SF News Day Around the Bay: Where to Watch The Recall Election Results Come In SF is eliminating COVID testing sites despite the surge, California is issuing strict new water rights curtailments, and there’s a few outlets that will be running tonight’s recall and primary election results right as they roll in.
SF News Nation's First Openly Trans Lutheran Bishop, SF’s Rev. Megan Rohrer, Resigns Amid Political Furor in Lutheran Church Accusations of verbal harassment, and countercharges of racism, brought some local Lutheran church drama to a boil, and SF’s historic first trans Lutheran bishop has resigned their position.
Arts & Entertainment 'Ramses the Great' Egyptian Artifact Exhibit Comes to the deYoung This Summer A touring exhibition of rare Egyptian artifacts, some unearthed just in recent years, will be coming to the deYoung Museum starting August 20.
SF Politics SF Pride Hired a Crisis PR Firm to Broker Compromise Deal With Police Over Parade Boycott Turns out that recent compromise deal for police to march in the SF Pride parade was drawn up by a tech industry public relations firm SF Pride hired for $4,000 a month, hoping to tell, in their words, a “fun and urgent story.”
SF News SPCA Now Teeming With Dogs, Adoption Fees Waived In SF for All of June The SPCA put out the call on Twitter on Monday, dubbing this their Summer of Lovin' event, with all adoption fees waived on "adult" dogs aged 5 months or older.
SF News Flooded SoMa High-Rise Tenants Say They Had Hotel Rooms Revoked, Now Forced to Fend for Themselves SFist has exclusive pictures and video from inside the flooding of apartment tower 33 Tehama, but more troublingly, emails showing that several tenants’ temporary hotel accommodations have already been rescinded.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rejects Oakland Couple's Case Opposing Tenant Payouts, In Win For Tenants' Rights The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review for a case brought by an Oakland couple regarding their owner move-in eviction, in a blow to all landlords who want to legally challenge city requirements regarding tenant buyouts in no-fault evictions.
Bay Area Sports Noise-Canceling Headlines: The Warriors' Hot Takes on End-of-Season Chatter Noise exists because all of us — fans, reporters, players — are screaming at the top of our lungs. Cue the $50+ billion sport's media industry there to hear our impassioned cries, and amplify them back to us.
SF News Early Morning Fatal Motorcycle Crash Near Bay Bridge Interchange In SF Causes Huge Traffic Headaches A fatal crash involving a motorcyclist ended up impacting traffic in multiple directions early Tuesday because of where it took place, and well into rush hour traffic was still snarled and slow all the way across the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Submits Incident Report Pertaining to Old Fire It's the umpteenth election day of 2022 and we're voting both on a DA recall and a new congressperson, Oakland police are investigating two fatal overnight shootings, and PG&E could end up being to blame for last week's Old Fire in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Acquitted In Kate Steinle Shooting Sent to Texas Jose Inez Garcia Zarate has been sentenced to time served in a federal gun case and will now face a judge in Texas over an immigration charge, another naturopathic quack pleads guilty over fake COVID vaccine pellets, and a Slanted Door pop-up comes to Berkeley.
SF News Mission Bay Residents File Class-Action Lawsuit Against San Francisco Over Sinking and Cracking Sidewalks A problem that's been visible — and trip-able — for Mission Bay residents for years, the uneven sinking of sidewalks and streets around the relatively new buildings in the neighborhood, is heading to court.
SF Politics New York Media Already Has Undies In Bunch Over Tuesday's Boudin Recall Election New York City is 3,000 miles away, but its newspapers of record are all going full-bore with lengthy features obsessing over ‘what it all means’ that San Francisco is about to hold a DA recall election.
SF News Photos: SFMTA Celebrates First In-Person Muni Heritage Day in Two Years With Free Rides on Vintage Vehicles This past weekend, the SFMTA honored Muni Heritage Day by offering free rides on some of the city's historically significant (and rarely ridden) buses and trolleys to the delight of droves of public transit nerds — a first since the pandemic began in March of 2020.
SF News Another Tourist Couple Loses Pet In Smash-and-Grab Car Burglary, Says City Should Do More to Alert Tourists There is another story of a pet being stolen in the course of a smash-and-grab car burglary in San Francisco, and this time it was a beloved Chihuahua puppy stolen near Fisherman's Wharf.
SF Politics NY Mag Does Cover Story on Dianne Feinstein Featuring Scarily Unflattering Photo It's a testament to the dearth of print media in San Francisco's current era that New York Magazine has just done a cover story and lengthy, historical profile of Dianne Feinstein this week.
SF News Wow, This Sucks: Bay Area Woman Has Been Stuck on Cargo Ship in China for Four Months Vallejo Maritime Academy grad Madeleine Wolczko has been unable to leave a ship stuck near Shanghai for more than four months, as China’s COVID lockdowns have restricted the whole crew to being stuck on board.
Business & Tech You're Finally Going to Be Able to Unsend and Edit Sent Texts on the iPhone Apple announced some software updates Monday as part of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, which include the *gamechanging* new ability to edit and unsend texts in Messages after you've sent them.
SF News SoMa Luxury Apartment Building Totally Flooded Friday, Residents All Displaced at Hotels Tenants at the swanky 33 Tehama apartment complex will not be tenants at 33 Tehama Street for at least the rest of the week, as a roof-level pipe burst flooded every floor below and forced the evacuation of all of the building's 383 leased units.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Plays Tight Defense, Gets Hot in Third Quarter to Win in Game 2; Even Series Heading to Boston The Warriors had set a defensive tone immediately in Game 2, then activated their offensive weapons when it mattered most. The Dubs managed to bench most of their starters in the fourth quarter and seal the game for a 107-88 win to even the series at 1-1.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday's Rain Broke 90-Year-Old Record In SF A Safeway employee was fatally shot during a robbery in San Jose, Elon Musk has made his threat to abandon the Twitter deal formal, and Sunday's rainfall total in downtown SF broke a record set in 1934 — though most of the rain fell in the North Bay.
SF News San Francisco Police Make Four Arrests in Three Different Homicide Cases This Week In a rare Saturday press conference, SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced that the department had made four arrests in three different homicides this week — "this is a big deal to arrest four individuals who took three lives," Scott emphasized during the weekend briefing.
SF News SFPD Nabs Fugitive In Taiwan Who Allegedly Stole $3M From SF Woman On Friday, San Francisco police returned from Taiwan with Tianze Zhang — a 30-year-old alleged fugitive accused of kidnapping and stealing millions from a local woman — and was escorted to jail.
SF News Sunday Links: Glen Park Fire Displaces Five Residents SF-based Live Fit Gym will move into the former Castro 24 Hour Fitness location, the Old Fire in Napa County is now completely contained, and a small fire engulfed a dry cleaner in the heart of SF's Glen Park neighborhood Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Midnite Bagel Opens to Moderately Long Lines In the Inner Sunset After months of anticipation, Midnite Bagel quietly opened its first brick-and-mortar shop this week in the Inner Sunset, and by Saturday word had gotten around.
