SF News Sunday Links: Karl The Fog Really Got in the Way of Fleet Week's Air Shows Yesterday Stanford has reported a rape that happened on the campus Friday afternoon, San Jose recorded its 52nd fatal traffic collision this year, and Karl The Fog's fall thickness made seeing Saturday's Fleet Week air shows quite difficult
SF News Gunshots Fired During Carjacking Attempt in Anza Vista, Rattles Neighborhood Last week, people going about their lives at a popular SF shopping plaza were shaken when the otherwise quiet area in Anza Vista erupted in gunfire.
SF News Saturday Links: SF's Housing Market Seems to Be Calming Down There was an early morning shooting in downtown Berkeley, Impossible Foods — which is based in Redwood City — laid off 6% of its workforce Thursday, and San Francisco's real estate market is finally slowing down.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Dude Took a Swim in Lake Merritt Oakland police made an arrest in the city’s 100th homicide, Muni's new smaller buses include blue interior lights that glow like a nightclub after dark, and someone (with a death wish) decided to swim in Oakland's Lake Merritt the other day.
SF News SFMTA Installs Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps on Three SF Corners Hoping to hit the brakes on the recent increase in San Francisco sideshows, SFMTA has installed speed bumps at certain, specific corners in the Mission, Oceanview, and the Excelsior.
SF News Humboldt Surfer Attacked By Shark, Survives After Kicking the Fish In the Head A surfer off the coast of Humboldt County miraculously survived a pretty serious shark bite on Sunday, and his tale provides at least one best practice for getting out of the grip of an attacking shark.
Arts & Entertainment Italian American Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach Sunday for Its 154th Year It’s Fernet-Branca shots, Peronis, and parade floats all around on Sunday, as the “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” in America returns to North Beach, amid another weekend chock-full of activities.
Bay Area Sports After Aaron Judge Breaks AL Home-Run Record, the Debate About *Barry Bonds and the Pursuit of Purity Is Resurrected The tiny asterisk that has been attached, even if only by implication, to Barry Bonds' name was suddenly thrust under a microscope again this week. In the search for baseball "purity," however, no one's hands are clean.
SF News SF Spent a Half Million Dollars Creating Fancy Trash Can Prototypes and More Survey Respondents Preferred Ugly Off-the-Shelf 'BearSaver' Model The trash-can saga drones on over at the Department of Public Works, and today we learn the results of that survey they ran seeking public opinion on six waste receptacle designs being considered.
Bay Area Sports Draymond Green Punches Warriors Teammate at Practice, TMZ Has Video A Wednesday training camp incident where Draymond Green punched up-and-coming guard Jordan Poole has the Warriors tight-lipped about some sort of “internal” discipline, but gossip site TMZ stirs the pot by publishing video of the punch.
SF News City Accountants Are Trying to Clean Up Their Books So Now San Francisco Is Sending People 30-Year-Old Tax Bills In an effort to resolve tens of thousands of outstanding tax bills, some dating back to 1993, the city of San Francisco has recently sent out a round of notices to people who owe some long-overdue taxes — and some of these bills may seem ridiculous.
SF Politics Newsom Joined By Other West Coast Governors In Signing Symbolic Climate Pledge Taking an opportunity to say "Eat your heart out, Fox News," Governor Gavin Newsom was joined by the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia in signing a joint climate pledge in the Presidio on Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: State Auditing Bay Area Police Forces The state is now auditing multiple police forces in the Bay Area following revelations about "unsuitable" psych evaluations in Alameda County, an infamous wine arsonist is getting out of jail, and there was a vigil for the slain family in Merced.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Pardons Everyone With a Weed Possession Offense The much-ballyhooed Midnite Bagel Inner Sunset location is closing after just four months in business, SF Animal Care & Control confiscated 30 dogs from a negligent owner, and President Biden went full Dark Brandon with a mass pardon of everyone with a marijuana possession offense.
SF Politics Pile of Poop Prominently Placed In Political Pamphlet Now Arriving In SF Mailboxes The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it’s largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liliana May Be SF's Best New Date Spot For the Cocktail-Inclined San Francisco is stupid with great cocktail bars — though sadly we have fewer than when a pandemic decided to kill some off. But how many actually double as great date spots where you can sit down, hear each other, and get a complete meal?
SF News Something Odd Is Happening at KGO's AM Radio Station, Which Is Suddenly Playing Only Gambling- and Money-Related Songs AM radio station KGO 810 just announced “Today we say goodbye,” and now they’re playing nothing but songs about money and gambling, which could be a staff revolt, or might be a strange casino promotion?
Bay Area Sports The 2022 San Francisco Giants' Postmortem: A Season that Began with Promise and Ended at .500 The milestone in mediocrity perfectly exemplifies the overall blah-ness of the Giants' year. Sure, back in early May, San Francisco was actually leading the NL West, and seemed as if they might once again defy expectations and make a run at the postseason. But that inertia quickly faded.
SF News Female Lyft Driver Describes Harrowing Encounter With Passenger, Fleeing Onto Freeway A Lyft driver in San Jose says she was forcibly grabbed from behind by an aggressive passenger, which led to her swerving dangerously while going 70 miles per hour and pulling off a busy freeway.
SF News Four People OD'd at the 24th & Mission BART Plaza Monday; Supervisor Says Health Department Should Do More SFFD paramedics responded to the 24th and Mission BART plaza Monday around 5:30 p.m. after four individuals simultaneously suffered from fentanyl overdoses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fine Dining Spot for Dogs on Valencia Has $75 Tasting Menu, Generates Gentrification Outrage People are dogpiling on a new fine dining restaurant for dogs, as San Francisco once again out-San Franciscos itself with a stunning new breed of income inequality.
SF News Inmate Work Crew Saves Woman From Stabbing In Vacaville An inmate work crew and a California Department of Corrections guard intervened in a stabbing along a Solano County bike trail on Tuesday, possibly saving a woman's life.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Now Know Why the Chronicle Doesn't Think The French Laundry Is Worth the Splurge Anymore Three years in, Soleil Ho drops a review of The French Laundry, and now the details emerge about why the Chronicle's restaurant critic left Thomas Keller's famed restaurant off a recent list of best splurge restaurants.
SF News Kidnapped Merced Family Found Dead, Including Eight-Month-Old Baby A frantic search in Merced County has ended with a worst-case scenario, as the family of four that was kidnapped Monday morning was found dead late Wednesday afternoon, and with them the eight-month old child.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: State Homeless Population Rises By 22,500 We now have an estimate for how much the state's homeless population grew during the pandemic, the clearing of the Wood Street encampment has entered a final phase, and a federal appeals court has declared DACA illegal.
