SF News Get Ready For Crazy SF Traffic Sunday, With Highway Off-Ramp Closures and Bus Line Changes For The 49ers Game Streets around popular celebration spots in the Mission could close if the 49ers win, prompting Muni service shifts, and south SF freeway ramps could also close to reroute heavy traffic.
SF News Iconic SF Documentary, 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,' Is Back In Theaters For Its 20th Anniversary The Roxie is hosting the remastered film for a limited release this week, and you can still get tickets.
SF News Saturday Links: Missing Woman Found Stranded on Gondola Overnight at Tahoe Ski Resort A woman reported missing had gotten stuck on a gondola at Heavenly ski resort for 15 hours; SF ballot measures about police are raising eye-popping amounts of funds; and a Vallejo woman under arrest for stealing a car also allegedly stole a patrol car.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jeffrey's Toys, SF's Oldest Toy Store and Inspiration for Pixar Movie, Announces Closure It's the end of an era for the 86-year-old store, which inspired the Emeryville-based Pixar's Toy Story; employees at City Lights Bookstore are unionizing; and PG&E reached a $45 million settlement for its role in the Dixie Fire.
SF News Army Corps of Engineers Unveils Plan to Raise the Embarcadero as Much as 7 Feet for Rising Sea Levels Since we as a society are basically giving up and letting climate change happen, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Port of SF have released their plan to raise SF’s shoreline by as much as seven feet in response to the inevitable climate floods.
SF News Cruise Offers Mea Culpa In Form of Third-Party Report on October 2 Robotaxi Disaster Self-driving taxi company Cruise, owned by General Motors, has released a report by a third-party law firm which they say will "help both Cruise and the industry learn from the incident, strengthen protocols, and improve technology."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Get Some Cult-Favorite Fried Chicken Straight From Brooklyn A very popular Brooklyn fried-chicken pop-up is popping up in SF and the North Bay next month, Beer Week is on the horizon, and 7 Adams gets a Chronicle review, in this week's Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Documentary About Legendary North Beach Topless Dancer Carol Doda Hits Theaters In March A documentary about San Francisco's famed, pioneering topless dancer Carol Doda (RIP), which premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival last fall, will be getting a theatrical release.
SF Politics DA Brooke Jenkins Has a Challenger This November, And It’s Someone Who She Once Fired Former SF Assistant DA Ryan Khojasteh was fired by Brooke Jenkins right after she was appointed in July 2022. Now he’s declared he’s running to unseat her in the November 2024 election.
SF News Phoenix Hotel Property Hits Market For $15M, Could Be Redeveloped as 450 Residential Units The beloved, retro, SoCal-motel-feeling Phoenix Hotel, which has always been a charmingly out-of-place oasis in between Civic Center and the Tenderloin, may not be long for this world as the property has just hit the market for $15 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wiener Proposes New Downtown Booze Zones Where You Can Walk Around With To-Go Drinks State Senator Scott Wiener has introduced new legislation to create "Entertainment Zones" to help San Francisco's downtown with its economic recovery, activating certain designated areas where people would be free to roam with their booze.
SF News Someone Is ‘In Custody’ In Connection With Bernal Heights Car Fires — But They’re Not In SF There’s been a development in the case of four cars torched in Bernal Heights on New Year’s Eve, as someone, somewhere is in custody in connection with the investigation. But they’re in custody elsewhere “for an unrelated matter,” according to SFPD.
SF News Suspect In Crissy Field Murder Heard In Jailhouse Phonecall Saying Victim 'Deserved' to Be Killed The 20-year-old sex worker who was arrested in November for a murder that took place in the Crissy Field parking lot was allegedly heard confessing in a jailhouse call to her mother, and she sounded remorseless about the crime.
Arts & Entertainment The LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Has Now Sprouted Up at Civic Center, Too ‘Entwined’ is still shining nightly at Golden Gate Park, but some of its pieces have just branched out to UN Plaza, and these shrub sculptures will be lit up there every night for up to two years.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Man Paroled In Murder Case Involving Toddler A man was fatally shot in a Rohnert Park parking lot Thursday night; another man was shot and injured during an attempted robbery in Oakland; and a man convicted of the 2000 beating death of a 3-year-old in SF is being paroled.
SF News Legal Team for Nima Momeni Gets Further Delay for Change-of-Venue Hearing A San Francisco judge was supposed to hear arguments Thursday about whether or not accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni can get a fair trial in San Francisco, or whether the trial should be moved to another county. But that didn't happen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muddy Waters Coffee House is Up for Sale Levi’s is laying off 10% of its corporate workforce right after spending big on Levi’s Stadium naming rights; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe is changing his name; and the Muddy Waters on Valencia Street is on the selling block for $75,000.
SF News Another City Hall Employee Charged for Corruption, Allegedly Using Earthquake Funds to Buy VR Headsets An SF City Hall bribery scheme that surfaced in August has spawned a new set of charges wherein a city worker allegedly billed for earthquake supplies, but instead bought VR headsets and tech gear which he then resold on eBay.
SF Politics Willie Brown’s Old Clothes Now On Sale Through Goodwill In the ‘Willie Brown Collection’ We kid you not, former SF mayor Willie Brown is now selling his clothes on Goodwill, and you can own Da Mayor’s old clothes. There aren't any fedoras on sale, but you can buy one of his puffy Patagonia vests, and… his old coat hangers?
SF News Coyote Howls at the Moon (and Sirens) Now Pervasive Around Alamo Square, Numbers of Coyotes Uncertain Since late December, a pack — or at the very least a pair — of coyotes have been making regular nighttime noise in and around Alamo Square, even though sightings of the wild dogs remain few and far between.
SF News New Homeless Census to Be Conducted Tuesday In San Francisco; Oakland and Berkeley Did Theirs Today The biennial Point-in-Time Count of San Francisco's homeless population is happening Tuesday, January 30, and it's the first time since 2022 that the city will get a semi-accurate picture of how many people are living here unsheltered.
SF News Levi’s Agrees to Pay $170 Million for Ten-Year Extension of Levi’s Stadium Naming Rights Deal Levi’s Stadium will continue to be called Levi’s Stadium until 2043, as the apparel company has agreed to re-up their naming rights deal for $170 million, even though they still have nine years left on their original deal.
Business & Tech Waymo Looks to Expand to the Peninsula, SFO, and Sunnyvale Just as the City of San Francisco is suing the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) over the expansion of robotaxi permits, Alphabet-owned Waymo wants to expand its permits further to cover the Peninsula and part of Santa Clara County, as well as LA.
SF News SF SAFE Scandal Gets Way Bigger, With Allegations of Check Forgery, and Millions of Dollars Missing An SFPD-funded “crime prevention” nonprofit is now itself under investigation for crime, with an untold amount of money missing, a criminal investigation for check forgery, and a suddenly fired executive director.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Probably Keep Mindlessly Casting Doubt on Mail-In Ballots and Election Integrity All Year on X Elon Musk has proven himself no better and no wiser than the many, many idiots who chatter about conspiracies and the "Deep State" on social media, the only difference being he's a billionaire who owns a social media platform who should know better.
