SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Parking Meter Prices to Increase by 25 Cents an Hour Oakland schoolteachers are threatening to strike again; famed road stop Pea Soup Andersen's could be razed for condos; and SF parking meters are getting a 25-cent-per-hour rate hike.
SF News Ground Is Broken For 168-Unit Affordable Project on Site of Pandemic-Time Tent Camp In Mission A site that had been one of several to spark controversy and protest in the last decade as market-rate developers were ravenous to build in the Mission District is now going to become the largest 100%-affordable development in the neighborhood in 20 years.
Business & Tech OpenAI’s Latest Hire Is… 95-Year-Old Labor Activist Dolores Huerta? Yes, artificial intelligence company OpenAI just hired longtime rabble-rouser Dolores Huerta as a member of their temporary philanthropic advisory board, though it could be a PR move to butter up regulators as OpenAI restructures to a for-profit company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Husband-and-Wife Team Behind Presidio Restaurant Dalida Are Expanding Into Presidio Heights Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the couple behind the almost two-year-old hit pan-Mediterranean restaurant Dalida, have inked a deal to open a second restaurant nearby.
SF News Pleasanton Man Who Turned Himself In For Mother's Murder Says He Got Tired of Her Nagging A Pleasanton man who confessed to stabbing his mother multiple times after turning himself in to police two weeks ago says he did so "quickly" and "humanely," after he had finally had it with her nagging.
SF News Seven Teens Arrested in Sonoma County After Two Separate Deplorable Attacks This Week Two separate attacks allegedly committed by teenagers rocked both Santa Rosa and Healdsburg on Tuesday, and a total of seven teens have been taken into custody in relation to a stabbing and a pistol-whipping.
Arts & Entertainment Steph Curry's Peacock Show 'Mr. Throwback' Canceled After Brief Season Despite some decent reviews, Steph Curry's first foray into live-action scripted television content is getting wiped off the slate at NBC and Peacock.
SF News Antioch Police to Recommend Charging Grandfather of Three-Year-Old Boy Who Shot and Killed Himself Antioch police think they’ve determined how a three-year-old boy acquired a gun and shot and killed himself last week, and they are pushing for gun-handling charges against the toddler’s grandfather.
Business & Tech Waymo Eyeing Expansion Into San Jose, and Also Much of the South Bay You might soon be able to take a Waymo all the way from SF to San Jose, as the self-driving robotaxis are apparently already halfway through their bureaucratic quest to win approval to operate in San Jose, plus much of Santa Clara County.
Business & Tech Federal Judge Rules Against Google In Second Antitrust Case, This One About Its Ad Network For the second time in less than a year, a federal court has dealt a blow to Google's business model, ruling that it holds an illegal monopoly in a key sphere of its operations.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Lurie Rings In 100 Days SF Mayor Daniel Lurie marks his first 100 days in office today; Kamala Harris is way ahead in a new poll about the CA governor's race; and Trump is mad at Jerome Powell.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Consumer Confidence Oddly High People are grousing once again about how long it takes to count votes in an Alameda County election; Warriors coach Steve Kerr makes a political statement; and Zoom had a massive outage today, as you may know.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Bar Ivy Room Is Boycotting All the Liquor Brands Who Yanked Their Pride Sponsorships After booze conglomerate Diageo pulled their sponsorship dollars from this year’s SF Pride festivities, Albany’s live music bar The Ivy Room has decided that they will no longer stock that company's brands, including Ketel One and Johnny Walker.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: City Hall Was Lit Up By Laser Cannons Last Night for SF’s 175th Birthday San Francisco celebrated its 175th birthday on Tuesday, and that’s why Tuesday night, some artists were shooting colorful ‘Laser Space Cannons’ toward the City Hall rotunda in celebration.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Studio' Star Seth Rogen Roasted Silicon Valley Titans at Recent Ceremony, and Jokes Were Cut From Video of It At a ceremony for a set of science prizes that has become a favorite event of VCs and tech titans, celebrity presenter Seth Rogen couldn't even take a few jabs about the money they all gave to Donald Trump without them being cut from the official video of the event.
Arts & Entertainment Theatrical Take on 'Paranormal Activity,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and Broadway Hit 'Stereophonic' All Coming to SF This next theater season in San Francisco is shaping up to be a good one, with several Broadway hits and new works coming our way.
Arts & Entertainment Startup Art Fair Returns to Take Over Entire Marina Motel This Weekend The Marina’s Hotel Del Sol will become home to more than 60 art exhibitions this weekend, as the Startup Art Fair returns after a five-year COVID hiatus for a three-day gallery bazaar.
SF News Oakland DMV Office Will Be Closed Four to Five Months After Vandalism and Copper Wire Theft It’s a terrible time to close a DMV office for five months with the new state-issued ID law taking effect in about three weeks, but that’s what’s happening at the Oakland Coliseum DMV office, as the site is reeling and flooded after copper wire theft and vandalism.
SF News Developer of Office-to-Residential Conversions In Talks to Buy Downtown SF Wells Fargo Building The longtime headquarters of Wells Fargo on Montgomery Street may become a residential building as a developer already working on office conversions in SF is reportedly close to buying the property.
SF Politics California Sues Donald Trump In Attempt to Stop the Tariffs Outright Gavin Newsom and state AG Rob Bonta are blitzing the Trump administration with a bombshell new lawsuit saying Trump’s tariffs are completely illegal because Congress never approved them, a move that could wholly upend Trump’s signature cause.
SF Politics Loren Taylor Leads In Early Tally of Oakland Mayoral Election — But It's Ranked Choice and Quite Close Former City Councilmember Loren Taylor had a small early lead over Barbara Lee in the initial ranked-choice tally in Tuesday's special election for Oakland mayor, but this may not mean anything.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Valero to Shut Down Benicia Refinery Valero is planning to shut down its Benicia refinery by next year; SF's return-to-office figures continue to trail other cities; and the Warriors eked out a win to land a spot in the playoffs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rig Flips Over on Highway 29 and Snarls Calistoga Traffic The Cal football team’s star running back is leaving through the transfer portal; the Cloverdale murder-suicide victim has been identified; and a semi truck accident has highly complicated matters for Calistoga drivers.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Woos Trump-Hating Canadians To Come Visit California in New Ad Campaign As anti-Trump sentiment sweeps Canada over the whole tariff chaos, California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to sweet-talk Canadians into visiting blue-state California, either because we’re losing tourism dollars, or maybe just to irritate Trump.
SF News SF Pride Catching Some Flack for Turning Down Request to Make Deported Makeup Artist Grand Marshal We may have another SF Pride controversy like the Chelsea Manning grand marshal fiasco in 2013, as some activists say they’re being denied requests to make deported makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero this year’s honorary grand marshal.
