SF News Sunday Links: Argentina Triumphs Over France In 2022 World Cup as Bay Area Soccer Fans Watch Sunday Morning San Francisco soccer fans gathered in Golden Gate Park early Sunday to watch Argentina win the World Cup; an 11-year-old boy has been reported missing in Oakland; and a second man has been arrested in a San Leandro Sept. 7 armed robbery that left a 60-year-old man dead.
SF News Recount of Close Oakland Mayor Race Will Not Proceed Because No One Has Paid For It, County Registrar Says Oakland mayor-elect Sheng Thao won over opponent Loren Taylor by less than 700 votes after ranked-choice vote tabulations, but Taylor supporter's demands for a recount will not proceed, according to the county.
SF News Saturday Links: 3.6M Earthquake Near El Cerrito Rocks Bay Area Overnight A 3.6 magnitude earthquake hit the East Bay at 3:39 a.m.; a girl in the South Bay was rescued from a tree by the fire department; and SF Giants stack their roster with free agent SS Carlos Correa.
SF News Friday Links: The Legendary Savoy Tivoli Comes Alive Again In North Beach The victim in an accidental house fire Friday morning was an elderly woman; the state investigates John Muir Health hospital after four children's deaths; and the OG Boba Guys location closes for good after a months-long backlash.
SF News Ghost Ship Proprietor Derick Almena Won’t Face Extra Jail Time For Possessing Bow, Arrow, Machete, and Bullet The master tenant in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire was back in an Alameda County courthouse today on weapons charges, but a judge ruled the charges were all a misunderstanding, and Derrick Almena will not go back to jail.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Recognized Sonoma Spot Valley Expanding With Second Location Next Year A charming natural wine bar and restaurant on Sonoma's town square is in expansion mode and will be taking over the space occupied by Delicious Dish about two and a half miles away.
SF Politics Deficit Times Again? Mayor Breed Says SF Looking At $728 Million Budget Shortfall SF has gone from a $650 million deficit, to a $108 million surplus, and now back to a $728 million deficit, all in less than two years, and Mayor Breed is ordering department heads to slash their budgets ASAP.
Business & Tech Now the Feds Are Looking Into Why All Those Cruise Robotaxis Went Rogue and Swarmed on Gough Street GM's self-driving taxi arm Cruise will have to answer to federal safety regulators who are now rightfully concerned about several incidents in which the robot cars decided to stop in the middle of streets and block human drivers from getting past, or randomly brake quickly and cause collisions.
SF News SFPD Touts 60 Arrests In New Retail Shoplifting Crackdown Today in ‘People congratulating themselves for doing their job,’ the San Francisco police announced they’ve been running a secret anti-shoplifting operation since late November, and have nabbed 60 retail theft suspects in the process.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Suspends Several Journalists From Twitter, Claims They Posted ‘Assassination Coordinates’ A bizarre chain of events unfolded on Twitter Thursday night, starting with the suspension of journalists who cover Musk, Musk himself joining (then shutting down) a live chat about this, and the platform being jimmied so users couldn’t post links to a rival social media network. Free speech!
Arts & Entertainment 60-Foot Christmas Tree at Pier 39 Taken Down Early Due to Dryness, Safety Concerns Christmas is canceled! The big Christmas tree at Fisherman's Wharf has been taken down a week and a half before Christmas, and the nightly light shows at Pier 39 are canceled, because the big tree dried out too fast.
SF News San Francisco Resident Dies In House Fire In Parkside Neighborhood One person died following a house fire in San Francisco's Inner Parkside neighborhood Friday morning, after being rescued by firefighters.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Seahawks, Clinch Playoff Berth and Keep Rolling With Brock Purdy Would it be premature to go get a Brock Purdy tattoo?
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Silicon Valley Economy Grew Wildly During Pandemic The economy of Santa Clara County grew more than any other large county in the country during the pandemic, Tenderloin businesses want their tax money back, and John's Grill in Union Square won a rare pandemic insurance settlement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Tried To Bring A Gun Into SF City Hall You can now order another batch of free at-home COVID-19 tests, North Beach jazz bar Savoy Tivoli reopens today, and someone tried get a handgun through the metal detector at City Hall.
SF News Activists Blast ‘Developer Dirty Bomb’ And Lack of Racial Equity In SF’s Housing Element Plan The phrase “developer dirty bomb” entered the chat surrounding the San Francisco Housing Element debate at Thursday’s Planning Commission meeting, as affordable housing activists argue the soon-to-be-final draft of the plan gives short shrift to racial equity.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested In 2021 Freeway Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu Four alleged San Francisco gang members have been identified as the suspects in last year’s I-880 shooting of toddler Jasper Wu. Three were arrested today, the fourth was already shot and killed in a separate drive-by shooting last month.
Bay Area Sports It Looks Like Steph Curry Will Be Out for a Few Weeks With a Shoulder Injury The actual moment that led to Steph's injury was completely innocent looking. The Pacers' Jalen Smith was driving to the basket when Curry reached out with his left hand and got all ball — Steph immediately winced and grabbed his shoulder.
Arts & Entertainment 'Beetlejuice' the Musical Can't Help But Kill Audiences With Laughs If ever there was a musical theater adaptation from a movie that I didn't see coming, it's 'Beetlejuice.' But the darkly comic Tim Burton classic from 1988 translates remarkably well to the stage, with plenty of tweaks and updates, and a terrific score by Australian singer-songwriter Eddie Perfect.
SF News Billionaire 555 Fulton Developer Arrested In London On Mohammed Nuru Bribery Charges Mega-rich developer Zhang Li, accused of buttering up Mohammed Nuru with a $2,000 bottle of wine and luxury trips, was arrested in London and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for bribery.
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspect Who Kicked Elderly Woman As He Exited Muni Bus The SFPD on Wednesday released Muni surveillance video of an incident in which a male suspect kicked an elderly woman in the stomach on his way off of a Muni bus.
SF News Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to Three and a Half Years In Saudi Espionage Case A former Twitter media partnerships manager who took bribes from a representative for the Saudi royal family in exchange for sensitive data about dissidents has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Macy's Union Square Employees May Strike Before Christmas A 21-year-old suspect has been charged in the killing of a father and son at a Hayward party, two people were shot in an ambush in Castro Valley Wednesday, and Macy's Union Square employees are threatening to strike next week.
SF News SFPD Officer Named In Celeste Guap Scandal Still Making Full Salary, Relegated to SFPD's Version of a 'Rubber Room' SF taxpayers have paid about $17 million to continue to employ police in desk jobs for largely disciplinary reasons, including one officer implicated in the notorious Celeste Guap scandal who’s pulling up to $240,000 a year.
SF News Yes, It Takes Forever To Build Anything In San Francisco, and That Is Part of Why Luxury Housing Is All That Gets Built Anyone with even a passing connection to the real estate world in San Francisco, or anyone who knows anyone who's tried to get a permit for an addition or to build a single-family home or duplex in SF, knows that this is a yearslong process. Does it have to be? Will it ever not be?
