SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New French Cafe and Champagne Bar Comes to Embarcadero In this week's edition, we have a new French spot taking over an Embarcadero space that's been dark for four and a half years, a fancy doughnut shop and cafe is coming to West Portal, and the Chase Center is getting a couple of exciting new food options.
Arts & Entertainment 'Morning Show' Star Billy Crudup Brings Acclaimed One-Man Play to Berkeley Rep Emmy- and Tony-Award-winning actor Billy Crudup has returned to the Bay Area, starring in the one-man play 'Harry Clarke,' which first made a splash off-Broadway in 2017.
Business & Tech OpenAI Board Fires Sam Altman For Reasons Unclear The board of OpenAI, one of the leading players in the currently booming artificial intelligence sector, just fired its celebrity CEO, Sam Altman, and we may not know the complete story behind this for some time.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Puts X/Twitter In Jeopardy Again With One Antisemitic Tweet Elon Musk can't help himself when it comes to tweeting, and his opinions on many matters are gross and/or deeply misguided, and thus him owning Twitter and taking all the guardrails off it has come back to bite him yet again.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Photo Captures Circling Surveillance Over SF During APEC President Biden signed the temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown while still in SF last night; SF has surpassed the record for fatal overdoses this year; and a photographer captured the swirls of surveillance planes over SF during APEC.
SF News Bay Bridge Protest Fallout: Transplant Organs Delayed; Two Motorists Claim They Were Wrongfully Detained The massive traffic nightmare Thursday morning that was caused by a pro-Gaza-ceasefire protest on the westbound Bay Bridge meant that several donated organs that were in transit to and from UCSF hospitals were delayed in getting transplanted into patients.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Host Anti-Recall Campaign Party Thursday Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
Arts & Entertainment There Are Now Dueling Lawsuits Between City College and SFMOMA Over That Diego Rivera Mural SFMOMA says that City College of San Francisco hasn't ponied up their share of the cash to move Diego Rivera's enormous 'Pan-American Unity' mural back across town. City College now says that they can't be blamed for the museum's "financial mismanagement."
SF News David DePape Found Guilty of Assaulting Paul Pelosi In Federal Trial In what was a fairly open-and-shut case, admitted Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was convicted on federal charges Thursday morning after the jury had deliberated for just a matter of a few hours.
SF News Biden Called Newsom a 'Helluva Governor' at Exploratorium Event; Gwen Stefani Performed, and There Were Fireworks That VIP event for APEC week hosted by President Joe Biden happened at the Exploratorium on Wednesday evening, and you might have seen or heard the fireworks going off as it was winding down.
SF News [Update] Protesters Blocked All Lanes of Westbound Bay Bridge For Four Hours, Dozens Arrested A few dozen protesters stopped traffic on the Bay Bridge Thursday during the morning commute, locking arms and blocking all the westbound lanes just east of Treasure Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: MLB Owners Approve A's Move to Vegas Elon Musk dropped off the bill of an APEC event he was supposed to speak at today; that GAYPEC event didn't seem to have a lot of actual APEC people at it; and team owners in the MLB unanimously approved the A's move to Las Vegas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Traffic and Protests Continue as Biden and Xi Attend Dinners In SF Demonstrators laid out hundreds of children's shoes to symbolize child deaths in Gaza outside the Ferry Building; Presidents Biden and Xi reach an agreement on fentanyl; and both presidents headed to San Francisco for dinner events.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog to Open Outpost of Quik Dog at New Mission Rock Development We have news of another local food business that's expanding to the big new mixed-used development at Mission Rock, across the cove from Oracle Park, and this time it's the cocktail-world-famous Trick Dog.
Business & Tech Men Behind Latest Sports Gambling Ballot Initiative Revealed to Be Crypto Guy, High-Stakes Poker Guy Two dudes who sold an online gaming platform to a Nevada casino giant believe that they have the winning formula for a ballot measure that legalizes sports betting at tribal casinos in California, and they say they're willing the bankroll the whole thing.
SF News CHP Busts Huge Retail Theft Ring In East Bay, Seizes $350K In Stolen Goods The California Highway Patrol's Organized Retail Crime Task Force made a major bust last week of a fencing operation for stolen retail merchandise — the kinds of stuff taken in brazen robberies at Walgreens stores, Target, and the like.
SF News Traffic Grinds to Standstill In SoMa as APEC Protesters Block Fifth and Mission Streets Muni buses headed downtown were being turned back at Sixth Street and traffic was generally becoming extremely clogged Wednesday morning due to protesters attempting to disrupt the beginning of the APEC CEO summit and the leaders' summit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Protests Galore Greet Biden and Other Dignitaries In SF A large protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza centered around Powell and Market streets Tuesday night; protesters attempted to block pedestrian routes into the APEC summit today; and a woman was stabbed at Sixth and Jessie streets Tuesday.
Business & Tech Will Trump Get Back on Twitter/X? Truth Social Close to Kaput, Accountants Say The prospect of Donald Trump tweeting again, with all his incoherently capitalized words and not-very-veiled threats against anyone and everyone, is getting closer to becoming a reality.
Arts & Entertainment Interactive Theater Piece 'The Speakeasy' Returns to North Beach In April Popular interactive theater experience 'The Speakeasy,' which has been on an extended hiatus since mid-2019, is returning to its underground digs in North Beach this spring, and the waitlist for tickets closes today.
Arts & Entertainment Laser Cannons Come On Again, Shining Up Market and Out Past Ocean Beach The lasers came on again up Market Street Monday night, beaming up from the Ferry Building toward Twin Peaks and beyond, and this time it was a multi-color, pastel display.
SF News David DePape Takes the Stand to Discuss His Motives for the Pelosi Assault In an unexpected move, the defense in the federal trial of David DePape called DePape to the stand Tuesday morning, and he became emotional as he discussed his conspiracy-theory-driven motives for attacking Paul Pelosi.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire on Valencia Street Leaves Three Injured A fire Tuesday morning tore through a building on the 900 block of Valencia Street in the Mission District, and the SF Fire Department had to rescue five individuals from the blaze.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Rain Showers Begin SFMOMA is laying off seven of its staff and eliminating 13 other positions due to low attendance; a flight from LA to Vancouver was diverted to SFO over a security issue; and scattered rain showers are expected today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gwen Stefani Maybe to Perform at Biden's Exploratorium VIP Party for APEC It's rumored that Gwen Stefani will be performing at Biden's VIP event during APEC on Wednesday night; a barricaded suspect was causing a significant police response in the Western Addition Monday afternoon; and firefighters in Oakland were battling small blazes along Highway 13.
