SF News Whoa! You’ll Have to Pay SF Parking Meters ‘Til 10 p.m., Starting In July The SFMTA is literally trying to nickel-and-dime its way out of a $130 million deficit, as drivers will have to feed the meters at SF parking spaces until 10 p.m., starting in July in some neighborhoods, and free Sunday parking will be a thing of the past.
Bay Area Sports A’s Announce Agreement for New Vegas Ballpark, One Week After Bailing On Previous Vegas Ballpark The Oakland A’s claim they have a done deal to build a stadium at the Tropicana casino site on the Las Vegas Strip, though they just backed out a similar land deal last week, and the whole scenario is contingent on $400 million in yet-unapproved Nevada taxpayer money.
Arts & Entertainment 'Chinglish' at SF Playhouse Brings Laughs and New Insights Into Chinese Business Culture Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's 'Chinglish' has enjoyed some notable longevity in its geopolitical relevance since it premiered over a decade ago, and SF Playhouse's new production is a slickly executed and well-acted version with loads of well-timed laughs.
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Arts & Entertainment BART, Caltrain Running Special Early Trains This Sunday For Bay to Breakers With Bay to Breakers starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, BART and Caltrain are both firing up special fleets of early morning trains for the occasion so “runners” from all over the Bay Area can be at the starting line in time for the race.
SF News Video of Banko Brown Shooting Released as DA Jenkins Announces Final Decision Not to File Charges Against Security Guard SF DA Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office has come to a final decision not to file charges against the Walgreens security guard accused of shooting alleged shoplifter Banko Brown, and with the decision the surveillance footage from the case has been made public.
Business & Tech After Hiring Ad Exec as Twitter CEO, Musk Says He's Still 'Adamant About Defending Free Speech' Over the weekend Musk defended his CEO-hiring choice, telling fans not to judge too quickly and saying he's not afraid to lose some money over the defense of "free speech."
SF News North Bay Man Charged as an Accessory In Death of Two-Year-Old Found Buried In Napa County Gets Released on Bail There have been some new developments in the case of the murder of two-year-old Ja'mari Madkins, whose lifeless body was found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County back in December.
SF News New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight A new group of “Mission Community Connector” ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.
SF News Scammers Pretending to Be SF Animal Control Are Calling Demanding Money For Lost Pets A phone scam has been targeting the owners of lost pets in San Francisco who post about them on social media, and SF Animal Care & Control wants everyone to be aware of it.
Bay Area Sports After Being Eliminated By the Lakers, the Warriors' Future Is Both Uncertain and Bright All good things must come to an end. Fortunately, all bad things, like the Golden State Warriors' 2022-23 season, must come to an end, too.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Teachers' Strike Ends The Oakland teachers' union announced a tentative deal and has called off their strike; SF Mayor London Breed says her car was broken into last year; and Sup. Rafael Mandelman plans to oppose the 'fixed seating' update for the Castro Theatre's landmark language.
SF News Oakland Schools Reach Partial Agreement with Striking Teachers on 'Common Good' Initiatives The union representing Oakland educators and Oakland Unified School District have agreed upon four "common good" terms, including reparations and closures, but not on salaries.
SF News San Francisco On Track To Hit Grim Record of Most Accidental Overdose Deaths This Year City data reports 268 accidental drug overdoses this year already, which is 72 more than this time last year, putting the city on track to hit a record high 800 ODs by end of 2023.
SF News Sunday Links: Investigation Finds Former Cupertino Mayor was 'Abusive,' Refers Him to Santa Clara District Attorney An independent investigation into Cupertino city government found that former Mayor Darcy Paul exhibited "abusive and controlling behavior;" a fatal shooting happened Friday in the Bayview; and Bay Area home prices are rising again after several months of stalled values.
SF News State Regulators Ban Stanford-Affiliated East Bay Hospital from Treating Certain Illnesses in Children After Violations The pediatric unit will reportedly not be allowed to admit patients through California's Childrens' Services, a public health program, and risks a permanent ban.
SF News San Francisco Woman Convicted of Ammo Possession Had Thousands of Rounds of Live Ammo and Nazi Memorabilia The woman, named "Thor Kill," had stockpiled an alarming arsenal with thousands of rounds of live ammunition, 87 firearm magazines, 125 pounds of explosive powder, and gun-making pieces.
SF News Saturday Links: Lakers Defeat Warriors in Game 6 Friday, Ending Warriors' Playoff Run The Warriors' championship hopes are dashed, and the performances and ages of the players have fans questioning; Oakland saw four separate shootings Friday; and pandemic-time immigration law Title 42 has been lifted.
day around the bay Day Around the Bay: California's Budget Deficit Has Surged to $31.5 Billion, Gov. Newsom Says Newsom presented an updated budget plan Friday with a projected $31.5 billion deficit, almost $10 billion larger than January's numbers; the SF Zoo is getting a male jaguar from Sac; and a lockdown at a Santa Rosa high school for student safety was lifted midday.
SF News CNN To Bash SF Sunday In Hour-Long Special, ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ CNN will continue its Fox News tilt this Sunday night with an hour-long special called ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ a mini-documentary determined to push the “failed city” narrative.
SF News Lots of Big Retail Stores Are Closing In Big Cities, and It Has Everything to Do With Economics While we're living in the days of the very loud, hard-to-counter narrative of San Francisco's "doom loop" and general perceived death, at least some experts are trying to make it known that San Francisco's downtown problems are hardly unique.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Baby Falcon Chicks Get Names: Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr The naming contest winners have been declared for the batch of three baby peregrine falcons atop the Berkeley Campanile, and going forward the fast-growing chicks will be known as Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Promoters Hope to Bring Second Weekend of 'Headliner-Driven Events' to Polo Field After Next Year's Fest While Another Planet Entertainment (APE) continues to run up against preservationist headwinds in their effort to take over and transform the Castro Theatre primarily into a music venue, they may separately score a coup with the city for more, likely very lucrative big shows in Golden Gate Park.
SF News SoCal YouTuber Admits He Crashed An Airplane Just for the Clicks, Faces 20 Years In Prison A 29-year-old YouTuber from Lompoc has pleaded guilty to crashing an airplane on purpose for the pageviews, then lying to federal investigators and clandestinely disposing of the wreckage.
Business & Tech New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Comes From Media/Broadcast Ad World It's not clear how long Elon Musk has known Linda Yaccarino, or how long he's been courting her to be the new CEO of Twitter. But it's pretty clear from the hiring decision that Musk knows advertising is going to be key to Twitter's future viability.
