SF Politics In Fifth (and Probably Final) Mayoral Debate, Sharp Barbs on Homelessness and Corruption The Coalition On Homelessness was the unexpected boogeyman at Thursday night’s SF mayoral debate, but London Breed and Mark Farrell took plenty of heat for their own alleged corruption issues.
Business & Tech Cruise Comes Crawling Back, Re-Launching Driverless Cars, With Drivers, On Peninsula Autonomous taxi company Cruise is slowly trying to reintroduce its robocars in the Bay Area, one year after the company went into freefall following a brutal collision in which one of the cars dragged an injured pedestrian.
SF News SF Jury Convicts Two for 2017 Murder of Photographer on Twin Peaks A brutal 2017 murder case that stemmed from a robbery of a photographer who was shooting pictures of the under-construction Salesforce Tower has finally come to a close, with the two suspects convicted more than seven years later.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mother Killed While Crossing Burlingame Street The mother of a special needs child was killed while crossing a street in Burlingame last week; shots rang out in Brentwood Thursday night and one man was injured; and homicides are at their lowest level in 60 years in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Maya Angelou Monument Unveiled at SF Public Library Some very gross illegal vending problems are plaguing Chinatown; a Fremont teen won a national award for the best mullet haircut in the US; and the long-awaited Dr. Maya Angelou monument was unveiled at the SF Public Library Main Branch.
SF News Michelle Obama Makes Surprise Appearance at Livermore Costco, Hawking Soda Did you know Michelle Obama had a healthy soda line? Neither did I!
Business & Tech Dreamforce Commits to Three More Years In SF (But Benioff Gives Himself a Loophole to Leave) Salesforce announced they will keep their Dreamforce conference here through 2027 in a windfall for the city’s tourism industry, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave himself an out, saying Dreamforce will only stay as long as SF “remains safe and secure and trusted.”
Arts & Entertainment R&B Star Thundercat Will Headline Just-Announced Free Concert In Golden Gate Park This October The latest in a glut of free San Francisco outdoor concerts will feature R&B bass wizard Thundercat and soul artist Lee Fields in an outdoor concert at Robin Williams Meadow on Sunday, October 20.
Arts & Entertainment 'Private Lives' at ACT Transposes Noel Coward's Classic Comedy to Argentina The 2024-25 season at ACT kicked off Wednesday night with the opening of 'Private Lives,' Noel Coward's beloved 1930 comedy about the impossibilities and intransigencies of romantic love.
SF News 70-Year-Old Convicted Child Molester Slain In Cell at San Quentin Prison, Cellmate Suspected of Murder San Quentin prison officials are saying it’s a homicide after a 70-year-old child molestation convict was found unresponsive in his cell and later died, and his 36-year-old kidnapping convict cellmate is suspected of doing the deed.
SF News City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.
SF Politics With Another Mayoral Debate Tonight, Breed Tries to Tag Farrell With Permit Scandal on Home Renovations With a 7 pm Thursday night mayoral debate looming, Mayor Breed, who’s had something of a scandal-ridden week, is suddenly alleging that opponent Mark Farrell illegally pulled strings to expedite permits on a half-million-dollar renovation of his new house.
SF News Lawyers For Alameda Cops Accused In Mario Gonzalez's Death Seek Dismissal Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price acted in haste and missed a procedural deadline when she refiled charges in April against three City of Alameda police officers, their lawyers say.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four Arrested After Vehicle-Smash Store Burglary In Richmond District A 57-y-o Oakland man who was a suspect in a Berkeley murder died in police custody Tuesday; four people were arrested after a pickup truck smashed into a Richmond District store and it was burglarized; and Prop 36 is enjoying plenty of voter support.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Firefighters Put Out Apartment Fire In East Oakland Oakland firefighters put out a significant fire at a vacant apartment building Wednesday morning; the SF Symphony Chorus is threatening to strike; and a flash flood warning comes to the Park Fire burn scar area.
Arts & Entertainment Final Batch of SF Live Free Concerts Announced, Includes Halloween Weekend Show at McLaren Park Yet more free outdoor concerts from the SF Live crew have been announced, and the stretch run of the series includes a Halloween weekend daytime rock show at McLaren Park’s Jerry Garcia Amphitheatre.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Pizza Pop-up Jules, From a Tartine and Roberta's Alum, Lands Permanent Spot In Lower Haight It's official: Buzzy pop-up Jules has secured a brick-and-mortar location, in the Lower Haight, and by mid-winter you should be seeing crowds gathering near Haight and Fillmore for their excellent New York-meets-California pies.
SF Politics President Biden to Host Global AI Safety Summit In San Francisco In November In late November, when, god willing, we will have a new president-elect whose name is not Trump, President Joe Biden will be gathering AI experts together in San Francisco for a global AI safety summit.
SF Politics Russian Troll Farms Blamed for Fake Viral Story That Kamala Harris Ran Over a 13-Year-Old Girl A story from a fake and supposedly SF-based news site claimed that VP Kamala Harris had hit a 13-year-old girl with her car and left her paralyzed. The site has since gone offline, and Microsoft analysts have determined it was run by a Russian influence campaign.
SF News Bombshell Testimony Comes Three Weeks Into Murder Trial of Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel has been on trial since September 4 for the December 2023 murder of his girlfriend, Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, in Capitola. And this week, a witness took the stand who only reached out to prosecutors after reading about testimony in the trial so far.
SF News BART’s New ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates Apparently Not Completely Evasion-Proof The supposedly unjumpable new BART fare gates are certainly deterring fare evasion, but some determined scofflaws are still finding ways to get through them without paying.
SF News SF Man Identified as Dead Three Years Ago Turns Up Alive, Family Is Flabbergasted The SF Medical Examiner's Office declared a 50-year-old Tenderloin resident dead of an overdose in May 2021, sending his daughter the man’s ashes. But it turns out those were someone else’s ashes, the man was still alive, and the family is going through quite an ordeal.
SF News Murder Trial of Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni Begins; Defense Claims Lee Had 'Flash of Aggression' The much anticipated trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee begins today, and the defense team has laid out more of their argument for why they say their client is innocent.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Stabbed In SoMa A man was left with life-threatening injuries after a Tuesday night stabbing on Natoma Street in SF; a Pleasanton woman has been charged with her boyfriend's murder over a year after it occurred; and a landmark clock on Market Street is in need of serious repair.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tonight’s Full Harvest Moon Will Also Have a Partial Eclipse It’s the 165th Anniversary of the original Emperor Norton declaration; Oakland police arrested a journalist covering an encampment sweep; and tonight’s full moon will come with plenty of extra magic (if we can see it).
