SF News Saturday Links: SF DA Charges 26 Over April Golden Gate Bridge Protest 26 people have been charged with false imprisonment and other felonies for the Tax Day protest that shut down the GG Bridge; former Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died; and Harris now leads Trump in three key swing states.
SF News Calistoga Woman Hit By Police Vehicle Identified, Suffering From Traumatic Brain Injuries We now know that the woman hit by a police vehicle in Calistoga is 22-year-old Brenda Sarabio, and she’s in critical condition, with traumatic brain injuries and numerous broken bones.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, There Is a Free Outside Lands 2024 Livestream A 2024 Outside Lands livestream is indeed available for those who can't manage to be there, with plenty of the big headliners streaming for free, and streams kick off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 1:30 pm PT.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Japanese Sandwiches In the Mission A new breakfast spot is coming to Noe Valley, a longtime French bistro shutters in Russian Hill, and the Mission gets a new Japanese sandwich spot, all in this week's food news.
SF News Major Developer Gambles on Downtown SF, Proposes 41-Story Office/Hotel Tower on Fire Station Site A developer with plenty of experience with SF's boom and bust cycles is betting big on a new tower near the Transamerica Pyramid that would include a 24-story office component.
SF Politics Newsom Says He’ll Yank Counties’ Funding If They Don’t Clear Homeless Encampments Aggressively Enough Governor Gavin Newsom is ratcheting up the threat level toward California cities and counties on the homeless encampment front, now saying he’ll cut their funding if they aren’t more aggressive in clearing encampments.
SF Politics Trump Mixes Up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown In Helicopter Story, Newsom Says Willie Brown calls bullshit on Trump's story about sharing a bumpy helicopter ride, but it turns out Trump did ride in a helicopter once with a California politician named Brown.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: High-Speed Rail Gets New CEO A Commonwealth Club debate among SF's mayoral candidates has been canceled; the CA high-speed rail project has a new CEO; and another United Boeing jet had to turn around after taking off from SFO due to a maintenance problem.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Leads Team USA to Insane 17-Point Comeback at Olympics The disgraced Taco and Beer Festival just canceled its upcoming San Jose event; 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in school board elections in Oakland and Berkeley; and Steph Curry’s 36-point onslaught sent Team USA to a miracle comeback and the gold medal game.
SF Politics Trump Claims In Bizarre Press Conference That Willie Brown Said ‘Terrible Things’ About Kamala Harris When he wasn’t claiming that he drew bigger crowds than Dr. Martin Luther King at his meandering Thursday press conference, Donald Trump also claimed that Kamala Harris’s mentor Willie Brown said “terrible things” about her, without elaborating about what these things were.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Getting the Most of Outside Lands: A Food & Drink Game Plan Outside Lands led the way over 15 years ago by leveling up the festival food experience, and giving restaurants and wineries a starring role in the weekend of non-stop music. So don't miss out on some of the tastiest bites and sips.
SF News AC Transit Says It Will Start Using ‘AI’ Cameras to Bust Cars Parked in Bus Lanes Starting today, the East Bay public transit agency AC Transit will use cameras that they claim are “equipped with artificial intelligence” to cite cars parked in bus lanes, though the agency won’t start issuing $110 citations until early October.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands For those just attending Outside Lands this year for the first time, and those who haven't been to the festival for a few years, we give you this primer on your transportation options to get in and out of Golden Gate Park without too much fuss.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Continues Attacks, Calling Musk a 'Desperate,' 'Lying,' 'Serial Adulterer' Elon Musk's daughter Vivian Wilson will not stay silent any longer, and after he set her off by going on a conservative podcast with an anti-trans psychologist to talk about her, she has now gone viral again with a second rant about her estranged billionaire father.
SF News FBI Raids Notorious Bayview Towing Company, the One That Tried to Tow a Moving Car Specialty Towing had already been in the news over a viral video where they tried to tow a moving car, and an SF City Attorney suspension, but now they’ve got bigger problems as the FBI raided their Oakdale Avenue location Thursday morning.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Headed Back Home to SF This Weekend For Fundraiser Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to her hometown this weekend to raise money for her presidential campaign, marking her first visit back to the Bay Area since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee.
SF Politics Breed Bounces Back Big-Time With Sizable Lead In New Mayoral Race Poll Is it the Kamala effect? Whatever it may be, Mayor London Breed is up by eight points in the five-way race for mayor, according to the latest poll from the Chronicle, but ranked-choice voting could scramble these results entirely.
SF News Three Shot on SF's Market Street, One Killed A triple shooting at Sixth and Market streets in San Francisco left one man dead on Wednesday night, and another in critical condition.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Park Fire Burns Through Mill Creek Canyon The Park Fire grew overnight to 426,500 acres; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing a landlord for cramming tenants into a home; and there was a possible shot fired this morning on the UC Berkeley campus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another OpenAI Co-Founder Has Taken Their Leave A cause of death has been revealed in the murder of a 25-year-old woman found in the Santa Cruz Mountains; Contra Costa County recommends masking up again; and one OpenAI co-founder has taken a leave of absence while another has decamped to a competitor.
SF News SF International Airport Has Changed Their Logo, Ditching the One They’ve Been Using for 24 Years After the Oakland Airport went and changed its name to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport," SFO is sort-of responding with a fresh, new version of the airport logo they’ve used for the last 24 years.
SF News Judge Overturns 33-Year-Old Conviction of Death Row Inmate, Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Decide His Fate A man convicted in 1991 in a murder-for-hire plot may walk free soon, after a federal judge overturned the conviction due to racially-motivated prosecutorial misconduct.
SF News Oakland Zoo Rescues Another Mountain Lion Cub, This One Found Abandoned In El Dorado County The Oakland Zoo just stepped up and rescued its 27th mountain lion, this one a four- to five-week old cub named Briar, who was found wandering motherless in El Dorado County over the weekend.
SF News Muni to Update Train Control System From Floppy-Disk Era... Over the Next Ten Years Things don't happen fast when it comes to San Francisco's public transit systems. And in the case of Muni, that means a train-control apparatus that was installed in 1998 — and sounds like it might have been almost outdated even then — is finally going to get an update. But it will take a decade.
SF Politics Accused ‘Straw Donor’ In Sheng Thao Raid Under Investigation for Allegedly Bilking $4 Million From Investors One of the many characters in whatever scandal prompted the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home is businessman Mario Juarez, who’s under a separate Alameda County investigation into allegations that he conned $4.25 million from investors.
