SF News Those Fireworks Over the Bay Wednesday Night Were For a Movie Shoot Some people in SF and the East Bay heard the booming of fireworks, and some had the pleasure of watching an impromptu show over Treasure Island Wednesday night. But what holiday was this for?
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: London Breed Apologizes to Hondurans UC Berkeley has hired private security to patrol around dorms following a shooting, California may be losing its share of IPOs and startups, and Mayor London Breed gave an apology for comments she made about Hondurans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Servers Dressed as Power Rangers Help Save Woman From Attack Servers at Noka Ramen in Jack London Square happened to be dressed as Power Rangers when they intervened in an attack last week, Noe Valley's public-restroom party was canceled, and SF is surprisingly not the city with the most dogs, or even close?
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Not At All Ashamed That She Threatened to Punch Trump on January 6 After January 6 footage leaked last week showing Nancy Pelosi vowing to punch Donald Trump on the day of the Capital riot, Pelosi pulled no punches in gleefully defending the remark.
SF News Nearly Four Months In, Neighbors Complaining of Violence and Chaos Around SoMa Rise ‘Sobering Center’ Originally billed as a ‘meth sobering center’ and then simply as a ‘drug sobering center,’ the new facility SoMa Rise is raising tensions among neighbors who think it’s only making the area near Seventh and Howard Streets worse.
Business & Tech Serena Williams at TechCrunch Disrupt Says She Doesn't Ask Husband Alexis for Business Advice Serena Williams was at TechCrunch Disrupt at the Moscone Center on Wednesday, discussing her future as a San Francisco-based venture capitalist, and what she looks for in founders.
Business & Tech 14 Best Thai Massage Spas in San Francisco (2022) According to Pew Research, San Francisco has the second-highest percentage of Thai people in the United States — behind only Washington, D.C — and the fourth-largest overall Thai population in the country. Thus, it is not surprising that our city has some great Thai massage spas.
SF News Supervisors Demand Scooter Crackdown, Want Them Banned From SF Sidewalks Complaining of a “scourge of e-scooter sidewalk riding,” the SF Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday demanding that scooter companies add geofencing technology to keep people from riding the damned things on sidewalks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bi-Rite to Open Third Location On Polk Street, Taking Over Real Food Co. In Russian Hill Beloved bougie grocer Bi-Rite is in expansion mode once more, and the next neighborhood that will be getting the honor of a new store is Russian Hill.
SF Politics DA Candidates Debate: Jenkins Still Attacking Boudin, Challengers Say She’s Worse Than Him Interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins faced her three challengers Tuesday night in the first in-person debate before next month’s election, and all three challengers relished in pointing out that crime is up during her thus-far short tenure.
SF News Another Hayes Valley Retailer Is Closing Up Shop Over Rampant Thefts Another retail store owner has closed their doors in San Francisco and gone public with their complaints about "rampant organized theft," with generalized complaints about the city having descended into "chaos."
SF News Brief Fall Heatwave to Bring Temps In the 80s to SF Today, Wednesday, is going to be even warmer than Tuesday, and records may be broken across the Bay in high-pressure-system heatwave.
SF News Unidentified Woman Killed on Antioch Trail After Being Set on Fire Police in Antioch are seeking the public's help to identify a woman who was found dead on a walking trail early Monday after apparently being set on fire by another individual or multiple individuals.
SF News Humpday Headlines: New Public Toilet In Noe Valley to Cost $1.7 Million There was a power outage Tuesday night in the Western Addition, the accused double-murdering Alameda Co. deputy is being arraigned today, and a new public toilet in Noe Valley is coming with a $1.7 million price tag.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Ranked the Fifth ‘Rattiest’ City in the U.S. The evicted Wood Street encampment campers rallied at Oakland City Hall, a man survived being both shot and run over by a vehicle in the Mission, and Orkin has ranked San Francisco as the fifth “rattiest” city in America.
SF News Fourplex Legislation Finally Passes Board of Supervisors on Mandelman’s Third Try The third time was the charm for fourplexes, as Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s third attempt to densify as many as four units onto all residential lots citywide, and six units on corner lots, overwhelmingly passed the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
SF News Bullet From 'Big Gun' In Sunday Night Shooting Crashes Through Home of Former Mayor's Family Well, this is crazy! The son and daughter-in-law of former SF Mayor Frank Jordan heard the sound of glass shattering in their bedroom Sunday night as they were putting their kids to bed. And it was apparently a stray bullet that had traveled a half-mile from a shooting near Jefferson Square Park.
Bay Area Sports A 2022-23 Warriors Season Preview: After the Contracts and the Punch, It's Finally Time to Seize the Moment But now that game one of the 2022-23 season is finally here, now that the ink is dry and at least a few questions about what will happen tomorrow have been answered — I am relieved beyond words.
SF News Oakland Police Mull Acquiring Robots Armed With Shotguns The shotgun-toting robots prefer to be called “percussion actuated nonelectric disruptors,” and the Oakland Police Department wants some, though is currently offering a compromise measure where they’d only be armed with pepper spray.
SF News Paul Flores Found Guilty In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart A 26-year-old mystery out of San Luis Obispo came to a conclusion Tuesday, as Paul Flores was found guilty in the murder of 19-year-old Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty by a separate jury of being an accessory after the fact.
SF Politics Bizarrely, Clarence Thomas’s Wife Is Pumping Money Into an East Bay School Board Race Three candidates for the Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board have pulled in more than $10,000 in campaign contributions, much of it from the insurrectionist wing of the Republican party.
SF News 50 People Per Month Have Died of Drug Overdoses In SF This Year, and Most Were Not In the Tenderloin Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, largely driven by the proliferation of fentanyl, continue to decline slightly in number from a peak in 2020. However they still remain at crisis levels, according to a new report from the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
SF Politics Gavin Newsom’s 2005 Affair Will Be Back In the News, Courtesy of the New Harvey Weinstein Trial The latest Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is shaping up to be a wild one (Mel Gibson will take the stand), and Weinstein’s defense will use emails about Gavin Newsom’s 2005 affair as evidence in the trial.
SF News Homicide Under Investigation at Turk & Taylor Streets A person was apparently shot Monday evening near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin.
SF News Probation Records Offer Glimpse Into Troubled Youth of Stockton Suspect The tendency with serial-killer and mass-shooter cases alike is always to want to immediately try to psychoanalyze the suspect and get to the bottom of their motives. The answers are rarely satisfying, but with the Stockton serial killer suspect, Wesley Brownlee, this has already begun.
