SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Castro Theater Owners Respond to Alternative Plan A driver "limped" away from a hit-and-run crash in the Mission last night; the Nasser family who own the Castro Theatre have rejected a proposal by a nonprofit group to keep it as more of a movie house; and May the Fourth be with you.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Airlines Bans Passenger For Life After Assault at SFO A Santa Clara city councilmember is in court over a leaked 49ers report; a Texas-bound passenger leaving SFO Sunday night has been banned for life from United Airlines over an assault; and the SF Main Library had $550K in damages from a clogged toilet in which someone flushed "foreign objects."
SF News Formerly Homeless Pittsburg Woman Wins $5 Million On Lottery Scratcher Ticket Homeless in 2017, Lucia Forseth hit a $5 million jackpot Wednesday when she bought one lottery scratcher ticket at the Walmart Supercenter in Pittsburg.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Kuba Has Opened In the Former Cha Cha Cha Space on Mission Street The new restaurant Kuba has taken the reins at the former Cha Cha Cha at Mission and 19th Streets, and they’re keeping it Cuban with the jerk chicken and famed sangria pitchers.
SF News SFMTA Touts That Slow Streets Have Seen 50% Drop In Traffic Collisions, No Traffic Deaths A new analysis of SF’s Slow Streets program shows that people are still driving too fast on many of them, but they’ve also enjoyed a nearly 50% reduction in traffic accidents, and there have been no traffic fatalities on any Slow Streets.
Business & Tech Musk Is Now Threatening to Take NPR's Twitter Handle From Them and Reassign It In the latest of many childish moves that show Elon Musk's downright Trumpian disdain for the media, the billionaire owner of Twitter has reportedly been threatening National Public Radio over the news org's decision to stop using its Twitter account.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Bay Area's Last Remaining Zoo Elephants Is Being Moved Out of State Where She'll Have More Friends After the death of her longtime friend and companion at the Oakland Zoo, 44-year-old elephant Donna is getting relocated to a new home — an elephant sanctuary where she won't be as lonely.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Music Festival Announces Dates For 2023 — and It's Not Folsom Weekend Members of the LGBTQ+ and fetish communities who are also fans of electronic music will be thrilled to know that the second annual Portola Festival is happening the weekend after Folsom Street Fair weekend.
SF News 21-Year-Old Oakland Woman Was Killed By Angry Man Who Was Randomly Shooting at 'Noisy' Cars A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot last weekend in East Oakland by a man, prosecutors say, who had come out of his house mad at "noisy" cars coming down his street late at night, and began randomly shooting at them.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Rescinds Invite For 80s Rocker Dee Snider to Perform After Weird Anti-Trans Tweet SF Pride thought they had a real publicity coup in the making with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister — who no one under the age of 45 is likely to remember — agreeing to perform his 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" at this year's Pride festivities.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Hook Up Veteran 36-Year Muni Operator With Free Playoff Tickets, Custom Jersey Angel Carvajal, a Muni operator for nearly four decades, was styled out by the Warriors with free tickets and a custom jersey with his name on it at Tuesday night’s big playoff game.
SF News Former Recology Exec Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mohammed Nuru With More Than $55,000 Another ousted Recology executive has pleaded guilty to bribing former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru with cash, meals, and gifts to the tune of around $55,000, and concealing the bribes as donations to Lefty O’Doul’s Foundation for Kids.
SF News Peskin Calls On DA to 'Reconsider' Charging Walgreens Guard After Supporters of Slain Victim Protest at City Hall The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday turned raucous when family members and supporters of Banko Brown — the trans man killed last week by a Walgreens security guard — swarmed the chamber demanding justice for Brown.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Defense Attorney In Bob Lee Case Begins Victim-Blaming After Toxicology Report Nima Momeni's defense attorney has begun victim-blaming over drugs found in a toxicology report; a 26-year-old man died in Santa Rita Jail last week after drinking tons of water; and a state appeals court just upheld California's ban on AR-15 rifles.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Valley Couple Sets U.S. Record by Having Fourth Set of Twins This nutty May rainfall could continue until Thursday, the California reparations task force is throwing out some million-dollar estimates, and a Castro Valley couple gave birth to a record fourth set of twins.
SF News Oakland Sideshow In Which Frustrated Man Was Beaten and Hydrant Was Sheared Off Sparks 'Outrage' From Mayor Video emerged over the weekend of an Oakland man attempting to scold and yell at participants in a chaotic sideshow, only to get beaten bloody by the crowd — and at that same sideshow a car careened into the crowd and sheered off a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into the air.
SF Politics $436,000 Settlement Awarded To Ex-Medical Examiner Official Fired After Jeff Adachi Autopsy A former staffer at the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office says he was fired after refusing to omit all the cocaine business out of Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s autopsy. Today he was awarded a $436,000 settlement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Year In, Oakland's Hi Felicia Adds A La Carte Menu A year after opening as a brick-and-mortar restaurant, and two years after its mid-pandemic launch as a pop-up in chef-owner Imana's apartment, Oakland restaurant Hi Felicia is pivoting a bit to offer à la carte dishes for the first time.
SF News Newsom’s CHP Operation To Stamp Out Fentanyl Trade In Tenderloin Starts Underwhelmingly There was reportedly not much California Highway Patrol presence on Day One of Gavin Newsom’s highly touted Tenderloin fentanyl crackdown, and it turns out the National Guard presence will only be “criminal case analysts” who will likely never be visible to the public.
SF News Nordstrom to Shutter Downtown SF Department Store, and Nordstrom Rack, This Summer Cue more talk of "doom loops" and retail apocalypses. Nordstrom just revealed plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August.
SF News Serial Stabber Has City of Davis On Edge After Two Deaths, and Third Victim Reported Tuesday Two stabbing deaths in Davis last week as well as a third that injured a homeless woman have been attributed to the same male suspect, and the search for him prompted a brief citywide shelter-in-place order early Tuesday.
SF News Bob Lee Autopsy Reveals He Was Stabbed In Heart, Surgeons Spent Four Hours Trying to Save Him The medical examiner’s autopsy report in the highly publicized killing of Cash app founder Bob Lee confirmed reports of cocaine in his system, but also revealed a frantic four-hour attempt to save Lee’s life on the operating table.
SF News No Charges Being Filed In SF Walgreens Shooting, Guard Claiming Self-Defense The suspect in last week's fatal shooting at the Walgreens near Union Square, who is a security guard employed by the store, has been released from custody without charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Your Late-Night Shows Might Be Gone For a Bit Expect some weird and turbulent weather today around the Bay; police are seeking suspects in a fatal shooting in Antioch; and the Writers Guild is officially on strike, and this means your late-night shows are likely going to airing reruns for a while.
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