SF News Day Around the Bay: SF District Attorney Says Homeless Should Be Made 'Uncomfortable' DA Brooke Jenkins said homeless people need to be "uncomfortable" in order to get them into shelter; the ex-cop in last weekend's standoff in the East Bay has been charged; and Hi Felicia owner Imana is closing Sluts wine bar and says she is unhoused.
Business & Tech Former Facebook Executive Pleads Guilty to Swindling Company Out of $4 Million A one-time Facebook executive based in Atlanta has pleaded guilty to defrauding $4 million out of Facebook parent company Meta, by embezzling money from her company credit card, and directing contracts to friends in exchange for kickbacks.
SF News Defense Dredges Up Former SF Fire Commissioner’s Domestic Violence Allegations In Bear-Spray Case In the case of a former SF fire commissioner who may have bear-sprayed his assault suspect, the suspect’s public defender has brought a mess of domestic violence allegations from Don Carmignani’s ex-wife into the testimony.
SF News Lake Merritt’s Menorah Vandalized, Thrown Into Lake In Act Being Investigated as Hate Crime Vandals destroyed the Lake Merritt Hanukkah menorah early Wednesday morning, tossing its pieces into the lake and scrawling vulgar graffiti on its remains. But the rabbi whose Jewish center put the menorah up says “For every menorah they take down, we are going to put up ten.”
Bay Area Sports Giants Offered Shohei Ohtani the Same $700 Million the Dodgers Did, Ohtani Chose Dodgers Anyway In the wake of another Giants “always the bridesmaid” free agency whiff, we’re now learning that the Giants offered Shohei Ohtani the exact same deal the Dodgers offered, but Sho-Time still chose the Dodgers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harry Denton's Starlight Room to Be Reborn In February as Starlite The beloved, 21-story-high view bar at the Beacon Grand, formerly the Sir Francis Drake, is undergoing a facelift, and we finally have a reopening date.
Arts & Entertainment 'SF Is a Drag' Organizers Issue Apology After Performers Say They Were Harassed The two-day, guerrilla drag extravaganza two weekends ago in San Francisco went off mostly without a hitch, though we're now hearing about a situation in which two performers were harangued by a man on the street who didn't appreciate their form of protest.
Bay Area Sports [Updated] Draymond Green Ejected Yet Again for Punching Someone; NBA Suspends Him Indefinitely The “dirty player” reputation of Draymond Green was cemented yet further when he punched one of the Phoenix Suns in Tuesday night’s game, and after the game, the Suns literally questioned Green’s sanity.
SF News Cruise Passengers Stuck at SF Terminal For Hours Without Food Due to Departure Delay The Crown Princess couldn't dock on time Tuesday night in order to get passengers onboard for a voyage to Mexico, due to extra-low tides and silt buildup in the Bay, leaving hundreds of passengers waiting around the drafty cruise terminal at Pier 27.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley City Council Retracts Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Six people were hospitalized in a campus bus crash at UC Santa Cruz Tuesday night; the Berkeley City Council retracted a resolution it was set to vote on calling for a ceasefire in Gaza; and Tesla is conducting another major recall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That CVS In the Lower Haight Won’t Be Closing After All California’s Hispanic population is getting a lot more Dominican and Venezuelan; a Daly City music teacher has been charged with having a relationship with a 14-year-old student; and CVS has reversed course and said they will not close their Lower Haight store.
SF News SFUSD Looks Likely to Cut 900 Jobs as District's Deficit Explodes to More Than $400 Million The good news is that SFUSD is scrapping its wildly ineffective EmPower payroll system. The bad news is that they're also likely to scrap 900 job positions too, but at least it means they probably won’t shut down any schools.
Business & Tech Google Loses Antitrust Suit Brought By Fortnite Maker Epic Games Epic Games, the maker of popular mobile game Fortnite, has prevailed in a federal lawsuit brought in San Francisco against Google over anticompetitive practices relating to the company's app store for Android phones.
SF News Renderings Show Proposed New 100% Affordable Housing Project at Burned-Out 29th and Mission Building What used to be the 3300 Club, El Taco Loco, and a Mission-Bernal SRO is now slated to become 35 units of all-affordable housing, and we now have new renderings of plans for what has just been a burnt-out eyesore for seven and a half years.
SF News FBI Investigating After Russian Man Flies Into California From Europe With No Ticket or Passport A mysterious man carrying both Russian and Israeli IDs, believed to be a Russian citizen, landed at LAX last month and seemed to be pretty evasive after he was detained by Customs & Border Patrol agents and subsequently questioned by the FBI.
Arts & Entertainment Stockton Street 'Winter Walk' Returns For First Holiday Season Since 2018 The pop-up event that turned part of Stockton Street near Union Square into a traffic-free, pedestrian-only zone in December during five years of Central Subway construction is coming back, and ten days of holiday fun and events kick off on Friday.
Bay Area Sports Someone Broke Into Steph Curry’s House, and the 18-Year-Old Suspect Is Still at Large An 18-year-old Chinese exchange student managed to break into Steph Curry’s Atherton mansion, and we’re only learning of it nearly two months after the fact because the suspect failed to show up for his court date.
SF Politics City Outreach Teams Say Around 60% of SF Homeless Refused Offers of Shelter the Past Three Months Mayor London Breed is again putting out the message that the city needs to enforce laws about camping in public spaces, ahead of a potential Supreme Court decision on the issue next year.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protest Planned for Tuesday Afternoon at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters will be the site of a Tuesday afternoon protest, as supporters of Palestine say Facebook and Instagram are 'shadow-banning' or removing their posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
SF News Potential DUI Charges Delayed Against Sister of Nima Momeni Due to Toxicology Report The bizarre sidebar story to the Bob Lee murder trial, in which the sister of the prime suspect was arrested for a DUI last month in the Tenderloin that allegedly involved plowing into several parked cars and might have involved whip-its at 11 a.m. on a Monday, is in a holding pattern.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Rosa Man Arrested With Guns Booby-Trapped His Home The pedestrian death on Monday in SoMa appears to have happened in the Rainbow Grocery parking lot; a 64-year-old Santa Rosa man was found with an illegal cache of weapons; and thieves are getting more brazen in stealing whole ATMs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In SoMa Parking Lot A pedestrian was killed in a private parking lot in SoMa on Monday; a Clipper Card app meltdown stymied commuters; and X/Twitter now seems to be encouraging people to follow Alex Jones and other conspiracists.
SF News Former SF Fire Commissioner Accused In Alleged Bear Spray Attack Will Not Testify In Assault Case The one-time SF fire commissioner who was allegedly assaulted by a homeless man, but faces counter-accusations that he bear-sprayed that man, will refuse to testify in that assault trial. And his attorney admitted his client is “not an angel.”
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Close For 16-Month Renovation Starting This Winter We now have some details on the timeline of the Castro Theatre's upcoming closure and renovation at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment — renovations that will include the controversial removal of seats.
SF News So-Called ‘Speedball’ Mixtures of Fentanyl and Stimulants Now Account for Most SF Overdose Deaths There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.
