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- Dead & Company, the band featuring three original members of the Grateful Dead, is playing a free show at the Fillmore this Monday. [Chronicle]
- A man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy wants a new trial, and his defense attorneys say they'll offer evidence that former California Congressman Gary Condit is a suspect. [KRON4]
- Did ex-Police Chief Greg Suhr force a former SFPD officer to retire after she called out, during an interview, alleged wrongdoing by another officer? [Chronicle]
- Two people allegedly tried to rob a man of his cellphone, but after they reportedly grabbed it he pepper sprayed one of them. The two were arrested, and the man got his phone back. [KRON4]
- Does Venmo turn people into "petty jerks" (or were they always jerks to begin with)? [Quartz]
- San Francisco is about to see a bunch more driverless cars hitting the streets. This time, courtesy of General Motors. [Cnet]
- A lawsuit claiming Facebook scanned private messages for links and then counted any included websites as a "like" (regardless if the user was trash-talking the website or not) just gained class-action status. [Consumerist]
- Early Friday morning a group 15 to 20 people attacked a man in SoMa, kicking and beating him with bottles. The man suffered life-threatening injuries. [CBS 5]
- Following this week's turmoil in the police department, SF Weekly ponders what making the Chief of Police an elected position would mean. [SF Weekly]
- Jim Ray Hart, a longtime third baseman for the Giants, passed away. [Giants]
- There was a lot of talk in SF and around the country today about yesterday's officer-involved shooting and the following resignation of the police chief. [SFist] [SFist] [SFist] [KRON4] [SF Mag] [48 Hills] [ABC 7] [Chronicle] [Chronicle] [Chronicle] [Examiner] [NY Times] [NY Times] [SF Mag]
- A new study shows that only 15 percent of Americans have used any form of ride-hail service. What's more, only 11 percent have used a home-renting platform. [Business Times] [Pew]
