Arts & Entertainment Video: Elon Musk Joins Dave Chappelle On Stage At SF Show, Gets Booed Lustily The Twitter and Tesla CEO bizarrely joined standup comic Dave Chappelle on stage at the Chase Center Sunday night to a loud chorus of boos, yet the “free speech absolutist” Musk has apparently removed the videos of this from Twitter.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mount Hamilton Sees Blanket of Snow A rock slide temporarily shut down lanes of Highway 101 in Sausalito, much of the Bay Area saw two or more inches of rain over the weekend, and Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County got blanketed with snow.
SF News San Mateo City Council Fight Leaves City Without Mayor, Breaks 128 Years Of Tradition The City of San Mateo's two new councilmembers are blocking the nomination of their co-member who traditionally would have been selected this time, Councilwoman Amourence Lee.
SF News SFPD Arrests 28-Year-Old Suspect In Bayview Murder of Relative SFPD arrested a 28-year-old male suspect for allegedly killing a 51-year-old female relative Friday night in the Bayview.
SF News Sunday Links: Man Arrested for DUI After Deadly San Jose Crash A truck driver was arrested after a San Jose crash killed one woman and injured two other people, an Oakland youth died of gunshot wounds after a shooting this weekend, and several big rigs trucks on the same West Oakland lot caught on fire early Sunday morning.
SF News Dramatic Flaring and Smoke Plumes at Martinez Oil Refinery Alarm Community Friday afternoon flaring at the Martinez Refinery Company sparked concerns among city residents, and the company also reportedly released hazardous materials on Thanksgiving Day without warning.
SF News Mission District's Planned Overdose Prevention Site Scrapped by Mayor's Office The SF Mayor’s Office reportedly pulled the plug on the city’s first planned permanent overdose prevention site in the Mission, a week after shutting down the Tenderloin Center where onsite drug use spurred controversy.
SF News Saturday Links: Heavy Storm Hits Bay Area, Making Tahoe Inaccessible This atmospheric river passing through raises San Francisco flood warnings, COVID levels are spiking in Santa Clara County wastewater, and NorCal native Mitch Haniger is coming to the SF Giants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Eggo Factory Fined After Ammonia Leak An Eggo waffle factory in the South Bay has been ordered to pay $85K over an ammonia gas leak, Alameda High School has had two weird incidents with intruders on campus, and Elton John announced he's quitting Twitter over its new policies.
Arts & Entertainment WARNING: SantaCon Is Saturday, Though It Will Definitely Get Rained On If you want to mark yourself “Safe From SantaCon,” you’ll want to avoid the bars on Saturday, and once again, some hucksters are out pushing $30 tickets to this event that is actually free and completely unorganized.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chef at Locanda and Prairie to Open Pasta Spot In the Inner Richmond Chef Anthony Strong, who might have had a hit on his hands with Prairie in the Mission District if it weren't for a certain pandemic, has never been one to stay idle for too long.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Broadway Revival of 'Into the Woods' Is Coming to the Curran Next Year A new production of Sondheim's fairy tale mashup 'Into the Woods,' which won rave reviews and became an immediate hit of the latest Broadway season, is heading to San Francisco for a limited engagement in June 2023, as part of a national tour.
SF Politics Ex-DBI Inspector Bernie Curran Pleads Guilty To Taking Bribes To Grant Permits Another one goes down in the ongoing Mohammed Nuru-spawned federal corruption investigations, as the Justice Department announced former Department of Building Inspection inspector Bernard Curran pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks "as rewards for approving building permits."
SF News New Plan For That SoMa High-Rise On A Nordstrom Parking Lot Making Its Way Through City Hall The proposed 27-story residential tower that gained notoriety when the SF Board of Supervisors rejected it last year is back with a revised plan that went before the Planning Commission Thursday, and it generated shockingly little discussion or debate.
Arts & Entertainment For This Year's February Firefall Phenom In Yosemite, You'll Need Reservations The ever-growing popularity of the brief winter window for Yosemite's "firefall" phenomenon means that in 2023, reservations will be required.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Echo Chamber Busy Trying to Manufacture More ‘Twitter Files’ Scandals Musk has another underemployed Substacker trying to dig up dirt on the previous Twitter regime, as right-wing hack Bari Weiss serves up another batch of “Twitter Files” revelations that don’t deem to reveal much.
SF News 66-Year-Old San Jose Man Allegedly Shoots Unarmed Black Man Renting Airbnb In His Neighborhood A white San Jose resident has been charged in the unprovoked shooting of an unarmed Black man in October who was leaving an Airbnb he was renting to head to a grocery store.
SF News Swedish Tourists Allegedly Kidnapped and Assaulted By Disturbed Man In Sonoma County Meth is a helluva drug. But seriously, two Swedish tourists just had a frightening run-in with a suspect whom police are calling "delusional" in a hotel parking lot in Petaluma, and they ended up assaulted and bloody.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: School Board Throws $6M More at Payroll Problem The SF school board just authorized another $6M to pay contractors who are trying to fix the broken payroll system, a mask mandate may return in LA, and forecasters say this La Nina will fade by April.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Is Trying to Thwart New Year's Eve Party Rentals Airbnb is once again trying to keep people from renting homes for New Year's parties in SF and elsewhere, a prominent activist in San Jose was killed in a pedestrian crash, and downtown architecture firm Gensler has just signed a big new lease.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensaries Can Now Have Non-Transparent Roll-Up Security Gates, Which They Couldn’t Before Today I learned that marijuana dispensaries are not allowed to have roll-up security gates that are not transparent. But also today, the SF Planning Commission removed that restriction for pot shops.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Northern Italian Spot Ciccino, From Former Rich Table/Italian Homemade Co. Chef, Now Open for Dinner On Nob Hill A new Northern Italian restaurant that was initially only open for lunch this fall has debuted its full dinner menu, and early reviews are coming in.
Business & Tech Elon Musk No Longer World’s Richest Man, Which Is Maybe Why a Blue Check Might Cost $11 On iOS Twitter’s vaunted, re-revised $8 blue-check system is supposedly coming out within the next 24 hours, and because of Apple’s App store fees, Musk will reportedly charge iOS users $11 for a blue check instead of the normal $8 price.
SF News Ex-Warden of Dublin Women's Prison Convicted of Sexually Abusing Inmates The jury returned swiftly with a verdict in the trial of former FCI Dublin warden Ray Garcia, and he's been found guilty on all eight counts he was charged with, seven of which stemmed from sexually abusive conduct toward three female inmates.
SF News Rejoice! BART Is Dumping the $6.40 ‘Excursion Fare’ For Getting On and Off at The Same Station The good news is that BART will stop charging you $6.40 for leaving the station that you had just entered. The bad news is that this change likely won’t happen until “sometime in the summer of 2024.”
