SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Has Vetoed the Safe Consumption Site Bill Gov. Newsom has vetoed a bill to create a pilot program of safe drug consumption sites, BART isn't putting the fences back up at 24th and Mission, and smoke from Humboldt fires is likely to drift down over the Bay on Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment Fiancé of Shannon and the Clams’ Shannon Shaw, Joe Haener, Has Died Just three months before he was to wed Shannon and the Clams vocalist Shannon Shaw, locally well-known drummer Joe Haener was killed in an Oregon car accident last week.
SF News Convicted Stanford Assaulter Brock Turner Goes Viral Again Via 'Whisper Network' In Ohio Brock Turner's name is once again bubbling up on social media, specifically on TikTok, where women in Ohio are using the platform to warn each other about Turner's presence in local bars.
SF News A Violent Weekend at People's Park In Berkeley With a Hate-Crime Assault, Arson and More As Berkeley's People's Park continues to be occupied by homeless individuals and others, while the UC Regents pause a planned construction project at the site, there was a weekend of multiple violent incidents there.
SF News Fatal, Broad Daylight Shooting in Oakland‘s Little Saigon Sunday Draws Outrage A 60-year-old Asian woman was shot and killed in a 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon robbery near Laney College, and Oakland councilmembers are decrying a spike in violence in the Little Saigon neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Three-Star Restaurant Manresa For Sale, and Chef David Kinch Is Bowing Out One of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, Manresa in Los Gatos, may be going away at the end of this year as executive chef and owner David Kinch has decided to step away and tend to his more casual businesses.
SF News Rescue Team Says They’ve Found the Body of Missing Truckee Teen Kiely Rodni An apparent breakthrough in the case of missing 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, though it confirms the worst fears, as an independent rescue team says they found her in her missing car at the bottom of a lake near Truckee.
SF News Mission District Sees Fatal Shooting Sunday In Which Three Others Were Injured One person is dead and three others suffered injuries following an early morning shooting in the Mission District on Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Will Newsom Veto Safe-Consumption Site Bill? Today is the deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill legalizing safe-consumption sites, BART saw delays on Sunday after a person entered the Transbay Tube, and a family of four needed to be rescued in Tahoe National Forest.
SF News Weekend Palate Cleanser: San Francisco SPCA Is Still Waiving Adoption Fees on Dogs and Cats Dozens of adult dogs and cats under SF SPCA's care are still in need of their forever homes. Until August 31, those looking to introduce a new fur baby into their lives can do so — without paying any adoption fees.
SF News How Much Did the Average SF City Employee Make in 2021? Around $127K During the 2020-2021 fiscal year, thousands of people were employed by San Francisco. The lowest-earning among them made a bit more than $36k during that period, while the highest earner pulled in $602K. But collectively, the average SF City employee earned roughly $127K last year.
SF News Sunday Links: California Releases First Monkeypox Quarantine Guidelines CDPH issued isolation practices for those suffering from a symptomatic monkeypox infection this week, two large fires burned in downtown San Jose Saturday, and First Lady Jill Biden is now negative for COVID-19 after testing positive this past Monday.
SF News SF to Receive 1,600 More Monkeypox Vaccine Units; Clinics Will Switch to Intradermal Injection Technique San Francisco is expected to get 1,600 more monkeypox vaccines in the next distribution from the federal supply. To get this allotment, clinics will be using a transdermal injection technique, which requires only a fifth of the vaccine dose used in the subcutaneous method.
SF News Fences at 24th and Mission Have Been Ripped Down, Seemingly by Protesters Those controversial fences at the 24th and Mission BART station were torn down, apparently Saturday morning, and a protest group is taking credit for holding down the “liberated space.”
SF News So... a Motorcycle Flew Off the Bay Bridge This Week The Bay Bridge has doubled as a stage for many odd scenes as of late, including a traffic jam caused by a detached mobile restroom that looked like one of SF's Painted Ladies. And this week, the 4.5-mile bridge saw a motorcycle fly off it, sinking somewhere in the SF Bay.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Temps to Remain Cool Over the Weekend Until Heating Up Monday Afternoon Grizzly bears in California have been locally extinct for now almost a century, the Castro's decades-old "The Hope For The World Cure" mural was recently restored, and enjoy this two-day spat of mild weather — because temperatures will grow hotter starting Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Plan for Bullet Train Line From Central Valley to SF Gets Green-Lit by California SF's largest Filipino night market will come back in October, East Oakland got a new Black-owned graphic design business, and an extension that would connect a bullet train link between SF and the Central Valley was approved by California’s High-Speed Rail Authority board Thursday.
Business & Tech Apple Urges iPhone, iPad Users to Update Devices Immediately, Hackers Could ‘Take Control’ of Device A newly discovered security exploit is already taking over iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices in the wild, and Apple people should drop everything and get the latest software update.
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know There Was an Internment Camp For Suspected Japanese Spies During WWII on San Francisco Property? One internment camp specifically for "enemy aliens" was on San Francisco property, set up in 1942 next to a municipal golf course just south of the city proper.
SF News Mohammed Nuru Could Face Nine-Year Prison Term As Sentencing Looms Next Week Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru is set to be sentenced next week, and in newly filed court documents, federal prosecutors refer to him as a "quintessential grifter" whose schemes as a city employee amount to a "tale of greed as old as time."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalva's Bar-Within-a-Bar, The Hideout, Swings Back Open For the First Time In 2.5 Years Fans of good cocktails in cozy spaces can rejoice, at long last, over the reopening of Dalva's Hideout, the separate, semi-secret bar back behind Dalva on 16th Street that hasn't welcomed guests since early 2020.
SF News Woman Allegedly Groped and Punched in Face on BART Near El Cerrito Del Norte Station, Suspect in Custody A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed, Michelin-Starred Mission Restaurant AL's Place to Close Next Week After Seven Years Chef Aaron London is pulling the plug on his much lauded, vegetable-focused restaurant AL's Place in order to focus more on his young family, despite the restaurant still being packed every night. The last night of service will be Sunday, August 28.
SF News SFPD Catches Catalytic Converter Thief In the Act, Lets Him Go, Then Gives Him Directions Home In today’s SF installment of “Police Did Nothing,” police catch an alleged catalytic converter thief red-handed in the Richmond, learn he is on probation for property theft, then kindly dismiss him while giving him directions so he could get home.
SF News 23-Year-Old SF Man Confesses to Shooting Father and Stepmother and Live-Streaming Crime Scene A 23-year-old man who was arrested last weekend for the double murder of his father and stepmother inside a home in San Francisco's Bayview district has given a jailhouse confession to a local TV station — but says he will plead not guilty to premeditated murder.
