SF News Day Around the Bay: Evan Low Beats Out Joe Simitian By Five Votes In Recount of Congressional Race for Second Place Evan Low has beat out Joe Simitian in the recount of their primary congressional race for second to go against Sam Liccardo in November; crime is trending down in Oakland so far this year; and Pamela Price is calling for a state probe into the recall backers' funding.
SF News Viral ‘SF Karen’ Goes on Dr. Phil Show, Blames Her Troubles on Cancel Culture Remember that one lady in Pac Heights who gained unfortunate viral fame for confronting a man who wrote “Black Lives Matter” on his own property? She just went on ‘Dr. Phil,’ and had a very sympathetic audience of concerned-looking white people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub With Rooftop Bar, Dante's Inferno, May Be Coming to Former Destino Space on Mint Hill A new bar and nightclub serving Caribbean food, and featuring a rooftop cocktail lounge, is in the works at 1815 Market Street, near the Castro Safeway on Mint Hill.
SF News ‘California Forever’ Outfit Claims They Have Enough Signatures to Make Solano County Ballot The tech billionaire class will be popping more Champagne than usual this week, as they appear to have enough signatures to get their utopia thingy “California Forever” on the November ballot in Solano County.
Arts & Entertainment Civic Joy Fund Hopes to Liven Up SF's Downtown With Launch of Downtown First Thursdays A new event is happening Thursday with the goal of bringing some foot traffic and liveliness to SF's downtown, and it's called Downtown First Thursdays.
SF News Oakland Approves $365,100 Salary For New Chief of Police Floyd Mitchell, Who Starts Next Week The City of Oakland's 15-month saga of not having a full-time police chief will officially end next week when former Lubbock, Texas chief of police Floyd Mitchell takes over the job, but his compensation package is already drawing some complaints.
SF News San Francisco's Population Ticks Up, and So Does California's After three pandemic years of population decline in California, things have turned around, and 2023 was the first year of slight population growth since 2019.
SF News UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment Grows to 175 Tents; Violence Breaks Out at UCLA Protest The college campus protests sweeping the nation have of course also swept UC Berkeley, with an estimated 175 tents now pitched at Sproul Plaza — up from just a dozen last week — and classes have been canceled at UCLA today amidst an outbreak of violence at that school’s protest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Surcharges Are Set to Disappear This Summer Under New State Law Unless the attorney general backtracks in any way, come July, restaurants in California will no longer be able to add service charges and other surcharges to customers' checks — and this will mean that the price of drinks and dishes will likely go up significantly.
SF News May Day and Gaza Protests Happening Around the Bay Area Today Expect traffic disruptions in multiple parts of San Francisco and Oakland today, with protest demonstrations planned around the Bay Area in conjunction with May Day.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Google Outage Affects Search, Google Drive Police in San Jose busted a brothel; a beloved formerly homeless man in Berkeley was found dead from an apparent fall; and Google was experiencing a major outage this morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Ferry Set to Resume Sausalito Service The Biden administration just eased marijuana restrictions nationwide; Sharon Stone has a new art show in SF; and the Golden Gate Ferry will resume service from SF to Sausalito on Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Provide a Wedding Chapel This Year, Performing Real, Actual Weddings Is there really some pent-up demand for people that want to get married at Outside Lands? They must think so, as the festival has added an on-site wedding venue, performing real weddings for $349 (plus fees).
SF News Pier 39’s Sea Lion Population Surges to Seven-Year High, Fueled by Delicious Anchovies There may be more than 1,000 sea lions on SF’s Pier 39 right now, sunning themselves, barking, and getting good and fat, largely thanks to a school of anchovies available for them to feast upon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Cellar & Wine Bar Opening In June In SoMa A new wine bar offshoot of Saison is opening this spring a block away from the Michelin two-star restaurant on Townsend Street, and at the helm is Saison co-founder and sommelier Mark Bright.
SF News SUV Catches Fire on Upper Deck of Bay Bridge A "fully engulfed" car fire Tuesday morning caused some delays and three lane closures on the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tech Folk Propose 'Multigenerational Urban Campus' In SF Because They Don't Get How Cities Work Something called City Campus imagines carving out a collectively owned set of properties in the center of the city to create a walkable "campus" where the like-minded and tech-employed can raise kids together, or something.
Business & Tech Williams-Sonoma Fined Nearly $3.2 Million for Labeling Products as ‘Made in USA’ When They Were Not San Francisco-based houseware and cookware purveyor Williams-Sonoma just got nailed with a $3.18 million fine for claiming that products were “Made in USA” when they were actually made in China, and it’s not the first time the company has done this.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Proposes a $360 Million Bond Measure to Fund a Potpourri of Seemingly Unrelated Causes When you vote on whether to reelect Mayor London Breed on November 5, you might also be voting on Breed’s new $360 million bond measure that would fund hospitals, homelessness services, street improvements, and even Harvey Milk Plaza.
SF News 35 Protesters Arrested In Early Morning Raid at Occupied Building on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus, 30 Others Barred From Campus Cal Poly Humboldt, which in the last week and a half has become the site of the "nation's most entrenched protest," per the New York Times, was the site of another show of force by police this morning in the nationwide campus protest movement.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mercury News Joins Suit Against OpenAI A fatal crash on I-880 in Oakland was causing delays; four children were injured by a suspected DUI driver in the South Bay; and the Mercury News is suing OpenAI over the use of its copyrighted material to train ChatGPT and other bots.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NEMA Developer Sues NEMA Operator Over Back Rent Developer Crescent Heights is suing the operator of the NEMA building over back rent; a beekeeper in North Oakland had her bees stolen; and another crash stemming from a cop pursuit has injured innocent bystanders in Santa Clara County.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie PAC Already Spending Gigantic Sums To Clog Your Mailbox With November Election Mailers There’s only one candidate who’s already sending out mailers for SF’s November mayoral elections while it’s still April, and that’s Levi Strauss heir Danial Lurie, whose campaign PAC is bolstered by a million-dollar donation from his mom.
SF News NAACP Holds Meeting With Black Families About Alleged Racist Incidents at SF Public Schools There was a meeting Sunday at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco at which several Black parents spoke about racist incidents their children had suffered at SF public schools.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Camp Mather Celebrates 100 Years (Though at a Party 180 Miles Away From Camp Mather) The spirit of rural Tuolumne County came to the Bayview District Sunday, as the SF Rec and Parks Department celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of San Francisco's furthest-flung park, the popular Mather Family Camp.