SF News Humpday Headlines: Google Outage Affects Search, Google Drive Police in San Jose busted a brothel; a beloved formerly homeless man in Berkeley was found dead from an apparent fall; and Google was experiencing a major outage this morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Cellar & Wine Bar Opening In June In SoMa A new wine bar offshoot of Saison is opening this spring a block away from the Michelin two-star restaurant on Townsend Street, and at the helm is Saison co-founder and sommelier Mark Bright.
SF News SUV Catches Fire on Upper Deck of Bay Bridge A "fully engulfed" car fire Tuesday morning caused some delays and three lane closures on the Bay Bridge.
SF News Tech Folk Propose 'Multigenerational Urban Campus' In SF Because They Don't Get How Cities Work Something called City Campus imagines carving out a collectively owned set of properties in the center of the city to create a walkable "campus" where the like-minded and tech-employed can raise kids together, or something.
SF News 35 Protesters Arrested In Early Morning Raid at Occupied Building on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus, 30 Others Barred From Campus Cal Poly Humboldt, which in the last week and a half has become the site of the "nation's most entrenched protest," per the New York Times, was the site of another show of force by police this morning in the nationwide campus protest movement.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mercury News Joins Suit Against OpenAI A fatal crash on I-880 in Oakland was causing delays; four children were injured by a suspected DUI driver in the South Bay; and the Mercury News is suing OpenAI over the use of its copyrighted material to train ChatGPT and other bots.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NEMA Developer Sues NEMA Operator Over Back Rent Developer Crescent Heights is suing the operator of the NEMA building over back rent; a beekeeper in North Oakland had her bees stolen; and another crash stemming from a cop pursuit has injured innocent bystanders in Santa Clara County.
SF News NAACP Holds Meeting With Black Families About Alleged Racist Incidents at SF Public Schools There was a meeting Sunday at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco at which several Black parents spoke about racist incidents their children had suffered at SF public schools.
Business & Tech A Clever Original Post on Threads That Goes Viral Could Now Earn Creators a $5,000 Bonus Meta has confirmed that it has launched a limited-time, invite-only bonus program for social media creators on Threads, in an apparent effort to boost engagement on the platform as it crosses the 150 million user mark.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Is Closing Its Downstairs Alimentari, Replacing It With To-Go Counter It's a third pivot for the space downstairs from Che Fico, where Che Fico Alimentari will be calling it quits on May 9 to make way for a more high-volume to-go operation and more private dining space.
SF News Another Carsonist? Four Cars Set Ablaze In San Francisco Sunday Morning We may have another carsonist on our hands, or else the same individual who set fire to two Teslas in SoMa in February is back at it.
SF News 26-Year-Old Man Arrested In Connection With Disappearance of Mint Butterfield After San Francisco saw a major plastering of posters about a missing teen last week, the story ended happily for parents Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield when their child was found safe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lowell High Admissions Demographics Once Again Disproportionate A gunshot victim died in Oakland Saturday afternoon; the Chronicle alerts us to dogs overdosing on fentanyl; and the incoming class at Lowell High School is once again disproportionately white and Asian.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is Putting In a Bid to Become the New Home of the Sundance Film Festival Earlier this week, the Sundance Film Festival announced that it was exploring its options to move to a new locale in 2027, after throwing the revered festival in Park City, Utah for the last 43 of its 46 years. And SF will be throwing its hat in the ring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Thai Tasting Menu Experience Lands In Japantown A new high-end Thai spot arrives in Japantown, a new but familiar French bistro is taking over the Catch space in the Castro, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan admits she likes it when servers are mean.
Business & Tech Former SF District Attorney Suzy Loftus, Now TikTok's Head of Safety, Compares Fight for TikTok to Defending SF As TikTok faces its biggest challenge to date, with the US government insisting that it be divorced from its Chinese parent company or cease doing business here, the company has a trust and safety officer whose name may be familiar to San Franciscans.
SF News Cat Found In Amazon Box In California Was Accidentally Shipped From Utah A cat survived a harrowing six-day journey in a cardboard box with some boots and was reunited with her family, who thought she had somehow escaped their home in Utah.
SF News Rep. Adam Schiff's Luggage Stolen While In San Francisco, Attends Event Without Suit Congressman and senatorial candidate Adam Schiff was told not to leave anything in his car while staying in San Francisco, but he says he was in a hurry and left his luggage, which got stolen while the car was in a parking garage.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pacifica Police Seek Arson Suspect Who Likes Archery Pacifica police are seeking an arson suspect who was last seen at an archery range; an Oakland man is in a coma after being tased by park police while in the water; and there is some apparent misinformation being spread about the disappearance of Mint Butterfield.
SF News SingleThread, Auberge du Soleil, Madrona Inn Among Bay Area Hotels Honored In First Michelin Hotel Guide The Michelin organization has just released its first ever guide to and rankings of US hotels, and like the Michelin Guides to restaurants dole out stars, the new guide has given "key" rankings to 124 hotels across the country.
Arts & Entertainment 'A Strange Loop' Is an Uproarious Meta Musical on Black Queer Identity (and a Witty Takedown of Tyler Perry) I now understand why the capsule reviews and descriptions of Michael R. Jackson's first Broadway musical, A Strange Loop, were so obscure and confusing. It is an idiosyncratic creation of the first order that is nearly impossible to sum up.
SF News SFMTA Employees Are Nervous About Becoming Targets of Backlash Against Parking Crackdown Car owners without garages in SF are tensing up in preparation for an announced May sweep by the SFMTA's Parking Enforcement team, which is set to cover every district of the city in search of parking rule violators. But those parking enforcers are tense themselves.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Secret Service Agent Removed From VP Harris's Detail There was a deadly vehicle crash in Pleasanton on Wednesday night; a Secret Service agent on Kamala Harris's detail was displaying "distressing behavior"; and the LAPD arrested 93 student protesters at USC last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Planet of the Apes' Characters Spotted at Crissy Field The 14-year-old boy who drowned in the Russian River earlier this month has been identified as from SF; a Silicon Valley investor is planning a Trump fundraiser in SF; and several 'Planet of the Apes' characters were spotted on horseback at Crissy Field.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Moves Forward With Development Agreement The major redevelopment project over at the Stonestown Galleria, in which the mall's massive parking lots could be transformed in to a 3,500-unit residential "village" with parks and a new retail mini-corridor, has taken a step forward with a development agreement with the city.
