SF News BART Unveils Renderings of Its New $90 Million, Allegedly Evasion-Proof Fare Gates, Which Have Spikes Think you can hop these upcoming new supposedly evasion-proof BART fare gates? Before you jump, realize they’re going to have bird-repellent spikes designed to be very hostile toward gate-hoppers’ hands.
Arts & Entertainment 'Poor Yella Rednecks' at ACT Extends an Immigrant Saga With Humor, Rap, and Heart The second of playwright Qui Nguyen's family-saga trilogy of plays, 'Poor Yella Rednecks,' premiered Wednesday at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Muffuletta Specialists Sandy's to Open Haight Street Shop Next Week If you don't know the glories of a proper, New Orleans-style muffuletta, you will be able to experience this distinct pleasure soon, as Sandy's gets set to open at 1457 Haight Street on April 20.
SF News Two Men In Custody For Last Weekend’s Freeway Shooting of Five-Year-Old In Fremont A big development in last Saturday's I-880 shooting of five-year-old Eliyanah Crisostomo, as two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder, and both are alleged gang members who may have been involved in a separate freeway shooting where no one was hurt.
Business & Tech Twitter Bug Is Allowing People to Post Tweets That Are 84,000 Characters Long Bug-finding enthusiast Jane Manchun Wong found on Thursday night that she could post a series of a's in a tweet, 84,000 of them, without triggering a new extended character limit for Twitter Blue subscribers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Contra Costa Co. DA Releases Report on Antioch Police Scandal A new report details the content of the Antioch police officers' racist texts; SF is adding a new transitional housing complex on Treasure Island; and RH is having layoffs up in Marin County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Berkeley Falcon Chick Hatches, and There Is Video An SF street will be named after Emperor Norton, Pier 70 is getting a new Standard Deviant Brewing and Breadbelly bakery, and a third baby falcon hatched Thursday afternoon alongside its snuggling siblings.
SF News Another Racist Police Text Scandal Hits In Antioch, Mayor Goes Apoplectic Antioch mayor Lamar Thorpe is justifiably upset that his city’s police officers offered among themselves a “prime rib dinner” to any cop who’d shoot at him, but his yelling “'You want to go? Let's go!” during a city council meeting has raised a few eyebrows.
SF News Arrest Made After Manhunt For Hayward Man Who Allegedly Threatened State Capitol The suspect who allegedly made a "credible threat" against the California State Capitol building and also allegedly shut up a couple buildings outside Sacramento has been identified as a Hayward man with a rap sheet.
SF News SF District Attorney Slams 'Reckless and Irresponsible' Tweets By Musk and Others Following Murder Arrest SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said some pointed things Thursday aimed squarely at Elon Musk and others who took to bashing San Francisco immediately in the wake of a tech executive's stabbing death last week.
SF News Another Freeway Shooting on I-580 Killed One Person Wednesday Night A yet-unidentified driver of a Toyota Tacoma died after being shot and colliding with another vehicle just before midnight Wednesday night, in a shooting that happened on I-580 but whose aftermath spilled into a gas station on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland.
SF News Reactions Pour In to the Arrest In Tech Exec Bob Lee's Murder We can expect many of the San Francisco doomsayers and friends of Elon Musk to either stay silent or turn defensive following the revelation that a fellow tech entrepreneur is the prime suspect in Bob Lee's stabbing.
SF News Pandemic Rule-Flouting Church In San Jose Loses Latest Court Battle, Ordered to Pay $1.2M In Fines Calvary Chapel in San Jose continues to spend a lot of time and energy fighting Santa Clara County in court over pandemic-era public health rules that it openly defied. And a Superior Court judge has just ordered the evangelical church to pay $1.2 million in fines to the county.
SF News Someone Died From an Overdose Inside the Mid-Market Whole Foods That Just Closed We’re learning there had been a fatal overdose in September at the Whole Foods at Eighth and Market Street that was closed down early this week, with someone who had OD’ed on fentanyl and methamphetamine while in the grocery store’s restroom.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Asks to Be Temporarily Replaced on Judiciary Committee After attention fell this week on the impacts of her extended absence on votes on judicial nominees before the Senate, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she had asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily fill her seat on the Judiciary Committee.
SF News Fellow Tech Exec Arrested In Stabbing of Bob Lee San Francisco police on Wednesday made an arrest in Emeryville of a suspect they say may have murdered Bob Lee on April 4, ending a week and a half of widespread speculation and lamentations about the level of crime in SF.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Some Muni Metro Service to Be Impacted By Twin Peaks Tunnel Work The California state Senate evacuated the Capitol this morning due to a "credible threat"; Caltrans has been hard at work filling potholes; and service on the K and M train lines in SF will be impacted this weekend by tunnel work.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Morale Reportedly Meh at Meta Salesforce is fully abandoning the 30-story Salesforce East; Rep. Ro Khanna and others are openly calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign; and morale is reportedly sinking lower at Meta in Menlo Park.
SF News One Oak Property Has Reportedly Gone Into Foreclosure, 40-Story Tower Likely Won’t Get Built What started as a proposed 309-unit condo tower at Market and Oak Streets, and was turned into a proposed 460 rental units at the same location, will now perhaps be zero units, as the developer has surrendered the property to their lending bank.
SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He Wants to Confront Mayor Breed In U.N. Plaza About the City's 'Humanitarian Crisis' Tensions are heating up again at City Hall, as Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that he wants to drag Mayor London Breed out to U.N. Plaza for some political theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sigh. SoMa Bar Uses ChatGPT to Create Cocktail A bar/nightclub in SoMa has used an AI chatbot to design a new cocktail, and they are using this to market themselves on local television. Maybe San Francisco *is* doomed.
SF News More Oakland PD-LeRonne Armstrong Drama, Fired Captain Claims He Was Made A Scapegoat A subplot of Oakland PD chief LeRonne Armstrong’s February firing has spawned another subplot, as a former captain who lost his job over a seemingly botched internal affairs investigation insists he’s not the one who botched the investigation.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Scheduled at the Castro Theatre; Heklina to Be Inducted on LGBTQ Wall of Honor In New York Nine days after the death of SF drag legend Heklina in London, we have word of a big memorial tribute set to happen at the Castro Theatre next month — but wouldn't you know it, the free tickets disappeared fast and it is sold out.
SF News Suspect In UC Berkeley Sexual Battery Cases Arrested After Being Linked to Similar Crime In Palo Alto A suspect who had allegedly been groping and assaulting women on two sides of the Bay was arrested Tuesday in Berkeley, ending a week in which women at the UC Berkeley campus were on high alert after three separate incidents.
SF News Winter Storm Bonus: Lake Tahoe Bluer Than It’s Been In Nearly 40 Years A combination of fresh precipitation and a resurgence in the population of zooplankton has Lake Tahoe appearing bluer than it has since the 1980s, according to UC Davis researchers who measure the lake’s water clarity levels.
