Arts & Entertainment Pair of UC Berkeley Peregrine Falcon Chicks Growing Up Fast Just a quick update from the falcon cam atop the UC Berkeley Campanile: Two out of three eggs hatched, and the two chicks are now 11 and 12 days old and eagerly scarfing down whatever prey mom Annie and stepdad Alden bring them.
SF Politics Former Panoramic Development In SoMa Reborn as 160 Units of Supportive Housing A 160-unit building that was purchased by the City of San Francisco in part thanks to the state's Homekey program, the former Panoramic development at 1321 Mission Street in SoMa, is reopening as supportive housing for the formerly homeless.
SF News White Supremacists In East Bay Tried to Stoke Race War After Buffalo Shooting With 'White Lives Matter' Sign A disgusting demonstration took place in the East Bay community of Blackhawk Saturday just hours after a mass shooting claimed ten lives at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, most of them Black people.
Business & Tech Musk Claims Twitter Deal ‘Cannot Move Forward’ Because of Fake Accounts, Probably Just Trying to Drive Down Price Another infantile tweetstorm from Elon Musk claims his Twitter purchase “cannot move forward” because of the prevalence of fake accounts, but analysts suspect he’s trying to drive down the price or back out entirely.
SF News Body Found on Tracks In Visitacion Valley Was Person Struck By Muni Train; Victim May Have Been Dragged After the SFPD put out the vaguest of vague reports about human remains found on rail tracks on the south side of San Francisco Sunday night, more details are coming to light and the SFMTA is admitting that this person was hit by a T-Third train.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New Report Tracks K-9 Bites as Excessive Force BART saw two hours of delays on Monday due to someone on the tracks at Lake Merritt, Oakland is poised to let rent-controlled rents rise 6.7%, and a new report by KTVU looks at K-9 bite incidents across 25 law enforcement agencies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeless Population Rises 35% In Contra Costa County The homeless population around the Bay Area rose 8% overall since 2019 with the biggest rises in the East Bay, the mayor of Antioch is again talking tough on sideshows, and popular Cambodian spot Nyum Bai is relocating, but where?
SF Politics Sanitation and Streets Department To Take Shape Tuesday, Hopes to Be ‘Laser Focused’ On Cleaning Up SF Streets Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.
Business & Tech Venture Capitalist on Current Startup Environment: 'This Is a Proper Correction' If you work for a tech startup — or even if you work for Uber or Twitter — you may be having the layoff blues right now, or the arguably worse layoff anxieties that come with weeks upon weeks of bad news, rising tensions, and inter-office innuendo.
SF News Grisly Weekend In SF With Homicide on Balmy Alley, Three Stabbings Saturday, Human Remains Found Near Vis Valley SF police are seeking information on a number of violent crimes from over the weekend, including an early Saturday morning homicide on Balmy Alley, and a set of human remains found on rail tracks near Visitacion Valley.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Adorable Teen From Mill Valley Gets to Play Drums For Pearl Jam in Oakland A Tamalpais High senior got to jam with Pearl Jam at Saturday night’s Oakland Arena show, and even flowed right in after the band's drummer tested positive for COVID-19.
Business & Tech Netflix Tells Employees They Can Seek Other Jobs If They Object to Content Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers Returns In Its Full Drunk-As-Hell-at-8 a.m. Glory At least 18,000 booze bags, costumed loons, and even the occasional serious jogger turned out for the first bay to Breakers since 2019 Sunday, and SFist captured a trove of images of the day’s prime silliness.
SF News SF's Homeless Population Actually Declined During the Pandemic, and Nearly 20% More Are Sheltered The data from San Francisco's latest point-in-time homeless "census," taken one night in February 2022, shows the first decline in the number of homeless individuals in the city in seven years — countering the age-old narrative that homelessness is "worse than it's ever been."
SF News New Bay to Breakers Organizers Had Private Security Firm Taking People's Booze Away Near Alamo Square The SFPD didn't seem too concerned with the usual shenanigans of Bay to Breakers, at least when it came to people carrying around Trulys and bottles of Champagne. But a private security firm was hired to police any and all booze mid-way up Hayes Hill, and they meant business.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Why Are SF's COVID Cases So Much Higher Than Other Cities? SF's high COVID case rate right now is likely due to how cautious the city has been up to now, police are investigating a double shooting in San Jose, and McDonald's announced that it is fully pulling out of Russia after 30 years.
SF News Four Injured After Two-Car Crash Involving Muni Bus in Mission District Just after 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, two cars collided with a Muni bus at 24th and Guerrero streets; four people were injured, and all were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Photos: Reproductive Rights Activists Rally at Lake Merritt Saturday afternoon saw an estimated 200-plus people organize at Lake Merritt to show their support of reproductive rights and to denounce the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
SF News Sunday Links: Women's March Attracts Hundreds to Downtown SF; Bay to Breakers Causes Massive Traffic Headaches Hundreds of people marched at the Women's March in San Francisco Saturday, a Sunday garage fire in Excelsior left at least one person injured and displaced seven, and downtown SF was a shitshow this morning with road closures from Bay to Breakers.
Bay Area Sports 'Game 6 Klay' Shows up as Warriors Eliminate Memphis, Advance to Conference Finals It wasn't the prettiest series. It was full of chippiness and accusations about "breaking the code." There were ejections, suspensions and injuries. After the Golden State Warriors were demolished in Game 5, the series had an "anything-is-possible" feeling, but not in a good way.
SF News Missing 24-Year-Old Oakley Woman's Phone Case Found in Antioch, Considered 'Key Piece of Evidence' Alexis Gabe was first reported missing on January 25 by her family. The ensuing months have led to search efforts and an active investigation into the 24-year-old’s disappearance — with the recent recovery of her phone case becoming a "key piece of evidence," according to police.
SF News Saturday Links: Don't Forget About Street Closures for Bay to Breakers Tomorrow Get ready for many road closures tomorrow for Bay to Breakers, BART and Muni are offering more services to meet the inevitable influx of race-day riders, and a mass shooting in Milwaukee Friday night left at least 17 people injured.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Sports Activist Pushes Bay to Breakers to Honor Non-Binary Winners Someone riding an e-scooter in Lower Nob Hill was robbed Thursday, the CA Historical Society at 678 Mission Street is waiving entrance fees this weekend, and you can still register as "non-binary" for Sunday's big SF race — which will now give out awards to non-binary winners.
SF News Quickly Boba Shop Suspect In Stolen Goods Ring Had Already Been Arrested In 2019 For a Similar Scheme There are plenty of questions about the legal process on a suspect just charged with running a fencing operation from a Tenderloin Quickly storefront, as it turns out the suspect was already arrested and still awaiting trial for a 2019 case with the same charges.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Finding Suspect Who Attacked and Strangled a Woman In Visitacion Valley Last Weekend San Francisco police have released photos of a man who they say attacked and strangled a woman randomly on the street last Saturday, and they're seeking the public's help to identify him.
