SF News Another Home-Built Plane Crashes In the Bay Area, Killing Its Pilot A second home-built aircraft has crashed inside of two weeks in the Bay Area, killing the pilot aboard, and pointing to a disturbing apparent trend.
SF News Report: Vallejo PD Considering Unbendable Badges, So Cops Can’t Bend Them to Celebrate Killing People Since the Vallejo Police Department has been dogged by scandals for the better part of a decade now, the department is reportedly considering a rebrand with new badges — badges that can’t be bent to celebrate fatal police shootings.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Giant Dragon Statues Ring In the ‘Year of the Dragon’ In SF Meet all the dragon statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Dragon, as these intricately designed, wooden dragon monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Brunch Spot Called Early to Rise Set to Open Next Month In Former Automat Space Another pop-up-turned-brick-and-mortar business is taking over the space that formerly housed Automat in the NoPa neighborhood, and it comes from a former chef at Spruce and Quince.
SF News Man Shot By Sheriff's Deputy at Palisades Tahoe Identified as Jamaican National A man who was fatally shot by a Placer County Sheriff's deputy last week at the Palisades Tahoe ski resort has been identified, and we're now learning more about the circumstances that led to the shooting.
SF News Bay Area Braces For Another Serious Rainstorm One local meteorologist is saying we are going to get "slammed" by the incoming storm on Wednesday morning, so don't let this balmy weather fool you. It is still very much winter.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims the First Human Subject Has Gotten a Neuralink Implant In Their Brain The first human patient has reportedly had the Neuralink computer chip implanted into their brain, according to a tweet from Elon Musk, marking either a milestone for people with neurodegenerative disorders, or one giant leap for oligarch mind control.
SF News Foreclosure and Potential Sale of Oceanwide Center Project In Downtown SF Headed to Court (Again) After liens and lawsuits, a judge could decide to initiate the sale of the property of the never-built Oceanwide Center, but who would buy it?
SF News Man Who Beheaded Ex-Girlfriend In San Carlos Receives Maximum Sentence, Which Is 25 to Life A Hayward man who was convicted in November in the 2022 slaying of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro was sentenced Tuesday morning to 25 years to life in prison, the maximum allowable under California law.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Nine Arrested For Tenderloin Drug Dealing Nine people were arrested for selling drugs to undercover cops in the Tenderloin; five arrests have been made in connection with six bodies found in the Mojave Desert; and the MAGA universe is losing its mind over Taylor Swift conspiracy theories vis a vis Biden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sotomayor Expresses Frustration With SCOTUS at Berkeley Event Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in Berkeley today discussing her frustrations with the court; a Google engineer believed murdered by her husband in Santa Clara has been ID'd; and a person was stabbed near the State Capitol in Sacramento Monday morning.
Arts & Entertainment A Sacramento Chihuahua Named ‘Bark Purdy’ Will Compete In the Puppy Bowl A Chihuahua mix by the name of ‘Bark Purdy’ hails from Sacramento, and he’s hardly Mr. Irrelevant as he heads to Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl XX. But sorry suitors, he’s already been adopted.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District Bar Casements Can Continue Rocking Live Music on Back Patio After City Hall Gives OK Mission Street bar Casements had to get new approval for live music on their back patio, despite that they’ve had live music on that patio since 2020. They did get their City Hall approval, but now their live music has a 10 p.m. cut-off time.
SF News One Shot and Injured During Mission District Revelry Following 49ers Win Things stayed mostly peaceful in the Mission District Sunday night as thousands of people came out of bars and homes to revel in the 49ers' NFC Championship win, but there was one reported incident of gun violence, and a few small fires.
SF Politics Local Tech CEO and Political Donor Garry Tan Tweets That Some SF Supervisors Should ‘Die Slow’ In Late-Night Rant A seemingly drunken and now-deleted tweetstorm from Y Combinator CEO and political donor Garry Tan called on most of the SF Board of Supervisors to “Die slow motherf***ers,” which may be awkward for one supervisor candidate whose company funding is linked to Tan.
SF News Monterey Chef Indicted For $4 Million In COVID Relief Fraud Scheme A chef and caterer based in Monterey is in hot water with the feds over an alleged $4 million that he bilked from the government during the pandemic, which prosecutors say he used to buy real estate in Belize and fund a new business venture.
SF News Vintage 1956 Muni Bus Delighted Transit Nerds This Weekend at Duboce Park The good folks at Muni busted out a 1950s-era Muni Mack bus this weekend, and let transit lovers hop onboard and enjoy it in its fully restored glory, as part of a “120 years of SFMTA” exhibit happening over that the Harvey Milk Photo Center.
Bay Area Sports Eminem, Matt Bomer, Ted Lasso's Cristo Fernandez Among the Celebrities at Sunday's 49ers Game Eminem was there to cheer on his beloved Detroit Lions, and he reportedly flipped off some Niners fans. But most of the other celebs in attendance Sunday were part of the Faithful.
SF Politics Pelosi Calls on FBI to Investigate Alleged Links Between Russia and Pro-Palestine Protestors Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi made a curious charge without evidence on a Sunday talk show, saying some pro-Palestine protesters are “connected to Russia” and called on the FBI to investigate the financing of the protests.
Business & Tech X and Other Platforms Restrict Searches for ‘Taylor Swift’ As Deepfake Pornography of Her Goes Viral Graphic AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift have snowballed on social media platforms from X to Meta to Reddit, exposing the limits of their content moderation and lack of legislation.
SF News Body Found on BART Tracks Near Balboa Park A body was found early Monday in the BART trackway near Balboa Park Station, and this caused some delays with the first trains running through the area Monday morning.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Balmy Days, Then a New Storm The Mission erupted in celebrations much of Sunday night after the 49ers' win; St. Francis hospital was on lockdown after a gun incident; and we may see record-warm temperatures today and tomorrow before Wednesday's coming storm.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco 49ers Are Headed to Their Eighth Super Bowl, and Taylor Swift Will Be There The matchup that the local media has been hoping for the past couple of weeks, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, has come to pass. And San Francisco celebrated Sunday night.
SF News SF District Attorney Staffer Fired After Sending Offensive Email to DA Brooke Jenkins About Her ‘Panties’ A victim advocate in the San Francisco District Attorney Office’s sent District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the entire office an email Friday morning asking what color panties she had on, leading to his immediate termination.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers Fans Can Enjoy Game on Warmest, Driest Sunday in Months, But Rain Coming Next Week Enjoy the warm reprieve from the rain this weekend; you can see the Niners game at these watch parties around the Bay; and Oakland celebrated its annual Lunar New Year Festival Saturday.
