SF News Saturday Links: Lawsuit Alleges Scandal-Plagued Bayview Homeless Services Org Funds Went to CEO's “Lavish” Lifestyle The troubled organization United Council of Human Services faces a new lawsuit about the misuse of funds; Davis is California's most "college-y" town with the highest proportion of the population students; and a cybersecurity attack has hit Oakland's systems.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sunset Home Explosion Was Allegedly Making PCP and/or Hash Oil In the House Police arrested a 53-year-old San Francisco man Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, drug manufacturing, and child endangerment, in connection with the deadly explosion in the Sunset District on Thursday that destroyed two homes and damaged several others.
day around the bay Day Around the Bay: Authorities Link Leaking Gas Canisters That Closed BART Stops to Sunset District House Explosion The canister was being transported by police when it started hissing potentially hazardous gas on the freeway; the Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect broke down in tears in court; and nearly 152,000 Californian schoolchildren are missing from the system after the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Champagne Cabaret’ at the Great Star Theater Is a High-Flying, Lowbrow Valentine's Date Night Revue The uncorked variety show “Champagne Cabaret” bubbles up at Chinatown's Great Star Theater with a sparkling blend of graceful aerial acrobatics and gross-out gags.
SF News Cause of Sunset District House Explosion May Be Related to Mysterious Barrels and Cylinders Found In Rubble It may be days or weeks before we get anything more definitive about the cause of yesterday's massive home explosion on 22nd Avenue, but with speculation running rampant in the last 24 hours, we at least now have a clue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter's Seven-Second TikTok Video Boosts Business For Parents' Struggling Santa Rosa Restaurant A young woman's brief plea to TikTok about her parents' empty Vietnamese restaurant in Santa Rosa was apparently immediately successful, and business is back up.
Arts & Entertainment Valentine’s Day Pillow Fight Is Back, But Someone’s Trying To Charge Registration For This Free Event The old flash-mob-style Valentine’s Day pillow fight is back this year, but on a down note, some group is trying to hawk paid registrations for this event that remains absolutely free.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Four Seasons (the Former Loews Regency/Mandarin Oriental) to Open New Italian Restaurant, Orafo A new hotel restaurant is coming soon to the ground-floor space at the Four Seasons Embarcadero — the hotel formerly known as the Loews Regency which is not actually on the Embarcadero, but at 222 Sansome.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Irish Pub The Phoenix to Close Next Week, and a Six-Story Apartment Building Will Rise In Its Place The swan song of the 22-year-old Irish bar, The Phoenix, arrives on Super Bowl Sunday, and the owner has permits to demolish the single-story building and construct an 18-unit apartment building in its place.
SF News Possible HazMat Situation Disrupts BART Service at Balboa Park, Daly City, and Colma Stations An apparent butane or propane leak that seems unrelated to BART shut down a few BART stations Friday morning, and it sounds like all traffic on several Daly City thoroughfares is completely shut down as well.
SF News DA Will Indeed Drop Prosecution of Keita O’Neil Police Shooting Case, Says State Can Take It If They Want DA Brooke Jenkins has decided she’s dropping the charges against a former SFPD officer who shot and killed unarmed Keita O’Neil in 2017, but says AG Rob Bonta is free to prosecute it if he wants to.
SF News Body Recovered at Site of House Explosion and Fire In the Sunset; Six Homes and Five Cars Damaged In Blast There is still no explanation for a dramatic explosion that occurred at a single-family home on 22nd Avenue in the Sunset District Thursday morning, but rumors of a fatality were confirmed when a body was recovered Thursday night.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Baker Dies From Injuries After Robbery Oakland baker and activist Jen Angel has died from injuries sustained while trying to chase down thieves; UCSF is seeking help identifying a patient; and a Calistoga man is suing the Napa hotel whose water was found to have high levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease last summer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Have New Renderings Of The Housing Going Into the Former Haight Street McDonald’s The Warriors brought back fan favorite Gary Payton II, some 100,000 San Franciscans are about to get their CalFresh food benefits slashed, and a new batch of renderings of the affordable housing project coming to the Haight Street McDonald’s site have been revealed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Begins Friday With Kickoff Tasting Events In North Bay and East Bay; SF Kickoff on Saturday San Francisco Beer Week has very much become Northern California Beer Week over the years, with breweries from as far north as Mendocino and the Sierra joining in, and as far south as Carmel. And this year they're dividing up the kickoff events by subregion.
SF News One Union Square Smash-and-Grabber Sentenced To Three Years In Prison, In Harshest Sentence Yet One of the many who participated in the infamous November 2021 Union Square smash-and-grab spree has reportedly received a three-year prison sentence, larger than the other sentences by magnitudes, but that’s likely because the suspect busted off his ankle monitor and committed more burglaries.
SF News City Hall, SFPD Unveil Plans To Barricade Capp Street In Supposed Sex Work Crackdown We’re now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen’s office tells us will be “up by Friday,” and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.
Business & Tech Mayor London Breed Announces Tax Breaks, Other Incentives Aimed at Reviving SF's Downtown In her State of the City address Thursday, SF Mayor London Breed announced a multipart plan aimed at revitalizing the city's beleaguered, seemingly half-empty downtown, and it involves some Twitter tax-break-style tax breaks.
SF News Organized Retail Theft Ring That Targeted California Apple Stores Busted, Eight Arrested An organized retail theft ring that netted around $1 million in stolen Apple products over the last six months has been busted following an investigation by the CHP's retail theft unit.
Business & Tech Uber Razzed Over SF Ads That Say ‘See You In Marina District’ With Photo of Sausalito A new advertising-fail from Uber tries to localize to SF, but the campaign uses an image from the wrong city, showing Sausalito in a shot that purports to be the Marina District.
SF News [Update] Oakland Bakery Owner Dies After Attempted Robbery Gone Wrong Popular Oakland baker Jennifer Angel, the 48-year-old owner of Angel Cakes in the historic Gingerbread House, is in critical condition after a Monday incident in which she apparently tried to chase down thieves who stole something from her.
SF Politics Trump White House Demanded Twitter Take Down Chrissy Teigen Tweet Calling Him A ‘P*ssy *ss B*tch” A challenging moment for congressional stenographers Wednesday, as the House Oversight Committee went hunting for dirt on Hunter Biden’s laptop, but instead found the Trump White House was on a warpath to censor the vulgar tweets of reality TV star Chrissy Teigen.
SF News 'Possible Gas Explosion' and Fire Destroys Sunset Home, Damages Others A fire quickly consumed and destroyed a home in San Francisco's Sunset District, and the fire reportedly began with or included an explosion that shattered windows in neighboring homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Conviction In Carmel Cold-Case Murder From 1981 The SoCal doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving over a Pacifica cliff is due in court, a 67-year-old Seaside man has been convicted in a 1981 murder in Carmel, and the 2019 Texas Walmart shooter has pleaded guilty.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Report Calls Oakland Police Chief 'Not Credible' A new report from investigators into the latest Oakland police scandal calls Chief LeRonne Armstrong "not credible" in statements he made; the SFPD announced a $50K reward in a Sept. 2022 Fillmore shooting case; and UC Berkeley has "unnamed" another building that was named for a white supremacist.
