SF News Reminder: SFPD Will Have DUI Saturation Checkpoints All Over Town For St. Patrick’s Day As they do every year, SFPD will have DUI saturation patrol checkpoints around town for St. Patrick’s Day, so stay out of the paddy wagon on St. Patty’s Day and do not drive while intoxicated tonight.
SF News Stabbing at SF Middle School Comes Amid Uptick In Violence at Local Schools A child was stabbed by a fellow student at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco on Friday, and the incident comes after several weeks of similar cases of violence and threats at Bay Area schools.
Arts & Entertainment Robert Smith Forces Ticketmaster to Give Refunds to Overcharged Fans Who Bought Cure Tour Tickets The Cure frontman Robert Smith put Ticketmaster’s head on the door in a series of tweetstorms over price gouging and market manipulation, so now Ticketmaster is giving $5-$10 refunds to “verified fans” who got tickets, though a few refunds will be much larger.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Version of 'Clue' Gets Goofy at SF Playhouse Some pieces of pop-cultural output get loved to death, repeated and revisited so often they become like worn-out records — still playable, but no longer as vivid as they once were.
SF News Now Oakland Burglars Are Disguising Themselves as Amazon Delivery Drivers The Oakland Police Department sent out a warning Thursday about “an uptick in residential burglaries where the individuals involved are disguised as Amazon workers” who ring the bell to see if you're home, and then they bust right in.
Business & Tech Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Says He'll Rule on Prison Delay, Restitution Next Month The federal judge who sentenced Elizabeth Holmes last fall to 11 years in prison heard arguments Friday morning on whether Holmes should have to pay restitution to Theranos investors, and on whether she will be able to delay entering prison.
SF News Shot Fired During Argument On BART Train, Bullet Grazes Victim In another story that is unlikely to improve ridership on BART, a man was grazed by a bullet on a BART train Thursday night, after he was being pistol-whipped by another man and the gun went off.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese May File For Bankruptcy Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits The Diocese of Oakland is trying to get ahead of what appears to be around 330 looming clergy sexual abuse lawsuits, announcing they may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which critics say is just a tactic to avoid testifying and paying damages.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Demolition of Seacliff Pier to Begin Next Week SF's Dept. of Building Inspection has ordered that blown out windows be replaced at 555 California; Sunny Balwani got out of showing up to prison yesterday; and the storm-damaged pier at Seacliff State Beach in Santa Cruz County is getting demolished next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergio Romo Signs Symbolic Contract, Will Retire as A Giant PG&E admits Tuesday’s outages were the worst in nearly 30 years, the 4/20 Hippie Hill party announced its 2023 plans, and Sergio Romo, who famously wore an “I just look illegal” t-shirt in a championship parade, will retire as a San Francisco Giant.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Cult Hero ‘Sister Jean’ Was Born And Raised Right Here in San Francisco The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is underway, and it turns out that the 103-year-old nun who’s become the tournament’s unofficial Cinderella-team mascot, Sister Jean Schmidt, grew up here in San Francisco.
SF Politics Newsom Announces Drop-In-the-Bucket Effort to Build 1,200 Tiny Homes for the Homeless, None of Which Will Come to SF Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a new plan to address homelessness across the state, with $30 million in state funds going to construct 1,200 tiny homes to serve as transitional housing in four metro areas. San Francisco isn't one of them.
SF News Central Subway Ridership Already Declining, Barely Two Months After Fully Opening We have two months of ridership data on the new Central Subway, and the second month saw a notable decline in riders — and stunningly, only about 300 people are using the Yerba Buena/Moscone Station on average each day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Reopens After Renovation With New Tasting Menu Format Acclaimed Chinatown restaurant Mister Jiu's, which closed temporarily in January for a remodel, has reopened and chef Brandon Jew is going a new direction with the menu.
SF News It’s the Three-Year Anniversary of Our COVID-19 Lockdown, San Francisco On the three-year anniversary of the Bay Area’s stunning shelter-in-place announcement, which would be duplicated within days around much of the country, we look back on these three bad years, and the order that was originally only supposed to last for three weeks.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank Gets $30B Lifeline From Group of Larger Banks It was good news on Thursday for regional bank First Republic, which on Monday was facing serious stress in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. A coalition of larger banks agreed to funnel $30 billion in deposits to the bank to help it shore itself and meet the demand for withdrawals.
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
SF News Condo Neighbors and Bissap Baobab Wrangle In Eight-Hour Hearing at State ABC The new, big Bissap Baobab was hauled before the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for eight hours on Wednesday, as condo neighbors are trying to deny the restaurant and bar’s beer and wine license — essentially put it out of business — over NIMBY noise complaints.
SF News Approaching 7th Anniversary of Disappearance, Authorities Put Out New Call for Whereabouts of Arianna Fitts It's been almost seven years since the body of a young mother was discovered in McLaren Park, and authorities still believe that her daughter, who was two years old at the time, is still alive and perhaps still somewhere in California.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fatal Collision On Westbound Bay Bridge Causes Early Morning Backup Two people were killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge and separately there were other crises leading to much traffic; around 68K are still without power in Bay Area; and arrests have been made in a Pittsburg hit-and-run.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Middle School Locked Down Over Gun Denman Middle School in SF's Outer Mission was locked down after a student brought a gun to school; a Stanford employee who said she was raped on campus twice last year was allegedly lying; and someone tried to steal a helicopter from Sacramento Airport.
Arts & Entertainment The Cure Tickets Went On Sale Today, and It Was A Ticketmaster Disaster The Cure had hoped to make tickets affordable for their first U.S. tour in seven years. But Ticketmaster’s gonna Ticketmaster, so fees sometimes exceeded the price of tickets, and many fans were still left empty-handed.
SF News [Updated] Young Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Italian Cop Granted Retrial By High Court The two Bay Area men convicted of killing an Italian police officer in Rome in a weird drug deal gone bad four years ago faced Italy's highest court this week, and the court is now deliberating in what is their final chance to appeal their convictions.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Approve Reparations Draft Document; SF NAACP Comes Out Against $5 Million Payments The SF NAACP came out on record against the proposed $5 million per Black SF resident proposal in the current list of reparations recommendations, and the Board of Supervisors approved a draft of that document that won’t be finalized until September.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Has Launched a Burger Truck Serving Mini Double-Doubles There's now an official In-N-Out food truck, and while it's likely to mostly stick around Southern California and only caters kids' events, it's sure to be in high demand.
