SF Politics Daniel Lurie Campaign Paying Google to Run Fake, Anti-Mark Farrell Headlines on Real News Articles The latest skullduggery in the SF mayor’s race has Google search results for Mark Farrell that make it look like prominent local publications ran headlines declaring “Don’t Trust Mark Farrell.” But the headlines are fake, and the Lurie campaign appears to be paying Google to manipulate them.
Arts & Entertainment F Train to Become Mobile Jazz Club For New Mid-Market First Thursdays Block Party The scope of activities happening in downtown San Francisco on the first Thursday of every month just got bigger with UNSTAGED, a new Mid-Market block party being put on by Market Street Arts. And it will turn the F-line streetcar into a boistrous, mobile jazz venue.
SF News Dog Shelter Muttville Gets Power Shut Off by PG&E, Dogs Reportedly Being Euthanized Because of It If you need another bone to pick with PG&E, they cut off the power for the beloved senior dog rescue operation Muttville, and the disruption in electricity is apparently resulting in elder dogs being euthanized instead of getting a chance at a new home.
SF News Tesla Semi Truck Crash and Fire on I-80 Being Investigated By Feds A crash and subsequent battery fire earlier this week involving one of Tesla's semi trucks that shut down I-80 in both directions for most of an entire day is now being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Police Make Gun Arrest Following Fare Evasion BART police made an arrest Tuesday of a felon with a loaded handgun; a domestic incident leads to a man's death in San Leandro; and BART was experiencing delays early Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alleged Copper Wire Thief Found Dead Inside East Bay Manhole A man found dead inside a Richmond manhole was apparently stealing copper wire; charges were filed against two people in a Hayward freeway shooting; and one of SF's craft breweries has announced its closure.
SF Politics Report: Mark Farrell Took $100K Check From Employer the Day He Became Interim Mayor, Which Seems Not Exactly Legal It is illegal for the Mayor of San Francisco to hold a second job. So is it odd that Mark Farrell got paid more than $100,000 by his employer, just hours before being sworn in as interim mayor in 2018?
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces Free Portugal.The Man Show In Civic Center Next Month Fulfilling their pledge to put on three free concerts in the city this year, Another Planet Entertainment has just announced what the second one will be, and it's Portugal.The Man.
SF News Twin Peaks Tunnel About to Shut Down Again for Eight Days, Starting Thursday Heads up, those who ride Muni’s K, L, M, and S lines — the West Portal and Forest Hill stations, and all of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, will be closed for eight whole days, effective Thursday morning.
SF News Teen Boy Shot and Injured Near SF's Galileo High School, Prompting Lockdown A teenage boy was reportedly shot Wednesday afternoon during the third day of the new school year, not far from Galileo High School.
SF Politics London Breed and Billionaire Friend Throw SF Boosterism Bash In Chicago, Featuring The Killers In an effort to flex some muscle on a national stage and counter the Republicans' tired narrative about San Francisco being a hellhole, billionaire Chris Larsen and Mayor London Breed threw an SF image-boosting party on Night Two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Bissap Baobab Can Stay Open Until 4AM on the Weekends, Thanks to New Permit At one point last year, neighbors were trying to get Bissap Baobab’s alcohol license revoked because of music playing past 10 pm. But the Senegalese restaurant won that fight, and now can stay open until 4 am on Friday and Saturday nights.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi's Appearance on Colbert Gets Interrupted By Protesters A live broadcast of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Tuesday night in Chicago with House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi as a guest was interrupted several times by pro-Palestinian protesters in the audience.
SF News Hayes Valley Building Destroyed By Fire Full of Squatters, Stoking Fears It Could Be Destroyed By Fire Again It was last August when an under-construction Hayes Valley building caught fire, with many speculating that people camped just outside the site caused the fire. Construction has gone nowhere since, and neighbors are alarmed that squatters appear to have moved in, and it could just burn again.
SF News Two Arrested For Quadruple Shooting In Oakland That Left Two Dead A man and a woman are both in custody in connection with a quadruple shooting outside an East Oakland apartment complex Saturday morning that left two people dead, and two others wounded.
SF News Humpday Headlines: RV Dwellers Near Stonestown Find Homes Over 20 people who had been living in RVs near Stonestown have been given permanent housing; Aaron Peskin lays out his plan for homelessness; and a 71-year-old hiker goes missing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County’s Point Bonita Lighthouse Bridge to Be Closed for Repairs Indefinitely SF is getting a bronze bust of Willie Brown that no one asked for; a Tuesday plane crash at the Tahoe airport left one dead; and the bridge at Point Bonita Lighthouse in Marin County will be closed for quite some time.
SF Politics RFK Jr.’s Bay Area Veep Pick Says Campaign Might Soon Throw In the Towel and Endorse Trump The RFK Jr. presidential campaign must be feeling bearish about their chances, as his VP pick Nicole Shanahan just admitted on a podcast that they’re thinking of quitting and endorsing Trump.
SF News SFO Begins Construction On Yet Another Terminal Expansion The construction never really ends at SFO, it just moves over to another terminal.
Business & Tech WSJ: Elon Musk’s Deal to Buy Twitter Rated Worst Deal for Banks Since the 2008 Financial Crisis The seven major banks who lined up to finance Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in 2022 are still on the hook for $13 billion, setting unpaid debt records not seen since the 2008 Great Recession collapse. Let that sink in!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 46-Year-Old Sushi Restaurant, Other Longtime Businesses Getting Evicted By Upper Fillmore Real Estate Investor Welp, hopes that a real estate investor who has been quietly assembling multiple properties on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights has only good intentions to revitalize the area appear to be dashed.
SF News 31-Year-Old Single Mother Killed by Suspected Five-Time DUI Driver In Santa Rosa A man with four previous DUI charges just picked up a fifth in Santa Rosa, and this one took the life of a 31-year-old mother who worked as a juvenile corrections officer.
SF News 28-Year-Old Chinese National Charged In Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Scheme Involving Fake Names, Bank Accounts A federal judge has ordered the 28-year-old suspect in a broad-ranging fraud scheme to remain detained at Santa Rita Jail after he reportedly tried to flee the country and return to China.
SF News Famed Los Gatos Nudist Resort Lupin Lodge Is on the Market for $32.8 Million The 90-year-old clothing-optional Lupin Lodge Naturist Club in Los Gatos has been listed for sale, though with a $32.8 million price tag that will take the shirt right off your back.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Third Bi-Rite Location In Russian Hill Readies For Opening Next Week The third and biggest location of high-end grocer Bi-Rite will be opening by the last weekend in August, nearly two years after we first learned it was coming to the Russian Hill neighborhood.
