Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Early 2023 Lineup Reveal Includes Jason Isbell, John Doe, The Church While there are still many, many acts yet to be announced, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2023 festival teased its first ten artist announcements, highlighted by former Drive-By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell.
SF News SF Man Charged With Section 8 Fraud Scheme In Which He Allegedly Used Funds to Pay For Maui Timeshare A San Francisco man has been indicted on federal fraud charges for a scheme in which he allegedly received Section 8 housing payments for years while concealing his actual income from the feds.
SF News Oakland Man Who Did Time For Attack On Chinatown Leader Charged With Assault on Elderly SF Woman A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
SF News The SAG-AFTRA Strike Comes to SF With City Hall Rally Wednesday Night After the striking writers and actors picketed Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos last week, now they’re coming to San Francisco City Hall for a 5 p.m. Wednesday rally where all are welcome to come raise heck.
SF News Video: Nude Woman Fires Gun Multiple Times Near Bay Bridge Toll Plaza We have yet another story involving a Bay Area bridge, someone going through something, and a major traffic backup resulting from the situation.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oregon Fire to Cause Some Hazy Skies Around the Bay There's a push to name a cable car after Tony Bennett; smoke from a wildfire burning in Oregon is likely to cause some haze around the Bay; and Rudy Giuliani has admitted to defaming two election workers in 2020.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Open Training Camp, Nick Bosa Holding Out Supervisor Dorsey wants to require that local pharmacies carry Narcan, the SF supervisors just softened affordable housing rules in hopes of enticing developers, and 49ers training camp opened Tuesday but Nick Bosa’s holding out for a new contract.
SF News Infamous, Secretive All-Male Bohemian Grove Retreat Now Underway In Sonoma County Fire up your conspiracy theories, as the men-only rich guy retreat Bohemian Grove is now happening up in Sonoma. We don't know if Clarence Thomas went there, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reportedly did.
SF News SF's Pandemic Response Praised In New Study Showing Low Number of COVID Deaths The choice was basically more freedom or less death after COVID arrived three years ago. Places like Florida and Texas chose freedom, California chose less death. And San Francisco in particular spared a lot of lives.
SF News Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
SF News New Valencia Bike Lane Sows Confusion and Chaos, Some Call It ‘Valencia Meatgrinder' The reviews are decidedly mixed for the new Valencia center bike lane, with some saying it’s safer, and others alarmed that it “sandwiches” bicyclists between two lanes of moving cars.
SF News Carjackings, Robberies, Juvenile Crimes On Rise — Just Another Pandemic Hangover? Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
Business & Tech Musk Is Sacrificing Billions In Brand Value and Recognition By Killing Off Twitter Name, Analysts Say What do we even call a tweet now?
Business & Tech Renegade Group Disabling Self-Driving Cars With Orange Cones Speaks Out A local TV station spent a night with the monkey-wrench gang that’s been stopping self-driving cars with mere orange cones, and yes, it seems this incredibly simple hack does indeed work.
SF News Justification of Friday's Richmond Bridge Closure and Subsequent Carmageddon Being Questioned Many are wondering whether the California Highway Patrol overreacted to a situation involving one man on Friday, which they said necessitated the closure of all eastbound lanes of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for 17 hours.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Man Rescued From McCovey Cove After Fall A man fell into the water near Oracle Park this morning and required rescue; workers at the Academy of Sciences have unionized; and A's fans want Giants fans to support the protest over the A's relocation to Vegas during this week's Bay Bridge series.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Davis Stabbing Suspect Begins Competency Hearing The 21-year-old former UC Davis student accused in those May stabbings has begun his competency hearing; a gun battle in downtown Oakland left several cars full of bullets; and one of the oldest newspapers in California just shut down.
SF News Livermore Winery Owner Mitchell Katz Killed in a Friday Car Accident A sad weekend for the Tri-Valley winery scene, as Mitchell Katz Winery founder and owner Mitchell Katz was killed in a Friday automobile accident in Livermore, as his family has confirmed.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Ask Giants Fans to Join in Their ‘Sell the Team’ Protests At This Week’s Bay Bridge Series Games The Giants and A’s resume their Bay Bridge Series Tuesday at Oracle Park, but this time A’s fans are asking Giants fans to join them with “Sell the Team” signs, chants, and t-shirts. And the t-shirts will be free!
SF News Flipped Car On 19th Likely Carjacked, Gun Reported at Scene, Suspects Still at Large A chaotic scene on Saturday evening in the Castro, which thankfully did not leave anyone killed or seriously wounded, appears to have been the work of armed, juvenile suspects who remain at large.
SF News 86- And 88-Year-Old Asian Women Hospitalized; SF's Unprovoked Attacks On Elderly AAPI Citizens Continue At least three unprovoked attacks on Asian seniors in a month, including two elderly women in the past few days, again raises concerns over the safety of elders in SF's AAPI communities.
SF News Twitter's Name Change to 'X' Gets Botched at SF Headquarters, Which Now Has a Sign That Says 'Er' When Elon Musk announced Twitter's name change to "X" Sunday and tried to remove the "@twitter" sign at its Market Street headquarters Monday, he got caught in a classic SF permitting snafu and cops halted work mid-removal.
SF News E-Scooter Ignites In SF Apartment; Residents Jump From Window, 1 Injured A recent e-scooter explosion that caused two individuals to leap from the window of their apartment in San Francisco adds to the growing list of lithium-ion battery-related fires.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Gets His Prison Sentence Shortened, Could Be Out Within a Year Breed’s brother Napoleon Brown has been in prison for nearly 22 years for the death of Lenties White, but got his long-sought resentencing Monday, a resentencing that could see him released within a year.
SF News After 3-Month Protest, UC Berkeley Anthropology Library Saved from Closure When Cal planned to shutter the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library to narrow a budget deficit, anthropology students and faculty occupied it for 85 days — and just reached a compromise with admin to keep it open (mostly).
