Business & Tech SF Rapper and Local Pot Icon Berner Gets Lengthy New York Times Feature on His Cookies Dispensaries Local rapper Berner has become the Pied Piper of marijuana, with his Cookies brand now boasting 70 dispensaries globally, and he celebrated his recent New York Times profile by posting “I smoked a 10 gram joint in the @nytimes lol!”
Arts & Entertainment New Comedy Club and Cocktail Lounge The Function Set to Open on Mid-Market A local comedian is opening a new comedy club this spring in a former dive bar space near Market and Van Ness in San Francisco, and it will be called The Function.
Real Estate 21 Best Realtors & Real Estate Agents in San Francisco (2024) In the ever-evolving, fiercely competitive, and often unpredictable landscape of San Francisco's real estate market, having a savvy, experienced, and dedicated realtor is not just a luxury, it's a necessity. As the city's
SF News Six People and a Dozen Dogs and Puppies Required Water Rescue From Inundated River Island In San Jose A group of people and their dogs who were apparently camped on an island in the Guadalupe River in San Jose required an emergency rescue on Sunday as the river waters rose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trans Cabaret Bar, AsiaSF, Announces Permanent Closure In March The SoMa restaurant and drag performance venue announced its last day will be March 31, International Day of Trans Visibility, although it might put on pop-ups in the future.
Business & Tech Meta Oversight Board Rules Altered Biden Video Can Stay on Facebook, But Urges New Rules After the QAnon crowd widely shared an altered video clip of President Joe Biden last year, the Meta Oversight Board just ruled the video can remain on Facebook. But the board is also recommending a massive policy overhaul on manipulated content.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Thousands Still Without Power In Bay Area There are many downed trees still being cleaned up in SF and around the Bay; as of Monday a.m. 4,800 PG&E customers in SF were without power, and many thousands more in the North and South Bay; and one person was killed in Santa Cruz County when a tree fell on their home.
SF News Atmospheric River Brings Heavy Rains, Road Closures, Flight Cancellations, and Tornado Warning to Bay Area There’s a (small) chance that a tornado could be headed to the Bay Area Sunday night. The last time there was a tornado warning in San Francisco was in 2015.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Swimmer Attacked and Carjacked Early Friday Morning A San Francisco man who was on his way to go swimming early morning Friday was brutally beaten and carjacked; BART trains are hitting snags from the wet weather; and San Jose declared a state of emergency due to the storm.
SF News Tesla To Pay $1.5 Million After Lawsuit From 25 California Counties, Including SF, Over Illegal Dumping of Hazmat Waste A lawsuit from 25 different counties in the state, including eight in the Bay Area, claimed that Tesla violated state regulations about the proper storage, disposal and management of hazardous waste.
SF News SF Man Arrested In Connection With Attempted Kidnapping On the Peninsula A 25-year-old SF resident was arrested by Colma police after being found in a car linked to a kidnapping last week.
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Cruz and South Bay Prepare for Sunday's Atmospheric River A San Francisco man, Dennis James Duree, 39, has been charged with one count of murder in the SOMA double stabbing December; the SF DA is investigating the troubled nonprofit SF Safe; and the Bay Area is bracing for floods, winds, and more on Sunday
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-CSU Professor Pleads Guilty to Setting Fires Around the Dixie Fire in 2021 A Delaware judge said Elon Musk can't get his $56 billion comp package approved by Tesla's board over 5 years ago; a former professor from San Jose admitted to arson in Shasta National Forest in 2021; and Nancy Pelosi doubles down on calling pro-ceasefire protesters Russian plants.
SF Politics PAC Opposing Dean Preston Gets Half of Its Donations From Firm Whose CEO Posted ‘Die Slow’ Tweet The so-called "Dump Dean" PAC opposing Supervisor Dean Preston pulled in $300,000 in 2023, but about half of that total comes from a small number of employees of one tech incubator — the one whose CEO sent the “die slow motherf***ers” tweet last weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Starlite Debuts Atop the Beacon Grand The Starlight Room becomes Starlite starting this weekend, the family behind Original Joe's and Little Original Joe's is opening a new Mexican place in West Portal next week, and more in this edition of This Week In Food.
SF News Yep, That Was a 3.4M Earthquake In SF, With an Epicenter Apparently Just Off the Coast Didja feel it? A 3.4-magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco just after 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, and fortunately, no damage is being reported.
SF News BART’s ‘Fleet of the Future’ Trains Still Glitchy as Heck Whenever It Rains, May Require Expensive Repairs Rain delays are far more frequent with BART’s new “Fleet of the Future” trains than they were with the shoddier old trains, and brake problems on the new trains are the culprit. A new investigation finds the problem might cost ten times more to fix than BART had estimated.
SF News Mayor London Breed Hopes to Lure Historically Black Colleges to Downtown SF With New Program On Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a plan to begin offering summer classes through historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the city, and the intention of luring at least one of those HBCUs to establish a satellite campus downtown.
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Premieres ‘Mere Mortals,' a Must-See Blend of Mythology, Technology, and Choreography San Francisco Ballet's new artistic director Tamara Rojo commissioned this new ballet that explores artificial intelligence through the myth of Pandora’s box, and it succeeds as a modern take on an ancient story.
SF News Sup. Dorsey Demands Report on ‘Drug Tourism,’ Seems to Be Itching For Crackdown District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has a hunch that people are coming from out of town to buy or sell illegal drugs in SF, and is asking the City Controller for an analysis of the home addresses of those arrested to see how many are from other countries.
SF News Next Storm Moves In Sooner Than Forecast, Heavy Rain to Begin Saturday Afternoon The Bay Area won't get much of a break between atmospheric river storms this week, even though meteorologists had earlier assured us that we'd have a fairly dry weekend until Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Belgium Brewery In Mission Bay Announces Abrupt Closure After Short 3-Year Tenure New Belgium Brewing Company, the maker of Fat Tire, announced Thursday that it was ceasing operations at the SF Mission Bay location and shutting down effective immediately.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Monarch Butterfly Population Down Again In CA An earthquake with a preliminary 4.9M struck off the Eureka coast this a.m.; a house fire in the East Bay left two people seriously injured; and California's monarch butterfly population appears to be down 30% over last year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Gets New Set of ‘Avant Garde’ Lanterns in Time for Lunar New Year The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
SF News SF City Hall OKs Whole Foods Moving Into the Long-Empty Former Best Buy at Geary and Masonic Nearly six-and-a-half years since Whole Foods called dibs on the vacated Best Buy space in City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue, the SF Planning Commission finally authorized the Amazon-owned grocery chain to move into the space Thursday.
