Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Now a Co-Owner of the Giants, Becomes First Ex-Giant To Buy a Stake In the Team The Giants’ former catcher and Hall of Fame-bound slugger will be a “Forever Giant” in a way no player ever has before, having just bought an ownership stake in the team.
SF News Watch Sherri Papini Lie, Squirm, and Fumble In Newly Released Interrogation Video The world now gets to see the moment when the gig was truly up for wannabe Gone Girl Sherri Papini when she was confronted in 2020 with what federal investigators had figured out about her fabricated 2016 abduction.
SF News Supervisors Approve Giving SFPD Live Access to Private Security Cameras All Over Town The wildly controversial SFPD live monitoring of private security cameras is now official San Francisco city policy, as the Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to allow SFPD to monitor those security cameras all over town in real time.
SF News Home Invasion and Car Theft Suspect Killed on San Mateo Bridge After Running Out of Gas A suspect was struck and killed by an oncoming car after exiting a vehicle he allegedly stole on the San Mateo Bridge early Wednesday, after apparently running out of gas.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Sees Four Homicides In 18 Hours A fourth fatal shooting in Oakland Tuesday capped off a violent 18 hours, a child was struck by a bus and gravely injured in San Francisco, and new data shows that SF lost more than half its restaurant jobs during the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dreamforce Begins, With Bunny Ears, a Waterfall, and Lenny Kravitz The 100-year-old Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed its doors permanently, two people were shot outside an Oakland City Council meeting, and Dreamforce kicked off with an estimated 40,000 people in attendance.
SF News The Central Subway Has a (Kind Of, Sort Of) Opening Date! It’s Saturday, November 19 The November 19 opening date is not the real grand opening of the long-awaited Central Subway, but it’s the beginning of weekend-only service that will initially be free, and real everyday service is vaguely scheduled to begin “by January 2023.”
SF News Japantown Peace Plaza Redesign Gets $6 Million Boost From the State Assemblymember Phil Ting brought home the bacon Tuesday, announcing $6 million in state funding to revitalize Japantown Peace Plaza, which hasn’t seen an upgrade in 20 years.
SF News South American Tourist Burglars Might Be Back In Hillsborough; Town Hit With Rash of Home Break-Ins Hillsborough police announced on Monday that four break-ins had occurred in the town since September 8, and the modus operandi of the thieves sounds very similar to the suspected Chilean or South American crews we heard about earlier this year.
Arts & Entertainment Surprise! Morrissey Announces Show at Castro Theatre OG emo crooner Morrissey is coming back to the Bay Area this fall, and he's the first semi-major musical act to be announced at the Castro Theatre amid its transformation into a live-performance venue at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment.
SF News Oakland Audit Blasts Inability to Account for What Happened With $70 Million In Homeless Funding The city of Oakland spent $69 million over four years housing unsheltered people, but has no idea if any of those nearly 9,000 people ever found permanent housing, according to a new report from the City Auditor.
Business & Tech Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.
Arts & Entertainment Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup and Schedule Released, Drive-By Truckers Added After weeks of teasing parts of the lineup in pieces, as has been the tradition of the last decade, organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now unveiled the full and complete lineup and schedule for the three-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Three Homicides Mark Grisly Monday Night In Oakland In the 88th, 89th and 90th homicides of 2022 in Oakland, two men were shot and killed after leaving a mosque near Mosswood, and an hour later, another woman was fatally shot near the Highland Terrace neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Women Shot In the Mission District Two women were shot and one was seriously injured on 23rd Street in the Mission Monday evening, the Valero refinery in Benicia will be flaring this week, and a van crashed through a CVS store in downtown Oakland.
Day Around the Bay: SF School Board Backtracks On Muslim Holidays SF's school board may not make two Muslim holidays no-school days after all, UCSF's Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says the pandemic is not over just because Biden says so, and ACT's Geary Theater has been renamed after longtime board member Toni Rembe.
SF News Off-the-Job Marijauna Use Will No Longer Get You Fired in California, Thanks to New State Law The old “marijuana pee test” will soon be effectively a thing of the past in California, as Gavin Newsom just signed a law saying cannabis users cannot be fired from their jobs over enjoying their marijuana off-the-clock.
Arts & Entertainment Famed Owner of Semi-Secret Berkeley Backyard Hot Tub Dies While In Hot Tub The longtime proprietor of a free-to-the-public, extra-hot hot tub behind a home on Essex Street in Berkeley was found dead by a hot tub patron over the weekend, and it appears he died doing what he loved, soaking in the tub.
SF News New State Law Wipes Out $50 Million In SF Traffic Fine Late Fees For 180,000 Issued Tickets All traffic court late fees from before July 1, 2022 have just been wiped out, and capped at $100 for any fees since then, as a new state law just eliminated tons of late fees on traffic fines.
SF News Two Women Testify at Kristin Smart Murder Trial That Paul Flores Drugged and Raped Them There has been some dramatic testimony in the ongoing trial of Paul and Ruben Flores, who stand accused in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, including from two women who say they were assaulted by Paul Flores in the last 15 years.
SF News SF's Homicide Count Rises By Two In the Span of a Few Hours Sunday Night There were two homicides in San Francisco between Sunday night and early Monday morning in two separate incidents in the Fillmore and in the Tenderloin.
SF News Dr. Wachter Is Going Back Inside Restaurants, Which Maybe Means the Pandemic Is Finally Over? Barring further, unforeseen variants, COVID-19 may finally be relegated to still-sometimes-deadly seasonal nuisance — now that President Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over," and now that our own UCSF soothsayer Dr. Bob Wachter is ready to go back to indoor dining.
SF News Kidnapping Hoaxster Sherri Papini Sentenced to 18 Months In Prison Over 2016 Fake Abduction The “Dateline”-y saga of Sherri Papini came to a close in a U.S. District Court Monday morning, as her 2016 kidnapping hoax netted her a year and a half behind bars, which is more than twice the sentence the prosecutors were seeking.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy GQ Looks Gorgeous In Glorious (But Unexpected) Return, as 49ers Spank Seahawks 27-7 We are officially back in the Jimmy Garoppolo era, as quarterback of the future Trey Lance is done for the year with a broken ankle, and Jimmy G was in playoff form as the Niners beat Seattle by 20 points.
SF News BART Broke Down In the Rain Sunday, Transbay Tunnel Shutdown Ensued There were massive delays and a fair bit of chaos in the BART system on Sunday, with some "equipment failures" that happened to coincide with the first rain storm to hit the Bay Area in months.
