SF News Tempers Flare as Castro Theatre Hosts First Public Meeting With Another Planet Entertainment A packed Castro Theatre saw a slew of “Save the Seats” activists sound off at a raucous public meeting about the theater’s future Thursday night, and there were other concerns that Another Planet’s Entertainment’s rebooted Castro Theatre might also be a Ticketmaster-only venue.
SF News Corner Store Owner Shot In Bernal Heights By Man Who Allegedly Said He Should Have Won the Lottery The owner of a Bernal Heights corner store was shot and injured Monday morning, and we're now learning from police that the motive apparently came from a disgruntled customer who thought he should have won the lottery.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Crashed Car on 101 Chock Full of Catalytic Converters A crash Friday morning on 101 in SF involved a car that was filled with stolen catalytic converters, the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Napa has been traced to a second location, and Trump is welcoming the release of the FBI warrant on Mar-a-Lago.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Recalled School Board Member Gabriela López is Running Again in November The 33 Tehama building has flooded yet again, UC Davis accidentally killed 21,000 fish, and freshly recalled school board member Gabriela López has thrown her hat in the ring to run again in November.
SF Politics D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Facing Residency Questions After Moving Three Times In Three Months All three moves by D4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie coincided with primary and special elections, plus a (seemingly missed) deadline for registering to run in November, and now the Department of Elections has opened a review about her residency in the district.
SF News Bottom of the Hill Owner Launches Petition to Oppose Protected Bike Lane Quick-Build Project on 17th Street A proposal by the SFMTA to do a bike lane "quick-build" project to create a protected lane for cyclists coming down 17th Street between the Mission and Dogpatch/Mission Bay has raised the hackles of the owners of music venues Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside.
SF Politics We Now Have a DA Race, as Vocal Brooke Jenkins Critic John Hamasaki Is Running Against Brooke Jenkins November’s San Francisco District Attorney election will now definitely be a barnburner, as former police commissioner and fierce SFPD critic John Hamasaki files to run against Brooke Jenkins.
Business & Tech Musk Backlash Continues With Time Magazine Calling Out Hyperloop Idea as Spoiler For High-Speed Rail The same publication that named him Person of the Year last year, Time Magazine, has now published an opinion piece about how we all need to "look beyond" Elon Musk and stop thinking that he is the singular visionary he's convinced many he is.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Oakland Food Truck Tacos El Último Baile to Set Up Shop In Former Nyum Bai Space This Fall A highly sought-after taco truck is becoming a brick-and-mortar over in Oakland, with Tacos El Último Baile set to take over the cozy Fruitvale restaurant space that was recently vacated by another popular establishment, Nyum Bai.
SF News Leslie Griffith, a 22-Year KTVU News Reporter and Eventual Anchor, Has Died Bay Area news viewers from the 1990s and early 2000s have lost a longtime favorite, as former anchor Leslie Griffith’s family announced she passed away in Mexico on Wednesday.
SF News Napa Quack Set to Be Sentenced In Case Involving Phony COVID Pills and Vax Cards, But First She Tried to Vacate Her Plea Napa-based naturopathic doctor Juli A. Mazi, the loon who was nabbed by the feds last year for prescribing bogus COVID-19 immunization pills and handing out fraudulent vaccination cards, just tried to vacate her plea agreement after firing her lawyers. But the judge wasn't having it.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Shooting at 24-Hour Fitness In East Bay Kills One A shooting at a 24-Hour Fitness in Brentwood left one man dead and three injured this morning, closing arguments in the hearing to decide if Scott Peterson gets a new trial happen today, and the number of monkeypox cases in the U.S. just topped 10,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wyoming Crash Leads to Meth Warehouse Bust In South Bay A Wyoming car crash led federal investigators to a big meth bust in Santa Clara, Newsom just nominated the first Latina CA Supreme Court chief justice, and there's another map going around that reduces SF to a few stereotypes and it's upsetting Twitter.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin and His Supporters Seize On Revelation About Brooke Jenkins's Recall Payday: 'Integrity Is Central to the Job of DA' The dirty secret about District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's paid involvement in the campaign to oust her predecessor and former boss, Chesa Boudin, was bound to come out eventually, and it's sparking a lot of chatter.
SF News Woman Says SFFD Sedated Her Against Her Will During Abortion Protest, She Just Served the City a John Burris Lawsuit A protest stunt at a June Warriors game meant to stand up for abortion rights, but allegedly ended with the spiking of a protester with a sedative, and that protester has enlisted famed civil rights attorney John Burris in a lawsuit against the city.
Business & Tech GM Cruise Self-Driving Vehicles Have Been Involved in Nine Hit-and-Runs This Year There’s no evidence that the self-driving cars were at fault in these accidents, but there is a very clear pattern that when people realize they’ve been in an accident with a car that has no driver, they just drive right away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Bay Area Chef and Food TV Personality Joey Altman Joins the Brixton Team In Opening Hazie's In Hayes Valley The restaurant space at the corner of Hayes and Octavia formerly occupied by brunch spot Stacks, at 501 Hayes Street, will come to life again this week as Hazie's, a new bar and restaurant from the team behind The Brixton.
SF News Judge Rules Walgreens Can Be Held Liable For Overprescribing Opioids in SF, In Landmark Decision A huge win for City Attorney David Chiu, as a judge rules in the city’s favor and against Walgreens, who apparently prescribed more than 100 million opioid pills in San Francisco alone.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Butcher Golden Gate Meat Co. Is Closing Its Ferry Building Shop After 20 Years One of the OG tenants at the revamped Ferry Building two decades ago, Golden Gate Meat Co., is, like some other longtime tenants in recent years, giving up its spot in the complex.
SF Politics New DA Brooke Jenkins Got $100,000 From Anti-Boudin Political Organization Nice “volunteer” work if you can get it! Brooke Jenkins claimed she was a volunteer for the recall campaign, but new campaign finance filings show she was paid a cool $100,000 as a consultant to a group that largely financed the recall.
Business & Tech Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Sharing Personal Data of Dissidents With Saudi Government Ahmad Abouammo, who worked at Twitter over seven years ago, has been convicted in federal court on charges relating to spying for the Saudi Arabian government.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Holds Town Hall on Gun Violence Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf held a town hall meeting in East Oakland last night on gun violence, SF leaders gathered Wednesday morning for a press conference about safe-consumption sites, and Elon Musk just sold off a bunch of Tesla shares ahead of his Twitter battle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Six Million Californians Had Their Unemployment Payments Botched During the Pandemic San Francisco now has more than 500 monkeypox cases, the family of missing Oakley woman Alexis Gabe wants her ex-boyfriend’s mother charged as an accessory, and we now know nearly half of unemployed Californians had their benefits delayed during the pandemic downturn.
SF News Search for Missing Truckee Teen Drawing National Attention Four Days After Her Disappearance 16-year-old Truckee girl Kiely Rodni has not been seen since Friday night, and nor has her car, and law enforcement are treating her case as an abduction as more information emerges.
SF News Vague New Retail Concept Involving Crytpo Bros and Merchandise Chosen By Committee Heads to Hayes Valley Something very odd is coming to Hayes Valley, which at least a few investors think could be some futuristic retail concept that's more of a co-op community than a traditional store.
