Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Seeking $2M More In Funding, Nonprofit Founder Confident Lights Will Return The Bay Lights, which went dark on the Bay Bridge in March a few years earlier than was promised due to corrosion and deterioration of the LEDs, will return again according to the founder of Illuminate, the nonprofit behind the original installation.
Arts & Entertainment Death of 'Euphoria' Actor Angus Cloud Ruled an Accidental Overdose The sudden death of breakout 'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud in Oakland in July prompted speculation that it was a suicide. But a coroner's report has now ruled the death accidental.
SF News Oakland Private School Wins Fight for Giant Expansion After Years of Neighborhood Pushback The Head-Royce School has won permission to expand their Oakland campus from 14 to 22 acres, despite their neighbors’ concern that the expansion could create additional wildfire risk.
SF News Mayor Proposes New Camera, License Plate Reader For Twin Peaks After Fatal Shooting The entrance road to the Twin Peaks vista point could be getting a new surveillance camera and a license-plate reader, after a 19-year-old was fatally shot there last weekend.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Murdoch Steps Down As Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch, at age 92, is stepping down as CEO of Fox and News Corp.; a person was robbed in Berkeley by a suspect with AR-15; and video shows a gun battle on a residential street in East Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tarantula Mating Season Begins on Mount Diablo A pedestrian was severely injured in a crash at 18th and Valencia in SF's Mission; video of a Fort Mason car burglary and victims' effort to save their stuff goes viral; and it's tarantula mating season again on Mount Diablo.
SF Politics Sacramento County DA Sues City of Sacramento Over Homeless Encampments The latest homeless encampment lawsuit could be dubbed ‘Sacramento v. Sacramento,’ as the county’s DA has sued the city for not cleaning up homeless encampments.
SF Politics Hilariously, Russian Hill Residents Banned Street Sweeping Years Ago, But Now They Regret That Denizens of Russian Hill made a choice almost 40 years ago to sacrifice well-swept streets in exchange for hassle-free parking. And they still don't have to move their cars on street-sweeping days, but things are kind of a mess and some residents are trying to reverse course, all these years later.
SF News Deplorable Teens Attack KGO Reporter Dan Noyes, But He Thwarts Their Attempt to Steal His Bike Our thoughts go out to longtime local TV reporter Dan Noyes, who was attacked Sunday by teens in the Presidio — but he foiled their attempt to steal his bike by threatening to put them on TV.
SF News San Francisco Leaders Get Ready to Roll Out the Red Carpet For Politicians and Journalists From Across Asia In November With Dreamforce last week, some San Francisco residents got a taste of what's to come in mid-November, when world leaders and representatives from 20 nations in the Asia-Pacific region — along with a bevy of journalists — descend on the city for a major summit.
SF News SF Supervisors on Board With Reparations Plan, But Those $5 Million Payments Are Looking Unlikely The SF Board of Supervisors looked ready to approve the recommendations of the local reparations committee for Black San Franciscans on Tuesday, but this seems to be going more in the direction of cultural districts and educational efforts rather than cash payments.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Richmond's Prik Hom and Noodle In a Haystack Both Honored on New York Times Restaurant List The New York Times has updated its nationwide Restaurant List for 2023, and two new San Francisco restaurants have been added, replacing two that were on the list last year.
SF News Private 50-Acre Island Off Solano County Hits Market For $75 Million Anybody want to build a libertarian utopian community where we can solve poverty and homelessness and addiction where everyone will be thriving every day?
SF News Long-Shuttered, Dilapidated Eyesore Alexandria Theater Finally Inching Toward Becoming Housing The Richmond District’s long-vacant and decrepit Alexandria Theater could finally find new life as a 76-unit housing development, as the district’s supervisor Connie Chan and the building’s owner are finally on the same page.
SF Politics Former Congresswoman Jackie Speier Can't Stay Away From Politics, Will Run For County Supervisor Not long after retiring from Congress, former San Mateo County Rep. Jackie Speier is running for office again, this time for the same county supervisor seat she held almost 40 years ago.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Healthcare Workers Told to Mask Up Again In Three Counties Healthcare workers in three Bay Area counties are under new mask mandates; smoky conditions are likely to persist around the Bay into Thursday; and the former Nordstrom downtown is selling off its mannequins and furniture.
SF News Smoky Day Around the Bay: An AI Chatbot Is Coming to Your Gmail Account These smoky skies in the Bay Area might last until Thursday, Elon Musk is facing a Department of Justice probe over possibly illegal perks from Tesla, and Google AI chatbot Bard is being unleashed onto your Gmail and Google Drive.
SF Politics San Jose Councilmember Faces Bizarre Allegation He Hit a Homeless Person With His Car, Then Paid Him Off A strange potential scandal for San Jose City Councilmember Arjun Batra, who’s accused of driving into an unhoused person with his Lexus, and then paying the individual $40 to keep it hush-hush.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full Schedule and Set Times for Next Weekend’s Festival You’ve got ten days to game-plan your 2023 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, and organizers just announced schedules and set times, so it’s time to get pickin’.
SF News There Was a Homicide on Twin Peaks Saturday Night San Francisco police are investigating a homicide that occurred late Saturday night/early Sunday on Twin Peaks, which took the life of a 19-year-old man.
SF News Smoky Air Comes to SF From Oregon and NorCal Wildfires If you smell smoke outside today in San Francisco, it's not your imagination. But it is blowing in from hundreds of miles up the coast.
SF News SFUSD Has a School In Chinatown With Only 11 Students Enrolled It seems perhaps not the best use of resources for a district with declining enrollment and a looming financial crisis for the SF Unified School District to operate a school with only 11 students, but that’s the case at Chinatown’s Edwin and Anita Lee Newcomer School.
SF News DA and Others Like to Blame SF Judges For Setting Drug Dealers Free, But Have You Served on a Jury? Finger pointing about who's most to blame for the open-air drug market that has existed in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods for decades is de rigeur, and every politician here feels the need to shift blame away from themselves.
SF News August Ties Record Number of SF Overdose Deaths, With Three Deaths Per Day on Average More policing and more arrests do not seem to be making a dent in the San Francisco opioid overdose crisis, as the month of August’s 84 fatalities ties the record for accidental overdose deaths in the city.
Business & Tech SF-Based Instacart Goes Public In First Big Tech IPO In Two Years Instacart had its initial public offering today, landing on the NASDAQ exchange under the stock symbol "CART." The IPO raised $660 million, with shares popping 43% in initial trading, temporarily giving the company a valuation of $14 billion.
