed up earlier instead of later Monday, and set up their tailgate parties outside the stadium parking lot.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped for One Housemate In Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler, Trial Proceeding for Two Others A judge has ruled that a trial can proceed against two men who were charged, along with two others, in connection with the August 2023 death of a toddler due to fentanyl exposure.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Draws an Estimated 50,000 People to Downtown Oakland Parade and Celebration The news wasn’t all bad coming out of Oakland this weekend, as the 14th annual Oakland Pride brought a parade, concerts, dance pavilions, and tens of thousands of people to show Oakland being “Rooted in Pride.”
SF Politics SF Democrats Take Over Vacant Nordstrom Rack on Market Street Just in time for the big Harris-Trump debate Tuesday, the new campaign headquarters of the San Francisco Democratic Party is opening at Fifth and Market streets, in the former Nordstrom Rack store.
