McDonald's recently launched its "McPlant" burger in the Bay Area, an estimated 73% of all Americans now have some immune protection against Omicron, and Muni is offering free rides for the Lunar New Year weekend.
Follow
SFist
@SFist
Everything else you need to know about SF & the Bay Area. Get SFist in your inbox today: bit.ly/2wzWkxY
SFist’s Tweets
Former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernard Curran was arrested Friday, and charged with perjury and violating conflict of interest laws, in the latest batch of tentacles spawned by the Mohammed Nuru scandal.
1
2
4
California is home to the largest share of the United States’ billionaires. Soon, lawmakers say they could have to pay up.
6
The three school board members all have their say over being ousted in Tuesday’s recall vote, and soon-to-be-former board president Gabriela Lopez is saying the recall targeted “people of color, primarily women of color."
2
3
Apparently the lawyer who negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death suit brought by the mother of Keith Green might not have been officially representing Chinese real estate heiress Tiffany Li, and now that settlement is being delayed.
The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office managed to access the text messages on the phone of the pair who died mysteriously with their infant and dog on a hike, texts that never went through, and show that they knew they were in deep trouble.
2
Topics to follow
Sign up to get Tweets about the Topics you follow in your Home timeline.
Carousel
Mike Pence's appearance on the Stanford University campus on Thursday evening was not as raucously protested as, say, Ann Coulter's late 2019 appearance at UC Berkeley. But it was protested!
4
Pleasanton police fatally shot a domestic violence suspect holding a kitchen knife on Thursday, the search continues for a missing Oakley woman, and Oakland's city council just signed off on the EIR for the A's Howard Terminal stadium development.
5
The MLB lockout is now cutting into Spring Training, the recalled school board members are getting all manner of racist trolling online, and Sonoma County just solved a 1996 murder, albeit too late to deliver justice.
2
Someone apparently dumped an adult ball python in Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, and park officials are scrambling to find it, because the cold-blooded critter is unlikely to survive the chilly nighttime temperatures.
3
4
If you don't live in a low-lying beach town in California or know anyone who does, you'd be forgiven for never having heard the term "managed retreat." 'This American Life' tackles the term in a new episode, focusing on Pacifica.
2
6
A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the window of a nearby restaurant, injuring an elderly customer.
1
6
9
Kids walked out of class in one school district near Sacramento to protest the mask mandate, while other districts are just refusing to enforce mask-wearing, as tension grows over CA dropping the mask mandate for everywhere but schools.
1
3
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who would have gone down in history as one of the most complicit patsies ever to hold high office were it not for a very last-minute act of defiance, is visiting the Bay Area today.
3
4
Ousted school board member Faauuga Moliga has just abruptly resigned, Marin County has lifted its water-use restrictions, and SF Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced legislation to decriminalize jaywalking.
1
1
4
SF DA Chesa Boudin is dismissing charges against a woman who was ID'd using DNA from an old rape kit, London Breed says she'll start interviewing school board candidates soon, and Off the Grid Fort Mason returns in April.
1
1
6
The SF Department of Public Health gave pot dispensary lounges the “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” signal on Tuesday, and you’d better believe that some of those lounges were firing up come Wednesday morning!
1
1
5
It's got to be hard when you move to a new town and get tasked with critiquing its sacred cows. And this week finds Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho getting back to that business with a review of Michael Mina's local empire.
1
3
The city just announced the completion of the deal to acquire the 'Monster in the Mission' property and develop it as 100% affordable.
5
6
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.
9
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.
3
6
SFMTA is confident enough they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re 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.
3
5
27
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.
1
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.
3
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.
2
2
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.
3
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 Grrrreat!’
3
9
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 mend fences.
1
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.
4
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.
3
8
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.
2
2
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.
3
2
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.
3
2
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 last night.
1
4
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 go on strike.
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.
6
26
45
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 rights.
6
6
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.
1
4
7
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 by three Bay Area-based composers.
2
6