SF News Late Summer Brings Another Violent Week to Oakland, With Six Homicides Since Sunday Oakland is seeing another tragic week of fatal shootings — and it is feeling like a repeat of last year, with the homicide count rapidly approaching the deadly toll of 2022.
Bay Area Sports Cal and Stanford Officially Switch Conferences to the ACC; PAC-12 Is Probably Dead The Cal Bears and Stanford Cardinal just Transfer Portaled themselves to the Atlantic Coast Conference, effective in 2024, which was the best outcome possible for the two schools as the PAC-12 has turned into a dying husk over the last month.
SF News Imagined New City In Solano County Gets Its First Website, With Illustrations The coming-out-from-the-shadows process of Flannery Associates, the VC-backed group hoping to build a new city in Solano County continues with a new, fairly surface-level website for the project, the parent company of which we now know is called California Forever.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: $2 Million Winning Lottery Scratcher Ticket Sold at Chevron in Hayward We might get a drizzle of rainfall over Labor Day weekend, Marc Benioff is suddenly back to saying wonderful things about San Francisco, and somebody won $2 million on an instant scratcher lottery ticket purchased at a Hayward Chevron.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Signs Lease for Former Slack Building Downtown Fast-growing AI firm Anthropic is subleasing Slack's former HQ at 500 Howard; the feds are considering moving marijuana out of the list of Schedule I drugs; and westbound I-80 will be closed around the Carquinez Bridge for five days starting tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Bar and Restaurant Holbrook House Opens In Downtown SF Next Week With Martini and Champagne Call Buttons It always helps to have a gimmick when you're opening something new in this town, and the minds behind Holbrook House — the grand new restaurant opening September 6 in the old bank building at One Sansome — have come up with a clever one.
SF News Mpox Cases on the Rise Again in SF, Health Department Warns The disease formerly known as monkeypox is making a troubling little comeback in SF, and while case counts are low, we’ve seen a nearly seven-fold increase in positive mpox cases in the last five weeks.
SF News Mayor London Breed Posts Video of Encampment Clearing Operation On Willow Street, Says City Is 'Working Hard' Thursday morning brought the latest encampment sweep on Willow Street, one of several alleys off of Van Ness near Polk Gulch that have been perennially popular campout spots for the city's homeless.
SF News Governor Newsom Still on His Kick for Pricey San Quentin Reform, Offering Little Detail Newsom has a nebulous plan to transform San Quentin State Prison into a correctional facility that’s more like a college campus, but the $360 million price tag and lack of transparency is making some people wary.
Sponsored The Head and The Heart Presents a Two-Day Curated Festival In Downtown Napa Following the announcement of this year's Down in the Valley music festival, anticipation is building among indie-folk fans as they prepare to descend on the stunning vineyards of Napa, California for a weekend of unforgettable musical experiences.
SF News New York Times Takes Deep Dive Into 2017 Albany High School Instagram Scandal Over a Racist Meme Account Back in 2017, the small East Bay town of Albany was roiled by the discovery of a wildly racist "finsta" account that posted memes as well as doctored photos of students of color at Albany High School. The aftermath was violent, lengthy, and litigious.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Has Gotten Richer, Queerer, Slightly Less White The annual Black Rock City Census data is out for 2022, and it paints a picture of the desert festival getting marginally more diverse than it was a decade ago, and a fair bit less traditionally heterosexual.
SF News Lower Haight Smells Even Worse Than Usual, Thanks to Sewer Repair Project A highly unpleasant odor is causing a stink in the Lower Haight, as a sewer repair effort permeates a chemical odor throughout the neighborhood, but the SFPUC insists there’s no public health hazard.
Sponsored The 1975 Rocks California: Unmissable Shows In San Jose and Sacramento Coming up this September, British rock sensations The 1975 are coming to California, and it's a homecoming you won't want to miss. With their evocative lyrics intersecting seamlessly with a plethora of musical styles, there are few bands with such a transformative yet definitive sonic identity.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Beyonce Show Gloriously Breaks Santa Clara Curfew, Despite Extension Expect more smoky skies again Thursday, beleaguered mega-landlord Veritas found someone to buy up their properties, and Beyonce’s Levi’s Stadium show went 30 minutes past curfew, even though it was given an hour-long extension.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In 2022 San Carlos Beheading Will Stand Trial The man accused in the gruesome killing of an ex-girlfriend in San Carlos last September is heading to trial; CHP arrested a driver following a 20-mile chase into Lafayette and a rollover crash; and Mitch McConnell froze up again during a press conference.
SF News Filipino Grocer Island Pacific Market Wants to Move in on Vacant Outer Mission Space Can Alemany Boulevard handle two specialty Asian grocery stores within a mile of each other? The Filipino grocery chain Island Pacific Market thinks so, and has submitted applications to move into a vacant spot not far from the wildly popular H Mart.
SF Politics Yet More Bribery Charges for SF City Hall Employees, This Time for Pocketing Public Funds A current city grant program director and a former city employee who’s now a consultant stand accused of the grant director funneling projects to the consultant, who in return allegedly kicked back more than $200,000 in checks to the director and her family.
Bay Area Sports SF Pickleball Fans Delight In Irony of Presidio Heights NIMBY Trying to Shut Down a Public Court While Owning One Herself A petition circulated last weekend by a Presidio Heights resident has been a source of much hilarity after pickleball players linked it to a real estate listing for a home with its own backyard pickleball court.
SF Politics Irate Gavin Newsom Wants to Dox Judge Who Blocked Encampment Sweeps Well, this is Trump-y. Displeased with legal rulings blocking encampment sweeps, a testy Gavin Newsom declared he wanted to post “a big sign with the judge’s phone number saying, ‘Call the judge.’”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Croissant Maker Arsicault Bakery Heads to Cool New Building In Mission Rock One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.
SF Politics Appeals Court Finds SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct A 2021 homicide case that was tried by then-Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, which she cited as a final straw in her disagreements with former boss Chesa Boudin, has come back to haunt Jenkins again.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Threatens to Move Dreamforce Conference Out of SF Over Homelessness, Drug Use The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.
SF News Politicos and Developers Agree That Project to Build a New City — or Cities — In Solano County Is Wildly Ambitious We are learning a couple more details about the plan by a group of mega-wealthy Silicon Valley investors to create a whole new city — or potentially more than one town — in Solano County, and hearing more about the political and legal misery that awaits them.
SF News Richmond Market Store Clerk Has Died From Head Injuries After Assault by Alleged Shoplifter After the cashier at an Outer Richmond convenience store was struck with a bat in an alleged shoplifting incident last Thursday, that 60-year-old cashier Yowhannes “John” Tewelde died from his injuries Tuesday afternoon.
