SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick to Get $1.5M Settlement After Court Win Oakland's former police chief won a wrongful termination case two months ago, and now the Oakland City Council has approved a $1.5 million settlement for her, which includes a year's pay.
SF News In First Weekend, Fences at 24th and Mission Fail to Deter Vending, Mostly Just Block Sidewalk Access The new fences meant to discourage vending at 24th and Mission Street saw their first Saturday and Sunday of action, and did not seem to deter illegal vending, but instead just deterred access for folks using wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers.
Arts & Entertainment New Musical Inspired and Performed By Real Bay Area Teens to Premiere August 4 at ACT 'The Code' is an unusual piece of work that benefited from a long incubation due to the pandemic, and American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory is getting set to premiere the musical in two weeks.
SF News Fruitvale Avenue Ice Cream Shop Flavor Brigade Has Storefront Demolished In ATM Theft Security camera video catches the entire heist, as two suspects plow a car through the front window and all the way into the back of a Lower Dimond’s ice cream shop Flavor Brigade, just to make off with an ATM machine.
SF News Convicted Boogaloo Shooter Steven Carrillo Receiving Medication for Mental Illness, and Other Details Emerge He's already been convicted and sentenced in the federal case and is awaiting sentencing in the killing of a Santa Cruz County deputy, but we're getting a bit more of the timeline filled in of Carrillo's violent 2020 spree, inspired by the Boogaloo movement.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF NAACP Now Calling for Ann Hsu's Resignation The SF branch of the NAACP voted 105-0 to call for the resignation of new school board member Ann Hsu, a triple shooting in Marin City on Sunday claimed one life, and a man is in serious condition after a 15-foot fall in SF's Japantown.
SF News New Data Shows Monkeypox Outbreak Disproportionately Impacts Latinx Communities in SF There are currently 197 recorded or suspected cases of monkeypox in San Francisco. And the most recent data about the spread of monkeypox shows that even though members of Latinx communities make up some 15% of SF's population, over 30% of all current monkeypox cases are within this group.
SF News Smoke From Oak Fire Expected to Bring Haze, Bad Air to Bay Area This Week Starting as early as Monday morning, smoke from the still-growing Oak Fire in Mariposa County — a blaze that now measures well over 14,000 acres in size with no containment recorded — will make its way into the Bay Area. Get ready to don those wildfire-approved face masks (like N95s) again.
SF News So... Air Canada Sent Two Cats Without Their Owner to SFO — and Basically Told Him to Figure It Out Abbas Zoeb checked in for his flight with Air Canada from Toronto to San Francisco on July 6 — but his travel plans were scrapped after he was denied boarding due to visa issues. And it was a situation only made worse when he learned his cats, Mimi and Bubba, were sent to SFO anyways.
SF News Sunday Links: Don't Forget About Those SF Marathon-Related Street Closures Today The Oak Fire is now over 14,000 acres in size, here's another reminder that the SF marathon route will cause some streets to close until 3 p.m. today, and speaking of the footrace: its first group of finishers completed the race at dizzying paces.
SF News SFDPH Prioritizing First-Dose Monkeypox Vaccinations; City Department Expected to Offer Second Doses After Supply Increases There are an estimated 197 cases of either confirmed or suspected monkeypox infections in SF. Thus far, the City has received 7,700 units of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine from the federal stockpile via CDPH — though some 35,000 doses have been requested to meet the need.
SF News Small Airplane Crashes in San Jose Leaving Pilot With 'Life-Threatening Injuries' Sometime around 7 p.m. Friday, a small private plane dove onto the concrete at Karl Street and Ocala Avenue — close to the Reid-Hillview Airport — in San Jose, forcing some nearby residences to evacuate due to the crash downing power lines.
SF News Saturday Links: Oak Fire Smoke Expected to Stay Away From Bay Area (for Now) The Oak Fire has now grown to over 6,500 acres in size — its smoke expected to still stay away from the Bay Area today — President Biden is likely stricken with the BA.5 omicron subvariant, and the WHO has declared the spread of monkeypox a global health emergency.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Arrested for... Um, 'Pleasuring' Himself Outside UC Berkeley Students' Home Church Street's Amos Goldbaum mural is being restored, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt for defying a January 6 committee subpoena, and a man was arrested for entering a UC Berkeley Greek residence — and showing off his genitals to students.
SF News Three Alleged Gang Members, Two From SF, Charged With Murder for March Shooting in Lafayette Contra Costa County prosecutors say that a March 23 shooting in Lafayette was the work of Tre-4 gang members, and are charging three suspects with murder and robbery.
SF News Federal Judge Hands Another Reprieve to Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment Residents A three-day restraining order on the clearing of the West Oakland encampment has been extended for a month, as a judge rules that Caltrans must provide residents with relocation plans by August 26 before they can clear any more of the site.
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars-Themed Burlesque Show ‘Empire Strips Back’ at Great Star Theater Is a Real Blast You’ll laugh it up, fuzzball, at ‘The Empire Strips Back,’ a Star Wars burlesque parody stage show that uses the force of elaborate costumes, props, and puppets that are out of this world.
SF News SFPD Says Two Dozen People Have Had Expensive Watches Brazenly Stolen This Year So Maybe Don't Wear Them Out Thieves have been targeting the wearers of ten-thousand-dollar Rolexes and Patek Philippes, so if you own one of these high-end watches you might want to think twice before wearing them out in public spaces in SF.
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Has Sold His Dolores Heights Home After 10 Years The neighbors must be thrilled that the Chan-Zuckerbergs have unloaded their Dolores Heights area home for a reported $31 million, but Google Maps has blurred the residence, because Big Tech does respect certain people’s privacy.
SF News Pendulum Swings and National Press Decides San Francisco Is Cool Again Suddenly, some editors on high have decided San Francisco is OK again, and still very pretty, and maybe it has something to do with the Presidio Tunnel Tops opening?
SF News Wealthy East Bay Town of Piedmont Confused By Official Count of 42 Homeless There. Where'd They Go? Residents of Piedmont, the tiny enclave that's entirely surrounded by Oakland and largely populated by millionaires, don't understand where homeless census counters were looking when they found 42 homeless people there earlier this year.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The San Francisco Marathon Brings Street Closures Sunday There's a long list of street closures for the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday, the Shultz penthouses in Russian Hill just set a real estate record, and BART was having more major delays today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: January 6 Committee Hearings Return to Primetime Beloved Senegalese joint Little Baobab is getting a bigger, better location, downtown SF businesses’ loss has been residential neighborhood businesses’ gain, and the January 6 Commission is in session again for a primetime hearing.
SF News Caltrain Mulls Adding Another Bayview Station, Possibly at Oakdale Avenue The minds of Caltrain, the SFCTA, and the SF Planning Commission are considering adding another San Francisco Caltrain station in Bayview, and Planning says an Oakdale Avenue location should have the inside track.
SF Politics Maybe We Won't Be Getting a Dept. of Sanitation and Streets After All, With New Amendments Headed for Ballot Several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who just two years ago were fully behind the creation of a separate Department of Sanitation and Streets that would not live under the aegis of the Department of Public Works, aren't so much now.
