SF News Bay Area Nursing Home Could Lose State License After Investigation into Elderly Residents Dying by Poison Last Summer The state is trying to shut down Atria Park in San Mateo after the conclusion of its investigation into residents mistakenly being served dishwashing liquid as drinking juice that resulted in two deaths, but the company is appealing.
SF News Two Separate Overnight Fires In San Francisco Leave One Person Dead A fire broke out late Friday at an encampment and spread to a warehouse in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, but had no injuries; a second fire broke out early Saturday morning at a home in Ingleside and left one person dead.
SF News Saturday Links: Stanford University-Affiliated Preschool Teacher Arrested on Suspicion of Homicide The 22-year-old preschool teacher was arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 24-year-old in Santa Cruz; a state appeals court ruled an SF woman can sue her vet after discovering her cat's euthanasia was painful; and Yosemite is closed for the next few days because of flood risk.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Influencer Convicted of Falsely Accusing Petaluma Couple of Kidnapping Her Kids The "mom influencer's" videos alleging the kidnapping went viral in 2020; the driver in the wrong-way crash in San Mateo County on Saturday afternoon faces felony charges; and Visa is moving from downtown San Francisco to a waterfront Dogpatch office.
Arts & Entertainment Rogue Butterfly Statue Goes Up in Golden Gate Park, But City Hall Swats It Down Someone modified Golden Gate Park’s former Junipero Serra statue into a statue of the extinct Xerces blue butterfly for Earth Day, but the SF Arts Commission got all aflutter and took the statue down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Classic and Charming French Bistros In San Francisco The classic, unfussy, neighborhood French bistro is a bit of a dying breed, especially in San Francisco, where restaurant rents keep going up and, with them, the price of a basic weeknight meal.
SF Politics Big-Money SF Tech Groups Hoping To Steer Friendlier Policy Toward Big Money and Tech Groups with generic and interchangeable-sounding names like GrowSF, TogetherSF Action, and Abundant SF are trying to exert more moderate influence on SF politics, with few actual members, but large amounts of campaign donation cash.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Scenes In SF and Chicago Hit Hardest By Pandemic, Says OpenTable A new data set released by reservation-software company OpenTable suggests that San Francisco has fared worse than other major cities in yet another metric of pandemic recovery, and that's restaurant dining.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Will Be a Block-wide Affair, With Outdoor Stage and Event Projected on a Closed Castro Street Now dubbed "Heklina: A Memorial (She Would Have Hated This)," the memorial affair for the beloved drag comedienne who died earlier this month has grown into a block-wide event that will shut down Castro Street starting at noon.
Arts & Entertainment SF Public Library Teaming Up With Amoeba Music To Create Bay Area Artist Streaming Platform The SF Public Library has announced that it's launching a streaming music platform for Bay Area bands and musicians, paying artists $250 if they’re accepted, and users will be able to stream and download full albums with just a library card.
SF News Jurors In Kristin Smart Murder Case Speak Out About Convicting Paul Flores Jurors in the case against Paul Flores, for the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, were barred from speaking publicly or with each other about the case for over three months. But now they're able to talk.
Business & Tech Feds’ Autopsy On Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Blames Bank Management, Loosened Regulations The Federal Reserve performed a post-mortem on last month’s spectacular, sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and blamed terrible decisions by bank management, but also themselves and the FDIC for lax regulation.
SF News Gas Explosion In Richmond Injures at Least One An explosion at a Richmond District home reportedly sent glass flying into the street and left at least one person injured.
SF News Shooting at Market Street Walgreens Leaves 24-Year-Old Man Dead, Security Guard Arrested There was a fatal shooting Thursday evening near the busy section of Market Street outside the Westfield Mall, a few blocks from Union Square, and it involved a store security guard armed with a gun and an alleged theft in progress.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Officers to Be Deployed In Tenderloin Next Week Newsom's deployment of CHP officers to curb drug dealing in the Tenderloin starts Monday; Berkeley police are seeking catalytic converter thieves driving a Maserati; and COVID deaths in CA have dropped 65%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeless Man Released From Jail in Alleged Attack on Former Fire Commissioner The 2023 NFL Draft is underway (though the 49ers don’t pick until Friday night), 10% of SF’s housing stock for the homeless is just sitting empty, and the former SF fire commissioner didn’t show up in court today so his accused attacker is a free man.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Ordered To Be Deposed in Trial Over 2018 Tesla Autopilot Crash in Mountain View Tesla attorneys have argued that Elon Musk can’t be responsible for video evidence of him touting “Full Self-Driving” mode because the videos might be deepfakes, so the judge in the trial of a man killed in a 2018 Tesla crash is ordering Musk to be deposed himself.
SF News Photos: One of 24th Street’s Largest Ficus Trees Has Been Reduced to Sawdust and a Stump What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
SF Politics Board of Appeals Weighs In on Saga of Vacant, Apparently Unclaimed Mission District Lot, Tells Supes to Act The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.
Arts & Entertainment Guest Artist Creates Bird-Like Projections for Salesforce Tower, to Call Attention to Migratory Seabirds San Francisco artist Therese Lahaie has a new work that will be visible from a wide swath of the city this weekend, and starting Thursday night, on the illuminated crown of Salesforce Tower.
Business & Tech Twitter Relaxes Cannabis Ad Rules, Becoming First Platform to Allow Them Twitter made a big announcement that they’ll allow cannabis ads on the platform, but surprise surprise, companies can only do so if they’ve bought a blue-check subscription.
SF News Friend Says Accused Killer Nima Momeni and Sister Were 'Guard Dogs for Each Other' Following a brief court appearance Tuesday at which his attorney indicated that Nima Momeni intends to plead not guilty at a rescheduled arraignment next week, a few more details have come out about Momeni's relationship with his sister and his lack of real connection to victim Bob Lee.
SF News Gap Inc. Cutting 1,800 More Jobs, Mostly at SF Headquarters One of San Francisco's highest-profile, signature employers, Gap Inc., is once again shrinking its employee rolls, with many jobs getting cut at their Embarcadero headquarters.
SF Politics SF Supes Overturn Their Own Ban On Doing Business With States With Discriminatory Laws The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who’ve passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Leaves Swath of Downtown SF In the Dark An underground vault fire appears to be to blame for a power outage impacting the FiDi, North Beach, and Nob Hill; First Republic Bank remains in serious jeopardy; and the nonprofit Castro Theatre Conservancy has released an ambitious plan for how they would run the theater if given the chance.
