SF News Another Carsonist? Four Cars Set Ablaze In San Francisco Sunday Morning We may have another carsonist on our hands, or else the same individual who set fire to two Teslas in SoMa in February is back at it.
SF News SF Federal Judge Hands Down 10-Year Sentence for Man Who Hired Assassin to Kill Zimbabwean Model Ex-Partner A San Francisco-based federal judge is sending an attorney to prison for ten years, after he hired a hitman to kill his estranged partner, a Zimbabwean fashion icon, but unfortunately for him the hitman was actually an undercover FBI agent.
SF News 26-Year-Old Man Arrested In Connection With Disappearance of Mint Butterfield After San Francisco saw a major plastering of posters about a missing teen last week, the story ended happily for parents Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield when their child was found safe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lowell High Admissions Demographics Once Again Disproportionate A gunshot victim died in Oakland Saturday afternoon; the Chronicle alerts us to dogs overdosing on fentanyl; and the incoming class at Lowell High School is once again disproportionately white and Asian.
SF News Sunday Links: Ex-Slack CEO's Missing Teen, Mint Butterfield, Found in San Francisco The teenage child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield was found in SF after being reported missing from Marin this week; a rare coin store launched a scavenger hunt with 11 classic coins hidden around the city; and a woman was fatally shot in San Jose this weekend.
SF News Expect to See More Traffic Cops At Major SF Intersections As SFPD Cracks Down on Speeding After a drop in traffic tickets in San Francisco in the last decade, SFPD is amping up traffic enforcement at intersections notorious for speeders.
SF News Saturday Links: Ex-SF Giants Player Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Crimes In Indiana Former MLB player Dustan Mohr was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes with a 13-year-old girl; a refrigerant leak at a Concord Costco forced 1,000 people there to evacuate; and pro-Palestinian protests continue at Bay Area college campuses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Asking Rent Prices Rose Again in March, But Still Far From Pre-Pandemic Rates The average asking rent in San Francisco rose by 1%, the first increase in 8 months; London Breed's plan to bring giant pandas to SF still has some roadblocks ahead; and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is selling her 65-acre ranch in Bolinas for $9 million.
Arts & Entertainment Area Man Buys Satire Site The Onion, Also Happens to Be Twilio Co-Founder Jeff Lawson Beloved humor site and “America’s Finest News Source” The Onion has been sold to San Francisco resident and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, who says “The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it.”
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is Putting In a Bid to Become the New Home of the Sundance Film Festival Earlier this week, the Sundance Film Festival announced that it was exploring its options to move to a new locale in 2027, after throwing the revered festival in Park City, Utah for the last 43 of its 46 years. And SF will be throwing its hat in the ring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Thai Tasting Menu Experience Lands In Japantown A new high-end Thai spot arrives in Japantown, a new but familiar French bistro is taking over the Catch space in the Castro, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan admits she likes it when servers are mean.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Roller Skating Area Will Start Renting Out Skates This Weekend You no longer need to own roller skates to go roller skating at Golden Gate Park’s Skatin’ Place, because starting Saturday, roller skates and inline skates will be available for rental at the celebrated outdoor rink.
SF News Former SF AIDS Foundation Employee Brutally Murdered in New York City The SF HIV/AIDS prevention community is mourning the loss of 33-year-old Melanie Woods, a staple at fundraisers and events, who spent nearly three years organizing those events for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
Business & Tech Former SF District Attorney Suzy Loftus, Now TikTok's Head of Safety, Compares Fight for TikTok to Defending SF As TikTok faces its biggest challenge to date, with the US government insisting that it be divorced from its Chinese parent company or cease doing business here, the company has a trust and safety officer whose name may be familiar to San Franciscans.
SF News Cat Found In Amazon Box In California Was Accidentally Shipped From Utah A cat survived a harrowing six-day journey in a cardboard box with some boots and was reunited with her family, who thought she had somehow escaped their home in Utah.
SF News Rep. Adam Schiff's Luggage Stolen While In San Francisco, Attends Event Without Suit Congressman and senatorial candidate Adam Schiff was told not to leave anything in his car while staying in San Francisco, but he says he was in a hurry and left his luggage, which got stolen while the car was in a parking garage.
SF News Early Morning Two-Alarm Fire Consumes Vacant Presidio Heights Building A large fire just before 4:30 am Friday morning consumed a four-story residential building at Lyon and Clay streets, but fortunately no one was injured, as the building was vacant and still under construction.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pacifica Police Seek Arson Suspect Who Likes Archery Pacifica police are seeking an arson suspect who was last seen at an archery range; an Oakland man is in a coma after being tased by park police while in the water; and there is some apparent misinformation being spread about the disappearance of Mint Butterfield.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NFL Draft is Tonight, 49ers Finally Have a First-Round Pick Again There’s impressive new renderings of a proposed reimagining of the former Westfield Mall; bike activists’ guerrilla street alterations near Duboce Park have been removed; and the NFL Draft is underway, with plenty of 49ers intrigue.
Arts & Entertainment After Last Summer's Santa Cruz Otter Sensation, SFFILM Festival Brings a Glorious Otter Documentary If you were captivated by the exploits of “Otter 841” evading the authorities in Santa Cruz all last summer, you’ll love SFFILM’s otter documentary screening this Saturday at the Marina Theatre.
SF News SingleThread, Auberge du Soleil, Madrona Inn Among Bay Area Hotels Honored In First Michelin Hotel Guide The Michelin organization has just released its first ever guide to and rankings of US hotels, and like the Michelin Guides to restaurants dole out stars, the new guide has given "key" rankings to 124 hotels across the country.
SF News SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto Speaks Out on Recent Jail Lockdowns, Staffing Shortages After the recent SF County Jail lockdowns and complaints of severe staffing shortages, SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto opens up about his office’s challenges, while the deputies’ union is demanding he calls in the National Guard.
SF News SF Opens New ‘State-of-the-Art’ 911 Call Center, System Promptly Melts Down the Next Day San Francisco opened a brand new high-tech 911 call center on Wednesday. But early Thursday morning, the city’s 911 system crashed, and dispatchers were handling calls with pen and paper.
Arts & Entertainment 'A Strange Loop' Is an Uproarious Meta Musical on Black Queer Identity (and a Witty Takedown of Tyler Perry) I now understand why the capsule reviews and descriptions of Michael R. Jackson's first Broadway musical, A Strange Loop, were so obscure and confusing. It is an idiosyncratic creation of the first order that is nearly impossible to sum up.
SF News Berkeley-Born Israeli Hostage Appears to Still Be Alive, After 201 Days, In Newly Released Video Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage in Israel on October 7 and even had his arm blown off in the process, but a new-proof-of-life video from Hamas, which appears to have been shot Wednesday, shows him very much alive.
