SF Politics San Francisco Officially Acquires Real Estate to Make 'Monster In the Mission' Project 100% Affordable Mayor London Breed’s office and the SF Board of Supervisors recently announced the completion of a deal between housing developer Crescent Heights and Maximus Real Estate Partners that will lead to an affordable housing project of 330 low-income units at 1979 Mission Street.
SF News Arrest Made In Marina Dog Theft Rosie the French bulldog puppy was returned to her humans not long after a violent robbery on New Year's Day, and six weeks later police say they have arrested a suspect.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Announces They Are Definitely Doing the Full In-Person Parade and Everything in June Mark your calendar for the final weekend in June, as SF Pride says the whole Pride Weekend-long lineup is back on for an in-person celebration June 25-26, 2022.
SF News No Fooling! The Van Ness Rapid Transit Project Will Be Completed April 1 SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF Politics Haney Has Slight Edge, But Assembly Seat Will Go to April Runoff Election SF Supervisor Matt Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are heading for a runoff election in April, after neither received more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday in the race for David Chiu's former Assembly seat.
SF Politics All Three School Board Members Recalled In Landslide This election, with eyes on it from around the country, proved to be a clear referendum on the school board, despite relatively low voter turnout.
SF News Morning Links: The Masks Come Off, Again The masks come off (mostly) in SF today yet again, that mystery tattooed patient in Oakland has been ID'd, and there was a shooting in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway that injured one person.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisors Will Try to Recall the Recall Process on June 7 Ballot The first ever Latina judge has been nominated to the California Supreme Court, Oscar winner Mahershala Ali just bought a sweet Oakland Hills bungalow, and your June 7 Recall Chesa Boudin ballot will also contain a measure to reign in all these recalls.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Tiger Floats of the 2022 SF Lunar New Year Festival and Parade There are 14 floats ready to pounce for Saturday’s 2022 SF Chinese New Year Festival and Parade. Here’s a sneak preview of this year’s finest Year of the Tiger floats, and ‘They're Grrrreat!’
SF News State Attorney General Steps In to Help Mediate Battle Between SFPD and Chesa Boudin On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a joint statement with SF Mayor London Breed and City Attorney David Chiu about helping SF's embattled district attorney and the city's police department work out their differences.
SF Politics Low-Turnout, Seemingly Minor School Board and State Assembly Elections Today Have High Stakes Even CNN is covering today’s SF school board recall and state assembly special election, and while results could make national waves, a ho-hum San Francisco electorate is hardly turning out to vote thus far.
SF News J Trains Return to Downtown Tunnels as Muni Slowly Comes Back to Life After two years of mostly abbreviated service, SF Muni lines are nearly all back and up and running at near pre-pandemic levels. And this weekend marks the return of Sunday night service until midnight, and the return of continuous J-Church service to Embarcadero.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego-Based Modern Times Brewery Closes Oakland Taproom After Two Years Citing the pandemic and "global declines in the craft beer industry," popular San Diego-based beer brand Modern Times announced Tuesday that it's shuttering four of its West Coast taprooms, including one that it opened in Oakland in December 2019.
SF Politics SF Neighbors Who Wanted Amazon Hub Site to Remain Industrial Now Not Happy That It's Remaining Industrial Recology wanted to build housing on a site that was formerly home to 300 garbage trucks, but neighbors pushed back. Now Amazon wants to keep things industrial, and still, pushback.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Hit With Ransomware Attack, Team Financial Data Exposed The 49ers would prefer to call it a "network security incident," but team documents are now posted on the dark web, and the hackers may have plenty more breached data to expose if the 49ers don’t pay up.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: It's the First of Many SF Election Days In 2022 It's school board recall/Assembly seat election day in SF, a teen skier died during a competition at Palisades Tahoe on Sunday, and John Madden's widow threw shade on the Raiders' move to Las Vegas during his memorial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Schoolkids May Get to Drop Masks In March, Not Before CA officials leave mask mandate in place for schoolchildren for at least two more weeks, an Alameda sheriff's deputy suddenly died on duty of an aneurysm on Saturday, and West Contra County teachers might strike.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Best Parklet in the City’ Trashed by a Vandal, and Police Reportedly Did Not Intervene When a downtown wine bar's prize-winning parklet was thoroughly vandalized on December 31, security footage indicates SFPD approached the vandal, but then left and allowed him to continue.
SF News DA's Office: SFPD Used Rape Victim's DNA to Link Her to a Property Crime The latest salvo in the public-relations war between the San Francisco Police Department and the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin is also a highly troubling potential breach of a sexual assault victim's privacy.
SF News The Current Western U.S. Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years, Says New Study Analysis of tree-ring data says that we haven’t seen a drought like this since the year 800 A.D., or maybe longer, but the data doesn’t go back any further than that.
Arts & Entertainment ‘New Voices’ Program at Audium Brings SF’s ‘Theater of Sound’ Into the Digital Age Audium — the quirky music venue that has lived at 1616 Bush Street since 1975 — debuted its 'New Voices' program on February 10, reimagining the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound with works from three Bay Area-based composers.
Bay Area Sports How the Raiders Bilked the City of Oakland Out of $190 Million The Raiders may be long gone, but new calculations reveal that the team took a loan from the city of Oakland, let the interest run its total up to $190 million, and then left for Las Vegas without the city even asking for the money.
Arts & Entertainment The 'San Francisco Dungeon' at Fisherman's Wharf Has Spooked Its Last Tourist It's either another pandemic casualty or just a tourist attraction that's run its course at Fisherman's Wharf. But the San Francisco Dungeon has closed its doors for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Magnolia Brewing Closing Its Eight-Year-Old Dogpatch Brewpub San Francisco-born craft beer operation Magnolia Brewing Co. — which for several years has been partly owned by the cofounder of New Belgium Brewing Kim Jordan — is downsizing and returning back, after eight years, to just having its Upper Haight flagship location.
SF News Crowds Return to SF Bars and Restaurants Amidst Warm Weather, Super Bowl, and Valentine's Day The stars aligned with unseasonably balmy temperatures, Valentine's Day dates, and the Super Bowl bringing out throngs, while next weekend’s three-day holiday brings the Lunar New Year and the end of the indoor mask mandate.
