SF News Tenant Dispute Involving Onetime Calvin Klein Boytoy In Santa Rosa Leads to Drug Conviction, Lawsuit Over Property An ex-boyfriend of fashion designer Calvin Klein became roommates with a gay couple in Santa Rosa during the pandemic, then started dealing meth out of their house, then got arrested and sent to prison for two years, and now he's suing because he wants his stuff back.
SF News Man Arrested After Allegedly Running Over Person In Sleeping Bag In Berkeley's Aquatic Park A person was killed while asleep in a sleeping bag in Berkeley's Aquatic Park, and one suspect has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 68-Year-Old Woman Rescued From Monterey Beach A 68-year-old woman required rescue from a beach in Monterey County on Monday; some of Dianne Feinstein's jewelry and other belongings are going up for auction; and many Bay Area schools are getting through this heatwave without air conditioning.
SF Politics Newsom Signs Off on Bill Allowing One Tiny, Rich-Person Club to Serve Booze Until 4AM Various competing interests have killed multiple bills in the California legislature over the last decade that would have allowed specific cities to grant licenses for liquor service past the longtime 2 am cutoff. But one LA assemblymember has gotten one tiny carve-out passed in her district.
Arts & Entertainment Alameda Complains Less, SF Complains More About Noise From This Year's Portola Festival The first two Portola Music Festivals in 2022 and 2023 elicited widespread noise complaints, particularly from residents on the island of Alameda — who said they were kept up with rattling windows and unpleasant, dubstep-borne bass vibrations all weekend.
Business & Tech Feds Issue Consent Order to Cruise With $1.5 Million Penalty Stemming From Last October's Injury Crash Almost exactly one year after a high-profile crash on San Francisco's Market Street in which an automated Cruise vehicle dragged a woman for 20 feet before stopping, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a fine and a consent order to the GM-backed company.
Arts & Entertainment Jack White Fan Alert: He's Playing a Show at Great American Music Hall on Friday Musician Jack White and his band are coming to the Bay Area for a pair of "pop-up" shows at small venues this week, and tickets go on sale in a couple hours, as of this writing.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mayor Skips Final Candidate Forum SF Mayor London Breed skipped the last candidate forum on Monday; two victims in last week's double homicide in Napa have been ID'd; and Elon Musk and Scott Wiener are in an Xitter fight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trio of Goats Returned Safely Home In Santa Rosa A trio of goats was returned after being stolen in Santa Rosa the other week; we could hit 90 degrees in San Francisco on Tuesday; and Oasis looks to be skipping the Bay Area on their reunion tour next year.
Business & Tech Of Course a Waymo Got In the Way of Kamala Harris's Motorcade on Nob Hill Friday Night You can't even get a (vice) presidential motorcade through the streets of San Francisco these days without tripping over a self-driving taxi.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Grows Into Massive Rave In Its Third Year, With Shining Performances By Jessie Ware, Disclosure The Portola Music Festival, now in its third year on San Francisco's Pier 80, felt far more crowded and much better organized than in its initial outing — and the VIP offerings have only grown to occupy a huge footprint of the event.
Bay Area Sports Farhan Zaidi Out, Buster Posey In as Giants President of Baseball Operations As had been predicted by many baseball watchers and Giants fans, the Giants' president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi has been let go after the team's less-than-stellar 2024 season.
SF News Power Issue On BART's Red Line In San Francisco Causes Major Delays BART was reporting significant delays and disruption Monday morning due to a power issue affecting the tracks between Balboa Park and Daly City, which led to the complete suspension of Red Line service.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Park Fire Is Finally Out A motorcyclist was killed on I-880 this morning; five people needed rescue from a boat in distress off Ocean Beach on Sunday; and the Park Fire in Butte and Tehama counties is finally fully contained, two months later.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New High-End Sushi Takeout Comes to Downtown SF A new sushi takeout spot comes to downtown, the Marina gets a new low-proof cocktial bar, and MacKenzie Chung Fegan returns to duty with a Chronicle review of Tiya in the Marina, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Called Las Vegas a 'Sh*thole,' Now Las Vegas Radio Stations Are Boycotting Their Music At a concert appearance in the SF last weekend, East Bay natives Green Day took a stand about the Oakland A's decision to decamp to Las Vegas, and while their beef is more with the A's ownership than with Las Vegas, two Las Vegas radio stations are taking it personally.
SF News Is the 'East Cut' Finally Dead? Awkward Neighborhood Name Disappears From Google, Apple Maps It's been just over seven years since the city and a nascent business district decided that Rincon Hill needed some rebranding, and they tried to make "East Cut" happen. It never happened, and now Google and Apple Maps seem to agree.
SF News Coyotes Have Killed Three Off-Leash Dogs at Crissy Field So Far This Month It has become increasingly dangerous to bring your (smaller) dogs to Crissy Field, and if you let your dog off-leash there or elsewhere near the Presidio, it could prove deadly.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Person Stabbed as Final A's Game Let Out One person was stabbed and injured as the last ever A's game let out at the Oakland Coliseum; at least 40 people are dead in the wake of Hurricane Helene coming to shore; and the great Dame Maggie Smith is dead at age 89.
Business & Tech Meta Actually Paying Celebrities Like Judi Dench and Awkwafina to Use Their Voices For Its AI Tool Unlike OpenAI, which just went and hired an actress who sounded like Scarlett Johansson after ScarJo declined to voice an AI model for them, Meta appears to be actually paying some big-name celebrities to lend their voices for its new AI voice tool.
Business & Tech Xitter Releases First Transparency Report Since 2021, Shows Far Fewer Actions With Regard to Hate Speech Because the EU requires companies to produce such reports, Elon Musk's X has sucked it up and produced a transparency report — the first since Musk took over the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022.
SF News SF District Attorney Announces Arrest of Another Alleged 'Prolific' Retail Thief The San Francisco District Attorney — and Mayor London Breed — are eager for residents to know that something is being done about rampant retail theft in the city. And another arrest of an allegedly prolific retail burglary suspect was just announced.
Business & Tech Some Upheaval at OpenAI as Company Announces Plan to Become a For-Profit Enterprise OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some public comments at a conference in Italy on Thursday indicating that the company intends to restructure and let go of its nonprofit structure, but he said the departures of several key executives a day earlier were unrelated.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Scores of A's Fans Tailgate Before Final Coliseum Game Over 1,000 A's fans were already in the Coliseum parking lot before 8 am today ahead of their final home game; two Vallejo firefighters were injured during a rescue; and BART ridership hit a new post-pandemic record on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video of Nima Momeni Pantomiming Stabbing Will Be Shown to Jurors A video of Nima Momeni that defense attorneys say should be protected by attorney-client privilege is admissible, a judge says; the stray cats of Golden Gate Fields need homes; and Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk.
