SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Restaurants Say They're Cleaning Up Vandalism Constantly The vandalism problem for SF restaurants is huge and costly; Berkeley police chased armed robbery suspects into Oakland, where they crashed a car; and two Oakland residents were arrested in Fresno County with $600K worth of meth and fentanyl.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Permanent Car-Free Hayes Street Effort Picking Up Steam California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond declared he’s running for governor, two men committed an Oakland carjacking in a just-carjacked car, and there’s an effort afoot to make a block of Hayes Street permanently car-free.
Arts & Entertainment Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Doing Joint Shows in the Bay Area in January, Tickets on Sale Friday The combined standup talents of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will double-team SF and Oakland in late January, as the two just announced new dates for their first-ever tour together.
SF News Target Will Permanently Close Its Folsom and 13th Streets Location, Plus Two East Bay Locations Big-box retailer Target announced the closures of nine stores nationwide on Tuesday, and one of them is the Target at Folsom and 13th Streets, while two of the others are in the East Bay.
SF News Accomplice Driver In 2020 'Boogaloo' Murder of Federal Guard In Oakland Convicted of Murder The man who was behind the wheel of the white van out of which former Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo fatally shot a federal security guard during a night of George Floyd protests in downtown Oakland in late May 2020 has been found guilty of murder.
SF News Area Around Fairmont Hotel Closed to Cable Car and Vehicle Traffic Through Wednesday, Because Biden There will be some street closures and Muni interruptions on SF's Nob Hill through Wednesday due to a "VIP visit" which is obviously President Biden.
SF News Hikers Struck By Lightning on Yosemite’s Half Dome, But Live to Tell Harrowing Tale Two hikers were struck by lightning Thursday at the nearly 9,000-foot summit of Half Dome, and were confronted with the task of making it down after bouts with singed hair, charred clothing, and memory loss.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Proposes Linking Cash Assistance With Compelling Recipients Into Drug Treatment "SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Hills Matricide Has Long Criminal Past, History of Mental Illness The 36-year-old man who was arrested for the fatal stabbing of his mother on Saturday, as well as stabbings that injured two others, has a long and troubled past with law enforcement, and he appears to have begun having psychiatric problems around age 18.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Makes Candidacy Official For SF Mayor, Says There's 'Hunger For Change' Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Tiki Bar Trad’r Sam Has Closed Indefinitely, Ownership Dispute Clearly Afoot The freaky tiki bar Trad’r Sam is by all accounts the oldest continuously operating tiki bar in SF, but it’s currently “closed until further notice,” and court records show a hurricane of a legal battle is underway for control of the establishment.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Businesses Planning 'Strike' Today Over Public Safety Oakland businesses are planning a "strike" today to protest public safety issues and crime; a study funds that Alameda County has one of the highest violent-crime rates in the state; and SFUSD custodians are planning a strike in the coming weeks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Police Officer Facing Felony DUI Charges An SFPD officer is facing felony DUI charges relating to a December crash in Hillsborough; all schools in California will have to install gender-neutral bathrooms by 2026; and SF-based Anthropic just struck a huge deal with Amazon.
SF Politics President Biden Coming Back to SF and Bay Area This Week, Mostly For Fundraising Biden’s back in the Bay Area Tuesday, and is scheduled to swing into San Francisco on Wednesday, in what appears to largely be a fundraising swing with a smattering of technology policy thrown in.
SF News Developer Behind Imagined New Solano County City Says Billionaire Group Wants to Build a 'City of Yesterday' Confirming fears by planning experts that the billionaire group behind an imagined, utopian city built on arid agricultural land in Solano County will be retrograde in concept, visionary developer Jan Sramek said as much in an interview with KQED today.
SF News First Flock of California Condors In 100 Years Spotted In Contra Costa County It’s a small but sure sign that the California condor population is rebounding after near-extinction, as six California condors were recently tracked in Contra Costa County, the first flock of these birds to fly through the county in 100 years.
SF News SF Will Resume Encampment Clearing For Those Who Refuse Shelter, Breed Says, Based on Court Guidance Mayor London Breed says that new appeals-court guidance allows SF to resume homeless encampment sweeps, based on language about the meaning of "involuntary" homelessness, and a memo Monday announced plans to restart the sweeps.
SF News Berkeley's Famed 'Hot Tub House' Hits Market For $899K It was a year ago last week that we learned of the death of Deward Hastings, a man whose name was not widely known but whose property has been visited by thousands of in-the-know East Bay residents for nearly 50 years.
SF News Heather Knight Files Her First New York Times Story, and It's About San Francisco's Beleaguered Reputation Heather Knight's first byline as San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times is a story about how everyone in the country — including self-satisfied New Yorkers who haven't been here in years — has bought into the narrative that SF is a hellhole now.
Business & Tech Veritas Investments May Have Found a Buyer for Its Defaulted Loan Portfolio, and It’s an Ex-Westfield Mall Owner A new buyer has emerged for the nearly $1 billion in defaulted properties for the city’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments, and its Brookfield Properties, a partner that just walked away from the Westfield Centre shopping mall.
Arts & Entertainment Semi-NSFW Photos: Folsom Street Fair 2023 Bulges Back to Pre-Pandemic Volumes of Kinky Crowds Gorgeous weather welcomed the 40th Folsom Street Fair to South of Market Sunday, and the leather, furry, and fetish party whipped up a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
SF News Two People Killed In Oakland Hit-and-Run Involving Stolen Car From Daly City A high-speed collision Sunday morning in East Oakland left two people dead and another injured, and the 25-year-old driver who was allegedly responsible tried to flee the scene.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 19-Year-Old Killed In North Bay Crash Air quality is back to normal and there's a chance of rain in the North Bay; gas prices have gone up 14 cents in CA in the last week; and Hollywood writers may be headed back to work soon.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Teaming Up With Nevada Schoolteachers to Block Team's Move in ‘Schools Over Stadiums’ Campaign An unlikely alliance could be an ace up the sleeve of A’s fans hoping to keep the team in Oakland, as they’re teaming up with the Nevada State Educators Association teachers’ union to push a ballot measure to block the new Las Vegas stadium.
SF News Sunday Links: Autumn Moon Festival, Folsom Street Fair, Cole Valley Fair All on Tap Today A weekend shooting left a two-year-old dead in Vallejo, Betty Reid Soskin turned 102 years old, and street fairs will blanket SF Sunday with the Autumn Moon Festival, Folsom Street Fair, and Cole Valley Fair.
