SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom's Office Threatens to Withhold Funds From Oakland Over Encampment Issues Two men were wounded in a shooting in Emeryville Friday morning, an Oakland nonprofit's building was damaged by street-racing vehicles crashing into it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a scathing letter to the city of Oakland over the handling of the Wood Street encampment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Dead as Two Planes Collide in Watsonville Club Deluxe is applying for Legacy Business Status in hopes of avoiding closure, Apple is urging people to update their devices because of a security exploit, and a plane accident in Watsonville has left three people dead.
Arts & Entertainment Decidedly Dark 'Oklahoma!' Revival Is a Tour de Force of Revisionist Direction The Tony Award-winning revival production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opened this week in its tour stop at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater, and while almost entirely loyal to the original text it exists worlds away from the 1943 musical that begat it.
SF News Newsom Unveils $4.7 Billion ‘Master Plan’ to Treat Mental Health Among Young People With a statewide youth suicide rate that’s spiked by 20% during the pandemic, Newsom a announced a new plan Thursday to double the number of school counselors in the state, and add 40,000 more behavioral health professionals.
SF News Report: An Estimated 20,000 San Franciscans Will Experience Homelessness In 2022 A new addendum to this year’s Homeless Point-In-Time Count paints a much starker picture than we’d realized, as it estimates that an astonishing 20,000 people in San Francisco will experience homelessness at some point this year.
SF News SF School Board Now Facing Lawsuit Threat Over Vote To Observe Two Muslim Holidays The same lawyer who previously sued the San Francisco school board and the school district over a decision to rename dozens of city schools is now threatening to sue again, this time over a vote to close schools on two Muslim holy days.
SF News 54-Year-Old Suspect In Potrero Homicide Arrested In Yolo County A man suspected in an early July homicide in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood has been located and arrested six weeks later.
SF Politics D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Defends Her Residency Record, But Now a Fourth Address Is In the Mix With voter fraud investigation referrals to both the District Attorney and City Attorney, District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie is at risk of being pulled off the ballot over residency issues, and it appears she has a fourth District 11 address to answer for as well.
SF News Mushroom- and Weed-Dispensing Church In Oakland Sues Over Police Raid, Confiscated Property A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Rescued at Fort Funston After Getting Lost A 20-year-old woman called 911 and got an SFFD geo-locating rescue at Fort Funston, an Oakland woman was shot multiple times inside her home, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho pans Little Saint in Healdsburg.
San Francisco News Millennials Are Moving To SF ... But From Where? Now, We Know! It’s no secret that people have been moving out of the San Francisco en masse. SFist reported back in July that the people leaving are mostly white folks in their twenties. But
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body Found Sitting In Chair After Decomposing For Three Years In NorCal Home The Secret Service apparently withheld information about a threat on Nancy Pelosi's life two days before January 6th, Airbnb is rolling out a new party-rental-detection system, and two local dog owners have been reunited with their stolen pups.
Bay Area Sports Rams Fan Accused of Battery of Moraga 49ers Fan That Left Him In a Coma Was Arraigned Today, Pleaded Not Guilty The alleged January NFC Championship Game attack at SoFi Stadium saw its arraignment of defendant Bryan Cifuentes in an Inglewood courtroom Wednesday morning, and he pleaded not guilty to the one count of battery.
SF News Now Residents of Flooded 33 Tehama Report Contractors Are Stealing Items From Their Rooms Displaced tenants of the flooded 33 Tehama say that items are being stolen from their rooms — including, allegedly, $1,500 in stolen checks — as their saga drags on into its third month.
SF News Tennis Enthusiasts Serve a Lawsuit To Block Sale of SoMa Property That Had Promised Them Tennis Courts A real estate conglomerate is trying to unload an unfinished property where they’d agreed to rebuild a tennis club they’d previously razed. Now a local tennis group is saying, ‘We’ll see you in court.’
Arts & Entertainment BART Seeks Artists to Create Anime-Style Mascots BART has put out a call for illustrators and graphic artists to create "a series of original anime-style mascots" to promote the BART system.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Backs Out of Big Food Hall Project at Chase Center Over at Thrive City, the Kaiser-named collection of shops and restaurants adjacent to the Chase Center, one big-name tenant is canceling their plans to move in.
SF News Activists Win This Round, Development Halted at Berkeley’s People's Park Until October Tents are already popping back up at People’s Park in Berkeley, and UC Berkeley must submit a legal filing today to prove that other sites were inadequate for a 16-story student housing project that they now can’t start building until October at the earliest.
SF News Oakland Man Causes Panic at Las Vegas Airport Amid Apparent Mental Health Episode A 33-year-old Oakland man who reportedly really wanted to go home and get the eff out of Vegas was arrested twice last weekend at Harry Reid International Airport for causing disturbances that police compared to terrorism.
SF News San Jose Church That Defied Pandemic Public Health Orders Wins Appeal Based on Supreme Court's Rightward Shift The evangelical Calvary Chapel in San Jose was ordered to pay over $200K in contempt-of-court fines over its defiance of county public health orders in 2020, but a state appeals court has just overturned that and ruled in favor of the church, because of Amy Coney Barrett.
SF News In Oakland Shooting Where Cops Don’t Know Who Fired Fatal Shot, Judge Orders Both Suspects Be Tried for Murder A gunfire fight between two men left 19-year-old bystander Madalyn Sandoval dead in November 2020. It can’t be determined which man fired the fatal shot, so a judge has decided they should both stand trial for murder.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Possible Amid Hot and Moist Conditions Today Thunderstorms remain a possibility today around the Bay, Britney Spears's first husband Jason Alexander has been booked on seven-year-old charges in Napa, and Santa Clara County says its COVID surge is finally abating.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Celebrates 50th Anniversary With 50% Off Fares in September Residency problems are escalating for District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie, Dean Preston and Matt Haney are having a Housing Twitter spat, and BART fare will be 50% off for their 50th anniversary in September (though only if you use Clipper Card).
SF News Castro Starbucks Votes to Unionize, May Become First Unionized Starbucks In San Francisco Hold onto your gift cards, as the chain-store unionization movement in SF just got a shot from the Starbucks at 18th and Castro Streets, which voted to unionize in results confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Hey, Whatever Happened to That Downtown SF Congestion Pricing Plan? ‘It’s Been Paused,’ SFMTA Says As the state of New York barrels ahead with congestion pricing to battle climate change, a similar plan for San Francisco has been shelved, likely to the relief of retailers and small business owners.
