SF Politics SF Recalls Largely Funded by ‘Neighbors for a Better San Francisco’ PAC, Which Is Based in San Rafael A full two-thirds of the Recall Chesa Boudin money, and 25% of Recall the School Board contributions, comes from a secretive PAC called “Neighbors for a Better San Francisco,” which lists its address as being in San Rafael.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The First of Two New Rooftop Japanese-Peruvian Restaurants Arrives Downtown Next Week Kaiyo Rooftop is opening Wednesday, February 16 at the new Hyatt Place Hotel near Oracle Park, and it's a swanky new rooftop dining and drinking option in slowly reviving SoMa.
SF News Shootout In Outer Sunset Leaves One Dead, One Hospitalized A man was found dead in an SUV on the Great Highway early Thursday morning following a shootout nearby on Irving Street.
Business & Tech State Agency Sues Tesla Over ‘Racially Segregated Workplace’ Where Racial Slurs Are Thrown Around Commonly A California employment agency brought a pretty disturbing lawsuit against Tesla Thursday, alleging not just racial segregation at the Fremont plant, but a workplace where racial slurs were commonly scrawled on walls and spoken out loud by management.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Is a Truck Driver Protest Coming to CA? Homeland Security is warning of possible convoys of truckers who hate vaccine mandates disrupting things like the Super Bowl, SFPD Chief Bill Scott defends himself to the Police Commission, and the Bay Area men imprisoned for the killing of an Italian police officer began their appeal today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dacari Spiers Testifies In Trial of SFPD Officer The search has been called off for a fisherman who went missing in the waters off Muir Beach, Dacari Spiers testified in the trial of Officer Terrance Stangel today, and police are seeking help finding a 74-year-old Bayview man missing for three weeks.
SF News Appeal Begins Thursday In Case of Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Roman Police Officer The sordid and sad tale of Bay Area teens Gabriel Natale-Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder — now in their early 20s and in prison in Rome — will enter a new chapter Thursday as their 2021 murder conviction comes up for appeal.
Business & Tech About 40 of Elon Musk’s New SpaceX Satellites Destroyed by Solar Storm A few dozen SpaceX satellites that launched last Thursday have already bit the dust in a solar storm, but thankfully, they’ll be reduced to dust upon reentering the atmosphere.
Business & Tech Robin Williams’ Estate Sues Pandora For $4.1 Million Over Alleged Copyright Violation The George Carlin estate and Andrew Dice Clay are also lodging copyright suits against the streaming service, saying they don’t actually have the copyrights to play these comedians’ works.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Creme Brûlée Cart Guy Throws Free Pancake Party, Bernal Heights Flips Out The proprietor of the renowned Creme Brûlée Cart drizzled the Precita Park area with a big ol’ free pancake party, and he’ll flap your jacks with a follow-up party this Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Makes Commonwealth Club Appearance This Week, Says She's Quit Her Day Job Seemingly unbeatable 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has quit her job as an engineering manager to work on a book and become a full-time public figure. And in one of her first public appearances since her shows aired, she'll be appearing at the Commonwealth Club on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Has Hired Another White Guy as Director, But One With a Proven Commitment to Diversity in Art A year after Neal Benezra's announcement that he would step down as director of SFMOMA, the museum's search committee has selected his replacement: Christopher Bedford, the current director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
SF News Owners of Puppy Killed by Off-Leash Dog at Dolores Park Demand Justice Weeks after a golden retriever puppy was mauled to death by a dog at Mission Dolores Park, the puppy’s owners are demanding the attacker be held responsible.
SF News That Market Street IKEA Is Now Officially Under Construction The COVID-delayed but still definitely happening San Francisco IKEA store on Market between Fifth and Sixth Streets has started building out, but it’s going to be more of an “IKEA-anchored meeting place” (mall) with other tenants too.
SF News San Francisco and Seven Other Bay Area Counties Will Drop Indoor Mask Rules Next Week The masks come off on February 16 in Bay Area grocery stores, bars, restaurants, museums, and everywhere else whether you like it or not — but Santa Clara County will still be playing it safer.
SF Politics Supervisors OK $700K Settlement for Police Beating Victim, In Case Where SFPD Is Basically at War With Boudin High drama unfolded Tuesday as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement for a police beating victim, but the supervisors’ charged debate shows that major new battle lines are being drawn in the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland School Board Votes to Close or Shrink 11 Schools Oakland's school board voted Tuesday to close seven schools and merge or shrink four more, a suspect has been arrested for the Oakland freeway shooting of Gene Ransom, and the FAA has shot down Sunnyvale's plan to use lasers to deter crows.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Great Highway Food Truck Program Just Got Canned The first-ever Black Panthers Party office could be demolished, wild turkeys are causing a turmoil at a Bay Area NASA facility, and a project that allowed food trucks on the Great Highway on weekends will end this Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Comes Barrelling Back, Kicks Off Friday With Series of Smaller Events Beer Week is back, but COVID precautions will structure it differently, and Friday’s San Francisco Kick Off event is at a Chase Center taproom you may not have heard of before.
SF News BART Is Preparing For a Future of Low Ridership and Deficits The impacts of the pandemic on public transit can not be overstated, and BART in particular is lowering its projections for ridership recovery below even where they had them a couple of months ago.
SF News In the Wake of Three Highway Shootings, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Wants Cameras on I-80 There have been three fatal shootings in three months on Oakland highways, so Mayor Schaaf says it's time for cameras. The problem? It’s not her decision.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Blind Cat Bar on 24th Street Gets New Life as Ruth's at Treat Street Two years into the pandemic, there are signs that SF's always thriving bar scene is bouncing back to life, even in some of the dustier corners where things went quiet in Spring 2020.
SF Politics An ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Could Be Coming to Your November Ballot Amidst a recent uproar that nearly 10% of San Francisco housing stock is just sitting vacant, supervisors Dean Preston kicked off a campaign to get a vacancy tax on this November’s ballot.
SF News Omicron Has Killed 12% More Bay Area Residents Per Week Than Delta Here in the highly vaccinated Bay Area, the infectiousness of the variant still managed to take a bigger toll than the more severe Delta variant did last summer and fall.
SF News Arrest Made In Last Week's Fatal Stabbing on Potrero Avenue A suspect has been arrested in connection with last Monday's fatal stabbing on Potrero Avenue that took the life of a 27-year-old man.
