SF News Shooter at Club Q in Colorado Kills Five, Leaves at Least Another 25 Injured On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire inside a Colorado Springs queer nightclub, fatally wounding five individuals and injuring at least twenty-five others; patrons inside Club Q are being praised for their bravery.
SF News Sunday Links: Sheng Thao Ekes Out Razor-Thin Lead in Oakland Mayor's Race COVID experts continue recommending testing and mask-wearing ahead of Thanksgiving, SF’s Deck The Halls pop-up bar returns next week, and City Councilwoman Sheng Thao is narrowly leading Loren Taylor in the Oakland mayor’s race.
Business & Tech Oof: Trump's Twitter Account Is Back Online After Millions Vote in Poll About Its Reinstatement After Elon Musk's posted a Twitter poll that showed around eight million votes in favor of allowing former President Donald J. Trump back on the platform, Musk tweeted "the people have spoken" Saturday night.
SF News Police Officers Race After Auto Burglary Suspects on Highway 101 in San Francisco; Three Arrests Made Those traveling on the 101 on Friday, November 11, around 3 p.m. got a front-row seat to a foot chase between San Francisco Police officers and three auto burglary suspects as they were chased down the middle of the freeway.
SF News San Francisco Police Arrest Eight Alleged Gang Members, Recover Stolen Property SFPD announced police have detained eight individuals, all of whom are allegedly connected to a gang that has conducted a slew of crimes, including "shootings, armed robberies, and car burglaries" done around the Bay Area.
SF News Saturday Links: First Train Leaves Central Subway Station Packed With People A person was killed in a suspected freeway shooting in Oakland early Saturday morning, the Bay Area is in the middle of a "Pastrami Renaissance," and service officially started at SF's Central Subway station today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Downtown Whole Foods in SF Now Requires Receipt to Use Restrooms Bathrooms at the Whole Foods location at 1185 Market Street are now only open to customers amid drug use in them, there’s an apartment for rent in the historic Pasquale’s Tower on Telegraph Hill, and the popular brunch spot That’s My Jam is back.
SF News Take A Look at Your New Muni Subway Map — With Central Subway Starting Some Service Saturday Saturday is the soft opening of Muni's long-awaited, much-delayed Central Subway, with free weekend service beginning to just the four new stops on the new line. It's January when the big service changes begin.
SF News UC Berkeley Law School Chooses to Bolt From Prestigious US News Rankings, as Have Harvard and Yale The UC Berkeley School of Law is joining several of the nation’s top law schools by opting out of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual top law school rankings over equity and diversity concerns, but the magazine says they’ll still include these schools anyway.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years In Federal Prison It was a bad day to be Elizabeth Holmes, as she appeared in a San Jose federal courtroom Friday to learn her fate, which is a sentence that is nearly as harsh as prosecutors were asking for.
SF News State DOJ Probing Oakland School District Over Closing Seven Schools, Citing Civil Rights Violations The California Department of Justice has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students’ rights to equal access to education.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Will Be Naming a Drag Laureate Early Next Year San Francisco is one of two West Coast cities that will, for the first time, be naming its first Drag Laureate — a local drag queen to serve as a city ambassador to and promoter of SF drag culture. And the Mayor's Office officially opened up applications for the position on Thursday.
SF News Body Found In East Bay House That Appeared to Be Set On Fire Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
SF News SF Activist Carol Leigh, the ‘Scarlot Harlot’ Who Coined the Term ‘Sex Work,’ Has Died One of the preeminent Bay Area sex work activists for nearly 50 years and the originator of the term “sex work” Carol Leigh, a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot, died of cancer Wednesday.
Business & Tech On Day of 1,200 More Departures at Twitter, Activist Projects Insults to Elon Musk On Side of Building Thursday was another day of chaos at Twitter as Elon Musk continues his master class in how not to take over a company. And of course someone began projecting a scroll of insults directed at Musk on the side of Twitter headquarters.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Masks Recommended Again Amid LA COVID Surge The health officer in Los Angeles County is "strongly recommending" indoor masking as COVID surges again, Lisa Gillmor has won the Santa Clara mayor's race, and a very ill bear cub has come to the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elizabeth Holmes Files Final Plea For Leniency Elizabeth Holmes’s lawyers continue to beg for leniency, Ticketmaster is canceling Friday’s public sale of Taylor Swift tickets at Levi’s Stadium, and sex work activist Carol Leigh, popularly known as “Scarlot Harlot,” has died.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Esquire Names Three SF Spots (and One In Sonoma) As Best New Restaurants In the Country San Francisco got short shrift the last couple years when it's come to the James Beard Foundation Awards and Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants lists, but Esquire is still paying attention to our food scene.
SF News Feathers Flying In Sactown Suburb After Postal Worker Fatally Bludgeons Aggressive, Menacing Turkey A controversy over a postal worker killing a turkey that attacked delivery workers has gobbled up Sacramento Nextdoor, as a “drumstick gang” of wild turkeys has had tensions marinating for months.
SF News Final Tab on $22 Million Tenderloin Center: 300 Overdoses Reversed, 600 Enrolled In Government Benefits The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
Business & Tech As Deadline Passes For Twitter Employees to Commit to Being 'Hardcore,' Some Wonder If It's All a Trap Elon Musk's erratic behavior and flippant comments since taking the helm as Chief Twit two weeks ago have some Twitter employees worried that he might be setting them up to fail — or that he might not follow through on his severance offer.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Has Lost School Board Race, as Challenger Alida Fisher Takes ‘Insurmountable’ Lead London Breed-appointed school board member Ann Hsu will be the only Breed appointee not reelected in last week’s election, as anti-recall candidate Alida Fisher has sealed the win with a more than 3,500-vote advantage.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics SF Examiner Apologizes For (Literally) Placing a Bullseye On Dean Preston’s Face in Print Edition In what’s being criticized as a “deeply irresponsible and contemptible” publishing decision, the SF Examiner Wednesday front page depicted Supervisor Dean Preston with a bullseye target over his face, and the paper is now apologizing.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Becomes New SF Supervisor for District 4 as Gordon Mar Concedes Close Race With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
