SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Gives Birth to Baby While Riding Inside Waymo Jurors have gone into deliberations in the murder trial of the “Straight Outta Hunters Point” director; KRON4 nuked Santa Claus in an unearthed 42-year-old TV ad; and a woman reportedly gave birth while taking a Waymo to UCSF.
Business & Tech Report: SF-Based Instacart Charging Some Customers as Much as 23% More for the Same Items, Thanks to AI Pricing People buying the exact same item from the exact same store are sometimes paying a price as much as 23% higher on the platform Instacart, thanks to AI algorithms that show buyers different prices.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Comes Out Swinging Against Proposed 25-Story Marina Safeway Megadevelopment SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is picking a fight with big-money development interests for maybe the first time since he took office, and he has nothing but contempt for the 800-unit double tower proposed for the Marina Safeway site.
Arts & Entertainment Shaquille O'Neal to Host Shaq's Fun House at Cow Palace, Featuring T-Pain, on Super Bowl Weekend Basketball Hall of Famer turned DJ Shaquille O'Neal is throwing a big ticketed party event in the Bay Area over Super Bowl Weekend, and T-Pain and Tiësto are both scheduled to perform.
Arts & Entertainment Vaillancourt Fountain Gets One Last Chance at Survival, as Demolition Gets Appealed to Board of Supervisors There is one more last-gasp, hail mary attempt to save the Embarcadero's crumbling and controversial Vaillancourt Fountain, as preservationists have appealed the decision to remove it to the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF News Video: 'Undercover' Santa Arrests Two In Napa County Christmas Tree Theft This strange and performative video has been going around from the American Canyon Police Department, showing a police officer dressed as Santa Claus putting a suspect in handcuffs.
SF News Trial Delayed In 2024 Double-Murder of Teen Girls In Napa Two young women were gunned down near downtown Napa in April 2024 after they allegedly brought a knife to a fight with another woman, and the legal proceedings against two suspects in the case were just paused.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Panisse, the New Cocktail Spot Next to Chez Panisse, Opens This Week The much anticipated — and somewhat controversial for the neighborhood — new cocktail bar attached to Chez Panisse will open its doors Thursday, December 11, and they won't be taking reservations.
SF News Seismologist Suggests That the Bay Area's Next Big Quake Could Come With an Early Warning From the North The lead author of a recent study about how major earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest have been historically linked to seismic events in California, specifically on the San Andreas Fault, says he sees some upside to the findings, at least for those of us in California.
SF News Trial Finally Underway for 2021 Killing of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee Nearly five full years after the unprovoked killing of an 84-year-old Thai immigrant in Anza Vista, the long-delayed trial for the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee got underway Monday at SF Superior Court.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Asian Art Museum Returns Looted Thai Statues SF's Asian Art Museum is repatriating some looted statues to Thailand; yesterday's earthquake swarm in San Ramon totaled 10 small quakes; and SF's RV parking crackdown is off to a slow start.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murder Charges Filed Against SF General Stabbing Suspect Murder charges have been filed against he man accused of stabbing a social worker at SF General; a small earthquake rattled Piedmont; and South San Francisco police shot a man they say charged at officers with a knife.
Business & Tech SF-Based Catering Website Swaps Restaurants’ Real Food Pictures With AI Pictures, Restaurants Get Pissed These bagels claim to be Boichik Bagels on the catering website Forkable, but they are fake AI-generated bagels, as perhaps evidenced by the oddly uniform size of the bagel slices, all slightly larger than a normal bagel half. Now restaurants listed on the website are furious.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Wine Importer and Retailer Kermit Lynch Opens Second-Ever Location In Marin Longtime Berkeley-based wine importer and retailer Kermit Lynch, one of the keystones of the Berkeley food world for five decades, has just expanded with its second-ever retail location, in Larkspur.
Business & Tech Watch: Two Waymos Appear to Collide In SF, Then Cause Traffic Jam That Traps Residents on Street The latest Waymo dustup is a Saturday incident where two Waymos appear to have collided with one another, resulting in three Waymos just stopping in place, and blocking a dead-end street so residents could not drive out.
SF News As It Prepares to Close Mall Location, Could H&M Be on Its Way Back to Union Square? One of the last retailers to close up shop at the nearly shuttered San Francisco Centre mall is H&M, which just confirmed it will close down in January, after the holidays.
Arts & Entertainment Video Shows How San Francisco Bar Pilots Help Steer Large Ships Into the Bay A new video documents the fairly unsung work of the San Francisco Bar Pilots, an elite group of local maritime experts and ship captains who board huge container ships and cruise ships to help them safely navigate through the Golden Gate.
SF News Dive Teams Searching Lake Merritt for Gun Used to Kill Condor Club Manager A strange twist in the investigation of the murder of the Condor Club strip joint manager, as while the shooting happened in Santa Rosa, police now believe that the murder weapon may be lying at the bottom of Lake Merritt.
SF News Redwood City Man Allegedly Kills Wife, Shoots Himself In Failed Murder-Suicide Redwood City police say that a man fatally shot his wife early Sunday and then turned the gun on himself, but he remains alive in critical condition.
SF News Vigil at SF General Hospital for Slain Social Worker Amplifies Concerns About Hospital Safety After Saturday’s news that a 51-year-old social worker had died from a violent stabbing attack by a patient at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital last week, the victim’s coworkers held a Sunday night vigil to sound the alarm about security at the hospital.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Sees Yet Another Messy Monday Commute BART's Red and Green lines were both out of service causing major delays Monday morning; another swarm of small earthquakes struck San Ramon; and Paramount is launching a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
Politics Supervisor Chan Claps Back at Colleagues For Admonishing Her Budget, Housing Plan Concerns In a text exchange following Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Chan accused Board President Mandelman of acting in bad faith and setting her up with “two assholes” — Mahmood and Sauter, who are temporarily filling seats on the budget committee.
Arts & Entertainment Octogenarian Steals the Show With ‘Best Technique’ at Rikki’s Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week last month, Rikki’s sports bar held a raucous pie-eating contest, with a contestant named Jenn winning grand prize, but “best technique” went to 81-year-old Babs Daitch who recently starred in an award-winning documentary.
SF News Sunday Links: Trump Takes MLK Jr. Day Off List of Free National Parks Holidays, Adds His Own Birthday Mayor Lurie talked about his socks during Wired’s ‘Big Interview’ while Governor Newsom trolled MAGAts with his sitting position; California residents are urged to avoid foraged mushrooms after 21 recent poisonings; and Golden Gate Ferry is adding two new vessels.
SF News [Update] Social Worker Dies From Injuries Following Stabbing at SF General Hospital, Suspect Arrested The social worker who was stabbed by a patient several times in the neck and shoulder at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Thursday has died from his injuries. The suspect, who reportedly has a history of violent behavior, has since been arrested.
