SF News Oakland-Based Health Justice Lawyer Awarded MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Oakland-based attorney Priti Krishtel was announced today as one of 25 grantees of the MacArthur Foundation's esteemed annual 'genius' fellowships, for her work in the health justice space.
SF News ‘Police Did Nothing Vol. XXIV’: Local Man Tracks Down His Own Tools Being Sold on Mission Street A Vis Valley man had video of an intruder robbing his shed, followed the man to an encampment where his tools were sold, and then tracked the tools down being sold on Mission Street. But he says SFPD would not aid the investigation that he took into his own hands.
Business & Tech Meta Announces That Metaverse Avatars Will Soon Gain Legs — Also, They'd Like to Sell You a $1,500 VR Headset "It's painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing." That's a TechCrunch headline on an article about Meta's VR developer conference this week, at which the company unveiled a new $1,500 headset for use in the still very beta metaverse.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Merchants Hosting Halloween Block Party, But It’s a Daytime Thing For Kids and Dogs A revived Castro Halloween party billed as “Castro Family Halloween” will be a Sunday afternoon affair. It will be preceded by an early-evening Day-Glo costume party on Saturday, hosted for the second time by Comfort & Joy.
SF News Group of Men Robbed at Gunpoint In Mission District, One Shot One man was shot during the commission of a robbery on the street outside of a Mission District bar on Monday night, in an incident that involved three suspects which was one of two shootings that night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 'Golden Girls Kitchen' Pop-Up Headed to SF The Supreme Court will be weighing the constitutionality of California's animal cruelty law for food products, UC Berkeley parents are freaking out over last weekend's shooting, and a 'Golden Girls Kitchen' pop-up is coming to SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yet Another Rape Rocks Stanford Campus The Castro Theatre’s new operator got more unwelcoming news from the neighborhood, a tree trimmer fell into a wood chipper in Menlo Park, and yet another violent rape was reported on the Stanford campus.
Business & Tech SEC Launches Probe Into Those ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs and the Company That Makes Them While the crypto bros lose their shirts over those monkey jpegs that they dreamed were worth $300,000, the Securities and Exchange Commission is opening an investigation into those NFTs’ creator, Yuga Labs.
SF News Vandal — Who Lives There — Allegedly Makes Mess of 100 Van Ness Apartment Tower, Causing Major Flood A major flooding incident occurred on the 11th floor of the apartment tower at 100 Van Ness, and it's allegedly the work of a vandal who lived in the building, and who was found at the scene.
SF Politics Supes Pile On Mayor Breed’s Resignation Letter Scandal in ‘Emergency’ Hearing There was plenty of insider tea spilled about how Mayor Breed allegedly muscled city commissioners in an “emergency” hearing Tuesday that made more political hay over Breed’s undated resignation letters scandal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trio of New Restaurants Open Thursday at Cavallo Point, Including the Mediterranean-Inspired Sula Over on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the Before Times, Cavallo Point was known as a semi-secret spa, date, and special-occasion spot — with its restaurant Murray Circle enjoying a number of years of critical acclaim.
SF Politics Once Again We're Voting On a Dialysis-Clinic Prop — Here's the Deal At its heart, this is a unionization fight, but it's one that keeps coming up because there is so much money on the table — and because the arguments are compelling.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trendy New STK Steakhouse Hit With Wage Theft Suit, Employees Say They Were Forced to Work With COVID Just one month after opening, buzzy nightclub-restaurant STK Steakhouse is already dogged by a class-action lawsuit over wage and tip theft, plus employees claiming they were forced to work while testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News Next Omicron Subvariant Arrives In Bay Area; Not Enough People Are Getting Updated Boosters It is high time for people to get their bivalent COVID booster shots, with widespread availability and a looming potential winter surge of a new Omicron subvariant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Strange Weather Pattern to Blame For Fog and Cold Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall on Monday in solidarity to protest Russia's new attacks in Ukraine, a gig-worker union is going to be announced outside Uber HQ, and a strange weather pattern has been keeping SF's early October colder than usual.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Newsom to Testify Against Harvey Weinstein In L.A. A 39-year-old man was shot near Fisherman's Wharf on Sunday night, Jennifer Siebel Newsom is set to testify in the L.A. trial of Harvey Weinstein, and a star witness just testified in the corruption trial of the Santa Clara County sheriff.
Bay Area Sports Warriors ‘Aggressively Investigating’ Who Leaked the Draymond Green Punch Video to TMZ Will the Warriors punish the person who leaked the video of Draymond Green punching out a teammate more harshly than they punish Green himself for throwing the punch? That may be the case, as the team is taking "every legal course of action" to find the leaker.
Business & Tech 13 Best Vets & Veterinarian Pet Hospitals in San Francisco With more dogs per capita than children, San Francisco is among the most pet friendly cities in the country. Surprisingly, SF actually has a shortage of vets, so finding a pet hospital with
SF News Newly Proposed Rezoning Could See 34,000 New Housing Units Come to SF’s Western Neighborhoods The SF Planning Department recently released another reworked draft for its state-mandated “housing element” plan, which will now suggest rezoning parts of the city to accommodate 34,000 additional housing units — a big jump from the 22,000 units previously outlined.
Arts & Entertainment Minnesota Man Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest With 2,560-Pound ‘Gourdzilla’ There’s a new Great Pumpkin in town, as the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Monday with the Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and a Minnesota man broke the North American record with a pumpkin weighing 2,560 pounds.
SF News Suspect In Merced Murder of Four Family Members Is Formally Charged, Arraigned One of two suspects in a quadruple homicide last week in Merced was arraigned Monday morning in Merced County court, four days after he was arrested for their kidnapping.
SF News Still-Flooded Out 33 Tehama Residents Sue Property Manager, Alleging Mismanagement and Dishonesty Four months into an ordeal where their building was flooded (twice!), replacement hotel accommodations were abruptly canceled, and contractors apparently pilfered a number of their possessions, more than 50 tenants of the beleaguered SoMa high-rise 33 Tehama are suing the property manager Hines.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Cruise Past Carolina for 37-15 Win, But Rack Up a Slew of Injuries The win was convincing, but so is the injury list. Even though the San Francisco 49ers went into Charlotte, North Carolina, and handled the Panthers with relative ease, they left with a chunk of their roster banged up.
SF News Two-Alarm Sunday Night Bayview Fire Burns Three Homes, Displaces 15 Residents An early evening fire spread to three homes between the Bayview District and Silver Terrace Sunday, and while the SF Fire Department was able to contain the blaze in under an hour, it still damaged three homes and left 15 people displaced.
SF News Shooting Outside UC Berkeley Dorms Leaves One Dead, Four Injured There was a shooting early Saturday, following a busy Friday night of frat parties and activity on and off the UC Berkeley campus, that left four people injured and one dead — none of whom were students or affiliated with the school.
