SF News Capp Street Will Be Barricaded Off Over Concerns There’s Too Many Sex Workers Strolling A long-running concern over the world’s oldest profession has Capp Street residents saying their street is “a sanctioned red-light district,” and apparently street barriers will be going up on a four-block stretch of Capp.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Prevails, Cleared of Wrongdoing By Jury Over His 2018 Tesla Tweets The last thing anyone should be doing is encouraging him, but Elon Musk has just won in the case of a class-action suit over his 2018 tweets about trying to take Tesla private, which turned out to be a false alarm that briefly impacted the stock price.
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest Turns 25, And Is Now Underway At The Roxie The 25th annual SF Independent Film Festival better known as IndieFest is now rocking at the Roxie, plus online until February 12, with 95 independent films including documentaries about Moby and Negativland.
SF News Two Arrests Made In Central Valley Massacre That Killed Six On Friday morning, the sheriff of Tulare County announced that two suspects had been arrested, one amid a gunfight, in connection with the January 16 massacre in Goshen in which a family of six were murdered.
SF News BART San Jose Extension Gets $375 Million State Grant, Expects To Start Construction Next Year Another big pile of state money is kickstarting BART’s extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, which will come in handy, as authorities now admit the total project cost will indeed be about $9 billion.
SF News Lake Oroville Is On Its Way to Filling Up Again This Spring, After Several Dry Years As a visual representation of where we stand in terms of drought and water resources, you can't do much better than Lake Oroville, the man-made reservoir in Butte County that is the second largest in the state.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Hills Fire Damages Multiple Homes A house fire in the Oakland hills on Thursday turned into a three-alarm blaze that damaged at least two other homes; PG&E will be giving bill credits soon; and the forecast for the weekend includes a fair bit of rain.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mean Girls' the Musical Is Witty and Predictably Fun, But the Music Feels Beside the Point That Tina Fey should be able to write for the stage, and should keep writing for the stage and screen and wherever she pleases, goes without saying.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Friends of the Urban Forest Giving Away Free Fruit Trees It looks like rain for Saturday’s Lunar New Year Parade, a man fired shots in an SF synagogue but they ended up being blanks, and Friends of the Urban Forest are having a fruit tree giveaway.
SF News NoPa Home Featured on ‘Hoarders’ Sells For $500K Over Asking, Despite Atrocious Conditions A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
SF News Family Sets Up GoFundMe For Children of Woman Killed In East Bay Freeway Accident A 28-year-old Turlock woman who was killed on I-580 earlier this week while traveling home from a spontaneous trip to San Francisco leaves behind three children, and her family is seeking help with funeral expenses and money for the kids.
SF News Mid-Market IKEA Store Likely to Open By Spring, With Rest of Mall to Follow There was some breaking news Thursday via a source with insider IKEA knowledge that the mall complex on SF's Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets is going to come alive sooner than we'd last heard.
SF News Judge Rules PG&E Can Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in 2020 Zogg Fire PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
SF News Errant Cow Gets Loose In Pleasanton, Damages Tesla, Creates General Chaos Reminding us again of how close we are to the countryside, a member of the livestock community in Pleasanton got loose Wednesday night and wandered onto some busy streets in the city, at one point having a "cow-llision" with a Tesla.
SF News Cable Car Derails in Nob Hill, Two Injured, And This May Have Been a Hit-And-Run A Wednesday night cable car derailment appears to have left two Muni operators injured, and while details are scarce, the derailment may have been caused by a hit-and-run motorist.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pelosi Endorses Schiff For Senate Nancy Pelosi has made a rare endorsement in a Democrat v. Democrat race; there was a second major crash on southbound 101 in SF last night; and a former reality TV star has filed suit against Windsor's former mayor for sexual assault and battery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Gets Another Reprieve From Feds VP Kamala Harris spoke today at the funeral for Tyre Nichols in Memphis, federal regulators have once again granted a reprieve to Laguna Honda Hospital from having to move patients, and one SF property owner tried to use that 'builder's remedy' clause but it didn't actual kick in.
SF News Castro Theatre Gets Landmark Recommendation from City Hall, in Big Setback for Another Planet Entertainment Trouble for Another Planet Entertainment, as the SF Historic Preservation Commission just recommended landmark designation protections for the Castro Theatre’s seats, at a six-hour meeting where both “Save the Seats” and “Change the Seats” factions turned out in force.
SF Politics Breed Machine Politics Backfires at Tyre Nichols Vigil, As Mayor Gets Roundly Heckled After a vocal critic of DA Brooke Jenkins was disinvited at the last minute from speaking at a Wednesday City Hall vigil to honor Tyre Nichols, the apparent stage-management attempt went wrong, and spurned activists shouted Breed down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Rings In 10 Years With a 'Museum' of Its Menu Artistry, and a Drive to Keep On Innovating Even in a national landscape littered with creative cocktail bars, with a new-school cocktail culture that is now two decades old and spawning still newer schools, San Francisco's Trick Dog remains a singular thing, and place.
SF Politics Dozens of Bay Area Cities Are Late In Getting Housing Elements Certified, and YIMBY Groups Plan to Sue Today, February 1, is the state's deadline for cities to have their Housing Elements — the planning documents that dictate overall housing construction goals which serve as contracts with the state — certified. And guess what! Hundreds of towns and cities have blown the deadline.
SF News Two More Sonoma County Hells Angels Sentenced to Prison on Racketeering Charges A five-year-long federal murder investigation into the Sonoma County Hells Angels is also prosecuting several Angels on other lesser charges, like the two just sentenced for a series of beatings and the robbery of a marijuana grow.
SF News Second Consecutive Monarch Butterfly Population Rebound Has Butterfly Fans Just Thrilled While the migrating monarch butterfly population is still down 80% over the last 30 years, it’s estimated there are nearly 100,000 more of the winged critters in California right now compared to their numbers in last year’s annual trek.
SF News Homicide Under Investigation In SF's Little Hollywood Neighborhood A man was found with a fatal gunshot wound, sitting in a parked car on Tuesday in the Little Hollywood section of the Bayview.
Arts & Entertainment Beyoncé Returns to the Bay Area August 30 on Renaissance Tour, at Levi's Stadium As expected, Beyoncé has announced her latest world tour in connection with her stellar and multiply Grammy-nominated 2022 album Renaissance, and she will be swinging through the Bay Area on August 30.
