SF News Saturday Links: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Vandalized, Over 60 Windows Broken There was an "ambush-style" robbery in the Mission District, a security camera filmed dozens of windows at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital being broken, and a Yountville bakery made a life-size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite — completely out of carbs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nearly 30 New Lanterns Come to SF's Chinatown — and Each Tells a Story 29 new lanterns were recently installed in San Francisco's Chinatown, Albertsons — which is Safeway with different branding — is being bought by Kroger, and FYI: The largest hay maze in the city is located at the SF Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment New Documentary Dives Into the Furor Over That Wildly Controversial Washington High Mural The high school mural that’s spawned years of shouting matches, lawsuits, and national media animus towards San Francisco gets the documentary treatment in ‘Town Destroyer,’ playing at The Roxie and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jagged Little Pill' Wears Its Pain On Its Sleeve, and It's an Exhilarating and Clever New Rock Musical A jukebox musical featuring the angsty but sometimes poetic music of Alanis Morissette, directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, and featuring a book by Oscar winner Diablo Cody, may sound cringe-y, but it is more than the sum of its parts.
SF News [Update] Well-Known Alleged Serial Sexual Predator Arrested Following Warrant Alleged SF serial predator Bill Gene Hobbs has spent plenty more time in the headlines lately than in custody, though he was arrested Friday not long after a warrant was issued for him Friday morning.
SF News Three Arrested Following Standoff, Including 15-Year-Old, In Armed Robbery Outside Mission Bar The SFPD apprehended three suspects believed to be responsible for an armed robbery outside of a Mission District bar earlier this week, following a Wednesday standoff in SoMa.
SF Politics Retired Judge Files State Bar Complaint Against SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Citing Dishonest Conduct Ahead of the November election in which mayoral appointee to the SF DA's office Brooke Jenkins is hoping to be elected by the people, there appears to be at least one October surprise.
SF News BART Delays Are Worse Than They’ve Been In a Decade, According to BART’s Own Data If you think BART's been bad lately, it’s not your imagination — one in three BART cars has been delayed over the last year, thanks to staffing shortages, aging equipment malfunctioning, and what we euphemistically call “police activity.”
SF News Could the Stockton Serial Killer Be Chicago's 'Duck Walk Killer' Who Randomly Murdered Two Men In 2018? Investigators are trying to determine if a suspect who shot two men, execution-style, four years ago in Chicago could be the same suspect responsible for six murders in the last year and a half in Stockton and Oakland.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Fire Damages Oakland Senior Apartments A fire broke out early Friday morning at a senior apartment complex near Lake Merritt in Oakland, the death of Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled accidental, and San Jose saw two hit-and-run collisions on Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nancy Pelosi Said She Would Punch Trump on January 6 Excellent news on the MPX front as monkeypox has largely receded, the death of 16-year-old Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled an accident, and footage from the January 6 Commission shows Nancy Pelosi vowed to punch Trump on that chaotic day.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party Returns Saturday, But This Year Rocks A Different Block Block out your calendar Saturday for the return of Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party, but this year’s popping noise will be at a new Valencia Street location.The high-powered San
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison Street Fair Barrels Back on Saturday In SoMa Things are going to get hairy Saturday, as Harrison Street turns into a real bear trap for the second annual Bearrison Street Fair, with plenty of live wrestling and weightlifting, but perhaps not so much shirt-wearing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacos El Último Baile, Born as a Stand Outside an Oakland Bar, Opens Its First Brick and Mortar on Saturday A taco success story in Oakland begins a new chapter this weekend as taco chef Dominic Prado opens a brick-and-mortar version of Tacos El Último Baile in the Fruitvale District, in the space formerly occupied by Nyum Bai.
Arts & Entertainment Broke-Ass Stuart Celebrates 20 Years of Being ‘Broke-Ass Stuart’ In San Francisco Local bon vivant Broke-Ass Stuart broke the mold with two decades of hustling as a travel writer, TV host, and mayoral candidate, and celebrates 20 years of his SF penny-pinching shenanigans with a Public Works party Thursday and a new zine.
SF Politics This Winter and Spring Could Be a Chaotic Free-for-All For Developers If SF Can't Get Its Housing Element Approved A local housing activist just called San Francisco out on a rather alarming error — city officials and planners thought they had until May 31 to get the all-important revision to the general plan's Housing Element approved by the state, but the deadline is actually January 31.
SF News Glen Park Rat Infestations Being Pinned on ‘Birdseed Lady’ Dropping Huge Piles of the Stuff On Sidewalks One woman allegedly dropping “15-30 pounds” of birdseed at a time has been at it for years, according to Glen Park neighbors and businesses, who say she’s single-handedly causing a rat infestation that’s roiling the neighborhood.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing Set For Nov. 18; Prosecution Witness Who Expressed Remorse Angered By New Subpoena A prosecution witness who showed up at Elizabeth Holmes's doorstep in August seeming to express remorse over his testimony in her trial has lashed back at her attorneys over a new subpoena of his phone and email records.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed In Castro Safeway Parking Lot A fatal stabbing occurred Tuesday evening in the notoriously sketchy parking lot of the Castro Safeway shopping plaza.
SF Politics Local Democratic Socialists Chapter Getting Roasted for Screening Pro-Putin Documentary With ’Pizza and Beer!’ The SF Democratic Socialists of America chapter is getting ratioed pretty hard on Twitter over an upcoming screening of a documentary that’s been described as a “dictator suckup” to Vladimir Putin.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sports-Betting Prop Backers Admit Defeat The backers of two competing sports-betting ballot measures know the props are toast, BBQ chef Matt Horn faces public complaints about bounced checks, and our unusually (for October) damp and foggy weather continues.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Unified Is Spending $2.8 Million on a Consultant to Fix Another Consultant's Error SF Unified School District is spending $2.8 million on a no-bid contract with a firm trying to solve a major payroll snafu, the man who fell into a woodchipper on the Peninsula has been ID'd, and a new game space opens in Berkeley.
SF News Repeat Offender Attacks AC Transit Driver With Hammer, Pulls Gun on Him It was not the first time this 45-year-old woman assaulted someone on AC Transit, but security video shows that on Sunday, she bashed a driver on the head with a hammer and tried to shoot him, but the gun malfunctioned.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Wins One-Year Reprieve, Gets Funding Fully Reinstated The beleaguered Laguna Honda Hospital got the best news it’s had in months Wednesday, as federal officials agreed to fully reinstate their $18 million a month in funding, and halted a forced patient transfer program that seriously risked patients’ health.
SF News Six Bay Area High Schools Get Swatted With Fake Active Shooter Reports A wave of "swatting" swept through the Bay Area on Wednesday, a day after similar incidents in Florida, with classes disrupted and lockdowns ordered following a half dozen fabricated reports of active shooters at six different high schools.
