SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Again, San Francisco Is Snubbed at the James Beard Awards It was almost inevitable given how paltry the number of local finalists were, but the James Beard Awards were on Monday — the chef and restaurant portion of the awards, which span multiple nights — and SF got nothin', once again.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Flips Out Over Apple's Deal With OpenAI, Threatens to Ban All Apple Devices In his ongoing quest to convince the world that OpenAI is up to no good and that only he can build the world's best and most ethical generative AI models, Elon Musk sounded off on Xitter Monday in the wake of Apple's announcement that it is partnering with OpenAI.
SF News Details Emerge About Couple Who Allegedly Fled the Scene After Their Dog Bit a 3-Year-Old Boy In SF We have some more details about the case of a Cow Hollow dog-biting incident last month that left a little boy injured and now terrified of dogs, and the couple who left the scene without providing any of their information.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Liberal Activist Secretly Records Alito and His Wife A liberal activist attended a black-tie event in DC last week and secretly recorded Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts; also, Alito's wife talked about her religion and her love of flags; and Cal Fire is conducting major training exercises for nighttime firefighting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Floating Light Installation Could Be Part of Powell Street Rejuvenation A 25-year-old man has been charged in an unprovoked attack in UN Plaza; Oakland had three homicides this morning, the victims all young men; and there are some renderings for a project to rejuvenate beleaguered Powell Street, which include a floating LED orb.
SF News CA Attorney General's Office Weighs In on Controversial No-Charge Decision In Banko Brown Shooting After being asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to review a decision by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins not to file charges in the April 2023 shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, the California Attorney General's Office has come back with a response, one year later.
SF News San Francisco Writer David Talbot Suffers Second Debilitating Stroke Chronicler of San Francisco history as well as the history of liberal movements in the US, David Talbot, reportedly suffered a massive stroke last week — his second in seven years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NightJar, a Sister Pop-Up to Nightbird In Hayes Valley, Opens With Homage to House of Prime Rib NightJar, a new pop-up venue opening next door to Nightbird in Hayes Valley from chef Kim Alter and partner/GM Ron Boyd, is debuting this week and will spend its first three months serving a menu inspired by House of Prime Rib.
SF News Driver Sought In Napa Valley Hit-and-Run That Left One Person Dead The driver of a minivan remains at large after fleeing the scene of a fatal crash on foot Saturday afternoon in the Napa Valley.
SF News Roving Sideshows In SF and Oakland Include Vehicle Set Ablaze on Embarcadero There were more sideshows Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and a caravan of dozens of cars apparently moved from Oakland to San Francisco, putting on a sideshow on the Embarcadero and another in the Mission District.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kite Surfer Rescued After Spelling 'HELP' on Beach There was a solo car crash early Monday at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza; a kite surfer got stranded on a remote beach and needed rescue in Santa Cruz; and an Oakland church was severely vandalized and left without electricity.
SF News Sunday Links: Suspect In Sacramento Mass Shooting Dies In Jail One of three suspects in the April 2022 mass shooting in downtown Sacramento died in jail; a car fire shut down part of the Bay Bridge Saturday night; and a fire in SF's Outer Sunset has displaced one family.
SF News Saturday Links: 19-Year-Old Killed In Dolores Park Was Lowell High Grad The 19-year-old man who was fatally shot Wednesday in Dolores Park has been identified; the Peninsula Humane Society has rescued two baby peregrine falcons in the span of a week; and the Japantown Mall has seen a major comeback thanks mostly to teens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Juneteenth Parade Happening Saturday on Market Street Expect lots of downtown street closures and crowds Saturday for SF's second annual Juneteenth Parade; the ShakeAlert earthquake warning system gets some updates; and there was another clash at the Israeli Consulate in SF Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Gender-Reversed 'Company' Recasts a Classic Sondheim Score Centered on Marriage The sexual politics of 2024 are a far cry from what they were in 1970, when Stephen Sondheim wrote 'Company,' arguably the first in a string of brilliant Broadway shows that together encompass the peak of his talents.
SF News Image Released of Person Who Might Be Linked to Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Dog-Walker The SFPD has released a surveillance image of a person of interest whom they are seeking for questioning in connection to the racist threats that were left at and mailed to the home of a dog-walker in Alamo Square.
SF Politics Solano Land Trust Tells Voters to Vote 'No' on California Forever Ballot Measure The influential environmental group Solano Land Trust has registered its formal opposition to the California Forever proposal for building a new city in Solano County on some dry farmland east of Fairfield.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Faces Lawsuit From Real-Life Woman Who Allegedly Inspired 'Baby Reindeer' Stalker The Scottish woman who publicly outed herself as the inspiration for Martha, the stalker character in Netflix's hit series Baby Reindeer, is now suing Netflix for damages, defamation, and for causing "severe and extreme emotional distress."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: NorCal Woman's Death Caused By Bear Mauling Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell's record on addressing homelessness is thin, though he's trying to use it as a campaign tentpole; that Trump fundraiser raised $12 million; and a 71-year-old woman was fatally mauled by a black bear in a small Sierra County town.
SF News Standoff Between SWAT Team and Possibly Armed Suspect Ongoing In SF's Mission District A standoff has been going on for much of Thursday forcing the closure of a block of 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, and it involves a possibly armed suspect.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emergency Bill Looks to Allow Restaurants to Continue Charging Extra Fees The state law that was set to take effect next month outlawing all "junk fees" charged to consumers, which was set to upend the practice of adding service and healthcare charges to restaurant checks, might be moot where restaurants are concerned.
SF News San Francisco Judge Dismisses Attempted Murder, Assault Charges In Pelosi Attacker Case The trial of accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape is barely underway, and the judge in the state trial has just dismissed the three most serious charges against him, siding with public defenders who had argued for this.
SF News Housing Moves Forward at People's Park After State Supreme Court Rejects 'People as Pollution' Argument The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of UC Berkeley and against a neighborhood group in a lawsuit that was testing the boundaries of the state's environmental review laws for new developments.
SF News Shooting In Dolores Park Kills 19-Year-Old Man A man was fatally shot in Dolores Park Wednesday night, in a rare event for the area but neighbors say they have been asking for more police presence around the park.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Marin Men Jailed In Italy For Cop Killing Back In Court The two young men convicted for the 2019 murder of a Roman police officer are having their appeal heard; Visa has moved into its new offices in Mission Rock; and SF Pride puts out a statement saying there is "no Israeli float" in the Pride parade.