SF News Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe Charged With DUI, Apologizes for Actions in Video CHP stopped Lamar Thorpe, the mayor of Antioch, Friday night on suspicion of driving under the influence. Thorpe was later cited with a DUI and though he posted a video on Twitter Saturday apologizing for his actions, he's staying guarded on specific details, heeding "advice of counsel.”
SF News Sunday Links: Last Hot Spots at Four-Alarm Fire in Santa Clara County Doused, Arson Suspected as Cause of Blaze The massive blaze at a vacant commercial building in Campbell has been officially put out, police are investigating a deadly shooting at an Oakland sideshow, and ICYMI: Bar Comal — the popular eatery near Lake Merritt beloved for its bar food — started serving brunch this weekend.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Strikes Near Santa Cruz, 'Light Shaking' Recorded in South Bay At roughly 5 a.m. Saturday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a minor earthquake close to Corralitos, California that was first rated at 3.9M before being downgraded to 3.6M — still making it one of the most significant tremors to hit near Santa Cruz this year.
SF News Saturday Links: Two SF Fire Engines Collide in Marina District Two SF fire trucks collided with each other at the intersection of Laguna and Lombard streets Friday, it looks like rain will continue on and off until about 5 p.m. today, and CA is expected to drop its requirement for “mega-event” attendees to show proof of vaccination.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara Firefighters Battle Four-Alarm Blaze in Campbell A Caltrain struck and killed someone on the tracks in Menlo Park this morning, the Tenderloin Linkage Center apparently closed today for scheduled maintenance, and a four-alarm fire began burning Friday morning at a vacant 50,000-square-foot commercial building in Campbell.
SF News Berkeley Tuolumne Camp Set to Reopen in June, Nine Years After Being Destroyed in Wildfire Just in time for its 100th anniversary, Berkeley Tuolumne Camp will reopen on June 4, nine years after the Rim Fire burned down the cabin site near Yosemite National Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Chef Christopher Kostow Opens 'Jew-ish' Deli and Bagel Shop In Napa Originally set to open Friday and pushed into next week, Loveski Deli is the newest project from Michelin-star chef Christopher Kostow and his wife Martina, inside Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
SF News Small Businesses in SF’s Little Russia Getting Hassled for Being Russian-Owned The Russian invasion of Ukraine is creating headaches for small businesses owned by Russian-Americans, even if the owners are from Ukraine or Georgia.
SF News Cocaine Laced With Fentanyl Blamed for Spike in OD Deaths, DPH Urges Use of Fentanyl Test Strips and Narcan Amidst a surge in fentanyl overdoses among people who thought they were using cocaine, the Health Department is emphasizing that it is easy to get free fentanyl testing strips and Narcan for safer drug use.
SF News Bay Area Men Recount Meeting Accused Murderer In Honolulu A pair of friends from San Francisco and Oakland befriended a man in Hawaii who was arrested earlier this month for a murder there, and they say he "seemed very nice."
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Lobbying Against Controversial SoMa High Rise That 27-story residential tower slated for a Nordstom’s parking lot, which the supervisors shot down last October, has now generated a complaint with the SF Ethics Commission that the district’s former supervisor Jane Kim improperly lobbied against it.
SF News The Dixie Fire Was Officially the Most Expensive to Fight in U.S. History The firefight in last year's Dixie Fire, which was paid for by the U.S. Forest Service using largely contracted local and private firefighting services, cost almost $640 million and ranks as the most expensive in history.
SF News Light Storm With Possible Thunder and Lightning Arrives Saturday Morning Some more welcome rain is coming to the Bay Area on Saturday, though rainfall totals will be pretty modest. And you may see some lightning.
SF News Matthew Muller, Culprit In Denise Huskins' 2015 Kidnapping and Rape, Set to Be Sentenced to 31 More Years Muller's trial in a state rape and robbery case had been delayed in part by his mental health treatment, but on Friday he was set to plead no contest to the charges and receive a sentence on top of his previous federal sentence.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: USF Dons Knocked Out In First Round Santa Clara County marked the two-year anniversary of the shelter-in-place order, a teacher's strike in Sonoma County has ended, and the USF Dons unfortunately got knocked out in the first round of March Madness on Thursday night.
SF News St. Patrick’s Day Around the Bay: Castro Theatre Redesign Plans Revealed SFUSD teachers will finally get their damn paychecks with interest added, Nancy Pelosi gets roundly roasted for an ill-advised Bono poem recital, and Another Planet Entertainment’s plans for the Castro Theatre involve ripping out quite a few seats.
Arts & Entertainment Cockettes Exhibit at SF Public Library Has Thursday Night Opening Party Thursday night’s opening celebration kicks off several months of Cockettes content, in honor of the library’s new exhibit “The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy.”
SF News Enormous New NorCal Reservoir Project Moves Forward With Federal Loan The state of California is getting set to forge ahead with constructing a huge new reservoir in Colusa County that would be capable of storing enough water to supply three million households, and it just got the green light from the feds.
SF News Anti-Patagonia-Vest, Anti-Marina Flyers Popping Up in San Francisco “Stop wearing vests, you look like a Republican” warns a series of new flyers being spotted about town, and the flyers also have some choice words for the Marina.
SF News Italian Appeals Court Reduces Sentences for Bay Area Men Convicted In Cop Killing An appeals court in Rome has reduced the sentences of two young men from the Bay Area who were convicted last year in the July 2019 killing of a Roman Carabinieri (policeman), but both will still serve over 20 years in prison.
SF News Of Course SFPD Is Doing DUI Checkpoints for St. Patrick’s Day The San Francisco Police Department is very eager to inform that they will be out in force with DUI checkpoints and patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, because well-publicized checkpoints do indeed cut down on drunk driving.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF Politics Two Pandemic Years Later, Gay Bathhouse Zoning Back on the Docket In SF Way back in February 2020, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the city had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
SF News $400-Per-Californian Gas Rebate in the Works at State Assembly It’s another stimmy check for every California taxpayer — even if you don't’ drive or have a car — under a new gas rebate proposal before the state Assembly, but Gavin Newsom thinks only people with cars should get the rebate.
Bay Area Sports Thursday Morning What's Up: Steph Curry Out 'Indefinitely' With Foot Injury A woman in Millbrae was assaulted and robbed by a man who threatened to traffic her, Richmond police are searching for a runaway teen mom, and no sooner were the Warriors 'whole' again but Curry's now out with an injury.
