SF News Day Around the Bay: Dodgers Disinvite Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence From Pride Night The Dodgers have disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual indulgence from their Pride Night due to the ongoing war on drag; a security guard was shot in the Mission; and a Pride flag was torn down from a church in Palo Alto in a possible hate crime.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bissap Baobab Wins Fight With NIMBY Condo Neighbors, Gets Alcohol License The Mission Street neighbors of Bissap Baobab failed to block the Senegalese restaurant and nightclub’s beer and wine license, as the state ABC ruled that Bissap Baobab has done more than adequate soundproofing work.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival 2023 Lineup Includes Skrillex, Underworld, Hot Chip, Jai Paul, Roisin Murphy The lineup for the Portola Festival dropped Wednesday, tickets go on sale Monday, and there's some kind of pre-registration thing you can do now if you're planning to buy.
SF News Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Defeated 'Jeopardy!' Champion Hannah Wilson Grew Up In Berkeley, Says Amy Schneider Was Inspiration The East Bay can claim few recent Jeopardy! winners and multi-game champions, but it can now claim a second champion who is also an out and proud trans woman, Hannah Wilson.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bayview Is Getting a New Farmers' Market Starting June 1 A new farmers market hopes to change the Bayview District’s reputation as a food desert, as food justice nonprofit Dragonspunk is coming to Evans Avenue on June 1, and will run every Thursday going forward.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Rejects 17-Year Plea Deal, Trial to Proceed The Los Gatos parents and teens embroiled in the now three-year saga involving a party house, a "cool mom" who let 15-year-olds drink, and allegations of sexual assault will not be getting any relief from the case.
Arts & Entertainment Tupac Shakur Getting A Street Named After Him In Oakland Near Lake Merritt All eyes will be on a block of MacArthur Boulevard north of Lake Merritt, as the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to rename a block of that street “Tupac Shakur Way.”
Sponsored Experience the Magic of ILLENIUM and Friends at the Chase Center In San Francisco The Electrifying ILLENIUM returns to San Francisco for Show #2 on June 3, following a sold-out first event.
SF Politics California Lawmakers Reluctant To Impose Harsher Fentanyl Laws State legislators in Sacramento have passed plenty of bills on fentanyl treatment and recovery services, but the bills intended to punish dealers and users of the drug have stalled.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes May Report to Prison Right After Memorial Day; Judge Orders $450M In Restitution The Ninth Circuit also handed down a decision yesterday denying Holmes's bid to remain free pending her appeal. And her legal team is now asking for a prison-reporting date of May 30.
Arts & Entertainment Amid Gentrified Lofts and IKEA, Few Remember That Emeryville Was Once a Gamblers' Haven One of the last vestiges of Emeryville's former era when it was dubbed the "Rottenest City on the Pacific Coast" is the Oaks Card Club, and its owner hopes it can live on amid a city that looks far different than it did half a century ago.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Former Apple Employee Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets Oakland police are seeking two suspects and a victim in a possible kidnapping; a panel discussion was held in the Mission District Tuesday about the Banko Brown shooting; and a former Apple employee has been charged with stealing autonomous car trade secrets.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein Reportedly Forgot She’s Been Absent From the Senate for Months The summertime “free movies in the park” schedule has dropped, a former BART cop is losing his job over a racist video, and Dianne Feinstein apparently forgot that she’d been missing from the Senate for nearly three months.
Arts & Entertainment Woohoo! Bay to Breakers No Longer Being Organized By Right-Wing MAGA Group Last year’s Bay to Breakers was marred by revelations that organizer Capstone Event Group gave donations to Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but new local organizers have taken over operation of this year’s race.
SF News Poll: One-Third of SF Small Businesses Hit By Crime Multiple Times Last Year A new poll from the Office of Small Business says that a third of SF small businesses were not just victims of crime, but victims of crime between two and ten times last year.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Wants to Put $6M Toward Fixing Up Powell Street, Filling Empty Storefronts The three blocks of Powell Street between Union Square and Market Street are being made a priority in SF Mayor London Breed's proposed new budget, with money being aimed at beautifying sidewalks and finding tenants for some big, vacant stores.
SF Politics Big-Money Tech Group Launches Bizarre Ad Campaign Making Sarcastic Jokes About Fentanyl Crisis A new-ish, tech-funded political advocacy group is putting flippant “That’s Fentalife!” ads across town, hoping that sardonic jokes about the fentanyl crisis will get people angrier at SF elected officials.
SF News Protests Erupt Following Banko Brown Charging Decision, Video Release; Peskin Calls for AG and DOJ Review There was a protest Monday that marched down Market Street to City Hall following the announcement by SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that no charges would filed in the Walgreens shooting of 24-year-old Banko Brown.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Bad Studios and Bunk Beds Are Back Rents are climbing back up in San Francisco and all the landlords with stuff they probably couldn't rent to anyone the last couple years are creeping back onto Craigslist, hoping to find new takers.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's Lawyers Buy Her More Time Before Prison Report Date As they await the near-guaranteed denial of her appeal to the Ninth Circuit, attorneys for convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes have made another legal maneuver that appears to give her another few weeks of freedom.
SF News Pickup Truck Collides With BART Train In Oakland, Three Injured Including Train Operator An accident occurred Monday night near E. 8th Street in Oakland in which a pickup truck crashed through a fence and collided with a northbound BART train between Fruitvale and Lake Merritt stations.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Injured In Shooting Near Jefferson Square There was a shooting Monday evening on the 1200 block of Eddy Street; the suspect in that deadly wrong-way crash on I-280 has entered a not-guilty plea; and the Merced River is expected to reach flood stage in the Yosemite Valley this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: After Video, SF Supervisor Says Banko Brown Was 'Executed' Supervisors Shamann Walton and Dean Preston have some strong words about the Banko Brown shooting video; a BART police officer resigned over a racial slur incident; and the Fisherman's Wharf Safeway calls it quits this Friday.
