SF News Saturday Links: Lawsuit Over SF Homeless Encampment Sweeps Paused by Federal Judge The Supreme Court is reviewing a similar case against homeless sweeps in Oregon, so the SF-related one has been paused; Warriors Coach Steve Kerr was offered a record-breaking contract extension; and an Oakland institution, the dive bar Ruby Room, has been bought.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk Responds to San Jose Bakery's Allegations that Tesla Didn't Pay For Thousands of Pies Musk said he would "make things good" with the bakery; 49ers QB Brock Purdy is doing spon-con for tractors; and workers at sex shop Good Vibrations are officially unionizing.
SF News SFPD Touts Drug Bust That Seized Eight Pounds of Fentanyl, 32 Pounds of Meth A very heavy drug bust, as SFPD says they arrested four people for having 44 pounds of illegal drugs, and all were East Bay residents who allegedly supplied “street-level dealers who frequent the Tenderloin.”
SF News Scandal-Plagued SFPD Partner Nonprofit SF SAFE Now Accused of Stiffing Local Florist Out of $17k The SFPD-affiliated nonprofit SF SAFE was already awash in allegations of forged checks and millions in funds missing. Add to their troubles that they allegedly ran up a $17,000 bill at a Mission District floral shop that the nonprofit never paid.
SF News Developer Shares Expanded Plan For 560-Unit Residential Project on Former CPMC Campus in Laurel Heights Plans have shifted for the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at the edge of Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights after a new developer bought the property over a year ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chef Anthony Strong Returns to the Mission We have news this week that Anthony Strong's Pasta Supply Co. is expanding to the Mission District, a dairy-free soft-serve chain from Honolulu is coming to Noe Valley, and West Portal is getting a new wine bar from the couple who owned La Ciccia for decades.
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
Business & Tech Google Suspends Gemini Image Module After Backlash Over Diverse Depictions of Founding Fathers, Nazis In case you missed the hubbub on Xitter, many people including Elon Musk have been flipping out this week over historic inaccuracies being produced by Google's Gemini chatbot image generator, which have included racially diverse images of "the Founding Fathers."
SF Politics A Guide to Your March 5th SF Ballot Measures, Which London Breed’s Fingerprints Are All Over There are seven San Francisco measures on your March 5 primary ballot. But many seem trojan-horse proxy measures to help Mayor London Breed get reelected this November, in a very difficult reelection environment.
Arts & Entertainment Free Muni Rides and Multiple Streets Closed For Chinese New Year Parade Lunar New Year celebrations culminate on Saturday in San Francisco with the annual Chinese New Year Parade, and multiple streets will be closed to traffic for the event.
SF News Oakland Taco Truck La Parilla Loca Robbed at Gunpoint A well-established taco stand called La Parilla Loca does business six days a week in the East Oakland area, and was the latest food establishment to suffer an armed robbery this week.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E Profits Soar After Rate Hikes PG&E profits soared in 2023 after hiking rates for customers; Biden attended another high-ticket fundraiser on the Peninsula before leaving the Bay Area; and a new poll finds Katie Porter and Steve Garvey in a dead heat for second place in the Senate race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Has Filed for Its IPO Protesters calling for a ceasefire managed to get into the SF hotel that Biden is staying at; your Golden Gate Bridge toll may be going up again; and the 19-year-old SF-based social media site Reddit has filed for its IPO.
SF News BART Survey Finds Rider Satisfaction Over 80% For First Time In a Decade BART is touting a recent survey of passengers that found over 80% of them fairly happy with their train service — a major improvement since passenger satisfaction began taking about six years ago.
SF News Long-Vacant Mid-Market Condo Building Gets City Hall OK To Switch to Apartments Instead Mohammed Nuru bribery complications left a 12-story, 109-unit residential building empty for nearly three years, but that building known as The Oak just got the OK to convert from condos to apartments under a new owner who does not have any bribery charges.
Arts & Entertainment The Academy of Sciences' First Corpse Flower Is Getting Set For Its First Stinky Blooming One of several, exotically bizarre corpse flowers owned by a San Francisco institution is about to unfurl its first ever unholy-smelling blossom next week, and once again people are probably going to line up for this.
SF News Fire at SoMa Apartment High-Rise Leaves Hundreds Without Running Water or Electricity A Wednesday fire at the 40-story Paramount apartment tower at Mission and Third streets has left hundreds of tenants without electricity or running water, and very limited elevator service to navigate the building’s dozens of floors.
SF News Biden Meets With Widow and Daughter of Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny In San Francisco President Joe Biden, still in town after several days of big-money fundraising with California's wealthiest Democrats, met with the widow and daughter of Alexei Navalny in San Francisco, and posted a photo of the meeting.
Arts & Entertainment Zendaya Gives $100K to Struggling Cal Shakes Emmy Award-winning actress and Oakland native Zendaya has just given a $100,000 gift to Cal Shakes, a.k.a. the California Shakespeare Theater, where she first got her start taking acting classes.
SF News San Leandro Police Chief Steps Down Amidst Investigation, So He Likely Won’t Be Oakland Police Chief San Leandro's chief of police Abdul Pridgen was already on administrative leave over some undisclosed, alleged violations of department policies. That made him an odd candidate for Oakland Police Chief, and now he’s officially gone from the San Leandro job.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Mark Farrell Beating London Breed in First-Choice Vote, and Breed Trailing In Ranked-Choice The first poll conducted since Mark Farrell jumped into the SF mayor’s race shows him edging London Breed slightly in first-choice votes, while Daniel Lurie does the best in second-choice votes, and there are generally low approval ratings for Breed.
SF News Three East Bay Residents Identified In Bay Bridge Crash The three people killed in an early morning crash on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge have now been identified.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: AT&T Cell Network Has Major Outage CHP is investigating the death of a homeless man found on an I-80 onramp in San Francisco; the AT&T cellular network experienced a nationwide outage early Thursday; and Sen. Alex Padilla reintroduced the Housing For All Act.
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SF News Day Around the Bay: New Falcon Living on Berkeley's Campanile Tower Named After Archie Williams A former Contra Costa County deputy has taken a plea deal in a felony case; Biden told supporters to stay focused on the fight against Trump at an LA event; and the new male mating with falcon Annie on the Berkeley campus has been named Archie, following a naming contest.
