SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Signs New Leases In Fremont, San Jose A California plaintiff is suing Trader Joe’s because the labels on one of its coffees doesn’t say it contains half the caffeine; the Justice Department has added death by firing squad to the list of approved methods of execution; and Tesla signed leases in San Jose and Fremont.
Arts & Entertainment BART to Host All-Ages ‘80s Prom This Summer at Rockridge Station Hop on BART and head to Oakland this June for the agency’s all-ages ‘80s meets under-the-sea themed dance party, which will be held in the Rockridge Station parking lot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ghirardelli Square's Been Sold There's a taker for the Del Popolo space on Nob Hill, Saluhall has a new bar operator, Ghirardelli Square's been sold, and we have a few more details on the new Outer Richmond location of Bi-Rite, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Gets Sold to Regular Patron Concluding a year in which the beloved beer destination Toronado was purportedly being sold to a crypto bro who was talking about installing a roof deck, and then that sale fell through, we now have word that the bar is going into good hands.
SF News Board of Supes to Consider Reopening ‘Dog Court’ as 61 Bite Cases Await Hearings As 61 dog bite cases still await trial, Supervisor Stephen Sherrill and other SF leaders are pushing to bring back canine court hearings after the court was suspended in 2024 due to lack of funding — despite bite cases already being on the rise.
SF News Memorial For Local Journalist and Longtime SFist Writer Joe Kukura Set For May 17 A celebration of life for Joe Kukura, the well known bon vivant, associate editor of SFist and a longtime contributor to multiple other San Francisco publications, has now been scheduled for May 17.
SF News Wife of SoMa Hit-and-Run Suspect Says 'My Husband Is Not a Villain' The wife of the man who now faces murder charges in connection with the vehicular death of 74-year-old Dannielle Spillman insists that the criminal charges are unfair, and says "My husband is not a villain."
SF News 19th Avenue Repaving Project to Cause Significant West Side Traffic This Weekend The ongoing project to resurface and repave 19th Avenue between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way is bringing a major closure to the thoroughfare this weekend.
SF News Video: Suspect Fleeing Police Attempts to Escape By Climbing Under Bay Bridge A police drone captured dramatic footage of officers pursuing a man suspected of driving a stolen vehicle who then abandoned the car on the Bay Bridge earlier this month and began climbing the crossbeams in an attempt to escape.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Swalwell Used Campaign Money For Lawyer The Alameda County DA's office has not heard from any Swalwell accusers; Swalwell used campaign funds to pay a lawyer to defend against assault claims; and the last surviving architect of Sea Ranch has died.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Attends Connie Chan Fundraiser Nancy Pelosi has made no endorsement in the race for her seat, but she did attend a Connie Chan event; Oakland hills residents keep losing internet due to copper wire theft; and a US army soldier made a Polymarket bet based on classified information and made $400K.
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Zoo Now Has Two Rescued Mountain Lion Cubs Named ‘Crimson and Clover’ Clover, an orphaned mountain lion cub from El Dorado County, was brought to the Oakland Zoo last month, and Crimson was transported to Oakland from Los Angeles in early April, marking the zoo’s 33rd mountain lion rescue.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamnet' at ACT Offers Another Take on Shakespeare's Mysterious Wife Who was Shakespeare's wife Agnes, or Anne as she's been known to most historians, and what was her relationship to the man, eight years her junior, who ended up becoming one of the great poets and playwrights in Western Civilization?
Business & Tech Writer Discovers Claude Opus 4.7 Can Identify Her From 125 Words of Unpublished Work Anonymity for published writers and users with a heavy online presence is quickly becoming a thing of the past, as writer Kelsey Piper warns that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 managed to identify her based on a brief passage of unpublished work — while logged out and using incognito mode.
Business & Tech Mass Layoffs at Meta Begin With 8,000 Let Go; 6,000 Roles Frozen As artificial intelligence continues to drive both spending and job cuts in the tech industry, Meta just announced the first major wave of layoffs this year, which will likely be followed by a second wave before the end of the year.
SF News Could Marijuana Actually Become Federally Legal Under Trump? One initiative of the Biden administration that, surprisingly, President Trump didn't kill off and counter immediately was an effort by the Justice Department to finally reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas, Beloved Composer and Conductor of SF Symphony, Dies at 81 Michael Tilson Thomas, who served as music director of the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years and became a preeminent figure in the global classical music scene, has died at age 81.
SF News Two Unrelated Deaths Occur on the UC Berkeley Campus One Day Apart Authorities at UC Berkeley are investigating two separate deaths that occurred on campus a day apart, including a student who died after falling from a dorm and a man who was found dead in the bushes near the school’s administrative offices.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Standoff With UPS Truck Thief Ends Peacefully Police in Fremont arrested a suspected UPS truck thief following a standoff; Santa Clara County has put 10 social workers on leave due to the Jaxon Juarez death investigation; and California is getting three new state parks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flight Had to Abort Landing at SFO Due to Other Plane on Runway A United flight had to abort a landing Monday night at SFO; a new state bill seeks to protect whales in SF Bay; and Kash Patel had the FBI investigate a NYT reporter because of a story about his girlfriend.
SF Politics Becerra, Steyer Tie For Democratic Lead In Governor’s Race Following Endorsements Xavier Becerra’s popularity shot up following endorsements from 15 state assembly members, and he and Steyer, who was endorsed by Betty Yee Tuesday, are now tied for the Democratic lead in the governor’s race.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Katya Smirnoff-Skyy Launches New Career as Realtor, In Full Drag Well known local drag queen and self-styled chanteuse Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is now moonlighting — or, daylighting? — as a San Francisco realtor, and she's using her drag persona to sell property on social media.
SF News Proposed SFMTA Budget Includes Slightly Raised Muni Fares and Parking Fines SFMTA’s proposed budget would slightly increase single-ride Muni fares and some parking fines while significantly increasing cable car fares. As a compromise, fines for uncurbed wheels would go down, and the fare for two single Muni rides would cover a full day of rides.
SF Politics That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California's law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can't tell a federal agency what to do.
Arts & Entertainment Disassembly of Vaillancourt Fountain to Begin Next Week, With Full Removal In May Fans of the not-widely-loved Vaillancourt Fountain have just a few days left to pay their respects to the Brutalist landmark at Embarcadero Plaza, with the process to remove it set to start Monday.
